Two Canadian Gaming Studios Raise $180,000 for Philippines Disaster Relief
While Toronto grapples with the effects of one unfortunate weather-related event in the ice storm, a few Canadian gaming studios…
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Vancouver’s Brands for the People Takes Branding Really, Really Seriously
A logo is not a brand: a great brand is really a great story. Too many startups confuse the two. Often the confusion turns…
Bitcoin Enablers Bex.io Raise $500,000 Seed Round
With some expecting the Bitcoin economy be valued at nearly $3 trillion in late 2016, the virtual currency’s appeal is…
Toronto’s Tiny Hearts Thinks New Wake App Update Will Please
Robleh Jama and his team at Tiny Hearts in Toronto have released the 2.0 update to the wildly popular Wake alarm clock app.…
Montreal’s Brandicted to Be Featured on Mike Judge Comedy about Startups
Montreal-based startup Brandicted is going Hollywood. Well, maybe more “Silicon Valleyish”. The startup will appear…
Young Canadian Women Are Facing Barriers at the Workplace (Yep, This is Still a Thing)
Canadian organizations are unintentionally underestimating young women as being too young or not ready to assume increasingly…
Toronto Startup Pawly Beats Out Nearly 1,000 Teams, Wins Global Startup Battle
For the second year in a row a startup from Toronto has came away victorious from the Global Startup Battle, a huge competition…
Busbud Team Creates Site That Shows Montrealers Where to Donate
Montreal startup Busbud was in the giving mood this year and decided to create GeoDonation, a website that maps out over 1,000…
Rosetta Stone Language Learning Platform Acquires Vancouver Creator of Fit Brains
Rosetta Stone Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire Vivity Labs Inc., creator of the successful Fit Brains product…
Most of HomeSav’s Staff Lose Their Jobs Amid “Restructuring” by Parent Company Rebellion Media
In late July we reported that Toronto-based private shopping “club” for home decor and lifestyle products HomeSav had…
CDMN Is Sending 27 Startups All Over the World As Part of the Soft-Landing Program
The federally-funded Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) has chosen the 27 companies that it will ship off this winter as…
Prostate Cancer Detectors Imagistx Raises $4.2 Million in Funding
Markham-based prostate imaging startup Imagistx has raised $4.2 million in venture capital from several firms. Toronto’s…
Startup Career Expo Will Bring Together 70 Startups and 1,500 Students
You’re Next Career Network and its “Startup Hub”, based out of the University of Toronto, is set to host…
The Holiday Rejects Sell Ugly Christmas Sweaters- And They’re Making a Killing At It
A trio of University of Calgary engineering grads decided to sell ugly christmas sweaters online last year and it worked out…
Canadian VCs Weigh in On Boston “Pay to Pitch” Fiasco
On Wednesday a conference called the “New England Venture Summit” took place in Boston on the same day that another…