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Market commentary and coverage across the Canadian venture market — TSX Venture and CSE issuers.
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Caring Brands (CABR) Closes $4.6M First Tranche of $9M Convertible Preferred Raise; Second Tranche of $4,400,000 Expected by September 4
Caring Brands Inc. (Nasdaq: CABR) completed the initial closing of a $9 million private placement on September 1, 2026, issuing $4.6 million in convertible preferred shares to accredited investors…
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Errington Metals Closes C$34.5M Brokered Raise for Sudbury Basin Drilling, Backed by Stifel, CIBC, and BMO
Errington Metals Corp. (TSXV: EM) closed a brokered private placement on August 11, 2026, raising gross proceeds of C$34,515,679.50, including the partial exercise of an option granted to the agents,…
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Prospectiva Resources (TSX-V: PSVA) Completes RTO, Begins Drilling at São Francisco Copper-Gold Project in Brazil's Borborema Belt
Prospectiva Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: PSVA) began trading on the TSX Venture Exchange on August 14, 2026, after completing its qualifying transaction with Pentagon I Capital Corp.
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Wrap Technologies Raises $12M, Signs Two Defense Partnerships, and Enters Q3 With $1.2M in International Orders Already Booked
Wrap Technologies (NASDAQ: WRAP) closed a $12 million institutional raise on August 19, 2026, and followed it within days with two strategic partnerships that push the company into defense and…
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Check-Cap Closes $10M Offering at $6.50 a Share, One Day After MBody AI Merger Completes
Check-Cap Ltd. (NASDAQ: MBAI) raised $10.0 million in gross proceeds from a firm-commitment underwritten public offering that closed August 27, 2026 — the day after the company completed its business…
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Interpace Biosciences Executes 1-for-5 Reverse Split August 27, Targeting Nasdaq Capital Market Uplisting from OTC
Interpace Biosciences (OTCID: IDXG) cut its share count to one-fifth of its prior level overnight. The 1-for-5 reverse stock split became effective at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on August 27, 2026, with…
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Helium Evolution Closes $25M Private Placement, Led by $23.7M From New International Investors
Helium Evolution Incorporated (TSXV: HEVI, OTCQB: HEEVF) closed a $25 million private placement on August 24, 2026, with new international investors accounting for $23.7 million of that total,…
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Critical Elements Lithium Posts 1.89% Li2O Over 27.35m at Rose West After Forest-Fire Suspension
Critical Elements Lithium (TSX-V: CRE; OTCQX: CRECF; FSE: F12) released assay results from four holes at its Rose West Discovery on August 12, 2026 — the first results since drilling resumed…
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NowVertical Posts 18% Revenue Jump to $9.7M in Q2 2026, Debuts Client KPIs as New CFO Steps In
NowVertical Group Inc. (TSX-V: NOW) reported Q2 2026 revenue of $9.7 million in its August 18, 2026 news release on GlobeNewswire — an 18% increase from $8.2 million in Q2 2025. Gross profit margin…
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Critical Elements Drills 1.89% Li2O over 27.35 m at Rose West, Six-Fold Footprint Expansion Since Winter 2024
Critical Elements Lithium Corporation (TSX-V: CRE | OTCQX: CRECF | FSE: F12) reported assay results on August 12, 2026, from four holes at its Rose West Discovery in Eeyou Istchee, Québec. The…
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Grace Therapeutics Closes $10M Private Placement at $2.10/Share, Extends Cash Runway to End of 2028
Grace Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: GRCE) closed a $10 million private placement on August 6, 2026, issuing 4,761,904 shares of common stock at $2.10 per share to new and existing fundamental investors,…
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MapLight Therapeutics Closes $150M PIPE at $11.38/Share to Fund Phase 3 Schizophrenia Trial and Alzheimer's Psychosis Study Through 2028
MapLight Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MPLT) raised $150 million in a private placement that is expected to close today, August 14, 2026 — the day after the company's stock closed at $11.58 on Nasdaq.
