“A Straight Out Scam”: Montreal Angel Austin Hill Recounts First Business at FailCampMTL
Saturday’s FailCamp in Montreal was a gathering of about 160 startup and small business entrepreneurs curious about failure…
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Are Kik and BlackBerry Smiling After Facebook’s WhatsApp Deal?
According to the Waterloo Region Record, Facebook’s recent $19 billion deal to acquire WhatsApp has created a favourable…
BufferBox service is winding down and will stop accepting packages on March 31st
BufferBox, the Canadian start-up that was founded by three engineering grads (Jay Shah, Aditya Bali and Mike McCauley) from…
Mashable’s Piece on Quebec’s Startup Climate Twisted Reality
Mashableâs January 30th article entitled âQuebecâs Preoccupation With French Is Limiting Itâs Startup Sceneâ didnât…
Georgian Partners VC firm Makes First Close with Help from Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund
Georgian Partners, a Toronto-based seed stage venture capital fund has completed the first close of its second fund. It came…
CBC KW Gave One Lucky Listener Bitcoin Over the Airwaves
We’re not positive on this one, but it’s pretty likely that CBC Radio One 89.1 FM in Kitchener-Waterloo today was…
Vancouver’s ClearlyContacts Is Now Accepting Bitcoin as Payment
More and more businesses are buying into Bitcoin. Every few months it seems that another Canadian startup is beginning to embrace…
BlackBerry is Suing Ryan Seacrest’s Startup
In a rather bizarre piece of Friday afternoon tech news, embattled Canadian smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry is suing a startup…
VeloCity-Based The Display Rack Is Like a Bank of Inventory Info for Big US Stores
Just five percent of all commerce is based online currently and the fact remains that the giant brick-and-mortar stores like…
BetaKitâs Most Interesting News Stories of 2013
Itâs getting awfully close to 2014, so we decided to go through every article weâve reported this year and create a list…
Montreal’s Brandicted to Be Featured on Mike Judge Comedy about Startups
Montreal-based startup Brandicted is going Hollywood. Well, maybe more “Silicon Valleyish”. The startup will appear…
The Holiday Rejects Sell Ugly Christmas Sweaters- And They’re Making a Killing At It
A trio of University of Calgary engineering grads decided to sell ugly christmas sweaters online last year and it worked out…
McRock Capital Announces Initial Closing of New $50 Million Fund
McRock Capital, the Toronto-based investment firm cofounded by Scott MacDonald and Whitney Rockley, has announced the initial…
IDC Canada Gives its Ten Tech Predictions for 2014
IDC Canada released its top ten technology predictions for 2014 yesterday via live webcast. The company’s predictions…
Introducing the BetaKit 10 for 2013: This Year’s Top Ten Winners in Tech
The BetaKit family decided to put its heads together this week, and we came up with the ‘BetaKit 10’ for 2013.…