Startup Weekend Vancouver showcases fast pace of innovation
Vancouver’s tech entrepreneurial spirit reached a fever pitch among early 100 competitors on 17 teams at Startup Weekend…
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Finn.ai wants to help banks enter the chatbot era
Chatbots are the latest smartphone craze, and one Vancouver-based company is helping financial institutions take advantage.…
Ask an Investor: Do investors back companies with one founder?
Welcome to a new BetaKit weekly series designed to help startups and entrepreneurs. Each week, investors Roger Chabra and Katherine…
Ontario government announces Scale-Up Voucher program to better support high-growth businesses
The province of Ontario announced last week that it’s introducing two new programs with the goal of helping small businesses…
Spark Centre announces two $25,000 winners of Ignite startup competition
Durham-based Spark Innovation Centre has announced the two winners of its annual Ignite startup competition, which awards two…
CIX FinTech event tackles the evolving startup-bank dynamic
While last year the Canadian Innovation Exchange focused on celebrating the Canadian startup landscape more generally, this…
Traction on Demand talks about balancing growth with ‘good business’
For every top-of-mind tech firm like Slack, Hootsuite, and Shopify on the Canadian scene, there are literally hundreds of innovative…
TransPod raises $20 million seed round to continue hyperloop development
TransPod, which wants to build a “world-leading” hyperloop, announced a $20 million seed round to continue supporting…
Sequence Bio CEO steps down from role as co-founder takes over
St. John’s-based Sequence Bio co-founder Chris Gardner has taken over as acting CEO from the company’s former CEO,…
Equibit: John McAfee joining Toronto-based blockchain security startup (McAfee: definitely not)
UPDATE: BetaKit has spoken with McAfee, who says Equibit is misrepresenting his role. See the end of the article. BetaKit has…
Toronto-based WhatRunsWhere acquired by Pathmatics
Toronto-based WhatRunsWhere.com, which helps online marketers and advertisers track the success of their digital advertising…
As Black Friday approaches, Shopify launches app to give users access to flash sales
Shopify has launched a new sale app called Frenzy, focused on giving users quick access to flash sales just in time for Cyber…
Alert Labs wins $100,000 prize at Communitech Rev Demo Day
“We save the insurance industry millions per year in preventable leak-and-flood payouts,” George Tsintzouras, founder of…
Hack To Start Ep. 124: Hailley Griffis, communications specialist at Buffer
Hailley Griffis is a communications specialist at Buffer. Griffis started building her personal brand as a communication strategist…
New Brunswick appoints its first chief entrepreneur-in-residence
New Brunswick has named Fredericton-based David Alston, a veteran tech entrepreneur, its first chief entrepreneur-in-residence.…