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Dyadic International Raises $2.9M via Registered Direct Offering and Warrant Private Placement, Closing Expected August 14
Dyadic International (DYAI) is bringing in approximately $2.9 million in gross proceeds through a registered direct offering paired with a concurrent private placement of warrants, with the…
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Apollomics Raises $10M in Two-Tranche Private Placement, Closing Targeted for August 14
Apollomics Inc. (Nasdaq: APLM) has entered into definitive subscription agreements for a private placement of up to 700,001 Class A ordinary shares at an aggregate gross consideration of…
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SciTec Lands $93.7M Space Force Radar Contract, Adding to Firefly Aerospace Subsidiary's Growing Defense Portfolio
SciTec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), was awarded a $93,704,410 firm-fixed price other transaction agreement on August 11, 2026, for ground-based radar digitization.…
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Aitenders Technologies Closes RTO, Gains Conditional CSE Listing Under Ticker BIDS After $2.4M Raise
A France-based AI procurement platform is coming to Canadian public markets. Aitenders Technologies Inc. closed its reverse takeover on July 31, 2026, and received conditional approval from the…
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Femasys Raises $30M Private Placement Led by Nantahala Capital, With Warrants Carrying Up to $90M Total Potential Proceeds
Femasys Inc. (NASDAQ: FEMY) announced on August 7, 2026 that it had entered into a securities purchase agreement for a $30 million private placement. The company reported approximately $19.12 million…
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Micro-Cap IPOs Have Nearly Vanished in 2026 — But Critical Minerals Capital Is Holding Its Ground
Only 13 micro-cap IPOs have priced on Nasdaq and NYSE year-to-date as of August 8, 2026, raising less than $300 million in aggregate. In 2025, 80 micro-caps priced. That is an 83% collapse in deal…
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Rapid Micro Biosystems Posts 11% Revenue Growth in Q2 2026, Hits 200th System Placement Milestone
Rapid Micro Biosystems (Nasdaq: RPID) reported second quarter 2026 total revenue of $8.1 million before the market open on Friday, August 7, 2026 — an 11% increase over the second quarter of 2025,…
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Tarsus Pharmaceuticals Closes Oversubscribed $125M PIPE to Fund $450M Alkeus Acquisition
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: TARS) announced on August 6, 2026 that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with qualified institutional buyers and accredited investors for a private…
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Barrick Takes C$20.9M Stake in Kingfisher Metals; Kinross Exercises Participation Rights in AbraSilver's ~C$52M Raise
Two senior gold producers made strategic minority investments in junior developers during the week ending August 1, 2026 — Barrick Mining into British Columbia copper-gold explorer Kingfisher Metals,…
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Apnimed Prices Upsized $192M Nasdaq IPO at $16, FDA Decision on Sleep Apnea Pill Oxnimbi Set for February 28, 2027
Apnimed priced its initial public offering at $16.00 per share on July 30, 2026 — the top of its marketed $14–$16 range — selling 12,000,000 shares of common stock for gross proceeds of $192 million…
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Beyond Air Prices $30.1M Private Placement at $5.66 Per Share Ahead of Second-Gen LungFit PH FDA Clearance
Beyond Air, Inc. (NASDAQ: XAIR) announced on July 30, 2026 that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement expected to generate up to $30.1 million in aggregate gross proceeds — before…
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Barrick Mining Takes 9.9% Stake in Kingfisher Metals for C$20.9M, Backs Golden Triangle Copper-Gold Land Package
Barrick Mining Corporation agreed on July 21, 2026 to invest C$20,885,761 in Kingfisher Metals Corp. (TSXV: KFR), acquiring 15,470,934 units at C$1.35 per unit in a non-brokered private placement,…
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Entera Bio Prices $275M Oversubscribed Private Placement at $2.04 Per Share, Closing Expected July 28
Entera Bio Ltd. (NASDAQ: ENTX) priced a $275 million private placement on July 27, 2026 — a raise that dwarfs the company's $101.0 million market capitalization as of that same date and is expected…
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Zeta Network Group Executes Second Reverse Split of 2026, This Time 8-for-1, as ZNB Trades Split-Adjusted on Nasdaq July 27
Zeta Network Group (Nasdaq: ZNB) began trading on a split-adjusted basis Monday, July 27, 2026, following an 8-for-1 reverse stock split effective at the opening of trading. The explicit purpose,…
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205 US IPOs Through July 23 Top Last Year's Pace, but SPAC Math Tells a More Complicated Story
The US IPO market has logged 205 offerings through July 23, 2026 — 6.22% ahead of the 193 recorded at the same point in 2025, according to Stock Analysis, which compiles its figures manually from SEC…
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Gladiator Metals Hits 32.0m of 1.36% Cu at Cub East, Extends High-Grade Strike Beyond 300 Metres
Gladiator Metals Corp. (TSXV: GLAD) (OTCQB: GDTRF) (FSE: ZX7) reported July 22, 2026 that drill hole BCG-035 at its Cub East target returned 32.0m at 1.36% Cu, 0.63 g/t Au and 10.93 g/t Ag from…
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PJX Resources Closes C$6.3M Private Placement, Drills for Sullivan-Style Critical Metals in BC
PJX Resources (TSX-V: PJX) is trading at CA$0.19 on volume of 1,240,000 shares Thursday, up 8.6%, as the company moves into the field with a C$6.3 million non-brokered private placement behind it and…
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Li-FT Power begins 38,970 m drill program at Québec lithium project
The 2026 program covers 163 diamond drill holes at the consolidated Adina-Galinée spodumene complex.
