The Life of Brian: Kiip’s Founder is Always Looking on the Bright Side
Vancouver’s tech “child prodigy” and Kiip (Founder & CEO) Brian Wong swung through town on his way to SXSW, when Startup…
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Vancouver’s GrowLab Freshens Up For Spring, Introduces Its Newest Cohort
For the next three weeks it might as well be called GoLab, because a van full of founders has hit the road. With new GrowLab…
BetaKit at DX3 2014: Digital Agency Art & Science Shows Off It’s “Mayor Maker” Rob Ford Booth
Our Joseph Czikk caught up with Toronto-based digital agency Art & Science at DX3 2014 conference in Toronto Wednesday.…
Gottacon Convention Shows Victoria Has a Pulse
It’s a city that’s viewed as pristine and proper. BC’s capital city is also seen by some as a place of the newly wed,…
U Waterloo Stratford Campus Hands Out its Christie Design Awards
The town of Stratford, Ontario may soon be known for something other than Biebs and the Shakespeare Festival. That’s…
Collaboration is More Than Just Talk: Vancouver Enterprise Forum Brings Together Academia, Government and Innovation
Collaboration is about taking action, and so many important technologies exist because business, academia, and government find…
Next 36 Students’ New App Helps Solve Your Toughest Decisions
Current Next 36 cohort member Thomas Lee told us that he and his friends were trying to figure out the perfect app idea back…
Audicus Undercuts Hearing Aid Costs by As Much As 80%, Making Many Canadians Happy
An interesting report from CBC Manitoba this month brought our attention to one New Jersey-based startup that has a ton of…
Government of Ontario Crowns Winners at Energy Apps for Ontario Challenge
The government of Ontario has announced the six winners of the Energy Apps for Ontario Challenge. The innovative new apps…
You’re Next Career Network’s Startup Expo Breaks 2000 Attendee Mark
It was completely student-run, it was only the second iteration of the event in nine months and the University of Toronto organizers…
Check Out This BDC Infographic on “The Real Impact of Venture Capital”
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has released an infographic on the morning that the CVCA released its 2013 overview…
VC Investment in Canada Jumps by Nearly a Third in 2013 (452 deals with an average size of $4.3 million)
Last year saw 31 percent more venture capital investment in Canada compared to 2012, up to $2 billion from $1.5 billion. In…
Waterloo’s Desire2Learn Targets Latin America With New Sao Paulo Office
According to CanadianPrivateEquity.com, Waterloo’s Desire2Learn, creators of an integrated learning platform for schools,…
Donde Helps You Find The Stuff You Want, Where You Want
Moving forward often involves pulling up well-established roots. Having taken flight from the Vancouver startup community,…
Grade 12 Toronto Student Wins Doodle 4 Google Contest
A 17-year-old Toronto student named Cindy Tang has won the first Doodle 4 Google contest for Canada. Her drawing is of a girl…