Exact Media wants to be Toronto’s next big success story as it aggressively grows team
Despite being founded in 2013 and boasting clients like Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, and L’Oreal,…
Canadian Startup News
LowestRates.ca the latest startup to join the MaRS FinTech cluster
Toronto-based LowestRates.ca, a platform that helps Canadians compare rates on car insurance, mortgage, credit cards, and insurance,…
Twitter North America VP of Media Kirstine Stewart leaves the company
Kirstine Stewart, Twitter vice-president of media, North America, has left the company, a Twitter spokesperson has confirmed…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 25: Startup Summer Camp
This week we take the Startup Train to Montréal for Startupfest. We connect with the Montréal startup community, discuss…
Ontario’s Access to Justice Challenge selects six startups to compete for $25,000 top prize
After announcing the startup finalists for the Ontario Access to Justice Challenge last week, Ryerson University’s Legal…
BC-based Cowichan Tribes partners with McKesson Canada to improve electronic healthcare access
Cowichan Tribes and Mustimuhw Information Solutions — created by Cowichan Tribes to address unique First Nations health centres…
Hack To Start Ep. 106: Todd Garland, founder and CEO of BuySellAds
Todd Garland is the founder and CEO of BuySellAds. Garland started diving into tech during college and got into startups shortly…
With money from Power and product shipping, Daniel Eberhard awaits the Summer of Koho
Daniel Eberhard walks and talks like a man waiting for a delivery – with polite impatience. Except it’s not a delivery…
inkbox raises $1 million seed round from KGC Capital, Survivor host Jeff Probst
A year after brothers Tyler and Braden Handley launched a Kickstarter campaign for two-week tattoo company inkbox — raising…
Indigo works with Toronto-based Kinetic Café to create social platform for book lovers
These days, there seems to be a social network for every community. Indigo’s latest announcement ensures that avid readers…
Pokémon Go takes us back to the future of augmented reality
“Without the fun, none of us would go on.” That sentiment certainly describes the motivation behind countless blundering,…
LogDNA raises $1.6 million CAD to become “the Apple” of logging systems
After Ryerson University grads Chris Nguyen and Lee Liu snagged the chance to go to join Y Combinator as part of its Winter…
OpenText acquires San Francisco-based Recommind
Waterloo-based OpenText, a provider of enterprise information management systems, announced that it’s closed the acquisition…
Slack reveals that it’s invested $2 million into 14 Slackbot startups to date
Back in 2015, Slack announced the launch of an $80 million fund specifically for early stage companies building integrations…
Shopify-owned Kit launches chatbot on Facebook Messenger
According to a report from Venturebeat, Shopify has launched a chatbot on Facebook Messenger through Kit CRM. Shopify acquired…