Canadian pride funds Vancouver tech

🗞️ This week, the theme of keeping it Canadian has continued in Vancouver tech. Backers within the country have financed an exciting $2.7 million seed round for a local company fighting deepfakes, $50 million for a biotech giant to build two new facilities in Burnaby, and $9 million to advance 11 housing-tech companies. Meanwhile, Withe has launched a new platform, HireNorth, which matches Canadian jobseekers with Canadian opportunities. Makes you proud to salute the maple leaf.

Plus, Damon Motors has raised some much-needed cash (scroll down to our “funding and deals” section to see why the money is controversial), Svante is repping Vancouver in Time Magazine (see “in other news”), and Thinkific has some unexpected insights about how you’re marketing your product wrong.

-Kate Wilson, managing editor

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