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…
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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 FounderFuelâs Demo Day
FounderFuelâs 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 companyâs…
Vancouverâs Koho wins Nasdaq FinTech Innovation Award at NY TechDay
NY TechDay, the worldâs largest startup event, with over 400 exhibitors and 10,000 attendees, doesnât take place until…
Magniware moves beyond wearable tech to optimize your life
What happens when you bring together a group of academics dead set on taking their studies out of school to drive change in…
Rev shows Communitech is focused further down the startup stack
I will admit some confusion when Communitech announced that it was shutting down its HYPERDRIVE accelerator program in favour…
Borrowellâs lending marketplace launches
Back in December, Toronto-based raised $5.4 million in seed funding to accelerate the launch of its Canadian lending marketplace,…
Quebecâs first FinTech hub launches this Wednesday in Montreal
Thomas Pasturel believes Montreal has everything necessary to be a global FinTech player. The entrepreneur and investor recently…
Figure 1 brings paging support to its âInstagram for doctorsâ app
Toronto-based Figure 1, which builds a photo sharing service for the medical industry, has garnered a reputation as the go-to…
Vantage adds Magento support as analytics platform approaches $2B in analyzed transactions
When Toronto-based Vantage announced its $1.1 million seed round last summer, President and co-founder Aran Hamilton indicated…
Canadian startup community responds to impending Shopify IPO
What impact will the impending Shopify IPO have on the Canadian startup ecosystem? That’s the question…
Today in Funding: TouchBistro, Ayogo, McRock INFund + HarbourVest VCAP
Funds are raising funds and April is the month of Series A rounds. Hereâs the latest on who raised how much, from whom. …
Shopify files for proposed IPO
Ottawa-based e-commerce startup Shopify announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities…
Shed that winter weight with wearable sport tech
Wearable technology might be an emerging favourite in the fashion space, but its first love will always be sports, where use…