Several BC Startups Named Finalists in Small Business BC Awards
British Columbians have voted and the top ten B.C. businesses in eight award categories have been announced as part of the…
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Cisco Canada To Invest $4 Billion in Ontario High Tech Workforce
In early September I wrote a feature for the Financial Post, basically trying to say that Cisco has a lot of money north of…
How Do the $150K BDC Convertible Notes Work?
Yesterday we covered a story about three startups from the Maritime provinces who received $150,000 in funding from the Business…
Windsor’s Tiksoo Uses Phone Monitoring to Save Businesses Headaches
It may not be the sexiest space, but Windsor-based phone number monitoring platform Tiksoo can save businesses thousands of…
Montreal Startup Launches to Provide Gambling Website Analysis
Montreal-based startup PlayOnline launched today, a site that provides players with reviews and current information about…
BDC Invests $150,000 into Three Maritime Startups
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has invested $150,000 convertible notes into three startups that graduated from…
Have an Interesting Personal Website? Newly Launched ‘The Development’ May Want to Feature It
A pair of Ontario-based university students have launched The Development, an interesting new website that, simply put, is…
Vancouver’s LX Ventures To Acquire Strutta Media
Vancouver’s seed-stage venture capital investment firm, LX Ventures, has signed a letter of intent to acquire Vancouver-based…
Shopify Adds $100 Million in Series C Money to Its Arsenal
Everything in life seems to go in circles: yesterday we sold stuff in a shop, today we do it online and tomorrow we’ll…
Toronto’s Bitstrips Raises $3 Million After Users Created Over 30 Million Avatars
The resounding message from an update (in comic strip form I might add) from Bitstrips is that once the Toronto-based startup…
Approaching Its Third Fund, Montreal’s Real Ventures Looks to Expand Team
A detailed blog post today revealed that the Montreal-based seed venture capital fund Real Ventures is looking to bring on…
Pair of Waterloo Region PR Firms Say Canadian Startups should Use Canadian PR Reps
A pair of Waterloo-based PR firms have partnered up to offer startups better tech PR services. They are Ignition, lead by Ellyn…
MaRS Innovation and Pfizer to Commercialize Scientist’s Bio-Manufacturing Tech
MaRS Innovation and Pfizer Inc. have agreed to fund and commercialize a Toronto scientist’s bio-manufacturing technology.…
For DataHero’s “Big Data Star” Chris Neumann, Vancouver is a Familiar Place
For many people home is simply where the heart is. For DataHero cofounder and CEO Chris Neumann, even with a Palo Alto zip…
Toronto’s Matterform Affordable 3D Scanner to Hit the Shelves in February
In Spring 2013 Toronto’s 3D Scanning company, Matterform, became the one of the largest non-US Indiegogo campaigns when…