Toronto’s Aislelabs Raises $1.5 Million, Provides Intelligent In-Store Marketing via the Cloud
Toronto-based startup Aislelabs has raised $1.5 million in venture capital from IAF, Rho Ventures, Salesforce Inc. and a number…
Canadian Startup News
$500 Polar Watch to Be “World’s Smartest and Most Advanced Training Computer”
Polar today unveiled what the smartwatch creator is calling “the world’s smartest and most advanced training computer.”…
Video: Preo’s New App Ensures You’ll Never Have to Wait In Line For a Drink Again
In the second instalment of our Extreme Startups series, our Joseph Czikk chatted with Preo CEO Richard Liang. The startup’s…
Less Than Half of Canadian Small Businesses Have an Online Presence
Less than half (41 percent) of Canadian small businesses have an online presence, according to a new report issued this morning…
Motherly Influence: Ideon Media Acquires Pair of Mom Blogs, Forms “The SavvyMom Group”
There’s a lot of new and soon-to-be moms out there who’s eyeballs are consistently glued to “mom blogs”. Clearly…
Waterloo’s Apartmint Is an All-In-One Solution for Landlords and Renters
“I think thereâs a lot of problems in this industry in general and I havenât seen something come forward and try…
120 Left Jobless as BlackBerry Continues Its Descent
Embattled Waterloo-based smartphone maker BlackBerry has laid off 120 employees this morning. The Waterloo Record reported…
How Not to Be Annoying at #SXSW: A Review
Far be it from me to contradict the wise words of Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross (“Always Be Closing!”),…
Several BC Startups Named “Ready to Rocket” Companies for 2014
Several Vancouver and BC-based startups have been named “Ready to Rocket” ICT companies for 2014 by Ready to…
Video: New Extreme Startups Company Provides Higher Education to Sub-Saharan Africa
In our first profile of the five new Extreme Startups companies, our Joseph Czikk chats with Fora cofounder Ian Carnevale.…
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…
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…
Thalmic Labs Flexes Its Gesture Control Arm in New Myo Demo Videos
With alpha units of the Myo now in the hands of developers, we are starting to really see the power of this game changing wearable…
Vancouver’s Elastic Path Software Gets $5 Million
Elastic Path Software Inc., a digital ecommerce software vendor, has raised $5 million in convertible debt and term facilities…