Our focus is to help Canadian startups get noticed and communicate their wins, another world happens outside our glorious land. Below is a recap of what occurred over the past seven days in Canada, along with notable news from around the web:
In Canada:
- Hootsuite Raises $35 Million [Read here]
- Crowdfunding for Charities. Do you Giveffect? [Read here]
- TELUS Health acquires web-based prescription technology ZRx Prescriber [Read here]
- Frank & Oak Raises Mammoth $15 Million Round [Read here]
- TD Bank establishes lab within the Communitech Hub [Read here]
- JobBliss CEO the only Canadian in the Women 2.0 PITCH competition [Read here]
- Cossette Labs Incubator Launches in Toronto [Read here]
- 5 Startups Awarded Residency at Google Innovation Space at Communitech [Read here]
- Ottawa-based Incubator and Accelerator “L-SPARK” launches [Read here]
- Manulife opens RED Lab within Communitech to build new products/services [Read here]
- BCIC New Ventures Competition Announces its Top Ten Finalists [Read here]
- Montreal’s Breather Raises $6 Million [Read here]
- Square to Open Canada Office Next Wednesday in Kitchener [Read here]
- Nova Scotia-based CelluFuel scores $5 million investment [Read here]
Around the web:
- True to form, the Canadians are politely spying on Silicon Valley [Pando Daily]
- Flywheel Raises $1.2M For Its WordPress Hosting Platform [TechCrunch]
- KC newbie MindMixer raises $17M, aims to hire up to 100 [Biz Journals]
- xAd Secures $50M Equity and Debt Round [VCNews]
- LogMeIn Acquires Meldium for $15 million [LogMeIn]
