Cap tables, crowdfunding, and clarity

🗞️ This week, BC tech is making history—and rewriting the playbook. Blossom just broke records with Canada’s largest equity crowdfunding round. The Terry Fox Foundation is teaming up with a VC firm to fund cancer-fighting startups. And founders are rethinking how (and when) to give up equity, thanks to some hard-won cap table lessons.

Also inside: TELUS wants to build a Sovereign AI Factory in Vancouver, WELL Health inches toward unicorn revenue, and the mayor is ready to ride for bitcoin. Plus, TED’s exit, a billion-dollar blockchain boost, and the case for celebrating wins without a term sheet.

-TJ team

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