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Ryerson University’s DMZ Named World’s 5th Best University Incubator Program

BetaKit June 25, 2014

The University Business Incubator (UBI) Index, a Stockholm-Sweden produced report that names what it believes to be the 25…

BetaKit Wants to Send You to This Summer’s GROW Conference

BetaKit June 25, 2014

Update: Thanks to all of our readers for all the wonderful and insightful responses. A winner has been selected and will be…

New BDC-Backed Accel-Rx Health Sciences Accelerator Will Give Startups $500,000

Joseph Czikk June 25, 2014

More government money is going towards Canadian startups, this time to those in the health sciences sector. The Business Development…

SalesForce to Beef Up Canadian Presence, Will Open Two New Data Centres

Joseph Czikk June 25, 2014

SalesForce today announced that it will launch two new data centres in Canada in a bid to further increase both investment…

Investor Analytics Platform HockeyStick Lands The NAO-O as a Client

BetaKit June 25, 2014

One might think that the best kind of client to land might be an venture capital firm. It looks like Toronto’s HockeyStick…

Extreme Startups and 500 Startups Grad FameBit Allows Youtube Celebs to Get Paid (A lot)

Joseph Czikk June 25, 2014

There’s a 24-year-old Swedish guy who makes videos on Youtube, where he comments on horror and action video games. To…

Wearable Tech Startup OMsignal Raises $10 Million Series A Round

Joseph Czikk June 25, 2014

Montreal’s OMsignal, which calls itself “the leader in smart clothing technology” and maker of the first-ever…

LX Ventures Transitions from Investor to Startup, Is Now Mobio Technologies

Joseph Czikk June 24, 2014

LX Ventures has changed its name to Mobio Technologies, as it pushes forward with greater focus on its popular and fast-growing…

Ontario “Cheese Whiz” Wins BDC’s Young Entrepreneur Award Contest

Joseph Czikk June 24, 2014

The votes are in and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has named its 2014 Young Entrepreneur Award winner, in Gunn’s Hill…

After Seven Years of Bootstrapping, UBC-Born TaskTop Technologies Raises $11 Million

Joseph Czikk June 24, 2014

TaskTop Technologies, a startup out of Vancouver that created a software development toolkit integration technology, has raised…

Why We Work Remote: The Evolution of the Work Place

Kamil Rextin June 24, 2014

Last year in December of 2013, we made a decision to give up our office space in the Accelerator Center in Waterloo and become…

Montreal’s Chic Marie Rents Out Designer Dresses and Suits for a Fraction of the Price

Joseph Czikk June 24, 2014

Marie-Philip Simard, a long-time Montreal lawyer, said going to law events meant that she had to look sharp, and that came…

The OCE and Extreme Startups are Extending the SmartStart Program

Joseph Czikk June 24, 2014

According to the Ontario Centres of Excellence and Toronto-based startup accelerator Extreme Startups, dozens of entrepreneurial-minded…

Toronto’s SnapSaves Gets Aquired By Groupon

Ian Hardy June 24, 2014

Toronto startup SnapSaves has announced on its website that it has been acquired by Groupon. The terms of the deal were not…

Project: SPACES Demo Day Shows Off Six Toronto Startups

BetaKit June 23, 2014

Toronto’s Project: SPACES coworking space network hosted its first ever “demo day” last week at one of its…

Feds give Mitacs $162 million for AI internship program for smaller Canadian businesses

Women without sponsorship face larger barriers to career advancement in tech, new report finds

Thinkific lays off 30 percent of employees as part of enterprise push

Heidi invests nearly $26 million to establish Toronto as North American headquarters

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Ryerson University’s DMZ Named World’s 5th Best University Incubator Program

BetaKit Wants to Send You to This Summer’s GROW Conference

New BDC-Backed Accel-Rx Health Sciences Accelerator Will Give Startups $500,000

SalesForce to Beef Up Canadian Presence, Will Open Two New Data Centres

Investor Analytics Platform HockeyStick Lands The NAO-O as a Client

Extreme Startups and 500 Startups Grad FameBit Allows Youtube Celebs to Get Paid (A lot)

Wearable Tech Startup OMsignal Raises $10 Million Series A Round

LX Ventures Transitions from Investor to Startup, Is Now Mobio Technologies

Ontario “Cheese Whiz” Wins BDC’s Young Entrepreneur Award Contest

After Seven Years of Bootstrapping, UBC-Born TaskTop Technologies Raises $11 Million

Why We Work Remote: The Evolution of the Work Place

Montreal’s Chic Marie Rents Out Designer Dresses and Suits for a Fraction of the Price

The OCE and Extreme Startups are Extending the SmartStart Program

Toronto’s SnapSaves Gets Aquired By Groupon

Project: SPACES Demo Day Shows Off Six Toronto Startups

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