Applications close February 27 for the Boston Tech + Life Sciences CTA

The Canadian Technology Accelerator program accepts tech and life sciences companies for its April-November 2026 cohort. The program provides mentorship from VCs and executives, introductions to US investors and partners, and FDA regulatory guidance. Must have revenue  or $1M+ in funding.

→ Program details and eligibility

Canada and Germany launched the Sovereign Technology Alliance on February 14

The two countries signed an AI joint declaration at the Munich Security Conference. Focus areas include secure compute infrastructure, AI research commercialization, and talent development. Germany will be Country of the Year at All In conference in Montreal this September.

→ Read the full announcement

Fourteen startups won CIX 2026 Startup Awards

Climate tech, health infrastructure, and enterprise AI dominated the winner list. Consumer apps were absent from the top tier. The judges prioritized companies building foundational infrastructure over applications.

→ See the full list

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Nubank serves 127 million customers across Latin America. Next Tuesday, three of their engineering leaders are in Toronto for a conversation about building systems at that scale.

Speakers:

→ Renan Capaverde (GM, Nubank) - Spent a decade scaling from engineer to general manager across Latin American markets.

→ Daniel Kamakura (Director of Engineering, Nubank) - Leads engineering for lending. Previously at Amazon.

→ Vivian Isuyama (Senior Software Engineer, Nubank) - Leading US expansion, coordinating cross-team integrations and architectural decisions.

→ Chris Ellefson (Founder, Ollon) - Fractional CTO for 50+ companies across healthcare, fintech, and ML.

Topics:

✔ Architecture decisions at 127M+ customer scale
✔ Reliability and system design for high-growth environments  
✔ Team operations in complex, distributed systems
✔ Production system lessons from real deployments

This is a curated, limited-capacity session for practitioners and senior technical professionals.

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