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- Stealth Startup Circa Hopes to Overhaul How News is Created and Shared
- Washington Post Social Reader Marks Move From Contextual to "Frictionless Sharing"
- Rising Popularity of Pinterest Reflects Move To Social Content Curation
- Napster Founders Planning to Disrupt with Live Video Startup
- Digital Textbook Publishing Turns Into David Vs. Goliath Battle
- Facebook Opens the Timeline Apps Floodgates to Startups and Developers
- Retargeting Continues to Gain Traction With Advertisers
- Polar Mobile Raises $6 Million to Launch One-Size-Fits-All-Devices Publishing Platform
- Plancast Hits the Deadpool After Battling Busy Event Promotion Space
- 33Across Acquires Tynt to Allow Publishers to Tap Into "Interest Graph"
- Publishers Looking to Leverage Big Data to Understand Readers
- How Long Should This Article Stay on the Front Page? Visual Revenue Can Predict
- Clio Drags Law Firms Into the Cloud, Adds $6 Million in funding
- Mobify's Explosive Growth Reflects Rise of Mobile Web
- "Hotwire for Shipping" Startup Aims to Disrupt Transportation Industry
- LinkedIn Continues on Post-IPO Acquisition Tear with Rapportive
- CruiseWise Launches at a Critical Juncture for Cruise Industry
- The Future is Clear: Impending Aims to Bring You Tomorrow’s Apps, Today
- OZON’s Acquisition of Sapato Shows That Good Startup Ideas Translate Well
- Auto Industry Giant Backs Mobile Parking Solution QuickPay
- Energy Points Offers Common Ground For Talking About Enterprise Sustainability
- The New Breed of Loyalty and Rewards Startups
- Algo Anywhere Launches to Help Companies Turn Recommendations Into Profit
- Messaging Startups React To Apple’s iMessage Announcement
- The Rise of Ebook Platforms
- Kid-Friendly Web Businesses Raking in Funding and Profits
- Trying to Replicate 37signals’ Success
- Flickr Founder Launches Location-Based Notes App
- Sponsorfied Launching Marketplace for Brand Sponsorships
- Groupon Acquisitions All About Getting Past the One-Night Stand
- Convore Shutting Down as Founder Focuses on New Startup
- As HR Shifts From Headache to Hot Spot, Startups Take the Lead
- Hudson River Crash Inspires Breaking News Image Marketplace Spread
- Anthm Launches Social Jukebox App
- Kiip Poaches Zynga Exec to Grow Beyond Games
- ShopLocket Launches Solution for Single-Item Merchants
- Here Comes the Sun: DZ-4 Providing Germans With Solar Power
- InVision Raises $1.5 Million for Prototyping Tool
- Startups Help Shoppers Take Fashion Into Their Own Hands
- Scan Grabs $1.7M in Funding, Launches Mobile Landing Pages
- Ban.jo Update Adds Another Layer to Social Discovery App
- OpenLabel Brings on a CTO, Prepares to Launch Barcode App
- Usabilla Debuts Discover Tool, a “Pinterest for Designers”
- Turning the iPhone Into Child’s Play with Ubooly
- Philanthroper, the Groupon for Good, Goes Up For Sale
- Startups Jumpstarting Fitness Motivation with Technology
- Planboard Launches Lesson Planning Tool for Teachers
- Surveying the Crop of User Feedback Startups
- Vizibility Launches New NFC-enabled Networking Tool
- Forecasting the Future of Check-Ins with Forecast 2.0
- Wayin Raises $14M To Fund Second-Screen Platform
- Rafter Launches to Help Schools Manage Course Materials
- EcoFactor Partners With Comcast to Optimize Home Energy Use
- Karma’s Gift of Giving Model Attracts $4.5M in Funding
- Why Groupon Acquired Uptake: Deal Targeting
- Eye-Fi Raises $20M, Plans Platform Expansion
- Atomic Reach Debuts Version 2.0 of Content Marketing Platform
- DataSift/Twitter Partnership Opens up Historical Data to Companies
- Meet Exec: Personal Assistants on Demand
- Pixoto Growing Photo-Ranking Community for Photographers
- The Storyline Tackling News Curation with New Startup
- Online Food Ordering Battle Heats Up as Delivery Hero Acquires Lieferheld
- Mobile Analytics Space Heating Up
- Graphicly Targets Simplicity With Public Publishing Platform
- The Coursebook Wants to Become "Pandora for Learning"
- Foursquare Co-Founder Departs Amid Talk of Changes
- Square Launches Register to Simplify Point-of-Sale Systems
- IP-Focused Startups Ask What an Idea’s Worth
- Social News Reader Smartr Shutting Down
- Jumio Raises $25M, Turns Webcams Into ID Readers
- Science Inc.’s Dollar Shave Club Raises $1M for Razor Delivery
- SessionM Enters the In-App Rewards Battle
- Pow/Wow and Branch Launch to Power Social Conversations
- Instaprint Launching Location-Based Instagram Photo Booth
- As SXSW Approaches, Event Networking Apps Go Head-to-Head
- Wanderfly Launches Version 2.0 of Social Travel Tool
- BrandYourself Raises $1.2M for Personal SEO Tool
- Despite Delays, Raspberry Pi Poised to Disrupt Industries
- Weddingful Raises Funding as Startups Question Daily Wedding Deals
- NewsiT Wants to Gamify Crowdsourced News
- CardSpring’s Payment Cards Apps API Debuts at SXSW
- WatchDox Raises $9M to Help Businesses Securely Manage the BYOD Trend
- Loopt Acquired as Green Dot Prepares for Mobile Payment Battle
- Solve Media Debuts Pre-Roll Tool to Boost Online Video Ad Engagement
- Getting Past the Velvet Rope With Jump Rope
- Visual.ly Debuts Free DIY Infographic Creation Tool
- Viddy Adds Video Memories to Your Facebook Timeline
- Roximity Brings Location-Based Deals to Drivers
- Rasello and Seconds Tapping Into SMS for Businesses
- Rdio Redesign Puts Social Discovery Front and Center
- Tap.Me Raises $3.2M For In-Game Ad Platform
- WordPress.com VIP Launches Featured Partner Program
- Personal Capital Launches Finance Management iPad App
- AllClear ID’s Mobile App Guards Against ID Theft
- Oink Closure Raises Questions About “Fail Fast” App Development
- Uber Continues International Growth
- CircleMe Launches to Connect People Around Interests
- YouMail Lets Users Permanently Block Calls on Android
- Forest Whitaker-Backed JuntoBox Films Challenges Crowdfunding Models
- Teknision’s Chameleon Aims to Be The Next Tablet OS
- Cloud Photos Aims to Be a Private Instagram
- 42Floors Launches Commercial Real Estate Search Tool
- Tripbirds Launches with Backing from Path, SoundCloud Founders
- FutureAdvisor Launches Investment Tool for "The 99 Percent"
- SecondMenu Launches Digital Menu Web App for Restaurants
- Venmo Opens Mobile Payments Social Network to the Public
- Blurtt Wants to Help Users Create Meaningful Mobile Messages
- Fingerprint Expands Its iOS Children’s Network With Whole Wide World
- Mixpanel Launches Flow to Humanize Web Traffic Analysis
- Boxfish Building a Search Engine for Television
- MatchFWD Adding to Crop of Social Recruiting Startups
- SimpleRegistry Raises $150K for Online Gift Registries
- Kickstarter Funding Grows By 70% In Just 3 Months
- Pinerly Shows Brands Are Crazy for Pinterest
- Swiff Targets Banks With Its Mobile Payments Solution
- Budgetable Launches New Online Budgeting Tool
- Swipely Launches Main St. Marketing Manager for Smarter Loyalty Programs
- StartApp Raises $4M to Help It Deliver Paydays to Android Devs
- Curating Lists of Local Places With Urbantag
- Discovr Aims to Become Your Go-To Discovery Brand
- Chute’s Platform Pivot Attracting Strong Developer Interest
- OMERS Ventures Invests $20M in HootSuite
- Spotify and The Echo Nest Team Up to Offer Integrated APIs
- Sonalight’s Voice-Powered App Enables Handsfree Texting
- Remind101's Messaging Tool for Teachers Growing Quickly
- Screenleap Wants to Be the Dropbox of Screensharing
- PostDesk Launches Long-Form Online Journalism Platform
- RentingWell Looks to Streamline Property Management
- Are Subscription Goods Startups Hitting a Wall?
- DataSift Partners With NewsCred to Deliver News Analytics
- YouDazzle Wants to Be the Avon of Online Collaboration
- iSimplyConnect Debuts VPN Tool for iPad
- Attachments.me Raises $2M for Email Attachments Tool
- Decide.com Partners With Bizrate to Help Buyers Buy Smarter
- Phonedeck Launches Cloud Dashboard for Mobile Phones
- Safely Partners With Sprint to Offer Mobile Family Controls
- Dolphin Sonar Brings Voice-Powered Browsing to iOS
- Revel Partners With LevelUp and Geek Squad to Add to iPad POS
- Spil Games Partners With Digital Chocolate to Grow Social Gaming Platform
- Shazam Partners with American Idol to Increase Second Screen Integration
- Spuul Brings Bollywood Movies to the Masses
- NFC-Enabled Devices and Brand Adoption on the Rise
- Commonsku Launches Enterprise Tool for Promotional Products Companies
- Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1B: One Step Closer to Owning All Your Memories
- Braintree At $4B in Annual Ecommerce Payments
- Digital Baby Book Tool Moment Garden Adds Mobile Apps
- Payments Companies Making Mobile Wallets a Reality
- BloomBoard Launches Feedback Tool for Educators
- Tunezy Gets Funding for Fan-Sourced Record Label
- Photo App EyeEm Almost Doubles Engagement Post-Instagram Acquisition
- Springpad Launches Redesign of Smart Notebooks Platform
- Citrix Acquires Podio As it Maps the Future of Work
- Intuit Acquires Mobile Payments Startup AisleBuyer
- Condé Nast Acquires Online Recipe Box ZipList
- PayDragon Launches Mobile Ordering and Payment System for Food Vendors
- Pebble Smart Watch Blows Past Funding Goal, Hits $1M on Kickstarter
- WalkMe Raises Funding for On-Screen Support Tool
- Alohar Wants to Help Developers Create “Siri for the Future”
- Personalized News Service TrapIt Growing as Competition Increases
- Beamit Raises $2.4M for International Remittance Service
- yap.TV Launches Live Pulse Second Screen Integration
- SynopsiTV Launching to Improve Movie and TV Recommendations
- Threadflip Launches Online Fashion Consignment Store with $1.6M in Funding
- VenueSeen Launches Photo Monitoring Platform for Brands
- Gnip Adds Tumblr to its List of Social Data Sources
- Tap for Tap Offers Promotion Tool for App Developers
- Coursera Launches Online Education Platform with $16 Million in Funding
- Crowdfunding Platform CircleUp Launches, Announces $1.5M Round
- Banjo Hits 1M Users in Just Nine Months
- TransferWise Raises $1.3M for Cross-Border Money Transfers
- madvertise Acquires Turkey’s Mobilike, Sets Sights on Middle East
- TuneUp Debuts Mobile App for Music ID and Tagging
- Uber Takes on Cabs, Setting the Stage for a Future Clash
- Lifecrowd Raises $5M for Social Activity Marketplace
- Dozuki Brings Cloud-Based Service Documentation to All
- 500px Debuts Android App, Updates iPad Version for Retina Display
- Sports Social Network JockTalk Launches with All-Star Founder
- Crowdsourced Travel Apps Are Taking Off
- Online CRM Trending Away From Being a Silo-Specific Tool
- Signpost Launches New Dashboard Tools for Local Merchants
- BarkBox Expands, Now Serving Canadian Canines
- LocalBonus Raises Funding, Expands Merchant Reward Program
- SocialFolders Introduces SoundCloud Integration
- Data Compression Startup Onavo Expands Device Support
- FashionPlaytes Rebrands to FPGirl, Triples Users in 2012
- Showyou Adds Signups and Social Grids to Its Web Presence
- Location-based Ad Firm Adcentricity Acquired by Bee Media
- Meet Invy, An iPhone App For Simple Scheduling
- On Track for $100M in Sales, JustFab Adds Features and Launches in Germany
- HotelTonight's Same-Day Booking App Goes International
- DITTO Launches Online Eyewear Boutique With $3M in Funding
- Freshdesk Raises $5M To Expand Online Help Desk Tool
- Zapstreak Debuts its “AirPlay for Android” Solution in Private Beta
- LayerVault Goes 2.0 Amid DropBox, Google Announcements
- LivingSocial Acquires ONOSYS As It Expands Into Online Ordering
- Stylmee Launches 3D Social Shopping Game on the Web
- Hojoki Launches Mobile Apps to Cut Through Cloud Confusion
- Rally Partners With GitHub to Encourage Enterprise Open Source
- Shelby.tv Adds Features to Compete in Social Video Curation
- Translation Apps Grab the Spotlight as Tech Becomes the Universal Language
- YogiPlay Launches Personalized Network for Kid-Friendly Apps
- Crocodoc Unveils New Document Embedding Service for Enterprise
- DataSift Raises $7.2M to Help It Meet Social Media Analytics Demand
- Flingo Nets Another $1M, Targets “Holy Grail” of Synced TV Experiences
- Prezi Passes 10M User Mark, Debuts New PowerPoint Importer
- Hyperink Goes After All-Star Bloggers With New eBook Creation Service
- Zerply Gets $600K to Jazz Up Professional Networking
- American Idol Using Chromatik's Music Learning Apps
- The New Hive Launches Online Tool for Creative Expressions
- Understoodit Helps Confused Students in the Classroom
- Clarity Opens Its Phone-Based Expert Advice Network to All
- Storybricks Taps Kickstarter to Help Fund Its Game Storytelling Tool
- WePay Lands $10M Round to Help it Take On PayPal
- Fruux Adds Device Management, Prepares Its iCloud for Teams
- Teddle Puts Service Scheduling and Recommendations All in One Place
- Sweet Tooth Lands $2.25M to Expand Its Loyalty Platform
- Gumroad Raises $7M to Shake Up P2P Buying and Selling
- Evernote Acquires Digital Handwriting App Penultimate
- Expensify Launches Trips Feature for Travel Expense Tracking
- Mojo Motors Lands $3M As It Prepares for Nationwide Expansion
- WattzOn Opens Energy Efficiency Platform to Businesses
- Outbox Replaces Snail Mail With a Digital Mailbox
- Loyalty Startup Belly Inks $10M Series B to Fuel Rapid Expansion
- Flint Launches image-Based Mobile Payment App, Raises $3M Series A
- BrandYourself’s Personal SEO Tool Crosses 100,000 Users
- CoachUp Launches to Connect Athletes with Private Coaches
- Simple Releases iPhone App to Help People Simplify Banking
- CloudOn Comes to Android Tablets, With Microsoft Office in Tow
- Storypanda Launches Custom Storybook iPad App
- Buyvite Launches Group Payments Tool and Retailer API
- Frenzoo Raises $1M to Deliver Social Games for Women
- Drawbridge Raises $6.5M to Drive Cross-Platform Advertising
- Farmeron Raises $1.4 Seed Round to Help Grow its Farming SaaS Tool
- Financeit Passes $70M in On-Demand Loan Applications
- Moviepilot Raises $7M to Provide Big Data to Movie Studios
- Twitter Acquires RestEngine, Likely to Boost Email Marketing Efforts
- Mowingo's Mobile CRM Tool Set to Launch in Hundreds of McDonald's
- Moredays Debuts an iPad App to Cure Calendar Boredom
- Red Piston App Brings Augmented Reality to Lowe’s Flyers
- Mobile Backstage Raises $1.4M to Expand Fan Engagement Network
- BenchPrep Partners With Princeton Review for Gamified Learning App
- InsightSquared Raises $4.5M to Offer SMB Business Intelligence
- Floq Launches Its SurveyMonkey Competitor to the Public
- PeopleBrowsr Launches API for Influencer Targeting
- Lenddo Lands $8M to Bring Loans to Emerging Markets
- Thinkfuse's Status Report App Inspired by Google Internal Feature
- Elicit Secures $1.5M to Fund Its On-Site Search Effectiveness Tool
- Wave Accounting Raises $12M, Adding 1,000 SMBs Every Day
- Hachi Launches "Google Maps for Connections" Introductions Tool
- European Square Competitor iZettle Launches in the UK
- SceneTap’s Facial Detection Software Gives a Glimpse Into Venues
- Scalability Wants to Be Every Startup’s Back Office
- Social Video Apps Are Trending, But Will They Hit the Mainstream?
- Uppidy Storing 10M Text Messages, Looks to Enterprise Tracking
- Udemy’s Top 10 Instructors Earned $1.6M in the Last Year
- Pinterest’s New Funding About Expanding Global Footprint, Monetization
- Skyscrpr Looks to Simplify Advertising for Online Publishers
- The Future of Ambient Social Location Apps
- Pombai Launches Online Transportation Marketplace in China
- Sidecar Puts a Fresh Spin on Voice Calls
- Fundable Mixes Kickstarter-Style and Equity-Based Crowdfunding
- DotLoop Raises $7M to Streamline Real Estate Transactions
- Atari Founder’s Startup Oomba Brings Flagship Title to Kickstarter
- Leap Motion Founder on Why 3D Input Will Dominate the Future
- Socialcam Distances Itself From Facebook With Revamped Web Presence
- Signpost Partners With Two Major Local Newspaper Publishers
- Qwiki Launches Creator, a Publishing Platform for Interactive Content
- Moshi Monsters Partners With GREE To Expand Mobile Strategy
- OrderWithMe Partners With Rakuten to Expand Internationally
- Plate's Smart Menu Software Winning Over Restaurants, Diners
- Scoutmob Raises $3.25M, Partners with First Data for Local Deals
- Recorded Future Raises $12M to Help Predict What’s Next
- TripFab Launches to Eliminate the Travel Middleman
- SayHi Translate Hits 10M Translations, Grows Internationally
- Mobile Ad Firm adeven Lands Seven Figure Investment, Opening U.S. Offices
- UberConference: The Next Big Thing in Conference Calling
- Makies Combines Digital and Physical Worlds with 3D Printed Toys
- Huddlers Wants to Help Connect Amateur Athletes
- Meevl Rewards Employees for Sharing Company News Online
- Bitly Gets a Makeover Focused on Bookmarking and Privacy Controls
- Junar Launches With $1.2M in Funding to Make Open Data Easy
- NeedTagger Helps Identify Customer Needs Via Social Media
- EnRecruit Brings the Audition Tape to Business Recruiting
- Mindshapes Lands $4M to Fuel Interactive E-Learning Platform
- Grubwithus Raises $5M to Expand Communal Dining Platform
- Diffbot Raises $2M to Power Its Learning, Web Browsing Robot
- Motion Math Drives 800K Downloads of its iOS Learning Apps
- Datahero Raises $1M to Simplify and Tailor Big Data
- Vyclone’s Collaborative Video Platform Set for North American Launch
- DataSift Partners With Cloudera, Looks to Expand Historics Product
- Motif Investing Launches Tool for Buying Stocks Grouped by Idea
- innRoad Raises $5.8M to Usher in the Future of Online Hotel Management
- Revel Systems Targets Larger Retailers with Updated iPad POS Solution
- Napster Founders Launch Airtime, Aim for PG Version of Chatroulette
- Layar Shifts From Future to Present Tense With Creator Launch
- MapMyFITNESS Gets $9M to Grow Connected Fitness Apps
- Surf Air Raises Series A for “Netflix for Air Travel” Airline
- Ebook Community Wattpad Raises $17.3M, Claims Higher Engagement Than Pinterest
- Orca Health Adds Find a Specialist Platform to Suite of Patient Education Apps
- Unifed Raises $14M for One-Stop Social Ad Management
- Algoriddim Makes Any iPad a Real-Time Video Editing Suite With vjay
- drchrono Introduces Square Payments for Doctors
- YouMail’s Mobile Telecommunications Apps Pass 75M User Mark
- Thumb Overhauls Social Opinion App to Pick Up Where Oink Left Off
- Pinterest-style Online Marketplace HipSwap Launches Local Delivery Service
- Eventster Wants to Be Pandora for Events, Launches Local Discovery Apps
- CommunityLend Raises $3M for On-Demand Financing Platform
- Sounder’s Push-to-talk Instant Chat App Debuts Privacy Controls
- MokiMobility Partners With FavoriteEats to Lock Down Single-Purpose iPads
- Mancx Raises $1.65M, Moves Paid Quora Model Stateside
- Checkthis Raises $910K to Jumpstart Friction-Free Publishing
- Qwiki Partners With Bing, Nabbing Prime-Time Search Real Estate
- Placed’s Mobile Analytics Platform Gives Developers Location-Specific Insights
- Kytephone Officially Debuts its Kid-Friendly Android Lockdown Tool
- Cvent Acquires Seed Labs for $4.2M to Bolster Consumer and Mobile Event Apps
- iZettle Releases an API, Making it An Even Better Square Competitor
- Twitvid Rebrands to Telly As It Doubles Down on Video Discovery
- SportStream Launches iPad-based Social Hub for Live Sporting Events
- Pulse Launches Video Channels With 30 Publishing Partners
- Switchcam Raises $1.2M, Looks to Focus on New Verticals
- iZettle Raises $31.4M Round, Further Expansion in the Cards
- Moveline Wants to Solve an Old Problem With Modern Tech
- Harvest Grows Revenue 100% Year Over Year, On Track to Double Again
- Trippy Introduces iPad App, Embraces Mobile-First Strategy
- Eventbrite Hits $1B in Sales, Continues Expansion to Build a Lasting Brand
- Sailthru Acquires Seamless Receipts, Fortifies Ecommerce Offerings
- Sellfy Raises Seed Round, Plans to Help Merchants With Marketing
- Cvent Continues Mobile Acquisition Train, Snaps Up CrowdCompass for $10M
- ImpulseSave Opens Its Tool for Spontaneous Saving to the Public
- Crushpath Offers Sales Staff an Interactive Timeline for Success
- HotelTonight Debuts in the UK Ahead of London Olympics
- Pathbrite Raises $2.5M, Looks to Become Academic Credentials 2.0
- Stitcher Debuts Smart Stations for Better Talk Radio Content Discovery
- Yesware Raises $4M Series A to Put Sales Tools Where Salespeople Live
- CloudOn Raises $16M to Go Beyond Office for iPad Success
- Madefire Debuts Motion Storytelling for iPad, Watchmen’s Dave Gibbons on Board
- Vizibility Introduces Enterprise Management Platform for P2P Analytics
- HighScore House Launches FamJam App to Help Kids and Families Connect
- Signalnoi.se Looks to Help News Organizations Leverage Social Insights
- TicketLeap Relaunches With DIY Seating Charts and a Focus on Social
- Wattpad’s Newest Member: Celebrated Author Margaret Atwood
- FastPay Raises $25M to Bring Financing Options to Digital Media Companies
- Rally.org Raises $7.9M to Help Fund Causes and the Stories That Drive Them
- ToutApp 5.0 Adds Features to Email CRM Tools for Salespeople
- Wallaby Launches "One Card to Rule Them All" Linked Credit Card
- Mobile Video Sharing Underdog Klip Takes on Viddy, Socialcam with Android Launch
- Custora Ecommerce Analytics Debuts Update, Analyzes $10B in 2012 Revenue
- Snip.it Overhauls, Aims to Be a Pinterest for In-Depth Content
- Foap Launches in the U.S. and the UK to Turn Anyone’s Photos Into Cash
- Asana Adds to Web-based Productivity Tool With New Asana Inbox
- Rafter Acquires HubEdu, Hints at Future Edu-Tech M&A Activity
- DogVacay Raises More Money From Andreessen Horowitz to Continue Growth
- HealthTap Debuts Paid Private Medical Consultations Via Mobile Device
- Sunglass Releases an API for Its Cloud-Based 3D Modelling Tool
- Contently Launches Platform to Help Brands Power Online Publishing
- Udemy Reinvents Itself With a Focus on Q&A, Personalized Discovery
- MokiMobility Sees Android as the Future of Digital Signage and Kiosks
- Clever’s Simple But Ambitious Vision is Bringing Schools Together
- Lua Technologies Launches Communication App for Mobile Workforces
- Mixpanel Introduces People Analytics for Up-Close-And-Personal Data Delivery
- BenchPrep Adds $6M to Expand Elearning Platform to 500 Courses
- TrendSpottr Launches Widgets to Surface Trending Social Media Content
- MOVE Guides Grabs ÂŁ400,000 to Help People Relocate Internationally
- Schoology Hopes to Bring the App Store Model to Educational Software
- uSpeak Wants to Turn Theory Into Practice With Mobile Language Learning
- YBUY raises $1M for "Try Before You Buy" Subscription Service
- MapMyFITNESS Adding $3M in New Funding As It Hits 10M Users
- AppHero Makes App Recommendations Personal, Adds $1.8M in Funding
- Kinesis Helps Web Developers Leverage Kinect’s Gesture Tech
- UpCounsel's Legal Marketplace Finds the Best Lawyer for the Job
- Applits Turns App Development Into a Crowdsourced Lottery
- With 4M Members Globally, Freelancer.com Acquires Scriptlance
- BarkBox Raises $1.7M, Will Help Fund Hires and Product Development
- 500px Makes First Acquisition, Recommendation Software Startup Algo Anywhere
- Salesforce to Acquire GoInstant, Puts Big Resources Behind Co-Browsing Platform
- Merchpin Wants to Be the Glue Between Content Marketing and Ecommerce
- Why Ouya Won’t Be Yet Another Vaporware Gaming Console Upstart
- Unpakt Launches Platform to Help Homeowners Compare and Book Movers
- Seculert Raises $5.35M to Help Crowdsource Enterprise Malware Threat Detection
- 23andMe Acquires CureTogether to Boost Crowdsourced Genetic Health Research
- Fotopedia Partners With Expedia to Add Hotel Booking to Travel Photography Apps
- Static Pixels Launches An Instagram Print Service With a Twist
- Hulu and Netflix Challenger Zeewe TV Races to One Million Users
- Product Recommendation Engine Sortable Acquired By Rebellion Media
- Twitpic Founder Launches Helpmint to Simplify Customer Service
- FuzeBox Grabs $20M for Online Meetings Tool That Counted Steve Jobs As a User
- Fred Wilson-Backed Address Book Replacement Brewster Makes Its Public Debut
- LevelUp Drops Merchant Fees, Eyes Bigger Businesses and Partner Opportunities
- Shelby.tv Shuts Down, Promises to Return Bigger and Better
- Shareaholic Adds $3M for Content Sharing and Discovery Network
- Hubba Takes a Big Data Approach to Product Management for Brands, Retailers
- Instafocus Puts the Spotlight on Instagram Standouts
- Workplace Management Tool Teamly Grabs Funding from Yammer Founding Team Member
- DealAngel Goes International With Value-Based Hotel Search Engine
- Coursera Adds 12 New University Partners, Reaches 1.5M Enrolments
- Autodesk Acquires Socialcam for $60M to Add to Media Creation Tools
- Prezi Adds 2M Users in 2 Months, Introduces New Cinematic Effects
- With 110M Monthly Visitors, Dailymotion Debuts Update to Cloud Service
- With $6M in Funding, Twist’s App Launches to Tell People When You’ll Arrive
- Retention Science Launches With $1.3M to Help Companies Retain Customers
- Top Hat Monocle Closes $8M to Bring Gamification to University Classrooms
- AppDirect Raises $8.5M, Partners with Rackspace to Expand White Label App Stores
- Revel Goes After Food Trucks With New Custom POS Solution
- Visual.ly Revamps Platform, Set to Launch Infographic Marketplace
- Huddle Unveils New Version of Collaboration Platform, on Track for 800% Growth
- Mail Client Sparrow Acquired by Google, Joining Gmail Team
- Azumio Acquires SkyHealth to Build Out Portfolio of Health Apps
- Referly Debuts New API to Let Any Company Create a Social Referral Program
- boxPAY Launches Carrier Billing SDKs for smart TV, Android Apps
- Facebook for Tots and Tweens PixyKids Rebrands to Kazaana, Launches Beta
- Kiip Releases Consumer-Facing App for Mobile Rewards Network
- Apigee Raises $20M, Looks to Grow API Business Internationally
- SmartAsset Launches to Help People Understand Their Financial Decisions
- Xamarin Raises $12M to Fuel Native Cross-Platform App Development
- Bottlenose Launches Search and Discovery Engine to Unearth Trending Content
- Meteor Nabs $11.2M to Democratize Advanced Web Development
- Maily Launches iPad App to Help Kids Email, Even Before They Can Read and Write
- VERSUS IO’s Comparison Tool On Track for 900K Monthly Visits
- Stipple Launches New Version of Image Tagging and Tracking Platform
- SafePay Launches to Stop Online Credit Card Fraud Before it Happens
- Fashion Startup JustFab Adds $76M in Funding, On Track for $100M in Sales
- ProProfs Debuts Training Maker to Help Companies Build Online Courses
- Livefyre Revamps Comments Offering, Aims to Go Beyond With New Architecture
- Social Video Platform Showyou Updates iPhone App to Focus on Conversations
- Stagedom Launches Mobile Music Platform to Bring Fans Closer to Artists
- iPhone App Over Applies the Instagram Model to Text On Images
- DabKick’s iPhone App Lets Users Share Photos While Texting or Talking
- Skift Launches B2B Travel Site to Provide News and Insights to Industry Insiders
- With 70M Monthly Visitors, Humor Site 9GAG Raises $2.8M to Prove It’s No Joke
- Mashape Opens its Marketplace of Over 400 APIs to the Public
- Videolicious Raises $1.4M to Give Everyone The Power to Pitch
- Socialvest Launches iPhone App for Giving While You Shop On the Go
- Meet Apptrace, adeven’s App Store Performance Comparison Tool
- Affine Rebrands to SET, Uses Machine Learning to Help Place Ads in Online Video
- Attachments.me Passes 50,000 Users, Adds More Integration with Cloud Storage Services
- Chute Unveils Avatars.io, Hosted Avatars for Apps and Web
- Saga Launches Intelligent Companion for iPhone, a "Chatty Little Brother to Siri"
- Health Wave Raises Seed Funding to Deliver a Digital Dispensary
- iPad App Projectbook Uses Natural Language Processing to Build a Better Evernote
- TribeHR Raises $2.5M to Add Mobile Tools to Social HR Platform
- ShopLocket Raises $1M, Wants to Lead the Emerging Simple Selling Market
- Plink Raises $3M to Expand Card-Based Loyalty Platform to Different Verticals
- QuickPay Brings Funding Total to $3.5M to Eliminate Parking Pains
- Fruux Adds Shared Calendars, Wants to Be Dropbox of Cloud Service Syncing
- Lua Inks $2.5M to Ramp Up Mobile Workforce Communication
- LevelUp Raises A $9M Funding Add-On to Help Boost Its No-Fee Mobile Payments
- Quickable Charts Rapid Growth For Online Classifieds Automation Tool
- Basecamp Competitor Teambox Adds File-Sharing Integrations, Notes and Chat
- RapidBlue Adds Brick-and-Mortar Analytics for Shoppers Who Don’t Buy
- Acquisio Raises Funding, Acquires ScienceOps to Boost Ad Performance
- Clarity Handles 10K Calls, Adds New Discovery and Communication Features
- Path.To Expands to 13 U.S. Cities, Increases Applicants and Employers by 50 Percent
- Treovi Does Away With Commissions for New Hotel Booking Service
- Infratel Raises $3M to Bring a Telephone Presence to Web-Focused Businesses
- Real-time Web Pioneer Realtime Raises $100M for Major U.S. Push
- Showbie Launches iPad App, Bets On Tablets As Center of the Digital Classroom
- Influitive Raises $3.75M to Build the Definitive Influencer Marketing Platform
- With Starbucks Partnership, Square Aiming to Be Everything to Every Business
- Print Mosaic, the Latest Startup to Bet On Turning Digital Photos Into Physical Art
- Vidyoo Launches Facebook Video Chat to Compete With Airtime’s Approach
- Pulse Launches Web-Based Version to Focus on Desktop Readers
- Skyscrpr Launches to Help Bloggers Manage and Sell Their Own Ad Inventory
- Bodymetrics Launches Kinect-Powered Body-Sizing Pods At Bloomingdale's
- Smore Debuts App Flyers to Help Mobile Developers Promote Their Wares
- Remote Beta Testing Tool Delight.io Shows Users’ Reactions to iOS Apps
- Mobile Banking Startup Movenbank Raises $2.4M, Launches CREDscore Tool
- Vodio’s iPhone App Brings Speedy Video Browsing to Smaller Screens
- Boxfish’s iPad App Brings the Twitter Model to Broadcast Television
- uTest Acquires Mobile Testing Startup Apphance to Take on TestFlight
- Kno Adds Note Sharing, New Android App Preloaded on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
- biNu Raises $2M to Bring Smartphone Functionality to Feature Phones
- Hopper Raises $12M Led By OMERS Ventures to Make Sense of Travel Data
- With 1M Monthly Uniques, Beautylish Adds Ecommerce Boutiques to Beauty Community
- Wrapp Nearing 3M Gift Cards Given, Debuts New Partners for Back-to-School
- SaneBox Adds Dropbox Integration to Its Cure for Dysfunctional Email
- BenchPrep Partners With Educational Publishers Including Pearson, O’Reilly, Microsoft Press
- Diffbot Adds Page Classifier API to Help Developers Categorize the Web
- GetGlue Hits 3M Users, Debuts Updated Discovery-Focused iPad App
- Square Has Small Business Covered With New Flat Monthly Plan
- Mendeley Acquires SciLife, a Social Network for Scientists and Researchers
- Fleksy Debuts Update to Predictive Typing iOS App for the Visually Impaired
- RosterBot Launches Version 2.0 of Recreational Sports Management Platform
- Echoer Debuts Android App, Content Partner Program for Local Discovery
- Sqrrl Closes $2M in Funding, Moves to Cambridge to Grow Big Data Solution
- Pure Devices Goes to Kickstarter to Fund Its Cloud-Based Web for All Solution
- PropertyVista Launches Property Management Tool to Connect Landlords, Tenants
- MusicHype Launches Social CRM Platform The Appreciation Engine
- Revel Launches iPad POS For Grocers With Support for Self-Checkout System
- Wave Accounting Acquires Vuru To Help Address Personal Finance Management
- Kred Launches Kred Story to Help Visualize Influence for People and Brands
- Ness Raises $15M for Recommendation Engine to Build Partnership Opportunities
- DataSift Launches New Features to Help Non-Technical Staff Analyze Big Data
- GraphEffect Launches Basecamp-Style Collaboration Platform for Marketers
- Joomag Tops 10K Publisher Partners for Online Magazine Creation Platform
- CouchSurfing Raises $15M to Help Travelers Make Stronger Local Connections
- Now's iOS App Ties Instagram Photos to Venues to Uncover Local Events
- Stealth Startup PLAiR Raises $2.1M to Make Your Media Truly Portable
- DealsGoRound Rebrands to MyCabbage With $950K in New Funding
- Apigee Opens Up Enterprise-Level API Management to All for Free
- Bubble Motion’s Twitter for Voice Adds $5M in Funding to Pursue U.S. Growth
- Prismatic Launches iPhone App to Take Personalized News Platform Mobile
- Education Social Network Lore Adds Student Features to its “Virtual Campus”
- LearnSprout Trying to Solve The Data Gap For Schools With Set of APIs
- Unifyo’s Social CRM Platform Aims to Give a 360 Degree View of Customers
- Zoom.us Delivers Simple Cross-Platform Group Video Chat
- Well’s iPhone App Puts a Social Spin on To-Do Lists
- Sellies Combines eBay With One-Click Selling for New Online Marketplace
- Delivery Hero Raises $49M to Help It Overtake Just-Eat in Restaurant Partners
- Mover Wants to Replace Hard Drive Delivery for Big Data Cloud Migration
- Social Travel Startup Tripbirds Relaunches With Focus On Hotel Booking
- Chartboost Adds GREE, Other Gaming Partners to Mobile Ad Network Alternative
- Kids Clothing Subscription Service Wittlebee Acquires Cottonseed Apparel Brand
- Rackspace Acquires Mailgun to Help Add Email Services to Web Apps
- Twice's Online Consignment Store With a Twist on Track for $1M in Sales
- WePay Targets PayPal Where It Hurts With Easy Payment Buttons
- WhatRunsWhere Buys Mobile Ad Spy to Provide Mobile Ad Intelligence
- Placed Introduces Location Analytics for Mobile and Desktop Web
- Kuapay Takes Mobile Payments Solution to NYC to Battle Square, Google Wallet
- Obvious-Backed Lift Launches to Help People Set Goals and Form Habits
- Sifteo Debuts Updated Gaming Cubes, Unshackles Them From the Computer
- Wallaby Financial Adds $1.1M from Founders Fund for Smart Linked Credit Card
- HireVue Raises $22M to Take Web-Based Video Interview Tool Global
- Qoture Wants to Be the Standard for Digital Clothes Sizing
- Haiku Deck Simplifies Presentations for the iPad Set
- Cue Debuts Update to Smart Personal Assistant iPhone App
- Uber Looks to Expand on Core Offerings, Launches Taxi Service in Toronto
- NextStories Wants to Help Readers Discover Related Content Across the Web
- AlpineMetrics Turns Big Data Into an Intelligent Business Consultant
- Edmodo Updates Learning Platform as it Nears 10 Million Users
- Routehappy Adds $1.5M to Flight Search Engine to Help Travelers Fly Happy
- Zaarly Launches Storefronts to Help Sellers Promote Their Custom Goods
- ooomf Adds $500K to Showcase Apps Before They Hit the App Store
- Gojee Launches Apps for iOS and Android to Take Curated Recipes Mobile
- Jybe Updates Personalized Discovery App for Books, Movies, and Restaurants
- LevelUp Adds NFC Support in Advance of Reported iPhone 5 Launch
- Instinct Launching Browser-Based Guitar Teaching Tool for Beginners
- Spreecast Raises $7M Series A to Take Social Video Platform Mobile
- DoubleDutch Launches Hive, a Mobile CRM App That Gives Context to Contacts
- ClassDojo Debuts iOS App to Track Classroom Behavior in Real-Time
- GoodData Launches New Bashes Product to Help Businesses Monetize Their Data
- Application Craft Launches with $1M to Help Anyone Build Cross-Platform Apps
- Shoparoo Partners With Unilever to Turn Receipts Into Funding for Schools
- Work4 Labs Adds $11M Series A for Facebook Recruiting Platform
- Zendesk Raises $60M in New Funding, Debuts Updated Customer Service Platform
- Zaptap Betting on NFC For In-Store Retail Experiences, Despite Apple's Snub
- CoverHound Adds Funding From Source Interlink, Partners with Automotive Brands
- Social CRM Tool Network Hippo Shuts Down, Founders Launch Accel.io
- Dispatch Launches in Public Beta to Help People Discuss Files in the Cloud
- Sanebox Adds Salesforce Integration to Make Sales Emails Top Priority
- PayDragon Debuts Mobile Checkout to Let Users Scan and Buy Household Products
- BenchPrep Moves to Subscription Model to be the Netflix of Online Courses
- Badgeville Debuts Salesforce Integration to Add Gamification to CRM
- Gnip's New Product Makes Every Post in Twitter's History Publicly Available
- RSS Advertiser Mediafed Acquires Taptu to Further Monetize Mobile News Reader
- Everyme Founders Launching Origami to Help Families Stay in Touch
- News Reader News360 Launches Publisher Program With Plans to Monetize
- Custora Updates Ecommerce Analytics Tool to Drill Down on Customer Retention
- MoonClerk Takes on PayPal and Recurly With Recurring Payments Platform
- HealthTap Adds Online Library to Help Patients Make Sense of Medical Research
- Trapit Partners With Asian Media Company Astro, Adds $1.9M for Platform Offering
- CanWeNetwork App Applies Ambient Discovery to the LinkedIn Audience
- LevelUp Launches White Label Product to Give Merchants Branded Payments Apps
- Streamweaver Launches Multi-Angle Video App to Help Film Different Perspectives
- Zao Launches Free Employer Career Sites to Bolster Referral Platform
- Geckoboard Opens Integrations to Help Companies See Data in One Dashboard
- Seconds Opens Up SMS-Based Payments System to Let Anyone Text to Buy
- Second Screen App Peel Debuts In-App Voting for U.S. Presidential Debates
- Jumpjet Launches Monthly Membership Service to Let Anyone Fly Private
- Xen Launches Interest Platform to Help People Use Interests as Currency
- Netflix for Movie Theaters MoviePass Relaunches With iPhone App, Payment Card
- Copious Adds Men's and Art Categories to Personalized Ecommerce Marketplace
- thredUP Raises $14.5M in Series C Funding to Expand Beyond Kids Clothing
- LevelUp Adds 3 New Point-of-Sale Partners to Bolster Mobile Payments Reach
- A Week After Facebook Gifts Announcement, Treater Launches Social Gifting Apps
- Shopify Partners with Canada Post to Turn Brick-and-Mortar Into Brick-and-Click
- Plexus Engine is Reborn as Little Bird With $1M to Identify and Map Influencers
- With Hundreds of Customers, 15Five Provides a New Spin on Progress Reports
- Voxeet Wants to Become the Default Choice for Business Conference Calls
- Student Loan Hero Launches to Help Grads Tackle $1 Trillion in Unpaid Student Debt
- Venngage Launches to Help Marketers Create Data-Driven Visual Reports
- Crowdsend Launches to Use Crowdsourcing to Identify Products in Images
- On Track for $6M in 2012 Revenue, Online Men's Retailer Frank & Oak Raises $5M
- TitanFile Adds $1.1M, Pivots From One-Way File-Sharing to Take on Dropbox
- SWIX Rebrands to Source Metrics to Help Companies Measure Social ROI
- ReadyForZero Launches Payments Tool to Close the Loop on Eliminating Debt
- Circa Launches to Take a Mobile-First Approach to Creating and Consuming News
- Placed Launches Opt-In Customer Panels to Help Marketers Track Offline Behavior
- Visually Launches Marketplace to Let Brands Commission Infographics
- Shopkick Redesigns Rewards App to Bridge At-Home Browsing With In-Store Buys
- WonderVoice Launches Voice-Powered Facebook App for Text-Free Updates
- Ontract Launching to Help Close the Data Gap Between Educators, Students and Parents
- Lightt Puts a New Spin on Photo-Sharing With Highlight Reels App
- Thought-Controlled Computing Startup InteraXon Launches Muse, a Brainwave-Sensing Headband
- Platfora Targets Average Business Users With Big Data Visualization Platform
- ShelfLife Launches to Help People Manage, Add to and Sell Their Collectibles
- Tradesy Launches With $1.5M and a New Spin on Women's Resale Marketplaces
- Square Takes First International Step With Mobile Payments Launch in Canada
- Tackling Information Overload, KiteDesk Launches Cloud Aggregation Tool
- Spently Launches to Help Merchants Turn Email Receipts Into Marketing Campaigns
- Pheed At Almost 1M Visits Since Launch, But Don't Call it The Paid Twitter
- Beamr Launches to Apply Photo Compression Technology to iPhone Photo-Sharing
- Science-Backed EverySignal Launches to Highlight Social Network Milestones
- 15M Users Strong, Prezi Debuts Redesign to Tackle Presentation Learning Curve
- BabyList Joins 500 Startups to Build Out Online Registry for Expectant Moms
- TechStars Seattle's MobileDevHQ Wants to Rethink SEO for Mobile Apps
- Linksy Launching to Help Companies Find and Engage With Their Influential Fans
- Leanplum Brings A/B Testing to Mobile Games with Analytics Platform
- Desti Launches Out of SRI to Apply Siri-like Technology to Travel Planning
- DoubleDutch Adds $4M to Build Out Mobile-First Enterprise CRM Apps
- Gyft Launches Regifting Tool to Help People Unload Unwanted Gift Cards
- Restaurant Recommendations App Nara Goes Mobile, Expands to 25 Cities
- Former Googlers Launch Drawbridge to Take Retargeted Ads Cross-Platform
- Wallaby Debuts iPhone App to Help Shoppers Maximize Credit Card Rewards
- Kout Rebrands to Ribbon, Officially Launches One-Click Selling Platform
- Chango Adds $12M, Launches Site Retargeting to Build Out Advertising Platform
- Tred Looking to Shake Up New Car Shopping Experience With Test Drive Platform
- Mobile Wallet Startup Kuapay Launches in 14 KFC Locations in California
- Skyscraper Adds $500K to Help Online Publishers Set, Sell and Manage Ads
- Kira Talent Adds Seed Funding for Cloud-Based Video Interview Platform
- Social Data Provider Gnip Debuts Partner Program to Get Companies "Plugged In To Gnip"
- LevelUp Partners With First Trade Union Bank for Branded Mobile Payments App
- Checkout 51 Launches Mobile Coupon App to Go Direct From Brands to Consumers
- Image Recognition Platform TinEye Launches MulticolorEngine Color-Matching API
- SpotHero Gets $2.5M to Expand Mobile & Online Parking Platform Across the U.S.
- Influitive Raises $7.3M Series A to Help B2B Companies Engage With Advocates
- Nara Adds $3M in New Funding to Expand Beyond Restaurant Recommendations
- With 3M Parking Spots Across the U.S., ParkWhiz Adds $2M in Series A Funding
- Two Months After Windows 8 Release, MarkedUp Launches to Provide Developer Analytics
- Tuition.io Launches to the Public to Help Students Manage and Pay Off Their Loans
- BlueKite Adds $1.5M in Funding to Scale Cross-Border Bill Payment Platform
- Photo Community Pixoto Launches New Crowd-Ranked Stock Photo Service
- Streamweaver Adds $1.3M to Spearhead the Social Video Creation Trend
- 15Five Adds $1M from Yammer, Xobni Founders for Weekly Status Update Tool
- Ayasdi Comes Out of Stealth With $10.25M to Answer Unknown Data Questions
- TrendSpottr Launches Alerts Service to Be the "Bat Signal" for Trending Content
- With 6M Users Added Last Month, Social Video Site Keek Raises Another $18M
- JustFab Acquires Christina Applegate's Startup FabKids to Expand to Kid's Clothing
- PayNearMe Launches PayNearMe Express, Adds $10M to Prove Cash is King
- Serendip Launches iOS App to Bring Music Discovery Engine to the iPhone
- Huddlewoo Launches Video Chat Platform to Let Experts Charge for Their Time
- With 4,500 Daily Meetings, Zoom.us Adds $6M & Debuts New Videoconferencing Plans
- Compliance Tool Convercent Adds $10.2M to Help Companies Track Issues in the Cloud
- Food Photos Are Big Business: OpenTable Snaps Up Foodspotting for $10M
- Mediafed Launches Qrius to Reinvent RSS for the Social Newsreader Generation
- Insurance Comparison Tool CoverHound Raises $4.5M, Looks to Add New Partners
- Sailthru Adds $19M to Help Ecommerce Companies, Publishers Personalize Messaging
- To Encourage Mobile Payments, Select LevelUp Merchants Ban Credit Cards in Stores
- Taking on Lift, Everest's Goal-Setting & Tracking App Passes 100K Goals
- Method Adds $3M to Expand QuickBooks CRM App to Other Accounting Platforms
- BetaKit is One Year Old â Help Us Shape the Next Year of Content
- Sports Team Management Tool Bluefields Adds $1M, Looks to Leagues & Clubs
- With a New iPhone App & $1.4M in Funding, Celly Wants to Be the Ning for Mobile
- Bina Launches to Take a Big Data Approach to Genome Sequencing & Analysis
- Attachments.me Adds Social Sharing, Analytics to Track Who Downloads Your Files
- Polar Adds $1.2M for Social Voting App, Sees Almost 6M Votes in 3 Months
- Splitsecnd Launches Plug-In OnStar Alternative to Give Any Driver Crash Assistance
- Loverly Debuts Redesign, Partners With 1,300 Brands for Wedding Shopping Engine
- PayPal Competitor WePay Launches iOS App to Take Invoicing & Payments Mobile
- Sonar Nabs Funding From Bing Fund: Can It Overcome Ambient Discovery Hurdles?
- Uber Competitor Winston Pivots to Build White Labeled Apps for Taxi Companies
- Pickie Partners With One Kings Lane, Brings Brand Catalogues to iPad Shopping App
- ScreenHero Launches Windows Version of Collaborative Screensharing App
- With 200 Customers on Board, Bloomfire Adds $8M for Knowledge Sharing Platform
- 300K Downloads Strong, Haiku Deck Debuts New Version of iPad Presentation App
- Visual Revenue's Predictive News Platform Acquired by Recommendation Tool Outbrain
- Carvana Launches to Bring the Used Car Buying Process Online, From Search to Pink Slip
- Givit Updates Social Video App, Partners With PledgeMusic to Focus on Bands
- Mention Adds $800K, Now 50K Members Strong for Google Alerts Alternative
- GetGoing Launches "Pick Two, Get One" Flight Platform for Flexible Travelers
- Recommendation Engine Noodle Acquires Lore to Make Education More Social
- Top 10 Ways to Improve Lists on Blogs: Listly Revamps Social Lists Platform
- Digital Textbook Platform Kno Partners With Publisher HMH to Power K-12 Content
- Placed Launches Placed Affiliate to Let Developers Monetize by Sharing App Location Data
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- Exec Expands to NYC, Chicago, LA, & Boston to Be the Amazon of Local Services
- Flash-Enabled EdTech Browser Rover Hits 1M Mark, Adds Paid Subscription Plans
- Kincast Looks to Tackle Social Video Space With a Focus on Families
- Larky Launches to Help Association or Club Members Redeem Their Perks
- Linksert’s Platform Looks to Get Anyone in the Affiliate Marketing Game
- Looker Adds $2M, Launches Out of Stealth to Provide Big Data Analytics for Enterprise
- Foap Launches Missions Feature to Let Brands Pay Users to Snap Marketing Photos
- Soldsie Raises $1M to Let Merchants Sell Through Facebook Comments
- Kutoto is Canada’s Answer to TaskRabbit, Zaarly, Exec, & Other P2P Marketplaces
- ContactMonkey Pivots to Provide Smart Email Tracking for Sales Teams
- Life360 Adds Strategic Investment From BMW iVentures To Use Family Location Tech For Connected Cars
- Handybook Launches iPhone App, Lets Customers Book Vetted Servive Providers On The Go
- Automatic Launches Device, iPhone App to Make Cars Connected for Smarter Driving
- Crushpath Adds $6M & Launches Pitch Sites to Help Salespeople Close More Deals
- 500friends Adds $5M, Looks to Bring Retailers Up to Speed With Social Loyalty Program
- Pressly Raises $1.5M to Help Publishers & Marketers Build HTML5 Mobile Sites
- Secret Shopping Platform Quri Launches QCards for Ongoing In-Store Intelligence
- Media Spot Me Launches to Connect Experts With Journalists Looking for Sources
- FindTheBest Raises $11M, Looks to Scale Data-Driven Comparison Site Internationally
- Taskbox Adds $600K & Launches V2.0 of Mobile Email Management App
- Thinkful Raises $1M From Peter Thiel, Others to Help Professionals Learn to Code
- Viralheat Adds Developer Platform to Add Social Data & Sentiment Analysis to Apps
- Armor5 Raises $2M Seed Round to Provide Cloud BYOD Security Management
- UpTo Adds $1.5M to Build Out Upcoming Events Platform for Local Businesses
- Motif Investing Launches DIY Product to Let Anyone Build Their Own Portfolios
- GoEuro Adds $4M, Looks To Be Go To Trip Planning Aggregator for Europe
- Pathbrite Adds $4M, Focuses its E-Portfolio Platform on Educators & Students
- Scringo Launches SDK to Help Mobile Developers Build More Feature-Rich Apps
- Jumio Brings ID Scanning Technology to Mobile to Cut Down on Fraud
- News360 Updates Android App, Looks to Take Tech Beyond News to Other Verticals
- Commercial Real Estate Marketplace SpaceList Launches to Be Canada’s 42Floors
- Urlbox Launches Screenshots-as-a-Service Platform to Dynamically Update Galleries
- Grocery Shopping Assistant Rosie Launching to Track & Re-Stock Your Fridge
- Switchcam Adds iPhone App, Director Feature to Crowdsource Video at Large Events
- Curata Adds Buffer Integrations, Gives B2B Content Marketers Additional Publishing Options
- Guardly Launches Indoor Positioning Tech to Cut Emergency Response Times
- âScientific 7-Minute Workoutâ for iOS launched by Toronto’s Endloop Studio
- Microsoft Canada opens $20 million innovation centre in Mississauga
- OSC approves impact investing portal application MaRs VX
- Montreal-based Bunch raises $1 million, aims to be the âmainstream platform for discussionâ
- “Microsoft Ventures” bundles existing initiatives together
- BrightNest Launches iPhone App To Take Curated DIY Handy & Decor Content Mobile
- Trunqshow’s iPad App Notifies Shoppers When Items They Want Go on Sale
- Uberflip announces 1,000 paying customers, 1 Billion Page Flips
- Pinfluencer Rebrands As Piqora, Launches Gallery To Help Brands Build Visual Landing Pages
- Moshpic’s iOS App Helps Users Share iPhone Photos With Close Friends
- PlanGrid Adds iPhone App, Box Integration to Blueprint Tool for Contractors
- 20×200’s “Art for Everyone” Marketplace Passes 180,000 Prints Sold
- Snappli Raises $1M for Data Compression App to Make Mobile Browsing a Snap
- VIDA’s iPad App Helps Real Estate Developers Showcase New Projects
- Spent Launching Personalized Deals Platform for Grocery Stores
- ShopKeep Debuts iPhone App to Track Sales Data From iPad POS System
- With 170K Users, Piktochart Updates Platform to Be Go-To DIY Infographic Tool
- BeauCoo Comes To The Web, Helps Women Size Each Other Up in a Good Way
- Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang, Others Put $1.7M Into Tomfoolery’s Enterprise Apps
- Busbud Launches iPhone App, Helps Travelers Find & Book Bus Trips On The Go
- Sift Adds $540K, Turns Marketing Emails Into a Visual iPad Shopping Catalog
- The Little Book Club Launches to Apply Subscription Model to Children’s Books
- Verold Provides Real-Time Collaboration for CG Artists & 3D Animations
- Dijit Acquires Second Screen App Miso, Looks to Provide ‘Hyper-Personalized’ Discovery
- How Second Screen Apps Are Looking to Make the Super Bowl More Interactive
- Rover Adds $7M Series B to Mark Its ‘Airbnb For Dogs’ Territory
- Chute Launches Mobile Reporting Platform to Help Journalists Upload Visual Content
- Reduce Data Launches, Adds $500K to Help Advertisers Better Manage Ad Spends
- DropShip Commerce Adds $4.3M, Looks to Be Turnkey Inventory Management Solution
- Tapiture Raises $825K Seed Round, Looks To Crack ‘Pinterest for Dudes’ Code
- TeamSnap Adds $2.75M, Looks to Be Go-To Platform for Sport Teams & Leagues
- ‘Kindle Meets GoodReads’ E-reading Startup Readmill Launches iPhone App
- Science-Incubated Let’s Date Launches Mobile-First Dating Platform
- Telly Launches My Telly to Drill Down on Social Video Discovery, Moves Further Away from Twitvid Past
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- MediaGraph Expands DIY Public Relations Platform to the Travel Industry
- Addvocate Launches to Help Brands Mobilize Employees on Social Networks
- Gogobot Launches Android App, Looks to Social Graph to Provide Travel Advice
- Radius Adds $12.4M from American Express to Scale SMB Sales Intelligence Platform
- Social Advocacy Platform Extole Adds $7.6M to Help Brands Drive Referrals
- Carvoyant Starts Shipping to Turn Older Vehicles Into Connected Cars
- FarmLogs Adds $1M to Bring Farmers Up to Speed With Cloud-Based Software
- Pluto Media Adds $500K to Help Kids Learn Music Through Tablet Games
- Square Competitor Payleven Adds Funding, Looks to Cater to Chip-and-Pin Regulations
- Chartboost Adds $19M To Take Ad Networks Out Of The Equation For Mobile Game Developers
- Storefront’s Marketplace Makes Pop Up Shops a Reality for Online Retailers
- Jobs Marketplace Vestiigo Acquired By Talentlab to Expand Recruiting Footprint
- VenueMob Adds $450K From Singtel to Scale Venue Marketplace Across Asia
- Textbook Price Comparison Tool Slugbooks Expands Beyond U.S., Launches in Canada
- CHNL Adds Daily Deals, Looks to Be the One Content Aggregator to Rule Them All
- Chartburst Launches Crowdsourced Platform to Put Musicians in Front of Record Labels
- Rentify Adds ÂŁ2M, Looks to Be UK’s Go-To Property Letting & Management Tool
- Answer Underground Adds Verified Answers, Looks to Be Quora for Study Groups
- VenueSeen Opens Up API, Allows Brands to Build Custom Instagram Campaigns
- 360 Incentives Adds $7.65M To Scale Channel Marketing & Incentives Platform
- Kiip Partners With Interpublic to Get Brands On Board With Mobile Rewards
- StileEye Launches Visual Fashion Engine to Let Consumers Window Shop the Web
- Tapstream Launches URL Shortener to Tie Marketing Efforts to App Installs
- AppGratis Adds $13.5M for Free Daily App Tool, Which Led to 100M 2012 Installs
- MediaPass Lets Publishers Add Paywalls to Look Past Advertising
- Echolocation Adds $200K to Build Out a Hyper-Local Version of Twitter
- Top Hat Monocle Adds $1.1M to Series A, Looks to Lead Student Engagement Platform Pack
- Health Catalyst Adds $33M To Scale Big Data Solution For Hospitals
- Social Network for Communities Nextdoor Grows to Over 6,500 Neighborhoods
- Checkthis Relaunches With “Social Posters” & Profile Features To Take On Tumblr
- Applifier Adds $4M To Help Mobile Gamers Share Achievements, Discover New Games
- Showyou Updates Video Discovery App to Lure TV Viewers to the Tablet
- With $620K in Funding, Vouchr Launches to Help Friends Gift Local Experiences
- With 5M Monthly Visitors, Scoop.it Debuts Redesign to Help Professionals Curate News
- Former Shopkick Employees Launch Shopular, a Passbook-Style Ambient Coupon App
- Vidwala Launches iPad App to Be the iTunes for Independent Video Content
- With iPads Topping Wishlists, All Kids Want For Christmas Are Interactive Toys
- UberConference Takes Visual Conference Calling Platform Mobile With New Apps
- Swipely Adds CRM Solution to Help Merchants Tie Loyalty to Credit Card Purchases
- TradeGecko Adds $650K in Seed Round to Disrupt Inventory Management Industry
- CloudOn Adds iPhone, iPad Mini, Nexus 7 Support for Mobile Microsoft Office Solution
- Shopigram Pivots From Resale Marketplace to Help Local Merchants Sell Their Wares
- Airport Chatter Snags 10,000 Users To Aid Air Travellers Discover While Waiting
- PumpUp Launches Personal Fitness App To Tackle Workout Bordom
- SellSimple Launches App To Enable Selling Everywhere In One Go
- StudyBlue Adds $9M To Be “Digital Backpack” For Students
- Readz Launches To Provide Publishers DIY Solution To Optimize Content For Tablets
- Clipboard Adds Strategic Investment From Scientia To Target Education Sector
- TELiBrahma Launches AR App Point In U.S. to Help Brands Augment Print Content
- Singly Opens App Integration API to Help Developers Build Better Connected Apps
- ZenPayroll Launches With $6.1M in Funding to Take On PayChex, ADP
- With $2.5M in Funding, Koozoo Launching to Be Google Street View for Video
- Instant Messaging App Kik Launches Kik Cards to Add Multimedia for 30M Users
- GoSpotCheck Launches to Usher in Smartphone-Powered Mystery Shoppers
- Dwolla Adds Guest Checkout Option to Let Anyone Make Bank-Linked Payments
- ScaleIO Launches Virtual Storage Solution to Disrupt How Companies Scale Data Centers
- TrueLens Adds $1.2M to Add Social Layer On Top of Existing CRM Data
- Kickvox Launches Bing-Powered Apps to Take a Visual Approach to Mobile Search
- Clarity Adds $1.6M from 500 Startups, Mark Cuban to Be ‘Lifeline for Entrepreneurs’
- Revolve Robotics Launches Kubi, a Robot That Follows Video Callers As They Chat
- iPad POS Company ShopKeep Adds $10M to Be All-In-One Solution for SMBs
- Indiegogo Expands International Footprint, Brings Localized Versions to Europe and Canada
- Udemy Adds $12M Series B, Looks To Build Largest Library Of Online Courses
- 120K Users Strong, Shiftgig Wants to Be the LinkedIn for the Service Industry
- With 50K Monthly Users, WhenIWork Wants to Be Go-To Shift Scheduling Platform
- Team Banking Startup Holvi Adds Funding in Advance of 2013 European Launch
- 500 Startups-Backed Repairy Looking to Tackle CRM for Auto Repair Shops
- Slush Conference Startup Winner FishBrain Looks to Scale Niche Social Network
- Spark’s “Smart Lights” Product Lets People Control Lights With a Smartphone
- YPlan Adds $1.7M, Launches in the UK to Be the “HotelTonight for Events”
- Science-Incubated Fresh Dish Adds $500K, Launches Meal Delivery Service
- Stray Boots Adds $2M, Looks to Gamify Local Tours With Mobile Scavenger Hunts
- “AirPlay for Android” Startup Zapstreak Launches Out of Beta to Beam Media Content
- SumAll adds $6M, Brings Funding Total to $7.5M for SMB Analytics Platform
- biNu Raises $4.3M, Adds biNu Credits to Monetize Cloud Platform for Feature Phones
- Call Management Tool RingRevenue Adds $3.25M to Optimize Call Centers
- ShiftHub Set to Launch Version 2.0 to Tackle Shift Scheduling for SMBs
- QuickMobile Launches SnapApp to Help Enterprises Create Custom Multi-Event Apps
- Kickfolio Launching to Give iOS Developers a Browser-Based TestFlight Alternative
- With 3M Users, Banjo Launches Version 3.0 to Take Ambient Social Discovery Global
- Backed By Bruno Mars, Chromatik Launches to Disrupt How People Practice Music
- Wave Accounting Launches Wave Payroll in U.S. to Tackle SMB Payroll Headaches
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- Walletkit Launching to Create Mobile Passes for Apple Passbook, Digital Wallets
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- Handybook Adds $2M to Connect Homeowners With Vetted Service Providers
- QuickMobile Raises $3.3M to Take Custom Mobile Event Apps International
- Influenster Relaunches to Help Brands Drum Up Buzz Around New Products
- Yacket Launches Twitter Polling Tool to Dive Deeper on Demographic Data
- Social Engine Launches DIY Social Network Platform to Be the Next Ning
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- PandaBot Launches on Kickstarter to Make 3D Printing Accessible to Anyone
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- GrexIt Launches to Bring Collaboration Tools to Business Users’ Inboxes
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- Libboo Announces Partnership with HMH to Connect Authors With Influential Readers
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- Size It Up: BeauCoo Raises $1.1M to Create a Fashion Social Network Based on Size
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- Promofly Launches to Help Shoppers Find Active Ecommerce Discount Codes
- LetsLunch Launches in Europe, Adds ‘Sponsored Lunchers’ Feature
- DataStax Adds $25M in Series C Funding to Scale Big Data Platform
- FlightCar Launching Peer-to-Peer Car Rental Service Targeted at Travelers
- Gyft Launches iPhone App, Raises $1.2M to Help People Manage Gift Cards
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- YourMechanic Raises $1.8M, Launches “We Come to You” Car Repair Marketplace
- Picatic Brings Kickstarter-Style Crowdfunding to Events With EventTilt
- Stockr Raises $1.5M, Launching its Social Network for Stock Traders Tomorrow
- Stride Launches to Help Anybody, Not Just Salespeople, Track Deals
- Conferize Wants to Be Go-to Resource for Conference Organizers and Attendees
- Summer Launches With 60 Publishers to Give Readers Context
- With 2M New Users in the Last Month, Keek Adds $7M to Expand Video Platform
- Daily Grommet Adds Series B Funding From Rakuten to Amp Up Partnerships
- Contur Launches “Virtual Assistant for Email” to Help Reach Inbox Zero
- Trover Launches Web Companion to Mobile Travel Discovery Apps
- Influitive Launches AdvocateHub Platform to Connect Companies and Their Fans
- VenueSeen Launches Tool For Marketers to Run DIY Instagram Campaigns
- MediaGraph Launches DIY Public Relations Platform for Startups
- OpenBrand Launches Delivery Service to Connect Designers and Brands
- Crowdbase Adds $650K in Funding for Internal Knowledge Management Platform
- SumAll Launches SumAll Traffic to Put a Dollar Value on Website Visitors
- Stereomood Relaunches Music Platform to Find Playlists for Any Mood
- Tagwhat Updates Mobile App to Help Tie Online Content to Physical Locations
- How Technology is Driving the New Age of the Quantified Self
- Qwiki’s App Looks to Deliver on Company’s Initial Mission: Help People Share Stories
- fruux Adds Team Collaboration Features, Wants to Be the ‘iCloud for Teams’
- Top Hat Monocle Partners With Pearson to Up Distribution for Classroom Response App
- Glyph Debuts Updated App, New Web App to Give Consumers ‘Peace of Wallet’
- Livrada Adds $1M, Launches Platform for Authors to Sell Ebook Gift Cards
- Exec Launches iPhone App for Cleaning Service, Expands Errands Platform to Seattle
- Bislr Adds $3.5M Series A to Help SMBs Build & Track Social Campaigns
- Kno Launches Advance to Help Publishers Convert Print Textbooks to Ebooks
- Spent Launches Relify, a Recommendations-as-a-Service API for Developers
- ‘Kayak for Bus Travel’ Startup Wanderu Set to Launch Ground Transportation Platform
- KiteDesk Exits Beta, Adds iPhone App & Looks to Optimize Enterprise Workflow
- Curalate Adds Instagram Integration to Expand Image Analytics Tool Beyond Pinterest
- Mokriya, the Studio Behind the Hipster & Sidecar Apps, Launches Craigslist Apps
- Fit Brains Adds 1.5M App Downloads in 2 Months, Looks to Beat Lumosity in Mobile
- With 5M Monthly Users, biNu Adds Cloud Storage Service for Feature Phones
- Agility Unveils Shared Module Zones and New Reports in June Release
- Canada Gold Corporation changes name to STEM 7 Capital, appoints Sunil Sharma
- 500px Launches iPhone App to Bring its Photo Community to Everyone’s Pocket
- Trover Adds Desktop Uploader to Move Away from Being Mobile-First Travel Site
- IntroHive Adds $1.8M to Incentivize Employee Introductions to Sales Leads
- UserVoice Partners With Crittercism to Power Mobile Customer Support
- ‘Digital coupon marketplace’ RetailMeNot enters Canada
- Vancouver’s BroadbandTV sells 51% of its business to RTL Group for $36 million
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- HotelTonight Launches Cities in Europe & Mexico, Adds Local Language Support
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- Intel Developer Zone opens up in Waterloo at the Communitech Hub
- Kickstarter to start accepting Canada-based projects “later this summer”
- NBIF receives $20 million investment to expand the “innovation capacity of the province”
- 15-year old Vancouver resident builds a flashlight that “runs solely on the heat of the human hand,” becomes a finalist in Google’s Science Fair
- Here’s the Startupfest $70k Investment Prize
- WhatsNexx receives an additional 2.33 million investment
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- “MasterCard N>XT” developer challenge announced, encourages devs to “build the mobile payment technology of tomorrow”
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- Equinox Summit: Learning 2030 hopes to “draft a blueprint for the School of the 21st Century”
- Kutoto helps Canadian accomplish tasks locally with just an iPhone
- Honourable Moridi says Communitech is ‘a unique placeâ
- 58-storey “TELUS Sky” tower to rise by Fall of 2017
- Deetectee patents digital identification technology for mobile devices
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- Rogers enlists SamKnows to prove its broadband speeds are Canada’s fastest
- Coke vending machine to accept Interac Flash payment option
- Morgan Solar takes on the sun, CEO says they’ve ‘cracked the code’
- “Startup Community” doc about Kitchener-Waterloo hits Indigogo
- Samsung’s vision of the future includes dual-screen devices and wearable tech
- Molson Coors aims to make beer cans more intuitive with Vented End technology
- Vancouver-based OneGigabit promises to bring you 60x faster internet speeds
- Calgary Startup Takes Taxi Hailing Apps to the Next Level with Physical Fleet
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- Indiegogo says you should “know your why” when starting a business
- Toronto Team Nabs $250,000 Prize with Human-powered Helicopter
- L33dr.ly scores the $80,000 Startupfest 2013 grand prize
- Toronto-based Keek reportedly raising funds on $600-$900 million valuation
- BDC Venture Capital invests $1.5 million into 10 Canadian start-ups
- Homejoy chooses downtown Toronto as its first international market for professional house cleaning
- eBay Announces Ninth Annual ‘Entrepreneur of the Year Awards’ for Canadians
- VeloCity Venture Fund Finals and Demo Day are happening on July 25th
- 1000Startups initiative aims to highlight 1000 Canadian startups
- University of Toronto Team Creates 3D Printer Capable of Printing Skin
- Small Alberta town gets Canada’s first 1Gbps fibre network…by building it themselves
- Marc Garneau on building your business: Trust your crew
- AcuityAds receives $3 million from BEST Funds, will be used to accelerate sales
- Apple acquires Toronto-based Locationary, will bring big data to their mapping service
- 14% of Canadian Firms Focus Innovation Strategies On Territorial Expansion
- Flixel relaunches living photos app, brings professional quality cinemagraphs to iPhone users
- Canadian Apps Among the First to Launch in Leap Motion App Store
- A hot new Toronto-based startup aims to make ordering fast food faster
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- Belkin launches WeMo Light Switch to bolster its home automation platform
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- MYO Goes Ambidextrous, Allows Apps to Use 2 Armbands
- Thalmic Labs graduates from the VeloCity Garage, sets up larger shop in Kitchener
- Waterloo-based Printchomp expands reach into the United States, now has 1,000 printers in its network
- Toronto-based Huddlers aims to facilitate the perfect pick-up game
- Lifelogging startup Memoto prepares for its post-Kickstarter life: an interview with CEO Martin KÀllström
- Qriffic puts an end to wait times, brings joy to customers via text alerts
- BetaKit is the official online sponsor of the MasterCard N>XT Developer Challenge!
- A Social Marketing Dream: Vidyard app for HootSuite now available
- Rebellion Media expands its digital footprint and acquires Toronto-based HomeSav
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- 20-Year old CEO of KW Startup on a Mission to Make Dumb Screens Smart with NFC & Motion Tech
- Rdio co-hosting Toronto’s first Music Hack Day to spur innovation in a tired industry
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- Longo’s and Unata turn to apps to personalize the grocery shopping experience
- 10 Things Google Glass Needs Before It Goes Mainstream
- Polar rebrands, launches new native advertising platform
- Four First-of-Their-Kind Apps Created at Canadian Google Glass Hackathon
- Montreal’s Execution Labs Announces $150K Loan Fund for Indie Game Studios
- Facebook begins campaign to promote mobile games by taking over your notifications
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- U of T Solar Power Racing Team Looks To Indiegogo To help fund Australian World Solar Challenge trip
- Two Of The Top Ten Hardware Startups Are Canadian
- Bitmaker Labs Gives Women in Computing a Boost with Grace Hopper Scholarship
- Shopify Acquires Design Agency Jet Cooper
- HootSuite raises $165 million in Largest Deal Ever in Canadian Venture Capital History
- Communitech shifts HYPERDRIVE into an improved direction, extends program to 6-months
- Toronto-Based Online Retailer FERKNOT Poised for a Comeback
- PayPal opens its REST APIs to Canadian developers as it pushes for more of the online payment pie
- ClearlyContacts.ca opens second Vancouver retail store to push more customers to its online portal
- Wave introduces mobile payments as it approaches 2 million users
- Square Launches National Contest for Canadian Small Business Owners
- L33dr.ly ‘takes the suck’ out of Game Leaderboards by making them ‘socially and geographically relevant’
- Kickstarter allows Canadians to start creating projects today, official launch is September 9th
- Semios: Big Data and Digitizing the Farm
- SubPac is the New Musical Experience: StudioFeed Brings Music Into The Physical Realm With The Creation of a Tactile Audio Device
- 500px Closes $8.8 million in Series A Funding to Launch Online Photo Marketplace
- Montrealer launches city space rental startup, decides to first open doors in NYC
- Rdio launches YouFM and Stations in New Cross-Platform Update
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- Edmonton-based Mover Closes $1 Million in Funding
- Toronto’s Alertly is looking to disrupt the home security industry
- TandemLaunch receives $5 million from BDC Venture Capital
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- Toronto-based Keek potentially closing in on âa hundred million dollar round,” user base tops 58 million
- LearningLoop captures $20,000 Startup Weekend Toronto EDU grand prize
- Shopify Unveils New Payment Program for Vendors to Rival Third Party Processors
- Wattpad’s new Fan Funding pilot program hopes to revive struggling publishing industry
- Communitech and Partners Launch Big Data Project called DATA.BASE
- Canadian Coloâs New State of The Art Data Centre in Montreal Passes Unexpected Test
- Bex.io aims to make exchanging virtual money easy and secure
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- $900,000 DFATD Grant Helps Deploy Canadian-made Disaster Relief Technology Around the World
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- Just Eat launches mobile app, aims to process $50 million worth of food orders
- Thalmic Labs Adds Two Former BlackBerry Executives To The Team
- Google’s Chromecast set to cast a spell on the Canadian television experience
- Computer science student develops Anaphylaxis Canadaâs first mobile app
- Super Angel Boris Wertz says there’s only two ways to get to a $100 million valuation
- FreshBooks releases Android app as it inches towards true “cloud accounting”
- Grow Conference 2013: A look back at the highlights from Day One
- Thought Controlled Computing Company InteraXon Raises $6M Series A Round
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- Toronto Startup MenYou Hopes to Modernize the Restaurant Ordering Experience
- Three Canadian Cities Ranked Top 20 Most Active Startup Scenes (Infographic)
- TELUS Fund Seeks to Finance Canadian Health and Wellness Productions
- Meta Makes Google Glass Look Like a Modern Day Monocle
- Minuum expands its reach by launching a public beta of its unique keyboard on Google’s Play Store
- Kreyonic added to HYPERDRIVE Cohort 3, becomes its first international startup
- Cognilab: Joining GrowLab and Crowdsourcing the Answers to the Brain’s Biggest Mysteries
- Extreme Venture Partners Rumored to Close Startup Fund
- Canadian Military Tests Waterloo-Made Stealthy Snowmobile
- New Study Suggests Canadians Donât Like to Shop Online
- RBC Generator Makes $500,000 Investment in MaRS Cleantech Fund
- Toronto-based Qwyrk Media launches App that adds Audio to Messaging and Social Media
- Edmonton Transportation Startup Drivewyze Recieves $7.5 Million in Series A Funding
- Google Ventures Makes Largest Investment To Date as Part of $361 million Investment in Uber Taxi
- IoT Startup SensorSuite Set to Shake Up Building Automation
- U of W Students Create Indoor Positioning System to Help Navigate Buildings on Campus
- Motiph Wants Your House Crawling with Robots
- Ottawa-Based Smart Home Monitoring Solution Piper Nears its Fundraising Goal
- Thalmic Labs Partners With The Next 36 For Wearable Tech Hackathon
- TELUS Ventures makes ‘significant investment’ in Get Real Health
- ContentDJ: The Little Guy doing Big Things for the Little Guy
- EY Ranks Canada Top 5 for Entrepreneurship in Spite of Funding, Education Struggles
- Shopify launches its own POS System to balance online and offline retail
- Do You Even Lift Bro? Wearable Tech Startup PUSH Wants to Quantify Your Workout
- PayPal Teams Up With TouchBistro to Add Check-In Feature to Mobile Payments
- Gamification Conference Attracts Top Talent to Stratford Ontario
- TeamBuy.ca raises another $5 million to become the “leading shopping destination for Canadians”
- Toronto-Based Sweatpants Designer Lazypants Reveals Innovative Plans for Cozy Attire
- Waterloo Accelerator Centre Announces 2013 JumpStart Cohort, awards $175,000 in funding
- 27 Finalists announced in the 2013 Canada Post ‘E-commerce Innovation Awards’
- Hitcase: Film and Share Extreme Moments, While Protecting your Phone like IronMan
- Father of Wearable Tech Steve Mann Added As TEDxToronto 2013 Speaker
- 4 Questions with Ben Zlotnick, Serial Entrepreneur & Founder of INcubes
- New Social Network myApollo Launching On Android September 6
- Verizon and Vodafone Reach Massive $130 Billion Deal
- High-End Travel Marketplace Demeure Raises $4M to Help Take on Airbnb and HomeAway
- Atomic Reach Unveils Algorithm that Can Predict Content’s Success Before it’s Published Online
- Verizon Says Company Will Not Come to Canada
- Rogers to Give Five Small Businesses $20K, Release National Survey Findings
- Over Two-Dozen Canadians Applied for Hong Kongâs StartmeupHK
- Torontoâs Kinetic CafĂ© Partners with Freshii to Start Health-Focused Startup Program
- New Vancouver-based Coding Academy Lighthouse Labs To Launch This Fall
- From Seed to Scale, Farm at Hand Allows Everything to be Tracked
- Metaâs SpaceApps App Store Is Looking For One Killer Idea
- Think the Golf Course Isn’t a Place for Your Smartphone? Think Again
- A New Kind of Mafia in Montreal? How a Culture of Startup CEOs are Playing the Angel Game
- Canadian Innovation Results âUnderwhelming,â Says World Economic Forum
- Toronto to Host Worldâs First Youtube Content Festival
- Stuck in Public and You Gotta âGoâ? Check Out this New Canadian App
- Quebec Research University Lands $1.6 Million For New Work on Wireless Systems
- GrowLab Reveals New Fall Cohort Along with New âFarm Teamsâ
- 500px Brings on a Few Tech Heavy-Hitters in Andy Yang and Patrick Lor
- BDC and FTQ Pour Major Investment into New Montreal Biomedical Fund
- Waterlooâs Communitech Launches Women in Technology Project
- International Startup Festival Plans to Take Elevator Events to Eight New Cities
- MasterCard Wants Female Developers to âMaster the Codeâ for $10,000
- Toronto Ad Gurus Wishabi Raise $15 Million Series B Round
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- MaRS to Host Energy Hackathon This Weekend
- Head of Student VC Fund Challenges Canada to “Prevent the Glaciers from Melting”
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- New Crowdfunding Platform Dragon Innovation Wants To Make Sure the Hardware Revolution Succeeds
- Manaya is a Better Way to Connect Landlords with Future Tenants
- Broadband TV Hits 1 Billion Monthly Visitors After $36 Million Boost
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- Kitchenerâs Desire2Learn Beefs Up Adaptive Learning Platform, Acquires Fellow Canadian Startup Knowillage
- Canadian Duo Behind AppDirect Secures $9 Million Series B Round
- Quebec’s PrĂȘt Ă Entreprendre Program Announces Second Cohort of Young Entrepreneurs
- Arcade Fire taps Google Chrome and WebGL for immersive music video experience
- Canadian Cofounders Behind Umano Are Achieving Big Success in Silicon Valley
- Communitech Looks Toward a Very Exciting Few Months
- MaRS Set to Host Entrepreneurship 101 Series, Now in It’s Ninth Straight Year
- Pair of Canadian University Students Win Big at Nokia Hackathon in Sweden
- Bitcoin ATMs to Come to Five Canadian Cities
- Misa Digital Tri-Bass Strives to Bring Electronic Music into the Realm of Live Performance
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- Toronto Native Helps Dash Robotics Make Worldâs First Foldable Origami Robot
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- Oakvilleâs ERMS Corporation Secures $3.5 Million in Follow-On Funding
- Angel Investments Nearly Doubled in Canada Last Year, Indicates New Report
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- Former iStock Photo Cofounder Launches New Video Footage Startup
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- Montreal’s Outpost Travel Claims It’s The Biggest Aggregator in the P2P Travel Industry
- Torontoâs Vantage Analytics Wants People to Understand Data Without Actually Being Analysts
- OCAD Inks Deal With Toronto’s 4ormat So Students Can Have Free Use
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- EstateBlock Combines Vancouver Area Home Searching with Heat Mapping Information
- Kickstarter Canada Sees 12 Projects Reach Their Goals After Opening Week
- Kijiji Is Selling Stubhub Tickets On Its Canadian Classifieds Now
- theScore Unveils New iOS 7 App Update
- University of Waterloo’s Quantum Computing Department Adds a Few Heavyweights
- Triangle.IO Wants to End Manual Entering of Credit Card Information
- Alertly Launches On Indiegogo, A DIY Smart Home & Car Security System
- Google Glass at TIFF: Why We Arenât Ready for Wearable Tech
- Hamilton’s Advantag is Heading to Dublin for The Web Summit
- The Toronto Star Uses Augmented Reality To Try To Go Beyond The Ink
- Student Startup Modly Takes U of T’s 2013 Lacavera Prize for Entrepreneurship
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- Is Big Data A ‘Big Hype’ Or a Really Big Deal?
