Calgary-based Possibility Neurotechnologies has launched Think2Switch™, a mobile app that allows users to control devices and interact with their environment using only their thoughts—no touch or voice required. Now available on the Apple App Store, the app uses consumer EEG headbands to translate brain signals into real-time actions, marking a significant step in bringing brain-computer […]
Blackline Safety Acquired in $850M Deal
Calgary-based Blackline Safety is set to go private in a deal valued at up to $850 million, marking one of the largest recent exits in Canada’s industrial technology sector. The connected worker safety company announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Francisco Partners, a global investment firm […]
Calgary Startup ClotGuard Targets Life-Threatening Bleeding
Two Calgary teenagers are taking aim at one of the most urgent challenges in emergency medicine: uncontrolled bleeding. ClotGuard, a medtech startup founded by Sophia Dhami and Isavella Tsoulias, is developing a wearable patch designed to detect active bleeding in real time and deliver targeted clotting support directly at the site of injury. The goal […]
CoolIT Exit Delivers Major Payout for Employees
Hundreds of Calgary-based employees at CoolIT Systems are set to receive substantial cash payouts following the company’s USD $4.75 billion acquisition by Ecolab, marking one of the most significant employee liquidity events in the city’s tech sector. Under a broad-based ownership program introduced when private equity firm KKR acquired CoolIT in 2023, all 650 employees […]
Calgary’s CoolIT Exits for USD $4.75B in AI Boom
A Calgary-founded company that spent more than two decades building quietly in the background of high-performance computing has emerged as one of the city’s biggest tech success stories. CoolIT Systems, a leader in liquid cooling for data centres, is being acquired by U.S.-based Ecolab for approximately USD $4.75 billion—underscoring how critical thermal management has become […]
Ottawa Targets Capital, Compute, Customers in AI Push
Canada’s new Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation used a stop in Calgary this week to outline a more aggressive federal strategy aimed at keeping AI companies—and their intellectual property—anchored in Canada. Speaking at Platform Calgary alongside newly appointed CEO Jennifer Lussier, Evan Solomon framed the country’s AI moment as both an opportunity and […]
Calgary’s Data Centre Moment Arrives
Calgary’s role in the global data centre boom is accelerating—and it’s being powered by something the city already understands better than most: energy. At this week’s Tech Thursday panel on The Tech Behind Data Centres, industry leaders including Joe Gentile of eStruxture Data Centers, Tom Farran of Longbow Capital, and Ben Sutton of CoolIT Systems […]
Calgary Developers Build Canadian Budgeting App Waypoint
Two Calgary software developers are turning their own financial struggles into a budding fintech startup. Florencia Chomski and Ahmad Jamal, both working full-time as developers, recently launched Waypoint, a personal finance and budgeting app designed specifically for Canadians. Built nights and weekends while maintaining their day jobs, the bootstrapped platform has grown to more than 1,000 users, […]
CoolIT Systems Scales Liquid Cooling For AI Era
Calgary’s CoolIT Systems says it has increased global production capacity across its product lines at triple-digit rates over the past two years as global demand for artificial-intelligence infrastructure accelerates the shift toward liquid-cooled data centres. The 25-year-old company, a pioneer in direct liquid cooling (DLC) for high-density computing, increased output of coolant distribution units (CDUs) and […]
Wonder Valley Advances 7.5GW AI Campus in Alberta
O’Leary Digital has begun permitting for a massive powered compute campus in Grande Prairie, positioning Alberta at the centre of what the company describes as one of the largest integrated AI infrastructure developments currently underway globally. The proposed project, known as Wonder Valley Alberta, is planned for 7.5 gigawatts of power generation capacity as part […]