Lendful wants to give Canadians on-demand personal credit lending. Seriously.
Lendful CEO and co-founder, Alex Benjamin, wants to give Canadians more money as quickly as possible. His Vancouver-based…
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Dream Payments secures $6 million in funding from Blue Sky Capital, Real Ventures, and Rouge River Capital
Cash continues to flow into Canadian startups. The latest is Toronto-based Dream Payments who has secured $6 million in funding,…
#DEC_TECH kicks off with a bang as Decentral Toronto goes beyond Bitcoin
Hosted in the MaRS Discovery District this week, DEC_TECH was the first financial technology event put on by the innovation…
Andreas Antonopoulos doesn’t know what happens next
Our title is slightly misleading. Speaking at #Dec_Tech, MaRS’ first event since it launched its FinTech cluster in February,…
#Dx32015: Why Control bet on mobile and Stripe to grow its payments platform
Startups can often measured by the early choices that define their business. For new HIGHLINE portfolio investment Control,…
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…
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…
MaRS partner UGO adds new features and iPhone support to its mobile wallet
UGO Wallet was announced in 2013, then officially launched in November last year, and dubbed as “Canada’s First Open…
Montreal’s Mobeewave raises $6.5 million to bolster its mobile payment platform
MontrĂ©al-based Mobeewave, a company that allows merchants’ mobile devices to accept secure contactless payments via…
Turning the iPhone Into Child’s Play with Ubooly
The iPhone and iPad topped a lot of children’s holiday wish lists in 2011, so it’s not surprising that companies…