Shopify Acquires Design Agency Jet Cooper
Shopify, the Ottawa-based startup turned ecommerce platform behemoth, announced today that it has acquired one of Canada’s…
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Bitmaker Labs Gives Women in Computing a Boost with Grace Hopper Scholarship
Canadian coding school Bitmaker Labs announced this week that female registrants participating in the bootcamp would be eligible…
HYPERDRIVE’s Third Cohort: Video and pictures from the launch announcement
Earlier today Communitech’s HYPERDRIVE announced its third group of startups to join their accelerator program. In total,…
Waterloo-based Nanotech startup NeverFrost lives up to its name
Canadian winters are cold. Bone-chilling cold. Many of us waltz out to the car and grab the snow scraper to remove the frost…
Change Heroes Wins Startup World Vancouver
Startup World is on a global mission to uncover great startups who are not calling Silicon Valley home. They touched down in…
New HYPERDRIVE Accelerator Cohort Announced, brings on 11 new startups!
Communitech announced the new HYPERDIVE cohort companies today and also reinforced the changes of their 6-month startup accelerator…
Montreal’s Execution Labs Announces $150K Loan Fund for Indie Game Studios
Execution Labs today announced a partnership with BDC Venture Capital that will see the two firms offer $150,000 in convertible…
Longo’s and Unata turn to apps to personalize the grocery shopping experience
It’s a well-known adage that you should not go to the grocery store hungry. It always leads to deviation from “the…
Communitech shifts HYPERDRIVE into an improved direction, extends program to 6-months
It’s been over a year since Communitech launched HYPERDRIVE, a $30 million accelerator program that assists early-stage…
VeloCity’s Spring 2013 Venture Fund Winners: SoundBrush, Blacktree Health, Kite and Planleaf each score $25,000
Waterloo is full of mind blowing ideas. This community is quickly gaining the attention it deserves and the people behind these…
Rebellion Media expands its digital footprint and acquires Toronto-based HomeSav
Rebellion Media has been on an incredible buying spree. The Waterloo-based company has acquired 13 digital media properties…
We’re live at VeloCity’s Venture Fund Finals
Today we’re live in Waterloo at VeloCity’s Spring 2013 Venture Fund Finals. 10 startups are vying for a total prize…
A Social Marketing Dream: Vidyard app for HootSuite now available
Vidyard, the ‘YouTube For Business’ video marketing startup, announced today the launch of the Vidyard app for…
Vancouver-based NodeFly Joins Forces with StrongLoop
StrongLoop has announced that they’ve acquired the assets of Vancouver-based NodeFly, which means NodeFly’s Node.js…
BetaKit is the official online sponsor of the MasterCard N>XT Developer Challenge!
We’re incredibly proud to announce that BetaKit is the official online sponsor of the upcoming MasterCard N>XT Developer…