- A Startup CEO’s Financing Cautionary Tale
- Jack Dorsey and Square Say Its Less About Payments and More about analytics
- Canadian government Commits $50 Million to Four VC Funds
- PwC Vision to Reality Short List: The BetaKit Cheat Sheet
- MP Clement on Startup Visa: “We’re in Continuous Improvement Mode”
- Homejoy Launches in Second Canadian City After Success at Home
- MaRS’s new Social Venture Connection Marries Impact Investors with Social Ventures
- Montreal Coworking Space to Host Firefox Hackathon
- ClassDojo,The “World’s Fastest Growing Education Startup”, Launches in Canada
- Toronto’s Crowdbabble Launches Instagram Analytics
- Network of Angel Investments Ontario Made 41% More Investments in 2012-13
- Telus Commits $5.4 million to GTA Charities
- Call to All Entrepreneurs: Less Than One Month Left to Apply to FounderFuel
- Waterlooâs RideNerd Helps You Make Eco-Friendly Car Decisions
- Shaping Tomorrowâs Makers at Toronto’s Mini Maker Faire
- Developer spotlight: Meet Tamara Arrington of MasterCardâs Open API Developer Zone
- GrowLab Announces Partnered Research Project with Emily Carr University of Art + Design
- Canadian Student Wins Google Science Fair 2013
- Canadian Jordan Banks Will Lead Facebook’s New Global Strategy Team
- MyFocus Is a Button That Will Eliminate All Distraction
- Kira Talent Raises $2 Million Seed Round Led By Relay Ventures
- 11 Months after Launch, Montreal’s 5by Gets Acquired by StumbleUpon
- Halifax’s STI Technologies Gets Huge $17 Million Private Equity Infusion
- Talking with Apes: Creating, Innovating, and Contributing to Vancouver’s Gaming Community
- Toronto’s Uniiverse Launches iOS App
- Ottawa’s Ranovus Secures $11 Million in Funding From BDC, OMERS and More
- HotelTonight Extends Coverage to Six Canadian Cities, Adds Vancouver and Whistler
- Communitech Joins Google Tech Hub Network
- The Biometric Shirt That Helps You Fight Death Beat Its Crowdfunding Goal Today
- On the Heels of SEC Ruling, Canadians Behind Shyp Raise $250,000 in 53 Minutes
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- UPS Report States Online Shoppers Demand More as E-Commerce Spending Increases
- These Four Montrealers Are Going to Santiago For Startup Chile’s New Cohort
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- Memelabs Changes Name to Brightkit, Raises Seed Round
- Rogers Partners With Sprint to Bring Connected Cars to Canada
- Intel Capital Makes Another Investment in Canadian Wearable Tech With Recon Instruments
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- Ubisoft To Hire 500 in Montreal, Announces $373 Million Plan
- BEST Funds Makes a $3 Million Bet on Mobile Sales Tool
- OMsignal Adds Another Investor to Its Biometric Shirt Startup
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- eBay Canada Announces Ninth Annual Entrepreneur of the Year Awards
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- Canadian Film Centre and Mind Pirate Launch Wearable Tech Program for Startups
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- PayMint and MovieTickle Win MasterCard NXT Developer Challenge, Each Takes Home $10,000
- University of Waterloo Is Hosting the Gamification 2013 Conference This Week
- Extreme Startups Orchestrates Major Shake-Up, Splits into Three Categories
- CTV’s New Show “The Social” To Give Crowdfunding Pitches A National Audience
- Calgarys’ Kidoodle.TV Launches A Children’s On-Demand Video Service
- SDTC Invests $39.8 Million in Quebec Cleantech Project
- Fredricton’s Introhive Gets Additional Funding From SalesForce.Com
- New ScopifyROM App Gives Royal Ontario Museum Visitors an Augmented Experience
- Toronto’s Xtreme Labs Acquired by Pivotal for Huge $65 Million Cash Deal
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- RDIO Goes Free in Canada, US and Australia
- Calgary Startup TinyTorch Wants to Make Social Content “as Viral as a Stupid Internet Meme”
- Former Well.Ca Founder Ali Asaria Raises $2.4 Million for New Waterloo Startup
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- New Brunswick Targets Innovation With New Graduate Scholarships
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- Toronto Hipster Denim Startup Calls out Rob Ford to Wear its Pants
- Former “Grandmother’s Pick” Winners Onavo Acquired by Facebook for $150 Million
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- RBC: Female Entrepreneurs are a “Relatively Untapped Resource” for Economic Growth
- CMF Experimental Stream Startups Can Get an Extra $30K Towards an Accelerator Program
- Victoria’s Tapstream Secures $700K Seed Round From BDC
- Young Business Owners Need Strong Business Strategy As Boomers Look to Retirement, Says Report
- Montreal’s Polar Electro Unveils Biometric Bracelet
- Two Canadian Startups Chosen Among ‘GEW 50’
- Edmonton Founder of Booster Juice Named Praries EY Entrepreneur of the Year
- Toronto Kid Blogger to Give Speech at Today’s We Day in Vancouver
- Uber Calls Montreal Its Newest City As Offroad Battles Continue
- Toronto’s OneClass Raises $1.6 Million Series A Round
- Makers Unite! Maker2Maker Brings The Benefits of Hackerspaces Online
- Startup Visa Program Officially Launches “Business Incubator Stream”
- Five New Trends That Will Have a “Permanent Impact” on Canadians’ buying habits
- Staples Canada to Carry Roam Mobility Products
- An Increasing Amount of Canadians Are Embracing Mobile Banking: ING Direct
- “We need to prepare ourselves for a mobile-first and mobile-only future”: Mobify’s Igor Faletski
- Montreal Named Among “Smart 21” Intelligent Communities of the Year
- Capital Acquisition: Openera Exits to LiveQos in All-Ottawa Deal
- Majority of Small Business Owners in Canada Have No Regrets
- Canada’s Startup Hub of Innovation is…Calgary?
- Tech Companies Surpass Resource Firms As Top BC Employer, But Not All is Well
- Waterloo’s TribeHR to be Acquired by NetSuite
- Indigo Launches New App for iOS and Android
- Next 36 Alum Michael Cheng Named Among ‘Top 24 Under 24’
- Best Buy to Carry Pebble Smartwatches
- Quebec and Ontario Among the Most Taxing Regions for Small Businesses
- Flatlaw.Ca Solves the Advertising Problem for Flat-Fee Lawyers
- Montreal’s 5by to Launch iOS App in First Move Post-Acquisition
- Vancouver’s VIDA Homes Debuts at Exclusive New York Property Launch Party
- CTV Wants to Turn Everyone Into a Journalist With Its New App
- Waterloo’s Cream.HR to Help Jobless Former BlackBerry Workers
- Hootsuite is Close to 8 Million Users, Boosts Revenues 150%
- Songza Launches Songza Canada Inc., Reaches 2.4 Million Canadian Users
- Kingston’s Sparq Systems Gets $2.75 Million for Solar Power Solution
- Montreal-Area GPS Watch Makers Get $1 Million From Angel Syndicate
- Kanata-based eSight Launches Smart Glasses To Cure the Legally Blind
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- Victoria’s Crowd Content Connects Content-Hungry eCommerce Businesses with Freelancers
- Ernst & Young Gives Canadian Governor General “Supporter of Entrepreneurship” Award
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- World’s First Bitcoin ATM To be Unveiled in Vancouver Tomorrow
- Toronto-Based Edtech Startup Makes Call to Families for New Research Study
- Canadian eCommerce Hits $18.9 Billion in 2012; Seniors Up Internet Use
- New Brunswick-Based Xplornet Secures $150 million for Better Internet in Rural Areas
- Toronto’s Notch Video Launches Video Production Marketplace
- EnergyAware’s Neurio is Your Home’s New Brain
- Number of Cell Phone Plans Expected to Surpass World’s Population in Early 2014
- HootSuite Partners with Syracuse University to Offer Social Media Certificate
- BDC Moves into Launch Academy’s Vancouver Office Space
- Three Startups Nominated to Get a Startup Visa From GrowLab
- Vancouver-Based Connected Car App Mojio Secures $2.3 Million in Seed Funding
- Centennial College to Receive up to $26 million from Ontario for Aerospace Training
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- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes to Unveil a Peter Thiel Fellowship-Like Program for Young Canadians
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- Mobile Engagement Startup Greengage Mobile Gets $1 Million From Several Investors
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- Waterloo’s HYPERDRIVE Selected as an Official Startup Visa Incubator, Nominates Startup
- Microsoft Plants Massive Xbox One in Downtown Vancouver to Celebrate National Launch
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- Amazon Makes its Canadian Push Into Groceries and Auto
- Small Business Optimism Is Up Slightly This Month, Says CFIB
- Microsoft Ventures Officially Announces Partnerships with Three Canadian Startup Hubs
- Student Startups to Vie for $100,000 at VeloCity Fund Finals
- Toronto’s View the Vibe Expands its Restaurant Video Database to Vancouver
- Hilariously Horrific Acting Makes Vidyard’s “Franken-Bot” Movie Top Halloween Spoof
- University of Waterloo Shines in Maclean’s Rankings for 22nd Straight Year
- Montreal’s Outpost Travel Raises $200,000 Seed Round from Private Investors
- Montreal’s SmartReno.com Secures $500,000 in Angel Money
- Thinking of Applying for an MBA? Brock University’s Goodman School Has a Few Suggestions
- Three Fired Guys Offer Four Tips for Entrepreneurs
- Startup Calgary Readies for Big Launch Party 2013
- Multinational Company Accenture to Acquire Montreal’s PCO Innovation
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- Startup Grind is Coming to Montreal
- Canadian Government Commits Over $500,000 to Women Entrepreneurs
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- easyDNS Wants Toronto Tech People to Know that .TO is a Cool Domain
- Ottawa’s LiveQoS Raises $4 Million in Series C Round
- ADP to Give Away Big Money to Small Businesses Through Second Annual Contest
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- Danish Firm Launches in Canada to Help People with Autism Find Tech Jobs
- Telus Partners Up with CYBF to Give Cash to Young Entrepreneurs
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- Toronto’s Digital Flyer Startup Wishabi Creates App for All Those Flyers in One Place
- Canadian “Adventurer” Takes to Indiegogo To Help Find Joseph Kony
- Majority of Canadians Will Combine Online and In-Person Shopping This Holiday Season
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- AccuWeather.Com Acquires Montreal Startup Sky Motion
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- Ten Canadian Companies to Head to Brasil-Canada 3.0
- Millennials Are Slowly Proving to Be More Engaged at Work
- PumpUp’s Brush With Dragons’ Den Shows the Good, Bad and Ugly of Tech Startup Valuations
- Execution Labs Creates Post-Graduation Program, But Devs Must Give up 70% Revenue
- Startup Weekend Comes to Canada Eight Times this Month
- Montreal’s Frank & Oak Takes PwC’s Innovator of the Year
- Cofounder of Ottawa-based Startup Gnowit Named Ottawa Rising Star
- New MentorshipBC Website Wants to Connect Small Biz Owners With Seasoned Pros
- Positive Vibes Were Abuzz as FounderProject’s Toronto Event Kicks off November Series
- New LinkedIn Data Says Kids Rank Entrepreneurship as Most Desirable Job
- Montreal Startup Folks Sport the ‘Stache for Prostate Cancer Awareness
- Google Stops Disabling Resold Glass Devices (But They’re Still Not Ok With It)
- Adzuna Says If You Want a Startup Job, Go to Toronto
- Ryerson University Helps As The “Indian Startup Story” Continues to Grow
- Pebble SDK Update Positions Smartwatch to Compete with Nike & Fitbit
- CIX Names Its Top 20 Hottest Innovative Companies Ahead of Toronto Event
- VeloCity Gives 10 Startups the Nod for $100K Competition
- Former Top Hat COO Andrew D’Souza Joins Bionym As President
- Kids Health Record Lets Parents Take the Information Online…Forever
- An App in 60 Days? Dandy Wants to Help
- Hilarious New App Tells Former Bosses to “Shove it!”
- Montreal Kickstarter Project Shutters After Fraud Allegations
- Montreal’s PasswordBox Raises $6 Million in Venture Cap, Hits One Million Users
- Security Software Makers Elliptic Technologies Gets $4 Million from BDC
- Montreal’s Beyond The Rack Launches iPhone and iPad App
- Prosperous Landing: CDMN Secures $8.75 Million Over Five Years
- Software Companies Dominate Deloitte’s Fast50 Canadian Companies
- Taxi Battle Heats Up in Montreal as Hailo Makes Its Presence Known
- A CEO’s Perspective: Whoâs Your Competition?
- Twitterâs self-serve ad platform now open to Canadian Small and Medium sized businesses
- Torontoâs TouchBistro Raises $4.5 Million from Relay Ventures
- Quebec Experiencing Best Year in Venture Cap in Over a Half Decade
- Calgary’s Slyce Closes $2.2 Million in Financing
- Knock Back the Eggnog and Help A Good Cause at Montreal’s TechNoel Celebration
- Toronto Startup Hooks Up with Youth Group to Create Virtual Citizen Program
- âThis is a generational opportunity to increase entrepreneurshipâ: New Startup Canada Task Force
- Toronto’s HQVB is the First Full-Service Ad Agency to Accept Bitcoins as Payment
- Don’t Want to Miss Out When That Album Goes on Sale? Check Out This Ottawa Startup
- Two Canadians Selected for EY’s Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program
- Ottawa’s Nuvyyo Announces $4 Million Funding Round, Initiates Crowdfunding
- Bearded Englishmen Make Inaugural Stop in North America Tonight for Silicon Drinkabout
- Heading to Canada? Toronto’s Similicious Helps Non-Canucks Avoid Crazy Roaming Fees
- EY and RBC Report “Hidden” Opportunity for Startups to Build More Diverse Teams
- POSH View’s iMirror Lowers Price, Adds Gesture To Save Kickstarter Campaign
- FounderFuel Alum Seevibes Acquires French Company, Opens Office in France
- Vancouver’s Lighthouse Labs Coding Bootcamp Tackles the Talent Crunch
- Calgary’s Play It Gaming Raises $700,000, Directs Product to Emerging Markets
- Vancouver’s MIO SportWatch Makers Report Tripled Sales
- Next 36-Born Atlus App Acquired By Ottawa’s Purple Forge Corp
- Canadian Startup A Thinking Ape Donates $100,000 in Game Proceeds to Typhoon Victims
- Waterloo Startups Hit the 401 for Toronto Pitch Fest Next Week
- PasswordBox Acquiers San Francisco Startup Legacy Locker
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- Outer Space Meets the Social Space: Ryan Holmes and Chris Hadfield at Science World
- New Coding School in Toronto Set for January Launch
- Toronto’s AEON Attire Kickstarter Gloves Crushes Funding Goal
- Canadian Companies Are Waiting “For the Right Deal” As Acquisition Confidence Wanes: EY
- CFC Announces New ideaBOOST Cohort of Startups
- Toronto’s Distilus is The World’s Largest Interactive Catalog and Community for Spirits
- It’s a Winner! First AngelHack Vancouver Spreads the Love
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- MaRS Looks to Help Ontario Energy Consumers with Four New Apps
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- Online Travel Mag Startup Releases “Canada’s Top 20 Streets”
- U of Waterloo Attracts Record Crowd at Eighth VeloCity Fund Finals
- The Next 36 Announces Mentors for 2014 Cohort
- Toronto’s Wagepoint is the First Payroll Software Allowing Employees to Get Paid in Bitcoin
- “Best Startup in the World” reelyActive Rides the Hype Bandwagon
- Toronto Research Startup Xagenic Nets $20 Million
- Ottawa’s Blue Line Launches App for Home Energy Monitoring
- Toronto’s Save.ca Drops New App for Online Savings
- Montreal’s International Startup Festival Brings Its “Wacky Event” to Tel Aviv
- Vancouver’s Hootsuite Lands Spot on Mashable’s “Winners of Tech 2013”
- Staying in the Big Smoke: AppHero Acquired by Fuse Powered
- Government of Canada Launches Web Portal for Senior Citizens Info
- High school team wins $10,000 coding prize from MasterCard N>XT Developer Challenge
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- Toronto’s BNOTIONS Unveils New Mobile Marketing Platform, Gallop Media
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- Rosetta Stone Language Learning Platform Acquires Vancouver Creator of Fit Brains
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- Blue Spurs Acquires Lashpoint in All-Fredricton Startup Exit
- Real Ventures’ New Fund Could be $100 Million, But Still Uncertain
- New Toronto-based Incubator Looks to Cater to All Sectors of Innovation
- iQmetrix Acquires Vancouver Startup Web Werkz for its eCommerce Offerings
- Vancouver’s ClearlyContacts Is Now Accepting Bitcoin as Payment
- Pro Gaming Platform BattleFy Gets $1.3 Million from US Investors
- Northumberland CFDC Brings back N100 Startup Competition
- The Accelerator Series: Hyperdrive
- Montreal’s International Startup Festival Reveals 2014 Theme
- Fredericton’s Smart Skin Technologies Raises $3.9 Million
- University of Waterloo Welcomes Handful of New Startups to VeloCity Garage
- Toronto Gets Bitcoined
- Recent Kickstarter Winners Palette Look to Build a Future in Waterloo
- CBC’s Dragons’ Den Announces Audition Dates for Canadian Entrepreneurs
- Innovation Market Value Grew Much Stronger Last Year on TSX
- Wearable Electronics Company to Invest in Greater Montreal Area
- Vancouver’s ResponseTek Raises $6 Million, Expanding to Middle East and Asia
- Halifax’s Volta Coworking Space to Launch Accelerator
- Don’t be the Drunken Entrepreneur
- Hopper, the Startup That’s Been in Stealth for Six Years Finally (soft) Launched This Week
- The Accelerator Series: GrowLab
- Ontario Commits to Innovation: $190 Million Over Six Years
- Startup Weekend Takes Montreal Next Month
- CBC KW Gave One Lucky Listener Bitcoin Over the Airwaves
- Federal Gov’t + Ontario Premier Wynne to Make Venture Capital Announcement – Live Video Feed here
- Piper, The Home Security System that Did Really Well on Indiegogo, Launches Today
- Feds Announce $300 Million Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund of Funds
- Toronto’s The Sandbox Project Gets $450K, Will Launch New Mental Health App
- Canadian Man Asks the Internet to Name His Daughter
- Waterloo’s OpenText to Spearhead $100 Million Fund for Enterprise Apps
- Vancouver’s BuildDirect Raises $30 Million Series B Round
- Federal Government’s CODE Hackathon Officially Has a Date
- Confoo Conference for Web Developers to Hit Montreal Next Month
- Things Are Going Really Well for Toronto’s Qriket, The App That Gives You Free Money
- Even Non-Profits Are Accepting Bitcoin Now
- Former NLL Lacrosse Player’s Workplace Engagement Platform Raises $500K Seed Round
- Canadian Wearable Companies Represent at SXSW
- Montreal-Born 5by Unveils Android App for Video Recommendation Engine
- SuiteQ Offers Home Decor Customers a 3D Shopping Experience
- Hackernest’s Mind & Motion Hackathon Next Month Focuses on Wearable Tech
- Hootsuite Acquires Massachusetts-Based Startup uberVU
- Les Affaires Releases its Five Quebec Startups to Watch in 2014
- McGill Grad Launches Curated List of Useful Science Articles
- Shop.Ca CEO Returns to DX3 with Message of Optimism in eCommerce
- BlackBerry Is Trying to Block the Sale of Ryan Seacrest’s Typo Keyboard Clip
- Montreal’s Fundica Beefs Up Its Funding Road Show for Second Year
- LX Ventures Set to Acquire Copper.io for Up to $3 Million
- DX3 2014 Headliner Eric Harris of BuzzFeed: Creating Content is Part Art, Part Science
- Indiegogo raises $40 million, plans to hire staff and expand globally
- Toronto-based CrowdCare raises an additional $1 million, launches Wysdom app for immediate tech support
- Not a Silver Bullet, But Close: PHEMI’s Prescription for Fixing the Health Care System
- Bookkeeping isn’t Fun. Bench Makes it Better.
- Guardly announces $1.45 million in new funding , says they’ll raise the bar for Personal Safety & Security
- Velocity startup program has successfully raised over $100 million in 5-years
- NIMJA, winner of the MasterCard N>XT Developer Challenge, launches its mobile point of sale app
- Applications now open for the 2014 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award, $100,000 is up for grabs
- Vancouverâs UrtheCast Installs Space Station Cameras in Prep To Stream the World
- Square removes deposit limits, says Canadians will now receive funds within 2 business days
- Waterloo Startup Voltera Inc. Can Print Electronics
- Bitcoin Needs Legal Framework If It’s to Prosper: Montreal Economic Institute
- Gener8 takes a 48% interest in Vancouver-based Reelhouse Media, plans to add ‘premium’ revenue models
- CIRA launches new $1 million Community Investment Program, hopes to “make the Internet better for all Canadians”
- Voting now open “Doodle 4 Google” Challenge
- Lighthouse Labs to Teach 500 People to Code At Huge Free Event Next Month
- The Accelerator Series: Extreme Startups
- Bench raises another $1 million
- Finalists are named for the Small Business BC Awards
- 2 Canadian Teams Make the 500 Startups Cut: FameBit and VenueSpot
- Is Canada even in the race? The Clean Capital Conference asks big Questions
- Gener8 plans to hire 20 by March, signs 3D conversion deal with Vancouver’s Rainmaker
- Beyond the buzzword: gamification is the future of culture and business
- Pebble AppStore Marks Shift in Wearable Tech
- Calgary’s Slyce acquires YorkU tech to improve its retail e-commerce app
- FreshGigs starts accepting Bitcoin as payment for Canadian job postings
- The #HTML500. Can this old dog learn new tricks?
- Brick & Mobile: Rogers Mobile Shopper changing the in-store shopping experience
- Over 80 glorious pictures from the #HTML500 Learn-to-Code Event
- A Thinking Ape hires ex-Pixar Canada exec as its new Creative Technology Director
- Wearable Tech Companies Start To Use the F Word
- Montreal’s PixMob lit up Super Bowl XLVIII
- The first Bitcoin ATM opens up in Montreal
- WeSellSocks will deliver awesome socks to your front door every month
- Real Ventures invests $1.1 million into California-based atVenu
- TELUS embraces M2M with new smartphone passcode technology for entry into corporate buildings
- A look at the Narrative Clip, a camera that logs your life
- Two New Wearables Join the Million Dollar Crowdfunding Club: Avegantâs Glyph and the Lumo Lift
- Government of Ontario Announces first four recipients of the Youth IAF: PUSH, Soapbox, Rubikloud and Greengage Mobile
- Ara Labs secures a $500,000 investment from New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) and Technology Ventures Corporation
- HootSuite forced to look outside Canada for talent, says it’s ‘difficult to compete’ with Silicon Valley companies
- Montreal’s FixMeStick is on the cusp of reaching its $50,000 crowdfunding goal
- Clean Techies Axine Water Technologies Close $5.6 Million Series A Round
- The Accelerator Series: INcubes
- FounderFuel Grad LoginRadius Raises $1.3 Million in Funding
- Government of Canada will continue “to address emerging risks, including virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin”
- FounderDating Sheds Light on New ‘Adviser Hook-up’
- Here’s How the Federal Budget 2014 Will Affect Canadian Tech
- Half of Canadians Will Watch the Olympics From Their Smartphones
- Quebec Entrepreneurship Contest is Set to Give Away $600,000 in Prizes
- Startup Career Expo is Set to Connect Students with Hiring Companies
- Vancouver’s Beanworks Selected to Join Silicon Valley Accelerator
- Five Startups to Take a Four-Month Residency at the Google Innovation Space at Communitech
- FounderFuel’s Mentor Day is Under Way
- With a Second Coworking Space on Tap, Project RHINO’s Meteoric Rise Has Been Nothing Short of Inspiring
- Biometric Shirt Hexoskin Is Helping Olympic Athletes Win Gold at Sochi
- Toronto is Getting a Bitcoin Hackathon
- Can Technology Save us From Ourselves? Talking Connected Machines at Wavefront Wireless Summit
- London’s Backpackr Looks to Take an Open Market in Traveller Meet-Ups
- Toronto’s PitchPoint Solutions Gets $2.8 Million from BEST Funds
- Google is Expanding into Larger Office Space in Kitchener
- Vicki Saunders’ SheEO Program Makes Call for Applications for New Cohort
- Great Canadian Appathon [4] Awards $35,000 to Student Game Makers
- Toronto and New York-Based BorderFree to Go Public
- Vancouverâs Vandrico Launches Wearable Technology Database
- Watson Computers and Self-Driving Vehicles: Wavefronts Wireless 2014 Gave a Sign of Things to Come
- Hotel Helpers GuestDriven Raises $3 Million Seed Round
- GIRLsmarts Program is Fostering the Girl Geeks
- Mashable’s Piece on Quebec’s Startup Climate Twisted Reality
- This Weekend’s FailCamp in Montreal Sold Out in Seven Minutes
- Bionym Is Partying it Up at SXSW This Year (And They Want You to Join)
- Montreal’s DataWind Named Among MIT Technology Reviewâs 50 Smartest Companies
- Well.ca suffers security breach, customer credit cards and addresses stolen
- Vancouver’s Airbnb for Office Space Gets $1.1 Million Funding Round
- Four Startups Receive Funding Through Ontario Youth Investment Accelerator Fund
- Thirty Million Gruesome Images Later, Toronto’s Figure 1 Expands to Android and Web
- Sunnybrook Hospital to live-tweet a heart surgery on Twitter
- Vancouver’s ePACT Network Secures $1 Million in Funding
- Toronto’s JOLT and Moncton’s Launch36 Accelerators Make Calls for Applications
- Bitstrips is Raising a Huge $15 million Series B Round
- Player.Me Looks to Give the Gamers a Unified Social Network
- Thalmic Labs and ClearPath Robotics Join Forces to Drive Arm-Controlled Robot
- BuildDirect’s Jeff Booth is Always Learning
- Google, Tech Stars and Steve Blank-Backed Pre-Accelerator Program to Hit Montreal
- Startup Canada’s Noah Redler to Lead Montreal’s Notman House
- Downtown Torontoâs The Lab Is Making Coding Cool
- Creators of Maegan App Say it Will “Revolutionize Dining Out”
- 2014 CRC Robotics Competition Showcases Student Innovation Today and Tomorrow
- BDC and CVCA to Award “Canada’s Most Innovative Startup”
- TIME Magazine Says D-Wave Systems’ Quantum Computer Has “Revolutionary Consequences”
- Eyeing Its Launch Next Week, Next 36 Grad Bridgit goes on site to solidify thier spot in the toolbox
- The Accelerator Series: The Next 36
- The Accelerator Series: FounderFuel
- From Crowdsourcing Cars to Virtual Instruments: Mind & Motion Hackathon Features Next-Gen Hardware
- Are Kik and BlackBerry Smiling After Facebook’s WhatsApp Deal?
- Changes Are Headed For Toronto’s Bitmaker Labs (Good Changes)
- Air Miles Names Winners of the First Annual Small Business Achievement Awards
- 2014 Funding Roadshow Formally Invites Entrepreneurs and Funders
- “A Straight Out Scam”: Montreal Angel Austin Hill Recounts First Business at FailCampMTL
- Nanotips Touchscreen Glove Solution Raises Seven Times its Goal on Kickstarter
- Grade 12 Toronto Student Wins Doodle 4 Google Contest
- Uniiverse Is Betting on Mobile in 2014, Releases Android App
- TalentEgg Launches New Platform for Students to Gain Experience
- Coastal.com Offering Several Hundreds of Frames For Google Glass Later This Year
- Samsung is Giving $1 Million in Technology Grants to Canadian Schools
- Buffalo VC to Invite Toronto Startups to “World’s Largest Business Plan Competition”
- Donde Helps You Find The Stuff You Want, Where You Want
- Investment Quebec Pitches Ryan Holmes and Hootsuite to Relocate
- This Vancouver Startup Sends High-Quality Condoms Directly to Your Mailbox
- Waterloo’s Desire2Learn Targets Latin America With New Sao Paulo Office
- WordPress Now Lets Users Sell Stuff, Partners with Shopify and Shoplocket
- VC Investment in Canada Jumps by Nearly a Third in 2013 (452 deals with an average size of $4.3 million)
- Check Out This BDC Infographic on “The Real Impact of Venture Capital”
- You’re Next Career Network’s Startup Expo Breaks 2000 Attendee Mark
- LGTmedical’s “Phone Oximeter” Could Prevent Deaths on a Global Scale
- Tell is a New Private Messaging App Created By Four Ordinary Guys
- SuperBowl Light Masters PixMob Are Doing it Again- This Time With Tiësto
- Be Social By Turning Off The Phone With Vancouver’s Unplug App
- French Lens Giant Essilor Buys Vancouver’s ClearlyContacts for $430 Million
- Audicus Undercuts Hearing Aid Costs by As Much As 80%, Making Many Canadians Happy
- Life Sciences Startups Have Until March 5 to Apply for Silicon Valley Program
- The First Annual Bitcoin Expo Will Happen in Toronto
- Next 36 Students’ New App Helps Solve Your Toughest Decisions
- The Maritimes’ Propel ICT Expands to Include Newfoundland, Wants 86 Companies in Five Years
- Collaboration is More Than Just Talk: Vancouver Enterprise Forum Brings Together Academia, Government and Innovation
- Government of Ontario Crowns Winners at Energy Apps for Ontario Challenge
- Hamilton Gets Its Own Crowdfunding Platform
- Organizations Are “Not Prepared for New Generation of Leaders”
- U Waterloo Stratford Campus Hands Out its Christie Design Awards
- EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Program Officially Kicks Off Today
- Best Buy and Future Shop Pick Up Roam Mobility Products
- Calgary’s Slyce Raises $10.75 Million from Beacon Securities and More
- Toronto’s AskForTask Gets $500,000 in Seed Funding, Will Launch App
- Vancouver Accelerators and Incubators to Put on Cascadia Startup Fest
- Canadian-Made Basis Sells to Intel for “Around $100 Million”
- 22-Year-Old TTC Subway Art Designer Launches New Online Portfolio for Students
- Vantage Analytics Now Has Now Analyzed Over 800K Transactions From Its Shopify Users
- Extreme Startups announces its Fifth Cohort includes Dubb, Fora, Hurrier, Preo and Uplette
- #withKash is the hashtag to launch Canada’s most disruptive mobile payment product
- HootSuite launches HootSuite Labs, a team focussed on developing the next generation of social technologies
- Meta Is Making It Happen, New Video Demonstrates AR 3D Sculpting
- Gottacon Convention Shows Victoria Has a Pulse
- CODE Hackathon sees 900 participants create 110 apps, declares itself the ‘Largest Competitive Hackathon in Canada’
- Freelancer.com opens Vancouver Engineering Lab, plans to immediately hire 20 employees
- Vancouver’s GrowLab Freshens Up For Spring, Introduces Its Newest Cohort
- DX3 2014: The Future of Work Is Play
- BetaKit at DX3 2014: Digital Agency Art & Science Shows Off It’s “Mayor Maker” Rob Ford Booth
- BetaKit at DX3 2014: Catching Up with Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone
- BetaKit at DX3 2014: What Will Slyce Do With $11 Million?
- BetaKit at DX3 2014: Chatting with the CFC’s ideaBOOST Program
- The Life of Brian: Kiip’s Founder is Always Looking on the Bright Side
- BetaKit at #SXSW: Mighty Cast Looks to Take the Wearables for Teens Market
- BroadbandTV is Leading the Seismic Shift in our Viewing Habits
- Silicon Valley’s The Founder Institute to Launch Montreal Chapter
- Get Ready for a Chompdown! Waterloo’s Printchomp is Growing.
- BetaKit at #SXSW: Bionym’s Karl Martin Shows Us The Nymi
- Three Toronto-Based Web Agencies Merge Into One Big Monster: Powered By Search
- Toronto’s Social Body Lab Wants To Light Up The World With Vega Edge
- Toronto Recruiting Software Startup Fitzii Gets Acquired
- Axiom Zen giving an 8-week paid internship to an attendee at the Vancouver #HTML500 Learn-to-Code Event
- Axiom Zen selects intern from the #HTML500 event, Dr. Aidha Shaikh starts in May for 8-weeks
- Communitech HYPERDRIVE Cohort 4 announced: BitHound, Clipter, Structur3D Printing, Wagepoint and Weston Expressions
- UWaterloo’s VeloCity Fund Finals Set to Hand Out $100,000
- Toronto Space Apps Challenge is Preparing for “Launch”
- Vancouver’s Identity Verification Experts Trulioo Lands $6 Million
- Extreme Startups’ Marcus Daniels: “Now We’re Bringing In Rockstar Founders”
- BetaKit at #SXSW: PasswordBox and A Former “Super Intern” Are Growing Together, And Fast
- Brothers in Arms: Skyprep’s Sibling Cofounders Mix Business and Friendship
- Teachings from the Digerati at Invoke University
- Brainstation’s Mobile Development Education Takes its Act to Extreme Startups
- BetaKit at #SXSW: Who Hacks a Shoe? (Vancouver’s Plantiga Does)
- Nspire Student Network’s 13th Annual Tech Conference is Set to Impress
- BC Tech Financings Had a Monster Year in 2013
- Who Can You Trust With Your Data? This Toronto Startup Wants to Help
- BetaKit at #SXSW: “You’re a Small Fish in a Big Pond, But There’s Enough Water for Everybody”
- New Study Finds Half of Canadian Startups Run by Part-Timers
- Hootsuite, Shopify, BuildDirect and Others To Go Public?
- BCIC-New Ventures Competition Means Lessons Learned and Cash Earned
- Creative Tension at #SXSWedu 2014
- Kevin O’Leary and Bruce Croxon Out, Wekerle and Vij In As Dragons’ Den Shakes It Up
- These UofT Drama Grads Have Brought Shakespeare Plays to iOS
- Thalmic Labs Flexes Its Gesture Control Arm in New Myo Demo Videos
- BetaKit at #SXSW: Chatting With PPLCONNECT at a Bar in Austin
- Lost or Dead Smartphone? You’re Safe with Ppl Connect’s Web-Based Solution
- Canadian Indentity-Privacy Pioneer Austin Hill Has a Message for the Founders of Whisper and Secret
- Toronto’s Encore Wants to Give Concert-Goers the Digital Equivalent of a Ticket Stub
- Video: New Extreme Startups Company Provides Higher Education to Sub-Saharan Africa
- BetaKit at #SXSW: Kiwi Wearables Does Not Want to Perform Science Experiments On Your Personal Data
- ‘Next generation’ water park and event complex with retractable roof planned to open in the Toronto Area in 2016
- How Not to Be Annoying at #SXSW: A Review
- 120 Left Jobless as BlackBerry Continues Its Descent
- Waterloo’s Apartmint Is an All-In-One Solution for Landlords and Renters
- Motherly Influence: Ideon Media Acquires Pair of Mom Blogs, Forms “The SavvyMom Group”
- Telus & Globe and Mail Bring Back $100K ‘The Challenge’ Contest
- 3rd Annual Robotics Festival to Hit Montreal This Week
- A River of Data Runs Through Vancouver’s Aquatic Informatics
- Toronto-Waterloo Corridor to Get More GO Trains By 2016
- $500 Polar Watch to Be “World’s Smartest and Most Advanced Training Computer”
- Toronto’s Aislelabs Raises $1.5 Million, Provides Intelligent In-Store Marketing via the Cloud
- Neptune Announces New Wearable Partnership, Pine Delayed Due to FCC Approval
- Fed’s $20 million Business Innovation Access Program Officially Unveiled
- CrowdFundFusion Aggregates Nearly Every Project Out There
- âItâs Ok to be Pro-Privacy Without Being a Crook, Pervert, or Terrorist”: Tim Bray at Vancouver Talk
- GROW Conference Heads to Whistler This Year
- Why Toronto’s New Stock Exchange Should Focus on Nanotech
- UTChinese Network To Throw EXCITE2014 Conference Saturday
- Video: Extreme Startups Company Dubb Turns Users’ Contacts Into a Discoverable Network
- Kickstarter Campaign for “World’s Oldest Toy” Has Now Raised Over 29x Original Funding Goal
- Startup Community — A Film about startups in the Kitchener/Waterloo area — premiering on April 14th
- One Entrepreneur’s Reflection on the Kitchener-Waterloo Startup Community
- Waterloo Accelerator Centre Graduates blueRover and Trustpoint Innovations
- Toronto’s Upverter Lands $2.3 Million, Seeks Profitability
- Automotive Photo Community MadWhips is Building on “Above-Average” Engagement
- New Sniffr App Blurs Line Between a Dating and a Dog-Lovers App
- Muse Spotting: UK Store Features Brain-Sensing Headband Ahead of Launch
- Wavefront Wireless Summit: Way More than just Talk
- London Calling: Canadian Wearables Represent at UKâs Largest Wearable Tech Show
- Andrew Reid’s Vision Critical: Not Your Dad’s Idea of Market Research
- Bitcoin Expo Next Month Will Feature “The Top Speaker List Thatâs Been Put Together in the Bitcoin Space”
- VeloCity Graduate PiinPoint Is Latest Y Combinator Startup
- Angel Investor Mike Stork Gives $1 Million to VeloCity
- Former NHLer Invests $250K In Vancouver Startup to Bring Tutoring to the Digital Age
- Fundica Steps Up the Prize Game With Upcoming Funding Roadshow
- Bitcoin Evangelist Anthony Di Iorio on The Future of “This Amazing Technology”
- PaySavvy is Taking The Utility Out Of Workforce Management
- For Ululab Founders, Transitioning to Educational Games is More Rewarding
- PHEMI Health Systems Raises $2.8 Million from BDC, Yaletown, Others
- Silicon Valley’s AppDirect Opens Montreal Office
- Intel Officially Completes Deal to Acquire BASIS Science
- Moving to a New City? Navut Will Tell You Everything You Need to Know
- C100’s AccelerateMTL is Back on April 10
- BDC Is Giving Away $100K With Young Entrepreneur Award
- PasswordBox Wants to Eliminate The Password
- Mojio Partners with Kiip to Reward Everyday Driving Moments in Connected Cars
- Video: Hurrier is the Toronto-Based “Uber for Goods”
- Here’s Four New Google Glass Apps From the CFC’s MindPirate Program
- Inaugural Canadian Technology Leaders Awards Happen Tonight in Toronto (And Rob Ford Gives An Award Out!)
- Baby I Got Your Data: Canadian ISPs Aren’t Transparent About Client Information
- The National CrowdFunding Association Likes Where Things Are Headed in Canada
- MaRS Market Insights report highlights the Canadian startups changing the wearable healthcare space
- Quebec Workers Union Invests in New Cloud Data Centre Platform Outside Montreal
- Victoria EdTech Startup MediaCore Partners with Pearson
- BC Business Releases Inaugural 30 Under 30 List
- Video: Innohub’s Dynamic Mobile Landing Pages Snared 65% Conversion For Pepsi
- Ex-TeamBuy Cofounder is Set to Go After Uber
- Reort: Montreal Offers the Most Competitive Operating Costs for Businesses
- FounderFuel’s Truth Launches Canada’s Answer to the Anonymous Apps
- OpenText to Box: We’re Suing You for $268 Million
- The New $100M OpenText Venture Fund Is Looking for Startups
- Founder Institute is Trying to Create a Toronto Chapter
- Vancouver’s BuildDirect to Launch New Chocolate Flooring
- What Happens When One Canadian Startup Acquires Another? A Cool New Product Is Born
- Ontario University Students Win Federal Government’s CODE Appathon
- POW 2014 To Bring Together 500 Young Entrepreneurs in Montreal
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- With $7K Price Tag, Toronto Accelerator DRIVEN Is Looking for It’s New Cohort
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- Meet CBC Dragons’ Den’s New Fire-Breathers: Michael Wekerle
- BMO Is The First Major Canadian Bank To Say It Would Be Open to Bitcoin
- Canadian Venture Capital Had Some Big Wins in Q1 of This Year
- “It Was An Abusive Relationship”: Canadian Cofounder Tells a Cautionary Tale
- FounderFuel Joins Global Accelerators for Combined Silicon Valley DemoDay
- Head of Facebook Canada Invests In Montreal Startup TrackTik
- UrtheCast Snaps Its First Image From Space
- Next 36 Alum Sesame.IO Launches Sesame Snap App for Parents, Teachers and Students
- Real Ventures to Announce New Fund Next Week?
- The “Facebook for Sports”, Montreal’s Insidde Sports Launches its V2 Web App
- New Report on Industrial Internet of Things Pegs Industry at $19 Billion
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- Winners Announced For Torontoâs Startup Weekend: Library Edition
- MakeWorks brings the maker movement to shared workspaces, hosting Toronto launch party next week
- A Four-Month Stint in NYC Helped This Canadian Startup Pivot (And Maybe Even Raise)
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- Cascadia Shines As Vancouver’s “Startup-Palooza”
- Halifax’s Compilr Gets Acquired by US-Based Online Education Company
- Waterloo Student Creates Popular Tool Set for Hearthstone Game
- Toronto Public Library Introduces Netflix-Like Service
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- Born Out of Invoke Labs, Vancouver’s BrightKit Forges Ahead in the Contest Space
- NASA and Communitech to Throw International Space Apps Challenge 2014
- Canadian Student Wins $10,000 “Kiss My App” Contest
- Moncton’s Onboardly Teams Up with Rackspace to Launch $70K #GetStarted Competition
- Report: Canadians Are Taking Kindly to Shopping Apps
- Fundica and FundRazr Team Up for the $10K “Fundees Awards”
- Toronto’s BrandProject Creates, Invests in New Company, TUNED Brands Inc.
- Little-Known BrandProject Launches Investment Fund-Incubator In Toronto and NYC
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- Sunnybrook and Ryerson Brains Get $100,000 for New Chemo Research
- Canadian-Made AppDirect Raises $35M in Series C Money
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- Toronto Tool Library Turns One
- International Startup Festival is Headed to The Big Apple
- Toronto Mayoral Candidate Says He’s Betting on Startups
- U of Waterloo Student Startup Wearability Takes $13K At Norman Esch Awards
- Vancouver’s CodeCore is Creating a New Wave of Developers
- The Truth About Accelerators: Some Accelerate Success, Others Accelerate Failure
- Jim Balsillie Says Canada’s Innovation Woes Revolve Around Intellectual Property
- Ooomf Raises $2.1 Million, Changes Name to Crew
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- Video: Frank & Oak Cofounder Talks About The Jump From Employee to Entrepreneur
- Early Google Employee Reflects on Career, Startups At AccelerateMTL
- Montreal Startup Bylls Wants You To Live Off Bitcoins
- Heartbleed: 900 Personal SIN Numbers Stolen From Canada Revenue Agency
- Real Ventures Fund III Gets First Close at $50 Million
- “Nobody Gives a S*** Anymore”: Life As a Failed Startup CEO
- Waterlooâs BitSent On Track To Be Canadaâs Largest Bitcoin ATM Operator
- Victoria’s KeyNexus Stores Cloud-Based Apps in a Really (Really) Secure Way
- Check Out This Quality Infographic on Wearables
- Canadian Tire to Unveil Cloud Computing Centre and “App Factory” Next Week
- Ontario Lets Citizens Vote on Access to Open Data Sets
- Alumnus Donates $150K To Let U of Windsor Students Make Investments
- LX Ventures and Mobio Want You to Get Paid for Being on Twitter
- New York’s Handybook, the “Uber for Household Services” Expands to Toronto
- Regional Finalists Revealed for the BDC Mentorship Award
- “Change is the Only Certainty”: C2MTL 2014 Partners Up with Microsoft
- Vancouver’s Webtech Wireless Shows it’s Not Just Startups That Pivot
- New Invoke Labs Startup Cleanify Joins the Home-Cleaning Race
- Waterloo Man Creates Fake PR Agency In Ploy to Get Hired
- Vancouver’s Pulse Energy Announces Multi-Million Dollar Deal With British Gas
- Montreal-Born 5By To Partner Up with VICE Media, Tribeca Film
- Billionaire Mark Cuban Invests in Vancouver’s Procurify
- Those 900 SIN Numbers Stolen From the CRA? Executed by a 19-Year-Old in London
- ShopLocket moves into content creation with Blueprint, a how-to portal for hardware entrepreneurs
- Check Out This Creative Infographic Showing How Startups Can “Make it to the Big Leagues”
- Google Named Best Large Firm to Work At in Canada
- International Startup Festival Has A Lot of Things to Tell You About
- Dragons’ Den Star to Launch $200M Fund in Waterloo
- BlackBerry To Reward Student App Developers with New Award at Canada-Wide Science Fair
- Innovation Management Tool SoapBox Lands Coca-Cola as Client
- Chinese Incubator Partners Up with InvestOttawa, Names Initial Four Startups
- Open Text Opens South American Hub in Sao Paulo
- Industry Veterans at TinyMob Games Are Really Bullish on Mobile RTS Games
- 40 Days Left to Apply for “World’s Largest Business Plan Competition”
- US Telecomm Equipment Giant Acquires Mississauga’s SeaWell Networks
- High School Students in Vancouver to Pitch Tech Investors Thursday
- The City of Toronto Is Getting Glass Hacked This Weekend
- BDC Introduces New Resiliency Award, Says It’s Okay to Fail
- Halifax’s Mobile Doctor Community The Rounds Gets $1 Million Seed Round
- Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion to Kick Off Microsoft-Sponsored YouthSpark Live Event
- Visual Search Platform Slyce to Go Public
- British Columbia is Becoming the Planet’s Smartest Coast
- Check Out Branham Group’s Top 25 Canadian Up-And-Coming ICT Startups
- Say Goodbye to the Lunchtime Blues: Foodee Delivers On a High Note
- UofTâs Mobile App Lab Demo Night Crowns Its Winner in XTouch App
- Secure Social Network myApollo Aims to Connect the World from Peer to Peer to Peer
- CanadaPost Beefs Up Offerings for Merchants Using Shopify, Other Ecommerce Platforms
- Recon Instruments is on a Roll with New Funding from Motorola Solutions
- You Don’t Have to Go to University, Says This Toronto Startup, Because There’s a Lot More Out There
- Montreal’s GreenCopper To Produce App for Huge Bud Light EDM Festival
- VIDEO: Check Out How This Short Film Views Toronto’s Tech Ecosystem
- 100,000 Different Businesses Are Now Using Shopify
- BroadbandTV Monetizes YouTube Clips That Brands Used to Call Piracy: Now Its Partnering Up with Fremantle Media
- Toronto Man Dreams Up App, Uses Tax Return Money to Get it Built
- P2P Travel Aggregators Outpost Travel Releases iOS App
- Montreal’s GradeSlam Tutoring Startup is Quietly Expanding
- Square Brings Back College Code Camp for Women, Canadians Encouraged to Apply
- Vancouver-Born Slack Raises $42.5 Million
- Shaw Communications Invests, Inks Deal with San Francisco’s $17M Startup Rdio
- BCTIA Names Several Startups Among Impact Award Finalists
- OpenText to Hire 1200 Over Seven Years, Ontario Commits $120 Million
- Vancouver’s Lighthouse Labs To Launch iOS Bootcamp
- Future Shop to Donate $150,000 to Canadian High Schools for Tech Lab Grants
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- Vancouver’s Big Data + Human Resources Company Visier Gets $25 Million
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- This Toronto Startup is Revolutionizing Homebuying with Unprecedented Data
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- Toronto Video Advertising Startup mDialog Acquired by Google
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- Project: SPACES Demo Day Shows Off Six Toronto Startups
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- #Icebucketchallenge: OMERS Ventures Calls Out Real Ventures, iNovia and Georgian Partners
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- Report: Mainstream Consumer Adoption of IoT Technology ‘Inevitable’
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- Hootsuite Could Soon Go Public According to Reports
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- Calgary Virtual Network Design Startup Crowdfunds Over $600K
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- San Francisco’s Rdio Named Official Music Sponsor of TIFF 2014
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- Halifax Startup Fundmetric is Headed to the Google for Entrepreneurs Program
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- Canadian Video Game Awards Gets Its New Host in Actor Mark Meer
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- Montreal’s Breather Raises $6 Million, Expands to San Francisco
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- Airbnb Names former Hubba Advisor as Canada Country Manager
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- TD Bank establishes lab within the Communitech Hub to dream up new customer service innovations
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- SafePay launches crowdfunding campaign to make online shopping safer
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- Canada named one of the best countries in the world to launch a startup
- The Herjavec Group acquires Toronto-based Sentry Metrics
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- BCIC expands its Venture Acceleration Program into Northwest B.C.
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- Hootsuite announces exclusive integration with BBM Channels
- eSentire Raises $14 Million, plans to hire 40 and “accelerate market leadership”
- LightSpeed secures $35 Million in funding from iNovia Capital and Accel Partners, announces LightSpeed Payments
- Government invests over $6 million to bring entrepreneurship programs to Colleges and Universities in Southwestern Ontario
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- Shopify announces its annual Build A Business competition, brings on Sir Richard Branson as a mentor
- Government continues to support entrepreneurship programs, invests $7.4 million into GTA schools
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- Toronto-based Eve Tab wants to be the Uber of nightlife, receives $150,000 in private funding
- Victoria-based Sendwithus raises $2.3 million
- MoveSuite CEO says its service ‘makes Canada Post mail forwarding obsolete’
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- IoT Design Shop Introduces the Personal Beacon System
- Bell Media invests $5 million into Toronto-based Hubub, receives ‘exclusive monetization rights in Canada’
- Beyond The Rack raises $10 million
- Canadian micro-businesses lean on mobile technology to grow
- The Challenge Cup 2015 is coming to Toronto
- Scribble Technologies raises $12 million, plans to ‘open new international offices and make strategic acquisitions’
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- Communitech starts accepting applications for HYPERDRIVE Cohort 5
- Randall Howard receives the “Canadian Angel of the Year” Award
- Desire2Learn Celebrates Two Years in Toronto
- City of Vancouver to open its first Technology and Social Innovation Centre
- Survey reveals that Canadian small businesses donât know their worth, continually undercharge for goods/services
- Canadian Entrepreneurs Program launched by Dell
- Waterloo’s MetaMarketplace raises $4M
- Ottawa’s RANOVUS raises $24 million to help “accelerate our expansion plan”
- Toronto-based Nulogy Raises $7.5 Million
- Bionym shipping Limited-Edition Nymi Bands to Developers, consumer launch set for “this fall”
- TekSavvy acquires Ottawa-based Openjive
- Hailo Taxi app reportedly pulling out of North America, Toronto ‘service will continue’ and seeking a licensing deal
- Wirkn receives $400,000 in funding, brings on Derek Szeto as CEO
- iNovia Capital opens up Waterloo office: ‘We know the talent is here’
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- MeU Launches Wearable LED Display, pre-orders now available for $275
- After delivering over 100,000 meals in Vancouver, Foodee expands to Toronto
- Montreal’s MFive Labs Raises $500,000, Releases the LISTN App
- Listn acquired by Beatport, app will be shutting down at the end of the month
- BDC lists ‘The 5 do’s and 5 donâts of successful businesses’ (infographic)
- Slyce Acquires Pounce for $5 million
- CIX names the top 20 hottest innovative Canadian companies for 2014
- Toronto’s Uplette participating in 500 Startups Demo Day Batch 10 today
- Lightspeed acquires Belgium-based POSIOS, launches Lightspeed Restaurant
- CrowdCare raises $3.5 million further deployment of its Wysdom app
- Startup Community, the documentary about startups in the Kitchener/Waterloo area, is now available on YouTube
- Google for Entrepreneurs Tech Hub Network opens up in Montreal’s Notman House
- Airbnb opens up Toronto office within MaRS
- The Next 36 brings on Peter Carrescia as its new managing director
- Toronto-based Slyce acquires Drivetrain Agency
- Slyce partners with Neiman Marcus with ‘Snap. Find. Shop’
- Square announces two coding events geared towards women
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- BDC listed as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers
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- Ottawa-based Clearwater Clinical Raises $2 Million from BDC Capital, Naavon and Fundfire
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- Montreal’s Lagoa reportedly sold to Autodesk for $62 million
- Square opens permanent office in Kitchener, says sellers in the region have facilitated over $3M in transactions
- Square has processed one billion payments
- Four Toronto startups selected to advance in The Challenge Cup 2015: Permission Click, GridCure, Limestone Labs and RainGrid
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- MasterCard Canada partners with Ladies Learning Code and University of Waterloo for ‘National Girls Learning Code Day’
- This Space Works shows how This Space Works
- Nova Scotia entrepreneurs now have access to GE intellectual property through Government partnership
- Thalmic Labs claims title of Innovator of the Year at PwC’s Vision to Reality Awards
- Execution Labs receives $6 million in funding, unveiles two new programs for independent game developers
- DogVacay raises $25 million, led by OMERS Ventures
- Industry Minister says ‘Alibaba is seriously considering a new campus in Vancouver’
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- Sentrian receives $12 million from TELUS Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures and Frost Data Capital
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- Cascadia Summit Announces 16 Startup finalists pitching for an opportunity to spend three months in Silicon Valley
- Airbnb study says its contributed $54.6 million to the Montreal economy
- Quandl receives $5.4 million from August Capital
- Deloitte unveils Canada’s Technology Fast 50
- SupplyStream scores $250,000 from Innovacorp
- Thereâs An App For That – An Inside Look at The Canadian Special Olympics
- Eventbase raises $2 million, acquires UK-based LetsLynk to strengthening its trade show technology offering
- Velocity announces Ten finalists competing for over $100,000 at the Velocity Fund Finals on November 27th
- Blitzen’s Josh Wright on representing Canada at the Startup Nations Summit
- Toronto Raptors’ Greivis VĂĄsquez joins MoPals’ board of directors
- JOLT portfolio companies have raised a total of $10.5 million
- LinkedIn says app developers have the “most desirable skills” for employment, Calgary is the most active job market in Canada
- Blockstream raises $21 Million from 40 investors, including Reid Hoffman, Real Ventures, Khosla Ventures
- JUST EAT Canada acquires Edmonton-based DELIVERY TOWN
- Rogers launches Rogers Ignite program for companies to pitch their market-ready products and innovative ideas
- Team Raisins wins SportsHack 2014, Toronto’s first sports wearables hackathon
- Kensington Launches $160 million VC Fund
- Apple now selling ecobee3 smart thermostat in the U.S.
- Toronto’s Wattpad featured in “Small Empires” by The Verge and Alexis Ohanian
- Thalmic announces partnership with superstar DJ Armin Van Buuren
- Toronto Mini Maker Faire takes over the Toronto Reference Library this weekend
- Slack raises a spectacular $120 million
- 500 Startups announces 500 Mobile Collective, a new venture fund specifically focused on mobile
- Kik raises $38.3 million in funding and acquires GIF Messenger Relay
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- Casper, the “outrageously comfortable” mattress, is now available to Canadians
- Communitech’s HYPERDRIVE puts focus on women in tech for its fifth cohort
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- BitLit announces ebook partnership with publisher Elsevier
- Golden Venture Partners raises $40 million from Northleaf, BDC and others
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- Rogers commits $4 million to Wavefront “to fuel growth of entrepreneurs” and accelerate M2M technology
- Cordon launches Indiegogo campaign to put VR in your pocket with PinÄ
- Vello wins Startup Weekend Toronto: Internet of Things Edition
- bitHound raises over $2 million from Michael Wekerle and BDC Capital
- Datify wins Manulife Smart Tech Challenge and a RED Lab residency
- Cascadia Summit Closes Vancouver Startup Week, awards Optigo Networks, Control and Magicflix each a $25,000 investment
- Government of Canada commits $30 Million over 5-years to four incubator and accelerator organizations
- Resson Aerospace scores $3.025 million in funding from Rho Canada Ventures, Build Ventures and others
- Linquet launches updated tracking solution to tap into the sharing economy
- Canadian Competition Bureau sides with Uber on less restrictive regulations
- Robots and smiles: Toronto Mini Maker Faire in photos
- Series 401 builds bridge between Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo
- Shopify CEO named CEO of the Year by Report on Business
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- Intel acquires Montreal-based PasswordBox
- Nielsen says only 40% of Canadians are familiar with wearable tech
- #TOTechBash wants Toronto to connect for charity
- Videogami raises an undisclosed amount from York Angel Investors
- FounderFuel Fall Demo Day 2014
- MaRS study shows Toronto startups are ethnically diverse, but predominantly male
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- Koho wants to create a Canadian bank built for millennials
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- Marcus Daniels of HIGHLINE VC wins a Notable Award for Entrepreneurship
- Microsoft lends YouthSpark support to Hour of Code initiative
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- Gallop Labs raises $2 Million seed round; Alkarim Nasser of BNOTIONS joins team
- H+ Technology bringing holographic hope to Ronald McDonaldâs House B.C.
- Toronto Gets Ready to HoHoTO for charity
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- The Accelerator Centre Joins Canadaâs Start-up Visa Program, graduates three technology startups
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- Sir Richard Branson wants to create ripples of impact investment in Canada
- Ted Hastings named President mobile rewards programs Perk.com
- Homejoy to “pause” Canadian operations
- Aimia acquires UK-based Zinc
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- Foko receives $2 million in funding led by BDC Capital and Real Ventures
- Hootsuite hires Jimmy Duvall as Vice President of Product
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- BrainStation acquired by Konrad Group
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- Canopy Labs CEO Wojciech Gryc says most business don’t realize the data they have access to
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- Shopify reportedly prepping for 2015 dual-IPO to raise $100M at $1 billion valuation
- MaRS-backed Unata raises $1.2M to fuel U.S. grocery retail growth
- Persistence Capital Partners invests in mdBriefCase
- Uber really wants a Vancouver return
- Montreal-based Intellitix Launches New Wearable Platform to Create Smart Venues
- Vidyard Raises $18M To Grow Its Video Marketing Platform
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- Communitech puts brakes on HYPERDRIVE, launches Rev accelerator to push revenue for “highly scalable startups”
- theScore now has over 10 million mobile monthly active users
- No one is doing VR like Sulon
- Teehan+Lax shutting down as partners join Facebook
- Canada’s Consul General for San Francisco on validating your startup in the Valley
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- Torontoâs Rubikloud raises $7 million Series A round
- Intuit: almost 40% of Canadian entrepreneurs lack basic financial management knowledge
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- Tilt releases new metrics on Canadian micro-groupfunding
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- Today in funding: Poka, Budge, OCE SmartStart
- Toronto’s SceneDoc closes $4 million Series A
- Tab expands its Uber for restaurants into Montreal
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- CapThermâs cool tech is hot
- Mike Kirkup explains how Velocity scales community
- Velocityâs Wes Worsfold understands your startup pain
- Carrier invests in smart thermostat maker ecobee
- Medella Health is in the right place at the right time
- Cisco and Teralys commit to McRockâs industrial IoT fund
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- Onyx Motion, HWKI some of the early stage startups entering the Next Gen Den
- Execution Labs announces first cohort into its Pre-Production Accelerator (PPA) program
- BDC now accepting applications for its annual Young Entrepreneurs Award
- Seevibes opens Toronto office, announces Franz Fontaine as VP of Strategic Development
- CEO Ryan Holmes rolling out guru employee track across Hootsuite
- Slack CEO says they are âhiring pretty aggressively in Vancouverâ
- Slack acquires Screenhero
- Nymi CEO Karl Martin: departures âlogical progressionâ from new enterprise customer focus
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- Slyce breaks into grocery retail with PDNâs Shopper app integration
- Montreal smart garment startup Heddoko selected Innovation World Cup Finalist
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- CPPIB commits additional $330 million to Canadian private equity, managed by Northleaf
- Product Hunt Toronto books top startup talent from around city
- Montreal’s Le Doggy CafĂ© is the first recipient of the 2015 ADP Small Business Grant Contest
- ADP brings back Small Business Grant Contest, offers up over $60,000 in prizes
- Google Glass is dead. Long live Google Glass
- Trippeo’s Adarsh Pallian on finding the gaps in huge industries
- Pebble has now sold 1 million smartwatches
- The Next Gen enters the Dragons’ Den
- Vancouverâs BlueBat Games acquired by Greentube
- Tomorrow’s We Are Wearables panel tackles “Wearables for Women”
- Wattpad now has 35 million users, over 70 million uploads have been shared
- Decoded Fashion touches down in Toronto
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- Founder Institute welcomes two Canadian startups into its Winter Founder Lab: Logrr and Elysia
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- theScore launches new eSports app
- Nymi promotes enterprise shift in new blog post
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- CVCA: $1.9B in Canadian VC investments in 2014
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- David Chilton departing Dragonsâ Den next year, still remains “a huge fan of the show”
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- Gymtrack raises $2.5 million seed round from Real Ventures & White Star Capital
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- It’s official: Cirque du Soleil finds “new strategic majority partner” with American TPG, will remain in Montreal
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- Uber claims it will create 8,000 full-time jobs in Toronto this year
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- Real Ventures raises $89 million for âa more national fund”
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- Rho Canada Ventures leads AirVMâs $8 million Series A
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- Communitech Tech Jam will help you find your next startup job this September
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- Vancouver-based Skooli launches its online tutoring platform
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- Mogo secures credit facility of up to $200 million from Fortress
- University of Toronto helps put the M back in MaRS with massive health tech expansion
- Canada gets a âCâ for innovation in latest report card
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- Startup Canada Podcast: Second Cup co-founder Frank OâDea on creating industries
- Former prime minister among National Startup Canada Awards winners
- Wearables that help with wellbeing get the spotlight on Canada AM
- MaRS partners with D2L for its Work & Learning cluster
- Startups Care inspires Vancouver tech scene to give back this season
- ‘Uber of prescriptions’ app PopRx launches in Toronto
- CIBC partners with #FinTech startup to expand small business lending
- EY names Michael Donovan Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year
- Is P2P the future of lending?
- DMZ named 3rd best incubator globally by UBI
- Energizing the future: Canadian innovators can lead the way
- Koho secures partnerships with Visa, others, as company preps to launch millennial banking in Canada
- Communitech, Velocity take space from Google to give #WaterlooRegion startups more legroom
- Shopify releases video exploring what grandmas, pizza, weed, and ecommerce have in common
- Come hack the CFL at Sportshack Weekend
- RE/MAX of Western Canada partners with Vancouver-based Two by Fore
- Today in acquisitions: Wantering, Playerize Network, SecureReset, Zoomission
- Today in funding ($4.6M): SmartReno, 4Deep, Ideal Candidate
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- #TechTO’s last event of the year features killer speaker lineup
- Vancouver Startup Weekend winners going global
- #ProductHuntTO closes year with real estate focus
- ScribbleLive talks about the changing nature of publishing on #TheDisruptors
- Startup jobs of the week: Hootsuite, Breather, Financeit, Grow, TribalScale
- Ritual jumps to the front of the line on #TheDisruptors
- Deep Genomics CEO says disruption is in his company’s DNA
- Highly usable tips from Vancouver UX Awards Finalists
- General Electric commissions Wattpad sci-fi writers to reinvent 50s comic series
- Nominations for PwC’s Vision to Reality Awards are open
- Eigen Innovations sole Canadian finalist in global Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge
- Startup job spotlight: VP of Risk at Financeit
- Startup Canada Podcast: Linda Manziaris talks youth entrepreneurship
- Mobify acquires Chicago-based DĂłnde to boost location-based technology offering
- Montreal’s WeHost helps Canadians host Syrian refugees
- Progressa closes $11.4 million Series A, announces marketplace investor platform for 2016
- EY report says Canadian executives looking more towards M&A for growth
- #BKchats: can tech save media and marketing?
- Wealthsimple acquires brokerage ShareOwner to offer Canadians end-to-end investing
- Science, Technology and Innovation Council evaluates “deteriorating business innovation” in Canada
- FreshBooks to expand product offering by selling a mobile card reader in 2016
- YTV partners with Ladies Learning Code and MakerKids to launch Code Week
- OMERS Ventures names Brian Kobus director of its investment team
- FounderFuel announces graduating startups for fall 2015 cohort
- The CFL got hacked Grey Cup weekend (but it’s not what you think)
- Fundrazr partners with education savings provider to establish education crowdfunding
- Today in funding: Worximity, Fresche Legacy, Allocadia, Wiivv
- Dark Futures opens with a bang to horrify us all
- Connecting the Canadian and Brazilian tech scenes
- University of Waterloo and Intact Financial launch new incubator to combat climate change
- Skysquirrel pitch takes flight on #TheDisruptors
- SAP goes on Vancouver hiring spree
- Toronto-based viral website Tickld acquired by US company Gateway Media
- Q4 Web Systems talks stocks on #TheDisruptors
- Lighthouse Labs kicking off largest youth coding event in B.C.
- Rubikloud makes its case for retail disruption
- Wiivv closes $3.5 million seed round, prepares for market entry
- RBC partnering with Airbnb Canada for a limited time
- US-based DoorDash expands to Vancouver, marking second entry into Canada
- Doors officially open to STEAMLabs, a brand new makerspace in Toronto
- Shopify integrates with QuickBooks Online
- Startup Canada Podcast: Ron Taylor on technology fuelling opportunities in Rural Canada
- Startup Canada announces ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ Award winner
- Party for a purpose at #HoHoTO this Friday
- Province of British Columbia announces $100 million VC fund
- HackerYou founder Heather Payne talks coding and community
- Indochino hires Shop.ca former founding CEO Drew Green
- BrainStation celebrating computer science education week with free public classes
- OMERS Ventures says Canadian tech IPOs set for slowdown in 2016
- Today in Uber: UberEATS expands while Toronto cabbies protest UberX
- #TechTO ends year with forward momentum ahead of City of Toronto takeover
- How Brad Feld convinced Shoelace to head back to Canada after a stint in Boulder
- Bridgit wins Google Demo Day Women’s Edition
- Webware.io, formerly known as PowerStores, raises VC funding
- Orckestra raises $12 million Series B
- The Next 36 announces 2016 class of entrepreneurs
- West Coast tech grows up: Launch Academy looks to the future
- PUSH wins Next Big Idea in Sport competition
- Bridgit takes home (another) win on #TheDisruptors
- Founder Institute Toronto marks end of the year with 15 new graduates
- theScore launches new fantasy sports app, QuickDraft
- Vancouver’s Eventbase raises $8 million from Madrona
- Toronto-based startup promises DIY mortgages in 10 minutes
- How to break up with really bad customers killing your bottom line
- Startup Canada adds 8 new co-working partnerships in Ontario
- Uber piloting public transportation alternative in Toronto
- Startup Canada Podcast: BetaKit Founder Sarah Prevette talks entrepreneurship by design
- Saskatoon, Toronto startup spaces first recipients of Startup Canada’s Retail Startup Fund
- Tom Emrich on Becoming Human: Wearable Technology and Us
- Hexoskin raises $1.3 million in second round of financing
- TSX-traded NexJ Systems spins off its healthcare offering into separate business
- The Ride sides with disrupted taxis to offer Canadians a national transportation option
- Rogers partners with Trustwave, announces new suite of cybersecurity solutions
- Slack launches $80 million VC fund to encourage third party integration
- SecureKey, Trulioo, and Financeit represent Canada on 2015 KPMG FinTech 100
- Canada called “most sought-after” destination for American VCs
- Startup Canada announces latest recipients of Community Investment Fund
- Toronto-based Clear Blue Technologies closes $1.85 million funding round
- Ryan Holmes’ open letter to BC Premier Christy Clark
- Shaw wants to buy Wind Mobile for $1.6 billion
- Thomson Reuters sponsoring MaRS LegalX cluster
- 5 Futurist predictions for 2016
- SMART Technologies Joins Google for Education Partner Program
- Happy Holidays: #BKchats saved media & marketing with tech (and tweets)
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – No Star Wars Spoilers
- Tasytt helping Syrian refugees arriving in Canada with crowdsourced guide
- US-based coworking space WeWork expanding to Montreal and Toronto
- Startup jobs of the week: Klick, Tab Payments, Brightspark Ventures, Repable, mnubo
- Financeit co-founder shares lessons learned at #TechTO
- Trulioo raises $15 million to take its ID verification software to banking
- Shopify just gave its employees $1,000,000 to spend on Shopify-powered stores
- Kik acquires Toronto-based fashion startup Blynk
- Startup job spotlight: Marketing Manager at Tab
- InteraXon swaps CEOs as Muse founder Ariel Garten moves to Board
- Tom Emrich saves the holidays with last-minute wearables gift ideas
- #BCTechSummit coming to Vancouver January 18 and 19
- What does this $100 million government fund mean to BC #FinTech?
- Eric Migicovsky talks the future of Pebble and smartwatches
- Startup Canada Podcast: Gerry Pond on accepting failure (and bouncing back)
- Is your startup ready to do business in China?
- The Marketing Leap wants to bring Toronto and Waterlooâs best marketers together
- 18-year-old Canadian demos second invention on The Tonight Show
- We Are Wearables: top 10 moments of 2015
- Ariel Garten shares reasons behind decision to step down as InteraXon CEO
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Netflix and Chill
- Startup Canada Podcast: Gary Ziegler on the opportunities in FinTech
- Wearable tech in 2015: the Hype Bubble bursts
- Belleville drone accident shows current regulation gap
- Canadian-founded Snowball acquired by Credit Karma
- BetaKit Best of 2015
- Applying the Three Rules of Silicon Valley to #WaterlooRegion
- 420 jobs coming to KW region thanks to Shopify and TD
- 11 Predictions for Wearable Tech in 2016
- OMsignal announces new smart bra and OMrun platform
- Holiday Funding Roundup: Axios, Athletigen
- Female Funders hosting breakfast series across North America with Shopify
- Startup job spotlight: Creative Lead at Wattpad
- Parsel’s Josh Brandley on the importance of building an entrepreneur support group
- Canadian government announces $50 million program to help SMBs with global export
- Startup Canada Podcast: Growing Vancouver’s entrepreneurial community
- Canadians almost evenly split over eagerness to adopt driverless cars
- The biggest Canadian startup stories of 2015
- Ride-sharing insurance coming to Ontario next month
- BlackBerry’s QNX announces self-driving car platform at CES
- Airbus acquires Waterloo-based flight software company Navtech
- Lendful raises $15 million from new partner Alterna Bank
- Hudson’s Bay to acquire Gilt Groupe for $250 million
- Hexoskin Smart hits crowdfunding goal in less than a day
- Aeryon Labs opens second office in Waterloo
- Shell Canada gives entrepreneurs $50,000 for cleantech projects
- MMB Networks closes $7 million Series B
- Uber taking on public transit again with wheelchair-accessible UberWAV
- Toronto-based Street Contxt raises $8 million Series A led by Oculus investor Formation 8
- Reuters: Canadian deal activity at second-highest level in 2015
- Jim Estill gives entrepreneurs their inspiration for 2016
- Startup jobs of the week: Tiny Hearts, theScore, SweetIQ, SurePath Capital Partners, Grow
- Waterloo-based Intellijoint Surgical receives FDA clearance for HIP surgical tool
- TD partnering with Cisco for its new Toronto innovation centre
- ConferenceCloud raises $90,000 in seed as MLA48’s third investment
- With $3.1 million in seed funding, Limelight transitions from service to product with its agency-in-a-box
- Startup Canada Podcast: Stephen Partridge talks disruption on a global scale
- Top ten wearable trends from CES 2016
- Budweiser hosting hackathon to prevent drunk driving
- Canadian government investing up to $4.76 million in CFC for digital media products
- #TechTO expands to Vancouver as event series goes national
- Toronto-based startup nanoPay acquires MintChip from Royal Canadian Mint
- Harley Finkelstein moves to COO position at Shopify
- Retail analytics platform Askuity raises $2 million Series A
- Toronto-based Hubba says it’s on track to raise $45 million
- The Next 36 accepting applications for The Next Founders 2016 cohort
- Startup job spotlight: UI designer at Tiny Hearts
- Federal government, GE Healthcare investing $40 million for MaRS cell regeneration research facility
- BetaKit and PayPal partner to power the BetaKit.Fund
- Meet the Canadians spearheading the $100 million enterprise SaaS-focused Leaders Fund
- Cisco opens Toronto Innovation Centre to jumpstart FinTech, healthcare, and smart city initiatives
- Cisco Canada launches new program for aspiring female entrepreneurs
- University of Waterloo opens Velocity Start, expands Velocity Science Lab
- Amazon Web Services opening first Canada region in Montreal
- Axiom acquiring part of lean law firm Cognition LLP
- Contractually acquired by California-based Coupa Software
- RateHub’s Digital Money Trends report shows power of search for FinTech startups
- #BCTechSummit to showcase an ecosystem of innovation
- Starting January 26, startups can apply to the Canadian Technology Accelerator in Boston
- New #WaterlooRegion office solidifies Google’s place in Canadian tech
- Upside Foundation names Howard Gwin its first ambassador
- Shopify’s POS solution adds Android support
- Jobs of the week: Myplanet, Granify, Picatic, Sampler, RentMoola
- EQ Bankâs new mobile app is an incumbentâs crack at modern banking
- Stockhouse Publishing creates first equity investment platform for public companies
- Hurrier rebrands to foodora
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – CES Madness
- Johns Hopkins researchers use Myo to develop first gesture-controlled prosthetic attached to a skeleton
- Square appoints Cathy Vigrass to lead Canadian operations
- Oneiric is making hockey gear to keep kids safe
- Startup Canada Podcast: Tadashi Takaoka on opportunities to grow in Latin America
- #BCTechSummit unveils BC Tech Fund details and more
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces $12 million fund for clean water tech
- Ontario Centres of Excellence grants $180,000 to four Entrepreneurship Hatchery startups
- Startup Canada holding National Entrepreneurship Census
- Machine learning startup Maluuba raises $9 million Series A
- BuildDirect CEO says unlimited vacation for employees will be positive for productivity
- Tony Lacavera commits to Series A & B investments following âmeaningfulâ Wind exit
- Female Funders kicks off Breakfast Series to inspire 1,000 new angel investors
- Canadian Forbes Top 30 Under 30 winners share their plans for 2016
- Thoughts on the Lean startup from Eric Ries at #BCTECHSummit
- iNovia Capital raises $175 million for new venture capital fund
- Ontario Provincial Police to source its next group of constables from the tech community
- ThoughtExchange wins Innovation Showcase at #BCTechSummit
- Joe Fresh Centre for Fashion Innovation opens applications for second cohort
- Startup job spotlight: content marketer at Granify
- Flywire acquires Toronto-based ScholarFX
- Largest independent software company in South Korea announces expansion to Canadian market
- Feast takes a ‘full-stack’ approach to food delivery
- Upverter pitches GitHub for hardware on #TheDisruptors
- Carriers using small cell tech to connect Canadians
- Uber is now licensed in Toronto
- Ryan Holmes talks future IPO on #TheDisruptors
- Queen’s Venture Capital Club seeks best Canadian student startup
- Rory Capern jumps ship from Google Canada to Twitter Canada
- Startup jobs of the week: Athletigen, OneEleven, OMSignal, Askuity, Bridgit
- UW & Laurier students show why Waterloo is Canada’s tech hub at #WaterlooHacks
- PetalMD acquires Montreal-based startup Medago
- MaRS, Communitech, and Velocity among Canadian organizations opening joint coworking space in Silicon Valley
- CanCon Podcast Episode 1: Hipster TV and our dollar sucks
- Crew’s new office is part coffee shop, part coworking space, part 1920s bank
- OMERS Ventures plans to raise $300 million CAD in 2017 for third fund
- #FinTech startups cash in at #ProductHuntTO on February 4
- Startup Canada campaign gives entrepreneurs a say in next federal budget
- #WWTO panel predicts widespread wearables adoption in 2016
- Sentinel Alert raises $525,000 seed round
- Wiivv shows off next generation of insoles on #TheDisruptors
- Gallop Labs “sold for parts” to Big Viking Games as CEO, founding team part ways
- Mayor John Tory explains how tech innovation will sell Toronto to the world
- 360incentives raises $10 million in funding
- Montreal-based Radialpoint becomes Appdirect’s fifth acquisition
- Invest Ottawa launches innovation management clinic for businesses
- Today in funding: icejam, Clockwork Fox, iNovia investment fund, HeyOrca!
- Cleantech Group names EnerTech Capital financial investor of the year
- C100 co-chair and GGV Capital co-founder Scott Bonham joins Scotiabank board of directors
- Ladies Learning Code partners with Scotiabank to launch code:clubs
- StackAdapt raises $1 million Series A to boost native advertising platform
- Vidyard announces $50 million Series C round
- Scribblelive acquires Visually and expands its Silicon Valley presence
- Shoes.com wants to raise at least $25 million for acquisitions
- #TheDisruptors reports that Tony Chvala is the new CEO of Shop.ca
- VarageSale lays off 30 staff, including VPs of Engineering, Product
- Scotiabank hosting FinTech hackathon dedicated to debt management tools
- BDC Capital increases commitment to Mistral Venture Partners early-stage fund to $6 million
- Ray Kurzweil shares strategies to create the future
- Startup Canada Podcast: David Nault talks venture capital and thinking big
- Bruce Croxon interviews former competitor Markus Frind on #TheDisruptors
- Spacefy claims its own space on #TheDisruptors
- Following $1 million seed round, ExpertKnowledge founder explains why corporate training fails
- Startup jobs of the week: Mentionmapp, Sentinel Alert, Shopify, Busbud, Ritual
- Mogo becomes latest company to join the MaRS FinTech cluster
- Denmark’s oldest healthcare company opens innovation lab in Markham, its first outside Europe
- Quebec City-based Jobillico raises $8 million to fuel westward expansion
- Oneiric scores a pitch on #TheDisruptors
- CanCon Podcast Episode 2: Is Winter Coming for Canadian tech?
- Canadian VC investments hit $2.6 billion in 2015, up 11 percent YoY
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Lap of Luxury
- Magnusmode founder explains how tech can help people with cognitive special needs
- UGO adds peer-to-peer pay to mobile digital wallet service
- Startup Canada Podcast: D2L founder John Baker talks Edtech
- Globalive’s Tony Lacavera shares his entrepreneur story (VIDEO)
- Zak Homuth shares Upverterâs (several) near-death experiences
- Mike Wekerle shares commitment to Waterloo at Entrepreneurs Exchange
- LegalX launching legal innovation challenge with Canadian law firm Blakes
- Cybersecurity company eSentire raises $27 million
- Staples and Thinking Capital launch loan service to give SMBs quick access to financing
- Blockstream raises $55 million Series A
- Your next flight booking could be Trippeo
- Startup job spotlight: Ritual
- Foodee raises $6 million Series A for U.S. expansion
- Mike McDerment opens up on the decision to revamp FreshBooks
- Horizn CEO Janice Diner on how startups can be profitable from day one
- CareGuide makes strategic investment in fellow startup Qimple
- Waterloo-based Pout acquired by Silicon Valley startup Everalbum
- Innovation City: Is Vancouverâs tech scene poised to make a quantum leap?
- Visa launches payments developer platform
- Points.com co-founder explains how its loyalty platform keeps customers coming back
- INSTANT Financial raises $1.2 million seed round
- Why Mike Serbinis wants to disrupt the employee insurance market with LEAGUE Benefits
- Startup jobs of the week: Canopy Labs, Lighthouse Labs, Klick, Bench, Mojio
- EAâs customer strategy takes its cue from entertainment world
- Sustane Technologies wins i-3 Technology Startup Competition
- CanCon Podcast Episode 3: What’s the deal with food tech?
- American Express Canada joins MaRS FinTech cluster as sponsor
- Canadian video game developers bet big on VR
- FinTech firm Voleo accelerates its vision in Accentureâs London lab
- Toronto-based Urbery wants to disrupt grocery delivery
- Startup job spotlight: business development lead at Raise Your Flag
- #ProductHuntTO tackles startup survival in highly regulated #FinTech industry
- OBI offering $50,000 for startups working on brain health
- Toronto taxi drivers will strike during NBA All-Star weekend
- Wattpad is your brand’s last, best hope for native advertising
- Lucova making selfies the future of selling
- Montreal-based Groove Music app acquired by Microsoft
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Rumour Mill
- Snap for Groupon changing with Canadian product founders Michele Romanow & Anatoliy Melnichuk departing
- Startup York creates comprehensive resource for York Region entrepreneurs
- @StartupCFO asks: should founders get stock options?
- Mark MacLeod (@StartupCFO) on achieving financial success in 2016
- Lessons learned from pitching tech on Dragonsâ Den
- Girls in Tech Toronto celebrates fifth birthday spotlighting women in tech
- IBM develops Watson-powered sports analytics platform in collaboration with Toronto Raptors
- Desjardins Group takes on mobile-first generation with Zag Bank offering
- DMZ panel examines rise of sharing economy and the need for regulation
- Breather partners with real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield to fuel international expansion
- Montreal-based Karelab acquires Propulse to expand its HR gamification platform
- Statflo raises $2.4 million seed round, partners with iQmetrix
- Halifax incubator Volta Labs receives $500,000 in federal funding
- Avrio Capital closes its largest late stage venture fund with $110 million in commitments
- Borrowell is betting on team and good credit to disrupt lending in Canada
- Canadian entrepreneurs need Ten Thousand Coffees to compete with the U.S
- Halifaxâs Clean Simple looks to grow beyond Atlantic Canada with new seed funding
- Startup jobs of the week: Sensibill, QuickTapSurvey, K2 Digital, Gymtrack, Maluuba
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Enter the Rift
- Travis Kalanick speaks out: Uberâs CEO on risk, regulation, and women in tech
- University of Toronto study finds that Canadian attitudes towards innovation trail Americans
- GM Canada working on future of transportation at its new Communitech hub
- Top 10 Digital Marketing Trends for 2016
- CanCon Podcast Episode 4: The web is a Pokémon and how to save Twitter
- Slack celebrates second birthday with 2.3 million daily active users
- SaaS startups get a boost as nine companies accepted into L-SPARK’s second incubator cohort
- BDC Capital filling gap in mid-stage investments with $150 million Venture Fund
- @StartupCFO asks: Is your revenue model accurate?
- Today in funding: Mobify, ScarX Therapeutics, Chronogolf
- Non-profit establishes first Aboriginal entrepreneurship accelerator
- Tips from Founder Summit: how to scale your startup
- Shopify revenue hits $70.2 million USD in Q4, 99% YoY growth
- Startup job spotlight: Java Lead at QuickTapSurvey
- Hamilton-based CareKit Health acquired by Moseda Technologies for $2 million
- Sol Orwell explains what every startup needs to know before taking funding
- Sharethebus becomes latest Canadian startup to join Y Combinator
- Talentbuddy acquired by San Francisco-based Udemy
- Grow Financial and First West Credit Union signal beginning of FinTech partnership trend
- This Vancouver native and Thiel Fellow is building a new communication platform at Harvard
- CONTEST: have your say at #TechVAN on February 23
- Piinpoint helps companies like Tim Hortons predict their future
- iCONECT’s partnership with Lockheed Martin is an overnight success 20 years in the making
- Ontario gov’t partners with Airbnb to raise consumer rights awareness for the sharing economy
- Propel ICT accepts 38 startups across all four Atlantic provinces in latest cohort
- ModernAdvisor wants to disrupt investment management with robots
- Startup jobs of the week: Easy Automated Sales, Sago Sago Toys, Algocian, ParseHub, Sortable
- Wealthsimple and Borrowell take Canadian FinTech mainstream through RRSP partnership
- Report: Canadian VC investment reaches $2.3 billion in 2015, VC exit values reach record highs
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 5: Startup frat bro culture and the pressure to scale
- Mogo founder says he has no regrets about going public on #TheDisruptors
- Interac announces ‘open’ mobile debit payment solution with help from IBM, Everlink, and Bell ID
- Vancouver-based Axiom Zen acquires VR authority Hammer & Tusk
- Startup job spotlight: Account executive at Sortable
- Toronto and #WaterlooRegion solidify startup commitment at Shopify with #StartUpHere
- Cassia Research and TRIDUS partner to give all investors âseatbeltsâ in time of market volatility
- Intuit report examining why people start companies says Canadians want to be their own boss
- Borrowell raises $6.4 million in operating and loan capital from Power Financial, Equitable bank
- Communitech opens New York City-based workspace with Phillips Lytle LLC
- April Dunford explains why your startup needs less death stink and more true love
- Queenâs University researchers create the first working flexible smartphone
- Boostmi disrupting auto service industry with $25 car boosts
- Grow and Conexus partner to bring consumer lending platform to Saskatchewan
- Vision Critical sells its Research Consulting division, CEO addresses possible IPO this year
- Government of Ontario investing $22.75 million in IBM Innovation Incubator project
- JA Central Ontario gives high school entrepreneurs real-world experience with first trade show
- Read the first 30 pages of The Growth Hacker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes on how to make tough decisions
- Hykso joins Y Combinator as more pro athletes adopt wrist-sensing tech
- Rogers NHL VR experience puts Mark Messier in your living room
- Twitter Canada’s new boss has “very large shoes” to fill
- Why investors need to pay more attention to the water tech industry
- Montreal and Paris launching startup exchange program in May 2016
- Montreal’s startup community works together to launch Notman House’s Osmo CafĂ©
- Toronto and Chicago hosting first cross-border hackathon
- IDC report says Canadians mostly not interested in wearables
- Amazon Echo hosting its first Canadian hackathon in Toronto
- TSX Venture Exchange announces the 2016 TSX Venture 50
- Dogfooding and other startup insights from the inaugural #TechVAN
- Mike Katchen says BMO tried to build its own Wealthsimple to compete in growing FinTech market
- Top five reasons why the Canadian tech community needs to go to #Dx32016
- EcoFuel Accelerator announces spring 2016 cohort
- Startup jobs of the week: Eden, EventMobi, Affinio, RED Academy, Lightspeed
- How Statflo helps wireless retailers like Telus stay on top of customer service
- FreshBooks’ Mike McDerment challenges entrepreneurs to impact the future today
- Wiivv breaks record as most funded 3D printed product in Kickstarter history
- Ask The Doctor launches virtual healthcare platform for employers in Ontario
- #WaterlooRegion startups like Thalmic stepping up to keep tech talent in Canada
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Canucks don’t care about wearables
- Ask @StartupCFO: Should I hire a COO or CFO?