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Wayfinder Metals closes oversubscribed C$1.05M placement
The base and precious metals explorer issued 8.74 million units at $0.12, days after a 4:1 consolidation and rename.
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TSXV conditionally approves Green Canada uranium RTO listing
The resulting issuer will be renamed Green Canada Uranium Corp. and acquire the Marshall uranium project in Saskatchewan.
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Zacatecas Silver plans up to C$2.5M placement for Oso Negro drilling
The non-brokered placement funds a maiden drill program at the Oso Negro silver-gold project in Sonora, Mexico.
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Altius Minerals launches C$181.5M bought-deal share offering
The royalty company will issue 3 million shares at C$60.50, with closing expected around July 21.
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Leading Edge Materials sets C$6M placement with cornerstone backing
The battery-materials company structured the raise with a binding standby subscription and cornerstone commitment.
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Tres-Or signs LOI to acquire Stonecutter diamond-gold project via RTO
The non-binding letter of intent contemplates a reverse takeover for the northwestern Ontario project.
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Lode Gold files NI 43-101 report for Fremont gold mine
The qualified-person-reviewed report sets the regulatory baseline for future resource work at Fremont.
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Royal Road Minerals launches C$10M LIFE offering
The brokered offering is priced at C$0.20 per share; Rio2 is expected to participate to hold its 15% stake.
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Radisson drills 1,604 g/t gold over 1.0 m at O’Brien
The intercept is the highest-grade drill result to date at the O’Brien Gold Project in Québec’s Abitibi belt.
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Torex Gold files Los Reyes PEA: US$1.5B NPV, 37% IRR
The preliminary economic assessment models 134 koz AuEq per year over a 14.4-year mine life.
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McFarlane Lake receives C$6.2M in warrant exercises
Holders exercised 41.5 million warrants at C$0.15 ahead of a July 12 expiry.
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Aldebaran and Centauri launch combined C$25M placements
A C$17M brokered offering and a concurrent C$8M non-brokered offering fund the Rio Grande gold-copper project.
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Safi Silver seeks to extend 2.5M warrants to year-end
The company applied to the TSXV to push a July expiry to December 31, subject to repricing approval.
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Helius exercises option on Serra Pelada gold-PGM project
The exercise moves Helius toward a 75% interest in the Brazilian gold-PGM project, with closing targeted by July 31.
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Copper Fox plans up to C$3M placement; insider to take majority
Control person Ernesto Echavarria is expected to subscribe for at least 3 million of the 5 million shares.
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Freeman Gold feasibility study pegs Lemhi post-tax NPV at US$696M
The NI 43-101 study models a 15-year mine on a 1.0-million-ounce reserve at the Idaho project.
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T2 Metals files NI 43-101 resource report for Sherridon
The report formalises a resource estimate for the Manitoba copper-zinc-gold-silver project.
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GoldInxs Mining begins trading on TSXV after IPO
The British Columbia gold-copper explorer listed following its June IPO, with proceeds directed to drilling.
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Hudbay completes Arizona Sonoran acquisition
The all-share deal combines the Copper World and Cactus projects in Arizona.
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Cosa Resources closes upsized C$12M bought-deal placement
Denison Mines, Cosa’s largest shareholder and JV partner, participated in the flow-through-heavy raise.
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Kairos Gold plans up to C$6M placement for Chile porphyry drilling
The first substantial raise since its March 2026 listing funds drilling on five Chilean porphyry projects.
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Magna Mining hits 29.7% copper-equivalent over 3.4 m at Levack
The R2 Footwall Zone intersection comes ahead of a planned Levack restart PEA in Q3 2026.
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Radisson extends O’Brien gold mineralization to 1,720 m depth
Step-out holes with eight rigs active kept the O’Brien system open at depth and along strike.
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Bunker Hill director Mark Child resigns after two months
Child left the board effective June 20, under two months after his May 2026 appointment.
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Magna Mining to graduate from TSXV to TSX on June 23
The copper-nickel producer’s uplisting takes effect June 23 under the same NICU symbol.
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AbraSilver files updated Diablillos resource: 213 Moz silver, 2.0 Moz gold
The NI 43-101 report supports an expanded measured-and-indicated resource at the Argentina project.
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Anfield Energy files updated uranium-vanadium PEA: 106% IRR
The hub-and-spoke plan centres on the Shootaring Canyon Mill, one of three licensed U.S. uranium mills.
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STLLR Gold intersects 13.00 g/t gold over 22.75 m at Tower
The Jonpol Deposit results support continued infill drilling in the Timmins camp.
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Banyan Gold hits 5.58 g/t gold over 21.7 m at AurMac
The new zone at the Powerline Deposit sits southwest of the main high-grade core in the Yukon.