Stories that move Toronto forward.
We find the founders, builders, and community organizers turning this city into something the world is starting to watch — and we put their work on the record. No hype, no filler. Just the people actually doing it.
This week in the city
A real, current roundup of Toronto founders and changemakers in the news — linked out to the original reporting. Tap a card to read the full story.
A Toronto AI startup just raised $18M to fix how governments buy software
NationGraph, co-founded by CEO Kimia Hamidi and CTO Eden Ding, is helping vendors make sense of murky government procurement data — half the team works out of Toronto, the rest out of San Francisco and Miami.
Techstars is reviving its Toronto accelerator
Two years after going dark, a rebuilt board — including leaders from Bell, ventureLAB, and Peoples Group — is staffing up to relaunch the program for Canadian founders.
↗ CommunityClosing the funding gap for Black founders
Toronto's BKR Capital has closed an initial $20M for its second Black Innovation Fund, after Black-led startups in Canada received just $10M in venture capital last year across only 11 companies.
↗ CommunityRestoring Indigenous land, one Parkside garden at a time
Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing's 440 Parkside Collective is leading Indigenous-led land restoration work in Toronto, part of this year's Ontario Community Changemakers cohort.
↗ CultureFeeding well-being back into Little Jamaica
Micha Happie Edwards' Food for Joy project uses food to build inclusion and community well-being in one of Toronto's most storied neighbourhoods.
↗ InnovationWaabi's Raquel Urtasun: Canada could lead the physical AI era
At Toronto Tech Week's BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall, Urtasun and former RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie made the case for Canadian tech sovereignty in front of 500 industry leaders at TIFF Lightbox.
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