Kensington Capital Partners opens Calgary office to focus on cleantech opportunities in Western Canada
Kensington Capital Partners announced the Kensington Venture Fund last November with an initial closing of $160 million, and…
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Lazaridis and Ontario government invest $35 million to create a tech management school
One of the “most powerful Canadians” has stepped up and pledged to donate millions towards Wilfrid Laurier University.…
Sarah Prevette launches Future Design School in MaRS
The Future Design School launched in Toronto this week, a new initiative to encourage entrepreneurship in high schools around…
BuzzFeed hires Craig Silverman as Founding Editor for Canadian newsroom
New York-based BuzzFeed, the incredibly popular site that’s built off top-10 lists and viral news, recently announced…
Deloitte forms innovation hub within Communitech called d { }
So far, 2015 has proven to be for Communitech. In the first quarter, the innovation center has shut down its HYPERDRIVE accelerator…
CIBC to launch innovation hub inside MaRS
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce announced today that it will be creating a new innovation hub inside of the MaRS Discovery…
Borrowell’s lending marketplace launches
Back in December, Toronto-based raised $5.4 million in seed funding to accelerate the launch of its Canadian lending marketplace,…
Toronto-based WINR games combines gaming and charity to pay it forward
The amount of time playing games on mobile devices has significantly increased. The latest Canadian stat showed gaming as the…
Recon Jet smart glasses now available
Vancouver-based Recon Instruments has officially launched its latest wearable, the Recon Jet. The smart glasses were announced…
New grocery delivery service InstaBuggy goes live in Toronto
Toronto is now one click away from getting all of our grocery shopping done while waiting in line for that morning coffee.…
EDC and MaRS announce partnership to help Canadian companies “go global”
Export Development Canada (EDC), Canada’s trade finance agency, and MaRS have announced a new partnership that will assist…
Lendful wants to give Canadians on-demand personal credit lending. Seriously.
Lendful CEO and co-founder, Alex Benjamin, wants to give Canadians more money as quickly as possible. His Vancouver-based…
Bruce Croxon wants to wake up the old guard with new show The Disruptors
Bruce Croxon is coming back to television, just over one year after his departure from Dragons’ Den. Airing Thursday…
11 Waterloo-based startups participating in $5k pitch competition in Toronto
Waterloo is once again coming to Toronto. Eleven startups from Waterloo will be travelling down the 401 to participate in a…
Toronto-based MagniWare creates “quantitative second skin” wearable
Toronto-based startup MagniWare announced last week that it has created what it dubs “a quantitative second skin”…