Artificial intelligence program NextAI raises $5.15 mln in funding
NextAI, a NEXT Canada program intended to provide capital, mentorship and networking opportunities to Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) startups, has raised $5.15 million in funding. NextAI's corporate partners, Royal Bank of Canada, Magna International, BDC Capital and Scotiabank, made the investment. Founded last year, NextAI aims to bring global AI talent and entrepreneurs to Toronto, where they will work with corporate, academic and technology partners to create commercially-viable AI ventures. IBM Canada, Google and NVIDIA will back the program as technology sponsors.
25 January 2017•5 mins read
