Spring Activator partners with RED Academy to create skills and innovation hub
Spring, a Vancouver-based impact activator targeting startups and entrepreneurs, announced that it would be partnering with…
Canadian Startup News
Ooka Island’s gamified reading platform makes screen time valuable for kids
According to Ooka Island marketing director Joelle MacPhee, children have been learning to read in the same way for over 100…
Startup Canada Podcast: Building a Customer Service Juggernaut
Janice McDonald, co-founder of CD Warehouse and This Space Works, has the key to a successful business: “If you hire phenomenal…
Startup job spotlight: senior full stack developer at LemonStand
With startups leading the way in Canadian innovation, every day, BetaKit does its part to help fill the talent gap with our…
Sampler and Komodo OpenLab win DMZ and Innovation Birmingham’s Next Big Idea contest
A few months ago, Toronto-based DMZ and Innovation Birmingham announced its Next Big Idea innovation competition for Ontario…
Ask The Doctor brings house calls to the 21st century with new platform
Toronto-based Ask The Doctor has been working quickly to bring its tech-based health solution, which allows users to ask personalized…
PopRX promises free same-day prescription delivery on #TheDisruptors
With smartphones, almost anything — lunch, taxis, or groceries — can be ordered through an app. One company is adding prescription…
DMZ and TechGirls Canada panel tackling STEM’s diversity problem says ‘get the hell out of the way’
There’s a mythology surrounding many of the world’s best-known CEOs and entrepreneurs — stories of living in parents’…
Startup jobs of the week: ZEITDICE, 88 Creative, Grow, LemonStand, Urbery
Every day, Canada’s best startups post the latest job opportunities on the BetaKit Job Board; from early stage to series…
Vidyard wants to gobble up all the advertising dollars with video
As people pay more attention to their smartphones and less attention to their TV, advertisers are moving away from TV budgets…
#smallrooms podcast: Roger Chabra of Rho Ventures on Investing in Canada
Rob Kenedi has a coffee with Roger Chabra, partner at Rho Canada Ventures. Roger is an entrepreneur turned investor who discusses…
Why startups need to raise less and hustle more
If there’s one story that Ron Spreeuwenberg wants startups to remember, it’s the stories of Flooz and Beenz. The…
Today in funding: Resolver, Maintenance Assistant, Unito
SaaS companies raised big in this round of funding. Here’s the latest on who raised how much, and from whom. Maintenance…
PwC, Uber, City of Toronto, and Metrolinx partnering to host hackathon
After announcing its StartUpHere initiative, it seems that the City of Toronto is making good on its promise to support the…
Ottawa-based CareerJSM launches at world’s biggest startup festival
Ottawa-based CareerJSM counted itself among attendees at this year’s Launch Festival, the world’s largest startup…