- Picatic’s Jayesh Parmar explains why startups need to eat their own dog food
- Tangerine and Ryerson University partner to open FinTech incubator in Toronto
- mnubo partners with Grain Systems Inc. to bring IoT to agribusiness
- Do Your Own Mortgage cuts out the middleman to get customers cash back
- Startup job spotlight: Software developer at Affinio
- Startup Canada Podcast: Just for Laughs co-founder Andy Nulman
- Influitive raises additional $8.2 million, acquires Ironark software
- Ernst and Young opens nominations for Entrepreneur of the Year 2016 Awards
- Startup Next Toronto seeking early and late-stage companies for spring cohort
- Today in funding: Buddybuild, RentMoola, BioEnterprise Corporation, Changeit, SourceKnowledge
- Postmedia acquires social amplification platform Ampifii
- Kensington Venture Partners exceeds target with $306 million Kensington Venture Fund
- Lending Loop halts new loan requests amidst talks with âsecurities regulatory authorities”
- How to name your tech startup
- PopRX partnering with Ask The Doctor on its ATD Works platform
- Today in Canadian Unicorns: Hootsuite written down, Slack raising at $4B USD valuation
- #Dx32016: Pepper the sassy robot dreams of changing retail
- TD Canada Trust’s new mobile payments solution beats Apple and Samsung to the punch in Canada
- #Dx32016: How Kik will use chat bots to sell products to teens (and everyone else)
- Vancouver hosts new hackathon for social good this weekend
- Progressa announces partnership with Vancouver-based Alpine Credits
- #Dx32016: Playing with Samsung Pay, coming to Canada this year
- #Dx32016: Entrepreneurs must embrace “quiet voice” of creativity in a tech-obsessed world
- Five things we learned from #Dx32016
- This app for healthy personal care products helps consumers Think Dirty
- Startup jobs of the week: Vortini, Borrowell, Plooto, Sortable, Trippeo
- CXI offers “Tinder for startups” at retail pitch competition
- WeWork chooses Montreal for its deep creative culture
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Wearable Happy Meals
- Startup job spotlight: Account manager at StackAdapt
- Spring Loaded Technology raises $1.9 million in funding, snags Canadian National Defense contract
- Lighthouse Labs launches DevHub education and coworking space
- The new realities for Canadian entrepreneurs
- Mywedhelper tackling booming South Asian wedding industry
- Nanoleaf secures $2.9 million from the Government of Canada
- University of Waterloo leads change with women in tech and HeForShe at #WIMIn2016
- Empowering female entrepreneurs through coast-to-coast funding & support programs
- Lightspeed Retail launches platform combining brick-and-mortar and ecommerce experience
- Startup Canada Podcast: 17-year-old Alex Gillis on entering the Dragons’ Den
- Indochino secures $42 million investment from global apparel manufacturer
- 43North $5 million startup competition open to applications
- Canadian Bar Association partnering with MaRS LegalX cluster
- Globalive’s Tony Lacavera says 5G will “significantly” impact Canada’s mobile landscape
- IDEO’s Barry Katz hosting design thinking bootcamp at Communitech
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 7: Canadian unicorn hype check
- Nano One receives $2 million from Sustainable Development Technology Canada
- Kitchener city council recommends allocating $300,000 to support Communitech
- Toronto-based Rumble announces partnership with Getty Images
- Report: 70 percent of businesses spend more than $1 million on ecommerce; only half see ROI
- District 3 boosts Montreal FinTech scene with Fintech Breakfast Parlay
- Ottawa-based CareerJSM launches at world’s biggest startup festival
- Vidyard wants to gobble up all the advertising dollars with video
- Startup jobs of the week: ZEITDICE, 88 Creative, Grow, LemonStand, Urbery
- Lending Loop makes the case for its P2P lending business on #TheDisruptors
- PwC, Uber, City of Toronto, and Metrolinx partnering to host hackathon
- #Dx32016: Retail Prophet Doug Stephens on the “end of the beginning of ecommerce”
- Why startups need to raise less and hustle more
- DMZ and TechGirls Canada panel tackling STEM’s diversity problem says ‘get the hell out of the way’
- PopRX promises free same-day prescription delivery on #TheDisruptors
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 8: Are we too Canadian for FinTech innovation?
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Wearable Tech Index
- Ask The Doctor brings house calls to the 21st century with new platform
- Sampler and Komodo OpenLab win DMZ and Innovation Birmingham’s Next Big Idea contest
- Startup job spotlight: senior full stack developer at LemonStand
- Startup Canada Podcast: Building a Customer Service Juggernaut
- Ooka Island’s gamified reading platform makes screen time valuable for kids
- Spring Activator partners with RED Academy to create skills and innovation hub
- Mike Serbinis says LEAGUE raising Series A to tackle North American market
- VM Farms’ Hany Fahim speaks on how digital literacy empowers regular people
- MaRS Studio Y holding first National Youth Leadership and Innovation Strategy Summit
- MasterCard Start Path Global accepting applications for next class
- Meta 2 is the next big step towards augmented reality
- Ask @StartupCFO: How to avoid the “Oh shit” board meeting
- CrowdRiff raises $2.6 million CAD seed round
- Evercondo wants to save you from the perils of #Condolife
- Waterloo-based Sandvine receives $15 million from provincial government
- Intellijoint Surgical enters strategic partnership with UK-based Corin Group
- RentMoola partners with utility management companies to expand its North America presence
- #DellSMBChat shows agile business needs more than good Wi-Fi and office dogs
- Report: Canadian companies 2.6 times more likely to replace founder CEOs
- Thalmic’s Stephen Lake challenges federal government to better define Canada’s innovation agenda
- Indochino launches wedding planner platform for grooms
- Young Women in Business launches in Toronto with conference March 26
- Ethical Eating: How apps can help us get what we really need
- Interzone intersecting tech talk with bleeding-edge politics
- Librestream Technologies raises $11 million in funding
- Andreessen Horowitz partner and MaRS CEO among Ottawa’s council of economic advisors
- Voltera pitches its printed circuit boards on #TheDisruptors
- Startup jobs of the week: Him & Her Incorporated, Wise & Hammer, Prospect Madison, SettleUp, Kira Talent
- Telus Small Business Challenge accepting applications for $100,000 grand prize
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Smarter Smartwatches
- University of Waterloo president says talent is key to innovation ecosystem
- Teralys Capital closes oversubscribed $375 million Teralys Capital Innovation Fund
- Plasticity Labs can tell if your employees hate you
- Influitive acquires TriggerFox, marking second acquisition this month
- Volta hires Velocity and Creative Destruction Lab founding director as its CEO
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 9: What is Canada’s innovation strategy?
- Aviva Canada partners with DMZ to enhance digital strategy
- Slack Amazing Teams Tour making stop in Toronto on March 31
- Globalive founder Tony Lacavera kicking off Startup Canada’s Day on the Hill
- QD Solar raises $2.55 million from Sustainable Development Technology Canada
- #AfterSchoolWR connects students to tech ecosystem in #WaterlooRegion
- Today in Funding: TouchBistro, Ayogo, McRock INFund + HarbourVest VCAP
- Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains reveals commitment to cleantech and “holistic approach” post-budget
- Startup job spotlight: Digital marketing specialist at Onboardly
- Pebble lays off 25 percent of its staff after raising $26 million over last eight months
- Waterloo-based Aterlo Networks raises $1 million
- 10 ways the 2016 federal budget will affect Canadian entrepreneurs
- Shopify releases new and improved SDKs, including Android Pay integration
- Montreal-based Triotech raises $80 million to expand emerging tech to amusement parks
- MaRS FinTech company Aspire Financial raises $750,000 seed round
- We get face time with MasterCardâs âSelfie Pay’ pilot
- Thalmic’s Stephen Lake and Lightspeed’s Dax Dasilva among C100’s Ambassador Program
- Ideal’s Somen Mondal says good companies are bought, not sold
- Former Hootsuite exec joins Vidyard as president and COO
- TiEQuest hosting top five business ventures to compete for $50,000
- Commissioner of Canada’s competition bureau says we need to “get out of our own way”
- Kira Systems uses machine learning to lead next generation of legal tech
- Startup jobs of the week: Green Brick Labs, CareGuide, Fundica, Diagram, Empty Cubicle
- Lendified promises more efficient loans for small businesses on #TheDisruptors
- Snapchat reportedly acquires Toronto-based Bitstrips for $100 million
- Wealthsimple launches responsible investment portfolio to attract socially-conscious millennials
- Permission Click raises $1.75 million in seed funding from Real Ventures, Friesens
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The Rift opens (in Alaska)
- Carl Mercier steps down to chief product officer of VarageSale, appoints Andrew Sider as CEO
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 10: Federal Budget Post-Mortem
- C100 opens nominations for 48 Hours in the Valley program
- Startup Canada Podcast: Ray Walia talks Vancouver’s startup scene
- RED Academy opening second location in Toronto
- Hootsuite acquires Vancouverâs Sales Prodigy
- Mentorship as Empowerment: Challenging every woman to find a mentor and be a mentor
- Maluuba opens deep learning research lab in Montreal
- Report: Canadians trust computers more than humans and value flexibility in the future workplace
- Toronto-based Cyberpost raises $1.8 million to make snail mail virtual
- Lendified acquires Techstars graduate Mentio Technologies
- Google and University of Guelph researchers want your phone’s sensors to replace passwords
- Wearable Wednesday gets a reboot in Canada
- University of Waterloo team one of only 22 testing prototype on SpaceX’s hyperloop track
- Startup job spotlight: .NET Lead Developer at Empty Cubicle
- Bridging to Technology: Launching an indigenous technology ecosystem in BC
- Wave raises $6.7 million from BDC Capital as it works to enter the lending space
- MaRS Solutions Lab partners with City of Toronto to create sharing economy regulations report
- Today in funding: Hopper, Medgate, SkySquirrel, Ubique Networks
- AccelerateAB announces 2016 lineup of speakers, including Google Canada executive
- On Hiring: Is your startup looking for a purple squirrel?
- KAI Innovations acquires Trimara to expand electronic medical records system
- Meta is trying to save scientists from information overload
- Rogers partners with blueRover to offer ‘IoT as a Service’
- Chipcare explains why its blood-testing technology is not the next Theranos
- TranQool removes accessibility barrier to mental health services
- Slack raises $200 million USD at $3.8 billion valuation
- Startup jobs of the week: shomi, QuickTapSurvey, Jobber, Control, Axonify
- Borrowell’s April Foolsâ joke goes to the dogs as customers freak out
- 20 student startups compete for $125,000 at W16 #VelocityFund Finals
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – VR Final Four
- Montreal-based Goodfood raises $1.1 million, pledges to donate food to children in need
- Digital marketing minds connect in Squamish for CIMC
- Canadian entrepreneurs can spend a 15-minute ride with investors using UberPITCH
- Plum’s Caitlin MacGregor says most failed hires due to attitude, not skill
- Startup Canada Podcast: Version One Ventures’ Boris Wertz
- University of Toronto and RBC partner to create new accelerator
- Toronto Mayor John Tory delivers keynote promoting Toronto-Waterloo corridor to Silicon Valley
- Winners of [D]Congestant hackathon create “Match.com of ridesharing”
- Federal government’s Venture Capital Action Plan adds $400 million to funds of funds
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 11: We solve Canada’s startup hiring problem
- TextNow opens office in San Francisco as more North Americans seek alternative phone plans
- East Side Games’ Jason Bailey teaches startups how to ask themselves the right questions
- Startupfest creates five new “Premium Fests” to encourage closer connections
- Slack’s Amazing Teams event examines communication as culture
- PwC announces finalists for its 2016 Vision to Reality Awards
- #TechVAN March: On tech debt, beauty, and getting good
- City of Toronto releases proposed bylaw for regulating ridesharing
- Report: The need to replace retiring ICT workers will be “critical” in Toronto
- Microsoft HoloLens wants to make holograms part of your reality
- Large enterprises seeking help from startups at Innobahn events series
- WeWork Canada’s Dave McLaughlin explains why its coworking spaces create tangible business value
- London Bridge Networkâs Founders Panel talks big risks and ‘enormous talent’
- Toronto-based BitGold launches merchant processing service in 150 countries
- Raise Your Flag wants to help you reach your dream career without formal education
- Startup jobs of the week: Witmart, Palette, Bench, Wave, ExpandIT
- LEAGUE’s Mike Serbinis says get behind the Canadian tech movement or “get out of the way”
- Yaletown Venture Partners raising $135 million fund for emerging growth companies
- Velocity director Mike Kirkup departing to pursue CTO role at Encircle
- W|W – The Wearable Weekly: VR Migraines & Baseball wearables
- How Breather’s hourly platform fills a gap for Canada’s 13 million mobile workers
- Breather launches first spaces in Toronto’s financial and fashion districts
- Dell ranks Toronto 11th out of 50 future-ready cities across the world
- Quebec City-based AddĂnergie receives $12.8 million investment
- Canadaâs first on-demand dog-walking app is here
- Two Next 36 alumni are tackling the myth of one “magic pill” that kickstarts business innovation
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 12: Software canât solve everything
- Financeit and Concentra announce $100 million partnership
- nGUVU raises $3 million to accelerate growth of machine learning and gamification platform
- Has your startup thought about employee benefits?
- Shopify leasing 112,000 square feet of space as main tenant in King-Portland Centre
- UGO partners with Sensibill to enable receipt storage on smartphones
- Startup Canada Podcast: Studio-Model Investing and Startups with Tony Lacavera
- CareGuide spins off caregiver payroll services to form HeartPayroll
- Shopify acquires San Francisco-based virtual marketing assistant Kit
- Mobeewave officially opens beta of PayMeTap to kickstart the future of contactless payments
- Ottawa City Council votes in favour of legalizing Uber
- Canadian startups PACTA and Knowledgehook to pitch at Google Demo Day
- Payso winding down P2P payments to focus on business product
- Today in funding: Gymtrack, Clearwater Clinical, Semios, Acuva Technology
- Trulioo wins Innovation in Cyber Security Award at 2016 FinTech Innovation Awards
- What does a great growth hacker look like?
- Startup job spotlight: Event marketing manager at Axonify
- TD releases financial management app to its 3.5 million active mobile users
- Flipp receives $61 million strategic growth investment from General Atlantic
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 21: Rise
- Two-day Traction Conference featuring speakers from Hootsuite, Y Combinator
- Dalhousie University accepting applications for $100k competition
- PwC Canada names winners of 2016 Vision to Reality Awards
- Today in video: Rumble ranks 47 on comScore top 100, BroadbandTV third largest video property in the world
- Interzone examines convergence between politics and privacy in a digital age
- Law Scout plays matchmaker for fixed-price lawyers on #TheDisruptors
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces $50 million investment in Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Not for the faint of heart
- Vancouver-based Mobify acquires fellow startup Pathful
- BlancRide wants its carpooling technology to take more cars off the road
- UK-based Transferwise moves into Canada to challenge high money transfer fees
- Miovision accelerating vision for smart cities with Swift Labs partnership
- ReUp helps independent businesses catch up in the age of mobile apps
- iNovia expands #WaterlooRegion office with new hire to take a chance on early-stage entrepreneurs
- Peer-to-peer car rental marketplace Turo enters Canadian market in first international expansion
- AccelerateOTT returns with speakers from Shopify, 500 Startups
- Startup Canada Podcast: Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur
- Vancouver tech podcast episode 22: SKIO Music
- Less than a year after launch, GoldMoney gets listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
- BMO and DMZ partner to launch four-month Next Big Idea in FinTech program
- #BKchats: How can startups keep great talent?
- Digital Media Summit returns to examine intersection between social media and interactive marketing
- LendingArch enters Canadian FinTech space with customized loan platform
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 13: Should the Canadian government pick winners?
- Today in funding: Bridgit, Fiddlehead Technology, PrecisionHawk
- Ryerson University announces winners of Climate Hack-to-Action
- Uber threatens to leave Toronto if ride-hailing restrictions are passed May 3
- Government and experts convene to talk driverless cars in Canada
- Ontario Chamber of Commerce releases report on barriers facing scaling businesses
- Semiconductor company Peraso Raises $20M Series C Financing to address next generation of WiFi
- #BotTO returns to predict the future of chat bots with Kik and Shopify keynotes
- 500px expands to Europe, hires former Getty Images and Flickr Directors
- BCTIA announces Technology Impact Award finalists
- Report says most of Ontario business support goes to 0.1 percent of province’s companies
- Nick Burka reimagining idea of the To Do List with One Big Thing
- Waterloo’s regional politicians endorse bylaw principles to make Uber legal
- Vancouver and Toronto join 40 cities for global hackathon to address overfishing
- Casalova wants its platform to make landlords and renters happy
- TubeMogul explains how it solves advertising fragmentation on #TheDisruptors
- City of Montreal signs two-year pilot project partnership with Waze
- TranQool hosting startup mental health workshop in Toronto on May 3
- Cubbyspot removing the headache from daycare wait times on #TheDisruptors
- Kanetix partners with ClientDesk to build up insurance digitization platform
- Federal government shaping strategy to promote Canadian content worldwide as digital takes over
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – 2016 is the year VR takes off
- TeaBot’s Rehman Merali says good hardware companies don’t just sell hardware
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 23: Lighthouse Labs
- Decentral launches initiative to encourage collaboration in building Canada’s FinTech ecosystem
- Startup Canada Podcast: Wattpad’s Allen Lau on the importance of perseverance
- Wattpad launches multi-channel network to co-produce Wattpad stories for film
- Tony Lacavera says Canada can be a leader in quantum computing at Canadian Club Toronto panel
- Transpod wants to bring its Canadian-made hyperloop to the world
- IMMUNIO raises $5 million Series A to disrupt web app security
- Why entrepreneurs need to make mental health a priority
- Google Canada gives Toronto YouTubers access to resources with new creator space
- Shopify launches Shopify Capital to fund entrepreneurs on its platform
- Guiides connects adventurous travelers with experiences off the beaten path
- CaSA partners with mnubo to help smart home owners reduce their electricity bills
- #SMWiTO to celebrate Toronto’s “thriving” digital media industry
- Women and Color launches to address underrepresentation of women and POC at tech events
- Ottawa company launches platform to help urban planners prepare for climate change
- Ryerson University opens The Music Den incubator where tech and music converge
- #BKChats shows that culture wins in the fight for startup talent
- StackAdapt adopts CPE model as advertising struggles to keep up with digital content consumption
- ecobee founder Stuart Lombard says entrepreneurs should spend time in the Valley, build in Canada
- BMO launches Women in Leadership and Fossil Fuel Free funds
- BCIC launches How-To video series tackling universal startup problems
- Hack To Start Ep. 91: Foko CEO Marc Gingras
- Hack To Start Ep. 92: Union Square Ventures’ Brittany Gorevic
- Hack To Start Ep. 93: Design + Code founder Meng To
- Hack to Start Ep. 94: Made By Many managing partner Leslie Bradshaw
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Minecraft and Meatballs
- The Next Big Thing accepting applications from Canada’s next generation of young entrepreneurs
- feeDuck saves home sellers money by making real estate agents compete for their business
- Eigen Innovations raises $1.4 million in funding as CTO takes over CEO role
- #TechVAN April: Millennials controlling the future, and how to do better beta testing
- AccessNow empowers community of people living with disabilities to find access
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 24: Koho
- Bench raises $20 million CAD series B as it focuses on building new product
- Influitive adds former Salesforce senior director to its team as it pursues aggressive growth
- Google acquires Toronto-based Synergse to add to its Apps product suite
- 3D printing startup Pinshape acquired by Formlabs
- LemonStand raises $1.25 million to continue product development on ecommerce platform
- Startup Canada Podcast: Empowering Cities and Going Global With Brenda Halloran
- The City of Toronto legalizes Uber (with a few changes)
- With new seed funding, Hockeystick looks to compete with CB Insights for startup data
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 14: What’s the deal with IoT?
- Hack to Start Ep. 95: Assist co-founder and CEO Shane Mac
- 1000 Angels launches Startup Return Calculator to support investors making funding decisions
- Managing director of Facebook Canada speaks on how the company is dominating mobile
- #BKchats: Let’s talk about startups and mental health
- Metabridge announces 15 startups to pitch to Silicon Valley investors at lakeside retreat
- Waterloo-based Knowledgehook wins Google’s Game Changer Award
- Fonolo CEO Shai Berger on whether chat or messaging will dominate B2C communication
- #AccelerateOTT brings community together to learn how to build better businesses
- L-SPARK accepting applications from B2B SaaS startups for third cohort
- The Blockchain Revolution authors say blockchain is key to addressing inequality on #TheDisruptors
- Telus report says only 52% of Canadian businesses plan to deploy IoT solutions
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 15: Let’s talk startups and mental health
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Posh Wearables: Bentleys and Galas
- #ProductHuntTO returns on May 26 with health care focus
- TELUS Idea incubator opens to help startups dream big
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 25: Softchoice
- #StartupDay brings startups and gov’t together to shape Canada’s innovation strategy
- Coinkite working on future of verified cheque with bitcoin-storing USB device
- FreshGrade raises $11.6 million Series A for personalized education platform
- Startup Canada Podcast: Sean McCormick on empowering indigenous communities through entrepreneurship
- Coinsquare wants to lead “economy of tomorrow” with bitcoin exchange
- Apple Pay expands in Canada with support for CIBC and RBC debit and credit cards
- ThriveNorth awards $40,000 to seven young entrepreneurs
- Connected Lab hosting chatbot-focused hackathon on IBM Watson IoT platform
- Ladies Learning Code code:mobile road trip rolling across Canada right now
- Revlo launches with $1.12 million seed round from Y Combinator, Extreme Venture Partners
- Hack To Start Ep. 96: Camp Tech founder & CEO Avery Swartz
- Slack debuts Sign in with Slack feature emulating Facebook, Twitter logins
- Talentful might be the solution to the tech sectorâs biggest gripe: hiring talent
- Toronto taxi companies decide against using surge pricing
- Wealthbar raises $5.5 million to build on its personalized client experience
- Win a spot on a private jet with 500 Startups’ Dave McClure, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian
- NACO hosting inaugural Western Regional Summit for Angel investors on May 24
- Wattpad CEO Allen Lau says the best product entrepreneurs can build is themselves
- WeTeachStartup wants to help you learn everything about entrepreneurship in two days
- VEC hiring fair is calling all VFX, animation, and video experts
- Lighthouse Labs opens its doors to Toronto tech community for Google I/O Extended
- How Sensibill is keeping banks from losing customers to FinTech startups
- Vision Critical’s new EVP of product speaks on sale of R&C division and the future
- Communitech’s #TLCWR gives a glimpse into the future of tech
- SoapBox helps large companies operate more like a startup
- Frank + Oak relaunches platform to stay ahead of next generation of retail
- #TechTO launches new #SalesTO meetup featuring Vision Critical, Vidyard speakers
- Siri co-founder joins Relay Ventures as first executive-in-residence
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Who You Gonna Call?
- JobBliss wants to help companies stay lean with its freelancer database
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 26: Small Yellow Duck
- Startup Canada Podcast: Entrepreneur Michael Legary on repping Winnipeg
- Q4 raises $22 million series B funding to expand team and bring machine learning to platform
- Sametrica CEO Anshula Chowdhury says it takes a village to make diversity work
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 16: Startups get political on the Hill
- OneEleven hosting third annual Tech Summer Social
- WeTeachStartup giving away five free tickets to entrepreneurship bootcamp
- Tingle removes the awkwardness from dating apps using anonymous audio chats
- Salesforce World Tour panel examines the state of FinTech in Canada
- NBA launches multi-platform basketball network on BroadbandTV
- Hack To Start Ep. 97: Khoi Vinh, Director of Mobile Product Design at Adobe
- Novacap closes its Industries IV Fund at $470 million
- Big Data Toronto to host Under Armour, HBO as keynote speakers
- Traction Conference will feature fireside chat with Stewart Butterfield
- Studio Y opens applications for 8-month fellowship, launches part-time format
- #BKchats breaks through the stigma of entrepreneurs talking about their mental health
- Sidebuy founder on keeping up with technology ahead of #TechVAN talk
- How Apple Pay will affect Canada’s FinTech ecosystem
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes on keeping creativity alive as a CEO
- RESI Conference wants to connect early stage life sciences companies with investors
- DMZ now offering free legal services to its startups
- Uber given one week to shut down operations in Mississauga
- PerfectlySoft raises $1.12 million to bring Swift to enterprise servers
- Akira wants to reduce the strain on Canada’s healthcare system
- Government of Canada launches FinTech study examining regulation that stifles innovation
- Where are the women in Canadian Venture Capital?
- Transpod one step closer to making hyperloop dream a reality with Mersen partnership
- BuildDirect CEO on building the Amazon for home improvement
- AquaMobile founder Diana Goodwin shares secrets for success as Telus Small Business Challenge deadline draws near
- Instabuggy moves beyond its core grocery offering to dominate meal delivery
- ReUp wants to white label the next generation of merchant solutions
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Daydreaming
- Unata CEO Chris Bryson says success means seeing every aspect of business as a product
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 27: Dean Sutton of Istuary Idea Labs
- GROW Conference will not return for 2016
- Startup Canada Podcast: Richard Remillard on the economics of entrepreneurship
- Shopify testing international waters with launch of GoSpaces in 38 countries
- Knowledgehook describes how it wants to change traditional math education
- Watch Shopifyâs roadshow video that helped take the Canadian unicorn public
- Hack To Start Ep. 98: Bitnami co-founder & COO Erica Brescia
- Freightera drives Canadaâs green vision forward at G7 Summit
- Buddybuild raises $7.6 million in funding to disrupt mobile app development
- Rover raises $1.1 million in seed funding to expand platform and team
- 7shifts raises $1.2 million seed round to grow sales team
- Montreal-based AmpMe raises $10 million CAD from Relay Ventures, OMERS Ventures
- CanCon Podcast Episode 17: Do you give a whut about VR or is it all a Daydream?
- GoDaddy launches Flare app to give entrepreneurs feedback on ideas and build community
- Tony Lacavera talks Canada’s innovation strategy with Finance Minister Bill Morneau, Brenda Halloran
- #paid secures major partnership with Denstu Aegis
- Toronto Region Board of Trade and City of Toronto launch Smart Cities Initiative
- What Canada can learn from Israel’s startup ecosystem
- #ProductHuntTO demonstrates how startups are bringing transparency to healthcare
- PinchVR envisions a world where anyone can customize their own VR environment
- Vancouver Economic Commission hits Waterloo to convince top talent to go west
- Simwave wants to bring virtual reality to the next level with temperature, smell
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 28: Kier Miron and Eric Muyser
- Toronto team named Most Inspirational Project at NASA Space Apps Challenge
- Report: 49 percent of Canadian IT firms say tech companies aren’t equipped to compete globally
- Emmy Award winning The Secret Location talks creating an effective VR experience
- Report: North American VC-backed FinTech companies raise $1.8 billion in Q1 2016
- Growing a (sustainable) sales team: a guide for startups
- MaRS adds Square to its roster of FinTech partners
- Versature raises $1.15 million from BDC Capital, RBC
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Pebble and Kickstarter back together again
- ChangeJar wants loose change to be a thing of the past with its app
- Startup Canada Podcast: David Alston on turning Atlantic Canada into a startup cluster
- Ritual claims title of largest food and beverage loyalty program in Toronto
- TandemLaunch announces initial closing of $12 million for its third fund
- OpenText CEO Mark Barrenchea set to kick off Interzone’s Toronto edition
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 18: What can Canada learn from other tech countries?
- Hack To Start Ep. 99: Mahdi Yusuf, Gyroscope CTO
- Eloqua founding execs raise $6.5 million seed round for Nudge, their latest sales platform
- Miami Ad School opens first Canadian location in Toronto
- Ask @StartupCFO: how do I make my pitch stand out to investors?
- Montreal-based Inocucor raises $6 million in extended Series A
- #TechWR invites community to hear lessons learned from #WaterlooRegion’s tech leaders
- Creative Destruction Lab accepting applications for 2016/2017 cohort
- Medella Health raises $1.4 million on its path to change the way we manage diabetes
- OMERS Ventures and CFC Media Lab invite VR companies to participate in Canadian VR ecosystem study
- This year’s #firesideconf features talks from 500 Startups Canada head Sanjay Singhal, Wealthsimple CEO Mike Katchen
- Health Canada and national charity launch concussion education app
- The Next 36 appoints Tony Lacavera and John Kelleher as co-chairs of its board
- As BitGold surpasses one million users, parent company realigns its operations
- Halifax-based Health QR raises $250,000 from Innovacorp
- Shopify CEO Tobi LĂŒtke wins CVCA’s Entrepreneur Of The Year Award
- FanXchange raises $5 million Series B for white label ticketing platform
- Startup City: Impact hitting Vancouver in June
- Vanhawks reportedly lays off entire staff after running out of money
- Knowledgehook named Business News Network’s Top Disruptor of the season
- #DMZSession explores creating tech that promotes inclusion, rather than accommodation
- TextNow CEO explains how its cost-saving tech is disrupting North America’s phone plan industry
- How a co-op student growth hacked CareGuide into new funding from 500 Startupsâ DistroFund
- Paul Singh says Canada’s startup ecosystem has grown, but founders lack “sense of urgency”
- Globalive being sued for $750 million by Catalyst over ‘sabotaged’ Wind acquisition
- Dozr takes home $100,000 in prizes at Communitech Rev Demo Day
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Olympic rings and Jawbone rumours
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 29: ReCollect
- Why Michelle Pinchev brought Social Media Week back to Toronto with #SMWiTO
- BetaKit panel one of many #SMWiTO highlights (along with that @norm guy)
- Magnusmode partners with ROM to create digital museum guides for people with autism
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 19: Do Canadian entrepreneurs lack a sense of urgency?
- Montreal-based Netlift raises $1.3 million to expand carpooling app beyond Quebec
- Startup Train returns to connect like-minded “startup junkies” on the way to Startupfest
- PetalMD and iamsick.ca partner to make health care more accessible
- Startup Canada Podcast: Tonya Surman on Building a Caring Economy
- French Tech Tour supporting international development of France-based startups kicks off in Toronto
- Digital Dreams leveraging FinTech to enhance its festival experience
- AccessNow founder receives David C. Onley Award for Leadership in Accessibility
- iHeart and HeadCheck getting good circulation on Vancouverâs healthtech scene
- Hack To Start Ep. 100: Ajay Rajani, founder of The Inevitable Collective
- Toronto-based Hospital Connection acquired by Parent Life Network
- Shopify’s Tech @ Scale panel says internet is not ready for long-term effects of AI and machine learning
- Technology Impact Awards show off BC tech success and future potential
- Kirstine Stewart joins theScore’s board of directors
- Fresche Legacy acquires Boston-based The Quadrant Group to modernize legacy software
- Dalhouse University announces 10 teams accepted into LaunchPad program
- Ask @StartupCFO: How do you know when to exit your company?
- Canadian Internet Registration Authority invests $1 million in nonprofit digital projects
- Startup jobs of the week: AquaMobile, Shopify, Sortable, Idea Couture, Hubba
- Toronto’s Maker Festival to kick off month-long celebration of making with launch party
- #WaterlooRegion set to officially legalize Uber after finalizing ridesharing bylaw
- AccessNow founder Maayan Ziv talks business benefits of accessibility at #TechTO
- City of Montreal announces $100 million fund for smart city startups
- Toronto-based Whirlscape develops deep learning emoji app
- Ontario investing $3 million to support Sarnia biotechnology hub
- Wattpad partners with Turner to adapt Wattpad stories for M. Night Shyamalan series
- Indochino opens first shopping centre showroom, announces 67% YTD growth
- Uber and Quebec government to develop ridesharing pilot project
- City of Toronto launches Digital Main Street platform to help businesses go digital
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Sony and Magic Leap push for VR patents
- Shopify to allow its online merchants to offer Apple Pay as payment option
- Lighthouse Labs launching satellite web development bootcamp in Halifax
- Startup Canada Podcast: Phil Telio on being a founder building bridges
- Canadian Bar Association and LegalX hosting legal innovation pitch competition
- Startup City: Impact busts the myth that impact startups can’t make money
- Lurniture hopes for repeat performance as #NextTO looks to take New York
- Hacker reportedly steals 45 million records from Toronto-based VerticalScope properties
- Ontario commits $43 million to Waterloo Region transit hub, all-day GO service for #TOWRCorridor
- Toronto-based Akindi works with Tiny Hearts for launch of Scantron alternative iPhone app
- Deputy Premier Deb Matthews to be Ontario’s first Minister Responsible for Digital Government
- Ryerson Futures partners with Barclays to launch FinTech accelerator in Mumbai
- IBM partners with University of Calgary to accelerate genomic health research
- Hack to Start ep. 101: SC Moatti, founder and CEO of Products That Count
- Ottawa’s Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards receives $8 million from FedDev Ontario
- With $1 million in funding, Social Nature is capitalizing on influencer marketing
- Leaders Fund says borders between U.S. and Canada “dissolving” following investment in Boston-based Zaius
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 20: Is there life on MaRS?
- Montreal-based VR film studio Felix & Paul raises $6.8 million Series A
- Sampler founder Marie Chevrier on how your startup can sell to large enterprises
- Qimple wants to change perception of doing business in Atlantic Canada with $1.1 million seed round
- Toronto-based Overbond raises $7.5 million seed round
- Cossette launches Cossette Health initiative to support healthcare startups
- Canadian government will invite public feedback as it builds innovation strategy
- TextNow partners with Sandvine to power its wireless service in the U.S.
- Techvibes acquired by Konrad Group
- Launch Academy offering free email course on the basics of building a startup
- At Metabridge, relationships matter more than ideas
- Raising venture capital as an on-demand marketplace startup
- Montreal-based AdGear acquired by Samsung Electronics
- Borrowell providing Canadians with free access to credit score after Equifax partnership
- Aviva Ventures investing $180 million over five years in startups, hosting first-ever Pitch Day in Toronto
- Governor General David Johnston reflects on supporting #WaterlooRegion innovation
- InnoBahn winners show Montreal startups solving problems for big business
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 31: Microsoft
- ModiFace releases chat bot as part of mission to dominate beauty industry with tech
- YouTube FanFest happening in Toronto May 2nd
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – 52 million VR fans can’t be wrong
- Hack the North returns this September to connect 1,000 students from around the world
- Government of Ontario launches five-year strategy to support social enterprises
- nanoPay envisions a cashless world with launch of MintChip digital cash platform
- Frank + Oak launching womenswear line in fall 2016
- Startup Canada Podcast: Philipp Postrehovsky on cashing in on FinTech
- Scotiabank partners with Kabbage to offer small business loans
- SaaS North conference launches to connect Canada’s thriving SaaS community
- Fredericton-based Resson raises $14M Series B from McCain Foods, Monsanto Growth Ventures
- Catalyst137 project in #WaterlooRegion set to be largest IoT innovation centre in the world
- Metabridge attendees share advice on building your startup
- PetalMD acquires physician scheduling company Workoptics
- Hack to Start Ep. 102: Adam Michalski, Partner Growth at Branch Metrics
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 21: Will social bots ‘break the Internet’ or save it?
- MaRS unveils C Suite space to bridge gap between startups and enterprise
- Toronto ranks 6th on Dell’s list of top 25 cities fostering women entrepreneurs
- Toronto-based Klothed wants to bring collaboration and curation to men’s shopping
- Unbounce conference claims successful brands are driven by data
- Raptors leveraging IBM Sports Insights Central to bring science to selecting players
- Toronto-based QD Solar among five winners of SunRISE TechBridge Challenge
- Joist lays off 60 employees as company relocates to San Francisco
- Government of Ontario goes global in its search for first chief digital officer
- Joistâs former employees share their side of the story
- Get your family organized with a Picniic
- Montreal-based Busbud announces partnership with French travel company Voyages-sncf.com
- #Tractionconf tips help tech-powered companies get growth
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Speedos and Smart Rings
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 32: Amazon’s Chris Richardson
- City of Toronto partners with Ten Thousand Coffees to mentor local entrepreneurs
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 22: Canada’s got (tech) talent?
- Polar CEO Kunal Gupta explains why he doesnât have email (but does have Slack) on his phone
- Startup Canada Podcast: Paul Gaspar on global intrapreneurs
- Vemba raises $5M Series A from Upfront and BDMI
- Toronto-based LyricFind powering song lyric display in Google Search results
- Celebrating Victoriaâs transformation to Tectoria
- Join us today for a #DellSMBchat on Small Business Hacks!
- Two Hat Security raises $1.6 million from iNovia Capital to fight trolls
- Hack To Start Ep. 103: Ruby Lee, Product Partner, KPCB Edge
- @StartupCFO explains the long, winding road to a closed funding round
- With new funding and senior talent, Mappedin is hungry for global growth
- Intelex acquires Denver-based Ecocion
- Startupfest doubles pitch prize money to $200,000
- Uberflip hosting its first-ever conference to connect content marketers
- 500 startups announces new 500 Labs incubator, with focus in Toronto, Waterloo
- Experiencing the new reality of VR journalism
- Canadian startups share the Apple App Store spotlight on Canada Day
- RideCo hoping to save #TOWRCorridor from perils of 401 commute
- CASL: How to build your startupâs email list without violating privacy
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – VR VC Alliance
- This is the Periodic Table Of Tech In Canada
- Toronto-based Skrumble wants to beat Slack by not being Slack
- DMZ to work with Mexican gov’t to strengthen ties between Mexican and Canadian startups
- Startup Canada Podcast: Mike Iwasiow on the 35 hour work week
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 23: are we ready to cede control to automated driving?
- Canadian government investing $7.1 million in four Atlantic Canada projects encouraging innovation
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 33: Tableau Software
- Sampler only Canadian startup selected for Unileverâs Foundry50 in Cannes
- Open Sky Incubator the latest startup hub hoping to support #WaterlooRegion startups
- The Next Big Thing launches entrepreneurship bootcamp for teenagers
- With $1 million in funding, Toronto-based Drop hopes to dominate North Americaâs loyalty market
- Government of Ontario accepting applications for $20 million Health Technologies Fund
- Hack To Start Ep. 104: Taylor Conroy, founder of Change Heroes and Journey333
- #DellSMBchat explains how small businesses can do more with less
- Montreal-based Polystyvert raises $4.9 million from Cycle Capital, Anges Québec members
- Government of Canada eliminating tariffs on tech products
- Responsive AI wants to beat the robo-advisors with AI-driven investing
- Shoelace co-founder explains the problem of finding a problem to solve
- Uber drivers in Ontario will be automatically insured
- Report: Canada must move away from manufacturing exports, embrace data-driven business exports
- Goldmoney acquires U.S.-based precious metal dealer
- Report: Canadian CEOs may be overconfident about future challenges
- Former BlackBerry exec joins TextNow as COO
- Ashley Madison facing U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigation
- Ask @StartupCFO: When should you get on the VC train?
- Shop.ca has filed for bankruptcy in a last-ditch effort to find a buyer
- FounderFuel hosting Spring 2016 cohort Demo Day
- Highline BETA believes startup co-creation leads to better startups
- Sun Life Financial partners with MaRS to collaborate with health and FinTech startups
- Shop.ca lays off 30 employees in advance of potential sale
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 34: Mozilla
- Turo adds insurance providers to gain traction in the Quebec market
- Vancouver-based Amber Financial Services raises $5 million
- Startup Canada Podcast: Jason Field on abandoning your comfort zone
- Report: Top Canadian VC deals amount to $446 million in Q2
- PopRX hopes to reduce barriers to prescription access with innoviCares partnership
- Tek Gear is giving away VR headsets for free (plus shipping)
- MaRS report says AR, AI, and IoT are the next three major tech sectors
- Morgan Solar raises $10 million to continue development of solar technology
- Telus report says 89 percent of Canadians believe that tech will lead to better healthcare
- PostBeyond raises $4 million to help companies leverage employee social networks
- Report: Angels invest $133 million in Canadian startups in 2015, up 48 percent from 2014
- Round 13 Capital raises $35 million for Founders Fund supporting growth-stage companies
- Report names Toronto and Montreal among top 10 global cities for tech
- TTC developing app to allow commuters to report harassment
- Substance conference wants to examine how FinTech will impact the future economy
- Calgary-born Robert Opp leading UN World Food Programme’s new innovation division
- Hack To Start Ep. 105: Victoria Young, product marketing lead at Uber
- Wealthsimple aims to make investment less complicated with latest redesign
- Shop.ca’s assets to be sold to Transformational Capital, amount not enough to fully repay creditors
- Suretap Wallet to be discontinued on August 26
- FinTech and Blockchain Expo exploring how FinTech impacts business
- #paid receives investment from Allen and Eva Lau’s Two Small Fish Ventures
- Final phase of CRM2 sets new rules for what financial institutions disclose to investors
- #TechTO launches #HealthTO and #FinTechTO to encourage more community collaboration
- Bank of Montreal now allows customers to open accounts through their smartphone
- LG partnering with Waterloo-based Ignis Innovation to create foldable smartphone displays
- Despite Canadaâs growth-funding gap, tech will flourish
- BDC Capital and ATB Financial contributing $1 billion to Alberta-based small businesses
- BC’s tech leaders pen open letter to Premier Christy Clark on the province’s talent shortage
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Let’s talk Darth Vader and PokĂ©mon Go
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 35: Brewhouse
- Mappedin launches new interface that changes according to retail environment
- Telus Health acquires Canadian digital healthcare company Nightingale
- Startup Canada Podcast: Stephanie Yong on starting up in Saskatchewan
- With Bitstrips acquisition confirmed, Snapchat has dropped Bitmojis into your snaps
- #WWTO returns to remind the 6ix: We The North, We Are Wearables
- Canada’s first VR popup cinema opens in Toronto
- Waterloo-based Tulip Retail hiring 100 employees this year
- #DellSMBchat: can you run your small business from a smartphone (but not the cloud)?
- Roger Chabra of Rho Canada Ventures: 9 things I learned from Chango’s acquisition
- Shopify-owned Kit launches chatbot on Facebook Messenger
- Slack reveals that it’s invested $2 million into 14 Slackbot startups to date
- As 500 Canada team grows nationally, focus is on fueling next generation of entrepreneurs
- OpenText acquires San Francisco-based Recommind
- LogDNA raises $1.6 million CAD to become “the Apple” of logging systems
- Indigo works with Toronto-based Kinetic Café to create social platform for book lovers
- Pokémon Go takes us back to the future of augmented reality
- With money from Power and product shipping, Daniel Eberhard awaits the Summer of Koho
- Hack To Start Ep. 106: Todd Garland, founder and CEO of BuySellAds
- BC-based Cowichan Tribes partners with McKesson Canada to improve electronic healthcare access
- Ontario’s Access to Justice Challenge selects six startups to compete for $25,000 top prize
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 25: Startup Summer Camp
- Twitter North America VP of Media Kirstine Stewart leaves the company
- BCâs most promising new healthtech companies kick off Hypergrowth program
- LowestRates.ca the latest startup to join the MaRS FinTech cluster
- Exact Media wants to be Toronto’s next big success story as it aggressively grows team
- Salient Energy receives $35,000 prize at Velocity Fund Finals
- Fiix launches in Toronto to help you trust your mechanic again
- Ontario government dedicating $1.2 million to Communitech expansion
- BC government announces plans to develop iOS and Android authentication apps
- Ask an Investor: How do I perform due diligence on a VC?
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Smartwatch sales dip while AR and VR thrive
- #DWEN: Future Design School founder Sarah Prevette talks building a for-profit impact business
- Ecommerce Report: Apple users drive 97 percent of mobile revenue, organic search brings majority of traffic
- Grand Challenges Canada invests $5 million in six Canadian healthtech companies
- As AC JumpStart launches latest cohorts, Minister Chagger speaks on building Canada’s startup ecosystem
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 36: Buyatab
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 26: Does tech need leaders like Elon Musk to build the future?
- Statistics Canada considers replacing telephone surveys with text messages
- The Next 36 opens applications for 2017 cohort
- Toronto-based Vena Solutions raises $30 million to continue global growth, product development
- Startup Canada Podcast: Lessons in crowdfunding with Viktor Grabovskyy
- Airbnb hires former NHLPA executive to lead Canadian public policy division
- Tagga founder Amielle Lake shares how startups can find their value proposition
- Hack To Start Ep. 107: Esther Crawford, CEO of Olabot
- Digital AdLab announces nationwide digital advertising accelerator bootcamp
- Ask @StartupCFO: How do I deal with ‘mentor whiplash’?
- Halifax-based QRA Corp raises $3 million from Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
- #WWTO looks at the past, present, and future of Toronto’s wearable tech scene
- Techstars announces latest companies to join Startup Next Montreal
- Velocity alumnus Jay Shah returns to take on director role
- Federal and provincial government part of $189.8 million in new University of Toronto funding
- #DellSMBchat digs deep on the benefits of cloud tech for Canadian small businesses
- #TechVAN: Annalea Krebs on getting past bad startup days
- Mastercard Canada and The Next 36 help foster next generation of startups at Mastercard Challenge
- Report: Demand for IoT solutions increasing in Canada
- Venture for Canada partners with BDC Capital to launch entrepreneur speaker series
- Idea Couture acquired by New Jersey-based business and technology firm Cognizant
- Repable co-founder Heather Anne Carson on the shock of moving from corporate to startup
- Techweekâs first event outside the U.S. attempts to capture Torontoâs tech scene
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 37: The Garage
- Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains invites public to question innovation strategy in #AskBains Twitter chat
- Startup Canada Podcast: Building startup communities from the ground up with Camille McInnis
- Tangerine and PC Financial announce support for Apple Pay
- Influitive lays off 13 percent of staff, citing need to “focus on sustainability”
- 500 Startups looking for #TOWRCorridor’s top talent to join 500 Labs
- NetCents launches merchant payment solution aimed at fighting fraud with blockchain technology
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – VR’s billion-dollar business
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 27: Canada’s tech GDP
- GameON: Ventures conference wants to showcase intersection of business and interactive media
- Hack To Start Ep. 108: Michael Katchen, CEO of Wealthsimple
- Steve Wozniak, Biz Stone confirmed as speakers for #WaterlooRegion’s FUZENation
- McGill University researchers develop navigation app for Canadians living with vision loss
- Kik reports that users have exchanged 1.8 billion messages with the platform’s 20,000 chatbots
- Nulogy raises $14 million to help manufacturers stay agile in the ‘me’ economy
- Shopify reports 93 percent increase in total revenue YoY in Q2 2016 results
- Sequence Bio raises $3 million in round led by Silicon Valley-based DCVC
- Toronto-based Jiffy raises $1 million as it eyes Chicago expansion
- Virtual reality arcade in Toronto hopes to encourage public adoption of VR
- Hootsuite says it is now cash flow positive
- BuildScience founder Ritesh Patel on the power of saying yes
- Miovision launches tool to help cities develop a smart traffic plan
- BC Innovation Council appoints Shirley Vickers as new president and CEO
- BETTY bot wins first-ever Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Hackathon
- Rubsun Ho wants Crowdmatrix to be the “AngelList of Canada”
- Ask an Investor: Should I bring my co-founder to a pitch?
- Sun Life Financial launches digital health solutions division
- Bank of Canada encouraging country’s banks to launch private fund for small businesses
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – VR sees Stranger Things
- Unison is phase one of Rogers’ plan to make Canadian small businesses a priority
- Montreal-based Smooch raises $10 million to help companies manage customer conversations
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 38: Adaptech Solutions
- Why Kik and Facebook are fighting over bots like Chatty McChatface while investors watch
- RateHub.ca receiving up to $495,000 from the National Research Council of Canada
- Startup Canada Podcast: Angel investor Randy Thompson on his biggest failure
- Tilt launches new one-to-one payments feature in Canada
- Telus Ventures and Techstars announce investment in workplace health startup Sprout
- #TechWR returns August 15 to connect #WaterlooRegion’s tech community
- RNDMWRK wants your next coworking space to be a bar
- Montreal-based Soul.City expands to European market
- Kira Talent raises $5 million Series A to develop talent assessment platform
- Next 36’s Trip to New York City Is About Relationships, Not Cheques
- MaRS launching survey to provide comprehensive map of Ontario’s entrepreneur ecosystem
- Taxelco acquires Taxi Diamond, Montreal’s biggest taxi fleet
- Hack To Start Ep. 109: John Gleeson, VP of Customer Success at Affinio
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 28: Should Canada practice startup protectionism?
- Ask an Investor: How do I manage an oversubscribed round?
- Torontoâs Bitmaker acquired by General Assembly
- Kepler Communications raises $5 million seed round to develop in-space telecommunications network
- Technical textiles and engaging experiences: talking the future of retail with Kit and Aceâs JJ Wilson
- Report: Only 17 percent of Canadian businesses have a digital strategy
- U of T, UW, and UBC make World Economic Forum’s list of top 50 tech schools
- Ontario Court of Appeal rules that text conversations are not private
- #SalesTO tackles enterprise selling for startups
- How government regulators can better embrace the sharing economy
- VanHack launches petition urging federal government to address Canada’s backlogged immigration system
- Craves pivots its clothing image search app to focus on celebrity fashion
- Ask an Investor: Should I announce my funding?
- Startup jobs of the week: RED Academy, RevIQ, Ayogo Health, BlockThrough, Rooof, Retreaver
- Startup Canada launches women founders fund with Evolocity Financial Group
- City of Toronto turns to local startups in its mission to become a smarter city
- Fluxible returns as week-long festival focusing on user experience
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.39: Aequilibrium
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Oculus and Getty team up for Olympics VR experience
- Spark Centre accepting applications for $55,000 Ignite Competition
- A year after acquisition, Victory Square Labs investing $10 million in Fantasy 6
- Canada ranks 15th on World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index
- Startup Canada Podcast: Serial entrepreneur Tracey Scarlett on taking women entrepreneurship to new heights
- Small business loan platform Lendified secures $20 million credit facility
- Trulioo enhances anti-money laundering watchlist feature to help banks keep up with tightened regulation
- Beagle wins Canadian Bar Association’s first-ever pitch competition
- Awake Labs named winner of The Next 36 Mastercard Challenge
- Wattpad introduces Wattpad Futures program to help writers monetize content through ads
- The Next 36 hosts Venture Day to mark end of seven-month program
- Top 10 finalists chosen for INTERFACE Health Challenge X 2016
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 29: Would a bank-backed fund help Canadian startups?
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes on using “the steak clause” to win your next negotiation
- Hack To Start Ep. 110: Laura Roeder, founder and CEO of Edgar
- #HealthTO looks at the future of privacy in the digital healthcare space
- Propel ICT announces Fall 2016 cohort
- Toronto-based Kinetic Cafe launches ecommerce platform at Aldo’s World Trade Centre location
- Cossette Lab accepting applications from tourism-related tech startups across Canada
- Edusight launches Magic platform with three Ontario-based school districts
- ecobee raises $35 million from the Amazon Alexa Fund, Thomvest, and Relay Ventures
- Shopify hosting Beyond The Code to encourage inclusivity in tech
- Report: Canadians will spend $643 million on virtual and augmented reality by 2017
- Ask @StartupCFO: should I talk to corporate development?
- Startup jobs of the week: Nanoleaf, Trew Knowledge, Ranomics, HiMama, AmpMe
- Hackernest hosting Toronto tech job fair at MaRS Discovery District
- Canadian banks vs. FinTechs: a zero-sum game?
- Ask an investor: should I let angel investors into my VC round?
- Smooch wants to make conversations with businesses more human
- Fashion meets technology at #WWTO this week
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 40: Cumul8
- With $500,000 in seed funding, Sky Guys hopes to dominate the enterprise drone market
- Impression Ventures raises $20 million fund dedicated to early stage FinTech companies
- ScribbleLive solidifies presence in UK market with acquisition of LinkDex
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 30: How should Canada respond to cyber security threats?
- Startup Canada Podcast: Why all startups should launch with a social mission
- Mogo launches MogoApp offering free credit score and spending account
- Rose Rocket wants to modernize the trucking industry with its transportation management software
- Financeit launches direct-to-consumer option to give its merchants more flexibility in financing
- Joint investigation with Canadian privacy commissioner finds Ashley Madison violated privacy laws
- Hack To Start Ep. 111: Corey Pollock, product manager at Tiny Hearts
- TMX Group launches roundtable to examine scalability issues facing Canadian businesses
- Genesys Capital closes $90 million of its $125 million target for third fund
- Helpwear wins $25,000 grand prize at CNE’s Emerging Innovators Pitch Competition
- Uber Canada and Revera targeting seniors without smartphones with launch of UberCENTRAL
- TWG releases TIFF chatbot to help moviegoers decide what movies to watch
- Thinking Capital partners with Everlink to help credit unions offer online lending for small businesses
- Founder Institute Ottawa inviting startup community to contribute to a map of startup resources
- #WWTO strikes a pose with wearable fashion event
- Blue J Legal CEO Benjamin Alarie on Toronto’s potential to be a machine learning capital
- VarageSale hires Craig Dunk as new VP of engineering
- BDC releases fiscal 2016 results, reveals it made venture capital investments totalling $253.1 million CAD
- Borealis Wind wins $40,000 top prize from Fierce Founders Bootcamp Pitch competition
- Manulife LOFT now backed by machine learning with new indico partnership
- Startup jobs of the week: ColdBlock Technologies, Unata, Interaxon, WIRL
- GradeSlam raises $1.6 million to fill inequality gap in private tutoring
- Ask an Investor: What do I do when my lead VC doesnât want to follow-on?
- Notman House goes smart home with Hack the House
- Georgian Partners Growth Fund III doubles up previous fund with $485M CAD raise
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Smartwatches of luxury
- HitchPlanet drives past one million kilometre milestone, announces expansion
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 41: Motive.io and Dooly.ai
- TouchBistro partners with Square to allow its users to accept Apple Pay, access loans
- Canalyst raises $2.7 million seed round to fuel Canada and U.S. expansion
- Cossette Health opens applications for fall cohort
- Thorasys raises $1.3 million to develop a new method of measuring lung function
- Lightspeed CEO Dax Dasilva wants to create âa new wave of nonprofitsâ with art & tech
- Here’s what Riipen COO Dave Savory learned after a year of scaling
- DDB expands brand accelerator program across Canada
- Instamek acquires competitor WrenchPatrol to establish Vancouver presence
- Hack to Start Ep. 112: Tracy Chou, software engineer
- Founder Institute announces partnership with Upside Foundation
- Accelerator Centre launches Phase One program to help startups with market validation, investment readiness
- Canadian government has dedicated $3 million to fostering innovation in the auto industry
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 31: Canada’s startup scalability problem
- Ooka Island’s Joelle MacPhee says it’s okay for founders to not want to be CEOs
- Canadian parliamentary debate transcripts since 1901 now available online
- 500 Startups brings Distro Dojo program to Toronto to get companies ready for their Series A
- Miss #Startupfest? All presentation slides are now available online
- Young entrepreneurs tell Minister Bains education, talent are biggest barriers to success
- Lazaridis Institute believes connecting startups with C-level execs will scale Canadaâs next big companies
- Ranomics raises $1.6 million CAD seed round to tackle $10 billion genetic testing industry
- We Are Wearables explodes into Montreal with #WWMTL
- Ask an Investor: How do I name my startup?
- Visa Europe Collab partners with Vancouver-based BTL Group to explore blockchain tech for banks
- Allen Lau, Dax Dasilva among Startup Canada’s 2016 regional award winners
- Vancouver-based Spark raises $1 million in funding
- Startup jobs of the week: StackAdapt, QuickTapSurvey, Payment Rails, LiveCA LLP
- From MacGyver to Mars: #TechVANâs speakers share startup war stories
- Introducing BetaKitâs guide to Canadian Innovation Week
- Global Risk Institute calls emerging quantum computing technology major threat to cybersecurity systems
- Ask @StartupCFO: Am I settling when it comes to driving company performance?
- Startup Canada Podcast: Yukon Brewing co-founder Bob Baxter reveals expansion is difficult without “hometown advantage”
- Startup Canada Podcast: The Rise of Startup Campuses
- Mogo announces milestone of 250,000 members following MogoApp release
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Snapchat wants to own AR
- Startup Open House returns to give inside look into companies like 500 Canada, Lightspeed
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 32: How to tell if your startup is shady
- RED Academy calls launch of six-month full stack developer program a first in Canada
- How startups can gain credibility with marketers
- Shopify raises $246 million through sale of five million shares
- Shopify wants to support small businesses with new coworking program in WeWork spaces
- Mastercard Canada’s Brian Lang says corporate-startup partnerships “key to unlocking innovation”
- Sentinel Alert announces partnership with Newfoundland and Labrador Liquor Corporation
- Hack To Start Ep. 113: Ardi Iranmanesh, co-founder at Affinio
- Biko wants to help Vancouver reach its goal of being world’s greenest city by 2020
- Former Sun Life Financial executive Lori Casselman joins LEAGUE as first chief health officer
- How PageCloud plans to save the web (and why customers should pay for it)
- Subway acquires part of Vancouver-based Avanti team to step up ecommerce experience
- Canadian government dedicates $900 million to helping universities become world-leading research centres
- Shoes.com appoints new president after reports of company-wide layoffs
- University of Waterloo opens research facility to improve electric car research
- PayPal Canada names former American Express Canada exec as its general manager
- Next 36 rebrands as NEXT Canada, appoints Razor Suleman as CEO
- LANDR wants to make the music industry more accessible with machine learning platform
- IoT613 returns to look at IoT’s impact on smart cities and virtual reality
- Lazaridis Institute appoints former BlackBerry exec Carlo Chiarello as CEO
- Ask an Investor: How do I decide when to raise my next round?
- Rogers launches SaaS marketplace for Canadian small businesses
- AIG Innovation Challenge hits Toronto December 9th with $50,000 in cash prizes
- Fiix pitches door-to-door car mechanics on #TheDisruptors
- Thalmic Labs announces San Francisco expansion, hires former Samsung exec as CMO
- Information Venture Partners raises $96M fund for early stage FinTech and enterprise software companies
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 42: Contracts and Jerbs
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 43: VanHack in Chile
- Zonetail says its hyperlocal focus should be industry standard for location-based apps
- Slack announces plans to open Toronto office and hire 145 people
- Ottawa-based Fusebill raises $6 million Series A to automate financial processes for SMBs
- Real Ventures hires Facebook’s Mike Shaver, Frank & Oak’s Isaac Souweine
- Startup jobs of the week: UDIO AgTech, Easy Automated Sales, Linquet, QuickTapSurvey
- Waterloo-based Medella Health wins national James Dyson Award
- Report: Government support needed to build FinTech ecosystem in Canada
- How Toronto-based ASL19 is using tech to promote freedom of speech
- SlimCut Media’s Damien Veran on why Drake is a good advisor for your startup
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Apple’s hearables, wearables, and watches
- Startup Canada Podcast: How to build personal brands
- You.i TV raises $12 million Series B led by Time Warner Investments
- #WWTO examines the long road to embracing healthtech wearables
- OpenText acquiring Dell’s enterprise content division for $1.6 billion
- Hack To Start Ep. 114: Bri Connelly, associate product manager at Google
- TD launches digital concierge offering real-time suggestions for local services
- Startup Canada partners with Google Canada, SSHRC for public consultations on Canada’s innovation strategy
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 33: How to build a critically acclaimed chatbot
- Venture for Canada partners with world’s largest law firm to further support its Fellows
- Financeit and Concentra acquire TD Bank’s indirect home improvement financing assets
- Announcing the BetaKit Next selectees
- Former Thinking Capital CTO Pat Forgione joins Lendful
- Scotiabank investing $1.75 million in entrepreneurship initiatives at Rotman School of Management
- SweetIQ acquires California-based Connectivity to fuel US expansion
- Quandl raises $12 million Series B to expand its financial data platform
- Ask @StartupCFO: When should I ask for annual prepayment?
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency invests $498,150 in Qimple
- Rogers’ Unison contest gives companies a chance to sit down with Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein
- Ask an Investor: How do I create a valuation for my startup?
- Griffin Farley Search for Beautiful Minds Canada opens applications for annual pitch competition
- #firesideconf brings 250 people to the middle of nowhere and asks them to connect
- BetaKit Next selectee Sampler pitches a solution to in-store sampling on #TheDisruptors
- OMsignal announces $13 million in funding alongside launch of smart bra
- How Edusight’s platform wants to help school boards make better decisions with data
- Vancouver-based DarkVision raises $8 million Series A for product development
- Vantageâs growth a reminder that great product is nothing without market fit
- BDC study: Only two percent of mid-sized businesses succeed in scaling up to 500 employees
- Fortay believes in developing a startup culture beyond free booze and office dogs
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes on the wrong way to run a billion-dollar company in 2016
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The smartwatch takeover
- FreshBooks releases first major design change since 2003 launch
- Startup Canada podcast: Startup York Region’s Lucas Chang on the importance of encouraging young entrepreneurs
- Toronto-based Chefs Plate raises $6 million in funding
- Finn.ai (formerly Payso) partners with ATB Financial to build banking chatbot
- Montreal-based Transit raises $2.4 million in funding, launches transit assistant feature
- reelyActive represents Canada at Silicon Valley’s Plug and Play Demo Day
- How innovation-based work permits could help Canadian businesses stay globally competitive
- #ProductHuntTO celebrates 2nd anniversary with speakers from Vidyard, Shopify on Sept. 29
- PayPal Canada moving into MaRS Discovery District
- IBM launches Toronto-based innovation space as part of $54 million Innovation Incubator Project
- Flatbook rebrands to Sonder after $10 million funding round
- Ladies Learning Code partners with Shopify for National Ladies Learn to Code Day
- Hack To Start Ep. 115: Matt Schlicht, founder and editor of Chatbots Magazine
- Thalmic Labs raises $158 million CAD Series B
- Subscribe to B|K: The BetaKit Newsletter
- VentureLAB looking for entrepreneurs to develop affordable housing solutions for York Region
- LANDR appoints new chairman and CFO to double down on business strategy
- Report: Okanagan tech industry contributed $1.3 billion to the local economy in 2015
- Volta hosting design workshop for teens interested in entrepreneurship
- HackerYou puts bootcamp program on hold as it seeks private career college accreditation
- #WWMTL’s first edition puts the spotlight on Montreal’s strong wearable tech scene
- mnubo CEO Frederic Bastien explains how the company is staying ahead of the IoT revolution
- Startup jobs of the week: StackAdapt, Vena Solutions, Hifyre, Unbounce, Finn.ai
- Velocity hiring science and hardware leads to mentor startups
- Hootsuite opening Toronto and Sydney offices
- U-Feast acquires Pass The Table as it prepares for 2017 expansion
- An inside look at Slack’s renovated Vancouver office
- Female founders share their inspiration ahead of Vancouver Startup Week
- healthSwapp pitches app to help lazy rehab patients keep the doctor away on #TheDisruptors
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Snap and Spectacles
- Former Capital One CFO Ian Hanning joins Financeit’s management team
- TouchBistro talks building in Canada and scaling globally on #TheDisruptors
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 44: DĂŒber
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 45: PNI Digital
- Sean Wise named Startup Canada’s first fellow for startup communities program
- BookJane pitches caregivers on-demand in a competitive market
- Shopify goes fully mobile with new Android and iOS apps
- Urbery has the Ben & Jerry’s hookup this week with some help from a friendly chatbot
- Canadian government invests $45 million in cleantech companies
- Survey: 21% of Canadian small business owners started after losing their job
- City of Toronto launches Digital Main Street Lab to advance retail tech startups
- Tech salaries are rising faster in BC than in rest of Canada
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 35: What if there is no exit for your startup?
- Startup Canada Podcast: Aman Mann on looking inward to scale
- Hopper wants to help you find the cheapest (and best) flight
- First cohort announced for Accelerator Centre’s Phase One program
- Montreal-based adtech startup District M raises $8 million in funding
- Slack partners with Salesforce on new integration
- Toronto’s startup scene reveals itself at my first Startup Open House
- #Legaltech event says every law firm “needs a data strategy”
- RED Academy brings introductory courses to student entrepreneurs at Ryerson University
- Ryerson’s Magnet incubator awarded Gold Global Best Award
- Hack to Start Ep. 116: Branch’s Mada Seghete
- Lendified subsidiary Vault Circle receives exempt market dealer license from OSC
- #WWTO takes on new realities at annual AR & VR event
- Accelerator Centre offers tools and work space for startups at new hardware innovation lab
- Montreal’s Ecofuel accelerator announces Fall 2016 cohort
- Today in startup updates: Shopify, BuildDirect, BroadbandTV & Encircle
- Microdermics takes top prize in BCIC-New Ventures BC competition
- Montreal welcomes Startup Open House with open arms
- Startup jobs of the week: Sago Mini, Canopy Labs, I Live Yoga, Naborly Inc., Exact Imaging
- #WaterlooRegionâs Dozr eyes U.S. market following $2.5 million seed round from FairVentures
- CareGuide Sets Sight on Rapid Growth
- Ask an Investor: What are common mistakes I should avoid while raising my funding round?
- CSI appoints Adil Dhalla as executive director and Karine Jaouich as COO
- John Chen says the disrupted BlackBerry will revive itself on #TheDisruptors
- UBC partners with Creative Destruction Lab to help scale West Coast startups
- Ask an Investor: Dissect my deck (CareGuide)
- DMZ launches advisory council to develop new programs for Canadian entrepreneurs
- Shopify acquires Waterloo-based Boltmade to accelerate development of Shopify Plus
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 46: Adaptech and Koho
- Biz Stone talks tech, Twitter, and new ventures on #TheDisruptors
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Global launches and launch delays
- D-Wave Systems reportedly raises $21 million
- BAI Beacon speakers reveal their top FinTechStage picks
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 36: What happens when Canadian tech doesn’t try to compete?
- OANDA founder Michael Stumm says Canadian FinTech companies must think beyond Canada
- Ryerson University receives $36.6 million in government funding to improve infrastructure
- Paddle snags $700,000 in funding to help students embrace âjob-jumping”
- Startup Canada Podcast: Larry Shaw on Fredericton’s growing startup scene
- Chamath Palihapitiya says encouraging diversity is key to Canada’s success as an innovation hub
- MobyTrip wants to make travel guidebooks obsolete
- MaRS takes its FinTech community national with #FinTechCA series
- Why we chose to rename our startup (and what it means to rebrand)
- #SalesTO explores how a culture of analytics can increase company sales
- Clearpath Robotics raises $39 million Series B to shift focus to factory material transport
- ILKOS Therapeutics $21 million seed round is “record-breaking”, according to CVCA
- Vancouver Startup Week panel explores what it really means to be an innovative startup
- NEXT Canada commits to organizational changes following diversity and inclusivity criticisms
- MaRS announces FinTech partnership with BCTIA to bridge gap between Vancouver and Toronto
- New York-based Influenster makes first international expansion in Toronto
- Drone Delivery Canada receives Special Flight Operations Certificate from Transport Canada
- Grow Financial says next face of FinTech is working with enterprise following Celero partnership
- Queer Tech MTL wants to encourage startups to hire from the LGBT community
- Shopify now allowing merchants to sell products through Facebook Messenger
- Canadian Innovation Exchange releases its list of Canada’s top 20 companies
- NEXT Canada’s Startup Sprint weekend wants student entrepreneurs “thinking big”
- Ask an investor: How do I say no to an Investor?
- Platterz founder Yishay Waxman says key to making sales is selling yourself, not the product
- Thomson Reuters expands Canadian presence with launch of technology centre in Toronto
- Techtoberfest returns to connect high-profile VCs with startups
- Startup jobs of the week: York Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Policy Medical, Maluuba, Manifold
- One young woman entrepreneurâs 5-day journey representing Canada in Tel Avivâs Startup Nation
- Fuckup Nights reveal the honest side of entrepreneurship
- This Canadian company wants to bring ‘mixed reality’ to the masses
- PSVR and Sulon Q headline #WWTO’s virtual reality edition
- Today in funding: Naborly, Financeit
- Ladies Learning Code launches Canada Learning Code as part of goal to reach 10 million Canadians
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – VR gets animated
- Fundthrough raises $24.6 million to support expansion
- 360insights CEO says you don’t have to be in Toronto or Vancouver to grow a strong tech company
- Vitameter says it can help track vitamin deficiencies with a single drop of blood
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 47: BuildDirect
- Buytopia co-founder Michele Romanow confirmed as co-founder of Clearbanc
- LEAGUE launches new insurance products with RBC as incumbents fight to partner with the startup
- Google acquires FameBit to accelerate growth of influencer marketing
- Building the 21st century business council
- Startup Canada Podcast: Intuit Canada president says biggest tension in growth is how fast you’re moving
- Cymax cuts staff after Deloitte financial audit warns of “material uncertainty”
- Hack To Start Ep. 117: Jeremy Goldberg, product designer at Facebook
- Hack To Start Ep. 118: Chris Messina, developer experience lead at Uber
- Razor Suleman resigns as NEXT Canada CEO, Andrea Matheson joins as co-President
- Toronto-based Flashstock raises $1.5 million to double 50-person team
- Telus partners with Digi International to develop IoT food temperature monitoring
- TouchBistro raises $17 million Series B to expand sales and marketing team
- DMZ partners with TranQool to help entrepreneurs take care of their mental health
- Survey: Consumers increasingly expect access to digital FinTech products from their banks
- Future Design School receives seed stage investment from Shopify’s Satish Kanwar, MaRS Catalyst Fund
- Startupfest launching ResolveTO in Toronto to encourage enterprises and startups to build solutions together
- Lighthouse Labs hosting workshops across BC and Ontario encouraging teachers to adopt coding in classrooms
- Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn says having a global business puts the spotlight on your company’s weaknesses
- GreenSoil Building Innovation Fund raises $26 million from US-based Grosvenor Group
- Ask an Investor: what happens when my lead investor won’t lead?
- Today in product updates: Goldmoney, Rogers, and Akira
- Two Canadian startups land a spot at Google Demo Day Women’s Edition
- Montrealâs AquaHacking competition encourages tech to tackle world’s water problems by working with cities
- Street Contxt CEO says company’s biggest challenge is keeping up Series A momentum while staying in Toronto
- Spently tells #TheDisruptors that rise of e-receipts is creating new way to communicate with customers
- Campfire Capital raises $30.9 million to invest in companies disrupting retail brands
- Newtopia raises $10 million Series A to help enterprises empower employees in managing health
- Power Financial exec and former Horizons ETFs CEO among backers of Portag3 FinTech fund
- Report: Post-secondary institutions must do more to integrate e-learning into programs
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Real interest in virtual reality
- Thalmic Labs opening factory in Waterloo dedicated to building its next wearable device
- How companies can protect their customers’ privacy in an age of oversharing and hacks
- Motive partners with UBC to deliver history you can hear
- Toronto Western Hospital surgeon says startups can fill gaps for patients lost in the system
- Founder Institute launches fifth Canadian location in Vancouver
- TechTO report says tech accounts for 15% of all Toronto jobs
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 48: Vancouver Android Developers
- Zoocasa wants to tackle fragmented real estate customer journey with $1.35 million in funding
- ecobee launches lite version of its smart thermostat
- Mio Global raises $19 million Series B to accelerate launch of its next generation heart rate trackers
- TWG grows team to 85 following acquisition of B House development agency
- SecureKey raises $27 million from major banks as founder Greg Wolfond returns as CEO
- Startup Canada Podcast: Geotab founder Neil Cawse on building a leading big data company
- Humi HR wades into competitive space with all-in-one platform on #TheDisruptors
- Report: 42 percent of millennial entrepreneurs hold a second job to follow their dreams
- Canadians are becoming more open to using digital wallets
- University of New Brunswick receives $1 million from RBC for entrepreneurship program
- L-SPARK announces latest SaaS companies working to scale in its fall 2016 cohort
- BroadbandTV signs deal to manage Univision’s YouTube properties
- Greg Wolfond says Canada’s strict FinTech regulations make it the best place to build SecureKey’s next product
- Hack To Start Ep. 119: Kathleen Warner, Executive Vice President at the Centre for Economic Transformation
- RBC announces winner of $10,000 top prize at its Next Great Innovator Hackathon
- SimpTek Technologies raises $700,000 to help utility companies go greener
- MaRS hosting Verge conference featuring Diply’s Kirstine Stewart, Ecobee founder Stuart Lombard
- Hootsuite surpasses 15 million users as Slack hits $100M ARR
- With Nymi co-founder at head, new RBC lab working on machine learning at U of T
- One in 10 entrepreneurs don’t plan to prepare anything for investment pitches, according to QuickBooks Canada
- Today in company updates: Vidyard, SoundCloud, Mogo
- Ecommerce report: Targeted campaigns account for only 5% of emails, result in 32% of revenue
- Dozr wants to provide a new revenue stream for farmers with its sharing economy model
- Zensurance wins $25,000 prize at the Next Big Idea in FinTech Competition
- Startup jobs of the week: CrowdRiff, Charly, Saasli, AquaMobile, fivewalls
- Ask an Investor: How can I hack the fundraising process?
- The Next Big Thing announces 12 ventures selected for 2016 cohort
- Goldman Sachs includes BuildDirect co-founder Jeff Booth among its 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2016 list
- Just weeks after UberEATS scale-back, Toronto’s Feast halts on-demand delivery
- Lending Loop back in business following thumbs up from the OSC
- Kensington Capital Partners to manage $100M BC Tech Fund
- Two TandemLaunch startups explain why more companies are embracing AI
- ecobee allowing smart thermostat owners to donate their data to researchers
- Lendful pitches its consumer lending marketplace on #TheDisruptors
- OSC announces LaunchPad to help FinTech startups navigate regulations
- Montreal-based Dialogue the latest startup to enter burgeoning employee healthcare space
- Wave raises $14.6 million with goal to grow team to 150 and continue mobile development
- Startup Canada Podcast: Rebel.com’s Rob Villeneuve says culture and brand are a reflection of each other
- AngelList Syndicates finally launches in Canada via new OSC program (with some caveats)
- Impak Finance says it’s launching Canada’s first socially-responsible bank
- nanoPay raises $10 million Series A to expand the MintChip platform globally
- Today in AI: Machine learning heavyweights launch AI startup factory, D-Wave co-founder reveals stealth AI company
- Lazaridis Institute announces 10 companies accepted into its Scale-Up program’s first-ever cohort
- FreshGrade COO says the traditional education system is starting to embrace tech
- Apple reportedly working on self-driving car project in Ottawa
- #DellSMBchat: are you spooked by a lack of business security?
- BC tech sector gets ‘A’ grade nationally, but big picture is more mixed
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 39: Are Canadian healthtech startups doomed to fail?
- C100 announces 22 companies selected for 48Hrs in the Valley December 2016 cohort
- Hexoskin signs contract with Canadian Space Agency to monitor astronaut’s health in space
- How AngelList Syndicates will work in Ontario
- CIBC partners with Borrowell to provide “one-click” online lending to its customers
- Hack To Start Ep. 120: Aydin Mirzaee, co-founder and CEO of Fluidware
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 49: Launch Academy
- Canada-EU Trade Agreement may be on hold, but Canada still has a French tech connection
- Hussein Fazal chooses home to build his next startup, SnapTravel
- Fiix co-founder Khalil Mangalji on how using Snapchat can make brands more human
- Ask an Investor: Should I celebrate my funding round?
- Report: Over half of Canadian execs say security is a top concern, but aren’t acting on it
- NEXT Canada launches NextAI program to seed growth of Canada’s AI ecosystem
- Startup jobs of the week: NEXT Canada, Hifyre, MobyTrip, VIVA Lifestyle and Travel
- Velocity now housing all of its startups under one roof with renovated 37,000-square-foot space
- With $2 million in funding, Litmus Automation says it was an IoT player before it was cool
- Google launches $5 million nonprofit competition in Canada
- Innovacorp receives $40 million from Nova Scotia government for early stage fund
- Komodo OpenLab explains how its device makes tech more inclusive on #TheDisruptors
- How fucked up is your management?
- Nectar Desk wants to modernize call centres with the cloud
- First Stone Venture Partners call quality of life biggest benefit of building startups in small towns
- Notman House gets spooky to support local nonprofits
- L-SPARK now exclusively a SaaS-scaling accelerator
- What banks can learn from FinTech startups
- L-SPARK’s Leo Lax says SaaS North is the destination for Canada’s growing SaaS community
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 40: Toronto’s got (tech) talent
- Intellijoint Surgical announces $11 million Series A to continue US expansion
- Startup Canada and Launch Academy develop program to help entrepreneurs get better at startup experiments
- Google’s Go North conference examines the Canadian tech industry’s strengths and challenges
- Startup Canada Podcast: African Bronze Honey founders on being a sustainable for-profit social enterprise
- Flexiti Financial raises $5 million Series A to fuel mission of leading the POS financing space
- Recon co-founders close $14.1 million to target western Canada startups with Vancouver Founders Fund
- Today in funding ($69.1M): Big Viking Games, Turnstone Biologics, Decisive Farming
- Slack publishes full-page open letter in New York Times as Microsoft launches its competitor
- The Hyperloop dream is reality with world’s first pneumatic levitation system demo in Waterloo
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 50: Windows Platform Developer Group
- Hack To Start Ep. 121: Una Kravets, UI engineer at Digital Ocean
- Relay Ventures raises $200 million third fund to continue focus on mobile tech companies
- Inbound Retargeting acquires Las Vegas-based Primeloop (and its IP)
- Kepler co-founder says entrepreneurship in space is now easier
- Dentons launches platform helping startups navigate legal issues including IP, immigration
- Montreal and Toronto mayors hope trade mission to Israel will result in more investment, collaboration in Canada
- Shopify would rather buy Google than be bought by Google
- Four BCIC Ignite Award winners receive total of $2.7 million in funding
- VC Report: $2.5 billion invested in first nine months of 2016 best since 2001
- Shopify reports 89 percent YoY Q3 revenue growth as Gail Goodman joins board
- Wayne Purboo says he sold Quickplay to AT&T because his company no longer fit Canada’s mold
- Ask an investor: When should I start paying myself as a founder (and how much)?
- #DisruptorsPitch contest gives your startup a chance to pitch to Canada on TV
- Slack CMO Bill Macaitis steps down after less than two years
- OSC building FinTech Advisory Committee to stay on pulse of FinTech space
- Shopify’s Satish Kanwar speaks candidly on the long, emotional road of being acquired
- Valley extraction: How to hire senior talent away from Silicon Valley in four easy steps
- As competitor letgo launches in Canada, Varagesale CEO calls focus on trust a key differentiator
- Vanedge Capital receives $15 million from BC Tech Fund
- U-Feast says its private table platform helps restaurants win customers on #TheDisruptors
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The smartwatch (hype) is alive and well
- Ranomics says its genetic analysis platform can help doctors make better diagnoses on #TheDisruptors
- Report: Canadian business leaders more confident in company use of technology than employees
- Equifax announces partnership to support startups in the MaRS FinTech cluster
- #DellSMBchat proves that security doesn’t have to be spooky
- LCBO opens lab in Communitech with focus on app creation, algorithms
- Startup Canada Podcast: National Crowdfunding Association founder shares the keys to crowdfunding the right way
- #FINTalks event examines how Canadian banks can turn FinTech disruption into opportunity
- This is not the new Silicon Valley: Canada’s missed opportunity at Web Summit
- Hack To Start Ep. 122: Joel Flory, co-founder and CEO of VSCO
- No Silicon Valley North: It is time for Canada to lead
- MaRS launches five-week entrepreneurship course including lessons learned from startup founders
- Today in strong Canadian tech relationships: India, Norway, Australia
- Ontario Securities Commission hosting hackathon tackling challenges in the province’s regulatory environment
- Verus Art gives masterpieces the 3D treatment
- 400 girls across Canada will learn how to code for National Girls Learning Code Day
- CIX releases list of Top 20 most innovative public tech companies
- Thirdshelf wins Ingenious Award from IT Association of Canada
- Why Toronto-based ride-hailing app Nekso is putting the South American market first
- Today in product updates: PACTA, Overbond, Firmex
- Stephen Lake says Thalmic will use its Series B to build the product they won’t tell anyone about
- Ask Pam CEO says quotas necessary to encourage diversity following Google Demo Day: Womenâs edition
- NEXT Canada co-president Peter Carrescia departs to join Wave as SVP of strategy and corporate development
- Ask an Investor: What do I do when a company wants to acquire my startup?
- Naborly acquires LRANK.com as it works to rebuild its tenant screening platform
- Two Canadian startups team up to build Lucy, the FinTech chatbot
- TechPong bounces back for charity on November 15
- Intellitix says it creates a ‘cashless city’ within festivals thanks to its wristband technology
- Big lies, little lies, and the cheat code to a promotion
- PostBeyond wants to help workplaces become more millennial-friendly
- Thalmic begins Series B hiring spree in #WaterlooRegion and San Francisco
- CVCA & The Entrepreneurship Society team up to help founders raise capital Nov 30th
- 500px for Business allows companies to measure which photos turn into purchases
- Shopify launches iOS keyboard to help merchants promote their products on social networks
- Changes coming to Express Entry program on Nov. 19 to help skilled workers become permanent residents
- Startup Canada podcast: Telecom veteran Jonathon Moody on increasing innovation in the industry
- General Electric acquires Vancouver-based Bit Stew for $205 million
- Former Vision Critical marketing SVP joins Top Hat as its first CMO
- AMPED conference wants to help your startup workshop growth
- Hack to Start Ep.123: Justin Brooke, founder and CEO of the Digital Media Buying Institute
- PwC wants Vision to Reality Awards to be the bridge connecting Canada’s business ecosystem
- Win a ticket to #SAASNORTH and one-on-one time with Salesforce
- Rogers and Ericsson participating in Ottawa’s IoT innovation program dedicated to improving water quality
- Venture for Canada event puts spotlight on caring for people while growing profits
- Deloitte releases its list of Canada’s 50 fastest-growing companies
- Dalhousie University opening incubator space in 2018 to support local startup ecosystem
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes shares five signs that you may be a unicorn employee
- MTL NewTech invites seven startups to inspire Montreal’s next generation of entrepreneurs at Dawson College
- Today in hackathons: The Lady Hacks, FINHACKS
- Today in product updates: Goldmoney, SweetIQ, instaMEK, EventMobi
- Today in funding ($50M): SoapBox, Cymax, Figure 1, Chef’s Plate
- Ask an Investor: How do I fire my co-founder?
