Startup Slam wants to help build a real tech community in Victoria
How do you build up a tech community on Vancouver island? One coder at a time, apparently. Victoria’s startup community…
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#VanStartupCity: tech entrepreneurship tips from the leaders
“If you want to be successful, follow your contribution, not your passion.” This and other bits of wisdom resulted…
#VanIMPACT: investing for profit, people, and the planet
Driven by purpose as well as profit? You might have joined hundreds of earnest entrepreneurs, non-profit folks and investors…
Here are all the startups you can see tonight at #VSW2015
HIGHLINE and BetaKit will be taking over Startup City later today as part of our one-two Vancouver Startup Week punch. If you…
CIX Cleantech reveals 10 most innovative cleantech companies
Today, CIX Cleantech announced the 10 most disruptive Canadian clean technology companies chosen to present at the CIX Cleantech:…
ZenHub announces free tier for students and open-source community
ZenHub, a Vancouver-based provider of GitHub-embedded project management and collaboration, announced a new tier for students…
DigitalOcean launches first Canadian data centre in Toronto
New York-based DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider that focuses on simplifying web infrastructure for developers,…
Startup Canada Podcast: John Ruffolo and the Rise of the Canadian Entrepreneur
“View the entrepreneur as the planter of the seed…The role of venture capital is the water and it is creating the fuel…
Edvisor, Ziva Dynamics & Change Heroes top BCIC-New Ventures competition
New Ventures BC and the BC Innovation Council (BCIC) awarded over $300,000 to tech startups at their 15th annual awards ceremony,…
#VanIMPACT15: Building the purpose-driven enterprise
Van IMPACT 2015 aims to attract hundreds of socially-minded enterprises looking to combine purpose and profit this Wednesday.…
See Shopify’s Tobi Lutke at AccelerateOTT this Thursday
For AccelerateOTT’s third year, organizers C100 and Invest Ottawa will be bringing in Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke for a fireside…
BetaKit and HIGHLINE are taking over Thursday night at #VSW2015 (with some help from our friends)
BetaKit and Canadian pre-seed fund and accelerator, HIGHLINE, have collaborated in the past to great effect, most notably this…
Toronto-based Hurrier acquired by Rocket Internet owned Foodora
Hurrier, a Toronto-based food courier delivery service, has been acquired by Rocket Internet-owned Foodora, the three companies…
SqueezeCMM acquired by its customer, Digital Journal Group
In an interesting acquisition deal, SqueezeCMM, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that helps content marketers assess…
Neurio launches Smart Home Energy Monitor
Vancouver-based Neurio, a developer of smart home solutions, has come a long way since raising $1.5 million in seed capital…