Canada's @CompBureau just got a court order to look into @wellhealth's purchase of @Healwell_AI. The watchdog will probe if the takeover affected choice or cost for the digital healthcare company's users. https://t.co/6GwEOx17Qm

.@simuhealth will expand its enterprise resource planning platform for healthcare training across Canada and the United States thanks to a $2.6-million pre-seed round. https://t.co/qT55sekS6L

ICYMI: Canada's upstart, homegrown social network @Gander_Social has hit its crowdfunding goal, and even extended its crowdfunding deadline because interest is so high. https://t.co/MOQO6mDPqF

💡 In this week's BetaKit Quiz, @salesforce mulls a rebrand and @Disney characters come to #AI. Plus: 🤖 @Shopify gets agentic 💸 @GeneralFusion's $51-million raise 🐍 @CoreWeave CEO's take on the AI ouroboros Very few get a perfect score. Can you? 👇🏿 https://t.co/GxSC8A6orn

More turmoil at Goodfood: Co-founder and COO Neil Cuggy will step down in January. Cuggy took over day-to-day ops after his co-founder, Jonathan Ferrari, abruptly stepped down as CEO in August. https://t.co/g8jT0Crta8

Kitchener-Waterloo's Assetflo has closed a $2-million seed round to further develop its IoT-based tracking system for physical assets. The company has already deployed its product with "multiple" Fortune 500 firms. https://t.co/9tR48Pwbqx

Five countries account for almost 91% of the global semiconductor market. Canada isn’t one. Industry groups like @CanSemiCouncil, @CMCMicrosystems, @ICTC_CTIC, and @ventureLABca argue that's a "strategic vulnerability." https://t.co/UPuiYFG4ce

.@Shopify's @harleyf claims #AI chats are the "next frontier for commerce." Now, Shopify has introduced "agentic storefronts" that let products get discovered and purchased directly inside AI chatbots. More from yesterday's announcement: https://t.co/lS6wKdoKBP

How does @mikelibbey_ sum up his experience with QuickBooks for the @Intuit platform? One word: Transformative.

On the BetaKit Keynote Stage at @SAASNORTH, @EvanLSolomon sat down with @theC100's Michael Buhr to discuss Canada's #AI future and the feds' commitments to innovation. 🎧 Listen on The BetaKit Podcast, presented by @Intuit QuickBooks. https://t.co/bTTHKlSLw7

.@inovia is promoting both Kory Jeffrey (@Kory_Jeffrey) and Taha Mubashir (@tm22039) to partner as it looks to raise a sixth venture fund and a second Discovery fund. https://t.co/nPXdUGUBOC

UPDATE: @AppDirect says it has closed its acquisition of @vComSolutions in a deal valued at "over $100 million." AppDirect first announced it was buying the lifecycle management software company more than a year ago. https://t.co/VADyc1kK34

Twenty Canadian companies have made it into the latest, and largest-ever, cohort of @NATO’s defence tech accelerator program DIANA. Some the Canadian companies to make the cut: 🌍 @AvivoBio 🌍 @csmc_scms 🌍 Volta Space Technologies 🌍 Alchemy https://t.co/cH6Uq2P0PY

More on Gander's fundraising success here:

.@Gander_Social just hit its crowdfunding goal as it tries to build a Canadian social network to compete with Meta and X. Will you sign up?

.@Shopify dropped its winter Editions newsletter and it features >150 product updates across the platform. One of the biggies is "agentic storefronts" that let merchants sell products through #AI chatbots like ChatGPT, @Copilot, and @perplexity_ai. https://t.co/lS6wKdoKBP

👀 Check out the BetaKit Newsletter for more on the feds' massive commitment to defence tech, and the @goclio vs @alexi_legal_ai court battle. Plus, big moves among the #CDNTech C-suite, including: 📌 @Ben_Bergen 📌 JD Saint-Martin 📌 @jpilbauer https://t.co/tn8RiITuK3

Her dream: build a community for Vancouver's Gen Z tech scene that rivalled those in Silicon Valley. The reality: launch a US-based startup, instead. Why? Our latest story explores the tough choices the young co-founder of @netbackyard faced in Canada.

Alongside its $7.5B investment in Canadian data centres, @Microsoft is pledging to protect Canada's digital sovereignty by keeping "Canadian data on Canadian soil." But questions remain around if, and how, Microsoft could keep that promise. https://t.co/bmrp13Rjxl

“The dataset you collect now may become a weapon in the not-too-distant future.” In November, Michael Karlin of the Canadian Digital Service (@CDS_GC) reflected on what it means to balance efficacy and responsibility when the gov't develops #AI tools. https://t.co/sjr7erm6cF