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Weekly Investment News and Analysis

Please see what we’ve been reading in technology and ESG related investing this week. Please feel free to send us what you’ve found interesting.

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April 25, 2026: Fresh Highs, Big Earnings Week Next

After a geopolitical driven mid-week pause, markets closed decisively higher. Dow Jones lost 0.4% last week, S&P 500 gained 0.55%, Nasdaq composite was up 1.5%. Nasdaq and S&P 500 hit fresh highs Friday, aided by chip stocks. Multiple hyper scalers and AI related companies are expected to report earnings next week, amidst ongoing geopolitical volatility. Google and Amazon committed a combined US$65 billion in new funding and compute capacity to Anthropic, which is now seeing investor interest at a US$800 billion valuation. OpenAI is forming a US$10 billion joint venture, called DeployCo, to drive enterprise adoption. SpaceX is reportedly preparing for its June IPO, and also potentially acquiring AI coding startup Cursor for US$60 billion. Cursor’s annualized revenue recently hit US$2.7 billion. Nuclear startup, X-energy went public, raising US$1 billion in its IPO. Intel shares soared 20% on strong data center growth. Revolut is targeting a US$200 billion valuation for its eventual IPO. Tesla reported a 16% revenue increase to US$22.4 billion, as it pivots to its Robotaxi service. ServiceNow shares fell despite 22% growth due to Armis acquisition “headwinds,”. Adobe announced a US$25 billion buyback. In Canada, Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha agreed to a US$20 billion transatlantic merger. In news pertaining to Sophic clients, Kraken Robotics’ CEO was interviewed by BNN Bloomberg, highlighting the company’s position in the new underwater arms race. Rivemont Portfolio Manager, Mathieu Martin, highlighted his funds’ his 50+ bagger investment journey with Kraken Robotics on the “In the Money” podcast. Replenish Nutrients expanded its credit facilities to $5.45 million to scale its Beiseker facility and tackle global phosphate gaps. 01 Quantum recently demonstrated its quantum-safe solutions at its Toronto AGM and also provided investors a business overview at an investor conference. Hybrid Power Solutions partnered with Movex Innovation to deliver NATO-compliant mobile power units. Renoworks Software reported FY2025 revenue of $7.7 million, with licensing revenue jumping 33% as it transitions to an AI-driven platform.

Invesment News in the Past Weeks

October 04, 2020

Last week saw healthy levels of financing across the Canadian tech ecosystem, in both public and private markets. South of the border, Roblox should be an interesting stock to watch out for. Newsflow seems to be focused more on regulatory issues, and the CEOs of Facebook, Google, Twitter are expected to testify to the U.S. Senate before the election.

September 27, 2020

IPO activity in the USA cooled a bit after a few heated weeks, while M&A kept chugging along. In Canada, publicly listed technology companies announed ~$85 million in bought deals.

September 20, 2020

It’s great to see Nuvei have a successful IPO on the TSX last week — we believe robust IPOs are a very important part of the Canadian public markets ecosystem, even as US capital markets rediscover SPACs. Canadian VC also reported strong activity.

September 13, 2020

Lots of activity in the Canadian VC space this past week, as well as Lightspeed’s NYSE debut. Sophic client, Kontrol (KNR-CSE) had positive news of another successful test of its Covid detection product, BioCloud.

September 6, 2020

We hope you’re enjoying the long weekend with your loved ones. Many high growth stocks pulled back on Thursday, and Friday to some extent – however, valuations still remain elevated. Interestingly a Financial Times piece on Friday suggested Softbank’s option trading could have been tech stocks higher over the summer.

August 30, 2020

Monday saw the one the highest number of SEC S-1 filings for high profile companies going public as we have seen in nearly fifteen years in capital markets. September, should be a very interesting month!

August 23, 2020

While the Tik-Tok drama continues to unfold, high profile companies including SpaceX, Robinhood, Airbnb, Ant Financial, Palantir move ahead to either raise capital or go public. Palantir also plans to move its headquarters from the Bay Area to Denver, which could aid the trend of tech companies being more widely located, which we believe is a tailwind for the Canadian tech ecosystem. For example, Odyssey Interactive’s founders previously worked in the United States but opted to establish the company in Canada, because of the strong startup ecosystem in Canada.

August 16, 2020

Epic Games and Facebook appear to be pushing back against app store policies, which could have far reaching implications. Several high profile companies are expected to go public this fall & Robinhood is garnering lots of attention (including, gracing the cover of this week’s Barrons).