Telus & Globe and Mail Bring Back $100K ‘The Challenge’ Contest
Big money is up for grabs for Canadian entrepreneurs once again. Telus and the Globe and Mail are bringing back The Challenge…
Video: New Extreme Startups Company Provides Higher Education to Sub-Saharan Africa
In our first profile of the five new Extreme Startups companies, our Joseph Czikk chats with Fora cofounder Ian Carnevale.…
Vancouver’s Elastic Path Software Gets $5 Million
Elastic Path Software Inc., a digital ecommerce software vendor, has raised $5 million in convertible debt and term facilities…
New Study Finds Half of Canadian Startups Run by Part-Timers
A new Intuit study has found that more than half (53 percent) of all new startups in Canada are run by part-time entrepreneurs.…
Toronto Gets a Bitcoin Accelerator
The world’s first Bitcoin accelerator program has launched in Toronto. Bitcoin Decentral, a Toronto-based hub for the…
Extreme Startups’ Marcus Daniels: “Now We’re Bringing In Rockstar Founders”
We’ve known this for a while, but now we have video evidence that Marcus Daniels may be one of Canada’s most outwardly…
BetaKit at #SXSW: Bionym’s Karl Martin Shows Us The Nymi
Joseph Czikk chatted with Bionym cofounder Karl Martin at the #SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Czikk’s first…
BetaKit at #SXSW: Mighty Cast Looks to Take the Wearables for Teens Market
Our Joseph Czikk caught up with Adam Adelman of Montreal-based startup Mighty Cast in Austin, Texas for #SXSW2014 Interactive.…
BetaKit at DX3 2014: Chatting with the CFC’s ideaBOOST Program
BetaKit’s Joseph Czikk caught up with the Canadian Film Centre‘s (CFC) recruitment and talent manager, Leonardo…
BetaKit at DX3 2014: What Will Slyce Do With $11 Million?
At DX3 2014 this week, our Joseph Czikk spoke with Calgary’s Slyce, the product visual recognition startup for retailers.…
BetaKit at DX3 2014: Catching Up with Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone
Joseph Czikk caught up with Elise Darmanin of Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) incubation space this week…
BetaKit at DX3 2014: Digital Agency Art & Science Shows Off It’s “Mayor Maker” Rob Ford Booth
Our Joseph Czikk caught up with Toronto-based digital agency Art & Science at DX3 2014 conference in Toronto Wednesday.…
Three Toronto-Based Web Agencies Merge Into One Big Monster: Powered By Search
It’s not too often that we get to hear about three separate web agencies in the marketing and development space merge…
Organizations Are “Not Prepared for New Generation of Leaders”
In a recent survey, over 54 percent of respondents indicated they felt Millennials are the most challenging to engage and lead…
Federal Government’s #CODE2014 is Officially Underway
The first national Open Data hackathon in Canada, The Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE) is officially underway in Toronto…