Montreal and Toronto mayors hope trade mission to Israel will result in more investment, collaboration in Canada
Between November 12 to 19, Montreal mayor Denis Coderre and Toronto mayor John Tory will travel to Israel to convince Israeli…
Canadian Startup News
Shopify would rather buy Google than be bought by Google
In a recent BNN interview, Shopify’s chief financial officer Russ Jones shot down the idea of a Google acquisition by stating…
Dentons launches platform helping startups navigate legal issues including IP, immigration
Dentons, currently the world’s largest law firm, announced the launch of an online platform meant to help startups navigate…
VC Report: $2.5 billion invested in first nine months of 2016 best since 2001
Thomson Reuters released its analysis on venture capital deal activity for Q3 2016, stating that venture capital activity in…
Four BCIC Ignite Award winners receive total of $2.7 million in funding
The BC Innovation Council announced the first four winners of its Ignite Awards, giving out $838,000 to BC research projects…
Kepler co-founder says entrepreneurship in space is now easier
At the latest TechToronto event, Wen Cheng Chong, the co-founder and chief technology officer at Kepler Communications, presented…
Inbound Retargeting acquires Las Vegas-based Primeloop (and its IP)
Vancouver-based Inbound Retargeting Technologies has acquired Las Vegas-based Primeloop in an effort to strengthen its link…
Relay Ventures raises $200 million third fund to continue focus on mobile tech companies
When Kevin Talbot co-founded Relay Ventures in 2008, he knew two things: that this up-and-coming “mobile thing” was going…
Hack To Start Ep. 121: Una Kravets, UI engineer at Digital Ocean
Una Kravets is a blogger, podcaster, speaker, and UI engineer at Digital Ocean. In high school, Kravets started to explore…
The Hyperloop dream is reality with world’s first pneumatic levitation system demo in Waterloo
After the date for SpaceX’s International Hyperloop Competition got pushed back from August 2016 to January 2017, the…
Slack publishes full-page open letter in New York Times as Microsoft launches its competitor
The battle of workplace messaging apps is set to begin today now that Microsoft has launched its Teams app, though it seems…
Today in funding ($69.1M): Big Viking Games, Turnstone Biologics, Decisive Farming
Canadian companies are reporting are announcing major rounds today. Here’s the latest on who raised how much, and from…
Shopify reports 89 percent YoY Q3 revenue growth as Gail Goodman joins board
Shopify released its results for Q3 2016, which ended on September 30, 2016. Shopify’s total revenue in the third quarter…
Recon co-founders close $14.1 million to target western Canada startups with Vancouver Founders Fund
Vancouver is increasingly being seen as a boom-town when it comes to tech startup innovation. That assessment goes down a few…
Flexiti Financial raises $5 million Series A to fuel mission of leading the POS financing space
With the presence of all of Canada’s major financial institutions and a supportive startup ecosystem — including incubators…