W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The smartwatch takeover
Welcome to The Wearable Weekly, your trusted guide to all things wearable tech. If you only have time to read one thing about…
Canadian Startup News
TouchBistro talks building in Canada and scaling globally on #TheDisruptors
When a large group of people go out for dinner after work, it can be a tedious and time-consuming process for waiters to manually…
Vantage’s growth a reminder that great product is nothing without market fit
2015 was a good year for Vantage. Following a $1.1 million seed round the year prior, the Toronto-based ecommerce analytics…
How Edusight’s platform wants to help school boards make better decisions with data
While school boards regularly collect data about students’ grades and performance, they aren’t always able to collect and…
Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 44: Düber
Drew and James open the show with a quick chat about community as well as the results of the Vancouver Programming Survey.…
Thalmic Labs raises $158 million CAD Series B
In a Medium post this morning, Thalmic Labs CEO and co-founder Stephen Lake announced that the company raised $120 million…
OMsignal announces $13 million in funding alongside launch of smart bra
When OMsignal first launched in 2014, their initial vision wasn’t to launch the smart shirts that the company is well-known…
BetaKit Next selectee Sampler pitches a solution to in-store sampling on #TheDisruptors
When stores hand out product samples in-store, they lose out on potentially valuable data like who is buying their product…
#firesideconf brings 250 people to the middle of nowhere and asks them to connect
Last year, the first-ever Fireside Conference brought together 80 members of Toronto’s tech community, put them in a campground…
Griffin Farley Search for Beautiful Minds Canada opens applications for annual pitch competition
The Griffin Farley Search For Beautiful Minds Canada (GFBM Canada) is opening applications for its bootcamp and pitch competition,…
Ask an Investor: How do I create a valuation for my startup?
Welcome to a new BetaKit weekly series designed to help startups and entrepreneurs. Each week, investors Roger Chabra and Katherine…
Rogers’ Unison contest gives companies a chance to sit down with Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein
Rogers is accepting entries for its #UnifiedBiz social contest, which will give small business owners the opportunity to win…
Building a collaborative global FinTech ecosystem
“Software is eating the world,” explained Marc Andreessen, Netscape co-founder and partner at venture capitalist firm Andreessen…
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency invests $498,150 in Qimple
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, which is part of the Atlantic Growth Strategy established by the Government of Canada…
Ask @StartupCFO: When should I ask for annual prepayment?
When I am talking with SaaS founders the discussion frequently turns to the pros and cons of asking customers to prepay their…