Young Business Owners Need Strong Business Strategy As Boomers Look to Retirement, Says Report
Business owners under 35 years of age are twice as likely to be planning a business expansion when compared to owners 55 and…
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Digital Medicine and the Healthcare Industry: It’s Complicated
The tricorder is no longer just a Trekkie’s thing, as fellow BetaKit writer Tom Emrich found out last week. Digital medicine…
Extreme Startups Orchestrates Major Shake-Up, Splits into Three Categories
We didn’t hear much from Marcus Daniels since he took on the position of Extreme Startups’ Managing Director earlier…
Call to All Entrepreneurs: Less Than One Month Left to Apply to FounderFuel
Montreal-based startup accelerator program FounderFuel is telling startups they have less than one month before the submission…
Is Cisco Set to Pour $100 Million in Canadian Venture Capital Funds?
Earlier today I wrote for The Financial Post that Cisco is reportedly interested in entering Canada as a limited partner,…
$16 Million Life Sciences Centre to be Constructed in Laval
Servier Canada has announced it will be constructing a new $16.3 million Centre of Excellence in Clinical Research. The life…
Facebook begins campaign to promote mobile games by taking over your notifications
Have you noticed any errant “suggestions” for mobile games in your mobile Facebook notifications recently? It’s…
Montreal’s Execution Labs Announces $150K Loan Fund for Indie Game Studios
Execution Labs today announced a partnership with BDC Venture Capital that will see the two firms offer $150,000 in convertible…
L33dr.ly scores the $80,000 Startupfest 2013 grand prize
The Startupfest 2013 in Montreal was a grand success and the big $80,000 grand prize, which includes design and branding support,…
A look at Canadian startup accelerators (Infographic)
Since 2010 there has been over 30 accelerators, or accelerator-like programs, launch in Canada. Some say that this influx of…
WhatsNexx receives an additional 2.33 million investment
Montreal-based WhatsNexx has received its second round venture capital financing, this time a respectable 2.33 million from…
Montreal-based Bunch raises $1 million, aims to be the “mainstream platform for discussion”
A new avenue to get your social fix has arrived. Montreal-based Bunch have released what they’re calling a “home…
QuickMobile Launches SnapApp to Help Enterprises Create Custom Multi-Event Apps
BetaKit recently covered Vancouver-based QuickMobile’s $3.3 million funding from BDC IT Venture Fund and Vancity to take…
QuickMobile Raises $3.3M to Take Custom Mobile Event Apps International
Event organizers have increasingly been looking to connect their event attendees in more meaningful ways with the advent of…
ooomf Adds $500K to Showcase Apps Before They Hit the App Store
Today Montreal-based ooomf announced it has raised $500,000 in seed funding led by Real Ventures, with participation from BDC…