- AngelList Canadian Syndicates page now live
- Borealis Wind wants to help wind farms make up lost revenue with its technology
- Canucks partner with SAP to create engaging fan experiences
- Kirk Simpson tells #TheDisruptors how Wave monetized its free platform
- Zensurance wants to remove the headache for small businesses seeking insurance
- Google investing $4.5 million in Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Intel scales back
- Vancouver Economic Commission’s CareerScout helping west coast firms tap US talent
- Five Canadian companies among 500 Startups’ Batch 19
- Today in funding: PageCloud, Zafin, Procurify
- As Wattpad celebrates 10th birthday, CEO Allen Lau shares Netflix-like ambitions
- How to kill your startup’s referral pipeline in a single interview
- City of Toronto, Highline BETA partner with ResolveTO to help startups get in the zone with enterprise
- Women’s Entrepreneurship Day event showcases the importance of perseverance in building a startup
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 53: Alex Taylor and Jade Tong
- SalesTO launches 30 Under 30 to celebrate Canada’s sales community
- Startup Canada Podcast: Building a nation of creatives
- Vision Critical founder Andrew Reid leaving executive team to found spinoff company
- New Brunswick appoints its first chief entrepreneur-in-residence
- Hack To Start Ep. 124: Hailley Griffis, communications specialist at Buffer
- As Black Friday approaches, Shopify launches app to give users access to flash sales
- Toronto-based WhatRunsWhere acquired by Pathmatics
- Abacus is a VC-backed Facebook marketing agency built to arm startups with data
- Sequence Bio CEO steps down from role as co-founder takes over
- TransPod raises $20 million seed round to continue hyperloop development
- CIX FinTech event tackles the evolving startup-bank dynamic
- Spark Centre announces two $25,000 winners of Ignite startup competition
- Ontario government announces Scale-Up Voucher program to better support high-growth businesses
- Ask an Investor: Do investors back companies with one founder?
- Finn.ai wants to help banks enter the chatbot era
- Startup Weekend Vancouver showcases fast pace of innovation
- Equibit plays damage control with John McAfee as seed round looms
- Wealthsimple, OMERS, DMZ among Canadian FinTech Awards winners
- Crowdmatrix explains how it’s democratizing investing on #TheDisruptors
- TD Bank’s Colleen Johnston says FinTechs are creating more opportunities for banks
- MaRS CEO Ilse Treurnicht says immigration, attracting foreign investment key to Canada’s economic growth
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – HermĂ©s brings haute couture to the smartwatch world
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 54: Digital Economy Forum
- Today in funding: Information Venture Partners, TandemLaunch
- Report: startups contribute $704.6M to Montreal economy per year
- Ontario launches pilot program to test self-driving cars
- MaRS partners with Tokyo-based NTT DATA to help its startups expand to Asia
- What to do when it all falls apart
- UberEATS Toronto reportedly changing pricing model, resulting in reduced pay for drivers
- Calgary becomes latest Canadian city to legalize Uber
- Yoshua Bengio says rise of AI can lead to inequalities if wealth not redistributed fairly
- Startup Canada Podcast: Making the leap from entrepreneurship to intrapreneurship
- Hack to Start Ep. 125: Orrett Davis, head of growth at Abe
- US-based Internet Archive wants to store its data in Canada, citing fear of “restricted internet” under Donald Trump
- Venture Out launching first conference in Canada dedicated to LGBTQ+ inclusion in startups
- Tony Lacavera’s worst day as an entrepreneur is worse than your worst day (#BetaKit1on1)
- InteraXon’s Ariel Garten on the moment investors will give you money (#BetaKit1on1)
- Lightspeed CEO Dax Dasilva, The Next Big Thing co-founder Meredith J. Powell among National Startup Canada Award winners
- Dream Payments receives $1.5 million investment, plans to open Connecticut office
- UK’s Department for International Trade invites 12 Canadian FinTech startups pursuing UK expansion
- Today in funding: Zensurance, Filefacets
- #TechVAN highlights how personalized experiences are key to connecting with customers
- Penta Medical takes home $35,000 from Velocity Fund Finals
- Blockchain technology is king at the OSC’s first FinTech hackathon
- As #BCTechSummit approaches, speaker Ben Parr explains how startups can get more VC attention
- Ask an investor: How do I find a co-founder?
- #DisruptorsPitch contest winner HiMama is the Slack for daycares and parents
- Art Gallery of Ontario exhibit demonstrates how the future of art is in virtual reality
- HoHoTO raises $22,500 to launch 2017 program encouraging girls to pursue tech
- Bitmaker founder Andrew Mawer gives an honest take on the process of being acquired
- LEAGUE founder Mike Serbinis says he wants to build a billion-dollar company by 2018
- Overbond wants to help the bond market save time with its digital platform
- Startup Weekend Montreal encourages the city to embrace entrepreneurship
- US-based food delivery startup Favour abruptly shuts down Toronto operations
- Canadian government seeking feedback for design of Global Skills Strategy
- Queer Tech MTL shares stories of entrepreneurship, resilience, and persistence
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Sony is winning the VR race
- Top 10 takeaways from Canada’s first SaaS conference
- As Hubba raises Series B led by Goldman Sachs, founder Ben Zifkin confident company will IPO by 2020
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 55: Brent Vatne
- Toronto mayor announces new role of Mayor’s Advocate for the Innovation Economy
- Startup Canada podcast: VĂ©ronique Herry, founder of (co)space & Startup Whitehorse Community Builder
- Calling all startups: fill out this #FinTech long-form census
- Toronto-based advisory firm launches SaaS platform as software eats the consulting world
- Report: Canadian deal value reached $2.11 billion through October; exit activity remains sparse
- #DellSMBchat: Setting your business up for success in 2017
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 45: Does Canada need a SaaS Conference?
- Knowledgehook raises $1.25 million to empower math teachers with technology
- Highline BETA partners with Cookhouse Lab to co-create and invest in insurance tech startups
- Hack to Start Ep.126: Adelyn Zhou, head of marketing and co-founder of Topbots
- Breather raises $54 million Series C led by Menlo Ventures
- Scotiabank investing $1 million in OCAD’s design thinking research studio
- Slack and Google to work together on integrations through strategic partnership
- Toronto-based mobile studio Tiny Hearts acquired by Shopify
- PwC’s Chris Dulny says corporations can support Canadian startups as customers (#BetaKit1on1)
- ParDONE announced as winner of Access to Justice Challenge’s $25,000 top prize
- Shopify tops Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards list in Canada
- After US expansion, Foodee CEO Ryan Spong speaks on the art of hitting goals
- Indochino announces new COO and VP of Finance, retail expansion plans
- The Sky Guys launch first drone through its new technology division
- BioConnect’s Bianca Lopes says biometrics are the next generation of verifying online identity
- Today in product updates: RateHub, Frank + Oak, TouchBistro
- PressReader’s chief content officer on monetizing media and dealing with fake news blues
- ChickAdvisor’s Ali and Alex de Bold share the secret of being successful co-founders at #TechTO
- Deloitte #WWTO says enterprise is the real market for wearables
- HackerYou bootcamp offically becomes accredited as Private Career College in Ontario
- Toronto-based AI startup Atomic Reach raises $2 million from angel investors
- Fidelity Investments’ Mark Schmehl says VCs should prioritize investing in AI companies
- Montreal-based Element AI first organization to receive investment from Microsoft Ventures
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Is Magic Leap an illusion?
- Versant Ventures and Bayer AG dedicate $295 million to stem cell therapy company with operations in Toronto
- Ask an Investor: What are stock options, and how do they work?
- Founder Institute says its Canadian companies have collectively raised $7 million
- Why it’s a mistake to hire superheroes
- Today in funding: Symend, TruLeaf, Beagle
- Riipen platform wants to tackle Canada’s graduate underemployment problem
- ProductTank MTL says lack of trust, human need for control biggest barriers to AI adoption
- Report: 87 percent of Canadians trust online banking services, but robo-advisors see more hesitation
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 46: What can Canadian entrepreneurs learn from Pebble’s demise?
- Today in government: Ontario launching open data initiatives in 2017, investing up to $4.5 million in Stereo D
- Chefs Plate highlights sustainability focus after closing second tranche with InvestEco Capital
- Report: Ontario businesses created 58 percent of new jobs across Ontario in the last 10 years
- RBC launches face-to-face video banking for enterprise clients
- Scotiabank first of Canada’s big five banks to launch Sensibill’s receipt management platform
- Ecofuel seeking cleantech startups for its spring 2017 cohort
- Toronto Mayor John Tory on the motivation behind the #TOWRCorridor (#BetaKit1on1)
- University of New Brunswick launches energy and cybersecurity-focused accelerator
- Hack To Start Ep.127: Chris Gimmer, co-founder and CEO of Snappa
- Mojio raises $19 million Series A led by Amazon Alexa Fund, Deutsche Telekom
- Hopper raises $82 million Series C as it celebrates 10 million downloads
- Delve Labs raises $1.5 million seed round to help companies fight cyber attacks with AI platform
- Former MaRS employee under investigation for fraud
- Today in company updates: VarageSale, Jibestream, AmpMe, SweetIQ
- Waterloo-based Eleven-x launches low-power IoT network to compete with higher-cost, traditional carriers
- Ashley Madison has Federal Trade Commission’s $17.5 million USD fine reduced to $1.6 million USD
- Montreal-based Felix & Paul partners with 20th Century Fox to develop VR experiences
- Ask an investor: Should an investor tell you why they said no?
- Vancouver-based Finn.ai named Business News Network’s Top Disruptor
- #DellSMBchat prepares your business for 2017
- Nulogy’s Kevin Wong shares a simple technique that encourages large-scale collaboration at #TechTO
- BlackBerry launching connected and autonomous vehicle research centre in Ottawa
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Oculus CEO steps down
- Parkbench’s hyper-local focus spurs revenue growth
- Obvious to you is not the same as obvious
- CertClean’s Jenise Lee calls saying no the key to success for time-strapped entrepreneurs
- Startup Canada podcast: Shereen Benzvy Miller on building a supply chain of entrepreneurial support
- Startup Canada Podcast: How startups can do better beta testing
- Pebble reportedly falling behind on Kickstarter refunds following Fitbit acquisition
- Today in funding: Resolver, Maintenance Assistant, Unito
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 47: Did tech make things better in 2016 (or worse)?
- Goldmoney adds Royal Canadian Mint to its vault network
- Amazon opens data centres in Montreal thanks to lower hydro costs
- Debunking the myth of higher pay in Silicon Valley
- MaRS wants to give startups up to $20,000 to hire a young entrepreneur
- Italian eyewear maker partners with InteraXon to build fashionable wearables
- CRTC launches $750 million fund to make broadband internet access a basic service
- Appili Therapeutics raises $2.2 million to develop superbug-fighting antibiotics
- Wave’s Kirk Simpson says going free is the best decision the company made
- Report: ICT and life sciences industries get the most attention from VCs
- Facebook partners with University of Waterloo to collaborate on tech research projects
- Salim Ismail: Canadian leadership is now a moral imperative
- Soular founder wants to dispel the myth that you can’t do good and make money
- Ask an Investor: What should I read over the holidays?
- Why you should never apologize for crying in the office
- Startup Canada Podcast: How to design digital communities
- Following $500,000 43North win, Formarum suggests entrepreneurs can be part of rebuilding Buffalo
- Hack To Start Ep.128: Jake Cohn, founder and CEO of And Chill
- Hack To Start Ep. 129: Daniel Beauchamp, Head of VR, Shopify
- Vancouver-based PayByPhone acquired by Volkswagen
- Digital Finance Institute says interest in Vancouver’s FinTech industry growing globally
- LandmarkVR wants its showrooms to be the industry standard for Canadian real estate
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – New year, new wearables
- Startup Canada podcast: Tribe of Lambs founder on starting a global movement of giving
- Report: FinTech regulation, cybersecurity among top 10 legal risks for businesses in 2017
- Poka wants to train the next generation of the factory workforce with its platform
- Canadian government seeking chief science advisor to provide advice on federal scientific research
- Toronto revisiting regulation of Airbnb in 2017
- Hack To Start Ep.130: Seth Louey, co-founder of Botlist
- University of Waterloo team contributes to development of Renesas Electronics autonomous car
- Dx3’s Retail Innovation Challenge invites top startups to pitch RCC, debut at Oxford Properties-owned mall
- The Entrepreneurship Society event reveals the best and worst ways to raise money from investors
- Toronto-based Exact Imaging raises $21.5 million to commercialize its ultrasound tech for prostate biopsies
- Jim Orlando’s 10 Canadian startup and venture capital predictions for 2017
- Tbaytel asks entrepreneurs to build telecom solutions in $75,000 hackathon
- Mariner Partners co-founder Gerry Pond receives Order of Canada
- Ask the Doctor expands to Chinese market with opening of Shenzhen office
- Maluuba team explains why language is the key to making machines intelligent
- BroadbandTV expands Middle East and Asian presence with launches in eight new countries
- Ask an Investor: What are the mistakes founders make when preparing financial projections?
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 49: Silicon Valley myths
- Slack reveals 11 more companies backed through its $106 million fund
- How to be a better leader in four badly drawn charts
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.58: Holly Peck of Women Who Code
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Wearable wonderland at CES
- Evolving beyond pink ghettos
- Miovision partners with U of T, launches lab to help cities make sense of traffic data
- Singularity University launches Canada Global Impact Challenge with full scholarship prize
- Today in company updates: Vidyard, Firmex, RentMoola
- HTML500 expands to nine cities to teach 2500 Canadians to code
- UK-based TruRating says Canada is a dream market for North American expansion
- Fitbit using Pebble’s software talent and infrastructure to launch app store and smartwatch
- Startup Canada Podcast: Routific’s Marc Kuo on building a global software scaleup
- Hack To Start Ep.131: Terri Burns, associate product manager at Twitter
- Former VICE chief revenue officer Ryan Fuss joins Waterloo-based Sortable
- Highline BETA partners with Cossette Health to co-create healthtech startups
- #DellSMBchat: refreshing your business in 2017
- Report: Over three million Canadians will own smartphones with machine learning abilities this year
- Merchants can sell products on Amazon through Shopify
- With $6 million Series A, Clearwater Clinical wants to scale its mobile hearing test solution
- Canadian government will evaluate safety of driverless cars through pilot program
- Today in company updates: Wealthsimple, Dozr, and DNAstack
- GetCastor lets you create the dashboard relevant to your everyday life
- Kitchener-based EMAGIN represents Canada at Imagine H20’s Water Gala in San Francisco
- Moving the Dial wants Toronto startup community to address lack of diversity together
- Meta funding: FrontFundr CEO on equity financing themselves
- Hands-on with InteraXon and Safilo’s Lowdown Focus
- Ask an Investor: I signed a term sheet, now what happens?
- Mercedes-Benz, Fujitsu among companies eager to hear from startups at ResolveTO
- Vancouver-based Unbounce begins international expansion in Berlin, calling it a “magnet” for tech talent
- The Entrepreneurship Society wants to help founders transition from early-stage to growth stage
- Bloomberg Philanthropies giving Toronto up to $500,000 in grants to help city embrace innovation
- Microsoft acquires Waterloo-based AI startup Maluuba
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 50: Can Canada build an AI supercluster?
- As Rubikloud grows to 100, CEO Kerry Liu says it has a head start on the race to win retail cloud computing
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Fitbit continues to gobble up competition
- UNB opens cybersecurity research hub with IBM partnership, $4.5 million in funding
- ProductTank shares the ups and downs of the first three months as a product manager
- Kindred founder says robot takeover is coming
- A brief overview of failing, firing, and Scotch
- CES comes to Toronto in the first #WWTO of 2017
- Startup Canada Podcast: Brightspark’s Mark Skapinker on planting the seed for Canadian investments
- Report: Canadian entrepreneurs optimistic about economy, plan to invest $96.6 billion in their businesses
- FutureVault hires former banking execs as Canada’s FinTech ecosystem heats up
- CIRA investing $1 million towards projects that improve internet access
- Kevin Sandhu reviews his 11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2016
- Moving The Dial asks senior leaders to go out of their way to support #womenintech
- Futurist Optimist: why 2017 is the dawn of an amazing world
- RBC launches machine learning lab in U of A, announces Dr. Richard Sutton as head academic advisor
- Microsoft wants to double size of Maluuba’s Montreal office, donates $6 million to UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al for AI research
- Fundica Roadshow offering $1 million investment award to one startup
- SmoothPay first in Canada to integrate with Visa’s developer program
- CIBC Mellon wants students to collaborate with employees at Ryerson-based innovation hub
- Report: One in three cyberattacks on Canadian companies in 2016 resulted in a security breach
- Mogo wants to gamify the mortgage-managing process with its newest product
- Mayor John Tory wants to show off Toronto’s startups at Shenzhen innovation competition
- BetShare wins $12,000, Ryerson University incubation space at horse racing hackathon
- Thalmic hires Under Armour’s former head of connected products as VP of product experience
- Global survey ranks Toronto as one of the top FinTech centres of the world
- 500 Canada closes $15 million on path to its $30 million fund goal
- Rubicon Project shuts down division created after Chango acquisition
- #DellSMBchat shares the best ways to manage your team in 2017
- Ask an Investor: How do I know if I have product-market fit?
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 51: Canadian tech optimism and even more superclusters
- Edward Snowden says BlackBerry will be “erased from the pages of history” for its stance on privacy
- Ask The Doctor wants its tech to empower patients communicating with doctors
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.60: Rob Bucci of STAT Analytics
- With its eye on IBM’s AI XPrize, Dataperformers wants to democratize AI for enterprises
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Facebook betting billions on virtual reality
- You know your product team is failing, but do you know why?
- Toronto-based Meta first company acquired by the Chan Zuckerberg initiative
- New offices in Toronto and Waterloo help Shopify support growing verticals and Canadian tech
- Pason acquires Verdazo as oil and gas companies drill for better data
- Ryerson’s director of privacy and big data says Canadians should be cautious of all things ‘smart’
- Dx3’s director of content says startups will transform, not destroy, bricks-and-mortar
- Startup Canada Podcast: Serial entrepreneur Kelsey Ramsden says relationships key to growing businesses
- 11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2017
- NextAI announces Google and IBM partnerships, $5.15 million in funding
- Highland Therapeutics raises $263 million through Morgan Stanley to commercialize ADHD drug
- ILM Innovation Weekend encourages Muslim community to pursue entrepreneurship
- Michael Litt says tech founders have “personal responsibility” to think of people harmed by tech progress
- Today in government: Ontario seeks fund managers for cleantech fund, Canada invests $15.6M in George Brown College
- How maker culture is remaking itself
- Ryerson University partners with startup StayBillety to address student housing shortage
- Today in company updates: Influitive, 500px, Kindred Systems, GoFetch, Nymi
- Amplify brings global experts to Halifax to prepare Atlantic Canada for rapid growth
- Report: As on-demand economy expands, almost half of Canada’s workforce will be freelancers by 2020
- #WWTO says wearables are moving beyond gadgets and becoming part of everyday life
- Propel ICT announces first batch of companies in new growth program
- Paparide thinks integrated approach to ridesharing will help fight climate change and traffic congestion
- Ask an Investor: How do I maximize optionality around an M&A offer?
- Shoes.com shuts down operations
- Invest Ottawa appoints former Microsoft Canada VP as CEO
- #ProductHuntTO talks selling edtech to traditional schools
- Mogo president says releasing solutions for multiple FinTech categories key to scale
- Canadian government wants to be your startup’s first customer through Build in Canada program
- Dan Debow first tech CEO to match Canadian ACLU donations
- Mighty Cast wants to empower smart band consumers with its focus on customization
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 52: Canada’s AI obsession
- Startup Canada Podcast: A young entrepreneur’s take on fostering the next generation
- Immigration, hives, and life under NAFTA
- D-Wave open sources software tool to build foundation for a quantum computing community
- Mike Serbinis gives “all-in” lesson for startup founders at #TechTO
- Slack launches Enterprise Grid to support businesses with up to 500,000 people
- Hack To Start Ep.133: Morgan DeBaun, co-founder and CEO of Blavity
- Hyasynth wants to harness the therapeutic benefits of cannabis, without marijuana
- Three things startups need to know before working with big corporate
- PointClickCare raises $111 million from San Francisco’s Dragoneer Investment Group
- Kickstarter opens first international location after acquiring Vancouver-based Huzza
- Canadian Ministers, mayors, and more give statements on tech open letter
- Ontario investing $75 million over five years in big data initiatives
- Inbound Retargeting raises $400,000 for its super-targeted banner ad technology
- OSC announces FinTech Advisory Committee including Portag3’s Adam Felesky, Impression Ventures’ Christian Lassonde
- An Open Letter from the Canadian Tech Community: Diversity is our Strength
- Intelocate takes home ResolveTO’s $100,000 investment prize
- Influitive loses CFO and VP of marketing, trims staff to extend runway
- Element AI’s Yoshua Bengio says Canada is at the forefront of the AI revolution
- As Wealthsimple expands to US, CEO Mike Katchen remains outspoken against discrimination
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 53: Canadian tech comes together
- Fed and provincial govt, GTA investing $19.5 million in new Toronto Global investment-attraction agency
- Hack To Start Ep.134: Mike Schmidt, co-founder of Dovetale
- Knote says its automated document analysis platform helps companies work smarter
- PetBot uses AI to let your pets send you selfies
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.62: Nikolas Badminton, futurist
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Oculus lawsuit awards $500 million to ZeniMax
- You wonât brilliant your way out of this
- Canadian tech opens its doors to those displaced by US executive order
- Today in startup shutdowns: Shelfie, Edusight, Sentinel Alert
- Today in funding: The Money Finder, Leankor, Integrate.ai, CSDC Systems
- #SalesTO highlights making authentic connections with customers on social media
- Startup Canada Podcast: Shyra Barberstock on reconciliation through Indigenous social innovation
- Hootsuite acquires social marketing tool AdEspresso
- Former Gilt director Laura Buhler takes the helm of C100 as executive director
- RBC wants to dedicate 40 percent of tech budget on innovation, move away from spending on legacy systems
- #TechVAN speakers share lessons on getting through early-stage startup hurdles
- Wiivv raises $5.2 million Series A, acquires Arizona-based competitor
- PayPal launches Slack bot enabling peer-to-peer payments
- Hack To Start: Allison Esposito, founder of Tech Ladies
- Botler launches AI assistant to help immigrants make Quebec their home
- Two Toronto startups make it to MergeLane’s third cohort for women-led companies
- Today in company updates: Indochino, Mappedin, TranQool, TribalScale
- Substance conference wants to debug the connection between tech and government
- After 12 years, MaRS CEO Ilse Treurnicht to step down at 2017 AGM
- MaRS nets $290 million West Tower financing to repay government loans
- Guy Kawasaki tells Canadian startups to stop trying to be Apple
- Coconut Calendar founder says Silicon Valley provided new perspective on her bootstrapped startup
- 12 wearables predictions for 2017
- 500 Canada’s Sanjay Singhal on what a VC hates (#BetaKit1on1)
- Report: Only 37 percent of Canadian companies feel confident in cybersecurity abilities
- Dejero raises $14 million to help media companies become more mobile
- HomeAdvisor bests Canadian offers to acquire HomeStars and expand North American presence
- Ask an Investor: How do I build a relationship with an investor?
- 500 Startups announces seed program Batch 20, including seven Canadian companies
- BCIC Ignite award winners receive $2.6 million to commercialize natural resource research
- Outgoing CEO Ilse Treurnicht on “battling the beast” of MaRS’ West Tower and what comes next
- Wave launches small business lending with OnDeck partnership
- Family planning while working in a startup
- Blue J Legal building platform that uses AI to predict how judges will make decisions in court
- Govt and startups speak candidly on how to make Toronto a world-class startup hub
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.63: Peter Watkins, co-founder of BC Developers’ Exchange
- Robin Media thinks it can stop ticket-scalping bots with a concert concierge
- BlackBerry partners with Waterloo-based ISARA for quantum cybersecurity
- Future of Money event stresses collaboration over competition in FinTech
- Startup Canada Podcast: Slingshot VoIP founder says communication is key to entrepreneurship
- MTL NewTech wants to showcase the cityâs up-and-coming tech startups
- MTL NewTech hopes Demo Nights will help entrepreneurs and researchers work together
- Today in company updates: Urbery, Lightspeed, RANK Software
- Report: Canadian companies take ten years to raise what US companies raise in four
- Data breach reports set to “skyrocket” in 2017 thanks to passing of Digital Privacy Act
- Hyperwallet expands to the UK with hopes of nabbing top FinTech talent
- Top Hat raises $29.5 million series C to tackle the textbook industry
- PayPal acquires TIO Networks for $304 million
- eSight launches new smart glasses promising 20/20 vision for the legally blind
- Invest Ottawa’s Main & Digital program wants to help main street businesses embrace ecommerce
- FounderFuel announces AI focus as it opens applications for Spring 2017 cohort
- Today in hackathons: Unearthed, Insurtech QC
- Kepler Communications planning first nanosatellite launch for November 2017
- Report: Canada ranked second best country for social entrepreneurs
- Mayor John Tory joins Best of #TechTO celebration for fireside chat
- Startupong wants Toronto’s tech community to give back with ping pong
- Today in funding: MineSense, Propulse Analytics, NRStor, SecureKey
- Airbnb reportedly considering acquisition of Montreal-based Luxury Retreats
- Bridgit’s co-founders on mentorship & getting comfortable with “trying and failing” (#BetaKit1on1)
- AccelerateAB seeking startups to participate in A100 roundtable session
- Sulon CEO says the evolution of computing starts with mixed reality
- Ask an Investor: How many months should I budget between funding rounds?
- Kepler Communications is on a mission to build a telecom network in space
- SnapTravel is taking on discount hotel websites with bots
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 55: Is Snap’s IPO the next Twitter or a new way to exit?
- CEO Allen Lau explains Wattpad’s plot twist on #TheDisruptors
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – eSight’s 20/20 wearables vision
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.64: Nikolay Malyarov, chief content officer of PressReader
- Transferwise calls its Facebook bot enabling international money transfers a first in Canada
- 5@7 FinTech panel explains how Montreal became an AI leader
- Dovetale wants to use AI to help brand managers find their ideal influencer
- Startup Canada Podcast: Chic Geek founder Kylie Toh on building a community for female entrepreneurs
- Vention wants to democratize mechanical engineering with AI-based platform
- Today in company updates: TransPod, Absolute, Equibit
- “Mystery buyer” reportedly acquiring STI Technologies for $200 million
- BC govt dedicating additional $87 million towards BC Tech Strategy
- Diagram closes $25 million fund from Portag3 and 50-plus angels to build Canadian FinTech from the ground up
- Collage believes taking care of your employees should be easy
- With a $25M USD Series A round, LEAGUEâs Mike Serbinis wonât be stopped
- Collage raises $5 million from Diagram to sate insurance industry’s appetite for digital solutions
- Hack To Start Ep.136: Mike Singleton, co-founder of Iterate
- Hack To Start Ep.137: Emma Nemtin, senior marketing manager at Headspace
- Unlimited vacation and other forms of guilt-based management
- Roadmunk raises $1.5 million to help companies visualize their product roadmap
- Volta and Atlantic Lottery hackathon wants tech to bring smart home solutions to gaming
- Today in company updates: Finaeo, BuildDirect, Mogo, Wattpad
- Pebble’s assets were sold to Fitbit for $30 million
- Hypergive receives 2017 Year of Giving award at World Government Summit
- Report: Canada faces skills gap as interest in cybersecurity jobs declines
- Robin sole Canadian startup accepted to Techstars Music inaugural accelerator program
- ATB Financial partners with Finn.ai to test launch Facebook chatbot
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes on whether stealing ideas is the best way to innovate
- Ask an Investor: What are the pros and cons of raising venture capital?
- Halogen Software acquired by Saba for $293 million
- Hootsuite acquires New York-based LiftMetrix to help customers measure social marketing ROI
- Following $400 million BlueCat exit to US firm, co-founder Michael Hyatt rejects idea that Canadians sell too early
- 35 Canadian startups take centre stage at PayPal’s #Dx32017 Startup Zone
- Quickplay’s Wayne Purboo on scaling and surviving (#BetaKit1on1)
- Dwello wants to take on the “last stand” of cheques with rent payment platform
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 56: Can Uber’s toxic culture infect Canadian tech?
- How do Canadian companies recruit talent to Go North? (Facebook Live chat)
- SmartTones wants to help TV broadcasters connect with mobile audiences
- Executive director Abdullah Snobar explains how the DMZ became North America’s top incubator
- Today is BetaKit’s first birthday
- TouchBistro partners with Thinking Capital to launch restaurant financing
- This is the year to stop gossiping at the office
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.65: Chad Leaman, director of development at the Neil Squire Society
- 5th Wall founder Ricardo Poupada says Canada can be a world leader in VR
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – VR porn is coming
- Queer Tech MTL examines how allies can better support the LGBTQ+ community
- Vanedge Capital closes $161 million second fund
- DMZ launches insurtech accelerator program with Aviva Canada
- Startup Canada Podcast: Fulton Inbound Marketing founders on building brands and putting people first
- Today in funding ($17.8M): Appili Therapeutics, Enbala Power Network, Sofdesk
- L-SPARK announces startups joining winter 2017 cohort to set foundation for scale
- Workbrain, Rypple co-founder David Stein shares the playbook on scaling startups
- Rubikloud stresses long-term approach to securing clients following partnership with international beauty retailer
- SAP, AWS among those launching online hub to help businesses embrace emerging tech
- C100 invites Canadian startups to spend intense two days making connections in Silicon Valley
- Hootsuite refutes questions of unicorn status following Bloomberg report
- Notman House roundtable recommends community resources to solve Canadian tech’s gender gap
- Waterloo-based VR arcade expanding with 10 new locations across Canada
- Techstars launches first Canadian accelerator in Toronto
- Mastercard announces plans to launch skip-the-line payments platform in Canada
- Today in company updates: LANDR, WealthBar, Dream Payments
- Sensibill raises $17.3 million Series A to help banks and customers contextualize receipt data
- Startupfest launches program allowing 100 global startups to spend the summer in Canadian accelerators
- Hack To Start Ep.138: Sophia Dominguez, CEO and co-founder of SVRF
- Pinterest’s Eric Edge on bridging the gap between inspiration and action ahead of #Dx32017 talk
- Report: RBC, Scotiabank leading banks in Canada for embracing FinTech innovation
- ecobee’s Stuart Lombard says myths set the foundation for your startup’s culture
- Slack fixes bug that granted hackers access to accounts and messages
- Report: Canadians spent $1.31 billion on ridesharing services last year
- Ask an Investor: How do I build a board of directors for my startup?
- Fixing tech’s diversity problem means creating a culture of inclusivity
- CEO Mike Silagadze explains how data on Top Hat’s platform can help struggling students
- MoveSnap wants all-in-one moving platform to become standard service offered by real estate agents
- Pilly says its mobile pharmacy platform helps patients feel “in control” of their health
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 57: Is Hootsuite a unicorn (and does it matter)?
- Here are the startups pitching at #Dx32017’s Retail Innovation Challenge
- Google announces 10 finalists splitting $5 million in first-ever Canadian Impact Challenge
- Montreal-based Dialogue raises $4 million, announces Ontario expansion
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.66: Alex Wingert and Lester Tiro from Advisor Websites
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Wearables aren’t dead but Fitbit risks losing its lead
- Stripe launches service allowing Canadian businesses to process payments in 130 currencies
- LinkedIn CMO Shannon Stubo joins Vidyard board of directors
- Arlene Dickinson surpasses $25 million goal for first VC fund
- Shopify receives petition with 200,000 signatures to drop Breitbart
- Startup Canada Podcast: Awake Labs’ Andrea Palmer on making a social impact through tech
- RBC now allows customers to send e-transfers with Siri
- BC government pledges to legalize Uber by the end of the year
- Startup Canada Podcast: Collaborating for change on International Women’s Day
- How Bunz transformed from a grassroots community to an up-and-coming startup
- March’s #WWTO showcases women in hardware
- Hack To Start Ep.139: Stephen Ufford, co-founder and CEO at Trulioo
- Dream Payments announces $10 million Series A for US expansion
- Government’s Global Skills Strategy with fast-track visa to be implemented June 12
- ScaleUP Ventures closer to $75 million fund target after $25 million boost from Ontario government
- Canadian banks announce plans to create $1 billion Canadian Business Growth Fund
- IBM’s chief innovation officer warns against working in silos at #Dx32017
- Montreal will be home to first Canadian Google Cloud Platform region
- CEO Ben Zifkin says Hubba will be “way” more than a billion dollar company
- Immigration Q&A argues uncertain political times makes education the most valuable asset to secure talent
- NEXT Canada seeking high-potential entrepreneurs for Next Founders 2017 cohort
- Forum Ă©conomique panel calls provincial âhesitationâ a barrier to innovation
- Today in funding ($91.3M): Ontario’s BURST program, Quebec’s SME fund
- Here are Pinterest’s top personalized marketing tips at #Dx32017
- Collage says all-in-one platform makes HR and benefits easy for any business
- Akira wants to let doctors make house calls through your smartphone
- Today in company updates: Intellijoint Surgical, Dozr, Flexiti Financial, Exact Imaging
- DementiaHack connects 300 people to build tech solutions empowering people with dementia
- You can’t be what you can’t see
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.67: Matt Visser and Graydon Bensler of Syllabi Learning Solutions
- City of Toronto launching Civic Innovation Office to procure tech solutions for city problems
- ValidateIT’s Corrine Sandler explains the “dark side” to living in a data-driven world at #TechTO
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Is Google ramping up AR and VR production?
- COO Harley Finkelstein explains Shopify’s product plans that could help it better compete with Amazon
- Government of Canada investing up to $43 million in British Columbia’s cleantech industry
- Startup Canada Podcast: ReferralMortgages.com’s Paul Stevenson on starting a new life as an entrepreneur
- Scotiabank donates $2 million to UBC for cybersecurity research
- Updated #BCTech Strategy includes focus on STEM grads and encouraging US trade
- Hack To Start Ep.140: Swish Goswami, CEO and co-founder of Technotronics
- Startups creating assistive tech can win $20,000 in OCE competition
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 58: Why does Canadian tech celebrate IPOs but hate acquisitions?
- Today in BC funding ($77M): Visier, UrtheCast
- Report: Thalmic, Hootsuite among Canadaâs 50 most financially attractive tech companies
- #Dx32017 teaches companies to understand what their customers really care about
- 43North opens applications for $5 million startup competition
- Ottawa-based vibrator company settles data collection lawsuit for $5 million
- Archiact says mobile is the key to driving mass VR adoption
- Report names Ottawa top tech hub in Canada, with Calgary second place
- Wealthsimpleâs Mike Katchen says Canadian entrepreneurs need more “naive ambition” to find global success
- Square CFO Sarah Friar joins Slack as first independent board member
- India’s largest mobile payments platform launches in Canada
- Hachette Book Group partners with Wattpad to turn its stories into audiobooks
- Today in company updates: Article, Jibestream, Brizi
- Ask an Investor: How does my personal brand impact fundraising?
- Sprint.ly’s April Dunford gives some context to the sticky struggle of pitching at #TechTO
- With $50,000 in crowdfunding, Hardbacon hopes to make the average Canadian a stock market pro
- CCI’s Ben Bergen says accessing global talent will grow Canadian economy on #TheDisruptors
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 59: How not to hire employees for your startup
- Startup Genome report ranks Vancouver as Canada’s top startup hub, 15th globally
- Evercondo hopes its condo communication platform will build better communities
- Cloud DX wants its health monitoring devices to help people avoid long waits at clinics
- Your new process is no substitute for giving a shit
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.68: Koho goes live
- With IBM partnership, SecureKey enters next phase of developing secure digital identity network
- Don and Alex Tapscott launch Blockchain Research Institute with IBM, Ontario gov’t
- Six months in the Valley: Our crash course in 500 Startups
- Startup Canada Podcast: Mastercard Canada’s Rick Rennie on how fraud affects small businesses
- Hootsuite acquires Naritiv’s Snapchat analytics solution, opens LA office
- Innovation au féminin panel says celebrating role models will encourage more women to enter STEM careers
- Alterna Bank partners with Lendful on Canada’s first “end-to-end” digital mortgage platform
- #BCTechSummit puts Vancouver at the centre of the global tech stage
- Hack to Start Ep.141: Hanna Kulin, product designer at Facebook
- FarmLead raises $8.6 million Series A for US expansion
- #intersections event explores advantages of researching AI in Montreal
- ModiFace partners with Japan’s largest insurance company as part of Asia expansion
- Urthecast closes $19.6 million offering of common shares
- Volkswagen partners with D-Wave to adopt quantum technology
- Vidyard opens Vancouver office, announces plans to grow sales team
- Drone Delivery Canada, U of T, DRDC partner to develop drone navigation tech beyond GPS
- Today in impact hackathons: Envision the Future, Social Good Hackathon, The Breakout Project
- AquaHacking 2017 Challenge comes to Waterloo with $75,000 prize
- Founders Lounge panel says Canadian tech community should embrace diversity without victimizing women
- Get your #Firesideconf tickets now before they’re gone in September
- After record-breaking campaign, Wiivv returns to Kickstarter to launch new product
- Uber Canada GM calls GST/HST collection on ridesharing a ‘tax on innovation’
- BC wants to work with tech on public sector challenges through Startup in Residence program
- Today in company updates: GainX, Miovision
- Pfera wins nearly $375,000 at NBIF Breakthru Competition
- Integrate.ai’s Steve Irvine says a business with soul will attract and retain talent
- Founder City Project wants to teach entrepreneurs how to execute on diversity policies
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 60: Will #Budget2017 help Canadian startups?
- How to negotiate like a boss
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.69: John Richardson, CEO of Ethelo Decisions
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The dark side of AR
- Pearl’s Choice founder shares lessons learned from bootstrapping
- Here’s a list of Female Founders Hardware Cup semi-finalists competing for $50,000
- Calgary-based Irfhan Rawji joins Relay Ventures to expand its western Canada presence
- Startup Canada Podcast: Roasters Pack founder Suneal Pabari on launching a coffee startup
- Hillary Hartley named Ontario’s first chief digital officer
- BC startups have until Friday to apply for Hypergrowth accelerator
- Canadian tech community reacts to #Budget2017
- Yoshua Bengio says VCs and govât must invest in Montreal AIâs long term success at #MTLNewTech
- AngelList Syndicates now available to startups and investors across Canada
- AI-focused Institute will be supported by over $150 million from gov’t, big five banks
- Therapia raises $750,000 seed round for on-demand physiotherapy platform
- Hack To Start Ep.142: Nick Patrick, co-founder and CEO of Radar
- Today in company updates: Casalova, Goldmoney, Trulioo, TouchBistro
- Inocucor raises $38.8 million Series B to invest in R&D, US expansion
- #VentureOut gives startup founders tips for creating inclusive workplaces
- Optimity’s Jane Wang explains working with “no” when closing tough sales deals
- City of Montreal, UQAM, Tourisme Montréal launch tourism-focused incubator
- RBC piloting service that allows clients to connect with investment advisors over video
- The Vinetta Project’s Toronto Venture Challenge offering $15,000 top prize to one female founder
- While banks win on capital, startups win in technology, says #CSMEBF17
- Roseann Runte appointed president and CEO of Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Report: Canadian youth face risk of unemployment as entry-level jobs are replaced by automation
- Eve Medical’s Jessica Ching calls on men to be “allies” in conversations of diversity in tech
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes says social networks have an “algorithmic responsibility” to users
- Expa Labs now allows Canadian startups to participate remotely in its six-month program
- #Budget2017 calls for $950 million towards ‘superclusters’, national AI strategy
- Therapia wants to make physiotherapy more accessible with its on-demand app
- Google announces winners of Canada’s first-ever $5 million Impact Challenge
- #WWTO celebrates women leading in wearables
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 61: Is it wrong to encourage young women into STEM careers?
- Synaptop says it is ‘disrupting internet disruption’ with content collaboration platform
- WeWork confirms Toronto location after announcing Vancouver expansion plans
- Is it worth your time to be excellent?
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Palmer Luckey leaves Facebook
- The Knowledge Society wants to teach Canada’s next generation of innovators
- Google’s Women Techmakers sets foundation for supportive community of Montreal women in tech
- CEO Frederic Lalonde explains how traveller anxiety fuelled Hopper’s successful pivot
- With $6.7 million seed round, Platterz wants to dominate corporate catering space with automation focus
- Singularity University launches inaugural Canada Summit
- Infiniti launches accelerator program in Toronto to support IoT and smart city startups
- Startup Canada Podcast: Aluvion Law founder Eric Apps on disrupting age-old industries
- Privacy Commissioner of Canada concerned about data collection in connected cars
- Today in key hires: Wattpad, Hubba
- Serenity Bioworks wins $35,000 from Velocity Fund Finals
- Hack To Start Ep.143: Jeff Sheldon, founder and designer of Ugmonk
- Street Contxt raises fresh round with Portag3, brings total funding to $15M USD
- Toronto-based Turnstyle Analytics acquired by Yelp for $20 million USD
- Innisfil, Ont. piloting ridesharing transit service with Uber
- Sharethebus rebrands to Bus.com, raises $6.5 million Series A
- Rakuten Kobo acquires ebook startup Shelfie
- Financeit and Concentra renew $100 million funding facility
- QueerTech MTL panel says itâs not just up to managers to support diversity in a company
- PM Justin Trudeau using Quora, LinkedIn to sell Canada’s innovation agenda
- CVCA & The Entrepreneurship Society connecting founders and investors for Raising Capital event
- NewOak partners with LendingArch to purchase $2 billion in loans
- Ontario grants $5.4 million to 15 healthtech projects focused on improving patient care
- ReDeTec wants to make the 3D printing process less wasteful
- Ask an Investor: Should I outsource product development?
- TD Artificial Intelligence Innovation Day shows how AI can make business more human
- Today in company updates: Shopify, Wattpad, Wealthsimple, PerfectMind, Overbond
- Biomedical Zone shows healthtech innovation happens when startups and clinicians collaborate
- Report: 62 percent of Canadian execs see outdated technology as barrier to innovation
- LiveGauge wants to help brands measure ROI on real-world marketing campaigns
- LendingArch says it’s disrupting lending by being “revenue-enabler” for financial institutions
- BTL Group’s Guy Halford-Thompson explores blockchain uses beyond FinTech on #TheDisruptors
- Canadian startup stories of the week (04/08/17)
- Keela’s Nejeed Kassam says founders must curb their ego when running a startup
- Legal IT conference explores AIâs potential uses in Canada’s justice system
- Electronic Arts plans to invest $500 million in Quebec’s video game industry over 10 years
- Product Tank panel explains how tech can create a better future for transportation
- BNN’s #DisruptorsPitch contest gives one Canadian startup a chance to pitch to a national audience
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.70: Adam Dymitruk, CEO of Adaptech Solutions
- How thisopenspace’s founders turned a side hustle into a business
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Shazam joins the AR race
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.71: Mark Mandel, Google Cloud Developer Advocate
- Steve Mann appointed chief scientist of Vancouver-based Istuary Innovation Labs
- Federal panel calls for $1.3 billion in new funding for science research, system overhaul
- MTL NewTech panel says open data will enable Montreal to be a smart city
- Startup Canada Podcast: Lovell Corp. CEO on inspiring young entrepreneurs
- LANDR partners with ASCAP to provide unlimited mastering to 600,000 composers
- Hack To Start Ep.144: Andrew Pelling, founder of pHacktory
- Canadian innovators can receive $50,000 through James Dyson Foundation’s 2017 competition
- Toronto-based Modiface investing $4 million in university programs fostering AR and AI talent
- Report: Canada has “unique” potential to lead in AI, but must address gaps in private sector funding and internet access
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 62: Can the government go digital with help from Canadian startups?
- Crew sold to Dribbble as co-founders turn focus to Unsplash
- Actionable feedback, why it matters, and how to get better at giving it
- Amazon Web Services opens applications for $50,000 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge
- Scholastic acquires Charlottetown-based Ooka Island
- BCIC-New Ventures Competition offering $300,000 in prizes to early-stage BC tech startups
- Future of Venture Capital panel says gov’t pace could inhibit effectiveness of VCCI
- Raising Capital event talks about how to deal with “lying” VCs
- Launch of Montrealâs Digital Spring celebrates the intersection of fashion and tech
- Toronto’s DMZ launches Playbook sales accelerator for startups
- Zone Startups, GE Canada, and BDC launch seed accelerator fund for Calgary tech startups
- Blockgeeks Lab hosting $25,000 blockchain hackathon with ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin
- Payfirma partners with CWB Financial Group to provide white-label payments platform
- Today in funding ($16.4M): Agrisoma, Novarc
- LowestRates.ca CEO says getting Canada’s big banks on the platform a “big challenge”
- Drop pitches millennial-focused rewards app on #TheDisruptors
- Canadian startup stories of the week (04/16/17)
- Unsplash co-founder Mikael Cho says company’s focus is in mobile, native advertising
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 63: Can voice recognition cross AI’s Uncanny Valley?
- Now an international company, Dax Dasilva explains why Lightspeed is committed to Canada
- Real Matters files to go public on the Toronto Stock Exchange
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.72: Dorfam Mirgharavi, business development at Aequilibrium.ca
- If you hate rumour mills, why did you build one?
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Google Earth enters VR orbit
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes on the best way to keep passionate employees from leaving
- InteraXon’s Derek Luke says empathy, patience important traits of non-founder CEOs
- Startup Canada Podcast: Brewing impact through a B-Corp
- Wiivv breaks own record as most funded 3D-printed product in Kickstarter history
- Inspired by Paris, MT Lab wants tech to innovate Montrealâs tourism industry
- True North founder expects at least five “Hootsuite-sized” US companies to settle in Vancouver
- Alert Labs receives Intact Ventures’ first investment in Canada
- Forestry.io closes first seed round in Canada with AngelList Syndicate
- Aeryon Labs founder Dave Kroetsch moves to CTO role; Bill McHale named new CEO
- Today in company updates: 500px, Flexiti Financial, EQ Works, Frank + Oak
- Code for Canada wants tech and gov’t to build better public services together
- Hack To Start Ep.145: Gina Gotthilf, VP of growth and marketing at Duolingo
- Wave hires new SVP of marketing as it rebrands to financial services for entrepreneurs
- Shopify announces self-designed PoS card reader to grab US customers from Square
- Shopify hopes “tens of millions” of consumers will use new Shopify Pay within a year
- Five reasons why Toronto is a pioneer in tech from Urbery’s Rohan Jayasekera
- Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper joining San Francisco-based 8VC as advisor
- Grobo begins shipping hydroponic grow box so people can grow their weed at home
- Shopifyâs new Unity Buy SDK lets game developers sell products in-game
- Report: Canada’s cleantech sector expected to be worth $18B by 2022; down from previous $50B projection
- Ask an Investor: How do I keep my investors engaged after a funding round?
- Invest Ottawa launches online hub to connect global talent to Ottawa tech companies
- Greenspace hopes its platform will match people with the best mental health care providers
- Think Dirty’s Lily Tse says purpose, inclusivity are key to building the right company culture
- eSight smart glasses help legally blind teen to see, shoot hoops with the Harlem Globetrotters
- Local Logic wants to impact the way people use cities with its data-driven platform
- CEO Carol Leaman explains how Axonify helps “deskless workers” stay engaged at work
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 64: Is Shopify targeting Square or Amazon?
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.73: Keith Ippel, CEO of Spring Activator
- Why is your team so angry all the time?
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Facebook gears up for an AR/VR future
- The Money Finder closes $1.5 million seed round from Build Ventures, Innovacorp
- MedChart wants to make health records more accessible to patients with cloud-based platform
- Rubikloud now using Microsoft Azure to support retailers moving “terabytes” of data to the cloud
- theBoardlist launches in Canada to get more women on company boards
- Startup Canada Podcast: Dribbble’s Michael Sacca shares the path of building Crew
- Zymeworks snags huge $61.5 USD million Series A round for its biotherapeutic treatments
- Zymeworks plans to raise $110 million from its IPO
- National Bank investing $6 million in Nest Wealth, plans to integrate its robo-advisor tech
- PM Justin Trudeau tells Vidyard Canadian tech can compete against “any country in the world”
- Hack To Start Ep.146: Anthony Pompliano, managing partner of Full Tilt Capital
- WeWork wants Toronto startups and nonprofits to apply for part of $20 million Creator Awards
- Kamloops Innovation awarding $10,000 cash, six months of mentorship to one early-stage startup
- Today in company updates: mnubo, You.i TV, CrowdRiff
- Empowered Homes raises $600,000 to take the customers that Nest can’t serve
- C100 announces the 21 startups headed to 48Hrs in the Valley program
- AccelerateOTT returns with Techstars managing director Eamonn Carey, Shopify COO Harley Finkelstein
- ATB Financial will be the first bank in Canada to get Pepper robot assistant
- Hootsuite launches $5 million fund to get more devs building enterprise integrations
- Exiger acquires Toronto-based OutsideIQ for AI-based financial compliance solutions
- Hockeystick and the Lazaridis Institute partner to build a central data hub for Canada’s startup ecosystem
- #ONbudget 2017 invests $75 million in advanced computing, announces Waterloo-based Quantum Valley Ideas Lab
- Today in company updates: Lightspeed, Eden
- Ontario and Toronto gov’ts partner to give Founder Institute grads $5,000 grants
- Former Aeryon Labs VP of engineering joins TextNow as CTO
- Techstars’ David Brown says Canada’s entrepreneurial advantage is openness to immigrants
- Popup Camp lets parents bring their children to tech events
- NetCents users can now purchase bitcoin with MasterCard
- Today in FedDev Ontario funding ($2.5M): YEDI Institute, Noblegen
- Dragons’ Den’s W. Brett Wilson among judges at Lift’s weed startup pitch competition
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 65: Lessons from Tilt’s “VC-funded learning experience”
- How CETA can fill a talent gap in BC’s tech sector
- US-based MealPal launches in Toronto to capture “skip the line” market
- Alberta gov’t dedicating $100,000 to grant program that helps Indigenous women launch businesses
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.74: PressReader COO Nikolay Malyarov, CJR staff writer David Uberti
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The case of the exploding Fitbit
- Canada and US gov’ts launch open data challenge to better understand public health
- Wealthsimple receives Webby Award for Best Financial Services and Banking website
- Elon Musk’s Vancouver TED Talk will help you “not be sad” about the future
- IoT613 announces winners of student design competition
- Startup Canada Podcast: Accessing Entrepreneurship with AccessNow’s Maayan Ziv
- Competition Bureau suggests Canadian FinTech sector’s slow growth due to regulation, consumer complacency
- Shopify reports $127.4 million total revenue in Q1 2017, up 75% YoY
- Four Waterloo-based teams advancing to NASA’s Global Space Apps Challenge
- Report: Canadian companies must spend more on marketing and sales to overcome scaling challenges
- CVR 2017 exploring the future of virtual reality with speakers from NASA, Cognitive VR
- Tech industry leads Indeed’s list of best jobs in Canada
- Hack To Start Ep.147: Maya Prohovnik, head of operations at Anchor
- Canadian gov’t invests $37.4 million in college innovation hubs, research projects
- SurePath Capital Partners expands to San Francisco with perfect funding track record
- Pythian raises $15 million from BDC Capital for European expansion
- ecobee launches next gen smart thermostat with built-in Alexa in the US
- #BDCSeries panel says founders need to let go to scale their startups
- 15 startups getting mentorship from Cisco, Google execs at Metabridge’s annual tech retreat
- Report: Outdated CRTC policies could slow down IoT development in Canada
- Zymeworks raises $80 million CAD in IPO
- #InStore examines how AI and AR fit into the future of retail
- CIBC pulls mobile payments app instead of competing with Apple and Samsung Pay
- Report: Millennials show more interest in jobs less likely to be replaced by automation
- CDL planning launch of Halifax location for green and ocean-tech companies
- House of VR launches in Toronto to get more Canadians interested in VR
- Ask an Investor: What do investors look for in a founding team?
- Universe co-founder launches latest venture, Growlabs, with $3 million in funding
- Three Canadian startups win $50,000 at Interac’s Collision Day Challenge
- BrainStation’s FinTech panel says retraining key to preparing for AI disruption
- Staffy building on-demand hospitality workforce with its mobile app
- Canadian startup stories of the week (05/06/17)
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 66: How do we get more women on tech boards?
- Nest Wealth CEO says Canada’s concentrated market means FinTechs must partner with banks for customers
- thisopenspace snagging customers like lululemon, Nike on its creative space rental platform
- Uber launching research hub for driverless technology in Toronto
- Flashfood launches with Longo’s in Toronto to alleviate food insecurity
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.75: Scott Bellware and Nathan Ladd, founders of Eventide Project
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Will Apple Watch overtake Fitbit?
- Canadian gov’t opens Big Data Analytics Centre to study the wireless spectrum
- IBM launches collaborative innovation space in Markham
- OMERS Ventures closes $300 million third fund
- Alphabet reportedly considering Toronto as site of urban innovation-focused Sidewalk Labs
- Ferst Digital wants to rebundle fragmented SMB banking with its API-enabled platform
- Startup Canada Podcast: Leveraging startup communities for global innovation
- BDC and MaRS IAF announce initial $5 million close of women founder-focused fund
- Unsplash releases free API to give devs access to over 200,000 photos
- The future of health care is both automated and personal
- Canadian gov’t begins search for Canada Infrastructure Bank leadership team
- Thymox raises $4.6 million Series B funding for international expansion of biodegradable disinfectant
- Attendease raises seed round led by 500 Startups Canada
- AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio joins Botler as strategy advisor
- Hack To Start Ep.148: Sean Ellis, CEO of GrowthHackers.com
- Ulule wants to be the “best” crowdfunding platform instead of the biggest
- FounderFuel announces eight companies joining 2017 cohort
- BC Tech Association announces 2017 Technology Impact Awards finalists
- RBC announces investment and partnership with OneEleven to support scaleups
- Adventure tech startups ShareShed and Guiides acquired by Leavetown
- Why Canada is well-positioned to be a global leader in cybersecurity
- Report: Most Canadians don’t know what artificial intelligence is
- Report: Toronto requires more collaboration between gov’t, startups to become a smart city
- New Brunswick announces $63.6 million in funding for two innovation agencies
- Wealthsimple raises $50 million in funding, announces $1 billion in assets under administration
- Technovation Challenge aims to help young girls become tech entrepreneurs
- Today in company updates: Flexiti Financial, Integrate.ai, Lightspeed, Overbond, StackAdapt
- Report: Majority of Canadians believe technology has a positive impact on the world
- Ask an Investor: What should I look for in my first external sales hire?
- Askuity’s platform aims to bridge the data gap between retailers and suppliers
- dubdub pitches “shoppable” video creation platform on #TheDisruptors
- PM Justin Trudeau says STEM ability, education will help Canada succeed during OneEleven launch
- Cadillac Fairview EVP believes malls will survive retail disruption thanks to focus on services
- Canadian startup stories of the week (05/13/17)
- Toronto appoints chief transformation officer to help the city become a more “innovative” public service
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.76: Jonathan Natavio, CEO and founder of Porter
- University of New Brunswick partners with Israel-based CyberSpark for joint cybersecurity research
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Magic Leap eyes an $8 billion valuation
- Wattpad lays off 10% of staff as it shifts focus to machine learning capabilities
- Governor General’s Innovation Awards celebrates Canadians using tech to improve quality of life
- Nymi raises $20 million Series B, founder Karl Martin moves back to CEO role
- National Bank partners with IVADO to support Montreal’s data science ecosystem
- Startup Canada Podcast: WatchMojo founder on growing a digital empire
- Magnet Forensics launches Magnet.AI to fight child exploitation
- Edmonton-based Jobber opens Toronto office to tap into sales and marketing talent
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 67: Is Vancouver Canada’s next great tech hub?
- Men’s clothing platform Bonsai raises $2.5 million seed round to scale technology arm
- Hack To Start Ep.149: Sançar Ćahin, director of marketing at Typeform
- Alberta Women Entrepreneurs celebrating province’s business leaders with awards ceremony
- Oneiric’s Emily Rudow wants to break a world record and raise $10,000 for cancer research
- Report: Canada has no problem securing patents, but struggles with commercialization
- Today in company updates: Top Hat, Hootsuite, District M
- L-SPARK opens applications to B2B SaaS companies for scale program
- Creative Destruction Lab expands to Montreal, Calgary, and Halifax
- The future of food requires a culture shock
- GoFetch raises $1.4 million seed round, expands to Toronto
- With Janet Bannister now on board, VarageSale touts traction as it seeks revenue (and funding)
- Visier partners with two Canadian universities to launch programs supporting youth in STEM
- New Brunswick opens innovation hub to support tech solutions for the aging population
- OTT Financial Group arranges WeChat Pay partnership with Tourism Toronto
- Report: Majority of Canadians say connected tech is important to improving health care
- Cloud DX named BNN’s Top Disruptor
- TechAide challenges Montreal’s tech community to face AI in charity poker tournament
- The RAISE Collective wants to build Canada’s community of women investors
- Head of Facebook Canada announces departure from the company
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 68: Is Google’s new AI chip a game changer?
- A message from Erin Bury about the rebirth of BetaKit
- Startup Canada Podcast: Erin Bury on strategic marketing
- Mylo raises $750,000 for platform that invests your spare change
- Non-profit launches hub dedicated to educating Canadians about electric vehicles
- Startup Canada Podcast: Canada’s AI pioneer Eli Fathi
- Share your take on Canada’s accelerators with Startupfest’s survey
- University of Waterloo researchers develop machine learning-based rehabilitation system
- Today in company updates: RentMoola, Payment Rails, ExpertFile, Exact Media
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 77: Monoliths vs. microservices
- IBM launches accelerator program to help founders scale blockchain networks
- InterestPiggy’s platform invites financial service providers to compete for customers
- Hootsuite partners with New York-based Actiance to build compliance solution for financial service companies
- D-Wave and Creative Destruction Lab create one-year program for quantum machine learning startups
- Hack To Start Ep.150, David Heimann, co-founder and CTO of Purple
- Naborly announces international credit data partnership with Equifax Canada
- 1Password adds travel mode feature to protect data from border agents
- Android Pay expected to launch in Canada on May 31
- Report: 50 percent of Canadians “somewhat” anxious about the arrival of e-wallets
- Kik launches Kin to drive mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency
- Goldmoney announces investment, partnership in UK-based Lend and Borrow Trust
- FedDev Ontario dedicating $8.9 million to 3D printing lab at University of Waterloo
- Infiniti Lab announces nine startups joining its smart city-focused accelerator
- Toronto Women’s Entrepreneurship Forum wants to support aspiring women founders
- Ask an Investor: How do I create a targeted list of investors?
- ROSS Intelligence opening R&D headquarters in Toronto
- The future of education requires smarter admissions decisions (using AI)
- Two Toronto entrepreneurs win combined $60,000 at WeWork Creator Awards
- Vector Capital set to acquire Sandvine for $483 million
- UNB launches 3D metal printing centre for marine and defence industries
- SaaS North returns to build up Canada’s SaaS community
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Will movie theatres drive VR adoption?
- Project Jasper urges private-public sector collaboration to bring blockchain into financial system
- NACO report says Canadian startups received $157.2 million from angel groups in 2016
- Code for Canada opens applications for public service innovation fellowship
- #C2M17: Yoshua Bengio suggests AI innovation still has a long way to go
- Mistral Venture Partners closes $26 million of Fund II, invests in Blue J Legal
- Steven McCartney joins Ssimwave as president, Communitech hires Greg Barratt as new VP
- Startup Canada Podcast: Trulioo’s Stephen Ufford on verifying global identities
- Brookfield Institute partners with Ontario’s Policy Innovation Hub to promote policy innovation tools
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 78: Adaptech Solutions’ Adam Dymitruk on Monoliths vs. Microservices
- Lazaridis Institute accepting applications for second cohort of Scale-Up Program
- Q4’s Darrell Heaps says “hustle and grind” are key to growing a company
- Hack To Start Ep.151: Nathan Bashaw, co-founder and CEO of Hardbound
- Today in funding ($5M): Vanbex, ProntoForms
- TouchBistro raises $16.3 million Series C to continue North American expansion
- Wave raises $32 million from RBC, Portag3 Ventures
- Today in company updates: ModiFace, HiMama, LANDR
- Alongside leads Branham Group’s list of top 25 up-and-coming Canadian companies
- HeyOrca raises $2 million to build up US presence and double headcount
- Canada’s privacy commissioner speaks against invasive electronic device searches at US border
- Youth-led startups SpitStrips, Candy Cutlery representing Canada at SAGE World Cup
- CEO Lauren Haw shares how past careers prepared her for the acquisition of Zoocasa
- Shopify launching A Day with Shopify conference in five cities, including Vancouver
- Report: 76 percent of retailers believe mobile is the future
- Kik’s Christopher Best on being the underdog and building in Canada (#BetaKit1on1)
- Dalhousie University gets Canada’s first I-Corps program to commercialize science research
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 69: Can Kikâs cryptocurrency save the company from copycat Facebook?
- Arlene Dickinson’s District Ventures announces fourth cohort
- Today in key hires: Klipfolio, Lightspeed
- Upverter productizes successful pivot with EE concierge
- Ask an Investor: Where should I incorporate my startup?
- Beanworks raises $4.5 million Series A, adds new VPs
- The future for some lagging industries is still mobile disruption
- Propel ICT’s CEO Anita Punamiya steps down, joins board of directors
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 70: Will the government’s supercluster competition pit Canada’s tech hubs against each other?
- CIBC partners with Borrowell to offer free credit scores
- Fujitsu partners with 1QBit to apply quantum-inspired tech to AI
- CIC Capital investing $202 million in Canadian companies through new North American Growth Fund
- PayPal Canada and Canada Post launch integrated payment and shipping solution for small businesses
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 79: Zac Cohen, GM of Trulioo
- Kiwi wants to help smokers quit with its smartwatch app
- Upbrella Construction wins PwC Canada’s disruptor award
- Startup Canada Podcast: Building a PR strategy for your startup
- Ontario and Toronto gov’ts launch grant program for digitizing small businesses
- With $2.1 million in funding, Zoom.ai wants its automated assistant to be the next Salesforce
- Hack To Start Ep.152: Nathaniel Harley, co-founder and CEO of Mantl
- #SpotlightSeries: Michael Hyatt says VC money is the “most expensive or cheapest” a founder can take
- Pressboard raises $2 million to develop AI assistant for its branded content marketplace
- Shopify’s social marketing bot now free for all merchants
- BDC Capital commits $250 million to filling a funding gap for growth stage companies
- BDC Capital investing $280 million over two years in Atlantic Canada businesses
- BDC Capital commits $1.8 billion to SMBs seeking growth capital
- INNOVATE conference wants to get youth engaged with artificial intelligence, VR trends
- Today in company updates: Jibestream, Kira Talent
- Yaletown Partners wins CVCA’s Deal of the Year award for investment in Bit Stew
- Plaza Ventures and Extreme Venture Partners are raising their next funds on Crowdmatrix
- RentMoola announces API partnership with Naborly, adds new property management features
- Automat raises $11 million Series A to build up conversational AI platform
- Report: $3.2 billion in VC investments made in Canada last year
- MaRS’ Urban Mobility Design Camp explores why Toronto is well-positioned to become a smart city
- Financeit announces funding capacity of $85 million
- New Brunswick Innovation Foundation invests in 500 Startups Canada
- Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund completes $300 million investment program with $15 million Lumira Capital investment
- Ask an Investor: What do investors look for in a hardware startup?
- Real Ventures’ Janet Bannister shares the most important thing Canadian companies should focus on (#BetaKit1on1)
- #IdentityNorth panel says there’s “a million opportunities” in Canada’s digital identity and authentication space
- Spring Loaded Technology launches bionic knee brace, receives $2.46 million from Canadian gov’t
- MaRS giving startups up to $50,000 for embedded executive program
- Blockchain Research Institute announces research partnership with Canadian gov’t, City of Toronto
- #SpotlightSeries: Why Michael Hyatt turned down $17 million in BlueCat’s early days
- Impression Ventures closes $30 million Fund II to boost Canada’s “massive” FinTech talent
- CIBC named top mobile banking app among Canadian banks
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 71: Is HomePod and ARKit enough from Apple to stay innovative?
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Wear your healthcare
- Canadian gov’t’s fast-track visa program officially launches today
- Startup Culture Diaries: The least talked about, most important factor in startup success
- McRock Capitalâs Whitney Rockley becomes first woman to chair CVCA
- Startup Canada Podcast: Radical generosity and investing in women entrepreneurs
- Figure 1 raises $13 million Series B as it explores new revenue streams
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.80: Melanie Ewan, Program Director at Women in Tech World
- The future of retail is virtual and seamless
- DMZ launches New York space open to entrepreneurs across Canada
- #SpotlightSeries: Michael Hyatt on the three ways a VC can help your startup
- Today in funding ($3.6M): Lanla, Local Logic
- Top Hat raises $9 million, launches collaborative platform to disrupt textbook publishing industry
- Hack To Start Ep.153: Mubashar Iqbal, co-founder of BotList
- Element AI raises $137.5 million Series A, plans to hire 100 people in Toronto
- #FutureofFinTech panel says robo-powered future of financial services still needs people
- BC Tech Association launches database to help companies navigate the province’s tech sector
- Dikembe Mutombo joins FlipGive as shareholder and ambassador
- Today in company partnerships: Mappedin collaborates with Apple, Stocksy partners with Adobe
- OMX’s Nicole Verkindt says optionality is important for successful tech companies
- Four companies join Volta Labs residency program, receive $50,000 in services
- Maven’s Hossein Hassani says self-driving cars are “much closer than we think” at #TechTO
- Hootsuite plans to open office in Vancouver’s new tech campus
- Mayor John Tory calls on Toronto tech community to make diversity a priority at #MoveTheDial
- CIRA dedicating $1 million towards projects that increase digital literacy
- Porter wins $10,000 cash, six months of mentorship from Kamloops Innovation contest
- Slack reportedly raising $500 million USD, attracting takeover interest from Amazon
- Embodia launches online resource to address health needs of transgender community
- CrowdRiff’s Dan Holowack says destination marketers should invest in data scientists
- Canadian Entrepreneurship Initiative wants to raise the profile of Canada’s women-led businesses
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 72: Is Canadian tech having a moment?
- House of VR hosting VR Proud event celebrating Pride Toronto
- Mylo acquires Tactex Asset Management, including asset book of $110 million
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Magic Leap is almost ready for launch
- Ask an Investor: How do I pick the best lawyer for my startup?
- Hootsuite launches lead-generation platform for sales reps as it doubles down on enterprise
- Bus.com co-founders say “foundation of trust” is part of the company’s success
- #SpotlightSeries: Michael Hyatt explains how he decided to fire himself as BlueCat’s CEO
- Government of Canada investing $7.85 million into three cleantech companies
- Logojoy raises $900,000 seed round to stay ahead of design automation space
- League kicks off US expansion with plans for massive $100M USD round by 2018
- Startup Canada Podcast: John Rampton on being an entrepreneur matchmaker
- #HackDiversity calls on Canada’s tech leaders to foster diversity and inclusion in their community
- Startup Train returns for another year of making connections on the way to Startupfest
- Amazon opens new office in Toronto, plans to hire 200 people
- Finn.ai wins Capgemini’s $50,000 entrepreneurship and innovation award
- Report: Supporting more women in STEM part of adding $150 billion to Canada’s GDP by 2026
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.81: Ryan Lalonde, CEO of Buddi
- Hubdoc raises $6 million to remove the administration from accounting
- Amazon opening Ottawa office focused on Alexa development
- Report: AI could boost revenues of Canadian CRM businesses by $32 billion
- Soapbox’s Jessica Weisz says making meetings “more human” builds trust at #TechTO
- Payfirma launches white label payments platform for financial institutions
- inkbox raises $1 million seed round from KGC Capital, Survivor host Jeff Probst
- TheAppLabb’s Kundan Joshi receives technology achievement award from Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce
- Ryerson and McMaster Universities launch joint robotics research project
- Wealthsimple takes service to another FinTech hub with UK expansion
- What Wealthbar’s Tea Nicola learned from the company’s first 1,000 customers
- #ProductHuntMTL explores how AI can help people prevent health care issues
- Drone Delivery Canada partners with Ontario Region of Peel for defibrillator delivery
- Bayview Yards receives $1.3 million investment from RBC, CIBC
- Blakes launches $1 million program to help startups access legal services
- BC innovation groups release report to prove why it’s Canada’s next supercluster
- Aspect Biosystems wins Metabridge’s Most Promising Startup of 2017 Award
- What Maluuba beating Ms. Pac-Man means for AI research
- #2017TIAs celebrate BC startups and entrepreneurs including Trulioo, Victory Square Labs
- Ask an Investor: what questions should I ask a PR agency before hiring them?
- Interactive Ontario hopes apprenticeships will increase digital media industry’s diversity
- Shopify redesigns POS as part of focus on bricks-and-mortar merchants
- Boston’s FinTech Sandbox expands to Ontario to help startups scale with access to data
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The rise of wearable innovation
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.82: Kevin Rockwood, software engineer at Skelter Labs
- DMZ and GM Canada host hackathon focused on AI solutions for cars
- Beauceron Security raises $500,000 to expand cyber risk management platform across North America
- Phemi raises $10 million, partners with South Africa-based insurer
- 14 Upside Foundation pledges, $25 million commitment to SickKids by 2022 made at #BetaKit150
- Startup Canada Podcast: Saskatchewan Unicorns with Townfolio’s Ryley Iverson
- Today in key hires: TribalScale adds head of data sciences, BlueRock Therapeutics appoints new CEO and CTO
- OMERS Ventures and CFC release ongoing study tracking the evolution of Canada’s VR ecosystem
- Propel ICT accepting applications for Launch and Build programs
- Shutterstock acquires Toronto-based Flashstock for $65 million
- nanopay launches retail payment platform as part of MintChip ecosystem expansion
- Thalmic files patent describing hologram lenses
- Hack To Start Ep.154: Huda Idrees, founder and CEO of Dot Health
- Joe Fresh Centre accepting applications for fashion-focused accelerator
- League’s Mike Serbinis says Canada’s tech ecosystem needs more wins (#BetaKit1on1)
- Foteini Agrafioti, Harley Finkelstein among tech leaders in Canada’s Top 40 Under 40
- Aviva Community Fund awarding $150,000 to social entrepreneur tackling climate change
- Canadian gov’t invests $3 million in Vancouver coworking spaces for creatives
- This year’s Startupfest reveals changes to $100K Investment Prize, Element AI tent
- Venn Innovation receives $772,438 to support tech startups in Atlantic Canada
- Ask an Investor: How can I give back with my startup?
- Real Matters named CIX 2017 Innovator of the Year
- WinTech launches Canada-wide tour to build national report on women’s experiences in tech
- RBC’s Global Asset Management invests $20 million to establish in-house innovation lab
- Report: 38 percent of Canadian tech firms place marketing operations in the US
- Ecofuel accepting applications for Fall 2017 cohort
- Waterloo-based Bonfire raises $11 million to automate the procurement process
- CB Insights and PwC release 2017’s periodic table of tech in Canada
- Q4 lays off 13 people at its Toronto office
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Apple’s AR glasses
- AngelList launches Intros for Canada to give startups access to angels
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.83: Eventide Project’s Nathan Ladd on Monoliths vs. Microservices
- Startup Culture Diaries: Making purpose part of a startup’s DNA
- Flinks raises $500,000 to fuel mission of powering Canada’s FinTechs
- Hack To Start Ep.155: Jeff Morris Jr., director of product management and revenue at Tinder
- Ex-Hubba, Wattpad pros are here to help grow your business the right way with Raw Signal Group
- Startup Canada Podcast: Upstreet Craft Brewing’s Mitch Cobb on being an beer-preneur
- Pet camera startup PetBot acquired by San Francisco-based Petcube
- Google’s DeepMind is opening its first international office in Edmonton
- dubdub representing Canada at $100,000 French Founders Startup Tour competition
- Shopify launches Exchange marketplace to help merchants sell their businesses
- Ottawa startups can hitch a ride to Startupfest on the #HustleShuttle
- Nelson acquires Edusight’s technology
- Mylo launches spare change investment platform on iOS
- Today in company updates: Ask The Doctor reaches 250,000 doctor milestone, Flexiti Financial launches POS with 800 retailers
- Ontario gives $1.5 million to Carrot Rewards app, celebrates 200,000 users
- Wattpad wants to boost its emerging products focus with new residency program
- Report: One-third of Canadian businesses fail to invest in mobile
- 11 Canadian innovation hubs partner with SingularityU Canada Summit
- Ask an Investor: Do founder-friendly VCs actually exist?
- Report: Mobile retail site visits increasing year-over-year in Canada
- Peerio hopes to set the standard for encrypted chat with product overhaul
- Following nearly $1 million raise, GoBumpFree launches travel platform for airline employees
- Raw Signal Group’s Johnathan Nightingale explains why investing in leadership can help your business save money
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 75: Is Canada open for business as an innovation branch plant?
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.83: Jerry Chi, data scientist at Supercell
- BDC moving Kitchener-Waterloo office into Catalyst137 IoT hub
- Mindbridge raises $4.3 million with goal to IPO within five years
- League partners with Dialogue to launch personalized consumer health concierge
- Former Nokia, Microsoft VP joins Thalmic as VP of engineering
- #ElevateToronto launches tech festival to showcase best of Canadian innovation to the world
- Startup Canada Podcast: The story of a small town startup
- Chronometriq raises $3.5 million to expand health appointment booking platform across North America
- Casalova acquires MyPropertyManagers, including assets of $35 million
- Hack To Start Ep.156: Tom Emrich, partner at Super Ventures
- Highline BETA acquires Female Funders with goal to support 1,000 women angels by 2020
- CSI launches Soshent platform to connect social entrepreneurs to funding and mentorship
- Voices.com raises $18 million to scale global operations for 200,000-strong voice actor network
- Slack announces seven more companies backed through $106 million fund
- AudienceView acquires TheaterMania, expands reach to over 2,000 event organizations
- CIBC partners with National Australia Bank to launch feature that provides financial advice while travelling
- TandemLaunch and Mistral Venture Partners announce partnership, invest in Montreal-based Stratuscent
- Second Closet raises $500,000 from Hyatt brothers for pay-per-item storage company
- Council of Canadian Innovators reportedly asked to stop promoting government access for $10,000
- Assent Compliance raises $40 million Series B round, plans to hire 100 people
- Former Shopify employees raise $8 million Series A for Cover
- Ask an Investor: Should I hire an executive coach?
- Dream Payments opens Moncton office to support growth in Canadian and US markets
- Zoom.ai wins $100,000 grand prize at OpenText Enterprise World Pitch Contest
- Shopify hosting Canada-wide tour to encourage people to launch businesses on its platform
- Flashfood wins $140,000 Best in Fest prize at Startupfest
- Merchants will soon be able to sell products on eBay through Shopify
- On the heels of Startupfest win, Flashfood raises $1.5 million seed round
- Startup Canada Podcast: The Well’s Sammy Davis on how to build dream teams
- Highmark Interactive raises $2 million to treat people with brain injuries using video games
- contextere raises $1.38 million from Lockheed Martin to develop AI assistant for aerospace workers
- The Entrepreneurship Society event offering tips on metrics and fundraising for scaling companies
- Smart angel investment and board involvement can support diversity, says #Startupfest panel
- IBM launches data encryption system, opens blockchain data centre in Toronto
- Vancouver-based Mojio powering Rogers’ first connected car device
- Four Alberta-based incubators receive combined $1.5 million in funding
- Can design-centric thinking drive customer success? (Facebook Live chat)
- Ottawa-based GaN Systems receives strategic investment from BMW i Ventures
- OneEleven hosting fourth annual tech summer social
- IBM launches innovation incubator at Communitech
- Toronto and Vancouver make Dell’s list of top 50 cities supporting women entrepreneurs
- FreshBooks raises $57 million to invest in North American expansion
- Pando’s Sarah Lacy explains why “toxic masculinity” pervades Silicon Valley
- Hack To Start Ep.157: Adii Pienaar, founder of Conversio
- CareGuide’s Alyssa Atkins explains how non-FinTech startups can find growth opportunities in FinTech
- OpenText launches AI assistant to help business analysts with decision making, task automation
- McGill University’s X-1 Accelerator receives $2 million from John Dobson Foundation
- IBM and University of Alberta use AI to predict schizophrenia with 74 percent accuracy
- Ada Support raises $2.5 million to develop AI chatbot for customer support requests
- Maker Extravaganza celebration kicks off month-long celebration of makers
- Slik.ai’s Soroush Ghodsi the youngest Canadian entrepreneur to join Y Combinator
- Flybits raises $6.5 million Series B with Information Venture Partners, Portag3
- Report: Toronto is the fastest-growing, second-cheapest tech talent market in North America
- How to navigate Canadaâs tangled regulations and build your FinTech startup
- Borrowell raises $57 million from Portag3, FirstOntario Credit Union
- Dot Health wants to give a strained Canadian health care system data-backed insights
- Volta Labs to take over 60,000 square feet of Halifax’s Maritime Centre
- viaSport and Microsoft launch Accessibility Sport Hub to make BC sports more inclusive
- NEXT Canada showcases first ventures in its NextAI program
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 77: Canada’s women entrepreneurship scorecard
- nanopay gets strong scores from the US Federal Reserveâs Faster Payments Task Force
- Rover Parking wins Infiniti Lab Toronto’s Demo Day, fast-tracks into Hong Kong accelerator program
- Today in key hires: Sortable begins growth of Toronto team, Vision Critical announces new CRO
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The AR industry fights for First Amendment rights
- Startups have until July 31 to apply for the CIX Top 20
- Report: Canada must be proactive about policies that target political bots
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.86: Eventide Project’s Scott Bellware on Monoliths vs. Microservices
- SingularityU reveals MaRS’ Zayna Khayat, neuroscientist Divya Chander joining Canada Summit
- Toronto-based home healthcare platform AlayaCare receives $750,000 from FedDev Ontario
- Greenspace raises $1.4 million to match patients with the right therapists
- Application deadline for Creative Destruction Lab’s quantum machine learning stream ends July 31
- SnapTravel raises $10 million to invest in machine learning capabilities for travel chatbot
- Startup Canada Podcast: Jill Earthy, chief growth officer of FrontFundr
- Report: Canada has one of the lowest FinTech adoption rates in the world
- Hack To Start Ep.158: Kelly Nyland, director of marketing for Spectacles
- TransPod says hyperloop would cost 50 percent less, travel four times faster than high-speed rail line
- OpenText set to acquire forensic security firm Guidance Software for $300 million
- Google Canada head leaves company to lead Weather Network operator Pelmorex
- Top Hat’s Malgosia Green says the future of education is in user generated content
- Cyclica raises additional $2.25 million for platform that predicts drug effectiveness
- Apple Pay now available to Tangerine clients across Canada
- Slack reportedly raising $250 million with $5 billion valuation
- Report: Canadian job opportunities in AI have grown by nearly 500%
- iVentures conference wants to be a marketplace for digital media
- Neurogate represents Canada at Microsoft’s $125,000 Imagine Cup
- The Entrepreneurship Society panel says process, not perks, is key to good corporate culture
- Today in company updates: Financeit adds two new VPs, former Hudson’s Bay CEO joins Smooth Commerce advisory board
- Facebook Live panel says that customers should be part of the product design experience
- Canadian gov’t announces that Startup Visa pilot program will become permanent
- Newfoundland and Labrador replaces Research & Development Corporation with InnovateNL
- Ask an Investor: What are some tips for equity crowdfunding?
- Victory Square announces new venture arm dedicated to personalized healthtech
- CoPower raises $2 million for clean energy investment platform
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 78: Supercluster clustercuss
- RentMoola raises $5 million to accelerate growth in North America
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Is Amazon embracing AR?
- CEO Stephen Lake says Thalmic’s next product will continue trend of wearables replacing phones
- Maluuba closes Kitchener-Waterloo office, consolidating employees in Montreal
- Canada Council for the Arts investing $88.5 million towards digital transformation of Canada’s art sector
- BioSymetrics’ Shiva Amiri says addressing lack of data standards key to scaling machine learning
- Mio Global appoints new CEO while founder Liz Dickinson moves to executive chairperson role
- 500 Canada to shut down fund investments following Dave McClure scandal
- Flexiti Financial raises $6.25 million to scale POS lending platform for retailers
- Shopify Q2 2017 results show 75% revenue increase as it celebrates 500,000 merchant milestone
- Startup Canada Podcast: The disciplines of digital leadership with Doyle Buehler
- Alex Tapscott launches $20 million investment company focused on bitcoin and ethereum
- Natural Gas Innovation Fund calls for applications from natural gas cleantech startups
- Lending Loop raises $2 million, launches automated investment platform
- Hack to Start Ep.159: Hunter Walk, partner at Homebrew Ventures
- ETHWaterloo announces Ethereum-focused hackathon aimed at building “the future of the decentralized Internet”
- Report: Canada’s agriculture sector must invest in analytics platforms, R&D to remain competitive
- CB Insights calling for applications from AI startups for The AI 100
- Whistler-based co-investment platform Fast Track VC raises $1.9 million for Swiss biomedical firm
- Today in company updates: thisopenspace brings Shopify POS to pop-ups, SourceKnowledge opens Toronto & LA offices
- FreshBooks’ Mike McDerment says “building your own competitor” is effective way to solve business problems
- Canadian gov’t investing $10 million in Smart Factory for Manitoba tech companies, aerospace students
- Toronto’s Impact Centre and University of Oslo offering entrepreneurship internships to Norwegian students
- RBC now lets users make bill payments with Siri
- 29 Canadian companies named semi-finalists in 43North global competition
- Smooth Commerce’s Brian Deck says partnerships can help startups with revenue and reputation
- Apple Pay now available to National Bank customers
- Budgeto wants to turn early-stage entrepreneurs into financial experts
- Vancouver-based Koho hiring Toronto team, including VP of Finance and COO
- Report: Older Canadians less likely to use healthtech solutions, despite being most likely to benefit
- Northleaf Capital Partners opens Montreal office, hires Kathleen Ffrench as VP Sales
- Ask an Investor: Should I fundraise in the summer?
