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Sean Silcoff

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Covers:  technology, biotechnology, innovation policy, entrepreneurship
Storyteller. Newshound. Co-wrote Losing the Signal, about BlackBerry. I cover Canadian tech/biotech/innovation for Globe & Mail. Verified.
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Losing The Signal

Losing The Signal

harpercollins.ca — I co-wrote the acclaimed bestseller about the rise and fall of smartphone pioneer BlackBerry. The book was shortlisted for the international Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and won Canada's National Business Book Award
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Waabi closes in on US$750-million financing, valuing driverless truck company at US$3-billion

Waabi closes in on US$750-million financing, valuing driverless truck company at US$3-billion

Report on Business — Khosla, G2 Ventures and Uber among big investors in deal expected to close as early as this month
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Innovator of the Year: Geotab's Neil Cawse goes from techie to powerhouse strategist

Innovator of the Year: Geotab's Neil Cawse goes from techie to powerhouse strategist

Report on Business Magazine — Neil Cawse, this year's Innovator of the Year, founded Geotab 25 years ago as a new arrival from South Africa. Now, it's a giant in vehicle-tracking technology, with $1 billion-plus in revenue and customers on every continent
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Zymeworks wanted to be Canada's first Big Pharma. Despite two blockbusters-in-the-making, that's ...

Zymeworks wanted to be Canada's first Big Pharma. Despite two blockbusters-in-the-making, that's ...

Report on Business — CEO Kenneth Galbraith wants to buy streams of royalties from other drug developers for treatments nearing commercialization
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Janet Bannister brought caring and sharing to venture capital. It's paying off

Janet Bannister brought caring and sharing to venture capital. It's paying off

Report on Business — Her Staircase Ventures raises $32-million for second fund anchored by RBC, Northleaf after backing 12 startups in first fund
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Cash from away: CoLab raises $72-million as hot St. John's tech scene draws global investors

Cash from away: CoLab raises $72-million as hot St. John's tech scene draws global investors

Report on Business — St. John's may be far from the tech capitals of Toronto, Waterloo, Montreal and Vancouver, but it is home to a thriving local sector
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JPMorgan plots expansion into banking for Canadian tech firms

JPMorgan plots expansion into banking for Canadian tech firms

Report on Business — U.S. banking giant is recruiting for a managing director to lead its 'innovation economy' unit in Canada
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Mark Leonard, Canada's answer to Warren Buffett, resigns from Constellation Software

Mark Leonard, Canada's answer to Warren Buffett, resigns from Constellation Software

Report on Business — Departure of founder after 30 years comes as Canada's second-largest software vendor faces shareholder concerns about the impact of AI on the business
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Tech founders leaving Canada at accelerating rate, survey finds

Tech founders leaving Canada at accelerating rate, survey finds

Report on Business — 'Every founder who leaves ... is one less person creating jobs, paying taxes and building prosperity here,' CEO of Build Canada says
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Canada had - and lost - its lead in AI. Can it avoid making the same mistake in the next emerging...

Canada had - and lost - its lead in AI. Can it avoid making the same mistake in the next emerging...

Report on Business — Canada is positioned to benefit economically from quantum computing, but can it keep up with other countries pouring billions into their own industries?
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Canadian CEOs are embracing generative AI's speed and efficiency. The impact on their employees i...

Canadian CEOs are embracing generative AI's speed and efficiency. The impact on their employees i...

Report on Business — Instead of tentative pilot project conceived by executives, some companies are mandating that employees use AI tools - or else
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Among Canadians in Silicon Valley, talk of a trade war has a techno-optimist spin

Among Canadians in Silicon Valley, talk of a trade war has a techno-optimist spin

Report on Business — Canadian tech CEOs navigate the widening geopolitical rift as some worry about growing cross-border ill will, especially if Canadians show too much belligerence toward Americans
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Welcome to the $100-million club: With dozens of scaled-up tech companies, Canada is poised to de...

Welcome to the $100-million club: With dozens of scaled-up tech companies, Canada is poised to de...

