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…
Canadian Startup News
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…
Toronto’s Kryptokit Launches First Instant Bitcoin Wallet in a Browser
Toronto startup Kryptokit thinks that whatever happens in Vegas should be plastered out in the open for all to see. Today at…
Montreal’s 3D Photoreal Rendering Startup Lagoa Raises $5.3 Million Series A Round
Today Boston-based VC, Fred Destin of Atlas Venture Partners, wrote a blog post that I believe was meant to be written in a…
Salary or dividends? CIBC Expert Gives the Inside Scoop for Startup Owners and Their Year-End Compensation Strategies
Its the end of the year, and for startups that means office Christmas parties and for some, year-end bonuses or dividends.…
Do You Know What Makes Some Internet Connections Faster than Others?
It’s rather embarrassing that as a tech writer I still don’t actually understand the ins and outs of what distinguishes…
Ryan Holmes in WSJ: Be Smart on Twitter and Don’t Make These Mistakes
81 percent of consumers expect a same-day response on Twitter. Is your business ready?, tweeted a well-known Canadian CEO minutes…
Ride the “Python on Rails” Train to Montreal in Style for PyCon 2014
When it was announced back in 2011 that the Python Conference was coming to Montreal for 2014 and 2015, the Canadian community…
Quebec’s NovaCap Technologies Raises $250 million for Fourth Fund
Longueuil, Québec-based Novacap, one of Canada’s oldest private equity firms, has announced that it has secured $250 million…
Toronto’s Figure 1 Raises $2 Million from Version One, Rho Canada
Toronto-based photo sharing service for medical professionals, Figure 1, has raised a $2 million seed round. The app allows…
BDC Invests $3 Million into New Seed-Stage Fund BrandProject
Toronto and New York-based investment fund BrandProject LP has secured $3 million in funding from the Business Development…