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• Karen Unland (apologies for the hot mic — will ensure better levels in the future!)
  • What she does at Taproot
  • That's a Thing?!
  • Seen and Heard in Edmonton
• On-demand access to the sessions at Inventures 2022
• Nanostics won the game-changing health pitch competition
  • Founder John Lewis is also CEO of Entos Pharmaceuticals
• Shelvie Fernan of Fly and Fetch was one of the winners at HerStory, an adjacent event put on by The51 in Banff
  • She will speak on June 14 at Founder Panel: Building a Global Startup
• Startup TNT
  • Investment Summit V finale on June 23
  • Alberta Innovates announcement
  • PrairiesCan announcement
• C-Tribe Festival
  • Announcement of C-Tribe x Tech speakers
• Taproot's Tech Roundup and Health Innovation Roundup

Many thanks to our title sponsor, Innovate Edmonton. Learn more about Alberta Catalyzer, where applications are open for founders of innovation-driven startups.

Thanks also to Alberta Blue Cross.

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Editing by Castria; theme music by Dave Von Bieker; cover art by Vikki Wiercinski.

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• Seven Summits Snacks
• Kristyn Carriere
• 2022 Startup Global Pitch Competition
• INDIGital program
• Indigenous Friends Association
• Immersive program combines coding, ceremony, and Indigenous knowledge
• Alberta announces $6 million in funding to help women entrepreneurs
• Alberta Women Entrepreneurs
• Community Futures Network of Alberta
• Click & Push Accessibility Inc.
• University of Alberta's Rehabilitation Robotics Lab
• Edmonton startup develops app to help with navigating construction barriers
• Accelerate Edmonton
• Alberta Catalyzer
• Alberta Blue Cross

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• Kirk Zembal
• Blindman Brewing
• David Chan
• Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
• Blindman Brewing: Sustainable AI-powered Craft Beer
• Amii and Blindman Brewing collaborate to bring AI to beer
• AI Week
• Startup TNT Investment Summit V
• Top 20 Pitch Night
• Correct-AI
• Fairly Staffing
• Jess Black
• JustCook
• RocketFire Labs
• What's the Deal?
• Zero Point Cryogenics
• YEG Startup Community Awards
• EZ Ops
• PAYLOAD Technologies
• Drift Technological Solutions
• Accelerate Edmonton
• Alberta Catalyzer
• Alberta Blue Cross

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• Nicole Sanchez
• Gillian Thomson
• Ruth
• Skipper
• ThresholdImpact Venture Mentoring Service
• Accelerate Edmonton
• Alberta Catalyzer
• The51
• Platform for financial feminists expands to Edmonton
• AltaML
• Yogapedia
• Sprout Fund
• Sprout Fund II's first close
• Royal Bison

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• Ventrify rides high on client's crowdfunding success
• EZ Treat Kickstarter
• ScaleGood Fund
• TELUS Community Safety and Wellness Accelerator
• New CAD$10 million Edmonton-based ScaleGood Fund powered by TELUS announced with first investment in Areto Labs
• Areto Labs
• ParityYEG
• Uniting the Prairies
• Birdie Break
• Environmental Material Science
• Ruth
• Wyvern
• EZ Ops
• The Public Food Hub Co.
• Beamdog
• Aspyr Media
• Startup TNT Investment Summit
• Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) Kickstart Program
• Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator
• Digital Alberta is looking for its first full-time executive director

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• The Public Food Hub
• Co-founders Ken Bautista, Kirsta Franke, and Tim Hengel
• Startup Edmonton
• Uproot Food Collective
• Foxtrot
• City aims for Edmontonians to 'live more locally' with 15-minute districts
• Propel
• 500 Global's Alberta Accelerator
• 'Focus on growth': Local startups boosted by 500 Global accelerator
• Field Notes

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Soil remediation

• Environmental Material Science
• Steve Siciliano
• Startup TNT
• Cleantech Investment Summit replay

More cleantech success

• Nanode Battery Techologies
• Picketa Systems
• LightLeaf Solar

Drugbank's successful raise

• DrugBank
• News release

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Wrapping up Y Combinator

• Wyvern
• Callie Lissinna
• Y Combinator
• Future Fields
• Taproot's story on Wyvern's experience

Raising $2.6M in seed funding

• PulseMedica
• Nir Katchinskiy
• Nikhil Bedi
• Winning Startup TNT's Investment Summit
• Taproot's story on the raise

High Dough opens new location

• High Dough
• Three Boars
• Second location announcement
• Taproot's story on the second location

New esports program

• Vimy Ridge Academy
• CBC's story on the program

Launching The Breakdown

• Samdesk
• Announcing the launch
• The first episode on the Marshall Fire

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An innovative food company

• Flat Out Feasts
• Ocean Odyssey Inland
• Element Calgary
• Taproot's story

Investing in cleantech

• Cleantech Investment Summit
• Startup TNT
• Environmental Material Science
• Nanode Battery Technologies
• Quantum Silicon
• LifeLeaf Solar
• Prairie Robotics
• Investment Summit V

Alberta Accelerator by 500

• Air Trail
• Cash 2 Crypto
• The Public Food Hub Co.
• Umay
• The program
• Demo day
• Taproot's story

Plug and Play's spring programs

• Plug and Play Alberta
• True Angle Medical
• 2S Water
• Press release
• Taproot's story

Celebrating the ecosystem

• 2022 YEG Startup Community Awards
• Watch the 2021 event

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Philanthropic innovation

• Edmonton Community Foundation
• Press release on Martin Garber-Conrad's retirement
• Social Enterprise Fund
• Edmonton and Area Land Trust
• Edmonton Community Development Company
• Emergency Community Support Fund
• COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund
• The Well Endowed Podcast

Community look-ahead

• Startup TNT
• Life Sciences Investment Summit
• MACH32
• Rainforest Summit
• Cleantech Investment Summit
• Alberta Technology Symposium
• Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
• AI Week

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