L33dr.ly ‘takes the suck’ out of Game Leaderboards by making them ‘socially and geographically relevant’
Remember the kids from your school days that were always organizing ways to sell you more candy during recess? Or perhaps the…
Canadian Startup News
Jack Dorsey to speak in Waterloo and Toronto on September 19th
Looking for a massive amount of inspiration to give your start-up a boost? No, not Tony Robbins, but Jack Dorsey, co-founder…
Kickstarter allows Canadians to start creating projects today, official launch is September 9th
Kickstarter, the popular crowd-funding site, has amassed millions of users since its launch in 2009. The site allows people…
Wave introduces mobile payments as it approaches 2 million users
Wave, the Toronto-based accounting startup poised to take over the world with its intuitive, free invoicing and payments software,…
ClearlyContacts.ca opens second Vancouver retail store to push more customers to its online portal
Before answering his phone call, I was pretty tired. But Roger Hardy, CEO of ClearlyContacts.ca and its US sister site CoastalContacts.com,…
HootSuite raises $165 million in Largest Deal Ever in Canadian Venture Capital History
In what is Canada’s biggest venture capital investment for a software company ever, social media dashboard HootSuite has…
Shopify Acquires Design Agency Jet Cooper
Shopify, the Ottawa-based startup turned ecommerce platform behemoth, announced today that it has acquired one of Canada’s…
Bitmaker Labs Gives Women in Computing a Boost with Grace Hopper Scholarship
Canadian coding school Bitmaker Labs announced this week that female registrants participating in the bootcamp would be eligible…
HYPERDRIVE’s Third Cohort: Video and pictures from the launch announcement
Earlier today Communitech’s HYPERDRIVE announced its third group of startups to join their accelerator program. In total,…
Waterloo-based Nanotech startup NeverFrost lives up to its name
Canadian winters are cold. Bone-chilling cold. Many of us waltz out to the car and grab the snow scraper to remove the frost…
Change Heroes Wins Startup World Vancouver
Startup World is on a global mission to uncover great startups who are not calling Silicon Valley home. They touched down in…
New HYPERDRIVE Accelerator Cohort Announced, brings on 11 new startups!
Communitech announced the new HYPERDIVE cohort companies today and also reinforced the changes of their 6-month startup accelerator…
Montreal’s Execution Labs Announces $150K Loan Fund for Indie Game Studios
Execution Labs today announced a partnership with BDC Venture Capital that will see the two firms offer $150,000 in convertible…
Longo’s and Unata turn to apps to personalize the grocery shopping experience
It’s a well-known adage that you should not go to the grocery store hungry. It always leads to deviation from “the…
Communitech shifts HYPERDRIVE into an improved direction, extends program to 6-months
It’s been over a year since Communitech launched HYPERDRIVE, a $30 million accelerator program that assists early-stage…