- Ottawa’s tech ecosystem primed to grow as companies seek to attract tech talent
- Y2 Labs to bring entrepreneurship training to GTA schools
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 79: 500 Canada falls apart. What’s next?
- Applications for L-Spark’s SaaS accelerator open until August 11
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Apple Watch resurgent
- Startup Canada Podcast: Breaking barriers through Technovation with Anar Simpson
- Today in company updates: Equibit Group unveils digital wallet, DNAstack launches app to power genomics data analysis
- Hereâs a framework for surveying diversity in your tech company
- Vancouver-based cognitiveVR, Halifax-based Imposium selected to join Verizon Ventures’ Media Tech Venture Studio
- Voices.com acquires talent management platform Voicebank.net
- Today in funding ($2M): TickSmith, LinkGreen
- Hack To Start Ep.160: Katie Zhu, product manager at Medium
- Ontario Digital Service Lab at Communitech wants to help gov’t embrace digital services
- Picniic launches data-tracking virtual assistant to help families stay organized
- Quantwave to represent Canada at She Loves Tech Beijing finals
- Innisfil saved $73,500 through Uber public transportation partnership
- Loopio’s Jafar Owainati challenges the stereotype that MBAs can “drown your business” at #TechTO
- Ada Support’s Mike Murchison says companies should experience customer pain points before building software
- Shopify, TouchBistro now integrated into Moneris iPad POS solutions
- Report: Canada is top choice for US tech workers considering relocation due to Trump Administration
- NACO wants to know what entrepreneurs think about early-stage support in Canada
- Yes, men and women are wired differently. This is why we must work for equality in STEM
- Today in key hires: You.i TV announces new CFO, FutureVault appoints former YEXT executive as CRO
- Amazon reportedly closing leasing deals for Toronto and Vancouver offices
- Groupe MĂ©dia TFO creates blockchain prototype to track copyrights on creative work
- Ask an Investor: What are the best alternatives to venture capital?
- Springboard Atlantic and Invest Atlantic launch pilot program to bring more investment to Atlantic Canada
- Report: Over half of Canadians use smartphones to make online purchases
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 80: would your company fire Google’s memo writer?
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Google Glass enters the enterprise
- Goldmoney reports first quarterly profit of $3.3 million, plans to open physical branch in Toronto
- University of Waterloo researchers create virtual assistant prototype to help people with Alzheimer’s disease
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.87: Shannon Salter, Chair of BC’s Civil Resolution Tribunal
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.85: Ken McDonald, chief growth officer of TeamSnap
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.88: Brittany Whitmore, Exvera Communications
- Startup Culture Diaries: How to be present as a founder when absent
- Startup Podcast: Driving FinTech in Gastown with Beanworks’ Catherine Dahl
- When you should bring in the heavy hitters
- Closing a $95 million fund, Round 13’s Bruce Croxon says it’s the perfect time to invest in Canada
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.89: Alejandro Lujan of ScalaQuest
- Island Capital Partners launches $4 million early-stage investment fund for PEI startups
- Kik’s Ted Livingston says harsh regulations can stifle cryptocurrency innovation at Bitcoin & Ethereum Summit
- Hack To Start Ep.161: Mike Williams, founder of Thinkbox
- After launching fully-compliant ICO, impak Finance hopes to be a model for regulators worldwide
- CIBC buys PC Financial, plans to rebrand to Simplii Financial
- Canadian gov’t dedicating $4 million to helping Atlantic Canada businesses adopt cleantech
- Transferwise launches borderless bank account in Canada
- BlueRock Therapeutics opens R&D and manufacturing hub in Toronto
- Canadian researchers building database to identify links between birth defects and childhood cancer
- Today in retail: thisopenspace launches $30,000 fund, Handled launches personal shopping concierge in Toronto
- Sipbar uses tech to power its on-demand bar service
- Ask an Investor: What do LPs look for in a VC?
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes says 90% of CEOs lack this basic leadership skill
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes shares a dummies’ guide to startup growth vs. profit
- Serious Labs raises $6.4 million for VR workplace training tech
- Canadian gov’t invests $712,572 in business centre supporting Northern Ontario Indigenous entrepreneurs
- Screaming Power builds app to help City of Toronto monitor greenhouse gas emissions
- What I hear when you tell me your company doesn’t do meetings
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 81: Would you “chip” your employees?
- Techstars Toronto announces managing director, ability to grant Startup Visas
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Rumours of AR smartglasses
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.90: Kelsey Hightower, staff developer advocate of Google Cloud Platform
- Today in funding ($100M+): Helios Wire, eSentire
- Announcing the 2017 Spotlight Awards winners
- Startup Canada Podcast: DavidsTea co-founder on building North American retail empires
- Tulip Retail raises $50 million Series B from Kleiner Perkins
- Status of Women Canada working to support women entrepreneurs through procurement
- StreetMessenger sends homeless youth real-time updates via SMS on shelter beds
- CVCA report: $1.6 billion invested over 260 deals in first half of 2017
- Twitter Canada seeks new managing director following departure of Rory Capern
- Hack To Start Ep.162: John Doherty, founder of Credo
- Wealthsimple launches new portfolio to help Muslims invest according to Islamic principles
- Paycase plans to launch Canadian Bitcoin Exchange by end of year
- Whistler’s Sea To Sky Summit emphasizes understanding your values when building a business
- Uber is testing self-driving cars in Toronto
- BDC says it is supporting 49,000 Canadian entrepreneurs, up 17% from last year
- Ontario gov’t giving entrepreneurs up to $5,000, access to mentorship to help companies scale
- Today in startup support: SheEO’s Radical Generosity Initiative, Spark Centre’s Ignite Competition
- Report: Gov’t VC firms must take data-driven approach to build world-class Canadian companies
- Mike Serbinis, Nicole Verkindt among Startup Canada’s 2017 Ontario regional award winners
- TimePlay raises $8 million Series A funding to expand movie theatre entertainment tech
- Ask an investor: How do I get the most out of conference season?
- SomaDetect, Furnishr split $100,000 at Fierce Founders bootcamp pitch competition
- Startup Boost carries on Startup Next legacy of preparing early-stage companies for scale
- Flinks partners with Merchant Advance Capital
- Canadian Securities Administrators says ICOs must consider securities laws
- Altium acquires Toronto-based product design platform Upverter
- CanCon Podcast 82: In defence of coding education
- How RBC embraced the hackathon mindset
- Spiffy wants to help alcohol brands reach restaurants with cocktail-focused employee training platform
- Vancouver Tech Podcast: Alex Cruise, architect and development manager at Splunk
- Following Shoes.com shutdown, co-founder Sean Clark says company did “too much too fast”
- Ideal raises $3 million to invest in virtual assistant for recruiters
- Techstars launches pilot project to build roadmap for scaling Okanagan’s tech ecosystem
- RBC wants to use AI to give customers financial advice
- Startup Canada Podcast: Legal literacy for entrepreneurs
- Your guide to Elevate Toronto
- Crowdbabble pitches automated analytics platform for marketers on #TheDisruptors
- SingularityU and Rogers giving entrepreneurs free Canada Summit tickets through pitch contest
- Report: Attracting qualified applicants considered a top barrier to securing tech talent
- Nuco launches Aion framework to tackle blockchain’s interoperability problem
- 7shifts raises $4.5 million to scale automated employee scheduling platform
- Sportlogiq raises $5 million Series A as it eyes European expansion
- Kik plans to raise $157 million CAD through token distribution event
- Quebec gov’t will begin collecting taxes from Airbnb in October
- NACO seeking nominations for Most Promising Startups of the Year, Angel of the Year awards
- Today in company updates: Wattpad launches video storytelling app, LANDR announces music distribution feature
- How to rock your return to startup after maternity leave
- Creative Destruction Lab partners with Rigetti Computing to support quantum machine learning startups
- Ontario gov’t launches program to provide residents with free smart thermostats
- BioConnect’s Bianca Lopes says understanding human identity is key to FinTech innovation
- Hack To Start Ep.163: Drew Strojny, founder of Memberful
- How socialbots are the masters of manipulation
- Vancouver-based Voleo and Nasdaq launching equity trading competition for US students
- Report: Industry and academia must work together for more skilled jobs
- Ask an Investor: How do I choose an incubator or accelerator?
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- Ask an Investor: What should I include in an investor pitch deck?
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- Ask an Investor: How do I prepare for due diligence on my startup?
- Ask an Investor: What’s my Labour Day reading list?
- Two Small Fish Ventures’ Eva Lau says network effect is startups’ greatest asset
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 83: When signing code can send you to jail
- The five most important things for encouraging diversity in your company
- Finaeo raises $2.25 million to automate administrative processes for financial advisors
- Hockeystick partners with CVCA to become its official data platform
- Waterloo-based Axonify raises $36 million to accelerate growth of employee knowledge platform
- Raw Signal Group opens pre-orders for book on modern leadership
- Startup Canada Podcast: Building a new Atlantic Canada with Stephen Lund
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – IFA showcases the next generation of wearables
- AlayaCare raises $2.4 million from Fonds Innovexport
- Finaeo’s Aly Dhalla explains how founders can avoid “shiny penny syndrome” at #FinTechTO
- Today in AI: Integrate.ai closes $5.6M, Element AI partners with Automat
- Flashfood wants to help grocery stores make money while helping the planet
- Mojio’s Kenny Hawk says successful startups must always think globally on #TheDisruptors
- Hack To Start Ep.164: Giuseppe Stuto, CEO of Fam
- Peerio hopes its platform will make team communication private and productive
- Round 13’s Bruce Croxon says proposed tax changes disincentivize Canadian entrepreneurs
- Walmart launches third-party seller marketplace in Canada
- Former Ryerson University president Sheldon Levy appointed CEO of NEXT Canada
- Vision Critical acquires Pressly to expand content-curation abilities
- Telus partners with Arlene Dickinson to launch pitch competition with $100,000 top prize
- Elevate Toronto adds Vinod Khosla, Amanda Crew as speakers, $20,000 pitch competition
- University of Toronto’s ForceFilm wins national James Dyson Award
- Kik excluding Canadians from Kin token distribution event
- Ask an Investor: What is the role of a VC?
- Robot Playtimeâs programmable robot for kids wins Next 36 Mastercard Challenge
- Cities across Canada are bullish on hosting Amazon’s second headquarters
- The rise of Canadian AI requires a few critical components
- Stack partners with Mastercard to offer prepaid cards within financial services platform
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Apple firmware leaks
- PocketHealth wants to help medical imaging centres and patients connect through mobile
- Diagram raises additional $5M, adds PasswordBox founders to team after proving market fit
- #paid helps brands sell themselves through influencer marketing
- Vancouver-based Foodee raises $10 million to continue North American expansion
- Toronto launches Civic Innovation Office, announces Paula Kwan as director
- Startup Canada Podcast: The networking guide with Taylor Shold
- Hack To Start Ep.165: Jesse Middleton, general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners
- ScaleUP Ventures closes $100 million, expands into western Canada
- Sam:) acquired by New York-based AI chatbot Hugging Face
- Quandl’s Carrie Shaw explains the power of alternative data in capital markets
- Bus.com, 7Shifts among startups in Lazaridis Institute’s second cohort
- #ElevateToronto Main Stage argues diversity will make Canada an innovation leader
- Shopify launches app allowing merchants to create QR codes
- CIX offering additional 20% off early bird tickets until tomorrow
- Lyft reportedly expanding into Canada this year
- FinTechs serving Canadians: which verticals are thriving?
- Announcing the BetaKit Spotlight selectees
- Facebook is opening an AI lab in Montreal
- Report: Less than half of Canadians expected to use cash by 2020
- #SpotlightSeries: Full interview with Dragon Michael Hyatt
- #ElevateGrowth says nurturing company culture is key to success
- #ElevateAI shares Canada’s AI story: how we led, lost, and are back again
- Toronto-Montreal hyperloop plan considered among top 10 in the world
- University of Waterloo announces $8 million research chair for quantum error correction
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 85: Should Canada even want an Amazon HQ?
- #ElevateFinTech says the future of the internet lies in blockchain
- Nudge.ai hopes artificial intelligence will help build better human relationships
- Slack confirms $250 million USD raise from SoftBank to expand service in Japan
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Is BlackBerry building a smartwatch?
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.92: Barinder Rasode, president and CEO of NICHE Canada
- Right Health acquires Akira to power virtual service for physical healthcare clinics
- Vancouver-based Biba raises $1.3 million to bring AR to playgrounds
- #ElevateToronto’s #LeanInnovation says scaling companies must think like startups
- Startup Canada Podcast: The future of business festivals
- Tourism Montreal partners with OTT Financial to support WeChat Pay
- Hack To Start Ep.166: Kevin Thau, general partner at Spark Capital
- Startups using open data can apply for $50,000 from ODX
- Diply’s Kirstine Stewart, MaRS IaF’s Michelle McBane among speakers at TribalScale’s TakeOver Conference
- PayPal Canada market development lead Alex Peh joins RBC as VP of innovation
- Mark Evans’ Story Spark workshop wants to help entrepreneurs explain what they do
- Shopify names winners of inaugural Build a Bigger Business competition
- Report: Women’s entrepreneurship on the rise globally, partly thanks to Canada
- Today in funding ($2.8M): Flipd, Classcraft
- ONRamp launches at University of Toronto to support student entrepreneurs
- TD bank app has the most monthly active users in Canada
- Intuitive named top venture at NextAI Venture Day
- ScribbleLive acquires ion interactive to expand its content creation platform
- University of New Brunswick creates postdoctoral fellowship focused on innovation
- BC Innovation Council launches national tour to connect startups with corporates
- Report: Many entrepreneurs that plan to exit their company don’t increase business performance
- NewKnow hopes its tech will help retail workers become brand experts
- OneEleven hosting hackathon to support tech mitigating natural disaster impact
- theBoardlist releases list highlighting top Canadian women in tech
- Ask an Investor: What should I look for in a strategic investor?
- BlueCat’s Michael Hyatt explains why proposed tax changes are an attack on entrepreneurs
- OPC recommends new legislation to protect Canadians’ personal information online
- Manifold launches out of stealth with $18.5 million Series A
- #VSW2017 kicks off next week to celebrate Vancouver’s innovation
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 86: Does tech need IPO 2.0?
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Google saves the HTC Vive
- Koho raises $8 million from Portag3 as Paul Desmarais III and Mike Katchen join board
- Alibabaâs Jack Ma says Canadian entrepreneurs should consider Chinese vs. US expansion at #Gateway17
- #ElevateHealth says AI can dramatically improve patient care
- Toronto-based Deep Genomics raises $16 million from Khosla Ventures
- Picniic raises $2 million from Norway-based Telenor
- Transit raises $5 million with mission to make car ownership obsolete
- Samsung opens AI lab in Montreal with Yoshua Bengio
- CareGuide taps into Silicon Valley Bank as it eyes more acquisitions
- Startup Canada Podcast: Investing in Canadian startups with Nicole Verkindt
- Zoom.AI acquires SimplyInsight to double down on natural language processing
- SingularityU hopes to attract 6,000 Canadians through satellite events
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- Atlanta-based CallRail raises Canadian money to take advantage of AI talent
- Hack To Start Ep. 167: Rei Wang, director of First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund
- Competitor intelligence platform Klue launches with $4 million in funding
- Quebec and Ontario sign MoU to collaborate on AI research
- Analytics 4 Life raises $25 million Series B for AI-powered cardiac imaging tech
- Uber may shut down Quebec operations due to new licensing requirements
- Ritual raises $53 million Series B
- Toronto-based Trellis raises $2.5 million from Snoop Dogg’s venture firm
- Dublin-based Jobbio raises $18 million as part of Canadian expansion
- Yung Wu is MaRS’ new CEO
- Vector Institute names Garth Gibson as CEO
- Nine startups split $300,000 in prizes at BCIC-New Ventures competition
- PwC Canada opens applications for V2R Awards with new public sector category
- Canadian gov’t says Facebook, DMZ set to partner on digital news incubator
- RBC experimenting with blockchain to move Canada-US payments
- Dropbike wants to be your city’s bikeshare program
- IBM launches incubator at Invest Ottawa
- Propel ICT announces 28 companies in fall cohort
- Stradigi creates lab to support and launch AI startups
- Legal Innovation Zone launches $80,000 AI Challenge
- Canada’s proposed tax changes will stifle investment in early-stage startups
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – High-end VR
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- TranQool shutting down operations by October 31
- Wysdom.AI raises $8.5 million to bring AI to customer support
- Raw Signal Group wants to make managers uncomfortable with new book on leadership
- Square launches contactless payments and chip reader in Canada
- NACO partners with CABI to connect Canada’s early-stage funding ecosystem
- Goldmoney announces $30 million in financing to fuel blockchain offerings
- TD dedicating $3.25 million to helping early-stage FinTechs navigate patents
- Hack To Start Ep.168: Paul Canetti, founder & CEO of MAZ
- NACO and Female Funders partner to create angel investing education programs
- Front Row Ventures and Real Ventures launch $600,000 student VC fund
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- Google reportedly nearing deal for waterfront development in Toronto
- Launch Academy hosting blockchain hackathon on October 21
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- Why there is no “one-size-fits-all” regulation for ICOs
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- CanCon Podcast Ep. 87: Why hasnât Twitter learned any lessons from Slack?
- Jones Media brings machine learning solution to marketers through Verve.AI acquisition
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- Creative Destruction Lab appoints Sonia Sennik as executive director
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- Nuco raises $27 million to build interoperable blockchain network
- League adds RBCI, MetLife to roster of new insurance partners
- Canadian gov’t announces first of nine shortlisted superclusters in Atlantic region
- DeepMind opens second international lab in Montreal
- Thales launches AI lab with IVADO, MILA, and Vector Institute
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 88: How fucked up is your startup management?
- Hive receives $7 million equity investment from Genesis Mining
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- la Caisse and Desjardins Group launching $75 million FinTech fund
- Sabrina Geremia named new Google Canada head
- Volta Labs launches Cohort program providing $25,000 to early-stage startups
- Tariq Haddadin named Program Manager of Techstars Toronto
- Ross Intelligence raises $13 million Series A
- #NACOSummit panel explains when companies should use AI
- Creative Destruction Lab expands into New York City
- Microsoft Ventures launches competition to fund AI startups
- RBC integrating Wave’s financial services platform into SMB banking service
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- Thomson Reuters announces $124 million expansion of Toronto technology centre
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- Hack To Start Ep.169: Ajay Yadav, founder and CEO of Roomi
- Canada FinTech Forum panel shares what banks need to adopt smart contracts
- Aiva Labs, Oneiric Hockey take top prizes at Lion’s Lair
- Ask an Investor: What are the signs of a bad term sheet?
- Barry Bisson named CEO of Propel ICT
- BlackBerry QNX test drives self-driving car in Ottawa
- Report: US tech workers more likely to search for Canadian jobs
- Uber will continue operations in Quebec, says it’s open to negotiations with gov’t
- Navdeep Bains says not-for-profit model will keep superclusters accountable
- #SUCanSummit: Kindredâs Suzanne Gildert wants to merge with AI
- Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal make list of worldâs 25 most high-tech cities
- IBM partners with Dream Payments to help financial institutions adopt mobile tech
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Magic Leap’s $1 billion round
- Today in company updates: Bridgit announces new CRO, Element AI brings on key hires
- Gov’t nixes proposed tax change targeting capital gains, will restrict income sprinkling
- Startup Canada Podcast: Capital ideas with Seafair Capital’s Anne Whelan
- Clearbanc powering Facebook program providing $500,000 to entrepreneurs
- Teams from over 32 countries attend Ethereum hackathon in Waterloo
- Report: Canada among top 10 countries for marketplace expansion
- Alphabet investing $62 million in Sidewalk Labs Toronto site
- Lightspeed raises $207 million Series D as company preps for IPO
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 89: Is Canada ready for the Singularity?
- Wattpad launches subscription, reportedly looking to raise $50 million with Tencent
- Security workforce manager TrackTik raises $7 million
- Today in company updates: StackAdapt launches Unbiasify, Kik co-founder launches news subscription startup
- Covera raises $1.5 million to help customers overcome boring insurance shopping
- Ontario gov’t investing $30 million in Vector Institute as part of Amazon HQ bid
- Hack To Start Ep.170: Leah Culver, co-founder and CTO of Breaker
- Anthony Lacaveraâs How We Can Win argues Canadians must redefine success for greater national prosperity
- Shopify adding 300 to 500 new jobs at Waterloo office
- Facebook Canada releases election integrity plan for 2019 election
- Today in FinTech: Zafin launches corporate banking tool, Sensibill partners with Royal Bank of Scotland
- Adhawk Microsystems raises $5 million Series A from Intel
- Federal gov’t sets $50,000 a year threshold on taxing passive investments
- Alex Tapscott joins STK Global Payments as advisor in preparation for token generation event
- Report: Gov’ts must modernize labour laws to prepare for jobs lost to automation
- BC Tech Association launches mixed reality hub
- #CIX2017 panel says AI’s biggest impact on banks will be on unstructured data
- Sequence Bio announces new chair of Scientific Advisory Board
- Ontario gov’t challenges students to build digital tools for $30,000 top prize
- Finance Minister says gov’t will work with angel and VC community to build Tax Fairness Plan
- Dream Payments launches POS app as part of US expansion
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes launches charity supporting young entrepreneurs
- C100 announces 14th 48Hrs in the Valley cohort
- C100âs new director wants organization to scale alongside Canadaâs startup ecosystem
- Dozr’s Dave Chalmers shares tips for startups seeking senior talent
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Magic Leap’s $500 million round
- Ask an Investor: Why am I being asked to find a strategic investor?
- AccessNow receives $10,000 from #MoveTheDial pitch competition
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 90: Begging for Amazon, building with Alphabet
- Seven industries being disrupted by VR
- Kindred closes $35.4M Series B from Tencent, launches pilot program with major retailers
- L-SPARK fall cohort features seven SaaS startups
- Startup Canada Podcast: The Future of Fashion with Peter Simons
- ATB Financial launches chatbot banking on Facebook Messenger
- Zafin launches new FinTech partner ecosystem to provide one-stop origination platform for banks
- Toronto-based Vouchr wins $1 million USD at VentureClash
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep. 100: Digital Identification with Joni Brennan
- Canadian video games are fuelling the nation’s tech innovation. No, really.
- The power of stories to #MoveTheDial
- Former Twitter Canada managing director Rory Capern to lead partnerships at Pelmorex
- SkyWatch and Ada Support each take home $50,000 at Communitech Rev Demo Day
- The Big Push accelerator wants to prepare women founders for their Series A
- Hack To Start EP.171: Livefyre founder Jordan Kretchmer
- Harinder Takhar tells startups that right now is better than next week at #TechTO
- How Quantum Machine Learning will solve problems once thought out of reach
- BrainStation opens new downtown Vancouver campus
- Postmedia commits to $40 million in Indochino advertising for a cut of revenue
- Ask an Investor: How do I boost investor confidence?
- Techstars and WeWork partner to connect entrepreneurs
- Privacy Commissioner says some educational apps collecting “too much” information
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 91: Do we not give the Canadian gaming industry enough tech credit?
- The Big Push CEO Sharon Zohar on the funding gap for women entrepreneurs
- Integrate.ai adds Amazon alum as VP of Engineering, Netflix alum to advisory board
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – A sad Spectacle
- SnapTravel’s Hussein Fazal on what founders do differently with their second business
- University of Waterloo team working on new rapid-charging battery tech
- Facebook testing ad transparency measures in Canada first
- Vector Institute doubles AI faculty with 10 new additions
- Bernie Sanders health care talk shows U.S. not just interested in our tech talent
- Today in Funding ($40M): Appili, Finn.ai, Goldmoney, Askuity, ODX
- Startup Canada Podcast: Katrina Carroll-Foster on championing diversity
- Rory Capern tells tech companies to “Tear Down This Wall” at #MarketingTO
- SHM Controls closes $800,000 for smart heating system rollout
- MaRS expands to New York with Grand Central Tech partnership
- Amazon met with Canadian federal government 99 times in the past 12 months
- RBC’s Borealis AI institute snags Washington State University professor
- Breather announces Corporate Rewards partnership with Air Canada
- Hack To Start Ep. 172: Andy Carvell, Author of The Mobile Growth Stack
- Vancouver Tech Podcast EP. 101: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & ICOs with Jeffery Walsh of Etherparty
- Microsoft Vancouver announces 50 new mixed reality jobs, education partnerships
- Nekso wants to close a $25 million round
- Web.com acquires Montreal-based Acquisio
- Communitech announces True North Waterloo conference in 2018
- Blakes law firm opens office in Kitchener-Waterloo IoT hub Catalyst137
- Applications open for Ecofuel Accelerator Spring 2018 cohort
- Ask an Investor: How do I connect with VCs?
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Apple’s wearables now a Fortune 400 business
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 92: Can a business be built solely with Canadian tech?
- Ethereum co-founder Anthony Di Iorio says crypto wallets are the new browsers
- #GONORTH17: Shared values, education system helps Canada lead in AI, says PM Trudeau
- Canadian-founded LogDNA closes $9 million CAD Series A
- Vancouver to add 1,000 jobs with new Amazon office, but no HQ2
- Intrapreneurship Q&A: getting comfortable with discomfort
- CIBC launches Remi digital assistant
- Coconut Software closes $4.2 million Series A
- Competition Bureau wants feedback on FinTech sector report by November 20th
- #GoNorth17 AI discussion walks the line between the power of technology and its social impact
- EMERGE acquires WagJag from Metroland Media Group
- Toronto-based Evercondo acquired by FRONTSTEPS
- MaRS expands to Boston with new Greentown Labs partnership
- Montreal-based SweetIQ acquired by Gannett media company
- Shopify’s Tobi LĂŒtke named chair of Canadian government’s digital industries table
- Startup Canada Podcast: Dr. Sean Wise on the science behind startups
- Bruce Croxon says Shopify’s short-seller response falls short, but company’s metrics don’t
- City of Toronto releases recommended regulations for short-term rentals like Airbnb
- Hack To Start Ep.173: Jason Stoff, principal digital product designer at Starbucks
- Solink raises $5 million for surveillance video auditing software
- Blockchain Debaters event says blockchain may cause the next recession
- Canadaâs Privacy Commissioner says schools should prioritize privacy education
- Real Ventures announces new COO and Director of Communications
- VarageSale fails to monetize in time, acquired by VerticalScope
- Facebook launches personal fundraising feature in Canada
- Canadian AI experts urge for global ban on killer robots
- As Travis Kalanick resigns, Canadian co-founder Garrett Camp says Uber was too focused on growth
- Ontario investing $80 million in autonomous vehicle innovation network
- Canadian team wins $51,000 international James Dyson Award
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 93: Why tech wants to keep you addicted
- iMerciv named winner of Telus $100,000 small business competition
- Sage dedicating $500,000 to helping non-profits with digital projects
- Interactive Ontario launches diversity toolkit for the Interactive Digital Media Industry
- CEO Taylor Ablitt says Diply wants to grow with other platforms instead of competing
- Lyft confirms Toronto expansion by end of year
- Calgary-based chata.ai raises $2.5 million to debut assistant for accountants
- Great West-Life piloting Dialogue’s employee healthcare platform
- With a $5 million Series A, Nudge Rewards wants to gamify employee performance across North America
- Canadians can now add money to their Amazon accounts through Canada Post
- Volta Labs holds first pitch event in Halifax for chance to receive $25,000 investment
- BDC investing $70 million in women-led companies over five years
- Volta Cohort invests $25,000 in five Atlantic Canada startups
- Amsterdam-based Spaces will open coworking location in Toronto
- Hack To Start Ep.174: Stephanie Engle, product designer at Cruise
- Canadian gov’t invests $2.2 million in environmentally-friendly microchips
- Viviplan receives $65,000 from BMO-DMZ FinTech accelerator Demo Day
- Wealthsimple, League among KPMG’s top 50 FinTech companies
- #Tech4SickKids launches campaign to raise $25 million for SickKids hospital
- Ask an Investor: Should I hire someone to raise funding for me?
- Faktory Ventures’ Candice Faktor says Canada is the best place to build ethical tech
- After $4.5 million seed round, Adeptmind launches to help retailers with accurate online search
- District Ventures investing $3 million into its accelerator startups
- Element AI launches $57 million AI fund with SK Telecom, Hyundai
- Canada is at risk of being left behind by AI
- Michael Hyatt joins Blakes as its first entrepreneur-in-residence
- Overbond enters US market with New York office, platform expansion
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 94: Can Canada be a leader against killer AI?
- Toronto doesn’t need Google to build a smart city, says open data expert
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – VR enterprises
- Dax Dasilva on buying out investor Accel to deter Lightspeed acquisition
- Ridesharing app Facedrive launches with CO2 emissions reduction plan
- Beck Taxi against Lyft in Canada due to Uber sexual harassment allegations
- Borealis AI opening Montreal lab with Jackie Cheung as academic advisor
- City of Toronto partners with Waze to improve city’s traffic awareness
- Saskatchewan including coding in curriculum to address labour shortage
- Michael Hyatt: Small business owners must focus on building a great culture
- Nuco receives funding from Ontario to improve digital identity verification
- CVCA report: Q3 2017 saw $980 million invested over 149 deals
- Hack To Start Ep.175: Michael Karnjanaprakorn, co-founder of Skillshare
- Apple reportedly acquires Vrvana for $30 million USD
- radient360 raises $3.3 million to help oil and gas companies adopt data analytics
- Federal government gives $1.26 million to Northern Ontario Angels
- Startup Canada Podcast: Curating authenticity with Drake General Store’s Carlo Colacci
- Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says Canada is committed to net neutrality
- Canadian Payments Innovation Forum says collaboration continues to drive FinTech innovation
- Verve.ai’s Dalia Asterbadi says innovation must build bridges, not silos
- How startups can combine security with scale (Facebook Live chat)
- Today in funding ($3.4M): Peloton Innovations, Motive.io
- Code for Canada launches fellowship program to build digital government services
- Today in acquisitions: Solium Capital acquires Capshare, HiMama acquires DailyChildcareReport
- Canadian government launches smart city challenge with $50 million top prize
- CBRE report: Waterloo is Canadaâs fastest-growing tech talent market
- Startup Jobs Spotlight: Loopio is hiring
- MaRS and Canadian gov’t want to give students experience in STEM companies
- Garrick Tiplady named managing director of Facebook and Instagram Canada
- Analysts say Canadian cities fail to make top 10 for Amazon HQ2
- University of Toronto launches financial innovation hub for its students
- Ontario investing up to $5 million in Think Research to create 228 jobs in Toronto
- Affinio raises $11.4 million Series B
- Shopify reports $1 million in sales per minute during Black Friday peak
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.102: Startup resources and funding with New Ventures BC’s Mike Volker
- Smooth Commerce raises $2 million to help retailers embrace mobile
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Apple reaches Vrvana
- Notman House and MTL NewTech celebrate Montreal tech with #StartupCommunityAwards
- Ontario and Chinese governments sign nearly $600 million in new tech agreements
- IoT pilot at UBC will help create action plan for accessible parking
- Toronto-based Sensibill expands in the US with Quontic Bank partnership
- John Vandermay named CTO of Lightspeed
- Deloitte releases list of Canada’s fastest-growing tech companies for 2017
- Startup Canada Podcast: Peace through Entrepreneurship with Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish
- Montreal-based Immunio acquired by Trend Micro
- Dejero raises $32 million Series B
- Volta announces four new companies joining Residency program
- PayPal: Canadian mobile spending to exceed $2.5 billion during the holidays
- Hockeystick acquires LaunchSpot to boost startup ecosystem data platform
- Mojio raises $30 million Series B to make every car a connected car
- Hack To Start Ep.176: Lydia White, design lead at Beme
- Leveraging Element AI connection, Real Ventures closes two funds totalling $180 million
- Torontoâs historic Cabbagetown storefronts filled with entrepreneurs embracing tech
- Ask an Investor: What is a broken cap table?
- Trexo Robotics wins $35,000 at Sunnybrook’s Hawk’s Nest pitch competition
- Seamless Mobile Health, Learning Bird Among Winners at TiEQuest 2014
- Tickit Health Creates a Healthier Dialogue to Promote Healthier Children
- FedDev Ontario investing $3.57 million in Next Canada
- Legal Innovation Zone announces AI Legal Challenge finalists
- Uber could face class-action lawsuit in Alberta for concealing cyberattack
- Chefs Plate raises $10 million Series C
- NanoCnet wins $35,000 at Velocity Fund Finals
- City of Kitchener opens IoT lab in Communitech
- 1QBit raises $45 million Series B from Fujitsu, Accenture
- AccessNow, Komodo OpenLab among startups receiving support from Ryerson University’s Accessibility Project
- Aeryon Labs’ Dave Kroetsch explains the advantage of building a drone business in Canada
- Well.ca acquired by McKesson Canada
- SaaS North says companies should focus on problem, not tech, when building AI
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 95: Startup PR fails & Canada’s STEM solution
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The $9 billion wearable trajectory
- Coinsquare raises $10.5 million Series A
- Report: Holding institutions accountable part of encouraging inclusivity in STEM
- Salesforce report: Fifty-six percent of SMBs say they’re not ready for AI
- Impact Centre launches program to connect Canadian and Chinese entrepreneurs
- HomeStarsâ Nancy Peterson: Entrepreneurs have to be scrappy to succeed
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 96: Canada’s tech billionaire
- Nova Scotia dedicating $2.25 million to expanding Volta Labs
- Facebook Live panel says culture is the key to startup security
- Botler.AI’s new chatbot analyzed 300,000 court documents to help sexual harassment and assault survivors
- Toronto tech community signs open letter to city council urging “fair, equitable” rules on Airbnb
- Mindbridge.AI named BNN’s Top Disruptor
- PwC Canada opens hub in Toronto to help traditional industries embrace tech
- Analysts say Ontario won’t meet its 2020 electric vehicle target
- Hack To Start Ep.177: Brian Balfour, founder and CEO of Reforge
- Flexiti Financial makes POS lending platform available to online retailers
- Ask an Investor: Should my fundraise include liquidity for founders via secondary?
- Toronto city council caps Airbnb rentals at 180 days a year, bans secondary suites
- OSC seeking applications for FinTech advisory committee
- Supreme Court of Canada upholds privacy protections for text messages
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes on the ultimate test for business ideas
- Kik investing $12 million towards improving user safety with Kin
- Nova Scotia investing $25 million to create two new VC funds
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Is smart clothing the next smartphone battery?
- Startup Canada Podcast: Inclusion and innovation in SaaS
- Toronto #DonateTech Drive will give your unused tech to low-income communities
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 97: Canada’s fight for net neutrality
- Former Discovery Communications VP joins Rumble as COO
- Canada’s privacy commissioner confirms Uber under investigation for security breach
- Lyft launches in Toronto with SickKids donation partnership
- Shopify Plus and Facebook partner with Vantage on new accelerator to help CPGs embrace ecommerce
- Cycle Capital Management announces first close of $116 million fund with Chinese investment group
- Today in company updates: iComplyICO announces new advisors, League of Innovators acquires GradusOne
- Foodbytes! pitch competition wants to connect Canada’s food-focused startups
- Hackergal launches national hackathon with 2,900 girls across Canada
- Canadian government unveils exceptions for income sprinkling tax proposal
- Payment Rails launches API to help businesses set up global payment platforms
- eBay acquiring Terapeak to boost its data analytics offering for sellers
- Hack To Start Ep.178: Amir Shevat, director of developer relations at Slack
- Canadian government launching $100 million procurement program for startups
- Highline BETA and RBC collaborating to co-create new ventures
- Facebook partners with Canadian non-profit to help people recognize false news
- Startup Canada Podcast: Fighting corruption and bribery for small business
- Canadian Digital Media Network announces companies accepted into Silicon Valley program
- Payment automation startup Wagepoint raises $2 million to build HR apps
- Shopify, PointClickCare among Glassdoor’s top 25 best places to work in Canada
- Volta Academy wants to help early-stage founders test and validate their ideas
- How the US net neutrality decision affects Canadian tech
- Aaron Zifkin departs Airbnb to become Lyft’s Canadian managing director
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes debunks the “first-mover advantage” myth in business
- CBRE opens new space in Kitchener-Waterloo as part of mission to embrace tech
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Snapchat eyes developers with Lens studio
- Quebec investing $44 million into modernizing its taxi industry
- Financeit receives investment from Goldman Sachs to acquire home improvement software company Centah
- AskMen founder Ricardo Poupada: Your small business wonât grow if you just stick to what you know
- Government accepting applications for $400 million Venture Capital Catalyst Initiative
- Vancouver-based ACL announces $50 million strategic investment from Norwest
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.117: Exit strategies with Mark MacLeod
- Oshawa’s Durham College launches AI research hub
- Shopify COO Harley Finkelstein joins CBC board of directors
- Ecofuel accelerator receives $5.5 million from Quebec government
- RateHub reports generational divide when it comes to trust in FinTech
- Joint Detroit-Windsor #AmazonHQ2 bid includes $136 million incentive package
- Ask an Investor: Is it common for investors to charge startups for legal fees?
- Hack To Start Ep.179: Oscar Falmer, founder of TweetReality
- Dentons joins Global Legal Blockchain Consortium
- MedStackâs Simon Woodside: CTOs must only build things customers want
- Cloud DXâs Justin Pedro: Startup CTOs must build passionate teams
- Six technology trends driving seamless retail in 2018
- Ask an Investor: Can I disconnect over the holidays without upsetting my investors?
- My tech predictions for 2018
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 98: What the hell is going on with cryptocurrency?
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 99: Does tech make things better?
- Views from Web Summit: Founders should see Portugal as a hub for expansion
- FindBob raises $1.6 million to help insurance firms find their next generation of talent
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.118: Starting, scaling, and exiting with Dan Martell
- Toronto’s cryptocurrency community raising $5,000 for Syrian refugee family
- Hack To Start Ep.180: Tom Levesque, co-founder of Rey.ai
- Apple acquires Vancouver-based Buddybuild to build more tools for iOS developers
- Rubikloud raises $46 million Series B from Intel
- OMXâs Nicole Verkindt: failure is an entrepreneurâs biggest teacher
- Voices.com expands platform to include SAG-AFTRA union voice actors
- eSight wants to help 50 million people living with vision loss see by 2020
- MedChart, Eve Medical part of healthtech projects funded by $5.47 million from Ontario
- Canadian government to use AI to search social media and predict suicides
- Vancouver Tech Podcast Ep.103: Angela Griffin, CTO of Glance Technologies
- Calgary-based Showpass becomes native ticketing partner with Facebook
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.119: Making your product stand out with April Dunford
- After building 17,000 financial plans, Toronto’s Planswell raises $6.8 million
- RBC report: Cryptocurrency and blockchain market expected to reach $10 trillion
- Nanoleaf launches 12-sided dice remote for controlling smart home products
- Mylo raises $2 million from Desjardins Capital to expand its spare change investment platform
- Kevin Sandhu reviews his 11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2017
- Kik’s Ted Livingston calls payments the missing piece to making bots successful
- Uber makes the case for ridesharing to BC government
- BroadbandTV launches business division to build mobile apps for content creators
- Hack To Start Ep.182: Jonah Lupton, founder of SoundGuard
- Ulula announces $1 million seed round to tackle forced labour
- Machine learning engineer among Indeed’s jobs to watch in 2018
- Visa report: Two in three Canadians would trust banks with biometric data
- Communitech reveals 25 founders participating in Fierce Founders bootcamp
- Digital Technology supercluster wants to invest $1.4 billion in its projects
- Tech for Good: How machine learning and rich data can help prevent pollution
- Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff takes to Reddit to discuss Waterfront Toronto plans
- SkySquirrel raises $3 million and merges with California-based competitor
- Toronto hosting Shenzhen innovation competition with $2 million in prizes
- Canada’s top 10 VC deals in 2017 raised over $1 billion
- Today in company updates: Clearpath adds former Google VP to advisory board, Picatic launches new pricing model for non-profits
- How the strength of the Canadian dollar impacts SaaS companies
- RateHub raises $12 million Series A to build end-to-end mortgage platform
- Igloo Software raises $60 million from Charlotte-based Frontier Capital
- TD acquires Layer 6 in Canadian AI talent grab
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – The AR/VR industry proves it’s not all hype
- With $3.5 million seed round, Vention launches platform that automates industrial design
- Instacart acquires Toronto-based Unata to build more online grocery solutions
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 100: Best of Canadian tech
- #WomenFundingWomen event says angel investing, building networks will boost women-led companies
- Hyr raises $1.6 million to help retailers embrace the gig economy
- Hack To Start Ep.183: Jordan Scheltgen, co-founder of CaveSocial
- Wattpad raises $61.25 million to continue investment in machine learning, interactive storytelling
- Google opening Montreal Google Cloud platform region this year
- Vancouver-based InvestX fund now accepting cryptocurrency
- Startupfest launching CannabisFest, CryptoFest in 2018 edition
- 10 Montreal tech companies to watch in 2018
- BC government investing $4.4 million in creating more STEM grads
- Toronto only Canadian city to make #AmazonHQ2 shortlist
- Relay Ventures adds Dropbox’s Kady Srinivasan, WiFiSLAM’s Jessica Tsoong to team
- Uber Canada’s new GM on changing the company’s public perception
- Toronto’s UPPLift pilot program seeking tech solutions for city infrastructure challenges
- Sidewalk Labs’ Dan Doctoroff says data won’t be used for commercial purposes in Quayside project
- Ask an Investor: How do I manage remote workers?
- Globalive Technology Partners and Nuuvera using blockchain to ensure safety in cannabis products
- BDC report: Canadian businesses plan to invest $140.5 billion in their growth this year
- CIRA offering $1 million in grants to organizations that increase internet safety
- Canada.AI hub wants to track the country’s AI ecosystem
- Toronto seeking residents’ ideas for Smart Cities Challenge proposal
- Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin proposes model to minimize risk in ICOs
- Dragons’ Den announces audition tour for latest season
- Bruce Croxon’s predictions for the Canadian tech community in 2018
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 101: Why the world’s biggest tech companies are fighting over voice
- Element AI opens London office to focus on building ethical AI
- TWG announces new CTO, VP of product as company grows executive team
- Iris Automation raises $10 million Series A to help drones avoid collisions
- Vancouver startup creates VR arcade on wheels
- Borrowell launches free Equifax credit report monitoring
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.120: Being your own boss with Gloria Roheim McRae
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.121: The art of technology with Emily Smith
- Hack To Start Ep.184: Gessica Bicego, Blinklist head of performance marketing
- Bright + Early wants to help Toronto’s scrappy startups embrace HR
- Tech for Good: Studio 1 Labs focuses on trust and user experience to help doctors better care for patients
- Report: Canadians want user-friendly information on privacy policies
- Ask an Investor: Do I need insurance for my startup?
- GM Canada launches $1.8 million STEM fund supporting educational programs for girls
- Canadian media coalition wants government to reconsider âNetflix Taxâ stance
- FloSonics raises $5 million for device helping hospitals track critically-ill patients
- Microsoft hires new director for Montreal AI lab, announces plan to double workforce
- Ethereum Capital wants to raise $50 million to invest in Ethereum-based companies
- Sobeys plans to launch an online grocery platform to Canada
- Lyft donates $34,000 to SickKids through Round Up and Donate campaign
- AngelList and Accomplice’s new program gives founders up to $1 million for angel investing
- TechStars launches accelerator in Toronto with Colliers, partners with Dentons
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 102: Why Tim Cook’s a “big fan” of Shopify
- Ford acquires Autonomic to double down on mobility services
- Drop launches in the US with $5.5 million from Sierra Ventures, Portag3
- Busbud raises $14 million Series B with former Expedia CEO, Luxury Retreats investors
- MedStack’s Balaji Gopalan says companies must tell the stories of their customers
- RBC wants to tackle the challenges of being a product manager with FutureMakers event
- mnubo raises $16.5 million to help manufacturers embrace IoT
- Navdeep Bains reaffirms commitment to net neutrality in response to anti-piracy group
- Transferwise partners with Flinks to power its instant account verification process
- Coinsquare planning $150 million IPO this year
- Student-run Front Row Ventures makes first $25,000 investment
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.122: Immersing in virtual reality with Ctrl V’s Robert Bruski
- RBC investing $1.78 million in University of Waterloo cybersecurity lab
- OneEleven launches insurtech growth program with Aviva Canada
- Nicoya Lifesciences raises $2 million to make protein testing equipment more accessible to researchers
- CanvasPop raises $3.3 million to turn your social media photos into wall art
- After trademark battle, tealbook’s Stephany Lapierre reminds founders to read the fine print
- Hack To Start Ep.185: Joei Chan, content marketing manager at Mention
- Q.I. Leap closes $1.8 million seed to deliver main street retailers useful data
- QRA Corp receives $645,000 contract with Royal Canadian Air Force
- Ask an Investor: How do I handle VCs at the end of their investment period?
- Miovision receives $1.5 million from Ontario gov’t to expand team
- Ask a Developer: What are the benefits of using CI/CD?
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes: We need to get religious about AI before it’s too late
- Slack kills its Apple Watch app
- Drop closes $25.8 million Series A, repatriates former Airbnb exec
- Platterz raises $18 million and adds former GrubHub president, Lyft EVP to advisory board
- Montreal-based Leadweb wants to build a blockchain-focused supercluster
- RBC’s Borealis AI boosts Toronto lab with two new senior researchers
- NEXT Canada opens applications for 2018 Next Founders program
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 103: Are we breaking up with Facebook, or is Facebook breaking up with us?
- BC testing app to help victims of cardiac arrest
- Financeit hires 15-year Tangerine veteran as chief compliance officer
- Ontario investing $13 million to help colleges tackle R&D challenges
- Today in FinTech: ATB Financial partners with SecureKey, Wealthbar launches new robo-advisor service
- Element AI global talent report finds Canada has third-largest concentration of AI researchers
- Rubikloud hiring 60 people in Toronto to meet global demand for its service
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.124: Building businesses by bonfire with Fireside Conference
- SkyWatch raises $4 million to democratize satellite data
- Today in key hires: Wiivv announces new VP, Smooth Commerce adds former CFL SVP to team
- iComplyICO raises angel investment from Uber founding team member
- Halifax-based Appili Therapeutics raises $4.3 million to develop solutions for antibiotic resistance
- Salesforce wants to invest $2 billion towards growing its business in Canada
- Tech for Good: Brili applies enterprise tech to child psychology
- Ask an Investor: How do I prepare for my first board meeting?
- Airbnb reaches agreement to collect provincial, municipal taxes in BC
- CIFAR announces advisory committee overseeing national AI strategy
- Prime Minister Trudeau reiterates governmentâs firm opposition to âNetflix Taxâ
- Today in blockchain: Bluzelle raises $24.4M CAD in ICO, RightMesh launching emergency communications app
- AceTech Ontario rebrands to Peerscale
- Coinsquare announces $30 million in funding, new executive hires
- Today in FinTech: Hardbacon launches iOS app, Payment Source partners with Paytm Canada
- WeChat Pay and Alipay now supported by select Cadillac Fairview malls
- Today in company updates: FreshBooks adds over 50 apps to new platform, Jiffy on Demand announces US launch
- LCBO working with Shopify to power online cannabis sales platform
- Former Bank of Nova Scotia VP joins Portag3 Ventures as CFO
- Startups launch APM program, bringing Valley model to Canadian product managers
- NDP wants to force vote on capping employee stock options
- Lyft plans expansion to Ottawa
- Dialogue raises $12 million to push employee healthcare service across Canada
- Loopio raises $11 million CAD to help enterprises streamline the RFP process
- 4 things Canadian tech learned at #SaaSTR
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 104: #weneedboth, but not like this
- Katherine Homuth back in founder mode with new startup Sheerly Genius
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.123: The golden rules for hiring and firing
- OpenText acquires California-based filesharing company Hightail
- KPMG FinTech report: Canada making strides to become global leader in AI
- Hack To Start Ep.186: Casey Winters, growth advisor in residence at Greylock Partners
- Hack To Start Ep.187: Matt Hollingshead, CEO of Hifyre
- Unsplash raises $6.25 million Series A, will top up with $1 million SimpleTokens
- Great-West Life contributing $300,000 to Creative Destruction Lab
- GM launches carsharing app in Toronto
- DMZ launches accelerator supporting women founders
- Ask an Investor: Should I prioritize pitching US investors over Canadians?
- Former EA exec joins Vision Critical as CTO
- AI pioneer Richard Sutton a keynote speaker at AccelerateAB
- Canadian Securities Exchange building blockchain-based platform for securities clearing and settlement
- Ask a Developer: How do dev and design work together?
- Ratio.City receives $100,000 from Communitech Fierce Founders Bootcamp Pitch Competition
- Frank And Oak raises $20 million to invest in personalized shopping features
- Today in AI: Toronto-based DeepLearni.ng joins Vector Institute, NextAI expands program to Montreal
- Fitbit deal is done, Pebble is insolvent, founder Eric Migicovsky will reportedly join Y Combinator
- Naborly launches free tenant screening to combat housing discrimination
- Borealis AI launches graduate fellowship program to create more AI talent
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 105: Shopify’s e-cannabis solution
- Braingrid raises $2.5 million to grow analytics platform for the cannabis industry
- Wealthsimple raises $65 million from Power Financial, bringing total investment to $165 million
- Dell EMCâs Matthew Trotter: cloud technology has created a power shift inside small businesses
- Gov’t dedicating $500,000 to Canada-India exchange program for women founders
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.125: Rewarding micro actions with Giovanna Mingarelli
- Zoom.AI now integrating AI assistant with Microsoft Teams, Office 365
- Payment Source now allows you to pay your taxes using a QR code
- RBC offering NACO angel-backed companies access to credit, resources
- Invest Ottawa announces new VP of venture development
- Tech for Good: IoT can extend healthcare into the home
- Report: Consumers and businesses made over 241 million Interac e-Transfer transactions in 2017
- Ask an Investor: Where is the best place to register my startup?
- iNovia launches Empower Initiative to support founders from underrepresented groups in tech
- Indigo Fair raises $12 million to help independent retailers source products from creators
- What to look for in #Budget2018
- Torontoâs Humber River first hospital in Canada to recruit a humanoid robot
- Startup Canada opens nominations for fifth annual awards
- 500px acquired by Visual China Group, CEO Andy Yang steps down
- 7 things brands need to know about Facebook’s News Feed changes
- Government investing $29.5 million in national Digital Literacy program
- Dream Payments partners with Mastercard to speed up insurance payments
- Startup Boost opens applications for Spring 2018 pre-accelerator
- A Bridge to help women in tech advance their careers
- Upchain raises $7.4 million to help companies manage product lifecycles
- Today in retail: ChickAdvisor tool helps brands interact with customers, Indochino receives Mitsui investment
- ggTO launches Toronto esports competition to raise money for SickKids
- Hack To Start Ep.188: Hannah Donovan, CEO of Trash
- Cheap hydro electricity draws cryptocurrency miners to Quebec
- As Torontoâs Eglinton Corridor faces massive change, entrepreneurs look to tech
- Kik’s Ted Livingston says the world-changing idea behind bitcoin isnât what you think
- Today in AI: Kanetix partners with Integrate.AI, Ross Intelligence partners with Vector Institute
- Trudeau doesnât want to tax foreign web giants, risk raising taxes on Canadians
- PointClickCare raises $186 million from Dragoneer
- Ask a Developer: What are Android instant apps and why should I build them?
- Jiffy on Demand raises $3 million to continue US expansion
- Feedback wants to win Toronto’s crowded food space through social impact
- Vincent Mifsud steps down as ScribbleLive CEO, becomes board chair
- ScribbleLive lays off 27 employees to ‘streamline organization’ amid search for new CEO
- Ask an Investor: What do VCs not care about?
- Figure1’s Joshua Landy says we need a Hippocratic oath for tech
- Today in AI: Queen’s University launches AI Master’s program, Abacus launches chatbot services
- ThoughtWire raises $20 million to build smart cities and hospitals
- #DisruptMining announces Acoustic Zoom as winner of potential $1 million contract
- The Canadian Cloud Council examines the future of humanity at enterprise tech Control conference
- Committee recommends opt-in consent, algorithmic transparency to modernize PIPEDA
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.126: The Purpose Generation with Spring Activator’s Keith Ippel
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.127: Transformations through technology with Dx3’s Eric Mercer
- CVCA report: Life sciences companies received a fifth of dollars invested in 2017
- Frontfundr and SeedUps Canada partner to address funding gap for early-stage founders
- TouchBistro partners with Chase to offer instant payment processing
- Poka raises $10 million to be the messaging platform for factories
- ecobee raises $80 million to invest in voice tech, AI
- DMZ named top university incubator in the world by UBI Global
- Ecofuel announces five startups selected for spring 2018 cohort
- Axonify, Nulogy among Great Place to Work’s best workplaces for women
- BDC partners with Womenâs Enterprise Organizations to connect with women entrepreneurs
- Toronto-based TunnelBear acquired by McAfee
- FuckUp Nights Toronto celebrating one-year anniversary with speakers from Fiix, Bunz
- Tech for Good: Fusion Genomics uses quantum computing to eliminate undiagnosed illnesses
- #Budget2018 includes focus on women entrepreneurs, $572.5 million towards big data strategy
- Mojio tops up $30 million round from Iris Capital and Telus Ventures
- Maple raises $4 million to help Canadians get 24/7 virtual health care
- Ask an Investor: Should I worry about my VCs replacing me as CEO?
- P2P platform Lending Loop now offering corporate lending
- Royal Ontario Museum appoints Shyam Oberoi as new chief digital officer
- Purpose Financial acquires Thinking Capital for reported $200 million
- Shopify appoints Amy Shapero as chief financial officer
- Nudnik named winner of PayPal pitch competition at #Dx32018
- Canadaâs privacy commissioner wants to limit data collection in national security bill
- Lending Loop hits milestone of providing $10 million in financing
- Merchant Advance Capital’s David Gens says financial services companies aren’t always FinTechs
- Today in funding ($59M): Atomwise, Parkbench, Showpass
- Report: Canadian companies must do more to promote job-related tech education
- Alipay now accepted at retailers across Canada through Motion Pay partnership
- WeWork plans to open 20 more locations in Toronto by 2020
- DMZ wants to raise $1 million for Ryerson student-led startups
- Uber to inform all Canadian drivers and passengers affected by 2016 privacy breach
- Smart city-focused InnoCité MTL merging with Centech incubator
- Ex-500 Canada partners close $25 million for new Panache Ventures fund
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 106: BetaKit’s origin story
- Traction Conference wants to help startups scale with talks from Bumble, Mulesoft execs
- Silicon Valley Bank expanding into Canada with Barbara Dirks as head
- Harbr raises $1.75 million to help construction companies predict their schedule
- Startup Canada Podcast: Building a new market category with Blo’s Devon Brooks
- Founder Institute Montreal and OVH Launch Pad hosting Demo Day with $5,000 prize
- Small businesses that donât prioritize security could lose everything
- Merchant Advance Capital closes $30 million debt facility
- Hootsuite raises $65 million from CIBC Innovation Banking
- Alberta proposes tax credit to bolster game development and compete with other provinces
- Ask an Investor: Dissect my Deck (Finaeo)
- BMO partners with Finn.AI, Massively to launch chatbots
- Techstars and Real Ventures launch AI accelerator in Montreal
- Amid regulatory uncertainty, Coinsquareâs CEO is focused on expanding services while gaining public trust
- Canadian government investing $800,000 in cleantech company Accelerated Systems
- L’Oreal acquires Toronto-based AR company ModiFace
- Global Skills Hub wants to help Canadian companies hire international talent
- Applications open for BCIC-New Ventures competition
- Ontario and Quebec partnering with industry on $400 million ‘5G network’
- Ask a Dev: Shifts in tech that you need to know about
- Bench raises $23 million to expand its accounting automation features
- Nicole Verkindt and Michael Hyatt help scale your small business (Facebook Live chat)
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 107: What if the Women in Tech fund isn’t used for women in tech?
- Today in key hires: Bench hires ex-Hootsuite leads, Rangle.io announces new exec creative director
- Shopify announces Google Pay integration, improved mobile checkout
- With $1.3 million, Finhaven is building a blockchain-powered securities exchange
- BDC financing $325,000 in loans to support entrepreneurs with mental health and addiction challenges
- Canadian privacy watchdog will contact Facebook about Cambridge Analytica breach
- CryptoKitties raises $12 million from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures
- Hootsuite, Shopify among Linkedin’s most sought-after companies in Canada
- Canadian government launches $25 million program to support agricultural cleantech
- Lighthouse Labs and Kids Code Jeunesse launch program to help teachers learn to code
- Sidewalk Toronto is still figuring out how to govern and protect privacy
- OSMO names former Taxelco GM Patrick Gagné as CEO
- Straight talk about artificial intelligence with Kathryn Hume and Carole Piovesan
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.129: championing companies to market with Michelle Caers
- Victory Square committing $10 million towards children’s charity initiatives in BC
- Ask an Investor: What do VCs worry about?
- 5 tips to help startups build an inclusive parental leave policy
- TMX and Paycase launching cryptocurrency brokerage services
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 108: The Canadian invasion of WeWork and SVB
- Report: One-third of Canadian businesses report unwittingly leaking sensitive information to cyber thieves
- IoT613 puts the spotlight on the future of connected transportation
- Vision Critical acquires Aida to integrate AI applications into customer intelligence platform
- Toronto-based Green Tank Technologies raises $4.3 million from Snoop Dogg
- Careworx raises $17 million to help senior care centres track health records
- RBC opens API developer portal
- Quebec has plans to implement sales tax on tech giants like Netflix, reports suggest
- BuildDirect closes $53 million CAD, exits creditor protection
- Kumail Nanjiani added as headliner for True North conference
- Nest Wealth launches platform to help small businesses provide group RRSP plans
- Nova Scotia government launching public sector ‘innovation garage’ with IBM
- StartWell’s Qasim Virjee on designing office space for the future of work
- Axem Neurotechnology accepted into Shenzhen-based HAX accelerator
- SemaThera raises $2 million to develop solution for diabetic macular edema
- Hubba faces personnel changes as company continues pivot from enterprise to independent retail
- Prime Minister Trudeau says that the Liberals arenât abandoning Facebook
- Startup Canada Podcast: Komal Minhas, producer of Dream, Girl
- Evichat wins $40,000 top prize at Legal Innovation Zone’s AI Challenge
- KPMG report: Toronto ranks among the fastest-growing global technology innovation hubs
- Toronto-based ItsMe CEO charged with six counts of voyeurism
- Swift Medical raises $11.6 million to help healthcare facilities manage wound care
- Ontario budget earmarks $50 million for life sciences-focused VC funds
- PLATO Testing wins Indigenous business pitch competition
- Today in key hires: Coconut Software adds chief revenue officer, ChefHero hires new VP of marketing
- Applications for Startup Canada Awards open until April 3
- Ask a Dev: What do I need to know about ARKit (iOS) and ARCore (Android)?
- Fundica roadshow partners with Panache Ventures to offer $500,000 investment prize
- BC Innovation Council awards nearly $1 million to four research projects
- The Knowledge Society hosting subsidized innovation conference for students
- Venture for Canada receives $1.4 million from Ontario government
- SmartGurlz robotic doll that teaches girls to code now available in Canada
- RBC CEO warns investment is leaving Canada for lower US tax rates
- Indeed report: Jobs in Canada requiring AI skills have grown by 1,069 percent since 2013
- OneEleven and Aviva Canada announce five startups accepted into insurtech growth program
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 109: How BDC spends your money to support Women in Tech
- Coveo announces $100 million investment led by Evergreen Coast Capital
- Startup Canada Podcast: Overcoming fear of risk with Watered Down Apparel’s Siera Bearchell
- Today in crypto: OMERS Ventures joins OB1 investment, Mogo launches MogoCrypto
- Morning Recovery raises $10 million CAD to cure hangovers with a scientific approach
- With aggressive hiring plans, Wattpad doubles down on the Asian market
- Wattpad announces Dexter Ong as Wattpad Studios’ head of Asia
- Dash MD raises $500,000 to help hospitals communicate aftercare to patients
- Wealthsimple launches savings account
- Launch Academy partners with LeanStack’s Ash Maurya to help entrepreneurs access training programs
- Hack To Start Ep.189: Mari Sheibly, product designer on Instagram
- Hack To Start Ep.190: Sonja Jacob, content strategy team lead at Drift
- Georgian Partners has reportedly closed $450 million USD in fourth fund
- 1QBit and Quantum Benchmark join IBM’s quantum computing program
- RBC no longer allowing the use of credit cards for cryptocurrency transactions
- Women’s coworking space The Wing opening first Canadian location in Toronto
- Federal privacy commissioner argues for right to be forgotten
- Impact Centre report examines how Canada lags behind the US in building scaleups
- Today in acquisitions: Warner Music Group acquires Sodatone, QuickTapSurvey acquired by undisclosed US buyer
- Brookfield Institute launches digital literacy pilot with $2 million from Ontario gov’t, philanthropists
- Sidewalk Labs plans to start Quayside pilot this summer
- Ryan Poissant named COO of Nudge Rewards
- PwC Canada announces Vision to Reality Award finalists
- FrontFundr celebrates milestone of raising $10 million for Canadian companies
- ATB Financial teams up with the University of Alberta to further research AI
- 5 unexpected hiring hacks for small startups entering growth mode
- Zoom.AI raises $3.1 million seed extension to expand solution into Europe
- Healthcare startups and industry share joint innovation challenges at #THIW panel
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep. 132: The path to exit with Bruce Croxon
- Media Sonarâs Allan Bedard: cutting-edge tech doesnât matter unless the data is actionable
- Malgosia Green departs Top Hat to take on role as Plenty of Fish CEO
- Government invests $4.4 million in Venture for Canada to support Atlantic Canada internships
- Hack To Start Ep.191: Asher Hunt, founder and CEO of Overnight
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 110: Everything Facebook’s Done Wrong
- Bilal Khan out as OneEleven CEO
- Ask an Investor: Should I give my advisors equity?
- Three winners receive $50,000 at NBIF’s Research Innovation Awards
- Ask a Dev: Should I use Kotlin to develop Android apps?
- Former Google and RIM execs join iNovia as general partners
- Akira founder moves from healthtech to launch Newton cryptocurrency trading platform
- Thalmic announces new headquarters as it hits 350 employees
- Toronto mayor to pitch city to Netflix, Amazon during trip to Hollywood
- Startupfest opens pitch applications, chance to win free airfare
- Today in gov’t funding: Cornwall Innovation Centre, Oteenow Employment & Training Society
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 111: Why are there so few women in Canadian VC?
- Dialogue names former Uber senior manager as GM for Ontario
- Report: Canadians skeptical about cloud security when it comes to medical, financial information
- Google investing $2.1M into KW programs supporting women in computer science, coding for youth
- XpertSea raises $10 million to help farms use tech to track aquacultures
- Samsung Pay now supports RBC cards
- MaRS expands impact investing platform to Quebec
- How to build AI responsibly in Canada
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.133: Indigenous business as a tool for change with Kate Taylor
- AccelerateOTT returns on June 13 with mission to build Ottawa as a global tech hub
- AI companies must make trust part of their core mission
- How entrepreneurs can take care of their mental health
- MediSeen raises $1.1M to bring healthcare to the home
- As tech companies thrive in Toronto West, building community becomes top priority
- Instant Financial raises $14.3 million CAD Series A to help shift workers get paid faster
- Magnet Forensics partners with Child Rescue Coalition to combat child exploitation
- GoWrench raises $525,000 for at-home mechanic service platform
- TunnelBear launches RememBear password manager
- Report: âDelete Facebookâ movement stronger in Canada than many other countries
- Tech Spark’s Tamar Huggins says founders need a ‘do not do’ list
- RBC’s Borealis AI expanding into Vancouver this fall
- Techstars Toronto hosts first Demo Day
- BDC investing total $40 million in four cleantech companies
- TechAide AI conference raises $100,000 for United Wayâs Centraide
- ChefHero raises $12.6 million to build wholesale marketplace for independent restaurants
- Hawk Incentives joins Kik’s Kin ecosystem to boost transaction activity
- Al Gore headlines Elevate TechFest lineup
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.134: How we can win with Tony Lacavera
- Aion Network launches blockchain interoperability platform to public
- Today in tech hires: Dialogue repatriates former Rothschild VP, Lightspeed gets new CFO
- MaRS receives $1 million from Google to train workers impacted by automation
- Announcing the Retail Times newsletter Frank And Oak contest winners
- #BCTECHSummit speaker Wellington Sculley explains how blockchain will benefit the Canadian economy
- Hack To Start Ep.192: Sam Mallikarjunan, executive strategist at HubSpot
- Ask an Investor: How do I repair a frayed relationship with my lead investor?
- Former BlackBerry CFO joins eSentire as chief administrative officer
- New Brunswick government investing $53.5 million in province’s innovation agenda
- Calgary launches $100 million tech investment fund
- Michael Hyatt and Nicole Verkindt on how to go from a small business to a real business
- How startups should approach GDPR (Facebook Live chat)
- Gov’t IP strategy amending legislation to close loopholes, tackle trademark squatting
- Blakes launches Nitro startup legal service program in Vancouver
- Montreal Founder Institute Demo Day sees two founders share $5,000 top prize
- Today in company updates: Flashfood expands to US, Mogo hits new milestone, CineSend powers Tribeca Film Festival
- Cybersecurity experts tackle privacy protection ahead of Control conference
- Amazon to add 3,000 Vancouver tech jobs via Hub expansion
- Algolux raises $12.8 million CAD for autonomous vision tech
- Hockeystick launches database tracking Canada’s startup ecosystem
- Derek Smyth Memorial Fund launches to support SickKids oncology department
- Confirmed: Collision conference relocating to Toronto in 2019
- Former Kik exec Eran Ben-Ari named chief product officer at Top Hat
- MindBridge AI raises $8.4 million Series A
- Golden Ventures closes $72 million for new seed-focused fund
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.135: Building a global brand with Smoke’s Poutinerie’s Ryan Smolkin
- Certn raises $975,000 to use AI for background checks
- Fierce Founders and Metabridge announce new startups to their lineups
- Ontario government launches $3 million pilot project with Lending Loop for small business loans
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 113: Repable’s Heather Anne Ritchie explains streaming culture
- Ontario government partners with LinkedIn to give postsecondary students access to Lynda.com
- Infiniti Toronto accelerator offers chance to pitch $1 billion Alliance Ventures fund
- Salesforce launches $100 million Canadian venture fund
- BenchSciâs David Chen: Startup CTOs need to be ready for âunknown unknownsâ
- Machine learning engineer tops Indeed Canada’s list of top 10 best jobs
- How chasing $30 million from Sequoia Capital cost Achieversâ Razor Suleman millions at exit
- Ask an Investor: What can I expect from my VCs?
- Hack To Start Ep.193: Vibhu Norby, founder and CEO of B8ta
- Shop.ca relaunches with coupons and content focus
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes on why founders should have a tech background
- Uber’s Bozoma Saint John, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker speaking at True North conference
- Genecis EnviroTech wins OCE’s $20,000 Social Enterprise Pitch Competition
- Attracting tech talent to Canada requires process and effort
- Lane Merrifield and Vincenzo Guzzo named new Dragons’ Den dragons
- Miovision closes $15 million convertible note with plans for larger equity round
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 114: Facebook still wants to be super creepy with your data
- #Paidâs Adam Jarczyn on making product management a competitive advantage
- Reduce Startup Risks: Bohdan Zabawsky on what culture fit really means
- Canadian Growth Hackers: How TouchBistro uses content marketing
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.136: Investing in your personal growth with CEO health coach Nicky Billou
- LocoNoco raises $500,000 to build robot automation platform for developers
- Startupfest announces inclusion initiative, appoints Martine St-Victor as diversity emissary
- 43North accepting applications for $5 million startup competition
- Today in funding ($25M): Resson, Unito, Xanadu
- Smooth Commerce powering Basil Box mobile order ahead and loyalty app
- MaRS and Natural Resources Canada launch Women in Cleantech Challenge with $1 million prize
- Visa, PayPal bring mobile payment partnership to Canada
- Q4 Inc.’s Darrell Heaps on global expansion do’s and don’ts
- 5 takeaways from Collision 2018 as it prepares to come to Canada
- PwC announces winners of Vision to Reality Awards
- Hack To Start Ep.194: Waqas Ali, co-founder of Atoms
- House of Commons committee wants net neutrality written into Canadian law
- Today in civic tech: City of Toronto launches Civic Hall Toronto, IBI Group launches Smart City Sandbox
- Waterloo’s Preemptive develops app for nonprofit addressing withdrawal management
- Facebook Live panel argues GDPR changes how tech companies will approach data
- Ask an Investor: How do I sell to enterprises?
- New physical space, services marketplace lead flurry of Shopify Unite announcements
- Today in AI: Stradigi AI, Soko.ai, Qoints, Sportlogiq
- “It was long, tedious, and extremely stressful”: An Insiderâs View Into Canadian EdTech Fundraising
- Why Every Canadian EdTech Startup Needs a Teacher
- A Ryerson law school could set up Toronto as a legaltech sandbox
- The City of Toronto has launched a new portal to share its public data
- TranQool acquired by employee health service provider HumanaCare
- Aionâs Jin Tu on moving from enterprise blockchain to embracing open source
- Today in FinTech: Wave partners with Microsoft, TransferWise debit card coming to Canada
- Slack reports 8 million daily active users, 3 million paid users
- NEXT Canada announces 22 companies selected for Next Founders 2018
- Waterloo’s Auvik Networks raises $20 million Series C
- #paid raises $9 million Series A to help you find influencers with AI
- Motorleaf raises $2.85 million to help greenhouses predict their harvest
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 115: Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein on Canadian swagger and enabling entrepreneurship
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.137: Sports innovation with REVIVER co-founder Colin Weston
- Project Jasper Phase III shows blockchain is feasible for securities settlements
- York University announces certificate in machine learning to tackle skills gap
- Hack to Start Ep.195: Ben Pines, CMO of Elementor
- Newly launched BCF Ventures hopes to spur pre-seed investment in Canada
- Amsterdam-based Spaces will open coworking location in Montreal
- Great developers go beyond code
- Toronto coalition calls for machine learning systems to respect human rights
- Primal secures $2.3 million to develop its semantic AI
- May HealthTO will discuss impact of recreational cannabis on medical cannabis
- Report: Kik, Wealthsimple among Canada’s 50 most financially attractive tech companies
- Canada maintains “C” grade in Conference Board of Canada’s innovation report card
- Terminal raises $13 million Series A, adds Clay Kellogg as CEO
- BetaKit readers get 50% off TakeOver conference tickets until Friday
- Fiix raises $15.4 million to help businesses track equipment maintenance
- Your guide to True North
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- BC gov’t announces $125 million in tech investments at #BCTechSummit
- With $2 million in seed funding, NorthOne wants companies to understand their financial health
- Circle Cardiovascular Imaging raises $16 million to help physicians diagnose cardiovascular diseases
- Canadian Women’s Network wants to give women founders Silicon Valley connections
- Government invests $3 million to help people with disabilities access assistive tech
- WeWork announces fourth location in Toronto
- Tech Spark launches crowdfunding campaign to support tech summer camp for underrepresented youth
- autoTrader.ca’s Edwin Ulak says missions are key to a company’s success at #TechTO
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.138: Finding sustainable success as a startup with Cortney McDermott
- Montreal-based Nectar wins People’s Choice Award at Foodbytes! pitch competition
- Lazaridis Institute opens applications for Scale-Up program
- Hamilton Innovation Factory receives $3.3M from Nokia, $1M in Amazon Web Services credits
- C2 Montreal panel: Lack of education, slow gov’t regulation delaying widespread blockchain adoption
- Today in FinTech: nanopay, RentMoola, SecureKey
- Governor General’s office announces innovation award winners
- AvenueHQ raises $4.5 million to expand realtor marketing platform across the US
- Dooly.ai raises $2 million to automate admin tasks for sales teams
- Samsung opens AI research centre in Toronto
- Lazaridis Institute report examines factors that make high-growth tech companies
- Today in crypto: OSC and BCSC crack down on unregistered cryptocurrencies, CryptoKitties gets sued
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes on the high-demand tech job no one talks about
- Canadaâs House of Commons adopts motion to formally enshrine net neutrality into law
- IBM Qâs Dr.Robert Sutor explains the state of the quantum computing industry
- WeWork opening new Vancouver location in Hootsuite tech hub
- With Vector Institute co-founder as advisor, integrate.ai wants to lead ethical AI
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 116: Is the party over for Canadian incubators and accelerators?
- Avrij Analytics raises $1.2 million to help sports teams track athletes’ off-field activities
- Lighthouse Labs launches course to address shortage of blockchain developer talent
- Fresche Solutions secures $78.12 million CAD to help companies manage legacy IBM apps
- CVCA report: Q1 2018 sees $690 million invested in Canadian tech
- Simplii Financial, BMO warn customers that âfraudstersâ may have breached customer accounts
- Fuckup Nights Toronto presenting failure stories from health and life sciences innovators
- Borrowell CEO shares challenges faced after finding product-market fit
- Sage Franch headlines RBC #FutureMakers event on ‘Singularity-Proofing’ your career
- NACO report says Canadian startups received $162.6 million from angel groups in 2017
- Hamilton wants to grow an innovation cluster through TechCity event
- Today in FinTech: Onist partners with Quovo, TribalScale appoints financial services executive-in-residence
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.139: Building a global business with Canada’s Chief Trade Commissioner
- Hack To Start Ep.196: Josh Brewer, co-founder and CEO of Abstract
- Out of money, Wavefront shuts down
- ecobee raises $47 million and announces new exec hires
- The UK contains a missing piece in Canada’s funding landscape
- Canadian government invests $26.3 million in four cleantech companies
- MaRS appoints Annette Verschuren as board of directors chair
- Bankrupt accelerator Wavefront owes $2.1 million to creditors, documents reveal
- Ontario tech companies: CCI releases Ontario election primer
- Invest Ottawa launches business acceleration program
- To build Shopify-like healthtech companies, Ontario must create more incentives
- AudaciousYou launches program to develop tech talent in Toronto
- CRTC wants internet providers and Netflix to fund and support CanCon
- Canadian government announces $50 million Smart Cities Challenge finalists
- WeWork accepting applications for Creator Awards
- Bainsâ Silicon Valley trip latest in governmentâs efforts to sell Canada
- White Star Capital closes $232 million CAD in second fund
- Announcing the Startup Canada Award winners for the Prairies, BC, and Northern Canada
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 118: BuzzFeed’s Craig Silverman and Pando’s Sarah Lacy at True North
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.140: Private and public entrepreneurship with Barrie mayor Jeff Lehman
- 500px announces distribution partnership with Getty Images
- University of Waterloo joins Rippleâs $64 million CAD blockchain research initiative
- CVCA launches revamped VC data platform with Hockeystick
- BC Tech Association announces 2018 Technology Impact Award winners
- Ritual raises $90 million CAD Series C
- With new partnership, Startup Train returns to provide mentorship and connections to Startupfest
- Yaletown Partners closes over half of $200 million Innovation Growth Fund
- Busting the myths behind quantum computing
- Sage Franch provides a list of Singularity-proof career paths at #FutureMakers
- Wattpad Studios grows LA presence with new director of content development and production
- #MoveTheDial and TechTO announce new Summits
- Eighty-Eightâs Erin Bury on finding the sweet spot for your small business
- BuzzFeed’s fake news expert Craig Silverman on using tech to “game the system”
- Affectiva CEO Rana el Kaliouby shares applications for emotion AI at True North
- Planswell raises $7 million to develop financial planning platform
- Element AI and SSENSE release dataset to help designers build AR for fashion
- Omnirobotic raises $1 million from Element AI to develop autonomous robots
- Chris Hadfield leading Creative Destruction Lab’s program for space-related startups
- Flexiti Financial acquires $250 million of TD’s private label credit card portfolio
- Pixar CEO Ed Catmull says failure is a “necessary consequence” of innovation at True North
- Hubba’s Ben Zifkin says Canada can’t rely on potential to become a global tech hub
- Pando founder Sarah Lacy on how Silicon Valley got so bad
- Today in AI: Algolux, Local Logic
- Real Ventures wins CVCA’s Deal of the Year award
- Kanata North Business Association launches autonomous vehicle ecosystem directory
- Every raises $600,000 to build banking platform for online businesses
- Luge Capital closes $75 million to invest in financial services startups
- IoT Events acquires Dx3
- Statflo raises $12 million to help wireless carriers find sales leads
- Breather raises $60 million in equity financing
- OneEleven announces Brad Forsyth as managing director of Ottawa hub
- Startups have a chance to get a $10 million investment from Aviva Ventures’ pitch day
- Twitter Canada announces new managing director and head of revenue
- Centech and Starburst launch Montreal accelerator for aerospace entrepreneurs
- BDC and EDC offering $50 million in loans to tech companies involved in exporting
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.141: Breathing fire in Canadian investments with Michele Romanow
- Canadian government releases details of cybersecurity strategy
- Canadaâs privacy commissioner funding research on public Wi-Fi âprivacy leakageâ
- CrowdRiff named top Canadian tech startup at Metabridge X
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 119: Are we cool with 500 Startups back in Canada if Dave McClure still benefits?
- Polystyvert raises $11 million to recycle polystyrene with a low carbon footprint
- Hack To Start Ep.197: Kimberly Kalb, head of marketing and growth at Houseparty
- Finn AI collaborates with Visa Developer to expand its banking chatbot platform
- Carrot Rewards adds RBC Rewards points as new reward option
- NVIDIA opening AI lab in Toronto
- Visa hosts first Developer conference to bring more FinTechs into its ecosystem
- Canadian government investing $25 million in health research projects that use AI
- #TOIC18 panel warns companies against jumping on emerging tech trends too quickly
- Here’s Canada’s Developer 30 Under 30 list
- Shopify’s Satish Kanwar says ‘hybrid’ retail requires brands to be flexible
- Globalive Technology starts trading on the TSX
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- Announcing the Startup Canada Award winners for Quebec and Atlantic Canada
- Acoustic Zoom closes $1.3 million from Goldcorp after #DisruptMining win
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- POTLOC raises $2.5 million to help retailers predict the success of new locations
- OneEleven expands Toronto space by 50,000 square feet
- Chris Dulny named chief innovation officer of PwC Canada
- Feedbackâs Ben Walters: Donât tell customers how to solve their problems (let them tell you)
- Interac opens innovation lab in Communitech
- Centre for Social Innovation launches cleantech fellowship
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.142: The psychology behind a winning UX with Jason Goodman
- OneEleven’s Tech Summer Social returns for its fifth year
- IdentityNorth predicts the future of digital identity in health care, payments
- ecobee named CIX 2018 Innovator of the Year
- City of Toronto partnership gives entrepreneurs access to international WeWork spaces
- Real Ventures appoints former VarageSale CEO Andrew Sider as entrepreneur in residence
- PayPal set to acquire Hyperwallet for $400 million
- TouchBistro raises $72 million Series D round
- CareGuide raises $6 million Series A, acquires Nannies4Hire
- Peoples Trust Company acquires Vancouver-based Lendful
- Ask a Lawyer: How should I design my employee stock option plan (ESOP)?
- Ask an Investor: What do the different share classes mean for me and my startup?
- AVA Technologies raises $2.6 million to launch a soilless smart garden
- How DCTRL creates the foundation for Vancouver’s blockchain companies
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 120: Canadian tech’s forgotten sector
- Finance Montréal launching FinTech hub for startups
- Report: Software engineering jobs have the highest salaries in Canada’s tech hubs
- Can’t make the Startup Train to Startupfest? Try the Cannabus instead
- Former Mexican president joins Knowledgehook board of directors
- Three Canadian companies among 2018 Thiel Fellows
- FAIRVentures director explains why Fairfax chose Communitech on #TheDisruptors
- Atomic Reach raises $3.4 million bridge round to help marketers improve copy with AI
- Government names five fund-of-funds receiving portion of $350 million through VCCI
- AngelList launches Angel Funds in Canada
- Shopify will power BC’s online cannabis sales
- Shopify acquires Return Magic to help retailers automate refunds
- RBC investing $2 million into Israel-based cybersecurity research centre
- Waterloo’s Applied Brain Research named World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
- Hack To Start Ep.198: Ben Jabbawy, founder of Privy
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- Propel ICT launching virtual startup acceleration program
- Kik launches gamified features to drive Kin adoption
- CryptoKitties launches KittyVerse to attract more third-party developers
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.143: Being a conscious entrepreneur with Satya Organic CEO Patrice Mousseau
- ApplyBoard raises $17 million to improve int’l student applications with AI
- Mojio partners with Bosch to co-develop connected car services
- Nova Scotia launches $15 million early-stage VC fund
- Energia Ventures accepting applications for energy and cybersecurity-focused accelerator
- Announcing the Startup Canada award winners for Ontario
- University of Alberta receives $500,000 for connected vehicle research
- Small data, big problems, and the future of machine learning: NetraMarkâs Dr. Joseph Geraci
- #EmpireFinTech panel says government slowness on regulation leading to loss in blockchain talent
- Squiggle Park raises $800,000 to support mission of increasing children’s literacy
- TransPod partners with European companies to develop international hyperloop standards
- #HRTechSummit says automation will change HR for the better
- How training to be a circus performer helps Leah Skerry run Squiggle Park
- How Justin Trudeau and a former diplomat convinced Paddy Cosgrave to bring Collision to Canada (CanCon Podcast Ep. 121)
- League partners with Molecular You to offer health assessments
- ElevateR Pitch gives Canadaâs AI startups a chance to earn $1,000,000 in funding this September
- BuildDirect appoints former Amazon leaders to its executive team
- OSC study: Lack of cryptocurrency knowledge putting Ontarians at risk
- PwC Report: Canadian IPO market in first half of 2018 is ‘slow and steady’
- Borrowell’s Larissa Holmes shares the benefits of authenticity at work
- How to design healthcare to be more human
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.144: Angels and VC hybrids with Brightspark’s Sophie Forest
- Etherparty announces startups getting free use of its ICO creation platform
- Flinks closes $1.75 million from National Bank, Luge Capital
- Today in FinTech: Skrumble Network raises $19 million CAD in ICO, Goldmoney partners with Malbex Resources
- Today in retail: Lift & Co. launches Cannabis Concierge, Biome Grow acquires Weed VR
- Canada’s economy needs a second act
- Reddit CTO, Bumble COO among speakers at this year’s #TractionConf
- National Bank launches mobile POS powered by Montreal FinTech Mobeewave
- CIX 2018 features Two Small Fish Ventures’ Eva Lau, Baidu Capital director Nan Zhou
- Report: Canada struggling to keep up with demand for cybersecurity talent
- The Canadian tech stories we don’t talk about enough (CanCon Podcast Ep. 122)
- Samsung partners with Toronto-based theScore to provide sports news through Bixby
- Fundica roadshow announces finalists pitching for $500,000 equity investment
- Chronogolf raises $2 million to offer golf courses inventory management, payment solutions
- Equifax and Thinking Capital launch payments platform for small businesses and suppliers
- Interaxon acquires Colorado-based Meditation Studio to offer meditation courses
- SmartTones named top startup at Infiniti Lab Toronto’s Demo Day
- CannabisFest explores how entrepreneurs can prepare for legalization
- Toronto-based 1Password says thereâs no truth to Apple acquisition rumours
- Coinsquare launches white label licensing platform
- OneEleven appoints George Eichholzer as CTO
- US court dismisses StarCoin’s lawsuit against Vancouver-based CryptoKitties
- Hustle Fund’s Elizabeth Yin explains how to build a competitive accelerator at #Startupfest
- NextAI launching in Montreal in February 2019
- Stradigi AI partners with Berlin-based IeAD sports accelerator
- Ask an Investor: What’s the difference between convertible debt, SAFE, and KISS?
