This week, John Ruffolo of Maverix Private Equity is back with Matt to talk about the latest news in the tech and capital ecosystem.

They discuss the end of the Collision Conference in Toronto, TD Bank's new initiative for tech entrepreneurs, and big moves in AI.

They also cover Jerome Nycz's retirement from BDC Capital and Raquel Urtasun's new funding round for her company, Waabi.

In this episode, we discuss:

(00:00) Impact of Collision Conference on Toronto Ecosystem

(01:33) Opportunities for Vancouver Ecosystem

(05:52) TD Innovation Partners launch

(08:28) Jerome Nycz' retirement from BDC Capital

(10:34) Apple Intelligence Product Announcement

(11:24) Partnership between Apple and OpenAI

(14:54) Ilya Sutskever’s new company, Safe AI

(17:35) OpenAI’s governance structure change

(18:48) Raquel Urtasun's Waabi Series B funding

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