Female entrepreneurs in Alberta helped garner $116 million in capital for their companies through 2024. Calgary.tech has covered the vast majority of their origin stories in the past. Honouring March’s International Women’s Day, Start Alberta used its Deal Flow data platform to segment fundraising in 2024 to reveal that women founders and co-founders captured $116 million across […]
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Healthcare Innovators in Alberta Attract Investment to Advance Medical Tech
Alberta has been attracting investment recently. The province garnered more venture capital than British Columbia for the first time. Alberta’s success that quarter was largely powered by energy technology company ClearSky Global, who provided a major boost to the province’s numbers thanks to a raise of more than $200M in June. That kind of capital […]
10 Homegrown Calgary Startups to Watch in 2025
Calgary’s tech ecosystem is poised for remarkable growth in 2025, building on its recent recognition among the world’s top 50 emerging startup ecosystems. The city’s tech job market has expanded by over 78% in the past five years, outpacing other Canadian cities and establishing Calgary as a significant player in North America’s innovation landscape. This […]
Meet Seven Calgary Startups Heading to Toronto for Collision Next Week
One of the world’s largest tech conferences returns to Toronto next week. The venerable Collision, slated for June 17th through 20th at Enercare Centre, connects technology ecosystems across Canada with global opportunity through a week of events, sessions, and networking. But at its core, Collision is a startup conference and this year there are hundreds of […]
Celebrating Five Years of Innovation: Google for Startups Accelerator’s Impact on Calgary Startups
Google for Startups Accelerator is celebrating their fifth anniversary of bringing together some of the best and brightest technology startups across Canada to help them scale, grow and thrive. During this time, the accelerator has worked with more than 100 Canadian startups across different industries from healthcare to energy, and farming to fintech and these […]
Collision 2024: Spotlight on Nimble Science
Collision will be bringing together tech companies, entrepreneurs, and world-class speakers in Toronto from June 17 to 20. Dubbed the “Olympics of Tech,” at its core Collision remains a conference for the freshest and brightest business ideas and this year there are outstanding companies from Alberta attending with Innovate Calgary’s support. Innovate Calgary helps bridge the gap between […]
Calgary Startup Nimble Science to Accelerate Health-Tech Platform at Google
Many chronic diseases are associated with dysbiosis of the small intestine, representing a $75 billion total addressable market. Knowing this, Calgary healthtech startup Nimble Science raised $2.7 million last April to commercially scale their tech-forward health platform to food, diagnostic, and drug companies. The funding brought Nimble out of stealth mode to enable academia, government, […]
Five Alberta Startups Growing with Capital in 2023
According to Osler’s 2023 Deal Points Report, “Ontario and British Columbia have the highest concentration of companies raising a financing round.” But that is not to dismiss Alberta. The spirited province accounts for 11% of the share, the report shows, which is marked growth over the previous figure of 9%. Indeed, Osler’s Calgary office reported on […]
Nimble Science Raises $2.7 Million To Scale Health Platform
Calgary healthtech startup Nimble Science has raised $2.7 million to commercially scale their revolutionary multi-omic SIMBA GI Health Platform to food, diagnostic, and drug companies. Nimble Science is led by experienced medtech, wearable and ingestible executives, along with advisors spanning GI, microbiome & digital health. This funding brings Nimble Science out of stealth mode to enable academia, […]