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Willful signs partnership with insurance giant Allstate following launch in Québec Toronto-based Willful, which offers online will and estate planning, has launched a new national partnership with Allstate Insurance Company of Canada. The partnership will allow Allstate customers to access simplified estate planning tools in addition to Allstate’s existing products and services. Erin Bury, CEO and co-founder of Willful, told BetaKit the partnership is aimed to increase the di...

C100 rebrands 48Hours in the Valley to eight-month fellowship, announces 2021 cohort C100, a nonprofit that aims to support Canadian tech entrepreneurs, is rebranding its flagship 48Hours in the Valley event to a new program called C100 Fellows. C100 also revealed the startups participating in this year’s fellowship. C100 Fellows is aimed to expand the program from a two-day event to an eight-month-long program. C100 Fellows is aimed to expand the founder experience from that ...

Two nonprofit FinTech programs join forces as Fintech Cadence acquires Innovate Financial Health Innovate Financial Health (IFH), a nonprofit that aims to support technology that improves financial health, has been acquired by another nonprofit, Montréal-based Fintech Cadence. As part of the agreement, Fintech Cadence has absorbed IFH’s team and the management of the IFH Lab, which is IFH’s startup program. IFH will be dissolved as an entity and IFH’s main funder, JP Mor...