Toronto’s Buytopia Named #3 on Hot Profit List + Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist
It’s been a positive few months for Buytopia.ca, the Canadian daily deal site. Earlier this month the Toronto-based company…
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Broadband TV Hits 1 Billion Monthly Visitors After $36 Million Boost
Broadband TV, a Vancouver-based media and technology company that helps businesses to monetize their fan uploaded Youtube content,…
Head of Student VC Fund Challenges Canada to “Prevent the Glaciers from Melting”
The following is an exclusive guest post written by Ilan Saks, CEO of The Founder Project Recently, I’ve done some reading…
500px Brings on a Few Tech Heavy-Hitters in Andy Yang and Patrick Lor
It’s been a productive few months for 500px, the popular Toronto-based photo community powered by creative people. Last…
GrowLab Reveals New Fall Cohort Along with New “Farm Teams”
Vancouver-based startup accelerator GrowLab has announced its new Fall 2013 cohort, and it includes one startup we reported…
Waterloo’s Communitech Launches Women in Technology Project
The Waterloo-based Communitech innovation hub officially launched its “Women in Technology” project yesterday. The 36-month,…
A New Kind of Mafia in Montreal? How a Culture of Startup CEOs are Playing the Angel Game
There’s a mafia brewing in Montreal, involving several notable figures. They made names for themselves during their careers,…
Flixel relaunches living photos app, brings professional quality cinemagraphs to iPhone users
Toronto-based Flixel launched in early 2012 as part of an initial wave of video-centric mobile social networks. Battling with…
Canada Gold Corporation changes name to STEM 7 Capital, appoints Sunil Sharma
Pending the usual regulatory approvals, Canada Gold Corporation announced today that they’ve officially changed their…
Agility Unveils Shared Module Zones and New Reports in June Release
Agility’s CMS platform has received an update, specifically adding two key reports to the mix. Users can now configure modules…
Pinfluencer Rebrands As Piqora, Launches Gallery To Help Brands Build Visual Landing Pages
Pinfluencer, the startup BetaKit covered only a month ago to highlight the Pinterest analytics and promotions platform’s…
ContactMonkey Pivots to Provide Smart Email Tracking for Sales Teams
BetaKit first covered Toronto-based ContactMonkey in March 2012 when it raised a $800,000 seed round for its address book…
Uber Competitor Winston Pivots to Build White Labeled Apps for Taxi Companies
Uber is arguably the best-known name in the on-demand car app space, and while it started with a focus on black cars, it has…
Shopigram Pivots From Resale Marketplace to Help Local Merchants Sell Their Wares
Belgium-based Shopigram launched in September as a mobile-first resale platform which let users take a photo of an item, upload…
SWIX Rebrands to Source Metrics to Help Companies Measure Social ROI
This week Ottawa-based social analytics platform SWIX announced that is has rebranded to Source Metrics to help enterprise…