Is Canada even in the race? The Clean Capital Conference asks big Questions
“The report of my death was an exaggeration.” James Tansey the Executive Director of ISIS, at the Sauder School of Business…
Canadian Startup News
2 Canadian Teams Make the 500 Startups Cut: FameBit and VenueSpot
It’s a startup holy grail. Getting accepted to 500 Startups is no easy feat. It’s ranks right there with Y Combinator and…
Axiom Zen giving an 8-week paid internship to an attendee at the Vancouver #HTML500 Learn-to-Code Event
According to the #HTML500 website, Lighthouse Labs professor Khurram Virani will lead a morning lecture, followed by 3 hours…
CIRA launches new $1 million Community Investment Program, hopes to “make the Internet better for all Canadians”
The internet is a busy place. According to the CRTC’s (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) latest…
Gener8 takes a 48% interest in Vancouver-based Reelhouse Media, plans to add ‘premium’ revenue models
Vancouver’s Gener8, a company that specializes in converting 2D movies into 3D experiences, has announced that they’ve…
Bench raises another $1 million
It was just a couple days ago that we highlighted Vancouver-based Bench and their glorious ways to make accounting and bookkeeping…
Waterloo Startup Voltera Inc. Can Print Electronics
A pair of mechatronics grads from the University of Waterloo have launched a startup that prints electronics, from another…
Square removes deposit limits, says Canadians will now receive funds within 2 business days
Square launched its mobile commerce platform in Canada over a year ago in Canada and the San Francisco-based company recently…
Vancouver’s UrtheCast Installs Space Station Cameras in Prep To Stream the World
Yesterday marked another giant step for mankind as two imaging cameras were successfully installed on the Russian side of…
Applications now open for the 2014 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award, $100,000 is up for grabs
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) had a successful 2013 and they hope to continue this trend in 2014. Coming off…
NIMJA, winner of the MasterCard N>XT Developer Challenge, launches its mobile point of sale app
At the MasterCard N>XT Developer Challenge in September it was The Coyotes, a team of 5 high-schoolers, that took home the…
Canadian “Hackathon on Wheels” Prepares for North American StartupBus Competition
You and a team of strangers on a bus for seventy-two hours on the way from Toronto to SXSW to launch a startup. This is the…
Velocity startup program has successfully raised over $100 million in 5-years
Waterloo is one of the hottest startup communities on the planet. Many successful businesses have been born there and today…
Guardly announces $1.45 million in new funding , says they’ll raise the bar for Personal Safety & Security
Big brother is headline grabbing these days. The mass surveillance state is a serious concern. Our social narrative now reads,…
Bookkeeping isn’t Fun. Bench Makes it Better.
Bookkeeping sucks. The only people who like it, are bookkeepers. Not many business owners are doing cartwheels at month-end…