CanCon Podcast Ep. 90: Begging for Amazon, building with Alphabet
Would your city fight a bear for Amazon? Or is your city more likely to upgrade its infrastructure with Alphabet? Do you buy into…
Canadian Startup News
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Three Canadian Cities Ranked Top 20 Most Active Startup Scenes (Infographic)
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L33dr.ly ‘takes the suck’ out of Game Leaderboards by making them ‘socially and geographically relevant’
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Kickstarter allows Canadians to start creating projects today, official launch is September 9th
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Wave introduces mobile payments as it approaches 2 million users
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Waterloo-based Nanotech startup NeverFrost lives up to its name
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“Startup Community” doc about Kitchener-Waterloo hits Indigogo
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W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Magic Leap’s $500 million round
Welcome to The Wearable Weekly, your trusted guide to all things wearable tech. If you only have time to read one thing about wearables…
AccessNow receives $10,000 from #MoveTheDial pitch competition
This past weekend in Toronto, five women founders pitched to a room of 100 people for the first-ever #MoveTheDial hackathon. The five founders included…
Lending Loop hits milestone of providing $10 million in financing
Lending Loop, a Canadian P2P lending platform, has officially provided financing of more than $10 million across the country. The company says it has…
Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes launches charity supporting young entrepreneurs
Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes is launching a new charity to support youth entrepreneurship. Holmes started Hootsuite in 2008 as a social relationship platform, growing…
A|I: The AI Times – AI teaching AI
The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news from around the globe. If you…
C100 announces 14th 48Hrs in the Valley cohort
C100 has announced the latest companies to join its 48Hrs in the Valley program, which brings 20 Canadian startups to Silicon Valley for two…
Dozr’s Dave Chalmers shares tips for startups seeking senior talent
Kitchener-based Dozr, which allows contractors in the construction and agriculture industries to share and rent out heavy equipment, has found its new SVP of…
Canadian startup news of the week (10/22/17)
Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the week’s most important news, features, and editorials published on BetaKit. If…
Dream Payments launches POS app as part of US expansion
Dream Payments, a Toronto-based payment cloud provider, is further expanding its reach in the US with the launch of a point of sale app….
Ask an Investor: Why am I being asked to find a strategic investor?
Welcome to a BetaKit weekly series designed to help startups and entrepreneurs. Each week, investors tackle the tough questions facing founders today. Have a…
Finance Minister says gov’t will work with angel and VC community to build Tax Fairness Plan
At Communitech in Waterloo, Finance Minister Bill Morneau doubled down on his commitment that the government’s proposed tax changes would not adversely affect small…
Sequence Bio announces new chair of Scientific Advisory Board
Sequence Bio, a Newfoundland and Labrador-based company studying the province’s unique genetic makeup, has announced a new Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)….