BetaKit Live: Dax Dasilva on making a difference on November 15th
“For better or worse, tech leaders are in the spotlight … [and] it’s a platform that we have to shape the world.” Those…
The CDL mentoring session that gave Brice Scheschuk imposter syndrome
Who teaches mentors how to mentor entrepreneurs? Shouldn’t we spend more time thinking about that?
How Wheelhouse plans to take on tech’s fitness giants
Let’s break a sweat and dig in.
BetaKit Live: The State of Canadian Startups on November 3rd
Canadian businesses are managing a lot right now, from an accelerated digital transformation to an employee shift to remote…
Hootsuite plans to IPO before Christmas, raise $200 million on TSX
Hootsuite is finalizing its preparations to go public on the Toronto Stock Exchange before the end of the year, BetaKit has…
Why Elizabeth Yin is hustling to build the next generation of angel investors
Let’s talk angel investing, which has exploded in 2021 (in the US at least). Pitchbook data claims that angel investment…
How SAAS NORTH plans to lead Canadian tech events back to IRL
For the BetaKit Podcast’s Black Swan series, we talked to a lot of Canadian tech events that had to either shutter or…
BetaKit Live: Solving the developer-security divide
In our last BetaKit Live on the subject, cybersecurity experts noted that the “pipeline” to develop a diverse set of cybersecurity…
Announcing the SAAS NORTH BetaKit Keynote Stage
SAAS NORTH announced a partnership with the publication of record for Canadian tech and startups today as part of a move to…
What a marriage proposal at a Vance Joy show taught Dan Mangan about scaling Side Door
Like most musicians, Juno Award-winning Dan Mangan left us waiting for the show to start. But he had a good reason: Dan Mangan…
Raven Capital wants to invest in the Reconciliation economy
Today, you will hear from Paul Lacerte, Managing Partner of Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, an Indigenous-led and focused…
Senator Colin Deacon talks open banking, competition, #FreeBoswell
Today, we add a new member to the #FreeBoswell movement. “The reality is [the banks] have been used to an environment…
BetaKit Live: Canada’s ‘New’ Innovation Policy on September 28th
So the election is over and Canada’s new federal government will look… a lot like the old one. But important distinctions…
Rewind fundraise shows that slow and steady can win the market
Mike Potter knew he had to move faster. The CEO and co-founder of Ottawa-based Rewind admitted to BetaKit in January that the…
How Felix & Paul won an Emmy shooting VR on the ISS
This podcast features a Canadian tech company, which sent a custom-built camera to space, to connect to the Canadarm, to film…