Wattage goes under
BetaKit’s recent feature on Toronto-based startup Wattage was filled with excitement. Not only for the company’s pedigree,…
Brainsights knows where ads work best by squeezing your mind grapes
Toronto-based Brainsights is in the business of brain data. The company uses brain-sensing headbands to measure neurological…
Watch Miovision and Lighthouse Labs pitch on #TheDisruptors
As a show about disruption, BNN’s The Disruptors wouldn’t be worth its salt without presenting the Canadian startups taking…
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield pledges personal shares at Equity Giving event
As the co-founder of Flickr, and the CEO of Slack, Stewart Butterfield is no stranger to success. So it is exciting to hear…
VEC and Microsoft Canada want you to break something in Vancouver
The Vancouver Economic Commission is partnering with Microsoft Canada to kickstart one Canadian’s tech career with a trip…
Lighthouse Labs expands to the Yukon with hybrid remote bootcamp
When last we checked in with Lighthouse Labs, the coding bootcamp was expanding its presence to Calgary and Toronto. This week,…
Payso wins OCE FinTech Investor Pitch Competiton
The OCE Discovery conference is taking place today in downtown Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. New to the conference…
#WWTO is all about Apple Watch May 5th
The next monthly edition of We Are Wearables is fast descending on the MaRS Discovery District. May 5th’s event will be almost…
Kik answers questions about potential sale and IPO on #TheDisruptors
Another Thursday night, another episode of The Disruptors. This week’s episode was all about straight talk, as hosts Amber…
Freelancer seeks aggressive Canadian growth with expansion into local services
When Freelancer.com hit 15 million worldwide users a few weeks back, it shared metrics on Canadian usage of the freelancing…
Join BetaKit on a bus to FounderFuel’s Demo Day
FounderFuel’s Demo Day is just a few weeks away. But for many bootstrapped startups, the cost of travel to the beautiful…
Payso CEO Jake Tyler explains how social is the future… of money
A few weeks back, social giant Facebook announced that U.S. users would soon be able to send money to each other via the company’s…
Vancouver’s Koho wins Nasdaq FinTech Innovation Award at NY TechDay
NY TechDay, the world’s largest startup event, with over 400 exhibitors and 10,000 attendees, doesn’t take place until…
Montreal-based TrackTik secures $1.5M seed round and a new customer
Montreal-based integrated security operations management provider, TrackTik, has announced a new $1.5 million round of seed…
Rev shows Communitech is focused further down the startup stack
I will admit some confusion when Communitech announced that it was shutting down its HYPERDRIVE accelerator program in favour…