News Pick – Trudeau versus Trump is a win for Toronto tech and innovation
June 30, 2017 – “Silicon Valley startups are tapping into Toronto’s tech talent. Okta Inc., which JPMorgan Chase & Co. calls one of the fastest growing public software firms, opened a 60-seat office this month on trendy King Street West. Lured by a deepening pool of engineers in a city routinely ranked among the world’s […]
News Pick – US tech talent coming to Canada
June 28, 2017 – “It’s a great time for Canadian startups to attract top talent from south of the border as the U.S. government is creating an unwelcoming environment, the chief executive of Shopify says. “The Americans are doing a really great job of uninviting a lot of kinds of people who otherwise would go […]
News Pick – A Trump dividend for Canada? Maybe in its A.I. industry – NYT
May 9, 2017 – “Amir Moravej, an Iranian computer engineer in Montreal, quietly worked last year on building software to help people navigate the Canadian immigration system. He saw it as a way for others to avoid the same immigration travails he suffered a few years earlier. Then came the American presidential election. “Trump accelerated […]
News Pick – Snubbed by Trump, Silicon Valley talent is looking to Canada – Macleans
April 25, 2017 – “Like many Canadian tech executives, Roy Pereira, CEO and founder of Zoom.ai Inc., struggles to hire and hold on to highly skilled engineers, code writers and seasoned managers. Canadian software engineering grads often head directly to tech hubs like Silicon Valley and San Francisco, or use an entry-level position at the […]
News Pick – Trump’s immigration policies are opening a door to the Silicon Valley of the North – Business Insider
April 7, 2017 – “It’s a startup founder’s dream: a community of 2,500 early-stage tech companies, a government investing in high-tech innovation and expediting work permits, and venture-capital investment levels not seen since the heyday of the dot-com bubble. This isn’t San Francisco, New York, or London — it’s Toronto. And its bid to become […]
