Five Canadian companies selected for latest 500 Startups seed program
500 Startups has announced the 29 companies accepted into Batch 26 of its seed program, and five Canadian companies are among…
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Lightspeed partners with Stripe, launches payment product across North America
Lightspeed POS is partnering with global payments platform Stripe as part of the extended launch of its own payments product.…
Rangle makes second significant staff reduction in less than a year
Toronto-based development agency Rangle.io has reportedly made significant layoffs, BetaKit has learned. According to statements…
Lendesk CFO relaunches own startup, raises funding from Quicken Loans parent company
Digital mortgage startup Edison Financial has raised an undisclosed seed round from Rock Holdings, the parent company of United…
Consumer peer-to-peer lending platform goPeer receives approval from securities regulators
Toronto-based goPeer, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform for consumer loans, has received regulatory approval, allowing…
Today in funding: Contxtful, Lexop
Two Canadian startups have recently raised fresh funding rounds to fuel their growth. Here’s the latest on who raised how…
Janet Bannister named managing partner of Real Ventures
Montréal-based early-stage venture capital firm Real Ventures has named Janet Bannister as managing partner. While Real will…
FrontFundr approved to bring crowdfunding platform to Ontario
FrontFundr, an equity crowdfunding platform, has received discretionary approval from the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC)…
ATB Financial to host open finance hackathon in February
Alberta-based ATB Financial is hosting an open finance hackathon on February 7 and 9 at Mount Royal University in Calgary.…
Innovate Financial Health announces startups in first-ever cohort of impact accelerator
Innovate Financial Health, a national non-profit that supports technology to improve Canadians’ financial health, has announced…
Mastercard commits $510 million for new global cybersecurity centre in Vancouver
In an announcement at the fiftieth annual World Economic Forum currently being held in Davos, Switzerland, Minister Navdeep…
Wealthsimple moves into spending space with hybrid spending and saving account
Wealthsimple has entered into the spending space with the launch of Wealthsimple Cash, its first hybrid spending and savings…
Mogo experimenting with carbon offset program for new digital spending account
Mogo, a Vancouver-based FinTech startup, is hopping on the climate action wagon as it tries out a carbon offset program for…
Canadian securities regulator publishes additional guidelines for trading crypto assets
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published a set of guidelines on Thursday that are meant to help organizations…
Flinks hires new CRO as company preps for growth
Montreal-based Flinks has announced that Clayton Feick will be its new chief revenue officer as the financial data product…