Magniware moves beyond wearable tech to optimize your life
What happens when you bring together a group of academics dead set on taking their studies out of school to drive change in…
Canadian Startup News
Vancouver’s LemonStand takes on Shopify with impressive first-year growth, expanded leadership team
It’s never an easy task to compete against fellow Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify, especially since it’s preparing…
Montreal-based TrackTik secures $1.5M seed round and a new customer
Montreal-based integrated security operations management provider, TrackTik, has announced a new $1.5 million round of seed…
Uber claims it will create 8,000 full-time jobs in Toronto this year
Uber’s business practices may be under scrutiny from Toronto’s politicians, but that hasn’t stopped the company…
Borrowell’s lending marketplace launches
Back in December, Toronto-based raised $5.4 million in seed funding to accelerate the launch of its Canadian lending marketplace,…
GTAN|START pitch competition has eight startups vying for $17,000 in prize money
If Waterloo was not busy enough cranking out talent and sought-after startups, the Waterloo Region’s Angel group and…
Toronto-based WINR games combines gaming and charity to pay it forward
The amount of time playing games on mobile devices has significantly increased. The latest Canadian stat showed gaming as the…
Ballard taps into China’s clean energy market
The whole world is looking for clean energy solutions to feed ever-growing demand that translates into one new coal-fired plant…
Quebec’s first FinTech hub launches this Wednesday in Montreal
Thomas Pasturel believes Montreal has everything necessary to be a global FinTech player. The entrepreneur and investor recently…
It’s official: Cirque du Soleil finds “new strategic majority partner” with American TPG, will remain in Montreal
It is now official. Rumours last week pointed towards Montreal’s Cirque du Soleil being sold off to American and Chinese…
Stewart Butterfield is very honest about Slack’s VC funding
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield comes across as a straight-shooter. The same day his company announced that it had raised $160…
FITC Toronto 2015 breaks records, inspires with ‘heart and wonder’
FITC Toronto 2015 – a three-day celebration of design, development, media, and innovation – broke every record…
Figure 1 brings paging support to its “Instagram for doctors” app
Toronto-based Figure 1, which builds a photo sharing service for the medical industry, has garnered a reputation as the go-to…
Watch OMERS CEO John Ruffolo talk Shopify and Hootsuite on #TheDisruptors
The first episode of The Disruptors is in the can. Last night’s episode of BNN’s show dedicated to disruptive tech…
Vantage adds Magento support as analytics platform approaches $2B in analyzed transactions
When Toronto-based Vantage announced its $1.1 million seed round last summer, President and co-founder Aran Hamilton indicated…