OneEleven hosting fourth annual tech summer social
OneEleven is welcoming Toronto’s startup community to its fourth annual Tech Summer Social on July 27. The tech incubator…
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W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The rise of wearable innovation
Welcome to The Wearable Weekly, your trusted guide to all things wearable tech. If you only have time to read one thing about…
Boston’s FinTech Sandbox expands to Ontario to help startups scale with access to data
The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and Boston-based FinTech Sandbox, a nonprofit that aims to promote FinTech innovation,…
Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.82: Kevin Rockwood, software engineer at Skelter Labs
Kevin Rockwood from South Korea-based Skelter Labs, a company working on several artificial intelligence based projects, joins…
Shopify redesigns POS as part of focus on bricks-and-mortar merchants
Shopify announced that it is extending the latest redesign of its ecommerce platform to Shopify POS. Shopify said Shopify POS’s…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 73: Who are the founder-friendly VCs? What about women-friendly VCs?
This past week, the team at BetaKit hosted an invite-only tech event in Toronto called BetaKit 150 to celebrate Canada’s…
Interactive Ontario hopes apprenticeships will increase digital media industry’s diversity
Interactive Ontario has announced its first cohort for its ipprenticeship Program. The non-profit launched the ipprenticeship…
Ask an Investor: what questions should I ask a PR agency before hiring them?
Welcome to a BetaKit weekly series designed to help startups and entrepreneurs. Each week, investors Roger Chabra and Katherine…
#2017TIAs celebrate BC startups and entrepreneurs including Trulioo, Victory Square Labs
On Thursday night, The BC Tech Association’s Technology Impact Awards (TIAs) celebrated the province’s leading…
What Maluuba beating Ms. Pac-Man means for AI research
Artificial intelligence researchers sure seem to love beating humans at games. We’ve already seen AI agents overtake human…
BC innovation groups release report to prove why it’s Canada’s next supercluster
Since the Canadian federal government announced that it is accepting applications for its $950 million ‘supercluster’…
Aspect Biosystems wins Metabridge’s Most Promising Startup of 2017 Award
Non-profit Metabridge announced a Vancouver biotech company, Aspect Biosystems, as the winner of its 2017 program in Kelowna,…
Blakes launches $1 million program to help startups access legal services
Blake, Cassels and Graydon has launched a program to help startups get better access to legal advice. The program, called Nitro,…
Bayview Yards receives $1.3 million investment from RBC, CIBC
Ottawa-based Bayview Yards has announced eight founding sponsors that are injecting more than $1.3 million to the innovation…
Drone Delivery Canada partners with Ontario Region of Peel for defibrillator delivery
Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has announced a partnership with Peel Regional Paramedic Services to develop a first-of-its-kind…