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By Douglas Soltys February 3, 2015

Clarity.fm acquired by Fundable, now a part of Startups.co

Business funding site Fundable.com announced today that it has acquired Moncton-based Clarity.fm. Terms of the deal were not…

By John Gray February 3, 2015

“The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing,” French critic, journalist, and novelist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse…

By Ian Hardy February 3, 2015

Since 2009, the Founder Institute has graduated over 1,310 companies across 85 cities. The “world’s largest entrepreneur…

By Jane McEntegart February 3, 2015

One of the biggest criticisms plaguing Uber is that of driver insurance. The company has long maintained that its insurance…

By Ian Hardy February 2, 2015

Toronto’s Futurpreneur Canada, formerly the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF), has announced its teamed up with…

By Douglas Soltys February 2, 2015

We Are Wearables, one of the world’s biggest wearables communities, is holding its monthly Toronto event tomorrow in…

By Douglas Soltys February 2, 2015

At the ICE Gaming Conference today, Greentube announced that it had acquired a controlling interest in social gaming startup…

By Elena Yunusov February 2, 2015

Next Gen Den, Dragons’ Den for the next generation of entrepreneurs, hits the Interwebs today. The new…

By Daniel Bader February 2, 2015

Pebble’s long replacement cycle has been unlike anything we’ve seen in the wearables space thus far. First announced…

By Douglas Soltys February 2, 2015

When Adarsh Pallian was looking to found his next company after selling Geotoko to Hootsuite in 2011, he started by trying…

By Ian Hardy January 31, 2015

The annual Small Business Grant contest was announced earlier this month by ADP Canada. Similar to previous years, ADP is offering…

By Amanda Rebecca Cosco January 30, 2015

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the relationship between fashion and technology— mostly in the context of wearables—but…

By Daniel Bader January 30, 2015

Its first meetup in a now-bimonthly tradition didn’t bring quite the same number of revellers as that of the latest San…

By Douglas Soltys January 30, 2015

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) announced yesterday that it has committed an additional $330 million to the…

By Ian Hardy January 29, 2015

Toronto-based Sylce had a busy 2014, raising a significant amount of capital, striking partnerships with Neiman Marcus and…