Thirty Million Gruesome Images Later, Toronto’s Figure 1 Expands to Android and Web
In early December we wrote about Figure 1, a Toronto-based photo-sharing app on iOS for medical professionals. Then the company…
Canadian Startup News
Four Startups Receive Funding Through Ontario Youth Investment Accelerator Fund
Four Ontario-based startups are receiving funding through a new provincial program. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s…
Vancouver’s Airbnb for Office Space Gets $1.1 Million Funding Round
Vancouver-based startup ShareDesk has raised $1.1 million in funding to aid its Airbnb-like for shared desk space solution.…
BDC and CVCA to Award “Canada’s Most Innovative Startup”
The BDC and the CVCA are teaming up to launch the BDC Innovation Award, a new award recognizing an early-stage Canadian company…
Frank & Oak Releases its 2013 Numbers, And They Sold A lot of Pants
We’ve known for a while that Montreal’s men’s efashion startup Frank & Oak has been doing well for itself.…
This Weekend’s FailCamp in Montreal Sold Out in Seven Minutes
Failure might be celebrated in the goliath startup community of Silicon Valley, but as Rami Sayar explained to me this morning,…
GIRLsmarts Program is Fostering the Girl Geeks
There’s a huge disconnect. According Statscan, women represented the majority of university graduates in 2011, yet for only…
Mashable’s Piece on Quebec’s Startup Climate Twisted Reality
Mashable’s January 30th article entitled “Quebec’s Preoccupation With French Is Limiting It’s Startup Scene” didn’t…
Watson Computers and Self-Driving Vehicles: Wavefronts Wireless 2014 Gave a Sign of Things to Come
“I for one welcome our new computer overlords.” Ken Jennings was humble in accepting his Jeopardy defeat to the…
Vicki Saunders’ SheEO Program Makes Call for Applications for New Cohort
Toronto’s SheEO accelerator program for women entrepreneurs is making its call for applications for its Spring cohort,…
Google is Expanding into Larger Office Space in Kitchener
Google seems to like the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Today the Waterloo Record reported that the Silicon Valley-based tech giant…
London’s Backpackr Looks to Take an Open Market in Traveller Meet-Ups
Having just returned from a short backpacking trip throughout Cuba I know the despairs of solo travellers well. While I’m…
Can Technology Save us From Ourselves? Talking Connected Machines at Wavefront Wireless Summit
Reality is not universal. Mix one man’s factual with another’s fictional, and somewhere in that ether is another person’s…
Ottawa-based Klipfolio raises $1.7 million from BDC, FundFire, BOLDstart and others
Data, especially big data, can be complicated. Many moving parts and several variables come into play that help you understand…
Toronto is Getting a Bitcoin Hackathon
A Bitcoin hackathon is coming to Toronto. Yep, you heard it right. The Global Bitcoin Hackathon Network is an organization…