Ryerson Fashion Zone’s #HackNTalk2015 encourages you to forget gadgets & make your own wearable tech
Inside the freshly painted walls of Ryerson’s new student centre, tables are littered with empty coffee cups. Parts of mannequins…
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Brainsights knows where ads work best by squeezing your mind grapes
Toronto-based Brainsights is in the business of brain data. The company uses brain-sensing headbands to measure neurological…
Watch Miovision and Lighthouse Labs pitch on #TheDisruptors
As a show about disruption, BNN’s The Disruptors wouldn’t be worth its salt without presenting the Canadian startups taking…
Pinch VR aims for ubiquitous virtual reality
Once a technology you would predominantly find in theme parks, arcades or in academic labs, virtual reality (VR) is slowly…
Vodafone Ventures joins Flybits’ $4.75 million Series A
Toronto-based Flybits, a company that originally incubated at Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ), has announced…
Lighthouse Labs expands to the Yukon with hybrid remote bootcamp
When last we checked in with Lighthouse Labs, the coding bootcamp was expanding its presence to Calgary and Toronto. This week,…
Payso wins OCE FinTech Investor Pitch Competiton
The OCE Discovery conference is taking place today in downtown Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. New to the conference…
#WWTO is all about Apple Watch May 5th
The next monthly edition of We Are Wearables is fast descending on the MaRS Discovery District. May 5th’s event will be almost…
These three Canadian companies are helping shape the Apple Watch’s future
With over three thousand applications available at launch, it’s clear that third-party developers are excited about the Apple…
Roger Chabra of Rho Canada Ventures: 9 things I learned from Chango’s acquisition
Earlier this month, Toronto-based Chango announced that it had been acquired by Rubicon Project for the tidy sum of $122 million…
Sarah Prevette launches Future Design School in MaRS
The Future Design School launched in Toronto this week, a new initiative to encourage entrepreneurship in high schools around…
BuzzFeed hires Craig Silverman as Founding Editor for Canadian newsroom
New York-based BuzzFeed, the incredibly popular site that’s built off top-10 lists and viral news, recently announced…
Freelancer seeks aggressive Canadian growth with expansion into local services
When Freelancer.com hit 15 million worldwide users a few weeks back, it shared metrics on Canadian usage of the freelancing…
Join BetaKit on a bus to FounderFuel’s Demo Day
FounderFuel’s Demo Day is just a few weeks away. But for many bootstrapped startups, the cost of travel to the beautiful…
Payso CEO Jake Tyler explains how social is the future… of money
A few weeks back, social giant Facebook announced that U.S. users would soon be able to send money to each other via the company’s…