The Biometric Shirt That Helps You Fight Death Beat Its Crowdfunding Goal Today
Googleâs not the only company attempting to fight death. Montreal-based CarrĂ© Technologies believe they too have found…
Canadian Startup News
11 Months after Launch, Montreal’s 5by Gets Acquired by StumbleUpon
Silicon Valley-based StumbleUpon has acquired Montreal-based video curation startup 5by for an undisclosed sum today. The…
Toronto App Makes Dinner and a Movie a ‘Groovie’ Experience
No, you’re not greasing up your hair to take out your date in your old man’s ’56 Chevy Belair. This is 2013,…
Waterlooâs RideNerd Helps You Make Eco-Friendly Car Decisions
Waterloo-based startup RideNerd has âhit the roadâ this week, launching with a mission to help car consumers find the most…
Toronto’s Crowdbabble Launches Instagram Analytics
Toronto-based startup Crowdbabble has launched its Instagram Analytics product today, which joins a list of over 30 different…
MaRS’s new Social Venture Connection Marries Impact Investors with Social Ventures
Thursday marked MaRS Discovery District’s launch of its new Social Venture Connection (SVX), an online impact investing…
Contest: Win a pair of tickets to the Premiere Screening of ‘Day Job’
The organizers of the upcoming movie called ‘Day Job’ have been kind enough to give us a few tickets to giveaway…
Canadian government Commits $50 Million to Four VC Funds
It’s a great day for four Canadian venture capital funds. Today, Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, announced a $50…
A Startup CEO’s Financing Cautionary Tale
Utility companies lose $202 billion every year due to theft and technical inefficiencies that plague the worldwide electrical…
Dissecting The QR Code: Should Your Brand Use Them?
The year was 1994. President Clinton delivered his first state of the union address and Ace of Base was at the top of the charts…
PwC Vision to Reality Short List: The BetaKit Cheat Sheet
PwCâs Vision to Reality awards is back for their 10th year and earlier this week PwC announced their short list of twenty…
Finmaven and Bionym Launch at Today’s Accelerate TO
Amid an exciting day at Accelerate T.O that will include a keynote delivery by Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey, two…
Alertly Launches On Indiegogo, A DIY Smart Home & Car Security System
Back in August, BetaKit wrote about Alertly, a Toronto-based startup set to disrupt the consumer security space by creating…
Is Big Data A ‘Big Hype’ Or a Really Big Deal?
According to Gartnerâs 2013 hype cycle for emerging technologies, big data resides almost at the summit of âthe peak of…
theScore Unveils New iOS 7 App Update
Just a few weeks ago the ongoing Canadian sports app battleground continued to heat up, when theScore announced a major update…