Why Did Bay Street’s Altas Partners Invest in a Grenada University?
Canadian private equity firms are often no strangers to highly-valued tech startups when considered where to spend their capital.…
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Toronto’s Smart Energy Instruments Gets $5.6M Round Led by 3M New Ventures
Toronto’s Smart Energy Instruments, a company that develops electronic chipsets with high-precision, real-time monitoring…
Toddlers Are the Newest Target in the ‘Learn to Code’ Craze: At What Age Is it Appropriate?
Just as the tech community in Canada and abroad has strongly advocated for more coding education for women, it has similarly put…
Report: Mainstream Consumer Adoption of IoT Technology ‘Inevitable’
Widespread mainstream consumer adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology is inevitable, according to Acuity Group’s…
Markham EHR Tech Startup Nightingale Receives $3.5M Secured Loan
Markham’s Nightingale Informatix Corporation, a technology company on the TSX-V that provides Electronic Health Record…
Vancouver’s Mio Global Shows Off the ‘Alpha’ Strapless Heart Rate Wearable
At GROW Conference in Whistler, BC, Mio Global CEO Liz Dickinson engaged in a spirited panel discussion about the future of…
Toronto Fishing App Reveals Big Numbers at GROW Conference Startup Smackdown
Kyle Reid impressed a panel of four judges (including our Joseph Czikk) enough to win himself a trip to the Startup Smackdown…
CFC and Buffer Festival Launch First ‘YouTube Industry Conference’
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and the Buffer Film Festival have announced Canada’s first Buffer Festival Industry Day,…
“We Wanted to Do Something Bigger Than Vancouver”: HIGHLINE’s Bixby Talks New Accelerator Program
What started as a simple collaboration on a CAIP funding application ended in one of Canada’s most talked-about stories…
Daft Hack Takes #GrowHack $10K Prize, U Grok It Takes Startup Smackdown
It’s been a fun few days of pitches and hacking, but the winners for GROW Conference‘s #GrowHack2014 and its Startup…
iNovia’s Shawn Abbott Explains the Epic #icebucketchallenge Video
Here at GROW Conference in Whistler we had a chance to speak with iNovia Capital investor Shawn Abbott about his team’s…
Free eBook by FounderFuel Alum Helps Make Confusing Data Visually Beautiful
Former FounderFuel startup InfoActive is coming off a very successful few years. It’s desire to help companies create…
Need Cash to Go to Coding School? This Canadian Cofounder Can Help You
LendLayer, a Silicon Valley-based startup founded by a University of Waterloo grad, has raised a $400,000 seed round. The startup…
OMERS Ventures CEO John Ruffolo takes top spot in ‘Canada’s 50 Most Powerful Business People’ list
Canadian Business has released its annual “Canada’s 50 Most Powerful Business People” and outlines the “dealmakers,…
OpenText CEO Mark J. Barrenechea to Keynote November’s CIX Event
OpenText CEO Mark J Barrenechea will give the opening keynote address at November’s CIX event in Toronto, the yearly…