Uber Eats goes up against Ritual, brings new pickup feature to Toronto
Starting today, Uber Eats, Uber’s on-demand food delivery service, will begin piloting its new “Pickup” service…
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Ontario court denies Extreme Venture Partners appeal in ongoing Tinder case
The Tinder-focused lawsuit pitting former Extreme Venture Partners (EVP) founding partners Sundeep Madra and Amar Varma, as…
Crypto community unites to support Canadian entrepreneur paralyzed in Thailand
Members of Canada’s tech community are rallying around Kieran McLeod, CFO and co-CEO at Vancouver-based Long Tail Financial,…
Tile expands to Canada, opens engineering hub in Vancouver
Tile, an American cloud-based platform which has developed devices helping users find and track their belongings, has announced…
Following funding, Bridgit launches second construction planning product
Kitchener-based Bridgit, offering a project management platform for construction businesses, has announced its second product,…
Kin launches $5 million USD crypto defence fund to fight the SEC
The Kin Foundation has launched a “Defend Crypto” defence fund to take on the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),…
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…
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,…