BuzzFeed to open Toronto newsroom
Popular top-10 list generator and cat-loving site BuzzFeed announced today its plans to open shop in Canada. At the annual…
Milestones
Mozzaz and Plum graduate from the Accelerator Centre
Another couple startups have graduated from the Waterloo-based Accelerator Centre. Mozzaz and Plum have become the 44th and…
Hexoskin wins the “People’s Choice” award for “Connected Body Product” in the Postscapes Internet of Things competition
Monntreal-based Hexoskin has is continuing its success in 2015 and announced it recently won a “People’s Choice”…
INcubes adds five new hubs to its International Exchange Program
Toronto-based startup accelerator INcubes announced today that it has added five new hubs to its International Exchange Program.…
Financeit doubles its lending muscle to $75M
This week, Financeit announced that it doubled its lending program partnership with Pacific & Western Bank of Canada, increasing…
Google’s Waze hires first Canadian employee
Popular crowdsourced traffic app Waze was acquired by Google last year for an astounding $1.3 billion. Google stated at the…
Myo now available on Amazon as Thalmic ships 100% of pre-orders
When last we checked in with Kitchener-Waterloo based Thalmic Labs, co-founder Stephen Lake said the company had shipped 24%…
Arlene Dickinson departs Dragons’ Den
A mainstay on the hit Canadian TV Dragons’ Den has departed. Arlene Dickinson, the vibrant CEO of Venture Communications…
Slack celebrates 1st anniversary, tops 500,000 daily users
With a year under the belt, Slack is not slacking off. The communication tool that was started by Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield…
Slack and Frank & Oak make the list of 2015’s Most Innovative Companies
Innovation is so much more than a buzzword. The official definition is “the action or process of innovating” or…
Founder Institute is seeing the “most applicant demand in history”
The Founder Institute, which is dubbed as the “world’s largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program,” began…
JUICE Mobile opens Waterloo office
Toronto-based JUICE Mobile is continuing to expand its operations and announced the opening of a Waterloo office at 51 Breithaupt…
theScore now included in the TSX Venture 50
Toronto-based mobile sporting news provider theScore announced today that has been included within the 2015 TSX Venture 50,…
Founder Institute welcomes two Canadian startups into its Winter Founder Lab: Logrr and Elysia
Since 2009, the Founder Institute has graduated over 1,310 companies across 85 cities. The “world’s largest entrepreneur…
Pebble has now sold 1 million smartwatches
Pebble’s long replacement cycle has been unlike anything we’ve seen in the wearables space thus far. First announced…