#smallrooms Podcast: BlancRide
Rob Kenedi sits down with Hamid Akbari to talk about his two-year-old startup, BlancRide, a carpooling app that hopes to make…
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Velocity acquires Toronto’s Tab Payments to expand mobile hospitality platform
UK-based Velocity announced today that it has acquired Tab Payments, a Toronto-based startup enabling mobile payments within…
Fresh City makes first acquisition with Fresh Canteen
Toronto-based Fresh City, an online grocer and city farm that delivers organic, local groceries, announced an acquisition that…
The Next Big Thing announces 2015’s Next Gen Startup Winners
The Next Big Thing — an entrepreneur-led charitable foundation started by Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes and serial entrepreneur…
Tangerine reportedly exploring new facial-recognition technology as Canadian banks fight for innovation title
Scotiabank’s Tangerine, known as ING Direct before 2012, has already established itself as the leader when it comes to…
Clearbanc promises entrepreneurs modern banking
The shift in the way that people work gave Andrew D’Souza, formerly of Nymi and Top Hat, an idea to do banking differently.…
CIX Top 20 announced ahead of November event
Earlier today, the Canadian Innovation Exchange rang the bell at the TSX in celebration of the CIX Top 20, a showcase of the…
Major Chinese e-business Witmart moves first North American operations to MaRS
Witmart.com, a crowdsourcing marketplace dedicated to helping people find services for work like digital goods and design,…
Startup Canada Podcast: Yona Shtern is still pivoting
“Six years in we’re still pivoting.” – Yona Shtern, Founder and CEO of Beyond the Rack. Although Beyond…
Today in MaRS partnerships: TMX joins the FinTech cluster, Unilever joins Consumer & Commerce
MaRS Discovery District jointly announced two new additions to its recently launched clusters today. TMX Group will join the…
Revlo taps into one of the world’s newest spectator sports on #TheDisruptors
Revlo, an early stage company that helps video game streamers drive fan engagement, pitched this week on The Disruptors. Video…
W|W – The Wearable Weekly: Holographic weapons
Welcome to The Wearable Weekly, your trusted guide to all things wearable tech. If you only have time to read one thing about…
New Dragons’ Den judges bring young perspective to entrepreneurial institution
It doesn’t seem that long ago that Canada fell in love with the Dragons’ Den original judges — Kevin O’Leary,…
Today in acquisitions: Switch Merge, MediaCore, Silanis, BigKite
Canadian companies went on an acquisition spree this week – both buying and selling. Here’s the latest on who acquired…
Flixel raises $2.2 million seed round as company locks in on its customer
Toronto-based Flixel Photos announced today the close of a $2.2 million seed round, led by Extreme Venture Partners, with participation…