- #Startupfest tackles Canada’s scaleup problem
- Eventbase raises $8.56 million from BC Tech Fund, Madrona Venture Group
- OSC Study: Ontario’s millennials face barriers to investing
- Somru BioScience receives total of $4.4 million in funding from Canadian and PEI governments
- #Startupfest panel explains how to pitch your AI company to investors
- Rubikloud announces new leadership team with Canadian tech veterans
- inkbox raises $17 million CAD to expand artist marketplace
- Invivo.AI tops list of pitch prizewinners at Startupfest 2018
- Applications now open for government’s $100 million startup procurement program
- AIRY3D raises $13 million CAD Series A to commercialize 3D computer vision platform
- tealbook partners with CCAB to develop procurement platform for Indigenous entrepreneurs
- Quebec government selects OSMO Foundation and Montreal Inc. as regional innovation hub
- Slack acquires Missions to help users automate work tasks
- CDL quantum machine learning program partners with Xanadu
- Today in Retail: ChefHero expands to Chicago, Lift & Co. announces training program for NSLC employees
- How OSMO and the Quebec government plan to build a Communitech for Montreal (CanCon Podcast Ep. 123)
- Kik’s Kin Foundation investing up to $3 million to developer program
- Shopify launches AR Quick Look allowing iOS 12 users to preview products in AR
- Front Row Ventures plans Canadian expansion with goal to raise $10 million
- FleetOps, Lumen5, and Invivo.AI take home $200,000 from Fundica Roadshow finale
- Coinsquare hires new chief digital officer as platform looks to win a broader audience
- Fitplan raises $6.2 million to connect people with fitness professionals
- Nancy Peterson shares the ups and downs of launching HomeStars at #TechTO
- PwC Report: Hiring specialized talent key to managing risks of emerging tech
- Today in FinTech: Hardbacon raises $150,000, Holt FinTech Accelerator announces VC partnerships
- Kepler Communications partners with UK-based Catapult to develop satellite prototype
- NestReady appoints former Mashable exec as co-founder and CTO
- Second Closet’s Mark Ang says entrepreneurs must focus on the right problems at the right time
- Former Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt confirmed as speaker at Elevate
- Desk Nibbles raises $362,500 to bring office snack platform to the US
- Ridesharing apps have until September 2019 to apply to enter BCâs taxi market
- Scott Brison appointed Minister of Digital Government services
- Quantum Benchmark integrating software into Google’s quantum computing framework
- New report lists 10 strategies to increase diversity in federal government contracts
- RetargetLinks sole Canadian company accepted to Techstars’ first Asia accelerator
- League raises $62 million led by TELUS Ventures
- Unbounce brings on former Bench VP as CRO
- Techstars now accepting applications for 2019 Toronto accelerator
- Today in FinTech: Flexiti announces new CFO, Trulioo expands to the Philippines
- Ada integrates AI-enabled customer service chatbot with Zendesk
- Customer identity platform LoginRadius raises $17 million Series A with Microsoft
- WeWork announces fifth location in Toronto
- The tech scooter bubble is coming to Canada (CanCon Podcast Ep. 124)
- Amazon announces plans to open fulfillment centre in Caledon
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.145: Disrupting music with Jamstack’s Chris Prendergast
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.146: Neurodiversity and entrepreneurship with Shawn Smith
- Today in healthtech: CDL launches health stream, Centech and McGill University establish medical technology cohort
- Ottawa-based Snowed In Studios acquired by Keywords Studios
- Ontarioâs Hamilton Health Sciences developing healthcare AI applications
- Slack acquiring Atlassian’s HipChat
- Volta Labs partners with McInnes Cooper to give startups access to legal services
- Shopify’s first physical space opening in Los Angeles
- Ether Capital replaces CEO and CFO following resignations
- SheLeads one of four startups to receive $25,000 at Velocity Fund Finals
- Today in tech hires: ChefHero adds Ben Lucier as VP of operations, Rangle promotes Camas Winsor to COO
- Sid Kosaraju joins Real Ventures as Entrepreneur in Residence for New York City
- Suggestions for your tech summer reading list (CanCon Podcast Ep. 125)
- Shopify hits $245 million in revenue for Q2 2018, but growth is slowing
- Coinsquare launches subsidiary investment manager Coincapital
- Today in AI: University of Waterloo researchers build ‘algae AI’, Layer 6 wins RecSys Challenge
- Xero acquires Toronto’s Hubdoc for $70 million USD
- BDC paying $69.7 million dividend to Canadian government
- Mike Woollatt departs CVCA to join OMERS as director of strategic partnerships
- Yoshua Bengio among Canadians signing global pledge against AI weaponry
- Canadaâs smartARM team wins Microsoftâs 2018 Imagine Cup
- Canada Learning Code receives $525,000 from Amazon to support development of K-12 computer science curriculum
- Highline BETA and AB InBev launch 100+ Sustainability Accelerator Program
- RBC partners with Espresso Capital to fuel Canadian tech lending
- Report: $263 million USD invested in Canadian FinTech deals in first half of 2018
- Communo raises $1 million seed round from Panache Ventures to expand marketing platform
- Cybersecurity platform HYAS raises $6.2 million Series A led by Microsoft’s M12 fund
- When it comes to machine learning, is privacy possible?
- Ask an Investor: What should I put into my data room?
- Georgian Partners closes massive $714 million CAD fourth fund
- New Brunswick government commits $10 million to Build Ventures Fund II
- Canadian government invests $79.8 million in five health research centres
- LG partners with the University of Toronto to establish AI research lab
- Canadian Growth Hackers: Abacus’ Peter Reitano on using adtech to power digital marketing
- MineSense closes $23.5 million to reduce CO2 emissions in mining
- Event ticketing platform Picatic acquired by Eventbrite
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.147: APAC’s Gabrielle Scrimshaw on supporting Indigenous entrepreneurs
- Centech announces six companies for Propulsion fall cohort
- Fredericton-based Resson receiving up to $370,000 from NB government to create jobs
- Relogix raises $1.4 million to help enterprises understand how employees use workspaces
- Sidewalk Toronto has an approved plan for Quayside, but not without controversy
- CrowdRiff celebrates customer milestone as it pursues global expansion
- Report: 53 percent of customers abandon purchases when there’s payment friction
- Canadian government creating 1,200 paid internships related to digital skills
- WeWork opens second Vancouver space
- Is tech FOMO fading away? (CanCon Ep. 126)
- Ask an Investor: do early-stage VCs care about financial models?
- #TractionConf speakers say scaling up requires thinking small
- Transport Canada spending $2.9 million to prepare the country for self-driving cars
- A look at the architecture firm designing offices for Shopify, Element AI, and Klipfolio
- Chinova Bioworks raises $2.6 million to develop mushroom-based preservative
- Centre quĂ©bĂ©cois d’innovation en biotechnologie receives $1.4 million from Canadian government
- Cybersecurity platform HYAS receives $475,000 from Western Innovation Initiative
- Ontario will still oversee cannabis ecommerce, but privatize physical stores
- Path to Canada: Jipy Mohanty, an engineer with an MBA
- Path to Canada: Hiring global tech talent requires trial and error while overcoming fear of the unknown
- Scotiabank announces plans to share APIs with developers
- US insurance giant Travelers acquires majority stake in Zensurance
- Wattpad partners with iflix to co-produce movies in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa
- Startup Open House returns to give an inside look into companies like Shopify, Busbud
- BRD partners with Toronto-based Coinberry to expand its operations in Canada
- Federal, NB government commit $4 million to establish cybersecurity centre
- VFF closes $31 million Fund II
- Wealthsimple launching zero-commission stock trading service in Canada
- Venture for Canada receives $300,404 from ACOA
- Nomz, Crescendo named outstanding ventures at NEXT Canada Venture Day
- Kin announces 40 participants in Kin Developer Program
- Impak Finance raises $1.1 million from angel investors
- Ask an Investor: How do investors build their expertise?
- BMO launches blockchain-based pilot for fixed-income markets
- Waterloo-based news app Ground named WeWork Creator Awards finalist
- Swob aims to connect students with employers with its “Tinder for jobs”
- Opportunities NB, Fredericton Knowledge Park building $37 million cybersecurity hub
- Coding non-profit Actua receives $10 million from government’s CanCode program
- Can coding education STEM Canada’s tech brain drain? (CanCon Ep. 127)
- Canvass Analytics raises $6.5 million CAD from Google’s Gradient Ventures
- Slack raises $427 USD million with $7.1 billion USD valuation
- Hex Capital launches $10 million crypto assets fund
- How does a small business find its sweet spot? (Facebook Live chat)
- How I almost died building my tech company
- Spocket raises $1.5 million to power dropshipping for retailers
- Lighthouse Labs opening second Devhub for Vancouver developer community
- Grocery brands are caught in the middle of the ecommerce transformation of food delivery
- Today in cannabis: Leaf Forward accepting applications for accelerator, GrowUp hosting hackathon
- Today in SaaS: Lexop partners with Centris, BroadbandTV collaborates with PBS
- Wattpad releases diversity and inclusion survey results, encourages Canadian tech to do same
- SIPBARâs Alex Boyman on the difference between being adaptable and distracted
- Today in board additions: William Mougayar joins Kin Foundation’s board of directors, Joule appoints Deepak Kaura as board chair
- Coinsquare set to expand to Europe in Q4 2018
- Sonder closes new round, reveals it’s raised $135 million to date
- Siri Agrell named OneEleven Toronto managing director
- Plurilock surpasses $1 million in revenue for biometric authentication software
- Digital Main Street launches across Ontario to help small businesses adopt digital practices
- #FinTechCA argues AI will prevent financial crime on crypto platforms
- San Francisco-based Upgrade plans to open development centre in Montreal
- Goose raises $2.25 million seed round for travel medical insurance app
- Spark Centre accepting applications for $125,000 Ignite Pitch Competition
- How WeWork plans to connect Vancouver, Portland, and Seattle to compete with the Valley
- Toronto-based PinPoint acquired by Descartes Systems Group for $15 million
- Fireside Conference’s tech summer camp returns on September 6
- Tech productivity tips that actually work (CanCon ep. 128)
- Former Blue Jays slugger José Bautista invests in Endy
- #paid’s Bryan Gold shares fundraising lessons at #TechTO
- Ontario court sides with Tesla in electric vehicle rebate lawsuit
- Alberta government providing $336,000 to program supporting immigrant entrepreneurs
- Eyesover receives $200,000 from NBIF for AI that analyzes public opinion
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.148: Leveraging tech to grow with Quebec
- Newton raising conditional $15 million round with DV Trading
- Credit Karma continues Canadian expansion with launch of mobile app
- FashionTech Toronto partners with UKâs Centre for Fashion Enterprise
- Today in hires: Sampler and TribalScale both add new sales VPs
- Electrobac raises $1 million for smart electronic recycling bin
- Ask an Investor: How should I handle VC rejection?
- #MovetheDial founder Jodi Kovitz joins Toronto mayor John Tory’s re-election committee
- Deadline for Sunnybrook’s healthtech pitch competition ends today
- Canadian Export Challenge offering $10,000 to entrepreneurs going global
- Calgary hospital first in Canada to use virtual reality to treat pain
- Communitech announces six startups participating in 12th Rev program
- Mojio partners with MetroPCS to power its connected car solution
- AltFi Summit coming to Toronto this December
- Kira Systems receives $65 million CAD investment from New York’s Insight Venture Partners
- With $4.75 million in funding, thisopenspace team launches retail pop-up brand Uppercase
- Cogeco Peer 1’s Jaime Leverton says building diverse companies means re-evaluating hiring
- Ericsson acquiring CENX to help enterprise customers leverage 5G
- Vidyard to power HubSpot’s new video service
- Hubba adds former Amazon lead as CTO
- Flexiti closes $80 million mezzanine debt facility
- Second Closet raises $2.04 million, plans Vancouver expansion
- EnergyX Solutions raises $1.3 million for US expansion
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.149: Investing in women in tech with Michelle Scarborough
- CIX announces its top 20 innovative Canadian tech companies for 2018
- WatVision wins national James Dyson Award
- Fierce Founders pitch event awards $100,000 to women founders
- Skritswap raises $657,000 CAD pre-seed round to eliminate jargon
- Telus to launch digital healthcare app through partnership with Babylon Health
- Today in AI: LeddarTech delivers new LiDAR chip, Braingrid partners with cannabis producers
- Report: Labour shortages for Canadian SMEs to continue over next decade
- Weever Apps raises $900,000 to help manufacturers digitize paperwork
- Today in Retail: Lift & Co expands retail training to Manitoba, Tulip Retail launches TurnKey
- Dream Payments expands Mastercard partnership, launches payments API for insurers
- Grid wins $20,000 grand prize at U of T Hatchery Demo Day
- First Block Capital’s bitcoin trust achieves mutual fund trust status
- Microsoft announces significant investments in Canadian presence
- #DisruptMining opens applications for $1 million pitch competition
- Ripple Ventures closes $10 million for early-stage Fund I
- Shopify’s Satish Kanwar: early-stage entrepreneurs must learn “ruthless prioritization”
- Techstars announces 2018 Montreal AI cohort
- Finhaven raises $6.6 million Series A to build tokenized securities exchange
- Waterloo-based Bonfire acquired for $140 million CAD in âGovtechâ merger
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.150: The power of storytelling in Indigenous communities
- Ryerson University opens sport innovation lab with MLSE
- Uber to invest more than $200 million CAD in expanding Toronto presence
- National Bank taps Thinking Capital to power its SME lending
- Q4 raises $49 million CAD Series C led by Napier Park
- Responsive raises $1.1 million to help wealth managers predict client behaviour
- BlackBerry CEO says driverless car industry requires more government regulation
- How these 14 Canadian tech companies scale-proof their engineering teams
- RBC FutureMakers Mega Meetup to connect Toronto tech September 26
- Hockeystick and Lazaridis Institute launch DRIVE conference
- Fine jewelry ecommerce startup Mejuri raises $5 million to open physical stores
- Panache Ventures adds Prashant Matta as first Toronto partner
- Spaces opens third Canadian location in Vancouver
- Founder Institute launches blockchain program with Decentral
- Raw Signal Group will teach you to be a better tech leader at RBC #FutureMakers
- Today in healthtech: TranQool reaches 1.3 million Canadians after acquisition, Optina Diagnostics partners with Imagia
- Elevate Techfest returns in September with expanded impact startup pitch competition, corporate buyer zone
- Layer 6’s Jordan Jacobs: Canada needs to promote itself as an AI leader
- Brizi raises $2.5 million to bring jumbotrons to smartphones
- DarwinAI raises $3.9 million CAD to help devs design neural networks
- Lift & Co. now trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange
- Canadian Web Summit delegation offering discounted tickets, flights
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep. 151: Reigniting Northern languages using tech
- Instacart co-founder Max Mullen speaking at Startup Grind September 19
- Keela raises $1.53 million to build non-profit tech
- Canadian VoIP provider Versature acquired by net2phone
- Thalmic has been issued US patents for its hologram lenses as company preps for launch
- L-SPARK launches accelerator with BlackBerry QNX
- Zoom.aiâs Faisal Abid on solving problems with âthe minimum amount of everything possibleâ
- Waterloo’s Accelerator Centre and Invest Ottawa launch IO Accelerator
- Coinsquare’s Coincapital launches two ETFs on the TSX
- Ask an Investor: What are the different types of investors?
- Ritual’s Ray Reddy on how to scale when everything breaks
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- mobilityView joins Telus enterprise program on heels of new funding
- Raw Signal Group explains when to mentor, when to coach at #FutureMakers
- Casa Verdeâs Karan Wadhera on how to invest for Snoop Dogg
- Shopify launches Dev Degree program with York University
- Toronto-based Cluep acquired by Impact Group for $53 million CAD
- The state of Canadian FinTech in four charts
- MaRS announces plans to open new space on Toronto’s waterfront
- Instacart hiring 200 tech workers in new Toronto hub
- White Star Capital’s second Canadian tech ecosystem report shows maturation
- Daisy Intelligence wins $5 million pitch prize at Elevate
- Slack acquires email client Astro
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.152: Breaking barriers in STEM with Vanessa Vakharia
- Al Gore on solving the worldâs problems with diversity and technology
- MaRS report analyzes diversity, inclusion, and belonging of Toronto tech
- Elevate’s Main Stage focuses on how to improve the world with tech
- Lift & Co reveals plans to launch cannabis rewards platform
- BetaKit partners with Jobbio to fill Canada’s tech talent gap
- Dell EMCâs Kevin Connolly on how trust and culture can make or break small businesses
- WeWork launches early-stage startup lab in Toronto
- How Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes beat imposter syndrome
- Shopify investing $500 million in new Toronto office
- Paul Singh, side hustles, and investor excitement at #VSW2018
- SaaS Masterclass digs deep into the realities of scaling
- John Ruffolo out at OMERS Ventures
- Waterloo researchers may be able to predict and counteract VR sickness
- PAI Health fitness platform raises $9 million to expand into insurance
- Volta Air wins $110,000 grand prize at Innovate BC-New Ventures competition
- iRestify raises $1 million to help businesses book professional cleaners online
- University of Ottawa opens STEM Complex with $51 million from federal government
- Uber aims to expand into Halifax, âvery confidentâ in demand for its services
- Lime launches electric scooters in Canada
- Why Canada’s smart cities need H.E.A.R.T (CanCon Ep. 130)
- Former Shopify employees raise $20 million CAD for insurtech startup Cover
- Pinterest opening first Canadian office in Toronto
- Slice Labs raises $25 million CAD to help insurers reach the gig economy
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep. 153: PR for startups with Trisha Beausaert
- Hopper raises $128 million CAD Series D
- Capital One’s Jennifer Jackson says empathy, inclusivity key to scaling leadership
- Kooltra raises $6.5 million to modernize foreign exchange industry
- Elevate Digital Transformation track explores how large organizations can become lean and agile
- Coinsquare adds BMO as banking partner
- Feroot Privacy takes Top Venture prize at NextAI Demo Day
- CrowdRiff raises $11.6 million to help travel brands source photos in an Instagram world
- SDTC invests $58.6 million in 14 Canadian cleantech companies
- Why Lendified prioritizes talent retention over recruitment to scale
- Plaza Ventures’ secondary market fund is betting on Canada’s next stage of growth
- D-Wave launches quantum application environment
- Is your tech company killing you? (CanCon ep. 131)
- Communauto first free-floating carshare approved under Toronto pilot
- Canadian government invests $25 million in Creative Destruction Lab
- Chrysalix announces first close of $120 million USD fund
- Storyflow raises $500,000 for voice app entertainment platform
- Real Ventures adds Marcel LeBrun as Venture Partner
- NACO announces Angel of the Year, most promising startup awards
- Today in funding ($16M): Cinchy, TwentyBN
- Alert Labs acquired by Florida-based HVAC distributor Watsco
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.154: How to position your brand with Mark Evans
- TD investing $2.5 million in CDL’s health stream
- SingularityU Canada Summit coming to Edmonton in 2019
- Privacy watchdog asks Federal Court to rule on Google de-indexing question
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- Innovate BC awards nearly $1 million to four research projects
- Canada’s new Minister of Small Business wants Canada to go global
- lululemon CTO Julie Averill joins Indochino board
- Beanworks raises $10.1 million Series B to automate accounting
- Eigen Innovations raises $3.5 million
- The Workaround is Toronto’s newest parent-friendly coworking space
- Manulife providing $400,000 to University of Waterloo for AI research
- Myant partners with Mayo Clinic on clothing that detects irregular heartbeats
- Espresso Capital partners with Winning By Design to help SaaS companies scale
- Sidewalk Toronto wants independent trust to control data collected in Quayside
- Capital One Canada’s CTO explains how it became a tech company
- Vistara Capital closes $52 million CAD for third fund
- Canadian government invests over $900,000 in Whitehorse innovation hub
- Kent Thexton steps down as ScaleUP Ventures GP to become CEO of Sierra Wireless
- Lendesk launches lender network with Scotiabank, First National Financial
- Digital Main Street launches grant program for Ontario SMBs
- EDC announces opening of Export Growth Hub in Catalyst137
- Computer vision engineer tops Indeed Canada list of hardest-to-fill tech jobs
- Entr raises $1.3 million to scale event planning marketplace
- HelloFresh to acquire Chefs Plate
- Shopify-powered online stores take 100 orders a minute on legal cannabis’ first day
- Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery opens 74,000 square foot grocery delivery warehouse
- Version One Ventures Fund III closes at $57 million CAD
- Lightspeed launches index to help businesses find growth opportunities
- Report: 40 percent of Canadian companies unfamiliar with data privacy law
- Facebook’s Digital News Innovation Challenge awards $100,000 to 5 startups
- Ask an Investor: What is founder vesting?
- Foxquilt raises $1.2 million to help people save on insurance by buying in groups
- What is the future of Canadian AutoTech? (Facebook Live chat)
- Applications open for Connection Silicon Valley women in tech program
- Victory Square launches Grow Tech Labs cannabis accelerator
- Kepler Communications raises $20.8 million CAD to build a telecom in space
- Today in hires: League hires chief people officer, Tulip hires two new executives
- Is Canada fine with being the world’s tech branch plant? (CanCon ep. 132)
- Mike Shaver joins integrate.ai as CTO
- Pungle integrates with Visa Direct for real-time payments
- Finn AI closes $14 million Series A with Yaletown Partners, Flying Fish Partners
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes: for democracies, can social media be a blessing (not a curse)?
- eSentire acquires Seattle-based Versive
- Launch Academy creating AR/VR hub
- Breather launches Offices for companies seeking longer-term space
- Assent Compliance raises over $131 million CAD in Series C round
- Canadian government launches Digital Academy for public service workers
- Canada FinTech Forum seeing 10 startups pitch for $230,000 in prizes
- North (Thalmic) confirms pricing and availability for its smart glasses
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.156: Disruption in the dining room with Spiffy’s Chris Snoyer
- RetiSpec leveraging University of Minnesota tech to detect earlier-stage Alzheimer’s
- AGE-WELL seeking RFPs from researchers working on tech and aging
- Former BlackBerry CSO headlining October #FutureMakers cybersecurity event
- Rogers launching national LTE-M network to power IoT in Canada
- Beauceron raises $1.5 million to automate cybersecurity management
- Arlene Dickinson’s District Ventures accelerator announces sixth cohort
- Fifty-one Ontario municipalities had problems voting online
- Yoshua Bengio explains the limits and potential of AI at #Activate18
- Taloflow raises $1.1 million to help companies save money on the cloud
- Ask an Investor: How do I conduct an exit interview?
- Tread’s Noah Dolgoy shares the “big three” traits needed for startup success
- League of Innovators launches virtual acceleration program
- FutureFit AI, Canada Learning Code receives $1 million from TD Ready Challenge
- OCS has processed over 150,000 legal cannabis orders to date
- General Assembly’s CRO explains danger of putting too much trust in data
- 3iQ cryptoasset fund joins TSX’s mutual fund platform
- IBM’s acquisition of Canadian-founded Red Hat one of the largest ever
- InteraXon launches Muse 2 for a more holistic meditation experience
- Can Canada compete globally in food tech? | CanCon ep. 133
- Validere raises $7 million to help oil and gas companies track product quality
- Digital health platform Think Research raises $25 million
- theScore raising $8.5 million through private placement
- Report: Data, holding leadership accountable key to bringing more women into leadership
- General Fusion raises $49.3 million to develop clean alternative for power generation
- Chango founder Chris Sukornyk joins Mantella Venture Partners
- Portag3 raises $198 million for second fund
- Moneris launches analytics tool to help businesses measure impact of online advertising
- One year later, Willful wants to make wills less scary
- Hub for creative entrepreneurs launches in Toronto
- Google opens submissions for AI Impact Challenge
- Central 1 launches platform allowing credit unions to build branded websites
- North, Vidyard make Y Combinator list of top startups
- OpenText acquiring Georgia-based Liaison for $310 million
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- OPC releases new security breach reporting guidelines
- CryptoKitties creator Dapper Labs raises $19 million CAD
- Home maintenance startup Setter raises $10 million
- Canadian-founded Circle Medical raises $3.5 million
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- New Brunswick-based Smart Skin Technologies raises $3.1 million
- CMA’s Joule announces 2018 recipients of Innovation grant program
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- L-SPARK announces four SaaS startups joining fall 2018 cohort
- Good AI Capital opens Montreal office to support its $40 million USD fund
- Government reveals seven recipients of $50 million in VCCI funding
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.155: Building Lean Systems for heavy sectors with Graham Mann
- Ahead of Collision 2019, federal, provincial, and municipal governments team up to sell Canada at Web Summit
- Apple opening office in downtown Vancouver
- Why your company needs a chief diversity officer
- Toronto reportedly out of the running for Amazonâs HQ2
- Applications open for $20 million Women Entrepreneurship Fund
- Sun Life launches online portal with ratings, cost for Canadian health providers
- Slack’s CTO shares how it became the fastest-growing business app in history
- Toronto Mayor John Tory âtaking nothing for grantedâ when it comes to Collision in 2019
- Alexis Ohanian doesn’t want you to fall for hustle porn
- Element AI lays out its product roadmap at Web Summit
- Chicago-based Bounteous acquires ecommerce agency Demac Media
- Finn AI’s Natalie Cartwright weighs the benefits of data and artificial intelligence
- Mark Zuckerberg wonât testify at joint UK and Canadian parliamentary committee
- Lending Loop launches business credit monitoring platform with Equifax
- AppDirect’s Daniel Saks says organizations need “co-opetition” to stay competitive
- U of Guelph, Left investing $2.13 million in RightMesh project improving Northern connectivity
- US-based nonprofit Girls Who Code launches in Canada
- Canada FinTech Forum awards four startups over $300,000
- Innovate BC announces #BCTECHSummit headliners
- Hubba reportedly lays off half its staff following March pivot
- RBC partners with Copenhagen FinTech to help connect Danish and Ontario ecosystems
- Future of Sport Lab accepting applications for first incubator cohort
- Arlan Hamiltonâs blueprint for inclusive innovation
- Clearbanc raises $92 million CAD to help companies invest in marketing without dilution
- Former Google, OpenText CFOs join Lightspeed’s board
- Apply Digital launches Ventures program to help startups bring products to market
- Tech leaders explain how agile and AI impact enterprise software at #WebSummit
- Offboarding: the neglected child in the talent management family
- Is wearable tech back? (CanCon ep. 134)
- Why Canadian tech companies need to care about âWayfairâ
- Wattpad launches paid content program in the US
- With new LP Telus Ventures, Panache Ventures ups fund target to $50 million
- Intelistyle raises $600,000 for AI fashion stylist
- North opens Focals showrooms, receives $24 million government investment
- You.i TV raises $30 million for cross-platform app development program
- Ario raises $10 million to offer enterprise lending-as-a-service
- Knowtions Research raises $5 million with IVP, Alibaba
- Mobeewave raises $22 million to enable contactless payments for businesses
- Volta Cohort announces early-stage startups pitching for $25,000
- Dialogue acquires AI tool that automates medical evaluation
- Drop acquires predictive analytics company Canopy Labs
- Coveo expanding Montreal office to support 300 hires
- Logojoy raises $6 million to expand its design platform
- Mike Kirkup among speakers at first Kitchener-Waterloo Fuckup Night
- Deloitte releases Fast 50 highlighting Canada’s high-growth companies
- Xanadu launches open source machine learning software for quantum computers
- Precision OS raises $2.3 million to build VR simulations for surgery
- FedDev Ontario investing $264,000 in Fierce Founders
- Element AI partnering with Singapore companies to accelerate product development
- Ask an Investor: How can I create optionality after I get an acquisition offer?
- Calgary startup ecosystem celebrates itself with Start Alberta Awards and launch party
- Curate Mobile acquires JUICE Mobile adtech firm
- Hostaway raises $1.9 million to streamline vacation rental management
- Canadian government investing $13 million in satellite company NorthStar Earth and Space
- Sandvine, Cineplex execs named new Communitech board leaders
- Ex-EVP partners push to oust current GPs over alleged forced sale of portfolio company Uken Games
- Alain Chesnais joins Receptiviti as chief technology officer
- Canadian government releases funding for three superclusters
- Hawk’s Nest healthtech pitch competition returns November 22
- Short-term lender Progressa launches enterprise software solutions
- How Canadian startups can prepare for SR&ED
- Toronto Region responds to Amazon HQ2 ‘snub’
- Calgary-based Communo acquires LocalSolo freelance network
- Alberta tech companies receive $21 million from federal government
- RBC #FutureMakers will explain how to build the foundation for quantum tech November 28
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.157: Building accessible futures with Magnusmode’s Nadia Hamilton
- Startup Canada Podcast Ep.158: Edgy ecommerce and digital economies with Squadhelp’s Darpan Munjal
- Former Halogen CEO joins Giatec as CEO
- Eden launches small business training program for contractors
- Wealth management platform d1g1t closes $9 million Series A
- ISARA raises $13 million to build solutions for quantum threats
- Pressboardâs Tiam Korki: Customer experience is a CTOâs top priority
- Silicon Valley Bank wants Canadian entrepreneurs to fill out its Startup Outlook survey
- Shopify acquires Swedish ecommerce marketplace Tictail
- Federal government invests $2.28 million in Bioenterprise Corporation
- Fall economic update includes more VC for cleantech, $800 million injection to Strategic Innovation Fund
- WeWork announces two new leases in Toronto
- Fiix Software’s Marc Castel explains why great people lead to great companies
- Ontario’s privacy commissioner co-sponsors declaration on AI ethics, data protection
- Communitech announces $1 million AI prize for True North 2019
- Shopify sharing live Black Friday and Cyber Monday data
- Connection Silicon Valley announces Canadian Women’s Network fall cohort
- Banks are hiring ethical hackers to test cybersecurity systems
- eleven-x announces IoT network partnership with City of Fredericton
- Exact Imaging named Life Science Company of the Year by Life Sciences Ontario
- Gift the Code hackathon brings tech innovation to Canadian charities
- Endy’s Mike Gettis on leveraging the “lightning rod” of customer experience to scale
- School accounting platform KEV Group acquires TRA to accelerate US expansion
- British Columbia receives an âAâ in 2018 KPMG Technology Report Card
- Waterfront Toronto reportedly establishing framework to evaluate Sidewalk Labs proposal
- National Research Council of Canada opens medtech innovation centre at U of T
- IBM partners with IVADO, plans to hire 100 people in Montreal
- Storyflow rebrands to Voiceflow, pivots to Alexa Skills builder for business
- Accenture opens Toronto innovation hub, plans to hire 800 Canadian tech workers
- TransferWise opens API to Canadian businesses
- Betterez appoints Porter Airlines CCO Michael Deluce to board of directors
- Brizi CEO Anna Hu shares smart fundraising strategies at #TechTO
- BC’s Digital Technology Supercluster receiving up to $153 million
- Six cleantech companies graduating from Energia Ventures accelerator
- Patriot One acquiring threat recognition software EhEye
- Digital Finance Institute announces FinTech & AI Awards winners
- Capital One’s Gift the Code shows that both simple and complex tech solutions require user focus
- Former Goldmoney subsidiary MenÄ goes live on the TSX
- Blue J Legal raises $9.3 million CAD to expand legal platform to the US
- ModiFace launches first app after L’Oreal acquisition
- La Caisse invests $200 million in Montreal’s Plusgrade
- Vendasta receives $3.3 million from Western Innovation Initiative
- Endy to be acquired by Sleep Country Canada for $89 million
- Ratehub acquires MoneySense
- RBC launches its roboadvisor across Canada
- HYAS receives $2 million in venture debt from Silicon Valley Bank
- Sidewalk Labs reveals more on Quayside, still quiet on data collection
- Borealis AI opens R&D lab at evolv1 in Waterloo
- Outside Toronto: The Unsung Canadian Cities Leading AI Innovation
- Uber could be looking into grocery delivery in Toronto
- Shopify merchants made $1.5 billion USD on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
- BC researchers working on AI-powered clean energy robotic platform
- Communitech announces new Fierce Founders and Edge accelerator cohorts
- Vector Institute adds five new faculty members
- Canadian government launches regional economic development program
- Chainvu raises $2.6 million CAD to help the logistics industry track shipments in real-time
- RBC #FutureMakers tackles quantum computing’s uncertain, yet compelling, future
- Four key takeaways from SaaS North
- SnapTravel raises $28 million CAD Series A from Steph Curry, Telstra Ventures
- Cambridge-based BIOS raises $6 million, opens Montreal office
- Great-West Life expands Dialogue healthcare platform across Canada
- Toronto-based financial data platform Quandl acquired by Nasdaq
- Algolux named Most Innovative Autonomous Driving Solution at Detroit’s Tech.AD Conference
- Six early-stage Atlantic Canadian startups join Volta Cohort
- Startup Canada Podcast: The future of philanthropic entrepreneurs with Manny Padda
- Intuit Canada and Futurpreneur partner to teach entrepreneurs financial basics
- Nectar’s Xavier De Briey wants to help save the bees, to help save the world
- Box hires country VP for Canada
- Element AI receives $5 million loan from Canadian government
- Université de Montréal and the Fonds de recherche du Québec launch ethical guidelines for AI
- Wattpad announces first country manager for India
- Kik allowing P2P transactions on Kin
- Coinsquare acquires BlockEQ for $12 million
- Ontario Auditor General highlights several concerns regarding Waterfront Toronto’s handling of Quayside
- Ontario government fires three Waterfront Toronto directors following Auditor General report on Quayside project
- Small Business Minister Mary Ng appoints Sheldon Levy as special advisor
- Capital One Canadaâs CTO believes tech companies can be a spark for social good
- Three 3D development startups get funding from Innovative Solutions Canada
- Techstars hosts first AI Demo Day in Montreal
- Canadian Growth Hackers: No Fixed Address thinks agencies need more transparency
- Today in AI: CIFAR names new AI research chairs, Stradigi launches new AI entertainment program
- ACOA investing $280,500 to help Atlantic Canada companies expand in Massachusetts
- Scooter-share platform Joyride planning global expansion
- BlackBerry launches security system for autonomous vehicles
- Espresso Capital opens Montreal office
- Today in company updates: Zonetail and Mavencare expand to the US
- Meal kit delivery service Fresh Prep raises $3.3 million
- Mysa raises $2 million to develop smart home thermostats
- Calgary launches Digital Dollars currency
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes shares the two incompatible skills leaders need to get right
- Canadian government invests $2.5 million in University of Alberta AI-supercomputing hub
- BCF Ventures reaches $12 million in commitments for its ‘super angel’ fund
- Global Startup Genome report seeking participants for 2019 survey
- Lori Casselman joins TribalScale as president and COO
- Accenture acquiring financial services assets from Zafin
- L-SPARK and BlackBerry QNX announce first accelerator cohort
- Yuri Navarro to step down as NACO CEO
- New Shakepay feature allows users to buy bitcoin with rounded up purchases
- Intuit Canada President Jeff Cates on the democratizing power of AI
- Pursuit, formerly Revlo, acquired by Twitch
- Faire raises $133 million CAD with Lightspeed Venture Partners and Y Combinator
- Lightspeed acquires ReUp, rebrands it to Lightspeed Loyalty
- Today in university innovation: University of Toronto, McMaster University
- Lighthouse Labs launches coding scholarship program for underrepresented groups
- Canadian government launches funding competition for agriculture automation tech
- Osprey Informatics raises $3.75 million in funding
- Fiix’s Khallil Mangalji on being the perfect fit for autonomous vehicles
- Ecofuel Accelerator accepting spring 2019 cohort applications
- National Bank partners with Breathe Life on life insurance offerings
- Kensington Venture Fund II hits $85 million first close, fuelled by government’s VCCI
- Northleaf announces first close of VCCI-backed Venture Catalyst Fund II
- North acquires Intel’s Vaunt AR glasses patents and tech
- Privacy commissioner agrees with Ontario Auditor Generalâs Sidewalk Toronto recommendations
- F|T: The FinTech Times – What’s next for Canadian FinTech?
- Ada closes $19 million Series A to tackle travel and financial customer support
- Montrealâs YoungLeaders wants more teenagers to embrace entrepreneurship
- Centech announces ten companies for Propulsion winter cohort
- The Knowledge Society teens dominate CES Young Innovators to Watch awards
- AddaTechâs Max Di Paola on why scalable architecture is important, but comes last for CTOs
- Amazon expands Toronto presence with plans to add 600 new jobs
- Over $20B in funding is available to Canadian tech companies (if you know where to look)
- Voyager Capital adds Meredith Powell as first Canadian venture partner
- Bicameral Ventures invests in new Aion-powered blockchain browser Metalyfe
- Coinsquare launches across European Union
- Advanced analytics firm QuantumBlack to open location in Montreal
- Clearbanc raises $67 million CAD to service dramatic spike in interest from ecommerce entrepreneurs
- Government announces RFP to compile data on women entrepreneurs
- Carleton University named regional hub for new Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Consortium
- Cycle Capital promotes two new partners and a vice president
- chata.ai moves into payments space, launches business intelligenceâŻintegration forâŻStripe
- Evidence management platform SceneDoc acquired by Tyler Technologies
- PayPal launches Xoom money transfer service in Canada
- DRIVE adds Richard Florida as keynote speaker
- Montreal’s TrackTik Software receives APPEALIE SaaS Award
- Cybeats raises $3 million to secure IoT devices
- Toronto food incubator Food Starter abruptly shuts down
- Following Sleep Country acquisition, Endyâs founders want to stay independent and Canadian
- Effenco closes $12 million Series A round with help from government’s cleantech commitments
- Governor General appoints Geoffrey Hinton to the Order of Canada
- Ontario court rules Uber driver can proceed with class action lawsuit
- OpenText’s acquisition of Liaison now complete
- OneEleven announces new London managing director
- McMaster University’s The Forge startup incubator receives $1.2 million to expand makerspace
- eSight significantly drops price on electronic glasses for the visually impaired
- Builders VC Fund I receives Canadian LP support as firm opens Calgary office, adds local partner
- Kim Furlong appointed new CEO of CVCA
- Mojio announces vehicle emergency response solution at CES
- TD Bank adds AI-powered chatbot called âClariâ to its mobile apps
- Tulip partners with Google Cloud to provide machine learning solutions for retail
- Michele Romanow, Drew Green, Endy co-founders highlight Dx3 2019
- University of Winnipeg working with Project Whitecard Studios on using VR to test cognitive function
- Report: bootcamp-trained devs make less than the average Canadian developer (but the gap should close)
- Heatmine says it has an eco-friendly solution to Bitcoin energy waste
- Applications open for Waterloo Founder Institute 2019 program
- CoreLogic’s acquisition of Symbility now complete
- Raw Signal Group announces one-day event on career planning
- Report finds “pronounced” lack of women and Indigenous leadership in BC tech
- UNB accelerator program now accepting applicants for 2019 cohort
- Orpyx partners with Alphabet subsidiary for virtual diabetes program
- Drone pilots will need to pass certification exam according to new Transport Canada rules
- Toronto’s e-Zn only Canadian company selected to inaugural Shell GameChanger cleantech Accelerator
- Canadian Growth Hackers: GrowthGenius shares B2B sales and marketing wisdom
- G2 Crowd CEO invests $10 million USD in Ottawa-founded retail tech company ThreeKit
- Code Create Teach brings coding education to remote communities in the Canadian North
- Vancouverâs Jane Software raises $2 million in debt financing from CIBC
- CDW announces agreement to acquire Scalar Decisions Inc.
- Jodi Kovitz appointed to Toronto Global’s board of directors
- Department of Finance Canada launches consultations on open banking
- WorkJam acquires secure chat platform Peerio
- Kathryn Hume joins Borealis AI as director of business development
- #FutureMakers returns January 28 to share the innovations that will drive 2019
- OMERS Ventures announces intention to expand into Europe and Asia
- Cybeats IoT Radar App now on the Palo Alto Networks Application Framework
- OMERS Ventures opens Silicon Valley office, adds Michael Yang as Managing Partner
- 15 companies enter Phase 2 of Propel ICTâs Incite Accelerator
- Montreal’s Vention closes $17 million Series A, adds AI to custom manufacturing platform
- Cybersecurity risk assessment company RootSecure acquired by Arctic Wolf Networks
- LeverageIT acquires WordPress development agency illuminea to tap Israeli market
- Shopify’s largest app developer raises $22 million to build the middleware for all e-commerce
- University of Waterloo’s Velocity taps AngelList to launch new startup fund
- Inventures 2019 announces international pitch competition
- BDC report: Labour shortage will curb business investment in 2019, spending will shift to IP, R&D
- Microsoft for Startups names Adam Nanjee as Managing Director for Canada
- WeedMD and BLOCKStrain announce cannabis strain verification program
- 49 percent of Canadian workers would relocate for a job, survey finds
- Intuit releases report on state of small business cash flow in Canada
- Deloitte to be the sole tenant of Vancouverâs new Spaces location
- Michael Sfalcin joins Yaletown Partners as Principal
- Former eBay exec Bryan Murphy joins Breather as new CEO
- Six companies selected for Ryerson’s Future of Sport Lab
- Why MediaValetâs Jean Lozano believes CTOs pay too much attention to tech
- Shopify appoints former UberEATS exec Ian Black as Director of Retail
- LogiSense announces former OpenText CMO Adam Howaston as new CEO
- Dalhousie University, MTI, and Mitacs form $1.62 million partnership exploring light manipulation
- WhereiPark acquires GarageHop to expand digital parking service across North America
- Canadian Bankers Association calls for digital identification to bolster economy
- Fibrocor partners with Galapagos NV to commercialize new fibrosis drugs
- Impact Centre’s 2019 Narwhal List shows Canadian tech struggling to produce unicorns
- Acorn Biolabs closes $3.3 million, expands team, as company preps for launch
- Fredericton-based Envenio reportedly acquired by Juul
- Muse reveals Softband, a sleep meditation headband, at #CES2019
- Borrowell launches first free AI-powered credit coaching tool in Canada
- Portag3 Ventures expands into Europe, adds HĂ©lĂšne Falchier as partner
- CIRA opens applications for $1.25 million in grant funding
- Black Arts & Innovation Expo to celebrate Black History Month by awarding STEAM talent
- Vancouver-based Spacio acquired by HomeSpotter, adding open house lead generation to its services
- Region of Waterloo to implement eleven-xâs WIU-X water monitoring solution
- NetCents signs agreement with U.S. payment processor SalesSource
- NexTech AR and Cannvas MedTech to bring AR to cannabis education
- Zafin raises $22 million CAD Series B as the FinTech expands its relationship with Accenture
- Wealthsimple announces new partnership with TurboTax to make RRSPs easier
- Luminari raises $845,000 in seed round for CPA career management platform
- Tech solutions looking to shake up the legal world in 2019
- Spaces to open nine new coworking office locations across Canada
- TransPod expands France operations for Hyperloop testing
- TD announces digital mortgage application tool
- Government of Canada invests $60,000 to help Halifax SMEs learn ecommerce skills with eBay
- eSight appoints Kevin Banderk, former Telus VP as CCO
- Report finds pay gap for women, minorities, Indigenous Peoples in tech
- Colleen Johnston tapped to join Shopify’s board of directors
- Fitbit reportedly acquiring Pebble for up to $53 million
- Code for Canada recruiting for 10 month fellowship program, expands to Calgary
- Lever is the newest US-based startup expanding offices to Toronto
- Y Combinator partner Eric Migicovsky on the shift from startup founder to mentor
- NDP MP Charlie Angus calls government to âpush the pause buttonâ on Sidewalk Labs project
- New report predicts autonomous cars could result in up to 77,000 jobs lost
- Instacart taps Wealthsimple CTO for VP Engineering as company secures new Toronto office space
- Former OMERS Ventures CEO joins advisory board of medical cannabis platform CBx Data Labs
- Ottawa prepares driverless car test track, first of its kind in North America
- North now shipping Focals smart glasses
- Bonjour Startup MontrĂ©al launches with plans to put the cityâs startup ecosystem on the map
- Aislelabs announces new Payment Wi-Fi feature for retail enterprises
- Argentum Electronics wins N100, receives $250k investment
- District M closes $12 million with adtech industry in flux
- Mobeewave taps to add Samsung Venture Investment as company searches for user growth
- Ecofuel Fund completes second close, expands to $40.6 million
- Wealthsimple launches premium service for $500k+ clients
- Waterlooâs Aeryon Labs acquired by FLIR Systems for $265 Million CAD
- Fiix closes $53 million CAD Series C from Georgian to build Salesforce for predictive maintenance
- Whitecap IV hits $110 million CAD first close as VC firm adds new partners
- Uber says its sticking to its own timelines for autonomous vehicle testing in Canada
- Innovacorp, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation partnering to invest $1 million in Propel accelerator
- Vidéotron integrates with Lexop in first partnership between Quebecor subsidiary and an early stage startup
- Canadian developer Carrot Rewards to launch in England in spring 2019
- Canadian cleantech Genecis wins $10,000 at BASFâs inaugural Innovation Pitch Series
- EnergyX Solutions raises $500,000 from MaRS for further expansion in U.S.
- Cannabis software company Ample Organics acquires Last Call Analytics
- Scalar named a member of cyber security contract for Canadian Army
- Mike Woollatt departs OMERS for new role at Hamilton Lane
- Lightspeed launches integrated payments system ahead of planned IPO
- Toronto-based Vouchr joins Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator
- Microsoft investing $1 million in Québec ecosystem, announces Le Camp incubator partnership
- Coinsquare lays off 40 employees, including key executives
- FedDev invests $615,000 in Canadian startup assisting first responders
- OpenText acquires Catalyst Repository Systems for $98 million CAD
- Engagement platform Thoughtexchange raises $4 million
- OSMO receives $1 million from National Bank to support Montreal startup ecosystem
- Despite growth and optimism, businesses are losing out due to talent shortage, report finds
- Vector Institute to offer $17,500 AI masterâs scholarships in Ontario
- Relay Ventures promotes Jake Cassaday to partner
- Motorleaf partners with greenhouse supplier Cultilene to provide AI to growers
- Meridian set to launch its new digital bank, Motusbank
- The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation names semi-finalists of Breakthru competition
- Ontario government seeking consultation on new data strategy, with focus on data privacy
- Uber finally brings ridesharing to Saskatchewan, launching in Saskatoon
- BC high schools launch cybersecurity program focused on bridging skills gap
- Framework Venture Partners finally reaches $100 million first close after Fidelity backs out
- Venture for Canada launches in BC, connecting startups with recent grads
- Insurtech AI startup ProNavigator closes $2 million seed round
- Report: Cybersecurity is the Achillesâ heel of Canadian tech businesses
- First #FutureMakers of the year explains how innovation needs to evolve in 2019
- Bell partners with City of Markham to deploy smart city initiative
- Koho continues to attack traditional banking features with new joint accounts
- Inventys raises $21 million CAD in series C, looks to raise $6.5 million more
- RBC to invest $1.1 million into Actuaâs Future Skills Program
- Accenture finalizes acquisition of financial services assets from Zafin
- Canadian startup, ClickDishes, partners with Chinese payment platform Alipay
- FreshBooks adds bank reconciliation and double-entry accounting to software
- Roofr raises $4 million after completing Y Combinator
- On the Elevate Main Stage: Whitney Wolfe Herd shares her journey to founding Bumble
- Soho Innovation Lab launches in downtown Toronto
- TextNow continues to grow despite pushback from incumbent wireless carriers
- Canada needs to do better on leading AI innovation says Trudeau
- Live-streaming startup Stage Ten closes seed round led by Next 10 Ventures
- Another BMO exec departs, as Mark Gilbert joins Espresso Capital
- Lightspeed files for anticipated IPO
- The QuadrigaCX debacle continues, with new revelations
- Centech opens 10 new innovation spaces, receives $625,000 to assist startups
- Former Scotiabank managing director leaves to join Receptiviti
- The Big Push announces Canada-wide Pitch and Pair Program for women-led companies
- Cycle Capital reaches $109 million CAD first close of new cleantech fund
- BDC Capital teams up with Vertu Capital to acquire Toronto-based Firmex
- Peter Macnee to join Statflo as CEO, founding CEO to become Chief Strategy Officer
- Shopify reaches milestone, surpassing $1 billion in total revenue in 2018
- Government announces $13 million investment in Calgary-based cleantech companies
- Dragons’ Den announces auditions tour across Canada for newest season
- Nominations open for the sixth annual Startup Canada Awards
- Endy partners with Urban Barn to build brick-and-mortar presence
- Government announces $3.9 million for Conavi Medical to improve cardio procedures
- Klipfolio raises $12 million Series B to help SMBs get smarter about metrics
- Alberta commits $100 million to AI companies
- Blockchain used for clinical trials, in Boehringer Ingelheim & IBM Canada partnership
- Propel accelerator adds six members to board of directors
- MediaValet raises $1.5 million private placement from key executives, others
- Coinsquare acquires decentralized crypto platform StellarX
- Only one Canadian company places on list of top 100 AI companies in the world
- North drops Focals price, adds prescription support
- BlackBerry receives $40 million from government for autonomous vehicle development
- Googleâs Apigee headlines February #FutureMakers on APIs
- Leaked documents reveal Sidewalk Labs wants a lot more than Quayside
- As VC activity increases, can Fredericton build another Radian6?
- Which Canadian city has the best FinTech ecosystem?
- Sampler raises $3 million Series A to build CPG brands’ best hope to combat Amazon
- Peraso raises $42 million CAD funding to modernize wireless connectivity
- iNovia Capital raises $796 CAD million for two new venture funds
- Ottawa-based Interset acquired by UK software company
- Zoom.ai expands to email, appealing to companies not on chat systems
- How can Canada prevent another QuadrigaCX?
- Applications open for CDL’s blockchain, quantum machine learning incubator streams
- Montreal startup receives $1 million for app helping paralyzed patients communicate
- Drone Delivery Canada shows new Condor drone, shares building plans
- Talemetry acquired by US investment firm in $200M USD three-company merger
- Terramera secures $13 million CAD investment from BDC
- Element AI coming out of âstealth phase,” launching product with National Bank
- TSX Venture Exchange announces top performing Canadian startups
- Why Mojio keeps announcing its Series B funding
- Startupfest 2019 is back with new workshops
- RenoRun raises $3 million seed round to build an Instacart for construction
- Quantum, accelerators, venture capital: surveying Canadaâs tech landscape at DRIVE
- Acceleprise hiring program director for new Toronto accelerator
- Dessa engineers build machine learning supernova identification system
- Metricsflowâs Isaac Adejuwon: how CTOs can build a Lean machine
- Toronto Mayor John Tory to speak at SXSW 2019
- Lighthouse Labs launches Canadian university coding competition
- Canadian Export Challenge accepting startup applications
- Vancouver’s Cmd raises $19 million CAD Series B led by Google Ventures
- Medstack raises $2.4 million oversubscribed seed round led by Telus Ventures
- Moneris adds Lightspeed Restaurant to its menu of iPad POS solutions
- CB2 Insights closes $5 million CAD oversubscribed private placement
- Clio opens applications for $100,000 legal tech contest
- Dozr receives $14 million CAD investment in Series A
- Flashfood, Loblaw partner in Quebec food waste reduction rollout
- TeamSnap, FlipGive announce partnership for youth sports funding platform
- Dalhousieâs ideaHUB incubator accepts first seven startups
- Hacking Health St. Johnâs opens registration for Hackathon 2019
- Southern Ontario startups, not-for-profits receive $1 billion FedDev funding
- Trudeau announces Lunar Accelerator, partnership with NASA-led Lunar Gateway
- Report: Interac e-Transfer transactions increase 54 percent in 2018
- Blok Technologies to acquire US-based Sierra Blockchain
- Ontario Securities Commission adds new members to FinTech Advisory Committee
- Report: As Albertaâs tech sector matures, rate of new startups is slowing
- Influitive receives $10 million in equity and debt financing
- Elevate sending delegation to SXSW with hopes to emulate festival success in Toronto
- Premier Health launches mental health counselling app
- Fleet Complete finalizes partnership with Ontario Teachersâ Pension Plan
- âMontreal Insurtech Breathe Life raises $4.5 million CAD to accelerate U.S. expansion
- eSentire raises $47 million USD, will build new office in Waterloo
- Silicon Valley Bank opens in Canada
- Student-led Front Row Ventures launching in Ontario
- AccelerateAB returns with new workshops, summits, and format
- New Ventures BC opens applications for 19th annual competition
- Influitive lays off 10 percent of staff as company looks upmarket for growth
- Telus, Babylon launch app allowing Canadians to visit doctors through smartphones
- Miovision partnerships expand its smart city vision to Maritimes and US
- Lazaridis Institute chooses only women-led tech companies for 2019 ScaleUp Program
- Muskoka Futures launches $250,000 investment competition
- Women-focused Disruption Ventures raises $13 million led by Scotiabank
- LGBTQA+ tech conference returns to Toronto for its third year
- Canadian company among finalists of #DisruptMining 2019
- Digital Technology Supercluster first to announce projects
- Cisco invests $15 million in Calgary and Vancouver tech sectors
- QuadrigaCX CEO’s widow asks court to appoint chief restructuring office
- PointClickCare acquires medical management company QuickMAR
- University of New Brunswick students to host Girls STEM Up Conference
- Cannabis software company Blockstrain to acquire Spark Digital Technologies
- Canadian Civil Liberties Association wants project “reset”, Sidewalk Labs wants transit
- Hereâs a breakdown of Canadaâs Moon-focused space strategy
- Fundica Roadshow announces $800,000 investment award
- How we built a tech company that is 50 percent women
- Spring Activator to invest $100,000 in Impact Investor Challenge
- Women-led companies receiving first $20 million CAD of Women Entrepreneurship Strategy
- Lightspeed prices IPO at $16 per share, raises $240 million CAD
- Lightspeed shares surge after TSX IPO
- 80 women and non-binary people in Canadian tech worth following
- Calgary-based ZayZoon closes $15 million round for financial wellness tools
- Gene42, Care4Rare launch Canadaâs first national rare disease research platform
- Vancouver-based BasicGov receives $2 million investment
- Today in acquisitions: Dye & Durham acquires legal tech companies, Epik acquires BitMitigate
- Dragonsâ Den, Desjardins partner in search for youth-focused social entrepreneurs
- #FutureMakers talks on APIs explains how developers win ecosystems
- Sidewalk Labs speaking with investors, Canada Infrastructure Bank about funding Quayside
- Mastercard acquires Ethoca to help reduce digital commerce fraud
- Halifax online hairdressing platform, Cribcut, secures $1 million pre-seed funding
- 3D printing company, Formi3DP, receives $150,000 government investment
- Wealthsimple launches previously announced stock-trading mobile app
- Wattpad partners with India’s largest media company to expand presence in the region
- Brookfield Institute announces research project looking at employment in 2030
- Fredericton-based Eigen Innovations receives $800,000 government funding
- DocuSign expanding Canadian presence, announces headquarters in Toronto
- Crypto Action Task Force calls for universal framework after QuadrigaCX
- Nova Scotia invests $2 million in pilot program preparing students for province’s tech sector
- OrbCare secures $2 million seed funding for healthtech software
- Culture of equality key driver in workplace innovation, report finds
- Irish taxi software company secures TĂ©o Taxiâs former R&D team, opens Montreal office
- NXM Labs invests in Ryerson University’s cybersecurity research lab
- Kelowna tech company receives $595,000 to develop sailing safety app
- Emissions Reduction Alberta announces $100 million for cleantech projects
- Sci Innovation Competition returns to Toronto for third year
- Learn how tech leaders navigate the user experience era at #FutureMakers March 27
- Montreal-based AEPONYX closes $7.9 million CAD Series A
- Fonds de solidarité FTQ makes $1 billion annual investment commitment
- Canadian securities regulators propose regulatory framework for crypto platforms
- Canadian Growth Hackers: Exact Mediaâs Elena Armstrong on how retailers break through the noise
- Waterloo startup collective announces ‘Start-Ups for School’ initiative
- Millennials consider AI “threat to future employment”, according to survey
- Facebook Canada introduces Ad Library ahead of 2019 federal election
- Construction software company Bridgit raises $6.2 million CAD Series A
- CDPQ expands AI offering with $250 million fund, new collaboration with Mila
- How Harley Finkelstein went from lawyer to COO of Shopify
- NexTech AR signs LOI to acquire ecommerce business for $1.85 million CAD
- More than 100 international trade missions to take place in Toronto during Collision
- Global tech talent drawn to Toronto feels warm welcome despite Visa delays
- Government unveils Global Skills Strategy with fast-track visa process
- Government of Canada announces six innovators to lead discussions on digital and data innovation
- #Budget2019 makes Global Talent Stream permanent, provides no national data strategy
- Report: Canadians willing to share data for personalized products, efficient services
- Waterloo wearables-tech company announces first shipment of âsmart shirtâ
- York Universityâs LaunchYU startup accelerator accepting applications
- PitchIt series comes to Durham region
- BC-based Carbon Engineering secures $90 million CAD to address climate change
- Future Cities Canada launches network to accelerate innovation in smart cities
- Avidbots raises $31.5 million CAD Series B for floor cleaning robots
- Endy expanding brick-and-mortar presence with immersive retail showroom
- Trexo Robotics wants to redefine mobility for children with disabilities
- Mailchimp’s Shopify integration removed, with both parties citing data and privacy concerns
- Progressa announces loan milestone, updates plan for IPO
- Atlantic Canada’s First Angel Network shuts down
- This Toronto startup’s warning about school admissions fraud fell on deaf ears for years
- Shopify expands retail presence as company fights for “heart and soul” of commerce
- US-based Corning opens software innovation centre in Montreal
- OMERS Ventures expands to Europe with sole-sourced âŹ300 million fund
- University of Toronto receives $100 million for AI innovation centre
- Finaeo raises $5.35 million CAD to help create ‘the Amazon of the insurance industry’
- Smart city best practices top of mind for partnership of urban tech companies
- Cannabis software company Ample Organics announces Shopify integration
- Tatari betting on a repatriated Canadian to build core engineering team
- Scotiabank launches digital platform for online mortgage applications
- Government proposing new framework to regulate Canadian retail payment ecosystem
- Kognitiv Sparkâs AR software to be used by Royal Canadian Navy
- Maple Leaf Angels announces launch of third MLA48 fund
- The State of Canadian SaaS
- Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio receive Turing Award, ‘the Nobel Prize of computing’
- What #Budget2019 got right for Canadian tech
- New Ventures BC, BioTalent partnership encouraging businesses to hire tech students
- Next week’s Evoke conference an evolution of Developer 30 Under 30 awards
- Clear Blue Technologies receives $1 million loan, backed by EDC
- Ten Canadian tech companies join first cohort of Women in Tech Silicon Valley program
- New Velocity venture fund invests $200,000 in four startups
- AirMatrix awarded $100,000 at Fierce Founders Bootcamp pitch competition
- Breather announces two new private working spaces in Toronto
- Laurier University students raises $1 million for road-safety, impairment device startup
- Coinberry, Innisfil partnership makes it first Canadian municipality accepting crypto
- Toronto vape startup Green Tank raises $14 million CAD Series A
- Startup jobs of the week: Canvass Analytics, Skritswap, Real Estate Webmasters
- Startup jobs of the week: CBC/Radio Canada, Statflo
- VR could help treat Parkinson’s, schizophrenia, autism finds University of Waterloo report
- Silicon Valley FinTech, Plaid, expands coverage in Canada
- What’s stopping Lyft and Uber from coming to BC?
- IoT613 Conference returns to Ottawa for fourth year
- The six Canadian companies participating in Y Combinator’s most recent cohort
- Acorn BioLabs takes on DNA home collection tests, brings live cell kit to market
- Motusbank, Meridian’s digital bank, officially launches
- Innerspace closes $3.2 million seed round led by BDC’s Women in Tech Fund
- Kids Code Jeunesse launches initiative to educate one million kids about AI
- Logojoy rebrands to Looka, expands product offerings
- Indigenous social enterprise wins top prize at AC Youth Innovation Summit
- Sidewalk Labs CEO defends “real-time” planning process in front of House ethics committee
- Drug prescription healthtech, GenXys, closes $1.77 million seed round
- Metabridge announces top founders of 2019 Canadian scale-up program
- Collision offering free tickets for coders active in open source community
- UX-focused #FutureMakers gives designers tools to âmake magic happenâ
- Today in funding: Sharebee, SmartCone
- Doxim acquires Market Connections to expand into wealth management space
- PwC Canada reveals finalists for 2019 Vision to Reality Awards
- Velocity, PerkinElmer partnership giving incubator startups access to innovative tech
- Social entertainment app, MadLipz, integrates Kin cryptocurrency
- Element AI report shows artificial intelligence talent leaving Canada
- How to interview tech talent remotely
- Clear Blue brings solar-powered IoT streetlights to Hamilton
- Chip startup Untether AI raises $13 million led by Intel Capital
- Startup jobs of the week: Smart Nora, ei3 Technical Services, Tulip
- Shopify among top ten Canadian companies 2019, according to LinkedIn
- Why Adaptive Insights chose acquisition over IPO
- ‘AI is not magic’: shifting perceptions of artificial intelligence at Evoke 2019
- Report: Canadian tech raised record $4.6 billion CAD in VC funding over 2018
- AI and FinTech: What’s next for Canada’s hottest sectors?
- PwC MoneyTree report: Canadian tech raised $3.3 billion in 2017 as AI and FinTech stayed hot
- Canadian startup funding in 2017: A city-by-city ecosystem review
- PwC MoneyTree report: AI “gold rush” might save a sluggish 2017 in VC deals
- Canadaâs strong AI talent could attract more corporate VC funding
- PwC MoneyTree report: Q1 deal activity hits 2015 low, while foreign investment heats up
- Deep dive into Canadian VC activity shows impact of government backing, ecosystem needs
- PwC MoneyTree report: Canada held firm in 2016 amidst down VC activity around the globe
- CIFAR expands AI research chairs, announces new research programs
- HeadCheck, Trek Factory Racing partner to improve concussion care for riders
- Startupfest 2019 introduces $100,000 investment for female-led startups
- Precision OS brings virtual reality to surgical residents
- Buckzy Payments secures $1.75 million CAD for cross-border payments solution
- Erin Bury named CEO of Willful
- Collision, City of Toronto teaming up to attract international talent to Canada
- FinTech investment in Toronto region grows by 10 times over five years, report finds
- QuadrigaCX approved by court to transition to bankruptcy proceedings
- Bunz giving users digital currency for viewing advertisements, sharing data
- Echosec helping security teams search the dark web
- Canada’s 2019 Developer 30 Under 30
- Government calls for cleantech transportation project proposals
- Toronto-based Rangle expands digital consultancy to Europe
- AGE-WELL competition for startups addressing aging sector, caregivers
- Sci Innovation Competition 2019 winners vying for top prize in China
- Koho launches new feature helping uncover hidden bank fees
- Axionable opening artificial intelligence lab in Montreal
- Whitby opens accelerator, hoping to scale local tech companies
- Toronto-founded PagerDuty goes public, sees stocks jump in market debut
- Ontarioâs budget looks to create tech-focused talent stream, panel for scaling innovations
- Danielle Graham joins Dream Maker Ventures as firm targets $75 million Diversity Fund
- AI could disrupt workforce in every sector by 2030, Brookfield Institute report finds
- Saskatchewan startup beats out Shopify as POS behind cannabis retailers
- Hamilton biopharmaceutical raises $140 million CAD for cancer therapy tech
- Vancouver FinTech, Mogo, merging with Difference Capital Financial
- Canada, France, UK join forces to explore societal implications of AI
- Startup jobs of the week: 500px, IMRSV Data Labs Inc., Axon VCT
- Collision releases schedule and launches official app
- Montreal-based VirtualMED bringing AI to virtual healthcare
- Lightspeed officially launches loyalty platform globally following TSX debut
- HackerYou offering students deferred-payment tuition option
- SheEO receives $2.5 million CAD investment from federal government
- AI and data science leaders to discuss digital ethics at April #FutureMakers
- Toronto FinTech, Lendified, raises $15 million CAD Series A
- Ex-OMERS director, Mike Woollatt, leading Hamilton Lane’s new Toronto office
- Element AI, Gore Mutual collaborating for AI-powered insurance underwriting
- Concordia University, Inerjys Ventures sign $1.2 million cleantech partnership
- Axonify expanding presence in Europe
- Telemedicine platform, OnCall Health, raises $2 million CAD
- Dot Health, Maple partnering to create virtual healthcare solution
- Wave, Visa launching solution to improve cash flow management for SMBs
- Wealthsimple, Freshbooks, Vidyard make Canada’s Top Small and Medium Employers 2019
- Ample Labs supporting Torontoâs homeless population with chatbot
- Four Waterloo projects receiving $41 million for quantum, AI, machine learning
- This week in government funding: Saltworks, Ecoation, Indigenous Digital Accelerator
- Startup jobs of the week: Synapse, Real Estate Webmasters, Urbanlinx Media Inc.
- Healthtech-focused iGan Partners adds $50 million to Fund I
- Global interest in Canadian tech jobs grown 58 percent since 2015, report finds
- Velocity and YC grad, Fuzzbuzz, raises $3.6 million CAD seed round
- Vancouver-based Spexi GeoSpatial wins SFU Venture Prize
- Canada’s tech hubs fall in Startup Ecosystem Rankings, smaller cities show promise
- Insurtech Zensurance expands to Newfoundland and Labrador
- Duke of York’s Pitch@Palace competition comes to Canada for first time
- Minister Bardish Chagger announces $50 million will be dedicated to women-led businesses through BDC
- Olivia Steedman heading new Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan investment department
- Coconut Software receives $1.75 million in debt financing from CIBC
- US-founded VanillaSoft receives $1 million from Canadian Government
- Endy competitor Casper officially launches made-in-Canada products
- Shanghai Yangpu Global Startup competition coming to Toronto in June
- Mortgage startup, Lendesk, acquired by Quicken Loans parent company
- True North 2019 announces speakers and âBridges, Not Wallsâ theme
- 3 things I wish Iâd known before scaling tech companies
- Heyday.ai raises $2 million for AI-powered shopping assistant
- Vancouver Trade Accelerator Program receives $1.5 million from federal government
- Echosec to receive $2 million secured loan from TIMIA Capital
- Tech school, MakerKids, opening first Toronto franchise in June
- IBM collaborating with University of Waterloo for quantum computing research
- Eavor receives $6.7 million from government for geothermal energy technology
- Mobile parking payments app HonkMobile expands to US
- Slack rolling out new features, will direct list on NYSE
- Shopify officially launches Tap & Chip Reader, retail products
- Telus Pitch returns for second year on May 1
- Caroline Stephens, CHRO at Interac, on how to build culture at scale
- Claudio Rojas, NACOâs new CEO, wants to âsee some magic happen” for Canadian entrepreneurs
- Startup jobs of the week: Design Lead, Senior Product Designer, SEO Specialist
- Shopify expands native ad options for online marketing
- Amount of new Canadian FinTechs in decline yet still support SME growth, report finds
- Fine jewelry ecommerce company Mejuri closes $30 million CAD Series B
- Today in hires: Vention, Procurify, National Research Council Canada
- April #FutureMakers on digital ethics shows need for better data and fewer silos
- Shopify reports $320.5 million revenue in first quarter of 2019
- Lightspeed receives $30 million stand-by acquisition loan from CIBC
- Toronto startup Thinkwire wins Josef Umdasch Research Prize
- BMO makes startup funding play, launches innovation banking group
- Microsoft for Startups, MaRS partner to open new space for startups
- Uniting The Prairies conference kicks off this week
- Cybersecurity startup Kobalt closes $1 million CAD founders round
- Hootsuite lays off 100 employees, 10 percent of its staff
- Lightspeed expands Connect conference to Canada for first time
- Startup Edmonton receiving $250,000 to retain student talent
- Collision sells out showcase floor, surpassing size of Web Summit
- RBC adds AI-powered budgeting tool to its digital app
- Pangaea announces final close of fourth fund at $95 million CAD
- Techstars Toronto cohort company MadLipz raises $671,000 CAD
- Disruption Ventures cuts first cheque to women-led Hostfully
- Parity raises $5 million to make urban living sustainable
- Rangle chief technology officer leaves as company restructures
- Carleton University receives $1 million in FedDev Scale-Up Platform funding
- Ericsson opens AI hub in Montreal to focus on research and development
- University of Ottawaâs MakerLaunch startup program gets a $1.5 million boost
- BestLifeRewarded Innovations receives $100,000 from Women Entrepreneurship Fund
- Startup jobs of the week: HiMama, Migrations.ml, Nuagem
- Pyrowave wins $20,000 at BASF Canada’s startup challenge
- Communitech reduces staff after provincial funding cut greater than anticipated
- Women Entrepreneurship Fund announces Alberta recipients
- David R. Beatty joins FrontFundr as chairman of the board of directors
- Federal government launches $12 million initiative for Quebec incubators, accelerators
- May #FutureMakers will teach tips for effective DevOps
- Disruption Ventures, The Big Push team up to support women-led tech startups
- How turning down $1 million changed the DMZ
- Co-founder of Layer 6, Vector Institute leaves TD Bank to launch $471 million CAD AI venture fund
- Despite more Canadian women VC partners, LP dollars still go to all-male funds
- Lazaridis ScaleUp opens applications, announces cross-Canada tour dates
- CoLab Software becomes first Atlantic Canada startup to join Y Combinator
- Tundra announces Launchpad Project to mentor young women in STEM
- Cannabis tech companies TruTrace, Strainprint partner to integrate platforms
- Montreal startups, Ubisoft Women in Tech ambassadors complete Silicon Valley trade mission
- VanillaSoft receives additional $3 million loan for sales engagement platform
- MaRS may see layoffs as province continues with tech funding cutbacks
- Waterloo cycling startup, STAC Performance, acquired by 4iiii Innovations
- Volta to host Ecosystem Impact Awards, celebrating Atlantic Canada startups
- BrainBox AI launches software to enable self-sustaining commercial buildings
- Nanotech company Nicoya receives $2.57 million FedDev Ontario investment
- Laval incubator receives $100,000 to accelerate smart mobility technology
- Tiny acquires Pixel Union, commits $25 million CAD to acquire more Shopify partners
- Path to Canada: Hafsa Imran takes the leap from Pakistan to Toronto
- 11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2019
- MaRS, Communitech, Invest Ottawa receiving $52.4 million for “first-of-its-kind” Scale-Up program
- HiMama raises $7.25 million CAD Series A to expand child care software
- Fanxchange acquired by US ticket marketplace, Vivid Seats, for $80 million CAD
- 10 Montreal tech companies to watch in 2019
- Ontario Telemedicine Network lays off 15 percent of staff following provincial cuts
- Halifax-based SalesRight receives $250,000 in pre-seed funding
- HelpWear taps Canada Research Chair Derek Exner as chief medical officer
- Startup jobs of the week: Proximiteam, Urbanlinx Media Inc., CBC/Radio Canada
- CIBC launches new banking platform for small and medium-sized business
- Breathe Life launches first product following $4.5 million CAD Seed round
- Halifax-based Tranquility Online launches mental health platform
- Slack to go public June 20 via direct listing, releases preliminary estimates for Q1
- QuadrigaCX investigation recovers $28 million of missing assets
- Accellerate wants to connect Canadian female founders with Silicon Valley
- WeWork to open two new co-working spaces in Montreal
- With over $1 million already processed, Koho launches publicly to “win Canada” from Big Five banks
- Koho raises $42 million Series B inside round led by Portag3 Ventures
- Nest Wealth acquires Razor Logic Systems, offering investment and financial planning solutions
- Hinton, Bengio, Sutton participating in federal government AI advisory panel
- Ontario judge rules against Xtreme Labs co-founders, Chamath Palihapitiya in Tinder-focused lawsuit
- Uber launches in Regina, rolls out bike safety feature in Toronto
- Aislelabs building out European expansion, opens new office in UK
- Canada, France governments announce Declaration of the International Panel on AI
- Portag3 Ventures creates senior advisory group to help build global FinTech businesses
- Power Financial now claims 89 percent stake in Wealthsimple following $30 million investment
- Invest Ottawa officially launches Ottawa L5 autonomous vehicle test facility
- Sophia Damianou to lead Northleaf growth in Europe, Middle East, Africa
- Toronto-based Proptech Lane raises $2.5 million Seed round led by Alate Partners
- Canadian tech needs to redefine its sense of scale
- 3 things I learned leading ThoughtWire’s $20M Series A
- The best employer branding is a magnet and a filter
- StandUp Ventures raises additional $13 million for women-focused fund
- Startup jobs of the week: SHIFT, HiMama, Array
- #FutureMakers DevOps deep dive puts culture over process
- PocketPills raises $2 million seed round for virtual pharmacy software
- Montreal-based Smooch acquired by Zendesk
- Education platform Coursera to open engineering office in Toronto
- WeWork expands Startup Passport to Kitchener-Waterloo, Montreal, Ottawa
- Dan Doctoroff stays on message at #CollisionConf Q&A
- #CollisionConf: Canada’s tech ecosystem is in hypergrowth, but it wonât last forever
- Shopify partners with DMZ, Dream Maker Ventures for Black entrepreneurs initiative
- Uber launching engineering hub in Toronto as part of $200 million investment
- LG and University of Toronto expand AI research partnership
- Bridgit receives $750,000 investment from FedDev Ontario
- Canada-wide digital health platform receives $49 million from federal government
- Toronto-based events e-commerce company AudienceView acquires Vendini
- Vancouver cleantech Mangrove Water receives $2.1 million from federal government
- Startup jobs of the week: HR Manager, Senior Web Developer, Product Marketing Lead
- Shopify acquires Handshake, marking its third acquisition in six months
- Shopify, Google among 30 companies committing combined $80 million over 10 years to Vector Institute
- Trudeau, Tory pitch Global Talent Stream, diversity to #Collisionconf attendees
- ApplyBoard raises $55 million CAD Series B for international student recruitment platform
- HSBC opens Toronto data lab, will partner with FinTech, AI startups
- Today in government funding: Yukon and Francophone Ontario Entrepreneurs
- Forcen raises $500,000 to give machines human-level sense of touch
- Toronto-based CreditGenie acquired by Purpose Financial
- Kin launches $5 million USD crypto defence fund to fight the SEC
- Borrowell publicly launches AI credit monitoring app as it nears one million users
- Canadian VC investments up 48 percent since same time last year, CVCA report finds
- Following funding, Bridgit launches second construction planning product
- Tile expands to Canada, opens engineering hub in Vancouver
- Ontario court denies Extreme Venture Partners appeal in ongoing Tinder case
- Uber Eats goes up against Ritual, brings new pickup feature to Toronto
- Element AI recognized for innovation at Mitacs Entrepreneur Awards
- Calgary-based AeroLab recognized by NASA for aerodynamic sensor
- Autotech startup Pitstop raises $1.5 million, partners with Continental
- Techstars announces first cohort for Toronto accelerator
- Vidyard, Faire, Sheertex share scaling war stories at #CollisionConf
- eSight raises $10 million, promotes CCO Kevin Banderk to CEO
- Two Small Fish Ventures closes $9 million for second fund
- Toronto and Bay Area face off in charity #TechBet for NBA Finals
- Fredericton-based Energia Ventures opens applications for third cohort
- TritonWear releases swim training device with AI coaching tools
- Home renovation platform Smart Reno acquired by RBC Ventures
- Calgary-based Bootkik only Canadian startup accepted to Silicon Valley’s Founders Embassy
- CIBC, NAB, Bank Leumi launch platform to connect banks with FinTechs
- Silicon Valley startup Punchh opens Toronto AI engineering hub
- Waterloo-based Northâs Focals AR smart glasses now feature Slack integration
- UrtheCast receives $2 million grant from Canadian Space Agency
- Panache Ventures Edmonton venture partner launches real estate platform HonestDoor
- Startup jobs of the week: Nomis Solutions, SHIFT, Nuagem Inc
- Kai Innovations acquired by Well Health for $10.75 million
- June #FutureMakers will explain the risks and rewards of digital transformation
- Performance platform Side Door wins Propel’s Gerry Pond Sales Award
- CIRA announces 21 projects to receive $1.25 million from Community Investment Program
- Government now taking applications for $50 million VCCI cleantech stream
- BDC looks to “double down” on industrial tech with $250 million venture fund
- AI-powered Damon Motorcycles raises $2.5 million Seed round
- Lightspeed CEO Dax Dasilva talks impactful leadership at C2 Montreal
- Government names three funds receiving $50 million through VCCI cleantech stream
- Federal government opens fifth stream of Strategic Innovation Fund
- How Synapse recovered after losing two co-founders
- Palette Skills receives $1 million from government for worker reskilling
- Yaletown Partners’ Sophie Gupta explains firm’s role in Equality Fund
- Northumberland CFDC receives $4.5 million FedDev investment
- One year in, Cobourg accelerator Venture13 defines the small-town tech success story
- Canada, EU sign transatlantic supercluster collaboration agreement
- Canadian Growth Hackers: Neo’s Kyle Sergeant on the power of strong choices
- Intelex to be acquired by Industrial Scientific in massive $570 million USD deal
- On the heels of $42 million raise, Koho launches Premium cashback account
- A list of 21 Ontario tech programs killed by Ford government cuts
- CVCA Awards recognize venture capital impact at Invest Canada 2019
- Five Atlantic Canada startups recognized at Volta Ecosystem Impact Awards
- Startup jobs of the week: Full Stack Engineer, Product Marketing Lead, Business Development Manager
- Vidyard expands offering to bring personalized video to sales teams
- NACO Awards recipients announced at World Angel Investment Summit
- University of New Brunswick, NRC create cybersecurity innovation hub
- Angel groups say they lack resources needed to fulfill mandates: report
- Ask an Investor: how do VCs think about the macroeconomic environment?
