Toronto mayor to pitch city to Netflix, Amazon during trip to Hollywood
Toronto Mayor John Tory will be leading a delegation of 23 Toronto companies and organizations on an economic trip to Los Angeles.…
Canadian Startup News
Magnet Forensics partners with Child Rescue Coalition to combat child exploitation
The Child Rescue Coalition has announced a partnership with Waterloo-based Magnet Forensics to combat child exploitation. Magnet…
Report: Canadians skeptical about cloud security when it comes to medical, financial information
According to a report conducted by cloud software company Citrix Canada, most Canadians are wary of cloud security when it…
Ask a Dev: Should I use Kotlin to develop Android apps?
Kotlin is a new open-source programming language developed by JetBrains. It runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and is known…
Three winners receive $50,000 at NBIF’s Research Innovation Awards
Three researchers have received $50,000 for their innovations related to aging at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s…
Ask an Investor: Should I give my advisors equity?
Welcome to a BetaKit weekly series designed to help startups and entrepreneurs. Each week, investors tackle the tough questions…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 110: Everything Facebook’s Done Wrong
It’s been hard to keep up with Facebook’s public reckoning, as new information drops each day. Of course, the CanCon…
Hack To Start Ep.191: Asher Hunt, founder and CEO of Overnight
Asher Hunt is the founder and CEO of Overnight, a platform to book homes from people you trust. Hunt comes from a visual arts…
Government invests $4.4 million in Venture for Canada to support Atlantic Canada internships
The Canadian government is providing $4.4 million to Venture for Canada to help students access work at startups in Atlantic…
Akira founder moves from healthtech to launch Newton cryptocurrency trading platform
Just under a year after exiting telehealth startup Akira, founder Dustin Walper has launched Newton with the goal of tackling…
Bilal Khan out as OneEleven CEO
OneEleven’s founding CEO no longer holds the role, BetaKit has learned. OneEleven announced the news today via its Weekly…
Malgosia Green departs Top Hat to take on role as Plenty of Fish CEO
Top Hat’s former chief product officer Malgosia Green has departed the company and taken on the role as CEO of Plenty…
Startup Canada Podcast Ep. 132: The path to exit with Bruce Croxon
What does it take to build a wildly successful Canadian technology company? For Bruce Croxon, it took over a decade of entrepreneurial…
Thalmic announces new headquarters as it hits 350 employees
Thalmic Labs has opened a new office at 27 Gaukel St. in Kitchener – a 124-year-old building with 26,000 square feet…
Healthcare startups and industry share joint innovation challenges at #THIW panel
As part of Toronto’s Health Innovation Week, MediSeen and MedStack hosted a ‘dual innovation panel’ tackling both sides…