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By Tom Emrich August 7, 2013

10 Canadian Startups To Watch

Last week we featured Mattermark’s list of 10 Hardware Startups on the Rise which included two Canadian companies, Thalmic…

By John Gray August 7, 2013

Since 1793 the Old Farmer’s Almanac is probably best known for it’s sunrise tables and planting charts. For many farmers,…

By Jared Lindzon August 6, 2013

When the Square Reader crossed the border into Canada last October it was welcomed with open arms by Canada’s small business…

By John Gray August 6, 2013

Remember the kids from your school days that were always organizing ways to sell you more candy during recess? Or perhaps the…

By Ian Hardy August 6, 2013

Looking for a massive amount of inspiration to give your start-up a boost? No, not Tony Robbins, but Jack Dorsey, co-founder…

By Ian Hardy August 5, 2013

Kickstarter, the popular crowd-funding site, has amassed millions of users since its launch in 2009. The site allows people…

By Daniel Bader August 5, 2013

Wave, the Toronto-based accounting startup poised to take over the world with its intuitive, free invoicing and payments software,…

By Daniel Bader August 4, 2013

Before answering his phone call, I was pretty tired. But Roger Hardy, CEO of ClearlyContacts.ca and its US sister site CoastalContacts.com,…

By Ian Hardy August 1, 2013

In what is Canada’s biggest venture capital investment for a software company ever, social media dashboard HootSuite has…

By Jared Lindzon August 1, 2013

Shopify, the Ottawa-based startup turned ecommerce platform behemoth, announced today that it has acquired one of Canada’s…

By Jane McEntegart July 31, 2013

Canadian coding school Bitmaker Labs announced this week that female registrants participating in the bootcamp would be eligible…

By Ian Hardy July 30, 2013

Earlier today Communitech’s HYPERDRIVE announced its third group of startups to join their accelerator program. In total,…

By Ian Hardy July 30, 2013

Canadian winters are cold. Bone-chilling cold. Many of us waltz out to the car and grab the snow scraper to remove the frost…

By John Gray July 30, 2013

Startup World is on a global mission to uncover great startups who are not calling Silicon Valley home. They touched down in…

By April Dunford July 30, 2013

Communitech announced the new HYPERDIVE cohort companies today and also reinforced the changes of their 6-month startup accelerator…