Tomorrow’s We Are Wearables panel tackles “Wearables for Women”
We Are Wearables, one of the world’s biggest wearables communities, is holding its monthly Toronto event tomorrow in…
Canadian Startup News
Vancouver’s BlueBat Games acquired by Greentube
At the ICE Gaming Conference today, Greentube announced that it had acquired a controlling interest in social gaming startup…
The Next Gen enters the Dragons’ Den
Next Gen Den, Dragons’ Den for the next generation of entrepreneurs, hits the Interwebs today. The new…
Pebble has now sold 1 million smartwatches
Pebble’s long replacement cycle has been unlike anything we’ve seen in the wearables space thus far. First announced…
Trippeo’s Adarsh Pallian on finding the gaps in huge industries
When Adarsh Pallian was looking to found his next company after selling Geotoko to Hootsuite in 2011, he started by trying…
Montreal’s Le Doggy Café is the first recipient of the 2015 ADP Small Business Grant Contest
The annual Small Business Grant contest was announced earlier this month by ADP Canada. Similar to previous years, ADP is offering…
Decoded Fashion touches down in Toronto
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the relationship between fashion and technology— mostly in the context of wearables—but…
Product Hunt Toronto books top startup talent from around city
Its first meetup in a now-bimonthly tradition didn’t bring quite the same number of revellers as that of the latest San…
CPPIB commits additional $330 million to Canadian private equity, managed by Northleaf
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) announced yesterday that it has committed an additional $330 million to the…
Slyce acquires mobile couponing app SnipSnap for $6.5 million, adds 4 million users
Toronto-based Sylce had a busy 2014, raising a significant amount of capital, striking partnerships with Neiman Marcus and…
Vancouver’s SREDscore launches free online tool that helps SR&ED claimants file faster
Let’s face it. Filling out government forms to apply for a tax credit are tedious and frustrating. Vancouver-based SREDscore…
Nymi CEO Karl Martin: departures “logical progression” from new enterprise customer focus
Yesterday, we reported that Nymi President, Andrew D’Souza, and Director of Platform, Balaji Gopalan, were no longer with…
Slack acquires Screenhero
Slack Technologies, the communication tool that was first started in Vancouver and now located in San Francisco, recently raised…
Seevibes opens Toronto office, announces Franz Fontaine as VP of Strategic Development
FounderFuel Alum Seevibes, who has built a platform that measures social media reaction to television shows and events, has…
BDC now accepting applications for its annual Young Entrepreneurs Award
Starting today, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is accepting applications for its annual BDC Young Entrepreneur…