CVCA: $362 million in Canadian VC investments in Q1 2015
The Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) released its Q1 2015 statistics and revealed a total…
Milestones
Freelancer seeks aggressive Canadian growth with expansion into local services
When Freelancer.com hit 15 million worldwide users a few weeks back, it shared metrics on Canadian usage of the freelancing…
Vancouver’s Koho wins Nasdaq FinTech Innovation Award at NY TechDay
NY TechDay, the world’s largest startup event, with over 400 exhibitors and 10,000 attendees, doesn’t take place until…
Vancouver’s LemonStand takes on Shopify with impressive first-year growth, expanded leadership team
It’s never an easy task to compete against fellow Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify, especially since it’s preparing…
Ballard taps into China’s clean energy market
The whole world is looking for clean energy solutions to feed ever-growing demand that translates into one new coal-fired plant…
Figure 1 brings paging support to its “Instagram for doctors” app
Toronto-based Figure 1, which builds a photo sharing service for the medical industry, has garnered a reputation as the go-to…
Vantage adds Magento support as analytics platform approaches $2B in analyzed transactions
When Toronto-based Vantage announced its $1.1 million seed round last summer, President and co-founder Aran Hamilton indicated…
Canadians have spent over $10 billion on eBay Canada in last 15 years
Today marks eBay’s 15th year in Canada, and while competitors have come at it from all sides, the company still reigns…
Increased demand for mobile wallet pays off for nTrust
Mobile payments startup nTrust is starting to gain traction in the competitive online payments sector, adding more than 20…
FreshBooks named one of the Best Workplaces in Canada
Toronto-based FreshBooks announced today that it has been named one of Canada’s great places to work. The cloud accounting…
Tilt talks money, expansion, and why Canadians are boring
Some services, like Yelp, solve a problem of finding a great restaurant. Others, like Uber, the problem of finding a cab. Tilt…
Freelancer shares Canadian metrics as platform hits 15 million worldwide users
Freelancer.com announced an impressive new milestone today, as the freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace claimed that it…
Slack’s been hacked
Slack has been hacked. Today, the company posted about “unauthorized access to a Slack database storing user profile…
Winners announced in the CODE 2015 Developer Challenge
The Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE) kicked off its 48-hour hackathon last month and the event once again was a massive…
BDC names Gerry Pond as first-ever BDC Entrepreneurship Champion
BDC (the Business Development Bank of Canada) has awarded Gerry Pond with the prestigious title of “Entrepreneurship…