C100 Gives Top Fundraisers the Nod in Year-End Review
C100, the non-profit, member-driven organization that supports Canadian technology entrepreneurship through mentorship, partnership…
It’s Official: Canadians Love Their Weather Apps
Nearly half of 19,000 surveyed Canadians say they regularly check their weather app, according to a new study from Ipsos. The…
BetaKit’s Most Interesting News Stories of 2013
It’s getting awfully close to 2014, so we decided to go through every article we’ve reported this year and create a list…
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 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…
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…
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…
New App for Quebecers Helps them Control Their Drinking
A Quebec-based non-profit has released two new smartphones apps for the holiday season to help Quebecers keep their blood-alcohol…
Here’s what Canadians Googled the Most in 2013
Google released its most searched terms of 2013 in Canada, cutely dubbed the “Google 2013 Zeitgeist” (and yes,…
GROWtalks Announces Late January Vancouver Date
San Francisco’s Dealmaker Media is coming to Vancouver once again. GROWtalks, the popular one-day events inspired by…
McRock Capital Announces Initial Closing of New $50 Million Fund
McRock Capital, the Toronto-based investment firm cofounded by Scott MacDonald and Whitney Rockley, has announced the initial…
Go on Social Media; Edmonton’s Empire Avenue Reward’s with Music, Movies and eBooks
Edmonton-based startup Empire Avenue today announced that it will reward social media users with a new virtual currency called…
Several BC Startups Named Finalists in Small Business BC Awards
British Columbians have voted and the top ten B.C. businesses in eight award categories have been announced as part of the…
Have an Interesting Personal Website? Newly Launched ‘The Development’ May Want to Feature It
A pair of Ontario-based university students have launched The Development, an interesting new website that, simply put, is…
Shopify Adds $100 Million in Series C Money to Its Arsenal
Everything in life seems to go in circles: yesterday we sold stuff in a shop, today we do it online and tomorrow we’ll…