FreshBooks announces partnership with the Bank of Montreal
In 2005, two years into launching FreshBooks, the cloud-based accounting software for small businesses, Mike McDerment only…
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[Event] The Future of Retail Building a Bridge Between Startups & Brands
If you’re interested in retail and how technology is playing a major part in reshaping it, then you might want to consider…
#WWTO announces partnership with Best Buy to launch Canada’s first pet-themed wearables event
We Are Wearables, the Toronto-based wearable tech group launched by BetaKit Senior Editor Tom Emrich, announced yesterday that…
#TechisBack: viva the Canadian tech renaissance
Tech and finance are starting to intertwine in Canada. A few short hours after Shopify opened trading at the Toronto Stock…
BetaKit.Fund is our investment in the Canadian Startup community
We are believers in Canada and the opportunities that are created here. With BetaKit, we chose to focus our attention on Canadian…
CIX 2015 Top 20 taking place November 17th in Toronto
The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX), a yearly event seeking that brings together key leaders in the innovation space, has…
H+Technology projects a vision of success at NextBC 2015
“Our biggest challenge? This is such a new technology, that just getting people to understand what we do can take a really…
Communitech’s Tech Leadership Conference declares “what worked yesterday is obsolete tomorrow”
Over 800 people will infiltrate the Kitchener-Waterloo region this Thursday for Communitech’s Tech Leadership Conference.…
Granify raises $9 million Series A from Valar Ventures, iNovia Capital + Social Starts
Canadian accelerator grad (Extreme Startups / HIGHLINE portfolio) Granify, a software as a service (SaaS) company that improves…
Oleg Gutsol rebounds from 500px departure, plans to launch new venture in Canada
Popular web photo sharing service 500px launched in 2009 by Oleg Gutsol and Evgeny Tchebotarev, but the idea was actually formalized…
Hootsuite CEO on its IPO plans: “timing is everything… but we are moving closer”
Coming off the stellar opening of Ottawa-based Shopify’s IPO yesterday — which closed at $25.68 USD and gained…
C100 selects 20 startups for its 48 Hours in the Valley June Cohort
The C100’s has announced the companies participating in the 48 Hours in the Valley June Cohort. This initiative is its flagship…
How will the NDP’s tax plan affect startups?
With Canada’s next federal election tentatively scheduled for October 19, the country’s party leaders have been…
Kik Interactive hires Josh Jacobs as president of Kik Services, company opens office in Los Angeles
Waterloo-based Kik Interactive has heavily been rumoured to be preparing to go public. While Kik’s co-founder and CTO, Chris…
Early stage companies given the green light to raise capital through crowdfunding in six provinces
Popular crowdfunding sites such as Indiegogo and Kickstarter have helped to propel several ideas into worldwide hits. The most…