Applications now open for the 2014 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award, $100,000 is up for grabs
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) had a successful 2013 and they hope to continue this trend in 2014. Coming off…
Canadian Startup News
NIMJA, winner of the MasterCard N>XT Developer Challenge, launches its mobile point of sale app
At the MasterCard N>XT Developer Challenge in September it was The Coyotes, a team of 5 high-schoolers, that took home the…
Canadian “Hackathon on Wheels” Prepares for North American StartupBus Competition
You and a team of strangers on a bus for seventy-two hours on the way from Toronto to SXSW to launch a startup. This is the…
Velocity startup program has successfully raised over $100 million in 5-years
Waterloo is one of the hottest startup communities on the planet. Many successful businesses have been born there and today…
Guardly announces $1.45 million in new funding , says they’ll raise the bar for Personal Safety & Security
Big brother is headline grabbing these days. The mass surveillance state is a serious concern. Our social narrative now reads,…
Bookkeeping isn’t Fun. Bench Makes it Better.
Bookkeeping sucks. The only people who like it, are bookkeepers. Not many business owners are doing cartwheels at month-end…
Toronto-based CrowdCare raises an additional $1 million, launches Wysdom app for immediate tech support
Toronto-based CrowdCare aims to take the confusion out of your smartphone. The company has announced today that they’ve…
Indiegogo raises $40 million, plans to hire staff and expand globally
Crowdfunding site Indiegogo has been around since 2008 and has seen several rounds of funding themselves. The first was a $1.5…
Wavefront Wireless Summit: Way More than just Talk
By February 7th its just a memory. But, from February 4th through 6th Wavefront’s Wireless Summit will certainly be making…
LX Ventures Set to Acquire Copper.io for Up to $3 Million
Vancouver’s LX Ventures has agreed to acquire Las Vegas-based Copper.io, a startup that provides a full stack developer…
The Accelerator Series: UTEST
The Accelerator Series is a multi-part spotlight on Canada’s startup accelerators and the people who lead them. Despite…
BlackBerry Is Trying to Block the Sale of Ryan Seacrest’s Typo Keyboard Clip
We all know what happened three weeks ago, when embattled Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry filed papers to sue Ryan Seacrest’s…
McGill Grad Launches Curated List of Useful Science Articles
A quick peruse over the both stimulating and everyday-useful articles at UsefulScience can find something for everyone. In…
Les Affaires Releases its Five Quebec Startups to Watch in 2014
Les Affaires, the french language weekly business newspaper, has named its “Five Quebec Startups to Watch in 2014“.…
Former Extreme Startups Company Shoplocket Acquired by PCH International
TechCrunch has reported that Toronto-based startup startup Shoplocket, a former Extreme Startups graduate, has been acquired…