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W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The smartwatch takeover

Tom Emrich September 19, 2016

Welcome to The Wearable Weekly, your trusted guide to all things wearable tech. If you only have time to read one thing about…

TouchBistro talks building in Canada and scaling globally on #TheDisruptors

Amira Zubairi September 19, 2016

When a large group of people go out for dinner after work, it can be a tedious and time-consuming process for waiters to manually…

Vantage’s growth a reminder that great product is nothing without market fit

Douglas Soltys September 19, 2016

2015 was a good year for Vantage. Following a $1.1 million seed round the year prior, the Toronto-based ecommerce analytics…

How Edusight’s platform wants to help school boards make better decisions with data

Amira Zubairi September 19, 2016

While school boards regularly collect data about students’ grades and performance, they aren’t always able to collect and…

Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 44: Düber

James Doyle September 19, 2016

Drew and James open the show with a quick chat about community as well as the results of the Vancouver Programming Survey.…

Thalmic Labs raises $158 million CAD Series B

Jessica Galang September 19, 2016

In a Medium post this morning, Thalmic Labs CEO and co-founder Stephen Lake announced that the company raised $120 million…

F|T: The FinTech Times – The Global FinTech Ecosystem

Caitlin Hotchkiss September 19, 2016

Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from around the globe. If you want to read…

OMsignal announces $13 million in funding alongside launch of smart bra

Jessica Galang September 19, 2016

When OMsignal first launched in 2014, their initial vision wasn’t to launch the smart shirts that the company is well-known…

BetaKit Next selectee Sampler pitches a solution to in-store sampling on #TheDisruptors

Jessica Galang September 16, 2016

When stores hand out product samples in-store, they lose out on potentially valuable data like who is buying their product…

#firesideconf brings 250 people to the middle of nowhere and asks them to connect

Jessica Galang September 16, 2016

Last year, the first-ever Fireside Conference brought together 80 members of Toronto’s tech community, put them in a campground…

Griffin Farley Search for Beautiful Minds Canada opens applications for annual pitch competition

Jessica Galang September 16, 2016

The Griffin Farley Search For Beautiful Minds Canada (GFBM Canada) is opening applications for its bootcamp and pitch competition,…

Ask an Investor: How do I create a valuation for my startup?

Roger Chabra September 16, 2016

Welcome to a new BetaKit weekly series designed to help startups and entrepreneurs. Each week, investors Roger Chabra and Katherine…

Rogers’ Unison contest gives companies a chance to sit down with Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein

Amira Zubairi September 16, 2016

Rogers is accepting entries for its #UnifiedBiz social contest, which will give small business owners the opportunity to win…

Building a collaborative global FinTech ecosystem

Matteo Rizzi September 16, 2016

“Software is eating the world,” explained Marc Andreessen, Netscape co-founder and partner at venture capitalist firm Andreessen…

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency invests $498,150 in Qimple

Jessica Galang September 16, 2016

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, which is part of the Atlantic Growth Strategy established by the Government of Canada…

Minister Evan Solomon on Canada’s AI strategy, sovereignty, and social media

Sellit9 closes $4.1 million to help Canadians trade in old electronics

The forecast factory: How an Alberta tech company simulates disasters before they happen

Calgary is now the fastest growing tech ecosystem in Canada

Did the Anthropic model ban prove Cohere is right about sovereign AI?

Former employee sues BDC Capital for wrongful dismissal

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W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The smartwatch takeover

TouchBistro talks building in Canada and scaling globally on #TheDisruptors

Vantage’s growth a reminder that great product is nothing without market fit

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Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 44: Düber

Thalmic Labs raises $158 million CAD Series B

F|T: The FinTech Times – The Global FinTech Ecosystem

OMsignal announces $13 million in funding alongside launch of smart bra

BetaKit Next selectee Sampler pitches a solution to in-store sampling on #TheDisruptors

#firesideconf brings 250 people to the middle of nowhere and asks them to connect

Griffin Farley Search for Beautiful Minds Canada opens applications for annual pitch competition

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Rogers’ Unison contest gives companies a chance to sit down with Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency invests $498,150 in Qimple

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