Next 36 Students’ New App Helps Solve Your Toughest Decisions
Current Next 36 cohort member Thomas Lee told us that he and his friends were trying to figure out the perfect app idea back…
Canadian Startup News
Life Sciences Startups Have Until March 5 to Apply for Silicon Valley Program
The Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco is accepting applications from Canadian life sciences companies for the Canadian…
Audicus Undercuts Hearing Aid Costs by As Much As 80%, Making Many Canadians Happy
An interesting report from CBC Manitoba this month brought our attention to one New Jersey-based startup that has a ton of…
Be Social By Turning Off The Phone With Vancouver’s Unplug App
Social graces are going down the toilet in 2014 and we blame our devices. We blame social media and we blame ourselves. Should…
Government of Ontario Crowns Winners at Energy Apps for Ontario Challenge
The government of Ontario has announced the six winners of the Energy Apps for Ontario Challenge. The innovative new apps…
Tell is a New Private Messaging App Created By Four Ordinary Guys
One of the best parts about the tech game is it doesn’t really have any exclusivity. It’s not like those pretentious…
SuperBowl Light Masters PixMob Are Doing it Again- This Time With Tiësto
Now this is pretty cool: The same Montreal startup that was responsible for 80,000 SuperBowl fans connecting into the First…
You’re Next Career Network’s Startup Expo Breaks 2000 Attendee Mark
It was completely student-run, it was only the second iteration of the event in nine months and the University of Toronto organizers…
French Lens Giant Essilor Buys Vancouver’s ClearlyContacts for $430 Million
French optical-lens-manufacturing giant Essilor has agreed to purchase Vancouver’s Clearly Contacts Inc., the parent…
Check Out This BDC Infographic on “The Real Impact of Venture Capital”
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has released an infographic on the morning that the CVCA released its 2013 overview…
VC Investment in Canada Jumps by Nearly a Third in 2013 (452 deals with an average size of $4.3 million)
Last year saw 31 percent more venture capital investment in Canada compared to 2012, up to $2 billion from $1.5 billion. In…
Waterloo’s Desire2Learn Targets Latin America With New Sao Paulo Office
According to CanadianPrivateEquity.com, Waterloo’s Desire2Learn, creators of an integrated learning platform for schools,…
Donde Helps You Find The Stuff You Want, Where You Want
Moving forward often involves pulling up well-established roots. Having taken flight from the Vancouver startup community,…
Samsung is Giving $1 Million in Technology Grants to Canadian Schools
Samsung surprised 40 Canadian school principals last night while they were being honoured Canada’s Outstanding Principals…
Buffalo VC to Invite Toronto Startups to “World’s Largest Business Plan Competition”
A Buffalo, New York-based venture capital firm will be coming to Toronto today to talk about 43North, being labelled “the…