/* ============================================================================
   "Who actually wins Canadian business funding?" — GrantCompass Funding Intelligence.
   Warm editorial data-story, light mode. Fraunces / DM Sans / IBM Plex Mono.
   Shares the visual system of the funding-intelligence series (ladder / pivot / twotier).
   ========================================================================== */
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