Victoria’s Sendwithus Is Headed to Y Combinator
Getting accepted to join Y Combinator must feel like winning the Super Bowl. With alumni like Reddit, DropBox, AirBnB, and…
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Canadian Indentity-Privacy Pioneer Austin Hill Has a Message for the Founders of Whisper and Secret
Two new apps called Secret and Whisper that encourage anonymous posting were all the conversation last week among high-profile…
Toronto’s Encore Wants to Give Concert-Goers the Digital Equivalent of a Ticket Stub
About 70 percent of concert-goers take photos or videos with their phones or digital cameras, which is either really annoying…
Creative Tension at #SXSWedu 2014
Days before SXSW 2014 erupted in the spectacle of a livestream from Edward Snowden, educators, entrepreneurs and investors…
BetaKit at #SXSW: Kiwi Wearables Does Not Want to Perform Science Experiments On Your Personal Data
Every time I tried to watch the wearable technology portion of the SXSW Interactive Accelerator Pitch Contest, the room was…
BCIC-New Ventures Competition Means Lessons Learned and Cash Earned
Faced with the reality of being idea-rich and resource-challenged, the lure of the BCIC-New Ventures Competition catches the…
New Study Finds Half of Canadian Startups Run by Part-Timers
A new Intuit study has found that more than half (53 percent) of all new startups in Canada are run by part-time entrepreneurs.…
Who Can You Trust With Your Data? This Toronto Startup Wants to Help
Who can you trust with your data? That’s a multibillion-dollar question. Three years before Snowden’s plea to the…
BC Tech Financings Had a Monster Year in 2013
The BCTIA has reviewed the numbers and the story reveals that 2013 was a banner year for BC Tech. BC was not only home to Godzilla’s…
Toronto Gets a Bitcoin Accelerator
The world’s first Bitcoin accelerator program has launched in Toronto. Bitcoin Decentral, a Toronto-based hub for the…
BetaKit at #SXSW: PasswordBox and A Former “Super Intern” Are Growing Together, And Fast
It’s be fun to watch the rise of Montreal’s PasswordBox, the startup that provides a safe and encrypted place for…
Extreme Startups’ Marcus Daniels: “Now We’re Bringing In Rockstar Founders”
We’ve known this for a while, but now we have video evidence that Marcus Daniels may be one of Canada’s most outwardly…
BetaKit at #SXSW: Bionym’s Karl Martin Shows Us The Nymi
Joseph Czikk chatted with Bionym cofounder Karl Martin at the #SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Czikk’s first…
Brothers in Arms: Skyprep’s Sibling Cofounders Mix Business and Friendship
Babak Barkhodaei spoke about the power of three brothers working towards a common goal. He’s the CEO of Toronto-based…
BetaKit at #SXSW: Mighty Cast Looks to Take the Wearables for Teens Market
Our Joseph Czikk caught up with Adam Adelman of Montreal-based startup Mighty Cast in Austin, Texas for #SXSW2014 Interactive.…