National ProStaff and Zambah receive funding from City Flow Project
City Flow Project announced funding for two Spark Innovation Centre clients this week. National ProStaff, a leading social…
Canadian Startup News
OMsignal-powered Ralph Lauren smart shirts now for sale
Last year, clothing maker Ralph Lauren and Montreal wearables startup OMsignal teamed up to outfit ball boys at the U.S. Open…
#GROWconf 2015: How banks are fighting disruption by startups with startups
If there’s one thing you can bank on, it’s that institutions with hundreds of billions of dollars in their war chest won’t…
Donate to charity and get 1 hour with Velocity Director Mike Kirkup
GiveGetWin takes a unique approach to charity. Rather than simply ask for donations. the website provides good samaritans a…
1QBit signals bright future in quantum computing
A Vancouver company at the forefront of tech innovation has taken a quantum leap in computing, earning a place this month among…
CTO Chris Best explains how Kik will win the West
Less than 24 hours after Kik CEO Ted Livingston took to Medium to announce that the company had raised a $50 million investment…
PlentyofFish CEO Markus Frind leads Grouplend’s $10.2 million funding round
Vancouver-based Grouplend announced this week that it has closed a new $10.2 million funding round, led by PlentyofFish CEO,…
Kik becomes Canada’s latest unicorn with $50 million investment from maker of WeChat
Waterloo-based Kik has become the latest Canadian company to join the illustrious unicorn club (or narhwal!). On Tuesday, the…
UrtheCast’s Scott Larson wants to circle our globe with cameras
The mirror reveals views of the self. In our hand the camera reveals and captures more, from the selfie to the group shot,…
Canada Foundation for Innovation adds Micheline Bouchard to its Board of Directors
The Canada Foundation for Innovation was created by the Government of Canada in 1997 to help “build our nation’s capacity…
Bubl completes first Bublcam shipments, offering an important lesson to hardware startups
Toronto’s Bubl Technology, creators of the Bublcam, announced today that it has successfully completed the first round of…
#firesideconf offers Canadian tech community a chance to get back to basics
Last week when BetaKit broke news of HIGHLINE and TWG’s Designer Adventure Club, we dubbed it a ‘summer camp for designers’,…
Velocity startup Varden Labs running first self-driving vehicle test in Canada tomorrow
Local KW startup Varden Labs will achieve a Canadian first in autonomous driving tomorrow when it runs its self-driving shuttle…
2015 Pan Am Games infographic shows wearable tech for sports still in early innings
While the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am games have officially ended, there’s still quite a bit that can be learned from…
OMERS Ventures raises $260 million CDN from Cisco and Bank of Montreal
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that OMERS Ventures has raised a whopping $260 million CDN, or $199 million USD, from…