Canadian VC investments hit $2.6 billion in 2015, up 11 percent YoY
Thomson Reuters has so far reported good news for Canadian VC investment in 2015; the organization first reported that Q1 2015…
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CanCon Podcast Episode 2: Is Winter Coming for Canadian tech?
“Unicorns are bleeding and Winter is Coming.” That’s what one person told me after a busy week in Canadian…
Oneiric scores a pitch on #TheDisruptors
Since Emily Rudow was eight years old, she’s hated the time-consuming process of putting on hockey gear, of which she…
Quebec City-based Jobillico raises $8 million to fuel westward expansion
Jobillico, an online job market based in Quebec City, announced that it has raised $8 million to further drive its expansion.…
Denmark’s oldest healthcare company opens innovation lab in Markham, its first outside Europe
LEO Pharma, Denmark’s oldest healthcare company, announced that it is opening its first innovation lab in North America…
Mogo becomes latest company to join the MaRS FinTech cluster
Mogo, a Vancouver-based FinTech startup targeting millennials with its full-spectrum credit options and focus on social responsibility,…
#smallrooms podcast: Michael Kovacs of OpenChannel on app marketplaces
Rob Kenedi has a coffee with Michael Kovacs, cofounder of OpenChannel, a startup that allows technology companies to instantly…
Startup jobs of the week: Mentionmapp, Sentinel Alert, Shopify, Busbud, Ritual
Every day, Canada’s best startups post the latest job opportunities on the BetaKit Job Board; from early stage to series…
Following $1 million seed round, ExpertKnowledge founder explains why corporate training fails
Back in 2014, when Ryan Austin and his co-founders were part of The Next Founders program in Toronto, the group was working…
Spacefy claims its own space on #TheDisruptors
These days, it seems like there is an AirBnB and Uber for everything. And Toronto-based Spacefy is one of those companies tapping…
Bruce Croxon interviews former competitor Markus Frind on #TheDisruptors
When Markus Frind founded Plenty of Fish in 2003, he said that he just needed to learn a new programming language and the best…
Ray Kurzweil shares strategies to create the future
Technological Singularity author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil might have predicted his talk would be well received…
BDC Capital increases commitment to Mistral Venture Partners early-stage fund to $6 million
BDC Capital has committed an additional $3 million to the early-stage venture fund managed by Mistral Venture Partners, bringing…
Scotiabank hosting FinTech hackathon dedicated to debt management tools
On February 5, Scotiabank is hosting Scotiabank Hack IT, its first-ever hackathon. The hackathon, which is open to 100 people,…
VarageSale lays off 30 staff, including VPs of Engineering, Product
Multiple sources have reached out to BetaKit confirming that VarageSale today laid off 30 staff, on the company’s fourth…