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The Apple Watch helps people track their health and fitness, but it can also be a great tool to help people stay productive and get work done. This is especially true for people who get easily distracted by their phone. Although the Apple Watch comes with simple built-in productivity apps like Reminders and Calendar, it’s worth exploring some third-party apps that are designed to boost productivity by offering additional functionality. Todoist IMAGE CREDITS:TODOIST Todoist is a great app for managing tasks on your Apple Watch when you don’t want to pull out your iPhone. The app lets you create and…

New York City-based SecurityScorecard is speeding up the vendor security review process with the acquisition of Toronto-based risk management platform HyperComply. “By bringing HyperComply into SecurityScorecard, we can eliminate a barrier to efficiency.” The entire HyperComply team joined SecurityScorecard after the deal closed earlier this month, including co-founders Amar Chahal and Cody Wright (formerly of Vidyard), Chahal told BetaKit in an email. Chahal and Wright are now SecurityScorecard’s general manager and CTO of assessments, respectively. Chahal declined to disclose the purchase price. SecurityScorecard helps more than 3,000 organizations, including two-thirds of the Fortune 500, manage risks in their supply chain,…

That September chill in the air foretells a change of seasons. With it comes sweeping change across Canadian tech C-suites. This week’s headliner was undoubtedly Shopify chief operating officer Kaz Nejatian leaving Canada’s largest tech company to become CEO of San Francisco-based Opendoor. The proptech firm is in the midst of a meme stock moment (partially fuelled by Canadian hedge fund boss Eric Jackson), with retail investors now expecting Nejatian to take Opendoor to the moon. Elsewhere in the public markets, Sue Ozdemir resigned as CEO of struggling Calgary EV tech firm Exro Technologies following layoffs, lifeline financing, and…

Montréal-based Ssense has reached an agreement with its lenders that will allow the online fashion retailer to continue operations with the support of fresh capital. “With the support of our lenders, we now have the foundation to develop and implement a restructuring plan aimed at securing SSENSE’s long-term future,” Ssense co-founder and CEO Rami Atallah said. “We now have the time, resources, and structure in place to begin the process of rebuilding a stronger SSENSE.” The company said it received approval from the Québec Superior Court on Sept. 12 to move forward with a restructuring plan under the Companies’ Creditors…

OpenAI recently announced parental controls for ChatGPT. It’s good news, but the announcement comes shortly after the company was sued by parents blaming the chatbot for their son’s death by suicide(content warning: the linked story contains distressing details). It also follows Meta being forced to overhaul its chatbot training that guides interactions with minors after it was revealed the platform permitted ‘sensual’ conversations. “There’s a really good chance that a young person’s parents—or even their friends—don’t even know that this individual is building a relationship with these chatbots. And that’s where the danger exists.” Amber Mac Meanwhile, some schools across…

In 2023, York University’s Schulich School of Business launched a new certificate program for Canadian technology startup upskilling called the Schulich Venture Academy (SVA). While the business school had been supporting startups for years through Schulich Startups, SVA co-creator Cherry Rose Tan said many of its portfolio companies were still struggling to access the mentorship and training they needed to scale their businesses. “A lot of what these founders were asking for was, ‘Hey, can we learn from somebody who’s been there and done that?’” Tan told BetaKit in an interview. “[SVA has] become really the upskilling tool that we’ve…

Canada’s strong AI talent pool helped it record stronger tech talent growth than the United States (US) in 2024, according to the 2025 Scoring Tech Talent report. Canada added 66,600 tech jobs last year. That’s a 5.9-percent increase compared to the 1.1-percent growth in the US, according to the report. The report also found that Canada’s tech industry accounted for three-quarters of the country’s job growth, growing about twice as fast as the total workforce overall. Canada’s tech industry accounted for three-fourths of the country’s job growth, growing about twice as fast as the total workforce overall. Released by American commercial…

In 2024, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced a “new era” of venture capital: a shift toward larger vehicles, deeper specialization, and faster pathways from idea to scaled company. With roughly $46 billion under management, spread across growth, infrastructure, seed, and artificial intelligence (AI)-focused funds, this doesn’t just look like venture at scale. Instead, it looks like something new—an institution that feels part accelerator, part university, part capital allocator. It’s venture-adjacent, but it’s not the venture we’ve known. Raising over $1 million at pre-seed in Canada is rare. And when it does happen, it almost always requires stitching together multiple investors. There’s…

Two impact-focused tech firms have moved their CEOs to the board as executive changes continue across Canada. “I feel profound comfort in my decision to step down as CEO and pass the baton to Toan Dinh.” Former GoFundMe COO Soraya Alexander will step into the top job at Calgary-based charitable donation management software firm Benevity on Nov. 1. Meanwhile, Toronto-based accessibility tech startup Fable has appointed former Boast chief revenue officer Toan Dinh as CEO. Alexander replaces Christopher Maloof, who will chair Benevity’s board just over one year after he replaced CEO Kelly Schmitt (who now heads Headversity). Benevity founder…

Victoria-based holding company Tiny has received conditional approval to graduate to the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) as its stock price nears its all-time low. Tiny has been trading on the early-stage-focused TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) since 2023, when it merged with its publicly traded subsidiary WeCommerce. A company can graduate exchanges if it achieves significant growth in assets and working capital, along with other requirements, according to National Bank Direct Brokerage. “It all feeds into this idea of better liquidity [and] institutional base.” Jordan Taub, Tiny Tiny has been working on meeting graduation requirements, including improving its disclosure reporting and…