Borrowell publicly launches AI credit monitoring app as it nears one million users
Toronto-based FinTech Borrowell today made its free credit monitoring app widely available on iOS and Android, as it looks…
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Innovacorp names four winners of $25,000 Sprint competition
Halifax-based Innovacorp, an early stage venture capital accelerator, has named four winners of 2019 Sprint competition. Each…
Cyclica launches drug design platform for pharmaceutical scientists
Toronto-based biotechnology startup Cyclica, has announced the launch of its drug discovery platform designed to help pharmaceutical…
Toronto-based CreditGenie acquired by Purpose Financial
Purpose Financial has announced the acquisition of Toronto-based CreditGenie, a startup aiming to disrupt the point-of-sale…
Forcen raises $500,000 to give machines human-level sense of touch
Toronto-based Forcen, which has developed a force-sensing film for medical and aerospace industries, successfully closed a…
Canadian VC investments up 48 percent since same time last year, CVCA report finds
Canadian venture capital investments in the first quarter of 2019 marked another billion dollar quarter, the fifth billion…
Propel creates $25,000 sales award to honour co-founder Gerry Pond
Moncton-based accelerator Propel, which has a focus on customer acquisition and sales for Atlantic Canada companies, has created…
Today in government funding: Yukon and Francophone Ontario Entrepreneurs
Today in government funding, seven projects in the northern territory of Yukon have received $2.2 million, and Ontario’s…
Lessons on scaling from TradeRev founder Mark Endras
Car auctioning is an age-old trade, and in the early 2000s, when new tech was beginning to disrupt the automotive industry,…
HSBC opens Toronto data lab, will partner with FinTech, AI startups
Last week, HSBC opened a new data lab in Toronto, hoping the new lab will harness AI to develop future products and generate…
Volta selects five Atlantic Canada startups to receive $25,000 investment
Five Atlantic Canada tech startups have been selected to each receive a $25,000 investment from Volta Cohort, a micro-fund…
ApplyBoard raises $55 million CAD Series B for international student recruitment platform
ApplyBoard, a Kitchener-Waterloo-based AI-enabled recruitment platform helping international students apply to post-secondary…
Vector Institute knew about provincial AI funding cuts in the fall
Following revelations this week that the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Canadian Institute for Advanced…
Shopify acquires Handshake, marking its third acquisition in six months
Shopify has acquired New York-based B2B ecommerce wholesale platform Handshake, to be integrated into the Canadian ecommerce…
Startup jobs of the week: HR Manager, Senior Web Developer, Product Marketing Lead
Every day, Canada’s tech startups post their latest and greatest job opportunities on Jobs.BetaKit, powered by Jobbio. From…