#TodayinFunding: NoviFlow, The Better Software Company, You.i TV
Summer’s over and it’s back to school for companies looking to raise large funding rounds. Here’s the latest…
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Vancouver’s startups reach for greatness at Vancouver Startup Week
Vancouver is a special place. Its geographic location is incredible. The mountains, the ocean, incredible scenery, an open-minded…
Payso co-founder Nat Cartwright: Women founders in tech can turn the tables
When it comes to the gender imbalance in tech, the numbers still aren’t pretty. Investors are twice as likely to invest in…
JLABS incubator opening in MaRS spring 2016 with $19.4 million in government support
MaRS Discovery District, the Ontario government, and the University of Toronto are collaborating with Janssen Inc. to launch…
University of Toronto helps put the M back in MaRS with massive health tech expansion
MaRS Discovery District has a renewed focus on the health and biotech sectors, as the innovation hub announced today a major…
Happy Birthday, #ProductHuntTO
Last night, over 400 people piled into the MaRS Discovery District to commemorate the one year anniversary of Product Hunt…
#GROWconf 2015: Magic Tech, Winterizing VCs, and Maudlin CEOs
“Living in a connected world.” That was the overriding theme from GROW 2015 in Whistler last week. It resonated…
Slack’s Simon Vallee dishes dirt on the art of design ahead of #ProductHuntTO talk
This week, Product Hunt Toronto takes over the MaRS Discovery District to celebrate its one year anniversary. Beyond the unveiling…
Toronto police say two suicides tied to Ashley Madison hack; CEO wanted to steal Nerve’s user emails
Despite being one of the largest data breaches in the world, exposing tens of millions of users’ personal information, BetaKit…
Kevin Kimsa departs OMERS Ventures
Bloomberg is reporting that OMERS Ventures managing director Kevin Kimsa departed the Canadian VC firm in July. Kimsa joined…
The State of the Nation: Entrepreneurship equals jobs for Canada
In 2012 Startup Canada, a non-profit mandated to enhance support and connectivity for the entrepreneurship community, birthed…
MaRS adds Interac to its FinTech cluster
Six months after the launch of its FinTech cluster, MaRS announced today that it has added one of Canada’s most venerable…
OMERS Ventures raises $260 million CDN from Cisco and Bank of Montreal
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that OMERS Ventures has raised a whopping $260 million CDN, or $199 million USD, from…
Canada will look to overhaul its payments infrastructure in 2016
Finextra is reporting that Canadian FinTech companies may soon have the benefit of building their services on top of a new…
#ProductHuntTO celebrates first birthday with Slack Product Manager Simon Vallee as speaker
It’s hard to believe that it has been more than a year since the tweet that launched the Toronto chapter of Product Hunt,…