- Desjardins launches $45 million fund to support FinTech startups
- Borrowell raises $360,000 from LGBT investment group Gaingels
- Wave acquires Every to expand financial services integration
- Ford government cuts all provincial funding to Angel Investors Ontario and its 13 angel groups
- Skritswap receives $900,000 from FedNor and Women Entrepreneurship Strategy
- Wave to be acquired by H&R Block for $537 million CAD
- Gaming software company Unity expanding Montreal office, opening AI lab
- Uberflip’s charity Startupong tournament returns for fifth year
- Federal government launches app for Canadian small business owners
- Element AI signs HSBC, its third partnership announcement in four months
- Startup jobs of the week: Marketing Designer, Operations Associate, Senior DevOps Engineer
- Diagram Ventures raises $55 million CAD for second fund
- Digital skills school BrainStation expands learning platform ‘Online Live’
- Two women FinTech leaders talk success in a âmale-dominatedâ industry
- MindBridge receives $14.5 million SIF funding to support $140 million AI project
- UBC launches blockchain, distributed ledger program for graduate students
- Eight Canadian healthtech companies part of initial MedTeq fund investments
- Energia to receive $500,000 investment from New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
- SmartHalo crowdfunds an additional $1 million for smart biking device
- Traction Guest raises $17 Million CAD Series A for cloud-based visitor management system
- GoFor, CybernetIQ take home $750,000 prize at AccelerateOTT Pitchfest
- Canadian Securities Administrators considering crypto “regulatory regime” by 2022
- Uber ATG reveals new self-driving vehicle
- Startupfest 2019 will feature over $1 million in prizes and opportunities
- College, SMB tech projects across Canada receiving $73 million from federal government
- BroadbandTV reaches 575 million unique monthly viewers
- Ryerson University cybersecurity hub receives $30 million in public, private investments
- Biomaterials startup Spiderwort raises $500,000 friends and family round
- Overbond launches new AI algorithm for bond pricing
- Borrowell closes $20 million Series B as it tops 1 million users
- Telehealth startup Dialogue raises $40 million to fuel European expansion
- National aerospace association receives $49 million to build innovation ecosystem
- Fredericton-based eChart Healthcare raises $800,000 in seed funding
- MindBridge wants to create the Microsoft of AI applications
- OCE president and CEO Tom Corr steps down following layoffs, budget cuts
- NACCA launches growth fund to support Indigenous startups and entrepreneurs
- Creative Destruction Lab signs on as founding partner of Facebook’s new cryptocurrency
- Government picks American-based Honeywell to test quantum encryption in space
- Microsoft Cloud Accelerator for women-led companies comes to Canada
- Indigenous-owned digital agency Animikii closes $1 million in funding
- As Futurpreneur grows its loan offering, Ontario cuts funding
- Office tour of Shopify’s newly renovated Toronto location
- DMZ, Google partnership giving startups access to Google certified experts
- Intellijoint Surgical to lead new medtech innovation hub in Waterloo
- Former Softchoice CEO, Dave MacDonald, joins Leaders Fund as venture partner
- National Research Council launches AI, cybersecurity, IoT hub in Waterloo
- Shopify reveals Amazon-style fulfillment centres, 3D product display at Shopify Unite
- Leaders Prize offers $1 million for an AI solution to fake news at #TrueNorth19
- Procurify raises $26 million CAD Series B for spend management solution
- NorthStar wants to take earth and space monitoring service global
- MaRS, Toronto, George Brown to open light-manufacturing incubator
- #TrueNorth19 speakers argue the future of privacy is the cloud
- Carrot Rewards shuts down app, files for bankruptcy
- Three OneEleven executives gone following Ottawa and London office closures
- Managing partner Jim Orlando departs OMERS
- Slack shares surge after direct listing on the NYSE
- Willful partners with Wealthsimple to launch RESP and will creation tool
- L-Spark Accelerator opens applications for sixth B2B SaaS cohort
- Startup Canada Podcast: Relentless Returns and the Pursuit of Social Impact with Brenda Irwin
- QuadrigaCX CEO moved customer funds into his own accounts
- Two months after rebrand, Looka opens new corporate headquarters in Toronto
- Slack, IBM, and RBC provide a path for positive digital transformation at #FutureMakers
- SVB says it remains committed to Canada as Barbara Dirks steps down
- Wealthsimple snags former Netflix HR director Marina Harris
- Lightspeed named CIX 2019 Innovator of the Year
- How MPP Vic Fedeli’s “demotion” could affect Ontario’s tech and innovation sector
- Xanadu raises $32 million Series A for quantum cloud computing platform
- Government adds $10 million to Women Entrepreneurship Fund to support 100 more projects
- BlackBerry QNX automotive footprint grows to 150 million vehicles
- Apollo launches service to digitize insurance buying for small businesses
- Sidewalk Labs master plan includes $20 million CAD in venture funding, space for startups
- Felix launches digital health platform following $750,000 Seed round
- Protein Industries Supercluster second cluster to announce projects
- Carbon Engineering secures $25 million from government to capture, reuse COâ
- BenchSci’s total funding reaches $27 million as Gradient ups investment
- Ann Cavoukian still has problems with Sidewalk Labsâ approach to data with Quayside
- The three e-commerce game changers announced at Shopify Unite 2019
- BlackBerry partners with LG to accelerate deployment of autonomous vehicle technology
- Startup Canada Podcast: Building a Freelance Business with Paul Jarvis
- Bus.com closes $19.6 million CAD Series B to recruit new talent
- Today in FedDev funding: VentureLAB ($5M), Waterloo EDC ($3M)
- Bird to launch dockless e-scooter in Canada this summer
- Fellow.app closes $8.58 million CAD to scale co-pilot tool for managers
- Annette Verschuren, Erin Mahoney, Jill Earthy named to board of federal cleantech agency
- Buckzy Payments adds real-time cross-border bill payment
- EhsAI, Silofit, Neuraura named winners of the 2019 Fundica Roadshow
- First Ocean Supercluster project to create underwater technology service hub
- Six neurotech startups take home $50,000 from ONtrepreneurs Program
- The Periodic Table of Canadian Tech 2019
- AlayaCare raises $51 million CAD to scale homecare provider platform
- Montreal-founded Logrr relocates to New York, claims staying in Quebec “impossible”
- Shawn Cadeau, Sara Cooper join Jobber’s executive team
- Google to double the size of its Kitchener-Waterloo engineering office
- Quebecâs Scale AI supercluster announces first four supply chain projects
- Prime Minister announces $230 million for Scale AI supercluster
- Quebec-based Supercluster Scale AI launches call for projects
- Startup jobs of the week: HelloFresh, Array, VIZIYA
- North lays off a reported 150 employees, government suspends investment
- CTRL Labs acquires North’s patents for Myo armband technology
- $5 million USD up for grabs at sixth annual 43North startup competition
- BC Tech Association announces 2019 Technology Impact Awards winners
- How ACTO created 30x revenue growth with the right international expansion strategy
- 27 more non-profits to receive funding from Digital Literacy Exchange Program
- BlackBox, Age of Minds join Centech’s AI accelerator program
- Receipt management startup Sensibill raises $41 million CAD Series B
- Manulife another Canadian bank using Kasisto’s AI tech
- CanCode gives First Robotics $1.4 million to teach 85,000 people digital skills
- Federal government invests $58 million into two of seven new cleantech hubs
- Raw Signal Group to host multi-day coaching program for ‘better bosses’
- BlackBerry, Microsoft partner to bring new tech to Indigenous nations
- CRIN receives $450,000 to commercialize oil and gas innovations
- Montreal healthtech hub Neomed announces $25 million expansion
- Amsterdam’s Spaces to open first Ottawa location, three more in Toronto
- Weever Apps raises $1.6 million for Process Manager software
- Report: Canadian businesses are lagging in the e-commerce race
- BMO, DMZ to launch Small Business Banking Challenge in October
- Nova Scotia’s Securicy raises $1.8 million from public, private investors
- IBM closes $34 billion USD Red Hat acquisition
- Future Skills Centre investing $7.65 million in 10 skills development projects
- PayPal launches shipping platform for Canadian e-commerce businesses
- AI and robotics enterprise startup C2RO raises $2.25 million Series A
- New OMERS, BMO investments bring District Ventures fund to $70 million
- Former Enercare CEO John Macdonald joins Parity as chair of the board
- Sonder raises $210 million USD, surpassing $1 billion valuation
- Canadian Growth Hackers: Shopifyâs Amy Martin on Marchitecture and building growth teams
- Front Row Ventures’ initiative for female student founders expands to Ontario
- Former Vector Institute VP Darin Graham to lead LGâs Toronto AI lab
- Wealthsimple launches investing solution partnership with HR firm Mercer
- AI and IoT startup Mnubo acquired by Aspen Technology for $102 million CAD
- BDC earmarks $300 million in loans for Atlantic Canada companies
- Minister Ng shares plan to build capacity for women entrepreneurs as WES invests $3.2 million into Québec
- MaRS shuffles venture leadership team following Salim Teja departure
- Digital Finance Institute names Canada’s top 50 women in FinTech for 2019
- Ontario government announces task force to develop data strategy
- Government invests $40 million in Canadian Bank Note’s nanotechnology company
- AI Deep Dive chooses Toronto over San Francisco for AI skills course
- Toronto, Vancouver rise in rankings of best global cities for female entrepreneurs
- Indigenous cleantech Carbonix receives $3.1 million from federal government
- Canada Learning Code receives $9.4 million from govt’s CanCode program
- Flybits secures $45 million CAD Series C for context-as-a-service platform
- Today in acquisitions: mCloud, Croesus, Xtreme Blockchain Labs
- Traction Conference announces speakers, first-ever Traction Fundraising Summit
- Saskatoon-based Vendasta raises $40 million CAD in growth capital
- Jetti Resources raises $642,000 for cleantech mining project
- Lightspeed acquires Switzerland-based POS solutions provider iKentoo
- Rival Technologies raises first financing round totalling $8.5 million CAD
- Communitech, Rogers to launch 5G innovation lab in Kitchener-Waterloo
- Dax Dasilva says newest Lightspeed features last needed to chip away at incumbent POS providers
- Landr raises $26 million CAD Series B for audio mastering platform
- Scale AI receives additional $23.4 million from Quebec government
- Digital Finance Institute names Canada’s top 50 FinTech companies for 2019
- Mogo, League partner for health insurance fraud protection solution
- Toronto added most North American tech jobs in 2017, with wages lower than any US hub
- Wattpad launches monetization model globally
- A guide to Singapore’s startup scene for Canadian entrepreneurs
- Rob Maurin wants to replicate Wave’s success at Plooto
- Four student-led startups take home Velocity Fund $5K prizes
- Calgary-based MindFuel receives $2 million in funding through CanCode
- Startup jobs of the week: HelloFresh, iNTERFACEWARE, Shoelace
- Toronto one of top three North American markets for tech talent
- HeadCheck Health brings digital concussion platform to CFL
- Canadian Food Innovators Network receives $30 million from federal government
- Knotel joins drove of workspace providers expanding to Canada
- Bryan Murphy tracks six months as Breather’s CEO, reflects on 2019’s milestones
- Canscan, SparkCharge take home gold at Startupfest pitch competition
- Startup jobs of the week: Tulip, Canvass Analytics
- FlipGive raises $5 million Series A to help reinvent how youth sports teams fundraise
- Three Alberta-based organizations receive $3 million from WES Ecosystem Fund
- Today in seed funding: Clik.ai, VeĂŒhub
- L-Spark announces startups in first cohort of Secure IoT Accelerator program
- Ample Labs, Ada officially launch AI chatbot for Toronto’s homeless community
- Canadian VCs caught flat-footed by âinsaneâ changes in US investment regulation
- Startup Canada Podcast: Building A Global Company In Canada With Mike McDerment
- Wisely raises $1.5 million CAD seed round for AI helping nonprofits fundraise
- Ample Organics makes layoffs as capital dries up in Canadian cannabis industry
- New Brunswick’s Venn Innovation receives $475,000 from federal government
- BDC hands out $7.2 billion in loans, paying record dividend to Canadian government
- Toronto-based film location platform Set Scouter acquires US competitor
- Conexus launches $30 million venture fund to support Saskatchewan startups
- Yourika, VoiceHero accepted to third class of Techstars’ Amazon Alexa Accelerator
- One year after acquisition, Hubdoc’s Jamie McDonald joins Xero executive team
- “Emotional tax” for people of colour is contributing to Canada’s retention problem
- Dean Hopkins steps down as CEO of OneEleven, Siri Agrell named executive director
- Simon Fraser University receives $3 million for youth entrepreneurship, cleantech
- Startup jobs of the week: Tulip, Motion, SHIFT
- Algolux teams up with Mila for AI, computer vision research initiative
- Chatham-Kent’s first-ever incubator and accelerator officially opens
- ProteinQure raises $5.2 million CAD for protein-focused drug design platform
- Government helping create network to address procurement barrier in Canadian healthtech
- Actua receives $12 million from CanCode, marking second investment from the program
- Bird officially launches dockless e-scooter in Calgary
- Rockport Networks receives $2.9 million loan from FedDev Ontario
- Backed by Diagram, mortgage startup Nesto latest addition to Power Financial’s “FinTech Justice League”
- Calgary-based Attabotics raises $25 Million Series B for robotic supply chain system
- London-based FoodFund takes home $100,000 at 2019 Telus Pitch
- SnapPay, Sleep Country partner to engage Canada’s Chinese consumer segment
- Invixium raises $4.5 million CAD in in debt financing for biometric security solution
- Clearbanc raises $300 million USD to take entrepreneur funding model global
- NorthStar partners with nation of Luxembourg to develop clean Space initiative
- Today in hires: Wealthsimple, Breathe Life, FrontRunner
- Koho launches new instant cashback program
- AccessNow receives $2.7 million from federal government for accessibility platform
- Furnishr’s Karen Lau solved her own problem by starting a business
- Dapper Labs partners with NBA to launch digital collectibles game
- Federal government launches patent collective, public marketplace for IP
- 3 go-to-market tools for startups & lessons learned helping Ecobee challenge industry incumbents
- iGan Partners to host second ‘Pitch to Heal’ competition
- Owl.co raises $2.6 million CAD for encrypted data collection platform
- Startup jobs of the week: VTS, CBC/Radio Canada, Symbiosys
- Ontario Cooperation Council receives FedDev funding to expand Francophone entrepreneurship
- Startup Zone launches new accelerator program in Charlottetown
- Shopify shows strong second-quarter results, improved full-year outlook
- Mobile offers platform GetintheLoop partners with RBC Ventures
- DNAstack to develop precision health platform through Digital Technology Supercluster
- Edge computing startup Ormuco receives $4 million from Province of Quebec
- BlueDot announces second Series A round, this time worth $9.2 million CAD
- Kruger Biomaterials to upgrade plant with $2 million from federal government
- Wind Mobile founder Tony Lacavera says startups should stop pivoting
- Government of Canada’s chief information officer Alex Benay leaves to join Mindbridge
- Seven Manitoba tech companies receive $7.4 million in loans from federal government
- Toronto pitches itself as leading tech ecosystem to athletes looking to invest
- Four Manitoba-based life sciences projects receive $5.9 million from federal government
- FreshBooks raises “most significant investment so far” from JPMorgan Chase
- Canadians want innovative healthtech, but worry about slow adoption
- Lightspeed reports 38 percent revenue growth in Q1 2019
- Wholesale local food platform FreshSpoke raises $550,000 seed round
- Kik denies all allegations, argues SEC misrepresented evidence in lawsuit
- BDC commits $10 million to “first-if-its-kind” clean energy program
- Kids Code Jeunesse receives $8.1 million CanCode investment
- Forging a path for healthtech in Canada means getting all stakeholders on the same page
- Report: Canada sees tempered decline in VC deals after record-breaking 2018
- Techstars Toronto, The Big Push partner to mentor women-founded startups
- Today in Hires: Alberta IoT Association, BlueCat
- Wattpad Books partnership with Penguin Random House marks first expansion into Europe
- Startup jobs of the week: React Developer, Android Developer, Data Architect
- Curv Health raises $1.5 million seed round for AI-powered insights platform
- Universal mCloud receives $13 million loan following acquisition of Autopro Automation
- Bridgit raises $1.5 million from CIBC Innovation Banking
- Saskatoon-based SalonScale Technology closes $1 million seed round
- BlueRock Therapeutics remains committed to Toronto following $1 billion USD acquisition
- Hardbacon raises over $680,000 from FrontFundr campaign
- Maple, LifeLabs offering virtual consultations for food sensitivity testing
- Fiix acquires US-based Alchemy IoT
- VentureLAB receives $1.7 million from FedDev Ontario to boost women representation in tech
- Ontario accelerators in flux after government lapses on CLA program funding
- Akira Health acquired by Telus Health
- Federal government invests $39 million through Western Canada scaleup initiative
- MaRS, Ontario Power Generation to launch innovation challenge
- Lyft slated to begin Vancouver operations by end of year
- Shopify’s Lynsey Thornton talks mission-driven decisions at Traction 2019
- Legaltech startup MinuteBox acquires Conductor, launches new management tools
- Global Talent Stream on track according to OECD report on Canadian immigration system
- Chamber of Digital Commerce recommends building blockchain framework in Canada
- One year after $17 million raise, LoginRadius moves headquarters to Vancouver
- Coinberry partners with Cyclebit to offer crypto transactions through POS
- Federal government creates cybersecurity training initiative for businesses
- Canadian startups need to leverage the right resources to scale globally
- Shopify launches first native chat function for merchants
- Plato to host Indigenous Software Tester training program in Calgary
- Toronto ride-sharing startup Facedrive expands to London, Ont.
- Montreal-based Nuvei acquires SafeCharge for $1.1 billion CAD
- DisGovr Canada partners with DMZ to enable procurement between government, startups
- Eric Arnold started a business to make money for everyone
- Wattpad tracks 80 million monthly users, 23 percent increase since 2018
- Wealthsimple announces partnership, looks to attract high-net-worth investors
- MolecuLight’s oncology business acquired by Germany-based Photonamic
- TruTrace completes first phase of medical cannabis pilot with Shoppers Drug Mart
- FanSaves wins Renfrew startup competition, securing $100,000 investment
- Nudge Rewards raises $12 million CAD
- Startup jobs of the week: Coinsquare, Tulip, Prospect
- Focus FS to have global reach following partnership with Germany-based DrÀger
- Canada Learning Code receives $117,000 because the Raptors stomped the Warriors
- Report: Slow, uneven tech adoption will shape the future of Canada’s workforce
- League partners with Vector Institute to improve platform’s AI capabilities
- Bird launches scooters in Edmonton
- NexTech AR closes $1,161,780 to expand AR entertainment studio
- Breather recruits CTO to expand product suite, hire in Montreal
- Toronto-based indoor mapping company Jibestream acquired by Inpixon
- Innovation Guelph receives $1.9 million federal investment for women entrepreneurship
- Lyft’s new Ontario general manager noncommittal on company’s plans in Canada
- HackerYou accepted to Y Combinator on back of new tuition model
- Xanadu, BMO, Scotiabank joint project uses quantum for trading products
- Ontario’s advanced manufacturing Supercluster announces first project
- SomaDetect among Atlantic Canada women-led startups receiving funding through WES
- How I chose an accelerator for my startup
- Praemo raises $3.5 million to develop industrial IoT platform
- 11 Canadian companies participating in Y Combinator summer 2019 cohort
- Sampler receives $1 million from CIBC Innovation Banking
- Startup jobs of the week: VTS, CBC/Radio Canada, LMN
- Ecopia Tech, Routific, GHGSat among cleantech startups receiving SDTC funding
- Government announces slew of women entrepreneurship investments ahead of election
- Startup Carnival wants to raise $20,000 for Ronald McDonald House
- Drop closes $58 million CAD Series B with eyes on accelerated growth, going public
- Following three-year rebuild, Joist acquired by Colorado-based EverCommerce
- Communitech, Thomson Reuters Labs, Gowling launching bootcamp for legal, tax startups
- Parity expands senior team with energy veterans following recent Series A raise
- Venture capital investments hit record high in first half of 2019
- Interface Fluidics raises $6 million Series A for “disruptive” oil recovery tech
- QuadrigaCX monitor complying with RCMP investigation, looks to move case to Ontario
- Smart cities consortium, UofT, Palette Skills among orgs receiving millions in government funding
- Today in government funding: Quebec, cleantech, healthtech
- Worximity Technology raises $6.25 million Series A to help digitize manufacturing
- Actua receives $600,000 to launch women and girls cyber-empowerment initiative
- Three tips for navigating the budding proptech industry
- Uber announces plans to operate in Metro Vancouver by end of year
- Avidbots partners with US provider to deploy floor-scrubbing robots in hospitals
- Director of data and digital for the Government of Canada leaves to join AI Global
- CEO Tim Wootton credits marketplace giants for helping him start Rover Parking. Can you guess which ones?
- Today in government funding: BC Tech, Letâs Talk Science, Femmessor
- Startup jobs of the week: Growth Marketer, Development Team Lead, Full Stack Developer
- ePACT raises $4.5 million to digitize emergency contact, health information
- Today in hires: Instacart, Flexday
- Hereâs how Scott Galloway thinks Shopify could supplant Amazon
- BooknBrunch wins $30,000 at CNE Innovation Garage Pitch Competition
- The ten winning companies of CED Fast Forward Challenge
- BetaKit’s Guide to Elevate AI
- Decentralâs new CEO outlines company roadmap as Ethereum co-founder Anthony Di Iorio steps down
- Microsoft for Startups partners with OneEleven to offer support to startups
- Bitcoin Bay, BitAngels partner to increase investment in Toronto blockchain ecosystem
- NACO, Invest Atlantic to host Atlantic Funding Founders Summit
- Rockport receives $12 million government investment for data storage project
- Here are LinkedIn’s top Canadian startups of 2019
- New Brunswick-based Gemba Software Solutions secures $2.9 million
- Build Ventures closes $50.5 million CAD for Fund II
- FinTech startup PayBright raises $34 million in growth equity from goeasy
- Slack shares slide as company projects slower growth, larger-than-expected losses
- Terramera raises $59.5 million CAD Series B for crop protection technology
- Velocity to split up offering with separate, student-focused incubator
- Blockchain company Vanbex Labs sells products to Hyperion amid legal strife
- Applications open for second cohort of 100+ Sustainability Acceleratorâ
- Startup jobs of the week: Code for Canada, TalentMinded, Loopio
- TheScore secures $40 million to scale media, sports betting businesses
- Scale Without Borders launches to help newcomer entrepreneurs build in Canada
- Today in government funding: Edmonton, Niagara, Vancouver
- AI startup My Intelligent Machines raises $2.6 million seed round
- Clio raises $330 million CAD Series D funding round
- BC-based Lightship Works using AI to aid first responders with natural disasters
- Vancouver-based Radius seeking social impact ventures for Slingshot accelerator
- Parity secures $1.25 million from Silicon Valley Bank
- New report says Canadians love staying connected with tech, even though it can create feelings of emptiness
- Lift & Co. launches platform to help cannabis brands learn from customer data
- Stash Energy raises $400,000 to help people save money on utility bills
- Fitplan raises $4.5 million, partners with baseball all-star Alex Rodriguez
- Event ticketing startup Showpass acquires Token Mobile Solutions
- Sourced raises $20 million CAD from Round 13, Comerica, HSBC
- Facedrive expands eco-conscious ridesharing service to Guelph
- Grassroots group survey finds pay disparity among Victoria tech workers
- QuadrigaCX bankruptcy proceedings to move from Halifax to Toronto
- Advisory panel publishes scathing commentary of Sidewalk Labs’ master proposal
- Inabuggy expands grocery delivery service, covering six cities across Canada
- Talent4AI wants to address the demand for AI talent by connecting students and industry
- MediaValet raises $3.5 million in second private placement of 2019
- Three Canadian startups selected to participate in Colliers Proptech Accelerator
- TIAP partners with Amgen to commercialize medical research
- Earth imaging startup UrtheCast secures $6.6 million CAD in financing
- Dapper Labs raises $14.5 million CAD, announces development of new blockchain
- Shopify looks to fight climate change, commits $6.6 million to new sustainability fund
- Grammarly the newest Bay Area company to set sights on Vancouver
- Startup jobs of the week: Array, KUBRA, Motion
- Today in government funding: BioConnect, Accessible Technology Program recipients
- Element AI announces $200 million CAD Series B round
- WealthBar, Assante Wealth Management to launch online investing platform
- Lift & Co. closes $3.5 million private placement following platform launch
- Liberal Party commits to new incentives for Canadian entrepreneurs, startups
- BetaKit’s Guide to Elevate 2019
- Canadian, Quebec governments pledge $15 million to create AI centre in Montréal
- Bunz locks down employee BTZ wallets as former admins lead mass exodus
- Classcraft raises $10 million to use video games in education
- Accelerate Okanagan, VIATEC, other BC projects receive $5.6 million from federal government
- OrbCare is bankrupt and looking for a buyer after misrepresented finances and debt
- Today in hires: Universal mCloud, RenoRun, Finaeo
- Trulioo raises $70 million CAD from global banking heavyweights
- Next36 startup Correly acquired by Ottawa-based GenM
- BlackBerry and L-SPARK seeking second cohort for joint accelerator
- Ernst & Young acquires cybersecurity firm ElevatedPrompt
- Shopify allowing US merchants to sell CBD products online
- Today in funding ($570K): Patchell Brook, Primped
- Tech firms added $6.1 billion to Atlantic Canada economy in 2017, report finds
- TouchBistro raises $158 Million CAD in Series E funding
- Maple raises $14.5 million to help Canadians access virtual health care
- The five Canadian startups competing in the IBM Watson AI XPrize
- North launches app allowing customers to make Focals measurements
- Cleantech VC ArcTern Ventures announces second close, $165 million in Fund II
- Newton announces partnership meant to prevent the next QuadrigaCX scandal
- BetaKit’s Guide to Elevate Business
- Employment platform Neuvoo raises $53 million from CDPQ’s AI fund
- Lawn care, snow removal platform Yardly raises $1 million seed round
- Volta accepts five new companies into Residency program
- CIRA challenges political parties to create open, trusted Internet policies
- Daisy Intelligence raises $10 million CAD, looks to become “the world’s largest” AI company
- Startup jobs of the week: Client Services Coordinator, Scrum Master, Team Lead – Java
- Women in Canada agree tech companies still have a reputation problem
- CDPQ among global investors signing on to UN alliance to decarbonize the economy
- Video creation platform Lumen5 awarded top prize at 2019 New Ventures BC Competition
- Element AI announces first product for the insurance market
- ODAIA raises $1.6 million to commercialize its predictive AI platform
- Plum raises $4.2 million USD, shifts focus beyond recruitment
- KnĂžx raises $8.25 million, launches new digital asset custody service
- Wealthsimple ventures into the tax space with SimpleTax acquisition
- Vidyard shakes up pricing model with new “reverse freemium”
- Lazaridis Institute selects 10 startups for fifth cohort of ScaleUp Program
- Learning platform Peekapak, Nelson partner to deliver educational resources to schools
- Toronto-based Paycase files $500 million lawsuit against TMX Group
- Kik chat app shuts down as company goes “all in” on Kin
- Online platform for neighbourhoods Nextdoor launches in Canada
- Toronto team takes first place in Oxford global hackathon
- Wattpad inks first major deal in Latin America
- St. John’s-based Verafin closes massive $515 million in financing
- Founder Institute launches pre-seed startup accelerator in Halifax
- Tech’s moonshots: highlights from Elevate Main Stage
- Microsoft for Startups, Volta announce partnership in Atlantic Canada
- PointClickCare opens developer hub in downtown Toronto
- Geotab launches new IoT startup innovation accelerator
- Startup jobs of the week: Data Scientist, Developer Specialist, Account Project Manager
- Communitech launches service to help startups with international hiring
- #ElevateAI explains the state of Canadian artificial intelligence
- SEC filing confirms Georgian Partners is seeking to raise $1 billion CAD venture fund
- Report: Canada expected to spend over $800 million on blockchain solutions by 2023
- Acuva Technologies receives $1 million from Genome BC
- MESH/diversity raises $950,000 to help companies build D&I strategies
- Medella Health rebrands to Voyage Labs, expands beyond smart contact lenses
- Canivate developing automated growing system for cannabis
- Renewal Funds closes $145 million to invest in cleantech
- Element AI CEO says “Iâm not leaving,” shares commercialization challenges
- Car maintenance startup Fiix acquired by US-based Wrench
- Saskatoon-based 7shifts raises additional $7.9 million CAD in Series A
- Startup Canada Podcast: Delivering on your ecommerce essentials with Lindley Graham
- Ignite Labs launches second hub for startups in northern Nova Scotia
- Willful is on a mission to make sure every Canadian has a will
- Huda Idrees built a platform to give users easy access to their health
- YC-backed Proptech startup Naborly raises $9.9 million CAD seed round
- Acceleprise officially announces plans to launch Toronto accelerator
- Korbit raises $2.65 million for its AI tutoring platform
- HonestDoor launches real estate platform in Calgary
- CoLab raises $2.7 million after Y Combinator Demo Day
- The casualties of moving fast and breaking things
- Communitech CEO Iain Klugman to step down in 2021
- HeyBryan raises $2.5 million after Canadian Securities Exchange IPO
- Canadian investors join global group urging action on climate change
- Swimming Canada selects TritonWear as its official training technology
- Family, friends campaign to help find UofT professor missing after Himalayas avalanche
- North, Vidyard, Atomwise repeat on Y Combinator’s ‘top companies’ list
- Startup jobs of the week: The Heart & Stroke Foundation, Loopio, Altus Assessments
- Today in acquisitions: Rise People, AudienceView
- PwC Canada selects Calgary’s TerraHub for its blockchain delivery arm
- Terramera, Livestock Water Recycling win Nutrien-Radicle Challenge
- Panache Ventures announces final close of inaugural fund at $58 million
- Report: poised to be global leader, Canadian blockchain sector faces challenges to scale
- BMO invests $5 million in U of T lab combining AI and the arts
- Bitcoin company Hut 8 Mining first to trade on TSX via new listing initiative
- Innovate Financial Health launching FinTech accelerator with Capital One
- TWG’s Chris Eben becomes CEO, AndrĂ©s Aquino executive chair
- Widow of QuadrigaCX CEO to forfeit around $12 million to Ernst & Young
- CCI’s Ben Bergen explains what Canadian tech leaders want on the election agenda
- Mogo partners with goeasy to pilot new personal loan offering
- Hopper acquires dynamic restaurant pricing app Gravy
- Voyager Capital sets sights on Western Canada following $130 million CAD fund close
- BFS Capital opens new data science, engineering hub in Toronto
- Mila receives funding, support from Borealis AI for climate change project
- Microsoft Reactor launch marks Toronto’s latest global startup addition
- CVCA pens open letter to federal party leaders with three election asks
- VoilĂ ! raises $3 million for workforce scheduling software
- Dialogue publicly launches virtual mental health program
- Clio announces five finalists of its Launch//Code integration contest
- Startup jobs of the week: React Developer, Full Stack Engineer, UX Research Intern
- How SnapTravel leverages its Valley roots to keep tech talent in Canada
- Convictional closes $3 million CAD as it looks to disrupt B2B trade
- Jess Joss tapped as CEO for alliance of Ontario angel investor groups
- Ritual announces international expansion into UK and Australia
- Blockchain music startup Beatdapp raises $3.2 million, adds new advisory board members
- Converge Technology Solutions acquires US-based Essextec
- Following acquisition LOI, Kik app may be “here to stay”
- Charity ping pong tournament TechPong returns to Vancouver November 7
- NERv Technology closes $1 million CAD pre-seed round
- Techstars Montreal AI announces 10 companies selected for second cohort
- Uber Canada says layoffs do not change company’s hiring targets
- Vector Institute, U of T ‘redouble efforts,’ invest in new deep learning faculty
- Flare Systems raises $1 million for darknet intelligence software
- Wattpad releases third annual diversity and inclusion survey
- Startup jobs of the week: Sales Enablement Analyst, Technical Support Engineer, Marketing Specialist
- New Accelerate Okanagan CEO wants to boost OKGN Tech globally
- Carta acquires Kik team as part of Canadian expansion
- CDPQ commits $50 million to seed-stage funds in Québec
- Two Canadian startups receive grants from Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility initiative
- Today in hires: Highline Beta, iGan Partners
- Kik app acquired by holding company MediaLab
- Ritual expands into first non-English speaking markets
- Lightspeed to bolster Asia-Pacific presence with acquisition of Australia-based Kounta
- Chata Technologies raises $4.5 million, announces commercialization of new product
- 12 Canadian FinTech startups chosen to embark on UK trade mission
- Snap Projections acquired by FinTech startup WealthBar Financial Services
- ModiFace, Shoppers Drug Mart partnering on virtual makeup service
- Startup Edmonton partners with Microsoft for Startups Canada
- Luge Capital closes additional $10 million from strategics for FinTech-focused fund
- Calgary-based Benevity raises $40 million in Series C
- Today in funding: Tonit, Eaigle
- Former Premier of New Brunswick joins the DMZ as government relations mentor
- Montreal FinTech research unit launches with $2 million from Finance MontreÌal, regulator
- Centre for Social Innovation recruiting for Earth Tech accelerator
- MindBridge partnering with Bank of Canada to detect payment fraud
- Using technology to transform an industry (Facebook Live chat)
- PayPal launches loans in Canada for small business owners
- Samsung enters mobile POS market with exclusive Canadian launch
- Toronto FinTech startup Pungle acquired by Berkeley Payment Solutions
- Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes shares 13 guerrilla networking hacks ‘that actually work’
- Accelerate Okanagan wants OKGNtech community to raise $1 million for charity
- Conexus Credit Union launches business incubator brand, Cultivator, in Regina
- Acorn Biolabs announces first clinical partner to collect, store stem cells
- Startup jobs of the week: ventureLAB, Chisel AI, Hackworks
- Google to continue collaboration with Kitchener-Waterloo’s Quantum Benchmark
- How Alberta’s tech sector is affected by cuts in much anticipated 2019 provincial budget
- Oculys Health Informatics acquired by VitalHub for $4.2 million
- Despite rapid AI growth, CDL conference emphasizes need to move slow, “not break things”
- Elevate acquires Startup Open House
- Element AI partners with Mozilla on R&D for data trusts, ethical AI projects
- RBC acquires automated accounts payables startup WayPay
- Canadian startup PayBright is helping Raptors fans pay for replica championship rings
- Mastercard consolidates startup programs to make it easier to partner with FinTechs
- Adopt to adapt: Canadian businesses must embrace AI to stay competitive
- Google opens first Stadia game development studio in Montreal
- Shopify acquiring fulfillment platform 6 River Systems for $450 million USD
- First Canadian SVB startup survey says entrepreneurs find fundraising challenging
- Edmonton-based startup Mover acquired by Microsoft
- Shopify quarterly revenue growth slows as company hits million merchants
- 7shifts, Coconut Software among 17 Saskatchewan projects receiving a collective $21 million
- League receives strategic investment from Workday Ventures
- FreshBooks to open first international office
- SaaS North conference returns to Ottawa for its fourth year
- National Bank launching FinTech innovation competition
- Shopify CEO Tobi LĂŒtke to donate 1,000,001 trees, following one million customer milestone
- Alberta tech leaders express concern over “short-sighted” provincial budget
- Waterfront Toronto agrees to press forward on Sidewalk Labs Quayside project
- Startup jobs of the week: Tulip, SHIFT, Altus Assessments
- FormHero shows how startups can work with big banks
- Shopify taps Colin Bodell as VP engineering for Shopify Plus
- Dan Doctoroff still believes Sidewalk Labs can build a smart city
- How Capital Oneâs Digital for Good program tripled the number of charities it will empower with tech
- Mylo raises $10 million Series A with support from National Bank, Desjardins
- Accelerator Centre, Amazon collaborating on first Canadian Alexa tech accelerator
- Conexus hits $30 million fund target to support “forgotten” startups
- Diagram-backed Collage acquired by People Corporation
- Digital identity company 2Keys acquired by Interac
- Today in funding ($27.8 million): CTO.ai, MindBeacon
- Coveo raises $227 million CAD to pursue “aggressive” growth in AI e-commerce market
- Shopify launches email product to do battle with old partner Mailchimp
- Chip startup Untether AI announces $9.2 million in funding closed in May
- Facedrive in strategic partnership with Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smithâs content company
- Planswell CEO attributes company downfall to “social media storm” in investor email
- Clean energy investing startup CoPower to be acquired by VancityâŻCommunity Investment Bank
- BDC spinout Amplitude Ventures closes half of newly-launched $200 million health fund
- Crypto trading platform Einstein Exchange shuts down, owing $16 million to clients
- Three Kitchener-Waterloo startups top the 2019 Deloitte Technology Fast 50
- Canadian immigration policy meets the 4th Industrial Revolution
- Startup jobs of the week: Data Engineer, Revenue Operations Coordinator, Business Data Analyst
- Element AI to implement AI features into Japanese automotive company’s operations
- Osgoode Professional Development is helping lawyers get ahead of blockchain
- Halifax launches innovation outpost to help startups scale
- BlackBerry QNX to power Hyundai Autron’s driver assistance systems
- A cautionary tale of high valuations
- Brookfield Institute reveals career pathways model for jobs disrupted by technology
- Mindbridge loses former CIO of Canada after a few months in role
- With trust in crypto at an all-time low, 3iQ’s CEO talks regulator approval of bitcoin fund
- Stradigi AI closes $53 million CAD Series A, with support from will.i.am
- Ottawa-founded Threekit raises $20 million USD for product visualization platform
- Dream Maker Ventures launches diversity program for underrepresented entrepreneurs
- Charli AI comes out of stealth mode, launches workflow automation product
- OMERS Ventures adds experienced partner focused on Canada as firm preps for global fund
- Startup jobs of the week: PayBright, Parity, Sensibill
- Canadian tech leaders talk generational differences at this yearâs #movethedial Summit
- Calgary healthtech hub HaTCH announces startups in first cohort
- Father & Founder: SnapTravelâs CEO finds common ground
- Sidewalk Labs shares more specifics on how it will collect, use data
- Two research projects receive combined $448,000 from Innovate BC
- How Toronto Cat Rescue is using tech to build a Tinder for foster cats
- Lagging regulation, consumer trust inhibiting FinTech adoption in Canada
- Cyclica launches joint venture using AI to develop drugs for mental health
- New not-for-profit organization launched to promote Ontarioâs cleantech sector
- Why Did Bay Street’s Altas Partners Invest in a Grenada University?
- Kin ecosystem surpasses one million active spenders
- The wait is over for women entrepreneurs
- Social intelligence platform Trufan acquires SocialRank, raises $400,000 USD
- NERv Technology wins 2019 Entrepreneurship World Cup global finals
- MindFuel to host geekStarter robotics program in Calgary this November
- Xanadu receives grant from DARPA to test QML performance on quantum hardware
- Applications now open for 2020 HealthBound startup competition
- RenoRun launches monthly subscription model following $22.5 million Series A
- 10th annual Launch Party showcases Calgaryâs startup growth amid dwindling provincial support
- Canadian venture capital investments surpass $2 billion CAD in record breaking Q3 2019
- Silofit raises $1 million seed round to develop “world’s first” network of on-demand gyms
- Emerge Commerce purchases UnderPar Group for $12 million in largest acquisition to date
- Today in acquisitions: Paystone, Rival.ai, Workali, Geotab
- The Unlikely Entrepreneur: How One Canadian Doctor is Spreading Awareness Through an App
- Five startups in Volta’s new cohort each receive $25,000 investment
- EQ Bank migrates core system to the cloud as it gears up for open banking in Canada
- Startup jobs of the week: Engineering Manager, Technical Team Lead, DevOps Specialist
- Trudeau cabinet shuffle shows slight tweaks to Canada’s innovation, economic agenda
- Deep Genomics discovers genetic disorder treatment drug via AI
- RBC injects $3 million into new data analytics, AI partnership with Western University
- Five new startups join Ryerson, MLSE’s sport tech accelerator
- Vancouver-based Trulioo taps Zac Cohen as chief operating officer
- Today in funding ($10.26 million): Winterlight Labs, Casca
- Furnishr and Willful co-founders share tips for disrupting traditional industries
- Toronto’s Underwear Entrepreneur Already Has a Few Wins Under Her Belt
- Montreal’s Potloc announces $13 million CAD Series A originally closed in July
- Mavencare launches âfirst-of-its-kindâ portal for real-time access to home care patient data
- Velocity startups surpass $1 billion in total funding
- Toronto-based intimates startup Knix raises $5.7 million in funding
- Raw Signal Group’s Betterboss program to return in March 2020
- Edmonton surges in CBRE Canadian tech talent report
- Digital For Good Summit gets real about the need for charities to adopt transformation
- Koho adds National Bank and Drive as investors with $25 million CAD Series B extension
- New Kitchener-Waterloo coalition wants to tackle the future of work
- Following OSC approval, 3iQ files initial public offering for bitcoin fund
- Magaly Charbonneau named partner and Montreal lead at Inovia Capital
- Startup jobs of the week: Marketing Communications Specialist, Oracle Architect, Machine Learning Scientist
- Canadian SaaS investment skyrockets by over 200 percent in 2019
- Today in acquisitions: Vocaprep, Race Roster
- DLT Labs launches blockchain freight and payment network with Walmart Canada
- OrbCare files for bankruptcy after failing to find buyer, team launches new company instead
- Coconut Software raises additional $6.5 million CAD in Series A funding
- RBC launches environmental initiative to support cleantech innovations
- Digital Technology, ScaleAI Superclusters reveal latest projects
- Bridgit opens first satellite office, looks to tap into Toronto’s talent pool
- Uberflip acquires interactive content creation platform SnapApp
- Portag3 sets sights on global FinTech market as it closes $427 million CAD Fund II
- Shopify merchants generate $2.9 billion USD in sales over Black Friday, Cyber Monday
- Shift closes $1 million CAD seed round, appoints first CEO
- Vision Critical appoints new CEO, moves headquarters to Toronto
- Delphia launches platform to help consumers turn their data into investable capital
- SkipTheDishes co-founder launches “venture-builder” for Prairies startups
- Winnipeg-based Bold Commerce opens first international outpost in Austin
- BC-based Thoughtexchange raises $20 million Series B
- PolicyAdvisor wants to help bring life insurance into the digital age
- Southern Alberta Institute of Technology receives $30 million from David Bissett
- CIFAR adds 34 new AI chairs, bringing headcount to 80
- Cybersecurity startup Zebu secures $5.2 million CAD in seed funding
- Startup jobs of the week: Chisel AI, 500px, Smart Nora
- Wattpad to open second headquarters in Halifax
- North American banks expect to lose $88 billion in retail payments to FinTechs over 3 years
- FlexPay raises $6 million as it looks to attack ‘false declines’ in online payments
- Benevity is taking its corporate social responsibility platform mobile
- InterGen Capital receives $1 million from chamber of commerce to help scale Calgary’s startups
- How QuickBooks plans to increase the survival rate of small businesses
- North ends production of Focals, set to launch second generation smart glasses in 2020
- ScribbleLive acquired by Brazil-based Rock Content
- BlackBerry, L-Spark announce second cohort of joint accelerator
- Image optimization software startup Blinkloader acquired by Uploadcare
- Vancouver EdTech startup Riipen raises $5 million pre-Series A
- Techstars AI demo day showcases second cohort of the Montreal accelerator
- Six social responsibility trends for tech companies in 2020
- Vistara Capital caps technology growth fund at oversubscribed $150 million CAD
- Borrowell ventures into new category with predictive loan tool
- Dialogue to offer virtual healthcare to employees travelling in the US
- Pet tech startup Pawzy wins Queen’s University pitch competition
- Valent Low-Carbon Technologies raises $30 million led by Kensington Private Equity Fund
- Waterloo’s Emagin acquired by Innovyze to improve water infrastructure data
- Startup jobs of the week: Director of Growth and Digital, DevOps Engineer, Oracle Architect
- University of Waterloo launches new quantum initiative, merging academia and industry
- Koho says its metal card is driving significant new customer interest
- Second Closet raises $13.2 million to disrupt billion dollar self-storage market
- Prime Minister Trudeau reveals mandate letters, outlines shift for RDAs
- MontrĂ©al’s Nuvei raises $358 million CAD, reaches $2.65 billion CAD valuation
- Creative Destruction Lab opens newest location in Atlanta’s Georgia Tech
- Today in Funding ($2.25 million): Rally, Morphio, BreatheSuite
- Breather reportedly lays off staff across North America
- Faire quietly rolls out service to Canadian retailers
- David Sax explains why your kids might tell you to put down your smartphone this holiday season
- Vancouver cleantech company General Fusion raises $85 million CAD Series E
- Future Skills Centre announces new advisory board members
- Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership receives $240,000 to launch Trade Accelerator Program
- Marketing platform Rewardful acquires competitor SalesCamp
- Microsoft for Startups partners with BC Tech Association
- MolecuLite receives FDA approval for wound imaging device
- Car2Go to end North American service
- Alberta government creates group to explore attracting investment to tech following cuts
- Bunz lays off 15 people, reduces merchants that can accept BTZ
- Startup jobs of the week: Memory Labs Inc., Smart Nora, Parity
- How CDL-Rockies programming director Kari Gordon wants to boost Alberta tech
- Intuit QuickBooks tackles the problems that keep small business owners up at night
- White Star Capital report finds Canadian VC deal size grew, deal volume decreased in 2019
- Vidyard receives $15 million credit financing from BMO Technology and Innovation Banking Group
- Breather CEO acknowledges overspending, outlines path to profitability in internal video following company layoffs
- Today in accelerators: FounderFuel, Founder Institute, BDO Canada
- Women, minorities still underrepresented in Montreal senior leadership despite increase: report
- mCloud to acquire Atlanta-based 3D tech company following TSX Venture Exchange debut
- Wealthsimple registers three businesses, indicating expansion into new financial services
- Element AI partnering with LG Electronics to co-develop AI solutions, products
- Deep Genomics raises $40 million Series B for AI drug discovery platform
- Lightspeed to acquire Germany’s Gastrofix to snag more European customers
- Today in cohorts: Safe X Connected Cities Accelerator, 7 Gate Academy
- Today in funding: SkyWatch, Reshift Security
- St. John’s Newfoundland startup Cyno signs deal with Shopify
- e-Zn raises $3.4 million seed round to bring its energy storage solution to market
- Aspect Biosystems raises $26 million CAD in Series A for 3D printing of human tissues
- Fusion Genomics receives $1 million to test genomic diagnostics platform
- Lendesk launches app following acquisition, integration of LenderSpotlight
- Four predictions for Canadian tech hiring in 2020
- Vancouver-based ToursByLocals raises $43 million CAD in first round of financing
- Precision oncology startup Fusion Pharmaceuticals raises $26 million CAD
- Turo, TradeRev headline first 2020 AutoTech meetup on Feb 6th
- Nicoya raises $10 million CAD to aid drug treatment development
- Flinks hires new CRO as company preps for growth
- Waterlooâs Brisk Synergies acquired by Transoft Solutions
- Supercluster Scale AI has chosen 14 projects, invested $32 million since receiving funding
- PointClickCare opens office in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
- Shopify Capital launches starter loans for United States merchants
- Today in partnerships: Toxon Technologies, Optigo Networks
- Medical Innovation Xchange incubator-hub has officially launched in Kitchener-Waterloo
- Venture Out launches new founders program pilot for LGBTQA+ entrepreneurs
- Canada exempt from new regulations imposed on foreign investment in US businesses
- Collision reveals first 100 speakers, new date for second year in Toronto
- Today in acquisitions: Q4, Centrilogic
- Canadian securities regulator publishes additional guidelines for trading crypto assets
- Carbon Engineering, Cabricrete among Canadian startups to emerge on the Global Cleantech 100
- Calgary healthtech and gaming featured at Thin Air Labs launch party
- ePACT receives $2.5 million debt financing from CIBC Innovation Banking
- Lori Casselman named as president and CRO of healthtech startup Wello
- Mogo experimenting with carbon offset program for new digital spending account
- Element AI launches third standalone product, Access Governor
- Digital Technology Supercluster announces 14 new projects receiving funding
- Equity analysis startup Canalyst raises $20 million Series B
- Toronto tech sector sees 16.6 percent jump in employment from 2018
- ArcTern Venturesâ Fund II reaches $200 million CAD in total capital commitments
- Toronto startup Nudge.ai is shutting down
- Wealthsimple moves into spending space with hybrid spending and saving account
- Lane opens new Toronto headquarters following year of growth
- Round13 surpasses $325 million in capital under management with launch of two new funds
- Workplace software integration startup Unito raises $10.5 million CAD Series A
- Concrete Ventures fund reaches $18 million to fuel seed-stage startups in Atlantic Canada
- Dialogue evolves product with the acquisition of German health services company
- Bonsai raises $4 million CAD to replicate new Complex Media shop with other publishers
- Wealthsimple for Advisors to be acquired by Purpose Advisor Solutions
- Uber and Lyft approved to operate in Metro Vancouver
- Lightspeed to open first office in Toronto
- Mastercard commits $510 million for new global cybersecurity centre in Vancouver
- Why investment in Canadian SaaS Startups shot up 200 percent in 2019
- DMZ, Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst launch cybersecurity-focused accelerator
- Salesforce hosting Dreampitch competition in Toronto with $130,000 funding prize
- Innovate Financial Health announces startups in first-ever cohort of impact accelerator
- Calgary-based Communo raises $3.3 million seed round
- Today in funding: Aquatic Informatics, Commerce.js, Simply Benefits
- Tealbook raises $6.53 million CAD “seed plus” round following pivot
- Nicoya launches third product following $10 million CAD raise
- FrontFundr approved to bring crowdfunding platform to Ontario
- Aifred Health sole Canadian team among 10 semi-finalists of global IBM Watson competition
- Propel opens applications for 2020 Incite accelerator program
- Miovision raises $120 million CAD round led by Telus Ventures
- Shopify to open first permanent office in Vancouver, hire 1,000 employees
- ATB Financial to host open finance hackathon in February
- OpenPhone announces new features, $2.6 million CAD round closed in 2018
- Today in funding: Contxtful, Lexop
- Why Interac partnered with Communitech to bring its innovation lab to life
- Janet Bannister named managing partner of Real Ventures
- TextNow inks nationwide talk & text plan deal in US, as CRTC set to review Canadian MVNO practices
- Intellitix Technologies acquires majority stake in event management platform CrowdBlink
- Upside surpasses $1.27 million in charitable donations following 2019 Canadian tech exits
- Consumer peer-to-peer lending platform goPeer receives approval from securities regulators
- Today in hires: C2 International, CDPQ, Good News Ventures
- Startup jobs of the week: Big Data Engineer, UI/UX Designer, Digital Content Producer
- Today in cohorts: VentureLAB, Climate Ventures
- Rangle makes second significant staff reduction in less than a year
- Lendesk CFO relaunches own startup, raises funding from Quicken Loans parent company
- Scotiabank donates $750,000 to University of Ottawa to launch ethical AI initiative
- Today in hires: Instacart, BlueCat
- BenchSci raises $29 million CAD Series B round
- Narwhal List 2020 tracks a year of massive raises, 42 potential Canadian Unicorns
- Twelve companies selected for second Women in Tech Silicon Valley Program
- Bus.com partners with Cirque du Soleil, helping tour members travel North America
- Artificial intelligence company Ambyint raises $19.9 million CAD Series B
- 11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2018
- Shopify CMO out as company reorganizes division
- C2 Montréal unveils new wave of speakers for 2020 conference
- How Interac keeps innovation flowing from the Lab to HQ
- Faire opens new office in Kitchener as part of âcommitment to Canadaâ
- Google to open three new Canadian offices in Toronto, Montreal, and Waterloo
- Today in hires: Nudge Rewards, Sportlogiq
- Top Hat raises $72 million CAD Series D, inks deals to disrupt the textbook industry
- Lightspeed partners with Stripe, launches payment product across North America
- Today in funding: Inkblot Therapy, UrtheCast, and Screenfluence
- Ceridian plans to hire 2,000 employees across Canada over five year period
- Today in funding: Elevate Farms, Virtual Gurus, Mechasys
- L-Spark, Queenâs University launch accelerator for women entrepreneurs
- Startup founders have positive outlook despite concerns over access to talent, SVB reports
- Scale Without Borders launches masterclass for newcomer entrepreneurs
- Today in acquisitions: mCloud, Converge Technology Solutions
- University of Waterloo holds grand opening of autonomous vehicle research facility
- Collision releases women in tech tickets, announces two new stages for 2020
- DMZ partners with UBI Global to advise international incubators
- Canada Stablecorp launches cryptocurrency pegged to Canadian dollar
- Make partners out of your investors and four other tips from successful Canadian founders
- Shopify surpasses revenue expectations in Q4 2019 financial results
- Brother of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson joins as chairman at Kitchener’s ApplyBoard
- Integrate.ai receives privacy certification developed by Ann Cavoukian
- As Canada talks cleantech at #Globe2020 Calgaryâs mayor looks to poach talent
- Mark Endras, Cedric Mathieu talk challenges and changes in Canadaâs AutoTech industry
- Dragons’ Den announces national audition tour dates for fifteenth season
- Break through the noise: eight tips to help you launch your branded podcast
- AgTech startup Semios raises $100 million CAD
- Today in Acquisitions: IntelliGO, Symon.AI
- Conquest raises $3 million round with Portag3 to launch AI-powered financial planning
- Colliersâ and Techstarsâ proptech accelerator opens applications for 2020 cohort
- Today in hires: General Fusion snags Hootsuite CFO, Accenture hires Alberta managing director
- TechAlliance moving to new space as it looks to spur growth for Southwestern Ontario tech
- Tech funding in the GTA reaches record $3.1 billion in 2019, report finds
- Today in acquisitions: BiblioCommons, Shoplogix
- Newly rebranded True North Festival announces keynote speaker for 2020
- British Columbia’s 2020 budget lacks new spending for tech and innovation
- PocketPills closes $7.35 million CAD Series A as it looks to complete national expansion
- Briza raises $3 million CAD as it looks to revolutionize commercial insurance
- CEO of BC’s Women Entrepreneurship Centre steps down after 15 years in role
- Broad Street Bulls VC launches $2.5 million fund to support early stage Prairie startups
- Today in funding: ClaroNav, Appili Therapeutics
- Shopify joins Facebookâs Libra Association after group sees several key departures
- #BCTECHSummit announces speakers for 2020 event
- Ocean Supercluster launches project to support Atlantic Canada startups
- mCloud Technologies, MediaValet, VersaPay among TSX 2020 Venture 50
- Lambda scandal emphasizes need for education industry to innovate responsibly and transparently
- Microsoft partners with Invest Ottawa to scale public sector startups
- Joint Canada-UK AI initiative to dole out over $10 million CAD for research projects
- New business incubator launched to support startups in Kawartha Lakes region
- Volta accepting applications for spring 2020 cohort
- Today in hires: ModiFace, Vistara Capital
- Today in healthtech: Cyclica case study validates platform, RBC acquires Dr. Bill
- Georgian Partners raises first Canadian venture fund valued at over $1 billion CAD
- Futurpreneur Canada, NACCA partner to support Indigenous entrepreneurs
- Report suggests making 407 autonomous vehicle highway, other ways prepare Toronto area for autonomous future
- Waterfront Toronto endorses most Sidewalk Labs innovations, as expert panel highlights challenges
- Inside Planswell’s messy relaunch, three months after bankruptcy
- Alberta Budget 2020 strikes similar chord for provinces’ tech sector
- RainStick Shower, HyIvy Health awarded collective $100,000 at Winter 2020 Fierce Founders Bootcamp
- Startupfest announces first round of speakers for 2020 tech event
- Today in hires: Vena Solutions, FounderFuel, Sagard Holdings
- Toronto machine learning startup Dessa acquired by Square
- Velocity launches and announces first close of pre-seed healthtech fund
- Atlantic Canada focuses on healthtech, with pitch challenge, recent investments
- Google to launch first Canadian accelerator in Kitchener-Waterloo
- Today in funding: TickSmith, Worximity Technology
- Lightspeed hires companyâs first chief people officer to help with international expansion
- How Furnishr Grew to $1 Million in Annual Revenue
- Googleâs new Kitchener-Waterloo accelerator reflects evolving commitment to Canada
- Techstars Startup Weekend gives Calgarians a taste of the startup life
- FinTech giant Brex opens first international office in Vancouver
- Mogo enters partnership, sells loan portfolio to goeasy for $31.9 million
- Bow Valley College nursing students assess virtual patients in new lab
- Capital Angel Network, Invest Ottawa announce new bootcamp for womxn founders
- Montreal’s nGUVU acquired by customer experience software company Genesys
- StandUp Ventures holds final close, secures $21 million for women-focused fund
- Canada sees improvement from 2019 as eight Canadian startups appear on CB Insightsâ AI 100
- Dream Maker Ventures launches network to connect underrepresented founders, funders
- Today in funding: Altus Assessments, Cuboh
- Portag3 appoints Chris OâNeill as partner, as firm looks to âplant a flagâ in the Valley
- Booking management platform Checkfront closes $9.3 million Series A
- How to set up your startup for remote work
- Canada, UK group to create global industry standard for inclusivity in VC
- Lessons learned attending eight days of tech events for International Women’s Day
- MindBridge acquires UK accountancy tech firm Brevis
- Hiring via the Global Talent Stream? Hereâs what weâve learned relocating 500-plus tech professionals
- Nudge.ai assets acquired less than two months after company shut down
- Report: Canadian VC investments set record in 2019 as tech sector dominates
- How a dual-track approach to fundraising can open doors for your startup
- Hamilton Lane pulls out of VCCI, leaving money on the table for the federal VC program
- How Québec, New Brunswick provincial budgets could impact the tech sector
- Today in funding: GradeSlam (Paper), Certn, Relay Platform
- Oil and gas intelligence startup Validere raises $20 million CAD
- Today in funding: PolicyMe, Version One, WELL Health, ColdBlock
- Startup jobs of the week: Chisel AI, Real Estate Webmasters, Memory Labs Inc.
- Challenger bank NorthOne raises $29.3 million CAD Series A
- Trulioo co-founder Stephen Ufford out as CEO, with Steve Munford set to take over
- 11 Canadian companies in Y Combinatorâs Winter 2020 Demo Day
- Toronto’s Sinclair Interplanetary to be acquired by Rocket Lab
- Holt Fintech Accelerator taps Elisabeth Laett as managing partner as it explores areas for growth
- AI platform developer Ada Support raises $63.7 million CAD Series B
- Uniting the Prairies postpones conference due to COVID-19 outbreak
- Grassroots database launched to help unemployed Canadian startup workers amid COVID-19
- Federal $82 billion COVID-19 emergency response package to support businesses, workers
- L-Spark set to host SaaS Showcase demo day virtually
- Collision secures, announces speakers for online version of 2020 conference
- Singularity University to host three-day virtual summit on COVID-19
- Canadian innovation hubs close doors to help prevent the spread of COVID-19
- Maple to launch COVID-19 screening for Ontario residents, free virtual clinic platform for doctors
- Dialogue launches virtual health tool to keep Canadians informed about COVID-19 outbreak
- Startupfest, Communitech’s True North latest COVID-19-related event cancellations
- Collision cancels 2020 in-person conference over COVID-19 fears
- Shopify cancels annual developer conference Unite amid concerns over COVID-19
- Toronto biotech startup plays role in “critical breakthrough” in coronavirus research
- Startup jobs of the week: Coinsquare, ecompliance, CBC Digital Products
- Toronto rideshare company Facedrive to acquire HiRide
- Survey finds Canadian small businesses seeing 50 percent revenue decline amid COVID-19
- Telus, Alberta partner to launch virtual doctor services to supplement provincial healthcare system
- Staffy pivots platform to direct workers to essential sectors during COVID-19 pandemic
- Hockeystick launches list of active funders as COVID-19 creates cash crunch for Canadian startups
- DNAstack launches new tool to help scientists share genomic data on COVID-19
- Lighter Capital expands debt financing business to Canada
- Cleantech startup BluWave-ai closes $3.9 million in seed funding
- #CDNtech CEOs sign open letter calling for greater government support during COVID-19
- FinTech lenders urge government to expand COVID-19 loan measures to better support small businesses
- Shopify Capital makes additional $200 million available to merchants affected by COVID-19
- Borrowell survey shows financial strain Canadians are under amid pandemic
- Lumeca approved to operate as virtual healthcare services provider in Saskatchewan
- Canada commits $192 million to COVID-19 SIF stream, signs deal with BlueDot to help track, make decisions on virus
- Grassroots Victoria group offering pro-bono tech and marketing support to local businesses
- DarwinAI, University of Waterloo develop neural network for COVID-19 detection
- Clio donates $1 million to help lawyers navigate pandemic challenges
- Halifax-based SalesRight secures additional $600,000 CAD in pre-seed round
- Canadian biotech supporting Chinaâs Centre for Disease Control to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The small business drop-off
- Export Development Canada provides more detail on emergency loan program
- In lieu of 2020 budget, Ontario puts forth fiscal update of $17 billion to fight COVID-19
- Rangle temporarily lays off 78 employees as financial pressures from pandemic hit #CDNtech
- #MoveTheDial pauses operations for foreseeable future amid COVID-19 pandemic
- New Ventures BC opens applications for 2020 competition
- Startup jobs of the week: Technical Product Manager, Oracle Architect, Customer Support Specialist
- DMZ launches #HackTheCurve to help develop solutions addressing COVID-19
- Knix launches fundraising campaign to donate medical equipment to healthcare workers
- OCE launches platform to help companies fill the product, service gaps related to pandemic
- CVCA urges government to expand BDC programs, take additional measures to support Canadian startups
- Communitech CEO Iain Klugman delays planned departure amid COVID-19
- Insig receives $5.94 million investment, partners with WELL Health to launch telehealth platform
- LifeSciences BC calls for suppliers to assist with equipment for healthcare workers fighting COVID-19
- Google commits to donating $800 million to COVID-19 response efforts
- Techstars Toronto announces 10 startups joining 2020 cohort
- 26 Vancouver hospitals adopt healthcare app designed by tech companies, BC government
- Ontario manufacturing Supercluster investing $50 million to support COVID-19 solutions
- Government expands procurement deals with Canadian startups to aid with COVID-19
- Jesse Rodgers out as CEO of Atlantic Canada hub Volta
- Startupfest introduces Pitch from Home as 2020 event moves online
- Dialogue enters partnership with Sun Life to offer virtual healthcare
- Québec organizations rally residents to buy from local startups on April 2
- Think Research, Ontario Psychological Association partner to offer virtual mental health services
- Ritual cuts staff in half, reduces operations due to COVID-19
- Join BetaKit’s live AMA Thursday with Michael Hyatt on surviving a Black Swan
- CEOs say lack of targeted support will shutter Ontario tech companies in open letter to Premier
- Canadian Senate passes $82 billion COVID-19 federal support package
- Ontario health agency signs deal with Canadian startup to more easily screen and track COVID-19 patients
- Canadian government refocuses innovation, procurement programs in fight against COVID-19
- Canadian tech CEOs: BDC loans, payroll subsidy not enough to stop COVID-19 bankruptcies
- Tailscale launches remote work network access technology with $3 million seed round
- Mogo lays off 30 percent of staff, makes company wide cuts citing COVID-19 uncertainty
- Startup jobs of the week: VIZIYA, CBC Digital Products, Perpetua
- Traction on Demand, BC government create platform to coordinate medical supply donations
- Federal governmentâs updated work-sharing program more open to startups amid COVID-19
- Government drafting legislation on wage subsidy ahead of recalling parliament says Trudeau
- Survey finds 82 percent of tech CEOs plan to make layoffs after being left out of federal wage subsidy
- District Ventures Capital secures additional $35 million, closes first fund at $100 million
- City of Toronto reclaims startup lead as it restructures to better fight COVID-19
- Raw Signal Group launches online course to help bosses manage new COVID-19 realities
- Shopify cancels plans to host annual developer conference virtually
- How counselling changed my life as a startup founder and CEO
- Damon Motorcycles raises additional $3 million, acquires Mission Motorsâ portfolio
- Creative Destruction Lab launches COVID-19 rapid response program
- InkSmith to hire 100 employees as it ramps up development of face shields for healthcare workers
- InkSmith launches new company to address shortage of medical equipment
- Waterloo tech companies join demands for wage subsidy modifications in letter to feds
- Feds work to revise wage subsidy, but Canadian tech reaction is mixed
- Canadian tech companies stepping up to help remote workers survive COVID-19
- Trudeau announces 75 percent wage subsidies, interest-free loans for Canadian small businesses
- Mejuri lays off 15 percent of staff as itâs forced to close all retail stores due to pandemic
- Startup jobs of the week: Digital Content Producer, HR Generalist, Agile Coach
- Lightspeed sees reduced demand for e-commerce services, as restaurants, retailers heavily affected
- BDC launches matching investment program for Canadian VC-backed companies affected by COVID-19
- Federal governmentâs 75 percent wage subsidy passed by Senate
- Shopify’s Tobi LĂŒtke and wife Fiona McKean pivot charitable foundation, make donations to fight COVID-19
- Vector Institute repurposing AI infrastructure to support Ontarioâs COVID-19 health data project
- Inkblot Therapy raises additional $700,000, bringing private placement to $1.7 million CAD
- âHope is not a strategyâ: Michael Hyatt on how to survive a Black Swan
- Clearbanc tightens belt following new cashflow product for COVID-impacted companies
- Shopify’s email marketing tool Shopify Email launches globally
- Ecobee lays off 10% of staff, cancels new product line in COVID-19 market
- Tech entrepreneurs launch donation platform to help Canadian local businesses affected by COVID-19
- Blue J Legal receives $2 million for legal-tech platform
- Atomic Loans raises $3.4 million CAD as it looks to bring decentralized finance to bitcoin market
- CCI tells feds emergency wage subsidy must be expanded to support Canadian tech
- Health Canada expedites approval of 1QBit chest radiography AI tool to help fight COVID-19
- SkipTheDishes commits $15 million to COVID-19 relief efforts, partners with Food Banks Canada
- BDC exploring matching investments for angel-backed startups amid COVID-19
- As Lighthouse Labs faces staff cuts, extends coding scholarships to COVID-19 jobless
- Federal government expands eligibility for small business loans, announces rent assistance
- Banks open up applications for $40,000 interest-free emergency business loans
- MaRS’ Yung Wu: “we have days, not weeks and months” to preserve innovation sector
- The three big questions Canadian tech startups are asking during the COVID-19 crisis
- Cam Linke joins Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute as CEO
- Shopify challenges its partners to build an app that helps entrepreneurs during COVID-19
- Minister Bains says retaining top tier tech talent critical to Canada’s economic recovery
- Federal government allocates $306 million to Indigenous businesses during COVID-19 pandemic
- Some banks begin rollout of EDC loan guarantee for Canadian businesses
- Q4 Inc. secures $25 million CAD from CIBC Innovation Banking
- The one book Erin Bury thinks every startup founder should read
- Morneau provides more detail on governmentâs 75 percent wage subsidy for Canadian businesses
- Here are the final details on the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy
- Shopify Capital launches in Canada to provide small business loans to merchants
- Techstars to hold Startup Weekend virtually as it shifts event focus to COVID-19 solutions
- PocketHealth raises $9.1 million CAD in first round of funding
- Tech reaction mixed to increased scrutiny on foreign investments as overseas buyers express interest
- Clear Blue Technologies secures $5 million debt financing contract with BDC
- E-grocery tech project receives $250,000 from Digital Technology Supercluster to build provincial system
- Applications for 75 percent wage subsidy to open April 27
- Innovate Edmonton loses VP, director of strategy as Edmonton Economic Development Corporation makes COVID-19 layoffs
- Saskatchewan’s startup ecosystem will not bounce back like mature tech markets
- Sport technology startup Form raises $12 million Series A
- FreshBooks reduces headcount by 9%, CEO says company remains in âgrowth modeâ despite COVID-19
- OneEleven announces it is permanently ceasing operations
- Applications are open for Startupfestâs $100,000 investment prize
- Proptech startup Honestdoor raises $500,000 in first round of funding
- Eddy Travels adds $912,000 CAD to pre-seed round to create features helping travellers during pandemic
- BookJane repurposes platform to help Ontario Medical Association fight COVID-19
- Kanata North Business Association launches $200,000 COVID-19 fund
- BDC survey says 90 percent of Canadian entrepreneurs feel negative impact of COVID
- Applications for emergency co-lending begin to open as BDC finalizes program
- Shaquille OâNeal joins speakers set to headline ‘Collision From Home’
- Trudeau announces 75 percent rent relief program for small, medium-sized businesses
- Feds to provide $600 million for SIF to fund private sector trials of COVID-19 therapies
- Alberta tech sector pens open letter to provincial government calling for urgent support
- Ada Support lays off 23 percent of staff amid uncertainty caused by pandemic
- BDC Capital reveals more details on investment matching program for VC-backed companies
- Bus.com taps Maxie Lafleur as CEO as startup modifies offering during COVID-19
- Sampler mobilizing consumers to sew medical masks for essential workers
- OMERS Ventures announces first transatlantic fund at $750 million USD
- Foodora to cease operations in Canada, citing highly saturated market
- Canadian coding schools urge feds to expand eligibility for COVID-19 student relief measures
- Juno College of Technology sells 12-acre campus, introduces Pay-What-You-Can ISA model amid COVID-19
- Shopify launches consumer-facing shopping assistant app
- SR&ED claims reduced due to federal COVID-19 assistance
- Perimeter Medical Imaging receives $10.4 million CAD grant, appoints new CEO, CFO
- Coping ‘the right way’ during COVID-19
- BrainBox AI raises $12 million âpre-Series Aâ to expand into new markets
- Report: Startups could fuel the recovery of Canadaâs economy
- Hamzah Nassif joins Real Ventures as second partner in Toronto
- Today in funding: Provision Analytics, Ackroo, MergeBase, Obie.ai
- Give-a-Seat adapts charity platform to promote Quebec products during COVID-19
- Atlantic Canadaâs Propel accelerator shifts to continuous intake model
- Clio, Trulioo, Terramera among finalists for 2020 BC Technology Impact Awards
- Federal government commits $962 million to Regional Development Agencies, Community Futures Network
- Top Hat launches free version of platform as universities move to online learning
- Vancouver FinTech startup working with financial institutions to facilitate federal COVID-19 loans
- What your startup can learn from the Navy SEALs
- Coveo CEO Louis TĂȘtu believes tech will emerge victorious from COVID-19
- Innovation challenges launched to help southwestern Ontario tech rebuild, recover from COVID-19
- TouchBistro furloughs 131 employees as restaurants hit hard by COVID-19 pandemic
- Wattpadâs Allen Lau on surviving the dot-com bubble, SARS, and the financial crises
- Canada’s open banking consultations delayed until Fall âat the earliestâ
- Applications open for Lazaridis Instituteâs 2020 ScaleUp Program
- Minister Joly says details on RDA funding expected soon, discusses federal support of tech sector
- How some provinces are facilitating the federal commercial rent relief program
- EDC executive vice president on the agencyâs COVID-19 response
- Ayogo Health raises $7.5 million Series B for behavioural support platform
- Shopify launches new POS connecting brick-and-mortar with online sales
- How Shopify turns ideas into insights
- Canadian venture capital investment down seven percent in Q1 2020, CVCA finds
- Zone Startups Calgary to offer support to early-stage AgTech startups through new partnership
- Boosted.ai raises $11.2 million CAD Series A led by Portag3 Ventures
- Silicon Valley Bank appoints former PayPal president Paul Parisi as new head of Canada
- ApplyBoard raises $100 million CAD, claims $2 billion âunicornâ valuation
- Online grocery startup Goodfood to open new fulfillment centre in Toronto
- Today in Hires: Hootsuite, Element AI
- PointClickCare acquires analytics solution Co-Pilot from Consonus Healthcare
- Tehama raises $14 million CAD as it looks to address demand for remote working solutions
- As sales return, CareGuide looks to rehire furloughed staff following COVID-19 layoffs
- Federal government commits additional $250 million in IRAP funding to support high growth startups
- Shopify sees 47 percent revenue growth in Q1 2020 amid impacts of COVID-19
- AlayaCare, Dialogue among projects receiving $3.4 million from Scale AI supercluster
- Shopify begins expansion of fulfillment network to Canadian merchants amid COVID-19
- Industry group presses for strong federal procurement strategy for Canadaâs tech sector
- Frederictonâs Potential Motors raises $2.5 million seed round
- OneEleven asks startups for abated rent, then retracts, claiming “misunderstanding”
- With $73 million CAD, Symend closes one of the largest Series B rounds in recent Alberta history
- Board communicated shutdown decision to OneEleven executive director
- L-SPARK announces first cohort of Compass North accelerator program
- Startup jobs of the week: Senior Full Stack Developer, HR Generalist, Sales Operations Manager
- Collision to give 1,000 laid-off Toronto residents free access to virtual conference
- SAM raises $3.6 million for platform that helps spot global crises
- Backed by Shopify co-founder Scott Lake, RiSC Capital launches new early-stage fund focused on deep tech
- City of Edmonton to discuss proposed model for new innovation entity
- Federal government extends 75% emergency wage subsidy beyond June
- New federal council to seek input from “industrial sectors” on challenges created by COVID-19
- Proptech startup Doorr raises $1.75 million seed round
- Finger Food Advanced Technology acquired by Unity Technologies
- Canadian VCs launch initiative to provide one-on-one support to startups during pandemic
- 11 startups to pitch at NEXT Canadaâs virtual Venture Reveal
- Not fine, and thatâs ok. A model for managing teams through crisis
- Bonjour Startup MontreÌal, Desjardins, Google launch QuĂ©bec-focused Post-COVID competition
- Government expands BCAP, announces COVID-19 support for Canada’s largest employers
- This yearâs Colliers Proptech Accelerator program postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19
- Fresh Prep raises $7 million Series A as it tracks increased interest amid pandemic
- Shopify bringing Tap & Chip Card Reader to Canada
- City leading Toronto tech initiative to get local small businesses online
- Ontario to deploy Kitchener startupâs remote learning platform across school districts
- Dialogue partners with Canadian insurance company iA Financial Group
- Outgoing innovation commissioner says British Columbia needs to create innovation hubs
- Propel CEO Barry Bisson to retire from role by the Fall
- Top Hat restructures, makes staff reductions as COVID-19 affects higher education
- Loopio lays off 11 staff as it sees increased âscrutinyâ from buyers during pandemic
- Details on EDC, BDC issuing larger loans to medium-sized businesses through expanded BCAP
- Intersect CEO departs company following recent layoffs
- âZiva Dynamics raises $9.8 million CAD for character creation technology
- Ritual, City of Toronto partner to provide free ordering tool to local foodservice businesses
- Government reveals details on $962 million Regional Development Agencies COVID-19 funding
- Nudge.AI co-founder Steven Woods joins Benevity as chief technology officer
- Ripple Ventures closes an initial $14 million CAD for new Opportunity Fund
- Wattpad creates fund to develop TV, film projects in latest attempt to âverticalizeâ business
- Five Atlantic Canada startups receive investment at virtual Volta Cohort pitch event
- Facedrive looks to acquire Foodora Canada assets as it launches food delivery service
- Government to expedite approvals for temporary foreign workers during COVID-19 pandemic
- Ocean Supercluster calling for projects that support Canadaâs ocean sector during COVID-19
- Startup jobs of the week: Altus Group, LMN, Viziya
- Moves expedites launch to provide loans to gig economy workers during pandemic
- CIFAR launches 14 AI research projects to help in fight against COVID-19
- Government extends emergency wage subsidy to end of August, to assess 30 percent revenue criteria
- Kin launches ad network to help generate demand for its cryptocurrency
- Canadian groups urge governments to implement funding for underrepresented entrepreneurs amid COVID-19
- The51, Atlantic Womenâs Venture Fund partner on women-focused venture initiative
- Canadian government commits $15 million in COVID-19 support to women entrepreneurs
- Nearly half of Canadian tech companies report decrease in value due to COVID-19, survey finds
- Survey: Half of Canadian East Coast startups are feeling financial impact of COVID-19
- Government expands criteria of $40,000 small business CEBA loan program
- Calgary Technologies breaks ground on planned innovation centre
- Applications for federal emergency rent relief program for small businesses to open May 25
- City of Edmonton approves new innovation entity
- Shopify opens applications for fulfillment network to merchants
- Shopify to offer business account, card, and rewards program with new Shopify Balance
- Applications open for LEEFF loan program for large Canadian businesses affected by COVID-19
- Shopify partners with Facebook to launch Facebook Shops
- Alberta Enterprise Corporation launches $10 million Accelerate Fund III
- Report: One-quarter of Canadian startups have made layoffs amid COVID-19
- Microsoft, Dream Legacy Foundation partner to support underrepresented founders
- Lightspeed sees record uptake amid COVID-19 despite concerns over reduced demand
- Volta launches program to help Atlantic Canada founders navigate COVID-19 recovery
- Two Northern Ontario teams selected to receive funding from Vale COVID-19 Challenge
- Group of Shopify volunteers create free COVID-19 contact tracing app
- Jon French departs NEXT Canada to take entrepreneurship role at University of Toronto
- Following layoffs, Sensibill secures $5 million in debt financing
- Government launches hotline offering small businesses financial planning, COVID-19 recovery advice
- Applications open for Canadian rent relief program for small businesses
- Emerge Commerce looking to go public on TSXV via reverse takeover
- Director-general of World Health Organization to speak at Collision from Home
- AbCellera partners with American pharmaceutical company on multi-year antibody discovery project
- CRA extends tax filing deadlines for corporations and trusts to September 1
- Future Skills Centre to invest $15 million in projects that support workers affected by COVID-19
- Cinchy secures $10 million, looks to expand data network into healthcare amid COVID-19
- Top Hat to acquire Nelson Education’s post-secondary textbook business
- CI Financial extends ownership of WealthBar to 100 percent of the robo-advisor startup
- Kitchener-based self-driving industrial robot maker Otto Motors expands into Japan
- 1QBit, AlayaCare among latest projects to receive support from Digital Technology Supercluster
- Medical Innovation Xchange partners with Ontario government to assist companies in retooling for COVID-19
- DarwinAI brings explainability platform to aerospace industry through Lockheed Martin partnership
- AbCellera secures $144 million CAD Series B funding round
- Koho partnering with Hyr to offer early access to paycheques and government support
- Benevity founder Bryan de Lottinville to become executive chairman as Andrew Huddart takes over CEO role
- Canadian startup Boss Insights helping American small businesses navigate PPP loans
- Atlantic Womenâs Venture Fund launches inaugural fund, Danielle Graham joins as investment principal
- Toronto ShopHERE initiative goes national with $1 million investment from Google Canada
- DMZ launches virtual incubator program with Town of Innisfil to help scale tech startups
- Element AI launches new collaborations in Singapore, South Korea
- BehrTech receives $3 million grant to build industrial IoT lab in Toronto
- Scale AI invests $10 million to create ten AI university chairs across Canada
- 15 percent of Canadian occupations to decline by 2030, says Brookfield Institute
- Phelix.ai raises $1 million seed round led by Well Health Technologies
- Creative Destruction Lab officially kicks off COVID-19 recovery program
- MaRS shares tribute following the passing of IAF managing director Barry Gekiere
- Canadian angel groups mixed on capital availability in COVID-19 world
- Material science company Trusscore raises $5.33 million seed round
- Spiderwort closes $3.4 million CAD in seed financing
- Tugboat Logic closes $10.8 million CAD led by Inovia Capital
- Sonic Incytes raises $3.5 million seed round to commercialize liver health assessment device
- Ritual reportedly raises $29.8 million CAD following COVID-19 layoffs
- Ontario enacts temporary change to layoff regulations to help businesses with recovery
- Montreal’s Vention raises $38 million CAD Series B
- Poka closes $6.4 million CAD for connected factory worker platform
- Lack of VC activity caused by pandemic not reflected in Q1 2020, says CVCAâs Kim Furlong
- How Tech Can Help During COVID-19, From a Doctor Who Runs a Startup
- Ten members added to federal governmentâs Industry Strategy Council
- Nesto raises $11.5 million Series A round as it looks to âsimplifyâ the mortgage industry
- Front Row Ventures relaunches women’s accelerator virtually after pausing amid pandemic
- Canadians can now buy their own PPE direct from The Canadian Shield
- Sylvain Carle on his departure from Real Ventures and “next chapter”
- McRock Capital announces initial close of $80 million for Fund II
- McRock Capital holds final close of Fund II at $112 million
- Lumeca Health, SaskTel partner to provide residents of Cowessess First Nation virtual care
- Greeneye Technology raises $7 million USD seed round with Panache Ventures, Techstars
- Report: Canada ranked fourth startup ecosystem globally as Toronto, Vancouver drop for second year
- BetaKit, Jobbio, and TalentMinded team up to help unemployed Canadian tech workers BounceBack
- Digital Technology Supercluster investing in eight new projects through COVID-19 program
- Digital pharmacy startup PocketPills tracks increased growth amid COVID-19
- Slack reports record customer growth as global workforces go remote
- Invixium raises $3 million amid growing demand for touchless biometrics fever detection
- Federal government, Québec announce $50 million fund to support Montréal small businesses
- Google for Startups Accelerator Canada to be held virtually in September
- Three projects win $100,000 in prizes from QuĂ©becâs Post-COVID competition
- Founder Institute MontreÌal, MedStack launch digital health startup fellowship
- IRAP says 97 percent of $250 million Innovation Assistance Program already committed
- Multiple organizations bidding to acquire OneEleven from Oxford
- Federal government creates web hub for organizations buying and selling PPE
- Coinsquare CEO says company was contacted about potential data breach affecting thousands of users last year
- TouchBistro hires new CFO, keeps eye on IPO despite pandemic market uncertainty
- Enterprise software startup jSonar raises $50 million USD from Goldman Sachs
- Oxford reportedly moving forward with OCE proposal for OneEleven
- Lane raises $10 million CAD Series A as it sees increased demand for workplace communication technology
- Digital Main Street receives $57 million from federal government, Ontario
- Six Ontario companies secure funding from VentureLAB’s innovation fund
- Wave expands into banking with new small business account and debit card
- OSC finds Quadriga CEO ran âPonzi schemeâ leading up to crypto exchangeâs downfall
- Banff Spark accelerator looks to foster women entrepreneurship in media with second cohort
- Pascal Financial integrates with Fidelity as it launches private placement offering
- Future Skills Centre funds 30 projects testing innovative solutions for Canadaâs evolving labour market
- Federal government looking to extend Canada Emergency Response Benefit
- New partnership allows Shopify merchants to sell products on Walmart website
- With $5.8 million owed to creditors, TribalScale files for insolvency in bid to restructure company
- Victory Square Health acquires COVID-19 antibody test from Brazilian company
- Canadian government extends Canada Emergency Response Benefit by eight weeks
- Nicoya to receive funding, advisory services through NRC IRAP to develop COVID-19 test
- OMERSâ Laura Lenz, Information Venture Partners among winners of the 2020 CVCA Awards
- Canada, France officially launch global initiative to advance responsible use of AI
- EDC prepared to commit $250 million to investment matching program
- Digital marketing startup Funnelytics raises $1.5 million CAD in seed funding
- Facedrive opens private placement as it launches Foods platform, gears up for expansion
- Construction delivery startup GoFor Industries raises $9.8 million seed round
- Federal government commits $492 million in grants for virus, AI research
- Sensibill to offer digital receipt management solution to Chase Bank customers
- CrowdRiff launches Localhood to help amplify small businesses during pandemic
- Food-X Technologies brings on Attabotics to streamline its fulfillment operations
- Waterloo software startup launches encrypted video conferencing platform
- 3D visualization software startup PreVu3D raises $2.5 million seed round
- Federal government launching national contact tracing app in collaboration with Shopify, BlackBerry
- How COVID-19 set the stage for a Canadian healthtech boom
- Applications open Friday for updated $40,000 CEBA small business loan
- FounderFuel announces startups in virtual 2020 cohort
- ModiFace, Amazon partnership allows Canadian shoppers to try on cosmetics virtually
- ArcTern Ventures brings on new managing partner and investment director as it eyes international markets
- Google to launch Canada, US accelerator focused on women founders
- Availability of expanded $40,000 CEBA small business loans delayed
- Toronto-based challenger bank Stack acquired by Credit Sesame
- Bruce Croxon and Vidyard CFO Matt Hodgson share tips for building resilient SaaS startups
- Ten cleantech companies receive $41.8 million from federal government
- CDL-Rockies introduces new agriculture stream
- Vancity, Womenâs Enterprise Centre launch loan program for women entrepreneurs
- New federal recovery panel has opportunity to build a stronger Canada out of pandemicâs rubble
- Humi raises $15 million Series A to further develop HR, payroll software
- Government signs deal with Lind Equipment to test UV sanitizer tech
- Ontario Supercluster invests over $6 million in three COVID-related projects
- Librestream raises $24 million Series D as it eyes new verticals for remote communication platform
- Cyclica secures $23 million as it looks to create âthe future biotech pipelineâ
- Web Summit to be held in-person and online using event software demoed at Collision
- As Trump suspends H-1B visa, Canadian tech looks to attract foreign talent (again)
- Bench re-hires workers as sales rebound following shift to helping US businesses with COVID relief
- Terramera raises $4.6 million CAD Series B extension to reduce global pesticide use
- ResQ uses platform to help service industry deliver meals to frontline workers in Toronto
- Bonjour Startup MontrĂ©al launches tool to help track cityâs startup ecosystem
- Startupfest to host 2020 festival through hybrid in-person and online model
- Montréal startup Carebook partners with Rexall to launch Be Well pharmacy app
- Peer-to-peer car-sharing company Turo launches in British Columbia
- Adaptiiv wins $100,000 in Atlantic Canadaâs first Health Challenge Pitch Event
- Facebook commits $1 million in ad credits to ShopHERE initiative
- Velocity announces winners of its first virtual pitch competition
- Terramera leading project to predict future strains of COVID-19 with AI
- With the US turning away talent, can Canada grab the global lead on innovation during COVID-19?
