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Monitoring Ukraine

• samdesk
• LinkedIn post from CEO James Neufeld
• Taproot's story
• [email protected]

Life Sciences Investment Summit

• Startup TNT
• Life Sciences Investment Summit
• Top five finalists
• MACH32
• ll Skin Inc.
• Difinity Solutions
• NanoTess
• The Natural Nipple

A new community kitchen

• The Kitchen
• Taproot's story
• Stanley A. Milner Library

Innovative COVID-19 tests

• Bio-Stream Diagnostics
• Amii's story

Research at the U of A

• Assessing the effectiveness of carbon capture
• Funding for Mirko van der Baan's project
• Taleana Huff wins 2021 CMC Microsystem's Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence

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Female entrepreneurship

• Alberta Women Entrepreneurs
• Marcela Mandeville
• Taproot's story

Highlighting women in the supply chain

• Field Notes
• Chickadee Farm Herbs
• Elizabeth Boschma
• Beaver Creek Apiaries
• Monique Zauner
• The Fort Distillery

Growing strawberries at EIA

• groHERE
• Edmonton International Airport
• Ag-celerator
• Fresh Plaza story

Women in AI Canada

• Women in AI Canada
• LinkedIn post about the switch in Edmonton leadership
• Asma Syeda
• ​​Bernie Kollman

Christian Tokarski leaves Startup Edmonton

• Startup Edmonton
• Christian Tokarski
• Press release

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Building Startup TNT

• Startup TNT
• 2021 annual report
• Zack Storms
• Taproot's story
• Edmonton Regional Innovation Network
• Prairies Economic Development Canada

Machine learning analyst program at NorQuest College

• Press release 

The new Propel cohort

• Startup Edmonton
• Propel
• adewunmi skincare
• Complete Solutions
• Consulting International Inc.
• Deeleeo Inc.
• Fairly Staffing
• FLIT
• Re(source)
• SN Biomedical
• Team CarePal
• ValueLaw.ca
• YouTechSolution

Investing in regional recovery

• Edmonton Metro Region Economic Recovery (EMRER) Working Group
• Ashlyn Bernier
• SamDesk
• Lisa Baroldi
• BOMA Edmonton

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Innovating at the Edmonton airport

• Taproot's story
• Edmonton International Airport
• Tara Mulrooney
• Drone wildlife management
• Autonomous-vehicle airport security
• Natural gas cogeneration facility
• Airport City

Cleantech Investment Summit Top 20

• Cleantech Investment Summit
• Startup TNT
• Top 20 Pitch Night
• Diesel Tech Industries
• Element 4 Technologies
• GrainFrac
• Hydrodine Catalytics
• Nanode Battery Technologies
• Quantum Silicon Inc.
• Roshan Water Solutions
• Ruth

Attracting AI talent

• Taproot's story
• Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
• AI Week
• Global talent bursaries

Plug and Play introduction

• Plug and Play Alberta
• Accelerator application

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Wyvern secures $4M to develop its hyperspectral imaging technology

• Wyvern
• Callie Lissinna
• Kurtis Broda
• Sustainable Development Technology Canada
• Taproot's story
• Press release

A non-profit tackles social services with tech

• Islamic Family and Social Services Association
• Product manager job
• Omar Yaqub
• Raj Rajakumar
• Spontivly
• Taproot's story

Paying MMA fighters with bitcoin

• Bitcoin Well
• Press release

A machine learning bootcamp for women

• Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
• CIFAR
• OSMO
• AI4Good Lab

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Future Fields co-founder joins CULT Food Science

• Lejjy Gafour
• Future Fields
• CULT Food Science
• Taproot's story
• Press release

AltaML and Compass Law launch Jurisage AI

• Jurisage AI
• AltaML
• Compass Law
• Taproot's story
• Press release

Investing in AI

• Cam Linke
• Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
• The Edmonton Journal's article

Innovation at EIA

• Edmonton International Airport
• Aira
• Press release

Predatory bird drones

• University of Alberta
• Aerium Analytics
• Folio article

Cleantech Investment Summit

• Startup TNT
• Cleantech Investment Summit

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Meet the co-hosts

• Emily Rendell-Watson - @erendellwatson
• Faaiza Ramji - @FaaizaRamji

Innovate Edmonton's new home

• Innovate Edmonton
• Innovate Edmonton to move into new home on Jasper Avenue this fall
• Innovate Edmonton Introduces Edmonton's Newest Innovation Destination

Sprout Fund II nears its target

• Sprout.vc
• Sprout Fund II nears $10M target to put into seed-stage tech companies

Local space data company closes oversubscribed seed round

• Wyvern Inc.
• Wyvern raises US$4.5M, enters Y Combinator
• Wyvern Brings Business Intelligence to New Markets Using Compact Satellites

Accelerators kick-off

• Alberta Catalyzer
• New Alberta pre-accelerator announces first cohort

Investment Summits

• Startup TNT Life Sciences Investment Summit
• Life Sciences Investment Summit aims to provide more than $1M to growing companies
• MACH32
• SN Biomedical
• Umay
• Exciton Technologies Inc.
• Cleantech Investment Summit

TELUS Community Safety and Wellness Accelerator 

• Community Safety and Wellness Accelerator names first cohort
• CSW First Round Cohort
• Areto Labs
• PALcares

YEG Startup Community Awards

• YEG Startup Community Awards
• Watch the 2021 event on YouTube

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