Bloomsco raises $1 million pre-seed from BDC, Telegraph for military training platform

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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 .

Montréal startup was co-founded by former Pressbooks and Dialogue executives. 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 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 . The context: Bloomsco operates with 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.