Report on Business — The Globe and Mail found 71 private Canadian technology and technology-enabled companies that have surpassed US$100-million in annual revenue, a yardstick of maturity and sustainability in the sector
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How Georgian Partners, Canada's venture capital leader, turned into an industry laggard

How Georgian Partners, Canada's venture capital leader, turned into an industry laggard

Report on Business — Investigation into performance challenges at Canada's largest venture capital firm
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Revolution, interrupted: Why AI has failed to live up to the hype in drug development

Revolution, interrupted: Why AI has failed to live up to the hype in drug development

Report on Business — One of the promises of machine learning was better drugs, faster. A decade in, that has yet to happen
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B.C. biotech boom: Vancouver looks to join the global big leagues of modern medicine

B.C. biotech boom: Vancouver looks to join the global big leagues of modern medicine

Report on Business — Vancouver's life sciences scene dates to the first biotech boom in the early 1980s. Toronto and Montreal also produced biotechs, but Vancouver had several advantages, such as risk-tolerant investors and the city's natural beauty
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Xenon stock surges as B.C. biotech's epilepsy drug shows promise for treating depression

Xenon stock surges as B.C. biotech's epilepsy drug shows promise for treating depression

Report on Business — Company co-founded by renowned geneticist Michael Hayden building franchise around treatment discovered by Valeant
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Innovator of the Year: Hopper's Fred Lalonde went from hacker to tech titan

Innovator of the Year: Hopper's Fred Lalonde went from hacker to tech titan

Report on Business Magazine — Fred Lalonde got his not-so-illustrious start as a teenage hacker. Now he's built (and rebuilt) the third-largest online travel agency in North America. Oh, and he wants to save the planet, too
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Un-Unicorn: Clearco seeks funding that would slash tech financier's value

Un-Unicorn: Clearco seeks funding that would slash tech financier's value

Report on Business — E-commerce financier co-founded by Dragon's Den star Michele Romanow is in advanced talks on a complex recapitalization plan
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RenoRun may seek creditor protection after Tiger, government funds balk at financing plans

RenoRun may seek creditor protection after Tiger, government funds balk at financing plans

Report on Business — RenoRun faces imminent sale - or creditor protection filing - after company fails to raise fresh money from past backers. Shortly after this story the company filed for protection and went out of business soon after.
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How the Liberals' multibillion-dollar tech plan created 'chaos' instead of growth

How the Liberals' multibillion-dollar tech plan created 'chaos' instead of growth

Report on Business — First part of a series that takes a critical look at the Canadian government's innovation agenda under Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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See Jane Run: How a B.C. startup ignored the tech bubble hype - and is thriving through the crash

See Jane Run: How a B.C. startup ignored the tech bubble hype - and is thriving through the crash

Report on Business — Feature on under-the-radar B.C. tech success story Jane Software, which ignored advice to spend more, hire faster and bulk up on sales and marketing staff during the tech bubble rather than continue to focus on growing sustainably and profitably. Now, in the midst of the worst stretch for the tech sector since the dot-com bubble burst, Jane is still growing, still hiring, still profitable - and financiers are asking their portfolio companies, 'Why can't you be more like Jane?'
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Sheertex CEO Katherine Homuth's quest to create unrippable tights has hit some snags

Sheertex CEO Katherine Homuth's quest to create unrippable tights has hit some snags

Report on Business Magazine — A revealing look inside Katherine Homuth's efforts to turn her fast-growing Montreal-based "unbreakable" pantyhose maker Sheertex into a global industry disruptor.
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Welcome to the space jam: Canadian startup Kepler stirs debate with huge planned fleet of interne...

Welcome to the space jam: Canadian startup Kepler stirs debate with huge planned fleet of interne...

The Globe and Mail — Canadian space startup Kepler Communications has caused a global stir with a proposal that would see the skies filled with tens of thousands of communications satellites bearing its technology. Whether its plans and those of others like SpaceX, Telesat and OneWeb to launch constellations of satellites into earth's lower orbit fully come to fruition, the skies are bound to proliferate with machines in the years ahead. that has many space watchers, concerned, as the extent to which so many orbiting objects could impact life on Earth and in space is uncertain.
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