What’s happened.
A Canadian company that builds defence software using artificial intelligence has stopped going after work with the United States government. It has also stopped chasing Silicon Valley money, the venture funding that usually comes with that work. The reason is the worsening trade relationship between Canada and the US. As reported on October 11, a trip south that started as a promising hunt for funding and new business fell apart as the political mood soured.
For most Canadian technology companies, the US has been the obvious place to expand and the obvious place to raise money. So it matters when a company decides the political risk is now worth more than the contract. That is especially true if you sell to buyers in regulated or security-sensitive markets, or to government and the organisations around it. In those markets, the decision to buy increasingly turns on where a company has its head office and where it stores its data.
What it means for your business.
If you run a Canadian business-to-business software, data or security company and your sales plan leans on American customers and American investors, test that assumption now. The question is not whether to give up on the US. It is whether your sales message gives a Canadian buyer a clear reason to pick you: Canadian ownership, data stored in Canada, and a supply chain they can trust. Companies that can say that plainly will be ahead of a buying shift that has already started.
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