High school team wins $10,000 coding prize from MasterCard N>XT Developer Challenge
It’s not every day a pack of teenagers wins $10,000 for a fledging app conceived and built in 48 hours, but that’s exactly…
Canadian Startup News
Staying in the Big Smoke: AppHero Acquired by Fuse Powered
At just 18 Jordan Satok was the youngest CEO to raise venture capital. Today we can throw “exited company at 19”…
Vancouver’s Hootsuite Lands Spot on Mashable’s “Winners of Tech 2013”
It’s been going so well for Vancouver-based startup Hootsuite that Mashable has proclaimed that the social media dashboard…
Montreal’s International Startup Festival Brings Its “Wacky Event” to Tel Aviv
Montreal’s International Startup Festival is going to the second-ranked startup ecosystem in the world, later this month.…
Toronto’s Save.ca Drops New App for Online Savings
Toronto-based Save.ca has launched its new, free mobile app that allows users to easily access flyers. The new app has been…
Ottawa’s Blue Line Launches App for Home Energy Monitoring
Ottawa-based startup Blue Line Innovations Inc., a leader in home energy monitoring solutions, is launching its mobile app…
Toronto Research Startup Xagenic Nets $20 Million
Toronto-based research startup Xagenic, a molecular diagnostics company heavily associated with the MaRS Discovery District…
Toronto’s Wagepoint is the First Payroll Software Allowing Employees to Get Paid in Bitcoin
Toronto-based startup Wagepoint is saying that it is the world’s first payroll software that allows employees to be paid…
The Next 36 Announces Mentors for 2014 Cohort
Toronto’s The Next 36 program has named its group of mentors for its 2014 cohort. Each year, 36 promising undergraduates…
18-Year-Old Likes GIFs and Memes So Much, He Coded an App for Sharing Them
University of Toronto computer science student Shiv Baijal likes GIFs and Memes. So much so, that the 18-year-old decided…
VC Insider: The Four Key Players of Venture Capital
Typically one thinks of the entrepreneur and the venture capitalist (VC) as the two main players in venture capital. That’s…
Courier Services Meets the Sharing Economy: Zipments Expands to Canada
New York-based startup Zipments launched in Vancouver yesterday, and is a site that provides low cost, same day courier services…
OCAD’s Imagination Catalyst Cultivates Design-Focused Startups
The Ontario College of Art & Design’s (OCAD) Imagination Catalyst space launched in February of 2012 to decent media…
Waterloo’s Planboard Inks Deal with Ontario Teachers’ Federation for Online Tool
Waterloo-based edtech startup Planboard has reached an agreement with the Ontario Teachers’ Federation to provide its…
This Montreal Startup Is Running a Hackathon to Find its New Developer
The clever folks at Montreal-based startup Brandicted have decided that instead of interviewing potential candidates for a…