Calgary Launch Party is looking for the city’s next generation of standout startups. Nominations and applications are now open for the Calgary Launch Party Top 10, the city’s annual showcase for promising early-stage companies building with bold ideas, early traction, and global ambition. Now in its 16th year, Launch Party has become a milestone moment […]
Blackline Safety Brings Gas Detection to Boston Dynamics’ Spot
Calgary’s Blackline Safety is extending its connected gas detection technology into robotic inspection workflows through a new partnership with MFE Inspection Solutions. The companies have integrated Blackline’s cloud-connected portable detector with Boston Dynamics’ Spot, the mobile industrial robot used to collect inspection data in hazardous environments. The MFE Spot Connected Gas Detection Solution delivers gas […]
Calgary’s Azure Sustainable Fuels Lands Korea Partnership
Calgary-based Azure Sustainable Fuels has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hanwha Ocean to explore investment and growth opportunities in Canada’s sustainable aviation fuel sector. The agreement could support Azure’s plans to commercialize and scale renewable fuel production facilities that use agricultural feedstocks to produce sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, for the aviation industry. Hanwha […]
SensorUp Closes Growth Financing To Scale Heavy Industry AI Platform
Calgary-based SensorUp has closed a growth financing round to scale its agentic operations platform for heavy industry. The round was led by Pender Ventures, with participation from Climate Investment, Evok Innovations, and Occidental, which is both a strategic investor and client of the company. SensorUp did not disclose the size of the financing. SensorUp describes […]
The51 Secures BMO as Anchor for Fund III
Calgary-founded venture platform The51 has announced the first close of its third fund, with BMO committing as lead anchor investor. The51 Fund III is targeting a $30 million final close and will invest in women founders building companies in the future of health, wealth, and work. The fund is led by The51 Co-Founder and CEO […]
Calgary Tower To Shine Blue For NanoTess And Wound Healing Awareness Month
The Calgary Tower will be lit up in NanoTess blue on Monday, June 1st, marking the start of Wound Healing Awareness Month and highlighting the impact of complex wounds on Canadian families. The initiative is being led by NanoTess, a Calgary-based biotechnology startup that manufactures NanoSALV Catalytic, a wound healing gel used by physicians, surgeons, […]
Ottawa Backs Alberta AI Commercialization
The Government of Canada is investing $6.8 million in five Alberta artificial intelligence projects aimed at helping local companies commercialize AI solutions, expand into new markets, and strengthen the province’s role in Canada’s digital economy. Announced in Edmonton by the Honourable Eleanor Olszewski, Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada, the funding is being delivered […]
CFIN, CDL-Rockies Partner to Strengthen Canadian Foodtech Pipeline
The Canadian Food Innovation Network and Creative Destruction Lab – Rockies have announced a new community partnership aimed at helping more Canadian foodtech ventures move from early-stage innovation to commercial success. The collaboration is designed to create a stronger “producer-to-plate” pipeline by combining CFIN’s national food-sector network and industry expertise with CDL-Rockies’ objectives-based mentorship model […]
Punchcard Helps Modernize Alberta Nursing Regulation
Edmonton-based Punchcard Systems is helping modernize how nurses in Alberta apply for, renew, and manage their practice permits. The digital innovation consultancy has partnered with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta to build and expand College Connect, a mobile-first platform that centralizes nursing permit applications, verifications, renewals, customer service workflows, data auditing, and regulatory […]
Tech Stampede Social Returns to Calgary
Calgary’s tech community is gearing up to once again take centre stage during Stampede season with the return of the Tech Stampede Social, set for July 9 at National Saloon. Hosted by Platform Calgary, the event aims to bring together founders, builders, investors, and ecosystem partners for an evening of networking, celebration, and community-building in […]