Startup Open House returns to give an inside look into companies like Shopify, Busbud
For the sixth year in a row, Startup Open House is returning to seven Canadian cities to invite tech enthusiasts inside the…
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Wattpad partners with iflix to co-produce movies in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa
Wattpad has announced a content partnership with Malaysia-based streaming service iflix to co-produce Wattpad stories for iflix…
US insurance giant Travelers acquires majority stake in Zensurance
Toronto-based Zensurance has secured significant financing from American insurance giant Travelers, BetaKit has learned. Documents…
Scotiabank announces plans to share APIs with developers
Scotiabank announced that it plans to deliver a public set of libraries, APIs, and applications with the open-source software…
City of Toronto using Fundica API to help Toronto entrepreneurs access funding
Montreal-based Fundica, which helps Canadian businesses find funding opportunities, announced that the City of Toronto has…
Path to Canada: Hiring global tech talent requires trial and error while overcoming fear of the unknown
As part of a regular series, Global Skills Hub asks their clients to share their experience hiring globally and asks technologists…
Cybersecurity platform HYAS receives $475,000 from Western Innovation Initiative
Victoria-based HYAS, which develops intelligence tools to help InfoSec and cybersecurity professionals identify threats and…
Progressa closes $84 million funding round as company preps for IPO
Vancouver-based Progressa, a short-term lending platform, has closed an $84 million equity and loan funding round. The equity…
Ontario will still oversee cannabis ecommerce, but privatize physical stores
After a July report from VICE News indicated that the Ontario government will privatize cannabis sales, the province has released…
Centre québécois d’innovation en biotechnologie receives $1.4 million from Canadian government
The Canadian government is investing $1.4 million in the Centre québécois d’innovation en biotechnologie. Based in…
Why you need cultural intelligence to build an inclusive workplace
Consider this: your tech firm has hired a product manager who hails from Southeast Asia. In meetings, she goes on and on in…
Chinova Bioworks raises $2.6 million to develop mushroom-based preservative
Fredericton-based Chinova Bioworks, which is developing a mushroom-based natural preservative for food and beverages, has raised…
A look at the architecture firm designing offices for Shopify, Element AI, and Klipfolio
As much as the startup world has a reputation for being nimble, there’s also a reputation for the interesting workspaces…
#TractionConf speakers say scaling up requires thinking small
“We had a lot of failures,” Dave Pickles, founder and CTO of digital advertising company The Trade Desk, announced…
Is tech FOMO fading away? (CanCon Ep. 126)
There was a time, just a few short years ago, when the latest product releases from the world’s largest tech companies…