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OPM Wire π°βοΈπ¨π¦ retweeted
Stephen Jarislowksy, one of the fearless voices who took on Canada's corporate elite, has died
One of my favourite gems from him:
I'm a big fan of both, as you know
Holy crap - the legendary Mark Leonard at the @MaverixPe agm on stage with @ruffoloj
Replying to @nectarios @MaverixPe
Mark is a great Canadian legend and long-time friend. We are lucky to learn from one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time.
OPM Wire π°βοΈπ¨π¦ retweeted
Canadian AI firm Cohere in advanced talks to raise up to $3-billion, sources say /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/businessβ¦
This turned out to be somewhere between misleading and a lie: @nejatian at $OPEN
Truns out he's getting $15m cash in the first year and RSUs valued at $15m
h/t @stockgeekTV
OPM Wire π°βοΈπ¨π¦ retweeted
B.C. billionaire Ryan Beedie buys into Vistara Capital, commits $125-million to new fund theglobeandmail.com/businessβ¦
Turbopuffer co-founder Simon Eskilsen has some spicy takes:
-βthe AI funding program is a joke, no one can rely on it.β
-βI couldnβt care less about Canadian VCsβ¦. If you take only Canadian VC right now, probably NGMIβ
...
The Turbopuffer story (raising less than US $1m and reaching revenues of $100m)
shows how silly it is for governments to try to pick winners
right now, someone in Canada is working on the Next Big Thing and it's impossible to say who
Turbopuffer is old news for anyone who follows Fahd!
theglobeandmail.com/businessβ¦
Turbopuffer is a goated company straight from the little town of Ottawa, Canada
Ty @Sirupsen
A lot of non-Jewish Canadian business bigwigs signed a full page ad against Antisemitism
Many big names
OPM Wire π°βοΈπ¨π¦ retweeted
Toronto fintech Float hits $548-million value with new funding as it pushes into AI finance software theglobeandmail.com/businessβ¦
As I said, the Westons got jealous of BetaKit and launched BeGiant
29-year old Canadian entrepreneur @goswish has co-founded two companies (Dunk, Surf) and written a book.
Now he's onto BrokerPlus, serving mortgage brokers, plus angel investing. "Nowadays, it's a lot more around focus." More from @StacyLeeKong: begiant.ca/stories/people/swβ¦
The best way to understand Cohere is to follow its equivalent in France, Mistral:
they have been more transparent about their pivot to being service providers (they even use other firms' open-source LLMs)
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez was an angel investor in Mistral!


















