Montreal’s 3D Photoreal Rendering Startup Lagoa Raises $5.3 Million Series A Round
Today Boston-based VC, Fred Destin of Atlas Venture Partners, wrote a blog post that I believe was meant to be written in a…
Canadian Startup News
Salary or dividends? CIBC Expert Gives the Inside Scoop for Startup Owners and Their Year-End Compensation Strategies
Its the end of the year, and for startups that means office Christmas parties and for some, year-end bonuses or dividends.…
Do You Know What Makes Some Internet Connections Faster than Others?
It’s rather embarrassing that as a tech writer I still don’t actually understand the ins and outs of what distinguishes…
Ryan Holmes in WSJ: Be Smart on Twitter and Don’t Make These Mistakes
81 percent of consumers expect a same-day response on Twitter. Is your business ready?, tweeted a well-known Canadian CEO minutes…
Ride the “Python on Rails” Train to Montreal in Style for PyCon 2014
When it was announced back in 2011 that the Python Conference was coming to Montreal for 2014 and 2015, the Canadian community…
Quebec’s NovaCap Technologies Raises $250 million for Fourth Fund
Longueuil, Québec-based Novacap, one of Canada’s oldest private equity firms, has announced that it has secured $250 million…
Toronto’s Figure 1 Raises $2 Million from Version One, Rho Canada
Toronto-based photo sharing service for medical professionals, Figure 1, has raised a $2 million seed round. The app allows…
BDC Invests $3 Million into New Seed-Stage Fund BrandProject
Toronto and New York-based investment fund BrandProject LP has secured $3 million in funding from the Business Development…
Next 36 Grad Michael Cheng Launches platform for Discovering the Greatest Musicians You’ve Never Heard Of
Michael Cheng couldn’t sit still for long after graduating Toronto’s The Next 36 program and launching a startup…
Leapfrog Lighting Shines a Path for “Intelligent Optics” LED Lighting
With the worldwide market for LED bulbs projected to grow to $107 billion US annually within three years, and a recent surge…
Microsoft Lays off 30 in Victoria Gaming Studio Closure
Unfortunate news in B.C this this morning, as the Times Colonist reported that Microsoft has closed its office in downtown…
The Next 36: $4 Million in Net Assets, Welcomed $1.9 Million in Donations Alone in 2013
The Next 36 received nearly $1.9 million of in-kind donations in 2013, which was 15 percent more than the accelerator’s total…
Pair of Waterloo Students on Kickstarter Hardware Interface: “We’re definitely going to make it”
Having already raised $77,000 of a $100,000 Kickstarter target, and still with 31 days left to go, University of Waterloo students Ashish…
Startup Canada’s Noah Redler to Lead Montreal’s Notman House
The Montreal lead for Startup Canada is about to take on a new position as campus director of Montreal’s “Home…
Canadian Sports App theScore Lands Spot in 100 Best Android Apps of 2013
theScore’s Canadian-made sports app has been named among the “100 Best Android Apps of 2013” in PC Mag. theScore was…