Back to Atoms For the past two decades, venture capital gravitated toward software — specifically, enterprise SaaS and consumer internet. The reasons were rational: software…
The Unbundling of Venture Capital Venture capital used to follow a simple model: raise a fund from institutional LPs, deploy it over 2-4 years, and…
The Maple Advantage Canadian tech startups operate in the shadow of a $3 trillion neighbor with 10x the population and a venture capital ecosystem that’s…
The AI Gold Rush If you want to understand where billions in venture capital flowed in 2024-2025, the answer can be summarized in two letters:…
The Hangover Venture capital is climbing out of the deepest trough since the dot-com crash. Global VC funding peaked at roughly $683 billion in 2021,…
Back to Atoms For the past two decades, venture capital gravitated toward software — specifically,…
Canada has the third-largest tech talent pool in North America, trailing only the United States overall and California specifically. Toronto added more tech jobs than Silicon Valley in 2023, according…
If 2023 was the year the world discovered generative AI, 2024-2025 has been the year it wrote increasingly large cheques to build it. The AI startup ecosystem has bifurcated into…
Global venture capital funding peaked at $683 billion in 2021 — a year of historically low interest rates, stimulus-fuelled consumer spending and a pandemic-driven acceleration of digital adoption. By 2023,…
Of the roughly 15 billion credentials circulating on the dark web, the overwhelming majority are passwords. Reused, weak and phishable passwords remain the primary attack vector for data breaches, accounting…
In March 2021, a digital artist known as Beeple sold an NFT — a non-fungible token — at Christie’s auction house for $69.3 million. It was the third-highest price ever…
In December 2020, the cybersecurity firm FireEye disclosed that it had been breached. Within days, the investigation revealed something much larger: the attackers had compromised SolarWinds, a widely used IT…
For decades, the dominant security model was “castle and moat”: build a strong perimeter, and trust everything inside it. Firewalls, VPNs and network segmentation kept the bad actors out, and…
The Colonial Pipeline attack of May 2021, which shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States for five days and triggered a $4.4 million ransom payment, was a…
The S&P/TSX Composite Index — Canada’s primary equity benchmark — has a distinctive character that sets it apart from the S&P 500. Where the US market is dominated by technology…
In 1993, State Street launched the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (ticker: SPY), the first exchange-traded fund in the United States, with $6.5 million in assets under management. Thirty-two years later,…
