Extreme Venture Partners Rumored to Close Startup Fund
Tech companies in Canada looking for to raise a seed-round may soon find it even harder to secure funding, as rumors circulate…
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Meta Makes Google Glass Look Like a Modern Day Monocle
Watch out Google! A new wearable tech startup, Meta, is set to change the face of computing and, according to the team, this…
Three Canadian Cities Ranked Top 20 Most Active Startup Scenes (Infographic)
Canada is climbing the international ranks when it comes to startup activity. According to Startup Genome’s Startup Ecosystem…
Thought Controlled Computing Company InteraXon Raises $6M Series A Round
Toronto-based InteraXon, the company behind the brain-sensing headband Muse, announced the close of $6 million dollars in a…
FreshBooks releases Android app as it inches towards true “cloud accounting”
Toronto-based FreshBooks, one of the world’s most popular do it yourself accounting companies with over 5 million users,…
Wattpad’s new Fan Funding pilot program hopes to revive struggling publishing industry
The publishing industry is currently experiencing turmoil it hasn’t seen since the invention of the printing press, but one…
SubPac is the New Musical Experience: StudioFeed Brings Music Into The Physical Realm With The Creation of a Tactile Audio Device
On a very basic human level, music is something we all innately understand. It’s the universal language of our species, and…
500px Closes $8.8 million in Series A Funding to Launch Online Photo Marketplace
There is no shortage of places to share photos on the Internet today, but only one Toronto-based photo sharing service is nearing…
Wave introduces mobile payments as it approaches 2 million users
Wave, the Toronto-based accounting startup poised to take over the world with its intuitive, free invoicing and payments software,…
HootSuite raises $165 million in Largest Deal Ever in Canadian Venture Capital History
In what is Canada’s biggest venture capital investment for a software company ever, social media dashboard HootSuite has…
Shopify Acquires Design Agency Jet Cooper
Shopify, the Ottawa-based startup turned ecommerce platform behemoth, announced today that it has acquired one of Canada’s…
U of T Solar Power Racing Team Looks To Indiegogo To help fund Australian World Solar Challenge trip
The B-7 is all charged up and ready to go. For the past 18 months, the University of Toronto team have spent countless hours…
Bitmaker Labs Gives Women in Computing a Boost with Grace Hopper Scholarship
Canadian coding school Bitmaker Labs announced this week that female registrants participating in the bootcamp would be eligible…
New HYPERDRIVE Accelerator Cohort Announced, brings on 11 new startups!
Communitech announced the new HYPERDIVE cohort companies today and also reinforced the changes of their 6-month startup accelerator…
Polar rebrands, launches new native advertising platform
Toronto-based Polar – formerly known as Polar Mobile – has been working hard on their business for years. Founded…