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Five Startups Graduate from INcubes Latest Cohort

Joseph Czikk September 11, 2013

Yesterday was a big day for Toronto-based accelerator INcubes, as it graduated its fourth cohort of startups. The companies…

Uberflip Is Trying to Give More Power to Marketers, And it Looks Cool

Joseph Czikk September 11, 2013

Uberflip is either going to make life easier for IT workers or render them more expendable. The Toronto-based startup that…

Bitcoin ATMs to Come to Five Canadian Cities

Joseph Czikk September 11, 2013

Bitcoin ATMs will be placed in five Canadian cities by early December, according to reports. Bitcoiniacs, Vancouver’s…

The Unlikely Entrepreneur: How One Canadian Doctor is Spreading Awareness Through an App

Douglas Soltys September 11, 2013

Dr. Jillian Roberts never wanted to run a startup. She just wanted to solve a problem. A registered child psychologist and…

Pair of Canadian University Students Win Big at Nokia Hackathon in Sweden

Joseph Czikk September 10, 2013

Two second-year University of Waterloo students emerged victorious at the Nokia Imaging Hackathon last week in Lund, Sweden.…

Communitech Looks Toward a Very Exciting Few Months

Joseph Czikk September 10, 2013

The Waterloo-based Communitech innovation hub is set for a couple exciting months, with the announcement of both “Techtoberfest”…

Canadian Cofounders Behind Umano Are Achieving Big Success in Silicon Valley

Joseph Czikk September 10, 2013

Silicon Valley-based startup SoThree launched the Umano app for commuters or news junkies last year, and since then its been…

Arcade Fire taps Google Chrome and WebGL for immersive music video experience

Daniel Bader September 10, 2013

Emmy Award-winning band, Arcade Fire, is set to unveil a new album in the coming weeks, but the first single from that yet-unnamed…

Toronto Edtech Startup Raises $1 Million, Changes Name That Was Previously Really Bad

Joseph Czikk September 10, 2013

Toronto-based startup Class Messenger, formerly called WDWDT? (“What Did We Do Today?) has raised $1 million in funding from…

Quebec’s Prêt à Entreprendre Program Announces Second Cohort of Young Entrepreneurs

Joseph Czikk September 10, 2013

The Quebec-based, provincially funded Prêt à entreprendre support program has unveiled its second cohort of entrepreneurs.…

Seamless is the Mobile Answer to Reducing Hospital Readmissions

John Gray September 10, 2013

Tax-time can be tough on the wallet, root-canal therapy isn’t much fun and moving doesn’t count as one of life’s…

Canadian Duo Behind AppDirect Secures $9 Million Series B Round

Joseph Czikk September 10, 2013

Daniel Saks and Nicolas Desmarais, the two Canadian cofounders behind Silicon Valley-based startup AppDirect, have secured…

Kitchener’s Desire2Learn Beefs Up Adaptive Learning Platform, Acquires Fellow Canadian Startup Knowillage

Joseph Czikk September 9, 2013

Desire2Learn, the Kitchener-based education technology company that created the first integrated learning platform, has announced…

MaRS Set to Host Entrepreneurship 101 Series, Now in It’s Ninth Straight Year

Joseph Czikk September 9, 2013

MaRS Discovery District is set to bring back Entrepreneurship 101 beginning September 25. Now in its 9th year (not all of which…

Misa Digital Tri-Bass Strives to Bring Electronic Music into the Realm of Live Performance

Juliette Jagger September 9, 2013

Over the course of the past few years, we have witnessed electronic dance music (EDM) as a genre reach critical mass across…

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Canadian Cofounders Behind Umano Are Achieving Big Success in Silicon Valley

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