W|W: The Wearable Weekly – March 13, 2015
Welcome to The Wearable Weekly, your trusted guide to all things wearable tech. If you only have time to read one thing about…
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Square acquires Toronto-based Kili Technology
Square, the popular mobile commerce platform developed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has been live in Canada since October…
Blow stuff up: #HackTO and Toronto’s exploding maker movement
BetaKit has a soft spot for hardware. Our team-wide dream of building a robotic copy editor, or pizza delivering…
HIGHLINE extends Emily Carr University partnership to provide startups with design talent
HIGHLINE announced today that it has renewed its partnership with Emily Carr University to match the school’s top design…
Financeit doubles its lending muscle to $75M
This week, Financeit announced that it doubled its lending program partnership with Pacific & Western Bank of Canada, increasing…
HIGHLINE is using Dx3 to help its startup portfolio go from speed to sales
As Canada’s largest conference and trade show dedicated to digital marketing, advertising, and retail, Dx3 is not a typical…
MasterCard and Ryerson partner for new Women in Entrepreneurship program
Ryerson University and MasterCard jointly announced today a new program designed to foster women-led startups in Canada. The…
Today in funding: SecureKey, FundThrough, AVAC
Toronto and Calgary lead the latest round of FinTech and AgTech funding announcements. Here’s the latest on who raised…
The opportunity of open data and the importance of hackathons
This past Saturday, coders across Canada took part in CODE 2015, an intense ‘48-hour coding sprint’, creating apps using…
Ryan Holmes wants to launch the first AngelList Syndicate in Canada
John Philip Green was fed up. The founder of Toronto’s CareGuide had raised a significant seed round last year from prominent…
Adam Nanjee wants Canada to be a global FinTech leader
Last week, MaRS launched its new financial technologies cluster. The announcement, filled with partners across the financial,…
Ryerson and Rogers team up to launch The Next Big Idea in sports competition
Canada’s Year of Sport just got bigger. Ryerson and Rogers have embarked on a quest to find the “Next Big Idea in Sport”…
MaRS’ new District 20 means business
“This is a great space. We lobbied hard to get here.” I’m sitting across from Eric Riz,…
Arlene Dickinson departs Dragons’ Den
A mainstay on the hit Canadian TV Dragons’ Den has departed. Arlene Dickinson, the vibrant CEO of Venture Communications…
JUICE Mobile opens Waterloo office
Toronto-based JUICE Mobile is continuing to expand its operations and announced the opening of a Waterloo office at 51 Breithaupt…