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Charles Mandel always filed on time: BetaKit remembers beloved senior writer on the anniversary of his passing.

The BetaKit Quiz this week covers Trump’s tech pardon, Poilievre’s tax pitch, and a Blue Origin alum’s bet on future fuel #CDNtech Plus 💳 Float’s new feature 🇨🇦 Kraken Digital Asset Exchange’s Canadian ambitions 🤝 And Serato gets acquired

Shopify ($SHOP) and Lightspeed Commerce ($LSPD) are among the #CDNtech stocks dragged down in the US tariff-spurred market plunge.

Nord Quantique, Photonic Inc., and Xanadu among cohort chosen by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build usable quantum computers in under a decade. #CDNtech

#Healthtech startup vopemed lands $2.29-million pre-seed funding for #AI-powered surgery visuals. #MTLtech

Trulioo taps former Nuvei exec Vicky Bindra to take over for retiring CEO Steve Munford. #YVRtech

It may feel like #CDNtech got off relatively easy yesterday, but don't breathe a sigh of relief just yet: PM Carney said the US has signalled potential action on #semiconductors—and Canada will respond. #cdnpoli

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On The BetaKit Podcast, Dana McCauley of the Canadian Food Innovation Network dives into Canadian foodtech’s scale-up problem. CFIN’s latest ecosystem report shows Canadian foodtech companies stalling in the later stages—starved of private capital and left leaning on public dollars. Canada, McCauley says, has “orphaned” the companies that feed us. #CDNtech

At Intuit, the Virtual Expert Platform is reshaping how customers find financial expertise with AI. The VEP powers help across products to support 100 million people and businesses. For engineers like Akshay Singh and Nicholas Yee, the VEP offers a rare kind of opportunity: massive scale, real stakes, and systems that need to work for everyone. Inside Intuit Canada, engineering teams are experimenting fast, shipping with purpose, and rethinking how expert help should work.