HotelTonight Extends Coverage to Six Canadian Cities, Adds Vancouver and Whistler
HotelTonight, the San Francisco-based hotel booking application, is now offering deals in Vancouver and Whistler. The “made…
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Halifax’s STI Technologies Gets Huge $17 Million Private Equity Infusion
Halifax-based STI Technologies, a company that developed a card-based program connecting physicians, patients, pharmacy and…
Kira Talent Raises $2 Million Seed Round Led By Relay Ventures
Toronto-based hiring pros Kira Talent has secured $2 million in seed funding from a big, giant crowd of people, led by Relay…
MyFocus Is a Button That Will Eliminate All Distraction
Toronto-based startup CanFocus Technologies has launched its Kickstarter campaign for its MyFocus, a small button that helps…
Canadian Jordan Banks Will Lead Facebook’s New Global Strategy Team
Several media outlets are reporting that Canadian Jordan Banks will lead Facebook’s new Global Strategy Team. It’s…
Telus Commits $5.4 million to GTA Charities
Telus will give more than $5.4 million to Greater Toronto Area-based charities and community organizations in 2013, including…
MaRS’s new Social Venture Connection Marries Impact Investors with Social Ventures
Thursday marked MaRS Discovery District’s launch of its new Social Venture Connection (SVX), an online impact investing…
MP Clement on Startup Visa: “We’re in Continuous Improvement Mode”
Conservative MP Tony Clement shed light on the startup visa program, maintaining a bright future for the initiative that likely…
Contest: Win a pair of tickets to the Premiere Screening of ‘Day Job’
The organizers of the upcoming movie called ‘Day Job’ have been kind enough to give us a few tickets to giveaway…
Homejoy Launches in Second Canadian City After Success at Home
San Francisco-based Homejoy has launched in it’s second Canadian city after Toronto, earlier this week, opening its doors…
Jack Dorsey and Square Say Its Less About Payments and More about analytics
He completely changed the media industry and now he’s changing the mobile payments sector. But Jack Dorsey said that his…
PwC Vision to Reality Short List: The BetaKit Cheat Sheet
PwC’s Vision to Reality awards is back for their 10th year and earlier this week PwC announced their short list of twenty…
Finmaven and Bionym Launch at Today’s Accelerate TO
Amid an exciting day at Accelerate T.O that will include a keynote delivery by Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey, two…
Student Startup Modly Takes U of T’s 2013 Lacavera Prize for Entrepreneurship
University of Toronto-based student startup Modly has won the 2013 Lacavera Prize for Entrepreneurship, awarded to the best…
Alertly Launches On Indiegogo, A DIY Smart Home & Car Security System
Back in August, BetaKit wrote about Alertly, a Toronto-based startup set to disrupt the consumer security space by creating…