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AltaML was founded in early 2018 to help organizations gain competitive advantages through applied artificial intelligence. The startup is headquartered in Alberta, with offices in both Edmonton and Calgary—a rapidly emerging tech hotbed—as well as the most recent addition: Toronto. As the Canadian company enters its next phase of growth, its Toronto office will play an […]
White Whale Delivers Artificial Intelligence to Oil and Gas Industry
If you spot a White Whale in the DeepSea, know that it is not marine life but rather artificial intelligence. We refer not to the ocean here but rather a Calgary-based startup. White Whale is the creator of DeepSea, a platform that leverages AI to tackle data in powerful ways. White Whale, which specializes in […]
Payments Firm Helcim Hires Through ‘Alberta Jobs Now’ Program
Helcim is making moves. The Calgary-born payments company announced this month that it is getting rid of its $20 monthly fee for its merchant services. According to the company, this reflects a commitment to provide a better payments service and help small businesses compete with industry giants. “We recently reached a point where we could afford to […]
After Additional Financing, Athennian Looks to Bolster Workforce
Legal entity management software exists to pull the legal sector out from the Dark Ages. The technology has historically been used to centralize director, shareholder, tax, and other entity data to create what’s known in the business as “a single source of truth”: a central database where one can store and organize a law firm’s knowledge so […]
Rapidly Growing LodgeLink Creating Hundreds of Jobs in Calgary
While most of us associate leisure travel affairs with the behemoth Airbnb, there are other segments to serve. One of these segments is workforce travel, and LodgeLink knows that business well. The startup was founded in 2016 in Calgary and launched commercially toward the end of 2017. LodgeLink recognized an opportunity in the market for […]
How Calgary’s Mikata Smooths Out Healthcare
There are not a ton among us who enjoy a visit to the Doctor. Even though Canada has good healthcare programs, there remains something undesirable about accessing services. Perhaps it’s the convoluted and confusing process—a point of high friction that Mikata Health wants to smooth out with an injection of modern medicine. In the same […]
Harvest is Building a Portfolio to Put Alberta on the FinTech Map
Banking institutions around the world have been among the last to cling to an exclusively physical world. Until quite recently most citizens had to visit bank locations to perform even basic transactions. Fortunately the market is changing rapidly. For example, you can invest in local real estate through a platform like Addy, or trade stocks and […]
Calgary Startup Symend Eyes Expansion Following Furious Funding
If you want to see an explosion in action, check out Symend. The Calgary-based software startup was founded in 2016, but it wasn’t until last year that it detonated. From just 50 employees in 2020 to nearly 300 today, Symend is blowing up. Adding to the heat is $55 million. That’s the amount of capital Symend […]
Newly Public Magnet Forensics Fights Crime One File at a Time
In 2007, a police officer in Waterloo stepped down from his position due to a cancer diagnosis. Following chemotherapy, Jad Saliba returned to work in another department—digital forensics—where he stumbled upon a hole that he soon realized could use some serious filling. To become better at his new job, Saliba developed software that allows an […]