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Bloomsco raises $1 million pre-seed from BDC, Telegraph for military training platform
Montréal startup Bloomsco announced on Thursday a $1-million pre-seed equity round from BDC Capital's Seed Venture Fund and Montréal-based
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- Montréal startup Bloomsco announced a $1-million pre-seed equity round on Thursday.
- Funding comes from BDC Capital's Seed Venture Fund and Montréal-based Telegraph Ventures.
- CEO Hugh McGuire plans to use funds to grow the engineering team.
Why it matters. The funding supports Bloomsco's AI platform for military training, potentially creating more contracts as the Canadian Armed Forces procures new equipment and technology.
Montréal startup Bloomsco announced on Thursday a $1-million pre-seed equity round from BDC Capital's Seed Venture Fund and Montréal-based Telegraph Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Hugh McGuire stated the funding will expand the engineering team and refine technology for classified, air-gapped environments. The company uses AI to convert technical manuals into training plans and has already secured a contract with the Department of National Defence for an officer qualification standard.
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Bloomsco raises $1 million pre-seed from BDC, Telegraph for military training platform
Montréal startup was co-founded by former Pressbooks and Dialogue leaders. The post Bloomsco raises $1 million pre-seed from BDC, Telegraph for military training platform first appeared on BetaKit . Montréal startup was co-founded by former Pressbooks and Dialogue leaders. As defence spending grows in Canada, a Montréal AI startup is hoping to serve the education and training gap between contractors and the military. The news: Bloomsco, which is developing a software platform that defence contractors can use to create training materials for the military, announced on Thursday a $1-million pre-seed equity round from BDC Capital’s Seed Venture Fund and Montréal-based Telegraph Ventures . The company said it will use the funding to grow its engineering team and refine its tech for use in classified and air-gapped environments (meaning it’s isolated from the internet). From the source: “The whole focus of a military is training people well to do the work they need to do,” Bloomsco co-founder and CEO Hugh McGuire said in an interview with BetaKit . “With more complex technologies that are changing fast, how do we build a training system that is able to adapt?” The context: Bloomsco uses AI to turn technical manuals, data, and product specs into training plans, learning materials, and simulation scenarios that the end customer can adapt as they see fit. It has already secured a contr.