Waterloo’s Accelerator Centre is Looking for Its New CEO
Waterloo-based startup commercialization hub Accelerator Centre is looking for a new CEO. The award-winning facility located…
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OpenText to Hire 1200 Over Seven Years, Ontario Commits $120 Million
OpenText has signed an agreement with Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals that will see the Waterloo-based enterprise management…
Montreal’s GreenCopper To Produce App for Huge Bud Light EDM Festival
The organizers of 2014 Bud Light Digital Dreams Festival have partnered with a few technology systems innovators located in…
You Don’t Have to Go to University, Says This Toronto Startup, Because There’s a Lot More Out There
A colleague recently commented to me that some people in life are just on a mission. They have a “cause,” and they’ll…
Visual Search Platform Slyce to Go Public
Calgary and Toronto-based startup Slyce, the company that recently raised nearly $11 million in venture capital, is going…
BlackBerry To Reward Student App Developers with New Award at Canada-Wide Science Fair
BlackBerry is about to help out a handful of student app developers in a big way. Today the embattled Canadian smartphone maker…
GrindSpaceXL Is an Ottawa-Based Accelerator
Throughout our reporting of Canadian accelerators, we’ve yet to feature GrindSpaceXL, an Ottawa-based startup accelerator…
Real Ventures Fund III Gets First Close at $50 Million
It came with a lot of talk leading up to it, but this morning Montreal-based venture capital firm Real Ventures officially…
The Truth About Accelerators: Some Accelerate Success, Others Accelerate Failure
It wasnât exactly the shining start that FounderFuel general manager Ian Jeffrey envisioned for one of the startup acceleratorâs…
Vancouver’s CodeCore is Creating a New Wave of Developers
Demand for software developers in BC today is robust. Looking no further than T-Net which is showing almost 850 job openings…
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…
Check Out Hootsuite’s Animated Play on Game of Thrones’ Opening Sequence
Sunday night’s premier of Game of Thrones season 4 attracted a ton of viewers worldwide, and one Canadian startup in…
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…
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…