Lessons on scaling from TradeRev founder Mark Endras
Car auctioning is an age-old trade, and in the early 2000s, when new tech was beginning to disrupt the automotive industry,…
HSBC opens Toronto data lab, will partner with FinTech, AI startups
Last week, HSBC opened a new data lab in Toronto, hoping the new lab will harness AI to develop future products and generate…
​Volta selects five Atlantic Canada startups to receive $25,000 investment
Five​ Atlantic Canada tech startups have been selected to each receive a $25,000 investment from Volta Cohort, a micro-fund…
Vancouver cleantech Mangrove Water receives $2.1 million from federal government
Vancouver-based water management cleantech Mangrove Water Technologies, has received a $2.1 million investment from the federal…
AI “experimentation bases” developer Bases.ai acquires SenseAI
Bases.ai, a company looking to create experimentation bases for other businesses wanting to use AI, has announced the signing…
Canada-wide digital health platform receives $49 million from federal government
The Digital Health and Discovery Platform (DHDP), a network that aims to establish a Canada-wide health data platform, has…
Toronto-based events e-commerce company AudienceView acquires Vendini
AudienceView, a Toronto-based company that produces e-commerce software for events and entertainment organizations, has acquired…
Shopify partners with DMZ, Dream Maker Ventures for Black entrepreneurs initiative
Shopify is partnering with Ryerson University’s DMZ as a founding partner of the Black Innovation Initiative, a project that…
Uber launching engineering hub in Toronto as part of $200 million investment
Uber has announced plans to open an engineering hub in Toronto. The new site will mark its 11th engineering hub worldwide and…
Dan Doctoroff stays on message at #CollisionConf Q&A
At a question and answer session at Day Two of #CollisionConf, Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff sat down with BNN Bloomberg’s…
Education platform Coursera to open engineering office in Toronto
Coursera, a Silicon Valley-based education platform, has announced a new engineering office in Toronto. The office will be…
Bridgit receives $750,000 investment from FedDev Ontario
Kitchener-based Bridgit, offering a project management platform for construction businesses, has received a $750,000 investment…
Senso.ai announces $1.5 million CAD raise at #CollisionConf
Toronto-based Senso.ai, a machine learning and predictive AI company, has announced the close of a $1.5 million Seed round…
Montreal-based Smooch acquired by Zendesk
Montreal-based Smooch, allowing companies to manage customer conversations across multiple social messaging and communication…
#CollisionConf: Canada’s tech ecosystem is in hypergrowth, but it won’t last forever
Canada’s tech ecosystem has quickly become one of the tech world’s greatest success stories, but government, entrepreneurs,…