Canada Revenue Agency Says No More Online Tax Filing Amid Heartbleed Concerns
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has temporarily halted online activity in light of security concerns stemming from a vulnerability…
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Fundica and FundRazr Team Up for the $10K “Fundees Awards”
Montreal-based Fundica, creators of the 10-city, 2014 Funding Roadshow that began today in Toronto, is teaming up with crowdfunding…
Wattpad Secures $46 million in Funding, Aims to “Become One of the Most Successful Consumer Internet Companies in the World”
I always wonder at what point a company just has enough money. I suppose the Toronto-based writing platform Wattpad didn’t…
Seamless Mobile Health, Learning Bird Among Winners at TiEQuest 2014
Canada’s largest business venture competition announced its winners late last week, when TiEQuest 2014 crowned Seamless…
Real Ventures to Announce New Fund Next Week?
According to Les Affaires, the french language weekly newspaper, Montreal venture capital fund Real Ventures will announce…
Next 36 Alum Sesame.IO Launches Sesame Snap App for Parents, Teachers and Students
Sesame IO, a startup that formerly graduated from the Next 36 program as well as the University of Waterloo’s VeloCity…
Canadian Venture Capital Had Some Big Wins in Q1 of This Year
Ahh Q1- the fresh new beginnings of the year, when the snow melts and the Maple Leafs’ playoff hopes shatter before our…
Meet CBC Dragons’ Den’s New Fire-Breathers: Michael Wekerle
One of the two newest members to CBC’s Dragons’ Den has a multitude of tattoos (about “38 to 42”) and…
New Report on Industrial Internet of Things Pegs Industry at $19 Billion
A new report prepared by Toronto’s McRock Capital dove into Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) industry, detailing…
LoveCourts iOS App Might Be a Tennis Player’s Best Friend
We haven’t seen too many tennis-specific apps coming out of Canadian startups, so it was fun to chat with LoveCourts…
BMO Is The First Major Canadian Bank To Say It Would Be Open to Bitcoin
The head of one of Canada’s major banks said he would be open to Bitcoin transactions, provided that the cryptocurrency…
What Happens When One Canadian Startup Acquires Another? A Cool New Product Is Born
500px Prime, a new kind of commercial marketplace for image licensing, celebrates its official launch this week. When Toronto…
PasswordBox Will Now Use Bionym’s ECG-Sensing Tech for Authentification
PasswordBox has inked a partnership with Toronto-based wearable tech startup Bionym (the startup everyone loves), to add ECG-sensing…
Ex-TeamBuy Cofounder is Set to Go After Uber
If there’s a night in shining armour ready to come to the defence of the helpless taxi fleets, losing revenue that could…
Video: Innohub’s Dynamic Mobile Landing Pages Snared 65% Conversion For Pepsi
In our final instalment of the Extreme Startups video series at DX3 2014 conference, our Joseph Czikk chatted with Innohub…