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By Isabelle Kirkwood October 4, 2019

L-Spark announces six SaaS startups participating in fall 2019 cohort

Ottawa-based SaaS accelerator L-Spark has announced the startups participating in the fall 2019 cohort of its SaaS-focused…

By Isabelle Kirkwood October 4, 2019

TritonWear, a Toronto-based swim training device manufacturer, has been selected as the official training technology of Swimming…

By Isabelle Kirkwood October 3, 2019

Climate Action 100+, a global investor group comprised of 370 investors with over $35 trillion USD in assets under management,…

By Jessica Galang October 3, 2019

HeyBryan, a peer-to-peer marketplace app that connects homeowners with home maintenance experts, has closed its initial public…

By Meagan Simpson October 3, 2019

Friends and family of Peter Wittek are raising awareness online in hopes of spurring efforts to find the University of Toronto…

By Jessica Galang October 3, 2019

In the past few days, several companies have made announcements on acquiring startups. Here’s the latest on Canada’s movers…

By Jessica Galang October 3, 2019

On Wednesday, Mountain View-based accelerator Y Combinator (YC) published its list of its top 100 companies for 2019, which…

By Isabelle Kirkwood October 3, 2019

Simon Fraser University (SFU) is receiving $17 million from the government of British Columbia over the next five years to…

By Meagan Simpson October 3, 2019

Iain Klugman, the longtime president and CEO of Kitchener-based innovation hub Communitech, has announced that he will be stepping…

By Jessica Galang October 3, 2019

CoLab Software, which provides a cloud-based mechanical issue tracking and design management platform, has completed a $2.7…

By Jen Couldrey October 2, 2019

Adam and James dreamed of making social change, to design a product to improve lives. They had seen the damage done by cigarettes…

By Isabelle Kirkwood October 2, 2019

HonestDoor, an Edmonton-based SaaS company with a platform aimed at helping home buyers and sellers get a fair price on their…

By Isabelle Kirkwood October 2, 2019

Kelowna, BC-based tech startup accelerator, Accelerate Okanagan, is receiving $213,000 from the National Research Council of…

By Jessica Galang October 2, 2019

Montreal-based Korbit Technologies has announced the close of its $2.65 million seed round. The round was led by Khosla Ventures,…

By Jessica Galang October 2, 2019

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has officially announced that it is launching an incubator with BCG Digital Ventures,…