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By Ian Hardy August 5, 2013

Kickstarter allows Canadians to start creating projects today, official launch is September 9th

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…

By Jane McEntegart July 29, 2013

Execution Labs today announced a partnership with BDC Venture Capital that will see the two firms offer $150,000 in convertible…

By Daniel Bader July 26, 2013

It’s a well-known adage that you should not go to the grocery store hungry. It always leads to deviation from “the…

By Ian Hardy July 26, 2013

It’s been over a year since Communitech launched HYPERDRIVE, a $30 million accelerator program that assists early-stage…

By Ian Hardy July 25, 2013

Waterloo is full of mind blowing ideas. This community is quickly gaining the attention it deserves and the people behind these…

By Daniel Bader July 25, 2013

Rebellion Media has been on an incredible buying spree. The Waterloo-based company has acquired 13 digital media properties…