Startup Canada and Sparks Street Join together to Celebrate Entrepreneurship on Parliament Hill
Startup Canada and the Sparks Street Business Improvement Association (BIA) are working together again this year to celebrate…
There’s An App For That – An Inside Look at The Canadian Special Olympics
The Canadian Special Olympics Summer Games of 2014 were the largest of their kind in the history of Canada. The Games brought…
The Funding Portal Launches New Cleantech Financing Platform
Over 17,000 Canadian organizations use The Funding Portal to find funding each month and the company announced today the launch…
Airbnb Names former Hubba Advisor as Canada Country Manager
Airbnb, the popular San Francisco-based peer-to-peer marketplace for spaces, has named Aaron Zifkin as its new country manager…
Mississauga’s ProServeIT Takes Microsoft’s Winning Together IMPACT Award
Mississauga-based ProServeIT, a professional services company serving the North American technology market has won the 2014…
Former Dragons’ Den Star Bruce Croxon Joins Rob Ford To Speak at Upcoming Business Event
Toronto’s controversial mayor Rob Ford will join former CBC Dragons’ Den investor and Round 13 Capital partner…
New App Recommends Montreal’s Best Places, Taps Local Celebrity Knowledge
Montreal CEO Charles-Eric Gascon has launched an invite-only mobile app called Airborne that reveals the best places to visit…
Healthcare Startup Self Care Catalysts Receives $100,000 from Rick Hanson Institute
Patient intelligence health solution provider Self Care Catalysts has received $100,000 in funding from the Rick Hanson Institute…
New Toronto Hackathon Sees Next 36 Team Up with Google, Bionym and Thalmic Labs
A few of Toronto’s major players within the tech space are teaming up in early October for the Next 36’s 2014 Wearable…
Why Did Bay Street’s Altas Partners Invest in a Grenada University?
Canadian private equity firms are often no strangers to highly-valued tech startups when considered where to spend their capital.…
Vancouver’s Mio Global Shows Off the ‘Alpha’ Strapless Heart Rate Wearable
At GROW Conference in Whistler, BC, Mio Global CEO Liz Dickinson engaged in a spirited panel discussion about the future of…
Toronto Fishing App Reveals Big Numbers at GROW Conference Startup Smackdown
Kyle Reid impressed a panel of four judges (including our Joseph Czikk) enough to win himself a trip to the Startup Smackdown…
CFC and Buffer Festival Launch First ‘YouTube Industry Conference’
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and the Buffer Film Festival have announced Canada’s first Buffer Festival Industry Day,…
“We Wanted to Do Something Bigger Than Vancouver”: HIGHLINE’s Bixby Talks New Accelerator Program
What started as a simple collaboration on a CAIP funding application ended in one of Canada’s most talked-about stories…
Toronto’s Vantage Analytics Raises $1.1 Seed Round from Real Ventures, Angels
Toronto startup Vantage Analytics has raised $1.1 million in seed funding from Real Ventures and several angels within the…