Canada's AI Advantage (The Derby Mill Series ep 20)

Generative Design (The Derby Mill Series ep 19)

On the heels of Intrepid leading the Series C investment round in CoLab, the Derby Mills team talks with CoLab CEO Adam Keating.

CoLab raises $72-million as hot St. John’s tech scene draws global investors

CoLab co-founders Jeremy Andrews, left, and Adam Keating, right. The company has announced a $72-million venture capital financing led by Intrepid Growth Partners.Supplied/CoLab

Are LLMs Bitter Lesson Pilled? (The Derby Mill Series ep 18)

A trillion-dollar clash of ideas is roiling the artificial intelligence community.

Automating Manufacturing (The Derby Mill Series ep 17)

What if AI could go beyond design assistance and run fully autonomous, self-optimizing factories from concept to deployment?

Drug Discovery (The Derby Mill Series ep 16)

Can AI help accelerate the speed and quality of life-saving R&D?

Toronto’s Blue J Legal raises $167-million as demand for its ChatGPT-like chatbot for tax pros takes off

Blue J Legal Inc., a Toronto software startup that sells a chatbot for tax specialists powered by large language models, has secured $167-million in financing led by two U.S. venture-capital firms.

Business Productivity (The Derby Mill Series ep 15)

What's the efficiency of an automated workflow at the limit?

Humanoid Robots (The Derby Mill Series ep 14)

Data Privacy (The Derby Mill Series ep 13)

What role can technology play in helping organizations understand and control their data privacy?

Hospital Care (The Derby Mill Series ep 12)

What’s the potential for AI-enabled healthcare administration?

Digital Advertising (The Derby Mill Series ep 11)

How can AI enhance discovery and shape awareness of marketing solutions that people may not yet realize they need?

Welcome to the Era of Experience (The Derby Mill Series ep 10)

What will the future of AI look like once human-derived knowledge has reached its limit?

Skin Analytics secures £15 million Series B Investment led by Intrepid Growth Partners

Skin Analytics – the British healthtech company on a mission to build a future where nobody dies of skin cancer – has secured £15 million in Series B funding led by Intrepid Growth Partners.

Cancer Detection (The Derby Mill Series ep 09)

A company using AI to automate the diagnosis of serious skin conditions, starting with skin cancer.

Customer Support Unpacked (The Derby Mill Series ep 08)

The challenge of achieving true goal-oriented AI systems.

Customer Support (The Derby Mill Series ep 07)

Ada is using AI to automate customer service. How to optimize their efforts?

Mining Exploration Unpacked (The Derby Mill Series ep 06)

Can AI can use cheaper and more easily available data to improve diagnostics?

Mining Exploration (The Derby Mill Series ep 05)

How AI can help natural resource firms make better decisions.

Tariffs, Trade and the AI Stack (The Derby Mill Series ep 04)

How will the new environment for global trade affect artificial intelligence and machine learning?

Factories Unpacked (The Derby Mill Series ep 03)

The challenge of making factories more "RLable" to enable incremental changes and ultimately achieve radical improvements.

Emerging Canadian tech giant StackAdapt boosted by US$235-million Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan investment

The new deal with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, intended to raise StackAdapt’s awareness in advance of going public in the coming years, comes at a critical juncture. StackAdapt co-founders Yang Han (left), CTO, and Vitaly Pecherskiy, CEO, at Invest Ottawa, on Feb. 3.Ashley Fraser/The Globe and Mail

DeepSeek (The Derby Mill Series ep 02)

How the Chinese start-up developed an impressive AI chatbot at a fraction of the cost—and what that means for the future of machine learning.

Factories (The Derby Mill Series ep 01)

How one start-up is deploying machine learning and artificial intelligence to bring us closer to autonomous factories—manufacturing facilities that run themselves.

Ex-CPPIB CEO Mark Machin teams with former pension executive to launch AI growth fund

Ex-Canada Pension Plan Investment Board chief executive Mark Machin and a former senior lieutenant are raising a US$500-million growth capital fund to back artificial intelligence startups in Canada and abroad.

Sizzle Drop: The Derby Mill Series

Intrepid Growth Partners is excited to release the official sizzle reel for our new podcast, The Derby Mill Series: Intrepid Pioneers of the Next Economy.

Announcing the Intrepid podcast: The Derby Mill Series

For nearly 3,000 years, economic growth averaged about 0.01% per year. Then, around 1750, we redesigned our means of production and growth increased by about 150X to around 1.5% per year. Historians later named that redesign process the Industrial Revolution. The first modern factory — powered, continuous production — of the Industrial Revolution was the Derby Silk Mill.

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