Freelancer seeks aggressive Canadian growth with expansion into local services
When Freelancer.com hit 15 million worldwide users a few weeks back, it shared metrics on Canadian usage of the freelancing…
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CIBC to launch innovation hub inside MaRS
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce announced today that it will be creating a new innovation hub inside of the MaRS Discovery…
Join BetaKit on a bus to FounderFuel’s Demo Day
FounderFuel’s Demo Day is just a few weeks away. But for many bootstrapped startups, the cost of travel to the beautiful…
Payso CEO Jake Tyler explains how social is the future… of money
A few weeks back, social giant Facebook announced that U.S. users would soon be able to send money to each other via the company’s…
Vancouver’s Koho wins Nasdaq FinTech Innovation Award at NY TechDay
NY TechDay, the world’s largest startup event, with over 400 exhibitors and 10,000 attendees, doesn’t take place until…
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…
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…