- Trudeau highlights importance of Canadian tech in COVID-19 response at Collision from Home
- Sidewalk Labs reportedly closes Toronto office, lays off 20 employees
- Sidewalk Labs pulls commitment to Quayside Venture Partners, as investors look to launch new fund
- Applications open for expanded $40,000 CEBA small business loans
- Shopify partners with four Indigenous-led organizations to offer e-commerce education
- FundThrough commits $10 million to help small businesses after federal government rejects FinTech COVID-19 relief proposals
- Calgary FinTech startup Helcim develops own payment infrastructure, following in footsteps of Stripe, Square
- Video surveillance software startup Solink raises $23 million CAD Series B round
- Thoughtexchange raises $10 million Series B extension as platform usage jumps by 600 percent
- Canadian tech and innovation leaders launch new anti-racism coalition
- Federal government extends commercial rent relief program through July
- Frank And Oak files for protection from creditors under Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
- Tom Keiser to replace Ryan Holmes as CEO of Hootsuite
- Behavox to increase Canadian presence with plans to open a 400-person Montreal office
- Actua, Canadore College launch virtual Indigenous STEAM program
- AccessNow wins $250,000 USD Novartis Prize for its accessibility platform
- Nuvyyo raises $6 million Series B to ramp up production of its digital video recorder system
- Alberta recovery plan includes $175 million for Alberta Enterprise Corporation, commitment to create innovation strategy
- Ryersonâs DMZ reaches $400,000 of $1 million goal to expand Black Innovation Fellowship
- Marketing analytics startup StrategyBox raises $2 million in seed funding
- AI startup Rubikloud acquired by Ottawa-based Kinaxis for $81.4 million CAD
- Federal government launches digital solution to connect business registries across Canada
- Financeit, BC government launch low-interest home energy financing program
- Health appointment booking platform Chronometriq acquires Health Myself
- Tech leaders launch free mentorship initiative for underrepresented tech workers
- Flinks looks to expand US presence with $16.2 million Series A
- FansUnite Entertainment to acquire Askott Entertainment and create new gaming tech company
- Clearview AI to stop offering facial recognition technology in Canada
- More federal assistance for Indigenous businesses required, says COVID-19 taskforce
- Accelerate Okanagan, Digital Technology Supercluster launch program for women entrepreneurs in BC
- Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce signs onto BlackNorth Initiative to remove barriers for Black-owned businesses
- Uber launches grocery delivery service in Toronto, Montreal
- Five student-led startups graduate from Platform Calgaryâs summer AI incubator
- Ideon Technologies raises $1.3 million as it plans to innovate resource exploration industry
- Liberalsâ economic snapshot reveals $343.2 billion deficit following COVID-19 relief measures
- Report: Nearly half of Canadian VC firms have seen a decline in deal flow during COVID-19
- Akerna closes $46 million acquisition of Toronto-based Ample Organics
- Ontario court approves Facedriveâs acquisition of Foodora Canada assets
- Montrealâs new international AI research hub opens, announces board of directors
- FedDev commits $4.5 million to support Franco-Ontarian SMEs through regional recovery fund
- Untether AI closes additional $9.4 million CAD from Radical Ventures, Intel Capital
- Wealthsimple to expand into crypto trading
- Federal government to extend 75 percent wage subsidy into December
- Bridgit closes $9.4 million CAD strategic investment led by Autodesk
- Cisco to provide small businesses with COVID-19 ârecovery kitsâ through new contest
- Intuit Canada, Highline Beta launch new financial health-focused accelerator
- Willful raises $800,000 to help grow digital estate planning business
- National Bank launches venture fund, looks to raise $200 million to support COVID-19 recovery
- Shopify, Canadian government launch initiative to help small businesses grow online amid COVID-19
- Sustainable Development Technology Canada invests in 17 cleantech startups through seed fund
- Today in funding: Sampler, DivDot, Hardbacon
- Security software company GoSecure raises $27 million CAD Series E
- BuyBack Booth secures $5.2 million in seed funding to bring smartphone diagnostic robot to market
- AI, FinTech startup Senso raises $4 million CAD to further fuel US expansion
- Sylvain Carle to join SecondMuse Capital to scale firm’s climate impact investing
- Clearbanc launches free platform to help startups determine their valuation
- Three Ottawa tech companies receive over $11 million from FedDev Ontario
- Ottawa, Calgary gain momentum in CBRE North American top tech talent report as Toronto falls one spot to fourth
- BMO Financial Group, Deloitte launch new grant program for women-owned businesses
- Why Canada lags in the global Deep Tech race
- Tech sector reiterates calls to expand wage subsidy as Canadian government asks for feedback
- Vancouverâs Aquatic Informatics acquired by Danaherâs Water Quality Platform
- Reports provide snapshot on how small businesses are faring as Canada reopens from COVID-19
- Mednow.ca raises $6.5 million to connect Canadians with pharmacies virtually
- Vendasta to hire 100 new employees in Saskatchewan
- Canadian government looking to waive 30 percent revenue decline criteria for 75 percent wage subsidy
- Quebec RDA grants over $3 million to 14 projects for young entrepreneurs
- Swyft raises $3 million CAD to expand same-day delivery software
- FinTech startup Mylo rebrands to Moka, launches in France as part of European expansion
- Toronto’s Cryptonumerics acquired by Snowflake
- Wattpad investigating reported massive data breach of user records
- Propel appoints Kathryn Lockhart as CEO
- Scale AI, partners invest $29 million into five artificial intelligence projects
- Amplitude holds second close of health fund, adds Nancy Harrison as venture partner
- Government invests $2.1 million to support Francophone businesses in Western Canada
- Victoria-based Redbrick acquires website-building startup Leadpages
- OSC alleges Coinsquare manipulated market, misled clients about trading volumes
- Gerri Sinclair named BCâs new innovation commissioner
- FedDev Ontario invests $4 million in women-led small businesses through RRRF
- Coinsquare CEO and president agree to step down, pay “penalties” in settlement with OSC
- Bird Canada brings e-scooters to Ottawa in new pilot
- MaRS officially launches program developed using federal Scale-Up Platform funding
- PPE manufacturer The Canadian Shield launches new surgical mask line
- Wattpad notifies users, shares new details of reported data breach
- Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund invests collective $7.25 million in AltaML, Harvest Builders
- Win Bear appointed a managing director at Kensington Capital Partners
- Today in funding: Sampler, Newtopia, Borrowell & BlueDot raise capital
- Accelerate Okanagan, Community Futures of the North Okanagan to launch new innovation centre in Vernon
- Uniting the Prairies to be held virtually in September
- Clutch raises $7 million CAD seed round to expand online used car retail platform
- Vision Critical raises $26.7 million CAD in growth debt financing
- Royal Bank of Canada, Borealis AI partner with Red Hat, NVIDIA on new AI computing platform
- Spring Activator launches program to help BC entrepreneurs recover from COVID-19
- Knockri raises $3 million seed round to eliminate job interview bias through AI
- City of Toronto commits $250,000 to expansion of Black Innovation Fellowship
- FedDev invests $4.8 million to open cleantech accelerator at Trent University
- Quebec RDA invests nearly $13 million in 30 cleantech projects across the province
- Ryersonâs Legal Innovation Zone announces international (virtual) tech entrepreneurship program
- Alberta recovery plan a âfirst stepâ in addressing tech sectorâs support recommendations
- 14 Canadian startups receive $46.3 million from Sustainable Development Technology Canada
- VC division makes up almost half of BDC’s $218 million net loss for 2020 fiscal year, amid COVID-19 volatility
- Fable Tech Labs raises $2 million seed round to bring accessibility to digital products
- Minister Ng open to expanding CAN Health procurement project model to other sectors
- Senate passes changes to 75 percent wage subsidy
- Report: altering Canadaâs approach to public procurement could stimulate innovation
- SaaS startup Conexiom raises $40 million in strategic growth financing
- CRA extends payment deadline on tax returns, offers interest relief on tax debts
- Diagram-backed Wingocard closes $2 million to bring mobile banking to teens
- Two years after acquisition of Hubdoc, Xero names Toronto its North American tech hub
- StellarAlgo closes $1.5 million to help sports, live audience sector better engage with fans
- Shopify revenue grows 97 percent in Q2 2020 as large number of retailers join platform
- Elevate cancels 2020 tech festival, secures $5 million to launch new global innovation hub
- Financial Data Exchange launches in Canada looking to create industry standard for financial data sharing
- FedDev Ontario invests $30 million in eight Waterloo Region companies
- BC RDA invests nearly $3 million in Innovate BC to help tech entrepreneurs recover from COVID-19
- Mogo officially launches carbon offsetting digital spending account, MogoSpend
- OSC introduces interim order to help facilitate startup securities crowdfunding
- Black Professionals in Tech Network partners with Canadian companies to support Black tech workers
- Report: Canadian angel investment reached record-breaking $163.9 million in 2019
- L-Spark launches new accelerator program for connected medical device ventures
- Top Hat launches new communication tool to help students, professors adapt to virtual education
- Canadian government officially launches COVID-19 âexposure notificationâ app
- Trudeau reveals plans to end CERB, transition recipients to EI in September
- eSight launches fourth version of wearable glasses for people with visual impairments
- Two Canadian startups among Holt FinTech Acceleratorâs 2020 cohort
- Today in funding: Medzy, Rapid Novor, Byta, VodaSafe
- Clean Works Medical, Pure Life Machinery receive $2 million from Ontarioâs COVID-19 fund to sanitize PPE
- BusPatrol opens Montreal R&D centre, plans to create 150 jobs over two years
- How SAFEs can be dangerous: what early-stage entrepreneurs should know
- Federal government commits $78 million to new COVID-19 vaccine trials and research
- Ocean Supercluster launches $29 million Ocean Aware project
- Lightspeed launches new SMB loan offering with payments giant Stripe
- Platterz raises $43.8 million CAD Series B, rebrands to Thriver as company pivots post-pandemic
- Digital Technology Supercluster invests $30 million in 17 projects through COVID-19 program
- Canada Learning Code launches K-12 computer science education framework
- Yourgene to acquire BC BioTech Coastal Genomics for up to $17.9 million CAD
- Amii among three orgs receiving $10 million from Alberta government for cleantech projects
- Wealthsimple receives conditional approval from regulators to test crypto platform
- Today in funding: Dapper Labs, FleetOps, Plurilock, Fortai
- New survey reveals most popular federal COVID-19 support programs for businesses
- New Volta CEO optimistic about Atlantic Canadaâs recovery from COVID-19
- Canadian tech says continued IRAP IAP funding âcriticalâ to sustaining business amid pandemic
- Federal government commits additional $41 million in COVID-19 support to Indigenous businesses
- 14 startups participating in Silicon Valleyâs Canadian Technology Accelerator Digital
- EnergyX raises $1 million from BDC Capital to fuel US expansion
- CRA launches updated calculator for Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy
- Cleantech startup Flyscan Systems secures $5.7 million CAD in venture funding
- Out-collaborate your competition: The growth formula for FinTechs
- Shopify cuts office staff amid remote work shift
- Following pivot and pandemic-fuelled growth, Zoom.ai raises $600,000 in funding
- Atomwise raises $163 million CAD Series B
- Halifax startup Groundhog lawsuit alleges US-based ConsenSys stole code to create rival product
- Women-owned businesses suffering greater staff reductions due to COVID-19, report finds
- Intuit Canada joins Digital Main Street to support small businesses with digital transformation
- Communitech announces founders, launches 2020 Fierce Founders Bootcamp
- Newfoundlandâs InspectAR acquired by Cadence Design Systems
- CFIB leads petition urging federal government to make changes to CEBA, CECRA, CEWS, CERB
- theBoardlist expands platform to support underrepresented men of colour
- Athlete Technology Group pivots from event to company connecting athlete and tech entrepreneurs
- Ontario launches consultations as it looks to create new policy framework on privacy protection
- Appili receives FDA approval to test drug that could prevent COVID-19 spread at long-term care facilities
- Workplace wellness startup Sprout acquires Calgary-based Vivametrica
- Toronto’s Kira Systems provides tech for new database fostering police reform discussions
- Applications open for the expanded Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy
- Properly to allow customers to buy new home using current home’s equity, before listing
- Attabotics raises $66 million CAD Series C round
- Rise People launches advisor engagement platform for Sun Life clients
- ThoughtWire closes $11.5 million in debt financing led by Yaletown Partners
- Gaming startup Odyssey Interactive launches with $7.9 million CAD
- MontrĂ©alâs Felix & Paul Studios to co-develop AR book with The Jim Henson Company
- Manzil partners with Koho to launch halal prepaid Visa card
- Synapse raises $3.3 million CAD seed funding for corporate e-learning software
- Remote training startup Synapse raises $2.6 million CAD to grow new sales stream
- EdTech startup Showbie raises $5 million Series A
- Tulip acquires Bostonâs Blueday to expand its retail management software offerings
- Digital Main Street launching new programs for small businesses following federal, provincial funding
- Google reveals nine startups joining first cohort of Canadian accelerator
- Government extends CERB, announces transition plan to EI including newly proposed benefits
- Today in acquisitions: Amika Mobile, ComplyWorks, Koantic
- IBM pursuing global expansion of “made-in-Canada” internal incubator program
- Black Professionals in Tech Network shares action plan on supporting Black workers amid COVID-19
- New York-based proptech startup SwiftCTRL opens Canadian office in Montréal
- TransPod signs deal with Alberta to develop Hyperloop track connecting Edmonton, Calgary
- Top Hat continues pursuit to take traditional publishers digital with Bluedoor acquisition
- SeamlessMD raises $4 million CAD Series A to meet increased demand for digital patient engagement due to COVID-19
- SWTCH raises $1.1 million to expand smart electric vehicle charging across North America
- Canadian venture capital investment hits record in Q2 2020 despite COVID-19
- Insurtech Breathe Life raises $11.5 million CAD to accelerate go-to-market strategy
- Alberta appoints new innovation minister tasked with implementing provinceâs recovery plan
- Life sciences-focused ACTO announces $11.5 million USD Series A raised at height of the pandemic
- AlayaCare secures $15 million debt facility from CIBC Innovation Banking
- Uber to expand its operations across Quebec this fall
- Verto Health raises $2 million CAD seed round to better connect healthcare providers, patients
- New temporary policy to allow foreign workers to apply for work permit without leaving Canada
- As Ethereum turns five, the worldâs second biggest crypto platform aims to tackle long-standing challenges
- 11 Canadian startups at Y Combinatorâs Summer 2020 Demo Day
- Today in funding: Dispatch Coffee, Cloud DX, KitchenMate, ELLA
- Vector Institute establishes AI engineering team to turn research into practical applications
- Government to extend CEBA $40,000 small business loan applications to October 31
- Canadian government extends BCAP loan program to June 2021
- Applications open for new Canadian healthtech startup program, pitch competition
- AutoTech startup Acerta secures $5 million USD of new capital in OMERS-led Series A
- ProNavigator raises $5.6 million to tackle United States insurance market
- Shopify sheds Ottawa office space amid planned Toronto expansion
- Montréal payment tech company Nuvei files for IPO on TSX
- Xanadu launches photonic quantum cloud platform
- Vena Solutions secures $25 million USD in financing from CIBC Innovation Banking
- Yeezy GM Jon Wexler joins Shopify to lead creator and influencer program
- Felix & Paul, alliance of global telcos sign deal for immersive International Space Station series
- Clearbanc, Touchbistro among 7 Canadian startups in CB Insights FinTech 250
- Newfoundland and Labrador adopts federal COVID-19 app following Quebec rejection
- Five Canadian startups among Googleâs inaugural Women Founders accelerator cohort
- OMERS Ventures founder John Ruffolo paralyzed following biking accident
- Brightspark closes $60 million for new venture fund
- Government extends COVID-19 business rent relief program through September
- E-commerce startup Mobify to be acquired by Salesforce
- US private equity firm Providence Strategic Growth takes majority stake in Wagepoint
- Julie Plouffe promoted to GP at White Star Capital as firm doubles down on Canada
- Accelerator Centre CEO Paul Salvini to step down next month
- Athennian reveals $10 million in financing as legaltech startup sees growth amid pandemic
- Interacâs Debbie Gamble and futurist Amy Webb talk shifting tech trends September 17
- Lightspeed files to list on the New York Stock Exchange
- ACTO acquires US-based Scrimmage following Series A
- Entertainment tech startup Wrapbook raises $4.7 million CAD seed round
- Kitchenerâs BinSentry raises $10 million CAD Series A to take AgTech sensors global
- Vancouver-based Klue raises $19.7 million CAD Series A
- BrĂŒush raises $6.5 million Series A as it looks to disrupt oral care market
- Federal government to host virtual South Korea trade mission for women entrepreneurs
- Google launches tool to help Canadian businesses go global
- Live streaming platform Livescale raises $1 million in first round of funding
- Lightspeed CEO sets sights on growing omnichannel, payment offerings with NYSE listing
- Lightspeed begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange
- Truck electrification startup Effenco Development raises $10 million
- Today in funding: Brink Bionics, Nexus Robotics, Connect&GO
- Cleantech startup GHGSat raises $39.5 million CAD in Series B financing
- Canadian government announces $221 million Black Entrepreneurship Program
- Shopify announces initial $5 million USD in investments through sustainability fund
- Employee wellness startup LifeSpeak raises $42 million in first round of institutional financing
- Maple raises $75 million from Loblaw
- Wealthsimple CFO stepping down to become CEO of Wealthsimple Foundation
- Ownr, Staples, Shopify, Moneris launch $200,000 fund for entrepreneur hopefuls
- EdTech startup Edsby raises $5.3 million Series A
- Senso, TransUnion sign deal to provide startup’s customer retention tech to mortgage lenders
- AppDirect closes $185 million led by Caisse de dépÎt et placement du Québec
- ApplyBoard secures $70 million, pens deal to expand EdTech platformâs capabilities
- Lightspeed POS closes NYSE initial public offering at $397 million USD
- OneEleven to return under OCE control in next few weeks
- Matthew Lombardi tapped as new head of OneEleven
- Virtual care software startup OnCall Health raises $7.9 million CAD Series A
- Federal government, Innovate BC investing $2 million into BC tech pilot projects
- Baby goods marketplace Rebelstork raises $2 million seed round
- Nuvei prices initial public offering at $26 USD, set to begin public trading next week
- Nuvei stock surges, representing largest tech IPO in Canada
- Power Corp acquires stake in Northleaf Capital through subsidiaries
- VentureLAB receives $370,000 through federal women entrepreneurship fund
- As it launches savings accounts, Koho looks to increase “appeal and utilityâ as challenger bank
- New event for women entrepreneurs, InvestHER, to host $10,000 virtual pitch competition
- Futurist Amy Webb explains why COVID-19 is forcing businesses to ask new questions about data, trust
- Shopify closes public offering at $1.91 billion USD
- Global survey finds diversity in tech has increased over the last decade, still not enough
- Nuvei closes initial public offering at $833 million USD
- Wealthsimple launches cryptocurrency platform
- BlueCat exec Stephen Devito takes on CEO role as Michael Harris steps down
- Waterloo robotics startup Clearpath extends Series C with $6.6 million CAD
- Alberta makes new tech investments as part of recently-unveiled $75 million strategy
- Shopify reveals data breach that affected “less than 200” merchants
- FreshBooks acquires Mexican invoicing company Facturama
- NACO pushes for national angel tax credit ahead of Wednesday throne speech
- Tiny Capital takes majority stake in Victoria-based software startup Button
- Trudeau government promises wage subsidy extension, changes to CEBA, BCAP in throne speech
- Symend, Drop, ApplyBoard named among LinkedInâs top startups to work for in 2020
- MaRS in talks with University of Calgary to bring new innovation hub to Alberta
- U of T to use portion of new $250 million donation to build medical AI research centre
- Hootsuite initially agreed to ICE deal before pulling out, documents reveal
- 14 U of T students, alumni named recipients of social impact fund financing
- SkipTheDishes co-founders look to shake up banking as Neo Financial hits the market
- Victoria-based cybersecurity startup Plurilock begins trading on TSXV
- Startup Slam goes virtual to showcase Victoria tech ecosystem
- Vancouverâs Appnovation raises $11.6 million CAD in Series B financing
- Amazon looking to create 3,500 jobs in Toronto and Vancouver
- Unbounce launches new initiative to help business leaders prioritize gender pay parity
- Today in funding: Thinkific, Attendease, Replica Analytics, HealthTech Connex
- Major Shopify exec shuffle sees CPO departure, Finkelstein shift to president
- Following COVID-19 layoffs, Busbud looks to evolve business with $15 million Series C
- Today in acquisitions: Founded, 7Geese
- Federal governmentâs CERB replacement measures pass in the House
- Edtech startup OneClass to pay $100,000 for allegedly violating anti-spam legislation
- Snaptravel founders expand beyond travel with launch of e-commerce brand and acquisition
- Four Canadian companies participating in Accelepriseâs Investor Week
- NEXT Canada names winners of 2020 virtual Venture Day
- Trudeau government commits additional $600 million in COVID-19 relief for small, medium-sized businesses
- Kik considering appeal as US court sides with SEC that company violated securities law
- The digital health market map showcases Canadian disruptors
- Hockeystick launches AI-powered matchmaking platform for startups, investors
- ShopHERE launches in Halifax with $100,000 in federal funding to help small businesses
- Carebook completes reverse takeover, readies for TSX Venture Exchange debut
- Today in funding: Course Studio, Olive, goPeer, WeUsThem, Prospre
- Frank and Oak to continue operations with backing from Unified Commerce Group
- What today’s tech founders can learn from companies that survived the 2008 financial crisis
- Report: While proportion of women on boards increasing slowly, visible minorities still vastly underrepresented
- Two Hootsuite employees claim to have been fired following ICE contract revelations
- Dialogue expands beyond telemedicine with new Employee Assistance Program offering
- Sun Life leads $43 million round of financing in telehealth startup Dialogue
- Dialogue acquires leading Canadian employee assistance programs provider as it expands offerings
- Biotech startup Phenomic AI raises $7.97 million CAD to identify promising cancer drugs
- Canadian procurement policies missing the mark for cleantech startups, says innovation council
- SaaS companies in 2020 have raised one-fifth of 2019 numbers: report
- New angel group launches to inject early-stage capital into Western Canada tech startups
- Clearbanc deepens push into e-commerce with inventory financing
- Privacy commissioner finds pandemic raises new privacy concerns around telemedicine, EdTech
- Federal government doles out cumulative $13.4 million to four healthtech organizations
- New federal COVID-19 rent relief subsidy allows businesses to directly apply
- Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy extended to June 2021, as CEBA small business loans expanded
- Shopify working with Google on YouTube e-commerce trials
- Praemo raises $4.5 million CAD in Series A follow-on financing
- Invest Ottawa receives $17 million to expand autonomous vehicle test facility
- Today in hires: Traction Guest, TextNow, Deep Genomics, Perk Labs
- Felix & Paul Studios delivers space camera to ISS as part of upcoming series
- Wealthsimple announces $114 million investment led by TCV, claims $1.4 billion valuation
- Chronometriq rebrands to Pomelo Health, raises $5 million in debt financing
- Provision extends food tech software reach through acquisition of Crop Boss
- Report: Underrepresented workers disproportionately impacted by layoffs amid COVID-19
- Lazaridis ScaleUp Program reveals 13 companies joining virtual cohort
- Government invests $20 million in Terrestrial Energy as step towards net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2050
- Canadian organizations receive $15 million through federal governmentâs anti-racism program
- New proposed parameters for emergency wage subsidy that would be in place until December
- GeneviÚve Tanguay named as new CEO of Anges Québec
- Amid EdTech boom, Knowledgehook raises $20 million Series A
- Eight startups joining Intuit Canada, Highline Betaâs Prosperity accelerator
- Athennian acquires Montrealâs Redox, looks to become âSalesforceâ for legal industry
- Alberta Enterprise Corporation invests additional $5 million in Accelerate Fund III
- Toronto-based Nulogy files suit against client Menasha, alleging misappropriation of trade secrets
- Food robotics startup YPC Technologies raises $1.8 million seed round
- BC tech orgs lobby federal, provincial governments for scale-up funding
- Lightspeed CEO Dax Dasilva on the five types of leaders
- NACO receives $710,000 from feds to increase presence in Western, Atlantic Canada
- Federal government invests $12 million to support small businesses through COVID-19 relief fund
- How startups can build resilience into their business models
- Kik, SEC propose joint settlement, $5 million penalty
- Shopify commits $130 million to help create one million new Black-owned businesses in the US
- TĂ©o Taxi returns to Quebec more than a year after bankruptcy
- Proptech startup Doorr acquired by mortgage business of Finastra
- CDPQ launches $250 million diversity-focused fund
- Lightspeed launches into subscription space with new recurring payments product
- Court approves Kik’s settlement with SEC, ending years-long battle
- Digital Technology Supercluster makes $10 million investment, rounding out $60 million COVID-19 program
- Two years after its own acquisition, Achievers buys TemboSocial
- Federal government announces $5 million for three Québec innovation orgs
- Technation gets $32 million to support businesses during pandemic through work placement program
- BroadbandTV looking to go public on TSX through $172 million IPO
- BBTV files final prospectus, prices IPO shares at $16 CAD
- MyLegalBriefcase acquired by Caravel Law
- Wattpad makes foray into podcasts through partnership with Shaftesbury, Shaw Rocket Fund
- Today in hires: Fluent.ai, Bridgit, Jobber, Uberflip, Clearpath Robotics
- Startup Calgary reveals 15 companies participating in virtual Launch Party
- CEBA now open to businesses that were using personal banking accounts before March 1
- Alberta opens immigration stream to promote tech startup creation
- Montreal startup NorthStar begins construction of satellites to monitor debris in space
- Today in funding: MESH/Diversity, Sollum Technologies, Heirlume, Nyoka
- Nudge.ai co-founder Paul Teshima joins Wealthsimple as chief client experience officer
- Shopify pens commerce deal with TikTok
- Canvass Analytics raises $8.5 million CAD as it gears up for “aggressive” global expansion
- With advisory board in place, OneElevenâs new MD shares plan to rebuild the Toronto innovation hub
- BBTV closes IPO, completes buyout of RTLâs interest in company
- Faire raises $170 million USD Series E, looks to grow Kitchener-Waterloo office
- Silicon Valley Bank expands to Vancouver with new Western Canada lead
- Lendesk acquires mortgage origination platform Finmo
- Federal government provides $1.3 million to Alberta Innovates for programs supporting SMBs amid COVID-19
- Following PBO report, Minister Bains says Superclusters have seen âenormous progressâ
- Takara Small shares what she learned exploring small-town tech in new podcast
- Facebook, Uber reveal new initiatives in support of Black entrepreneurs
- Synex Medical raises $6.99 million CAD seed round for health monitoring technology
- Shopify doubles GMV, reports record profit in third-quarter results
- Canada punches above its weight with AI researchers in new Element AI report
- AddĂnergie raises $53 million Series C for EV charging technology
- Federal government invests $796,000 in projects tackling pandemic-born challenges
- Ontario Securities Commission to launch regulatory sandbox for startups
- Neha Khera departs 500 Startups for partner role at 2048 Ventures
- Willful acquires competitor WillowBee as it prepares for expansion to new provinces
- Canada Learning Code receives $500,000 from RBC Foundation
- Jonah Group launches remote workplace safety tool
- Terramera looking to build $730 million centre focused on fighting climate change through Agtech
- Why 7shifts founder Jordan Boesch fired the majority of his customers
- Bessemer Venture Partners shares the six things every SaaS finance leader needs to know
- Government making changes to CanExport SME program to cover COVID-related costs
- Wealthsimple set to launch new ETF for Muslim investors in 2021
- Accelerator Centre expands cleantech program to align with UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Canadian universities offer new program to help commercialize deep tech research
- NACO looks to push into Yukon, releases recommendations for the region
- Today in acquisitions: Kindred Systems, DoctorCare, Rover Parking, Lex Cortex
- Following delay, federal government to reopen virtual consultations on open banking
- Five cleantech startups win $15,000 at Earth Tech demo night
- Toronto Founder Institute accepting applications for virtual accelerator program until November 8
- Ontario reveals investment agency in 2020 budget, as economic development ministry sees second year of cuts
- IRAP IAP funding extended with $155 million to support innovative businesses hit by COVID-19
- SkyHive, Terramera, Klue among winners of 2020 BC Technology Impact Awards
- NRC IRAP, BDC look to align funding programs to support Canadian tech businesses
- MacroHealth raises $54 million CAD Series A to hire new talent in Vancouver
- Local Logic raises $8 million Series A for proptech platform
- Today in hires: Deep Genomics, Flybits, Information Venture Partners
- Venture Out team resigns en masse, citing diversity and inclusion concerns with parent organization
- VPN startup Tailscale raises $14.5 million CAD Series A
- Thoughtexchange closes additional $4 million, bringing Series B round to $34 million
- InDro Robotics working with Rogers, UBC to find 5G applications for drone technology
- Nuvei announces third quarter results, first since going public
- Construction tech startup Falkbuilt raises $14 million CAD Series A
- Curatio partnering with Cloud DX, BC hospital on improving patient care virtually
- Thinking Capital acquires FinTech startup Ario to better support SMB recovery during the pandemic
- How Bridgitâs co-founders tapped into a market ignored by tech
- How COVID has re-routed Canadaâs mobility future
- PenderFund Capital launches new tech-focused venture group, closes $25 million fund
- Element AI, PemPem collaborate to improve accountability, sustainability in Indonesian palm oil industry
- Payments Canada taps Mastercard’s Vocalink as provider for new real-time payments system
- Willful, Cisco, and The Canadian Shield share how to lead with empathy and flexibility
- Privacy commissioner shares recommendations for regulating artificial intelligence
- SEDNA Systems raises $10 million for smart messaging platform
- Four startups share how theyâve adapted to remote work during COVID-19
- BroadbandTVâs revenues reached new record in quarter leading up to IPO
- Google Canada commits $3.9 million CAD to AI research institute Mila
- BDC survey reveals impact of COVID-19 on entrepreneursâ mental health
- DarwinAI partners with Red Hat to accelerate deployment of COVID-19 solution
- Silofit announces $3.5 million seed extension, adds two Toronto locations
- Athennian, CDL-Rockies, Symend among winners of 2020 Start Alberta Awards
- Shopify expands payment options for US merchants through partnership with Alipay
- Newly introduced privacy law bill includes fines for companies that don’t comply
- What a new innovation minister means for Saskatchewanâs tech sector
- With a PPE marketplace for businesses, Supply+Protect among latest startups born out of COVID-19
- Highline Beta accepting applications for second cohort of Safe x Connected Cities Accelerator
- Roche launching national AI, digital health initiative alongside Amii, Mila, Vector Institute
- Intellijoint Surgical snags first-place on 2020 Deloitte Technology Fast 50
- Bonjour Startup Montréal names members of first board of directors
- Nasdaq acquires St. Johnâs based Verafin for $2.75 billion USD
- StatsCan: One-third of the CEBA loans went to cover payroll expenses in Q2
- FinTech and healthtech startup Aya comes out of âstealthâ with $3.7 million CAD in seed financing
- Trufan acquires Kelowna-based PLAYR.gg
- As the first COVID holiday shopping season approaches, what role will Canadian tech companies play?
- SWTCH, Opus One partner to launch blockchain-based electric vehicle platform
- Aquatic Informatics CEO Ed Quilty on why entrepreneurs should fake it till they make it
- Senate passes new rent relief program, June extension of wage subsidy
- Today in acquisitions: AbCellera, Mogo, Carebook, WELL Health
- Jim Balsillie, Dan Breznitz talk opportunity to adapt Canadian innovation policy amid COVID-19, US election
- Applications open for new Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy
- Loblaw partners with Gatik to bring first autonomous delivery fleet to Canada
- HR report indicates women still underrepresented in tech, shows impacts of COVID-19
- Five ways SaaS CFOs can help their company scale
- 3iQâs Bitcoin Fund raises $75 million in treasury offering
- Chime the latest US tech company to expand to Vancouver
- OCE to undergo rebrand, changes to governance relationship with Ontario government
- Loblaw partners with League to launch new health-focused app
- BetaKit Live: Willful and The Canadian Shield explain how to survive and thrive in 2020
- BetaKit Live: How Canada can become a cybersecurity leader
- Telus announces $100 million tech-focused social impact fund
- Lightspeed adds former Videotron CEO Manon Brouillette to board
- Applications open for two pillars of federal Black Entrepreneurship Program
- Velocity to move to new home as part of University of Waterloo, City of Kitchener deal
- Q3 2020 venture capital investment in Canadian tech lowest in two years, CVCA finds
- Lightspeed to acquire ShopKeep for $440 million USD, reports strong Q2 results
- Five Atlantic Canada startups receive $25,000, chosen for latest Volta cohort
- Report finds entrepreneur stereotypes perpetuate gender bias, barriers for women
- Xanadu, MaRS, Creative Destruction Lab launch Canadaâs first quantum network
- Expensify CEO David Barrett on why startup founders should ignore the ‘experts’
- BC Tech closes Innovation Hub as federal funding expires
- PICTURESTART founder and CEO Erik Feig joins Wattpad Studios as advisor
- Event platform Planned raises $4.7 million as it hopes for return to in-person events
- Fall Economic Statement includes CEWS increase, SIF funding, other implications for tech sector
- Shopify merchants generate $5.1 billion USD over Black Friday, Cyber Monday weekend
- Catherine Warren named CEO of new Innovate Edmonton
- Element AI to be acquired by ServiceNow
- Slack to be acquired by Salesforce for $27.7 billion USD
- GoSecure raises $14 million, bringing Series E to $35 million USD
- WELL Health Technologies extends reach into cybersecurity vertical with acquisition of Source 44
- Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business receives $500,000 investment from Facebook Canada
- British private equity investor Hg to acquire controlling stake in Benevity
- Affirm to acquire PayBright for $340 million CAD
- Hootsuite names Tara Ataya chief people, diversity officer
- Tread tracks positive momentum as COVID-19 fuels tech adoption in construction sector
- Canadian cybersecurity leaders say ecosystem requires community to grow
- Today in funding: ServiceBox, Creative Labs, Pillway
- Drone startup Skygauge closes $3.3 million seed as demand increases amid pandemic
- Shopify Balance to be powered by Stripe, Evolve Bancorp
- PayBright, Coveo, Attabotics, Bold Commerce in CB Insightsâ Retail Tech 100
- Telus L-Spark Medtech accelerator reveals eight startups in first cohort
- Today in Hires: Xero, Wealthsimple, Alida, Tucows & Ting Internet, AppDynamics
- Mental health startup MindBeacon files for public offering on TSX
- PointClickCare to acquire Utah-based Collective Medical
- Carrot Rewards program and app re-launches as Optimity
- Platform Calgary to take over Startup Calgary in 2021
- Report finds growth in tech jobs since February, Canada still experiencing brain drain
- Today in acquisitions: Tulip, Intelex, SalesRight, Robin
- Additional $20,000 in CEBA loans now available to small businesses
- WeCommerce going public to further strategy of buying Shopify ecosystem companies
- Boast.ai raises $30 million from Radian Capital to ârevolutionizeâ R&D tax credit market
- Former Koho CTO, head of Uber Money launch new FinTech startup with $15.8 million CAD seed round
- Minister Bains says orgs committed to diversity will get “preferential access to government programming”
- Mark Dobbin, Gerry Pond recognized at 2020 NACO Atlantic Summit
- Techstars Montreal AIâs 2020 Virtual Demo Day showcases latest cohort
- Mila, IBM collaborating on open-source AI and machine learning project
- Pilots over pitches: how to accelerate growth through corporate-startup collaboration
- Emerge, WeCommerce begin trading on the TSX Venture Exchange
- Ross Intelligence files counterclaim against Thomson Reuters after announcing cease of operations
- Virtual events provide opportunity for minority-focused organizations, underserved communities
- GoFor Industries raises $20 million Series A for last-mile delivery solution
- Calgary-based Attabotics to receive $34 million from federal government
- Borrowell lays off 20 percent of staff, citing financial institutions âpulling backâ amid COVID-19
- Borrowell to acquire Refresh Financial
- AutoLeap raises $8 million CAD as former FieldEdge CEOs tackle local auto repair industry
- Neo Financial reveals $50 million total financing as startup expands nationally
- AbCellera officially closes initial public offering with $555.5 million gross proceeds
- Montreal-based FinTech Expertus acquired by IBM
- Collision to be hosted virtually again for 2021 event
- Breather’s US, UK subsidiaries reportedly file for insolvency
- Today in Acquisitions: Setter, Grapevine6, Converge
- All signs point to MontrĂ©al as home of Sonderâs second headquarters
- Today in Funding: Zetane, Co.Labs, LodgeLink
- Toronto R&D team wonât join Aurora in Uber ATG acquisition
- MindBeacon prices IPO, looks to pull in $65 million at $8 per share
- Wage subsidy brought back to 75 percent for period ending March 13
- Telus Health acquires MontrĂ©al’s EQ Care in latest move to increase virtual care reach
- Cycle Capital announces $145 million Cleantech fund final close, adds EDC as LP
- Coinsquare makes changes to business, tech as it faces increasing competitive pressures
- Ottawaâs You.i TV acquired by WarnerMedia
- Coinbase to open Canadian office, launches hiring initiative
- Haivision, Abaxx highlight new tech listings on TSX, NEO Exchange
- Accessibility startup AccessNow receives Governor Generalâs Innovation Award
- Waveâs decision to shift focus to Canada, US, prompts competitor to publicly stir the pot
- Publicly listed Canadian tech companies Lightspeed, Nuvei continue to make acquisitions
- Adracare to be acquired by WELL Health Technologies
- Following TSXV debut, Emerge Commerce acquires truLOCAL
- PointClickCare closes acquisition of Utah-based Collective Medical
- Converge Technology Solutions acquires three North American software companies
- Alberta Innovates tops up COVID-19 relief program for small businesses with $350,000
- Today in Hires: Alida, Medical Innovation Xchange, Nuvei
- Vancouver-based gaming company Next Level Games set to be acquired by Nintendo
- iLobby raises $100 million USD from Insight Partners
- Hootsuite expanding into customer service, acquires Sparkcentral
- Shopify hires new VP of engineering, looks to add 2,021 new technical staff this year
- PointClickCare reportedly valued at $4 billion USD following new minority investment
- Today in funding: Canary Medical, 54e Dev Studios, Willow, MINDD
- Cisco offering $1 million USD in prizes to social innovation focused startups
- Shopify terminates stores affiliated with Trump
- MCI Onehealth closes $30 million CAD initial public offering
- Apollo Insurance Solutions closes $13.5 million CAD in Series A funding round
- MaRS hosting COVID-19 vaccination site for frontline workers
- Red Hat to acquire container security firm StackRox
- Today in acquisitions: Invigo Media, Crowd Content, Xpertdoc Technologies
- Joyride receives $282,000 in provincial, industry contributions for e-scooter docking system
- Power’s Sagard Holdings launches Canadian private equity business
- Shopify VP Loren Padelford on four things e-commerce entrepreneurs need to keep in mind for 2021
- Lightspeed launches new integrated supplier network for North American retailers
- François-Philippe Champagne new minister of innovation as Bains steps down from cabinet
- National Bank formally launches $200 million SME Growth Fund with initial investments
- Trulioo appoints Matt Schatz as new chief revenue officer
- Edmonton-based Jobber raises $76 million CAD growth equity round
- Top Hat continues to amass traditional publishers with acquisition of Fountainhead Press
- World Trade Centre Toronto and Ottawa Board of Trade launching tech-specific accelerator
- Ledger one of âsmall numberâ of additional Shopify merchants affected by 2020 data breach
- Review of 11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2020
- FreshBooks founding CEO Mike McDerment steps down as executive director Don Epperson takes over
- Australia-based Afterpay expands offering into Quebec as buy now, pay later space heats up
- Shopify awarded two merchant patents as company continues to ramp up IP activity
- Today in Funding: PLATO, BreatheSuite, TrojAI
- ServiceNow closes $230 million USD acquisition of Montrealâs Element AI
- Today in Funding: Tokens.com, e-Zinc
- New mandate letters put continued focus on COVID-19 for innovation, small business, economic ministers
- UBC, UNB receive funding from feds, Bell for innovation programming
- Report: As optimism increases among Canadian entrepreneurs, tech sector spending expected to decline
- Ottawa cloud backup startup Rewind raises $19 million CAD Series A
- Vancouver e-commerce brand KITS Eyecare closes $55 million IPO, begins trading on TSX
- Benevityâs Bryan de Lottinville to step down from CEO role for second time in the last year
- Wattpad to be acquired by South Korea’s Naver Corp. for $754 million CAD
- Hopeful raises $400,000 to help nonprofits harness data
- Two nonprofit FinTech programs join forces as Fintech Cadence acquires Innovate Financial Health
- Vancouverâs Autozen raises $4.2 million CAD to simplify private auto sales
- Paystone secures $69 million as company chases acquisitive growth strategy
- Pandemic, floorspace expansion delay opening of Torontoâs Indigenous Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship until 2022
- SAP Canada to expand to new Montréal office, bring headcount in city to 1,000 with new hires
- Eli raises $1.9 million CAD in seed funding to develop at-home hormone monitoring tech
- NGen Supercluster nears two-thirds of $230 million budget committed with new COVID-19 supply projects
- Today in acquisitions: Wishpond, In Fidem, Tier1, ScreenScape, Kayan Health, Paper Leaf
- DMZ returns to early-stage focus as hub eliminates âcrown jewelâ accelerator program
- Canadian tech CEOs pledge to increase vaccine awareness
- Why Ryerson Venture Zone is building a healthtech hub in Brampton fuelled by pilot programs
- Following Wattpad acquisition, CEO Allen Lau says âIâm not done yetâ
- Today in hires: Tulip, Mogo, NexTech, Alida, Bonjour Startup Montréal
- BC’s Kardium raises $115 million USD for heart device technology
- Bold Commerce raises $35 million CAD Series B backed by OMERS
- Tealbook raises $18.2 million CAD as COVID-19 increases demand for supply chain solutions
- Supercluster funding $74 million behind schedule, according to new PBO report
- Amazon invests $3 million CAD, partners with Canada Learning Code, Kids Code Jeunesse, TakingITGlobal on computer science education
- Government reveals new credit program for hard-hit businesses will open February 1
- City of Kingston, Cloud DX receive funding from FedDev Ontario for healthtech innovations
- TMX Group launches automated platform to help companies secure capital amid increase in private placements
- Why TD let its co-ops lead new product development
- Shopify, Technovation take women in STEM partnership global
- Digital Technology Supercluster makes new investment to create $8.7 million tech talent program
- BlackCart claims $50 million valuation following $11.2 million Series A round
- Wealthsimple Tradeâs popularity soars amid Reddit-fuelled trading frenzy
- Digital Main Street launches pilot with Deliverect to support Toronto restaurants
- Applications for Northwestern Mutual Black Founder Acceleratorâs first virtual cohort close Feb. 1
- Why 2021 will be an exciting year for FinTech
- Calgaryâs Virtual Gurus launches virtual assistant app for Slack
- MKB closes $100 million for second cleantech-focused fund
- BookJane partners with Ontario Long Term Care Association to address provinceâs senior care staffing crisis
- Hubba closes $11 million Series A with lofty intentions
- Hubba to shut down
- Volta, Black Business Initiative, Ulnooweg team up to support Black and Indigenous entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada
- mCloud moving HQ to Calgary to bring energy efficiency solution closer to Alberta oil and gas industry
- Report: Late-stage Canadian venture deals increase in 2020, driven by influx of US capital
- Privacy Commissioner claims facial recognition company Clearview AI violated Canadian privacy laws
- Today in funding: Certn, Clover, Flosonics Medical, VEERUM, ChrysaLabs, sMedia
- Georgian doubles down on Top Hat with $130 million USD investment as company swaps CEOs
- Fiscal third-quarter sees Lightspeed continue growth trajectory with revenue increasing 79 percent year-over-year
- COVID-fuelled growth sees EdTech startup Showbie raise $7.5 million CAD Series A extension
- Today in hires: Freshbooks, Juno, Staffy, Alida, Local Logic
- Cavelo raises $1.3 million pre-seed as it looks to help companies regain control of their data
- With $29 million, MAIN Québec renews startup coaching program to support 375 startups
- 15 Canadian startups chosen for third Global Affairsâ California-focused women in tech program
- As founding partners step back, a new Real Ventures prepares to raise its next fund
- Ledn raises $3.4 million CAD to accelerate the growth of its Bitcoin-backed lending platform
- Following changes to business, Coinsquare launches crypto trading app
- Report shows overview of Canadian proptech sector as real estate undergoes digital transformation
- Toronto FinTech startup Payfare files to go public on Toronto Stock Exchange
- Shopify strikes deal to offer payment solution on Facebook, Instagram
- Seven Prairie startups to watch in 2021
- Today in funding: Qohash, Sensei Labs, Wize, dealcloser, Zennea Technologies, Arbor
- Briza raises $10.2 million CAD to address growing demand for insurance carrier APIs
- Digital Technology Supercluster invests $2.5 million into new telehealth wound care project
- Fraction Technologies announces $289 million CAD in debt, equity financing as it looks to disrupt reverse mortgages
- Rewind acquires GitHub backup service BackHub
- Gaming company LEAF debuts on TSX following $159 million acquisition of East Side Games
- Mortgage startup Homewise secures $3 million, sees âsubstantialâ growth during pandemic
- Federal government invests $55.1 million in 20 cleantech companies
- Today in funding: Sandpiper Ventures, Klir, Gazoduq, UpMeals, Fiddlehead Technology
- Mogo to acquire 20 percent stake in Coinsquare for $56.4 million as crypto space heats up
- Felix Health raises $10 million amid increased demand for virtual prescription service focused on stigmatized health issues
- Electronic medical records provider Medfar Clinical Solutions raises $25 million CAD
- Spark Microsystems raises $17.5 million to accelerate commercialization of wireless transceiver tech
- Labour demand among Canadian startups shows signs of recovery in Q4: report
- TWG acquired by Deloitte
- With new execs and new products, Koho says it’s ready to become Canadaâs leading challenger bank
- Google opens two more accelerators to Canadian startups as remote becomes the new reality
- Shopify hits record revenue, profits amid massive year of growth
- Boast.ai secures $100 million credit facility to build Clearbanc for R&D tax credits
- Private equity firm Novacap raises largest ever fund at $1.865 billion USD
- Boreal Ventures launches $26 million fund investing in QuĂ©becâs early-stage deep tech startups
- Following acquisition by Telus, EQ Care launches new virtual health platform for workplaces
- General Assembly Pizza closes $13 million to scale pizza subscriptions across Canada
- NGen commits funding to new $72 million production facility that involves Canadian tech startups
- RocketRez raises $8.4 million Series A round as it looks to help tourism businesses amid pandemic
- Sagard closes $725 million for biopharmaceutical royalty investment fund
- Aifred Health among top three finalists in IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition
- Scale AI, Oceans Supercluster, NGen commit collective $17 million to new projects
- Today in funding: Eavor Technologies, Foko Retail, Motion Gestures, Arolytics, Mogile Technologies
- Benevity receives investment from leading impact and sustainability funds as part of Hg deal
- Feds invest $660,000 in cybersecurity training for young displaced workers in Peel Region
- Seven Atlantic Canada startups to watch in 2021
- Communitech reveals first cohort of new program to support minority female, non-binary founders
- Borrowell raises $25 million to fund acquisition of Refresh Financial
- Alberta NDP calls for reinstatement of tax credits, provincial venture fund ahead of 2021 budget
- ZenHub raises $5.9 million CAD seed round to help automate tasks for developers
- Elevate, Moneris launch new accelerator for Canadian ecommerce startups
- Shopify looking to raise $1.55 billion USD in stock offering, expands partnership with TikTok
- Today in acquisitions: Givex, NextPoint Acquisition, Herjavec Group, BIM One
- Report reveals inequities for women of colour in Canadian C-suite roles that echo tech sector
- Today in funding: AmacaThera, Elevate Farms, Snack, Maple
- Provincial investment in Nova Scotiaâs Sandpiper Ventures prompts public debate on supporting women in the workforce
- TheScore files for US IPO on Nasdaq
- Four Canadian tech startups selected for Googleâs Voice AI program
- The Accelerator Centre appoints new CEO Jay Krishnan as it looks to adopt a more global mindset
- TradeCafe raises $10 million from Round13 amid pandemicâs impact on food supply chain
- Feds propose changes to wage, rent subsidies meant to increase flexibility around revenue requirements
- Loop Insights, Nano One Materials, Converge Technology Solutions among TSX Ventureâs Top 50 companies
- Galvanize to be acquired by Diligent for reported $1 billion USD
- HYAS looks to develop cybersecurity product with $20 million CAD Series B round
- Alberta 2021 budget includes funding for tech sector as part of overall economic recovery plan
- Applications open for Techstars Montréal AI Accelerator
- CPPIB CEO steps down after travelling abroad to get COVID-19 vaccine
- Today in funding: Goodfood, TRADE X, Peak Power, Novarc Technologies, Innovate BC
- Clearbanc expands reach of revenue financing model with new product for early-stage founders
- Ocean Supercluster commits $12 million to real-time analytics for aquaculture project
- Purpose Financial secures $53.5 million CAD investment from Allianz X
- Today in funding: Rivalry, Hardbacon, Facedrive, DataJoy, Mavennet
- Following partnership with Loblaw, Gatik receives nearly $1 million from Ontario government
- theScore closes US IPO, raising $186 million USD
- Applications open for Volta pitch competition
- The DMZâs Black Innovation Programs set to receive $1.2 million from Ontario government
- PocketPills raises $30 million Series B amid continued demand for virtual healthcare solutions
- Amid rise in remote work, Dooly announces $25.5 million CAD to scale sales enablement platform
- Deloitte to launch AI Institute initiative in Canada
- General Assembly Pizza files preliminary prospectus to go public via the TSXV
- Government commits $518 million to Canada Foundation for Innovation to fund research projects
- Federal government extends current Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, CERS rates to June
- Raven closes $25 million venture fund for Indigenous entrepreneurs
- FinTechs on the fence as Interac chosen for Canada’s real-time payments provider
- FrontFundr looks to help companies go public through new partnership
- Snapcommerce secures $107 million to build a mobile commerce leader
- Infosys expanding to Calgary as it looks to double Canadian workforce to 4,000 employees
- Twitter to ramp up Canadian presence, hire at least 24 engineers in Toronto
- Today in funding: SomaDetect, Metis, CoinSmart
- How the CRA is supporting innovation through SR&ED during COVID-19
- Upside Foundation reaches 300 members as Wattpadâs massive exit marks strong start for 2021
- Mednow closes $37 million IPO as it’s set to list on TSXV
- CorVista Health closes $65 million Series C to bolster AI-powered cardiac diagnostic platform
- Five essential types of content to showcase your tech companyâs brand and attract talent
- How organizations are pivoting towards a virtual International Womenâs Day
- New report finds women in tech feel career growth has been stunted during pandemic
- As online pharmacy space heats up, Toronto startup launches âShopify for pharmaâ platform
- Shopify purchases 10,000 tonnes of carbon removal from Carbon Engineering
- Trufan looks to consolidate audience analytics products with $2.3 million CAD seed round
- Wrapbook raises $34 million CAD to capitalize on digital transformation in entertainment industry
- Government of Ontario appoints two new members to OCIâs board of directors
- Report: Most Canadian tech workers optimistic about sectorâs contribution to global innovation
- Nuvei sees strongest growth in company history in fourth quarter, with $115.9 million USD in revenue
- Heyday AI raises $6.5 million CAD seed extension to bring its chatbot software to more retailers
- Wealthsimple launches peer-to-peer payment Cash app nationwide
- Today in acquisitions: WELL Health, Inkblot, Relay Medical, Alayacare, Ataccama
- Pinterest expanding Toronto presence with new engineering hub
- Telehealth startup Dialogue to go public on Toronto Stock Exchange, targets $100 million IPO
- BrandProject raises $54 million CAD venture fund focused on early stage investing
- Wealthsimple rolls out first feature of Cash product to select customers
- Wealthsimple sells US book of business to Betterment as company claims renewed focus on Canada
- PitchPoint Solutions secures $4.5 million from CIBC Innovation Banking to grow fraud prevention service
- Boast.ai looks to expand hires in Montréal as part of broader hiring spree across Canada
- D-Wave receives $40 million from federal government for quantum computing tech
- Collision unveils schedule for 2021 virtual conference
- Natural Products Canada, Active Impact Investments launch cleantech venture funds
- Emerge Commerce closes $11.9 million in first tranche of private placement
- Imaginal Ventures secures TD sponsorship for initiative aimed to support women-led companies
- Canadian securities regulators issue guidance on improving disclosures of crypto assets
- Six mistakes to avoid during your final interview
- Today in hires: Unbounce, Cubert, SAP Canada, Trulioo, BBTV
- Following significant growth, Polar spins out ad product into standalone business
- Greensoil PropTech Ventures secures around half of $100 million USD target for Fund II
- NACO launches programming in Alberta as part of latest push into province
- Revolut leaving Canadian market
- Axonify acquires digital learning platform MLevel
- Livescale raises $2.5 million as startup seeks to provide the video backbone for e-commerce
- Bright + Early launches charitable fund to support diverse, inclusive workplaces
- NuPort Robotics receives $1 million from Ontario for autonomous trucking project with Canadian Tire
- Hootsuite Enterprise attains security designation to provide services to US government agencies
- New Ventures BC opens applications for 2021 competition
- As the federal government prepares a new BC RDA, Kelowna-area groups lobby for attention
- OMERS survey finds dealflow rose or held steady during COVID-19 for most Canadian VCs
- Vendasta files for public listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange
- After bootstrapping its way to profitability, Maropost acquires Neto for $58 million CAD
- Tata Consultancy Services to expand Montréal presence with new hub, 500 hires
- Brim Financial raises $25 million to grow FinTech platform
- Secondary deal will see Nuvei stakeholders sell $494 million USD in company shares
- The Canadian Shield begins selling mask manufacturing system
- AppDirect lands $54.8 million loan from Quebec to expand presence in Montréal
- Sobey family connection might help new LongShot Capital hit with early-stage startups
- Nearing the first close of his $500 million private equity fund, Maverixâs John Ruffolo wants to help build âanother 10 Shopifysâ
- Gig economy FinTech startup Payfare closes public offering at $65 million
- Today in funding: LoginID, Visualping, ClearRisk, Emerge Commerce, Fusebill
- Launchtrip raises $4.7 million CAD seed round as tourism industry eyes pent-up demand for travel
- TechBrew Robotics named the winner of the 2021 OKGN Angel Summit
- Federal government extends CEBA small business loan application to June 30
- BetaKit Live: Leading Through Change
- Thinkific files for TSX IPO as Vendasta prices offering at $100 million
- Coinsquare reaches agreement with CRA to hand over “limited” client data
- FinTech startup Beanworks to be acquired by Quadient for $104 million CAD
- Despite pandemic, Canadian VC investment remained high in 2020
- Virtual live learning platform Disco raises $6 million CAD seed round
- Travel startup Hopper raises $213 million CAD Series F round
- Google reveals 12 startups in second cohort of Canadian accelerator
- 2021 Narwhal List tracks Canadaâs notable exits, raises, valuations during pandemic year
- Ontario Budget 2021 increases commitment to ministry of economic development with focus on pandemic recovery
- Highline Beta, Station FinTech launch FinTech accelerator in Montréal
- Federal government updates guidelines on national security reviews of foreign investments
- Today in acquisitions: 7D Surgical, Zerospam, QoC, Aquatic Informatic, Apprentx, LEAF Mobile
- Québec 2021 budget includes spending on innovation as part of economic recovery from pandemic
- My journey to parenthood as a founder and CEO
- Latest launch makes Kepler Communications largest satellite operator in Canada
- Uber plans to double the size of Toronto Tech Hub team in coming months
- Silicon Valley Bank grows Canadian team with promotion, two new hires
- Microsoft expanding Canadian presence with cloud hub, data centre, 500 hires in Vancouver
- New Women in Tech Sales Bootcamp cohort starts April 26
- Deloitte spin-out company Arteria AI raises $13.7 million CAD Series A round
- Support BetaKit and independent Canadian tech journalism
- On-demand delivery platform Tyltgo raises $2.3 million to accelerate Ontario expansion
- OSC demands crypto trading platforms bring operations into compliance with securities regulations
- Reddit sets up first Canadian office in Toronto
- The 11 Canadian startups participating in Y Combinatorâs Winter 2021 demo day
- Second Closet secures $20 million as it shifts focus away from self-storage towards B2B third-party logistics
- Dialogue closes TSX IPO, raising $100 million
- Unsplash to be acquired by Getty Images
- Torontoâs Almon completes AVIN-funded development of autonomous vehicle technology
- Dapper Labs raises $305 million to expand NBA Top Shot product to other sports leagues
- NACO continues to expand Canadian reach with new hub
- Tribe Network is looking to be Canadaâs innovation hub for BIPOC entrepreneurs
- Nuvei, Mogo expand reach into crypto space with new product offerings
- QueerTech event aims to help LGBTQ2S+ workers connect with Canadaâs biggest tech companies
- Top Hat co-founder Mike Silagadze joins Ripple Ventures as venture partner
- Alberta Innovates puts out call to bring more technology, business accelerators to the province
- Federal government looks to prop up Toronto tech ecosystem with $14.6 million in loans for six companies
- OSC charges head of cryptocurrency company Peblik with fraud, securities act offences
- Following merger with Kelownaâs Bananatag, Staffbase secures $145 million
- Three Prairies-based startups close seed rounds, raising combined $2.45 million
- Startupfest to host virtual workshops in April as it reinvents amid COVID-19
- Quantum startup Qoherent wins $100,000 investment prize at 10th-annual Startupfest
- Today in acquisitions: Symbi Medical, eStruxture, Eddyfi/NDT, Pinmo, Crank Software, Plurilock
- Digital Main Streetâs Future Proof program supports 75 pilot projects in Ontario
- QuoteMachine raises $1 million seed round to fuel growth of customer relationship management solution
- Online car retailer Clutch secures $60 million
- New measure from Alberta, Saskatchewan securities regulators meant to increase investment potential for startups
- Deloitte Canada acquires Calgary-based AI and data firm Groundswell Group
- Chris Albinson to replace Iain Klugman as CEO of Communitech
- Lightspeed launches payments product in UK, Europe
- Pascal Siakam to help Toronto kids learn to code with new training program
- Payfareâs IPO reaches $75.2 million following exercise of over-allotment option
- Playmaker Capital closes $24 million private placement, plans to go public on TSXV
- One year after raising seed round, PolicyMe launches digital life insurance product
- Inovia, Shopify back delivery startup Swyft in $22 million Series A round
- Five Canadian startups named to CB Insightsâ 2021 AI 100 list
- Brim Financial, Canadian Western Bank partner to launch FinTech platform, consumer credit cards
- Goodfood reaches record revenue of $100.7 million as online grocery market booms
- With Fortune 500 clients, revenue growth, Tasktop raises $126 million CAD in growth equity
- TEC Edmonton to cease operations on June 30
- Eight startups selected for latest Canadian Technology Accelerator Digital in Silicon Valley
- C100 rebrands 48Hours in the Valley to eight-month fellowship, announces 2021 cohort
- AngelList launches new Roll Up Vehicles fundraising tool available to Canadian founders
- Today in funding: Audioptics Medical, VidDay, Paidiem, Classcraft, Delta, more
- Rocket Buildersâ 2021 list classifies 86 BC tech firms as âready to rocketâ
- Loopio secures $252 million to accelerate its growth in RFP software market
- Peekapak, Cisco, and the C100 share advice for Canadian tech leaders who âleave it all on the fieldâ
- DMZ startups reach milestone of $1 billion in collective funding
- 3 Canadian tech companies hiring right now: 1Password, HelpSeeker, Unbounce
- QRA Corp secures $3.76 million to meet rising demand for its product engineer software solution
- Shopify, Ledger named in new class-action lawsuit following 2020 data breach
- Deeplite raises $7.5 million CAD seed round to optimize deep neural networks
- As virtual operations break down geographic barriers, Techstars Toronto doubles down on international startups in 2021 cohort
- Thinkific aims to raise $160 million CAD through TSX IPO
- Content creation platform ContentFly raises $11.2 million CAD Series A round
- Georgian closes $1.02 billion USD alignment fund
- goeasy to acquire LendCare for $320 million
- OKR Financial launches $150 million fund to help early-stage startups access funding, loans, grants
- Techstars’ Startup Weekend to focus on Canadian entrepreneurs looking to launch climate, sustainability startups
- Nicoya promised additional funding from federal government to develop COVID-19 test
- Shopify CTO Jean-Michel Lemieux one of three execs to depart company
- Following a year of growth, healthtech startup My Intelligent Machines raises $5 million
- Indigenous Growth Fund raises $150 million in first close to support Indigenous entrepreneurs
- Key Superclusters architect argues program needs more time to be fully evaluated in new report
- What can the Canadian tech and innovation sector expect from #Budget2021?
- Kitchener-Waterlooâs Magnet Forensics looks to raise $90 million CAD in IPO
- BetaKit Live: Diversity in Cybersecurity
- Dear Canadian founders, your time is now!
- Six ways startups can prepare for financial instability before it happens
- Today in funding: dcbel, Milk Moovement, Virtual Gurus, MazumaGo, Acorn Biolabs
- Invest in Canada loses first CEO as Ian McKay transitions to ambassador of Japan
- Facedrive provides new information on company operations following OSC request
- 3 Canadian tech companies hiring right now: League, OpenText, Chemical Computing Group
- CarbonCure wins global Carbon XPRIZE competition
- Lightspeed to acquire Vend for $350 million
- Three barriers to innovation in insurance
- Report: Canadian VC funding reached new record in Q1 2021
- US private equity firm to acquire controlling stake in Axonify for $313 million CAD
- Absorb Software to be acquired by US private equity firm at $630 million CAD valuation
- City of Brampton launches incubator for international startups
- BC 2021 budget includes funding for businesses, cleantech sector to support pandemic recovery
- Shopify expands Pinterest partnership to 27 new markets
- Geoffrey Hinton explains neural networks, Plaid CEO talks three waves of digital finance at Collision 2021 day one
- Wayfair, Cloudflare join growing group of international firms opening Toronto offices
- Saskatchewan extending startup investment incentive
- Toronto mayor believes Sidewalk Labs wanted “bargain basement price” for Quayside, Hootsuite CEO pro social regulation (Collision 2021)
- Thinkific pricing IPO at $13 per share to pull in $160 million
- FDX reports 16 million consumers using API, claims Canada, US lead in open banking adoption
- Two Canadian startups selected for first cohort of Google climate change accelerator
- Clearbanc rebrands, raises $350 million USD to provide full-stack founder support
- MaRS, RBC launch women-focused cleantech accelerator
- NERv Technology raises $3.32 million as it prepares to bring medical sensor tech to market
- WELL Health Technologies to acquire CRH Medical for $373 million CAD
- Alida employees build digital COVID-19 vaccine eligibility, search tool for Toronto residents
- Vertu Capital secures minority stake in Dejero with $60 million investment
- Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky says company will return to Canada in 2022
- New map highlights MontrĂ©al’s AI ecosystem
- Couply crowned winner of Collision 2021 startup pitch competition
- New report indicates potential investing gap for BCâs early-stage startups
- Digital giants calling Toronto home brings a welcomed competitive edge to our tech ecosystem
- Amazon launches IP Accelerator for its Canadian retailers
- New venture studio Launchit Ventures wants to help entrepreneurs commercialize Canadaâs next âfantasticâ healthtech idea
- Emissions Reduction Alberta commits $33 million to 17 cleantech projects
- Archangel completes first close of $10 million to support early-stage Canadian tech startups
- Thinkific closes TSX IPO, raising $160 million
- Elevate, Moneris unveil startups participating in first cohort of eCommerce North accelerator
- Shopify helped generate $307 billion in economic activity last year amid pandemicâs impact on retail
- Today in funding: Cape Privacy, Plooto, Lumeto, ReelData, Heirlume, Axya
- Netflix chooses Toronto for Canadian headquarters
- Shopify sees 110 percent year-over-year revenue growth as e-commerce continues to boom amid pandemic
- Legaltech startup Clio Canadaâs latest unicorn following $136 million CAD Series E round
- Following IPO, Thinkific CEO sees more opportunity to scale
- Vena raises $300 million from Vista Equity Partners
- Large deals fuelled Calgary’s healthy 2020, but Western Canada could have an early-stage funding problem
- Tech4SickKids names new co-chairs as campaign reaches $5 million fundraising milestone
- Today in acquisitions: Kinduct, Quill, Lane
- How to look past the résumé to find your next hire
- Farm payroll startup Labora wins SFU entrepreneurship competition
- Newton had an outage and now users are complaining their transactions are pending
- Attabotics, Amii, AltaML partner to develop AI solutions for supply chains
- Founder Institute Montréal reveals graduates from winter 2020 cohort
- AbCellera breaks ground on new Vancouver HQ as it plans to hire hundreds
- Albertaâs innovation minister wants province to be a âdominant playerâ in Canadian tech
- Ontario reveals digital strategy, plans to launch new data authority
- New report shows MontrĂ©al caught up to Toronto as Canada’s leading tech ecosystem in 2020
- Sonder to go public on NASDAQ through SPAC deal
- BC minister of jobs says new $500 million fund will support startups, scale-ups in province
- To become more diverse, cybersecurity experts say industry needs more mentors and problem solvers
- Hereâs why M&A activity is surging in Canadaâs tech sector
- With third managing partner and fresh funding, Maverix is ready to fill Canadian investment gap
- Wealthsimple secures $750 million CAD, claims $5 billion valuation
- Innovate Edmonton receives $5 million from City to support accelerators
- Today in funding: Botpress, Sherpa, Kinetyx, Realize Medical, G2V Optics, Solvera Solutions
- Ocean Supercluster provides collective $5.2 million to four new projects
- Willful signs partnership with insurance giant Allstate following launch in Québec
- Fluence Technologies raises $12.5 million CAD, swaps CEOs to fuel next phase of growth
- 7 things startups should know about selling to banks
- David Dufresne to depart Panache Ventures
- Thentia secures $10 million in Series B financing to ramp up US operations
- Toronto became a healthtech hotbed in 2020
- How startups can manage their cash flow
- Prairie AgTech startup Precision AI raises $20 million
- Newly launched Carrot Ventures closes $15 million fund to help seed Canadian AgTech startups
- New council launches to advance Canadaâs semiconductor industry
- FinTech startups frustrated with glacial pace of Canadaâs open banking consultations
- eStruxture secures $600 million to fund Aptum acquisition, âfast-trackâ Canadian expansion
- Following full exercise of over-allotment option, Thinkific IPO reaches $184 million
- BDC Capital launches $200 million fund to bolster Canadaâs deep tech ecosystem
- Information Venture Partners closes third fund, raising $124 million CAD
- Information Venture Partners adds former Georgian investor Jane Podbelskaya as it continues to expand team
- Mogo to acquire Moka in $64 million deal as it looks to launch free stock trading
- Canada earmarks $80 million for new national cybersecurity network
- Governor Generalâs Innovation Award winners include leaders of Swift Medical, Adaptiiv
- Shopify joins patent non-aggression network as competition with Amazon heats up
- Crown corporation leading BCâs $500 million investment fund appoints board of directors
- Nuvei to acquire Simplex for $250 million USD
- Ada secures $130 million USD, claims $1.2 billion valuation
- Shopify sees its developer platform as key to driving the future trends of e-commerce
- PayShepherd secures $700,000 to expand its contractor billing solution across Canada, US
- How to better leverage SR&ED refunds to accelerate startup growth
- New bill proposes Bank of Canada regulate FinTech startups that provide payments
- Following pandemic hit, ChefHero rebrands, refocuses to early success
- With new financing, Stoko wants to disrupt the knee brace industry with D2C product for athletes
- Bonfire, Curiato, FutureVault among latest Canadian startups to make CEO change up
- Aaron Zifkin departing from role as Lyft Canada’s managing director
- How to rebrand yourself for a career change
- Today in funding: Curbie Cars, Loopt, Myant, Innovate BC award winners
- Google plans to build $735 million CAD data centre in Québec
- Amazon to expand presence in British Columbia with five new locations
- CTI Life Sciences Fund raises $100 million in first close of third venture fund
- KITS Eyecare begins trading on US-based OTCQX market
- Two Canadian startups part of TikTok push to provide more third-party integrations
- Today in funding: Railz, Relay Platform, Ferme dâHiver, Optable, interVal
- Thinkific grew revenues by 152 percent in first quarter of 2021
- Access to working capital essential to the success of Canadian small businesses
- Over a year after Einstein Exchange closure, Vancouver entrepreneur wins civil suit against founder
- DMZ expands programming for women entrepreneurs, launches networking platform
- As Naver closes $754 million CAD acquisition of Wattpad, Allen Lau is looking to scale
- Privacy commissioner calls proposed privacy legislation a âstep backâ from current laws
- DoorDash to expand Canadian presence with new Toronto engineering hub
- Volta, Scale AI launch program to help supply chain startups scale
- Three strategies for startups looking for new revenue streams
- Boast.ai hires new executives to scale, meet sizable R&D tax credit market opportunity
- Agnostiq secures $2.4 million CAD to accelerate development of quantum computing software
- Relay Financial secures $18.2 million CAD to bring financial management solution to more SMBs in US
- Magnet Forensics increases TSX IPO target, aiming to raise $100 million
- Today in hires: TouchBistro, TextNow, Think Research, Benevity, Trulioo
- Think Research to acquire continuing medical education company MDBriefCase
- Following TSXV debut, Think Research set to acquire cosmetic surgery facility Clinic 360
- Think Research sees record Q1 revenue following acquisitions
- Today in funding: OSF Digital, Tenera Care, Sports IQ Analytics, MYR POS, Chic Geek, CLC Network
- Wealthsimple launches Shariah-compliant ETF on NEO Exchange
- Federal government extends CAN Health Network in Ontario, brings program to Atlantic Canada
- BlackBerry expands partnership with University of Waterloo to support students, R&D, commercialization
- How Canadian tech is tackling the global problem of food insecurity
- Google commits $2 million to prepare young Canadian workers from underserved communities for tech careers
- BBTV bullish on outlook following YoY revenue growth in third earnings report since TSX IPO
- UFC voice Bruce Buffer, Canadian entrepreneurs launch social e-commerce platform for athletes
- BDC Capital launches second $250 million growth equity fund
- Today in funding: Nanology Labs, Covalent, Audioptics Medical
- With its platform now on the market, Odaia bets on pharma
- BioBox Analytics launches platform to help scientists analyze genomic data
- Federal government promises $199.16 million to biotech company Resilience Biotechnologies
- BuyProperly raises $2 million to expand real estate investment platform across Canada, US
- Launch Academy giving $100,000 in scholarships to aspiring entrepreneurs affected by COVID-19
- Internet Society open letter claims federal online regulation proposals could curtail freedom, innovation
- Magnet Forensics sees revenue, profit growth in first earnings report since going public
- OSF Digital acquires Adept Group to expand reach in Australia, New Zealand
- Knix reportedly secures $53 million in latest funding round
- Shopify, Google expand partnership to make merchants more discoverable online
- Wingocard secures $2 million CAD, launches app to teach teens financial literacy
- Curatio ramps up COVID-19 response with app launch in India, two new partnerships
- ALT TEX closes $1.5 million pre-seed round to commercialize sustainable polyester alternative
- Mogo, Unbounce making acquisitions amid planned expansions
- White Star Capital closes $50 million USD fund focused on crypto and blockchain
- GTX re-brands to Vosker following 4X revenue increase for remote monitoring tech
- Canadian semiconductor pioneer John Roberts passes away at 77
- General Assembly Pizza set to go public on TSXV June 3
- Vancouver-based Dooly raises $80 million USD Series B round
- Right-wing favoured video platform Rumble secures investment from JD Vance, Peter Thiel
- Hardware startup Tenstorrent raises over $200 million in funding, claims $1 billion valuation
- After pivoting to podcasts, LumiQ raises $1.1 million
- Amid acquisitions, organic growth, Lightspeed doubles Q4 revenue despite increase in net losses
- Creative Destruction Lab to open Seattle location this fall
- Four Canadian developer/engineering roles available now
- Alberta Innovates bolsters Regional Innovation Networks with $3.53 million
- Future Skills Centre invests $25.9 million to expand 10 portfolio projects
- Canadian tech is having a moment. How best to seize it?
- BetaKit Live: The Canadian Tech Moment on May 27th
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- Novisto raises $9.6 million CAD Series A round to innovate ESG for enterprises
- Five Atlantic Canada startups secure investment at Volta pitch competition
- Toronto-based Q4 files to go public on TSX
- Crypto startup Ledn secures $36 million CAD from group including Reddit co-founder, hedge fund billionaire
- PartnerStack aims to capitalize on channel sales demand with $35 million CAD Series B round
- Launch Academy downsizes physical space as the Vancouver incubator goes virtual
- Felix Health launches mental health service to meet rising demand during COVID-19
- eSSENTIAL Accessibility secures $67 million CAD to meet increasing demand for accessible online content
- Ontario government invests $5.25 million to help innovative health companies scale
- Today in funding: Kaloom, Bast Fibre Technologies, Arcturus, ChopValue, StoryTap, OpenUnit
- Today in acquisitions: Quantum Benchmark, SportSavvy, TechX Technologies, Ackroo
- Hydra Energy secures $15 million to scale hydrogen fuelling solution for trucking industry
- Shopify, Google deepen partnership with new checkout integration
- Federal government invests $44.3 million in 11 Canadian cleantech companies
- BC tech CEOs call on provincial government to make PNP tech stream permanent
- Today in funding: CubicFarms, Vetster, Metaspectral
- Why startups are easier targets for cybercrime (and what founders can do about it)
- Communitech, OMERS, Wealthsimple leaders agree Canadaâs tech moment created a âcompetition for awesomeâ
- 7shifts secures $21.5 million Series B round to scale restaurant staff management platform
- helloDarwin evolves B2B services platform, raises $2 million seed round
- C2 Montréal to host 2021 conference through virtual, in-person model
- Applications open for Canadaâs Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund
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- Today in funding: Rocket Doctor, Faculty, Zetane
- DMZ unveils new programming model, consolidates Zone Startups Calgary
- Today in hires: Hootsuite, Goodfood, Thentia, HR4, more
- Reports argue Canadaâs IP lag only âpart of the challengeâ in scaling homegrown innovation
- Lazaridis ScaleUp program opens applications for seventh cohort
- Nuvei sees significant revenue growth in Q1 2021 following e-commerce expansion, acquisition efforts
- Mogo increases Coinsquare ownership stake for second time, gains ability to buy majority
- Creative Destruction Lab launches neuroscience stream
- Today in funding: Clir Renewables, Stoko, Habit Forming Technologies
- Adeptmind raises $7.5 million CAD to bridge gap between e-commerce and physical retail
- AltaML makes new hires amid planned expansion in Ontario, eastern North America
- Bench secures $73 million CAD, unveils new banking products
- Eight Saskatchewan, Ontario tech companies receive collective $4.4 million in federal funding
- Playmaker Capital begins trading on the TSX Venture Exchange
- Mphasis to launch Canadian HQ in Calgary, create up to 1,000 tech jobs
- INTELIGHT partners with Innisfil on $2.2 million project to develop smart city connectivity solution
- AQC Capital secures $64 million for second tech startup investment fund
- 5 FinTech roles open in Canada right now
- Mogo to nearly double stake in Coinsquare to 37 percent
- Trulioo names Leigh Ramsden new CFO
- Nuvei filing indicates company may raise up to $1.8 billion USD in new issues, secondary offerings
- Job posting indicates MasterClass plans to open new engineering hub in Kitchener-Waterloo
- Diagram Ventures latest Canadian firm to concentrate on existing portfolio with $60 million for new Opportunity Fund
- SSENSE claims $5 billion valuation following minority investment from Sequoia Capital
- Diagram doubles size of Opportunity Fund with final $60 million close
- MasterClass reveals first two Canadian hub hires, plans to add dozens more
- Poka secures $30 million CAD to scale factory worker training solution
- Version One Ventures raises $100 million USD for two new funds
- Raquel Urtasun launches new self-driving startup Waabi with $100 million CAD from top investors
- Toronto tech CEO vows to rebuild, grow team after Gaza office destroyed in airstrike
- Elevate to receive $6.15 million in government funding for underrepresented tech workers program
- BC MLA confirms PNP tech stream now permanent following tech sector pressure
- VerticalScope files to list on the Toronto Stock Exchange
- Xanadu secures $120 million CAD led by Bessemer to build photonic quantum computer
- Dialogue makes acquisition as fellow Québec startup Foko Retail bought by Michigan-based firm
- Q1 2021 highest on record for Canadian venture capital with $2.7 billion invested
- Bliinx raises $1 million CAD pre-seed round to help map business relationships digitally
- New venture fund for Black tech entrepreneurs holds $6.4 million first close
- Pinterest looking for new Canada country manager
- Nurosene goes public on Canadian Stock Exchange, securing $9.2 million
- GreenSky Capital secures $15 million in first close of Fund IV
- Amazon to add 1,800 Canadian tech, corporate jobs this year as part of broader hiring plans
- Today in funding: Smart Skin, Andes STR, Croptimistic, DeFi Ventures
- WELL Health Technologies to acquire MyHealth for up to $266.3 million CAD
- CIBC Innovation Banking looks to fuel Canadian tech rocketship as ecosystem soars
- Ontario government commits $100 million to new tech fund of funds
- Canadaâs privacy commissioner says RCMP use of Clearview AIâs tech violated privacy law
- Nesto secures $76 million to scale digital mortgage solution
- Q4 looks to raise $150 million CAD through IPO
- Shopify, Affirm open access to buy now, pay later service for US merchants
- Kovo HealthTech lists on TSX Venture Exchange
- Today in funding: Data Sentinel, AltaML, Commit
- Despite pandemic challenges, new business creation in Canada was strong over the last year
- 3 companies hiring in Montréal right now
- BDC Capital launches new $300 million Growth Venture Co-Investment Fund
- Growth investor Carter Griffin on why the best SaaS companies are obsessive about churn
- With third acquisition, holding company PlanetCorp is looking to win big with AI, 5G, blockchain
- Shopify reportedly invests in Stripe, bringing total stake to over $350 million
- AbCellera secondary deal sees senior leaders sell 11.9 million shares
- One year after joining RBC, Sid Paquette reveals his plans to disrupt innovation banking with RBCx
- SkyWatch raises $21 million CAD Series B as private sector satellite interest skyrockets
- Faire secures $260 million Series F round, claims $7 billion valuation
- ApplyBoard raises $375 million CAD Series D at $4 billion valuation
- Shop Pay to be offered to non-Shopify merchants on Facebook, Google
- Vendasta secures $119.5 million in venture funding after pausing IPO plans
- Clearco adds chief growth officer to lead international expansion efforts
- After nearly doubling revenue during pandemic, Introhive raises $121.3 million CAD
- BBTV announces $65 million convertible debenture, refinancing deals as it looks to increase M&A activity
- Lynsey Thornton latest Shopify leader to depart company
- Employee wellness software firm LifeSpeak files for TSX IPO
- Browze announces $15.2 million CAD Series A round for factory-to-consumer e-commerce platform
- Amplitude Venturesâ precision health fund exceeds $200 million target following final close
- Conexus launching new accelerator, venture fund to strengthen Saskatchewan’s AgTech ecosystem
- Today in hires: Snapcommerce, Properly, RenoRun, Notch
- Google sister company Verily set to expand to Kitchener-Waterloo
- Google reveals first Canadian Cloud Accelerator cohort
- Employer must-haves to attract and retain talent in 2021
- VerticalScope upsizes IPO to $125 million, begins trading on TSX
- SoleSavy secures $15.5 million CAD to help sneakerheads combat sneaker-buying bots
- New tech mentorship program for Black Canadian youth accepting applications
- Q4 Inc. pauses plans for $150 million public offering on Toronto Stock Exchange
- New Portage FinTech SPAC files for $200 million Nasdaq public offering
- ResQ announces December $9.75 million CAD fundraise to help restaurants meet âpent-up demandâ during COVID reopening
- Tech4SickKids raises corporate donations from Canadian tech to reach $25 million goal
- Wealthsimple launches 14 new coins on its crypto trading platform
- SkipTheDishes being acquired by Just Eat for $110 million
- Golden Ventures looks to capitalize on portfolio winners with two new funds
- Joyride secures $4.6 million CAD to help launch bike and scooter-sharing businesses
- AlayaCare raises $225 million CAD Series D round
- Google opens applications for Black, women founders accelerators
- Bill C-10 aimed at regulating streaming services in Canada passes in House of Commons
- Semantic Health comes out of stealth to help hospitals use coded data
- MontrĂ©alâs Aifred Health wins second place at IBM AI XPRIZE competition
- Naver merges Wattpad, Webtoon studio divisions, invests $100 million USD
- Today in acquisitions: Converge Technology Solutions, LEAF Mobile, Syntax, and more
- Canadian securities regulators boost equity crowdfunding caps to expand access to capital for startups
- Clearco, Caravan launch $50 million USD fund for celebrity-backed companies
- Intuit, Highline Beta launch new Prosperity accelerator for AI startups
- Following TSX IPO, VerticalScope acquires Paddling.com
- Amazon to open robotics fulfilment centre in Alberta, hire 1,000 workers
- 3 Healthtech jobs available in Toronto right now
- Vetsie closes $285,000 as it looks to launch virtual vet care platform nationally
- Elevate brings on former Bell Media exec Randy Lennox as Razor Suleman joins US unicorn Pacaso
- Think Research increases credit facility from National Bank to further acquisition strategy
- MaRS’ Yung Wu on the real price of ransomware
- Workforce analytics startup Visier secures $154 million CAD from Goldman Sachs
- Tribe Technologies announces November seed funding as company looks to scale online community platform
- Today in funding: Adela, d1g1t, Somm, Polystyvert, Award Pool, Trendi
- Canada invests $845,000 in Montréal Inc. to support more entrepreneurs
- Shopify announces changes to its revenue share model for developers at Shopify Unite 2021
- Shopify managing director says changes announced at Unite 2021 part of making company more developer-friendly
- Paper closes $123 million CAD to provide more equitable education support through tech
- Lightspeed filings signalling potential name change show company thinking beyond POS
- Eli Fathi retiring as MindBridge CEO
- IBM to open new Toronto office, hire 500 across Greater Toronto Area
- Canada maintains fourth place in StartupBlinkâs global ecosystem rankings
- Two US startups with Canadian roots, Moonshot and Nylas, secure combined $280 million
- Tulip raises $34.4 million CAD Series C round
- Canadian tech must embrace Indigenous reconciliation
- Loren Padelford, driving force behind Shopify Plus, latest exec to depart company
- 3 branding strategies every tech recruiter needs to adopt
- Calgary venture funding sets two-year record thanks to late-stage investments
- Today in funding: FightCamp, Fobi, Caary, Plantiga, and more
- EDC commits $200 million to new Inclusive Trade Investments Program
- Call centre software provider ReadyMode secures $4 million in venture debt
- Waterloo Region sees worst quarter for VC investment in two years due to lack of late-stage deals
- Ritual acquires contact tracing platform AllChecked.in
- LifeSpeak goes public on TSX, closes $125 million public offering
- VerticalScope increases IPO to nearly $144 million following exercise of over-allotment
- Esplanade HealthTech Ventures highlights Fund I portfolio growth as firm prepares to raise Fund II
- Toronto venture funding in Q1 2021 nearly matched all dollars raised across 2020
- Active Impact Investments closes second fund, securing $54 million
- Clearco secures $268 million CAD in round led by SoftBank
- WeCommerce closes $33.7 million bought deal financing to acquire more Shopify ecosystem companies
- Swarmio aiming to go public on Canadian Securities Exchange
- BBTV CEO Shahrzad Rafati on why ethical business decisions are good business decisions
- How Loopio went from bootstrapped startup to RFP leader
- Computer vision startup Algolux secures $23 million CAD Series B round
- Hackers run startups now, too: hereâs what businesses need to know
- Michelle McBane on shrinking the gender investing gap in VC
- BC venture funding matches Toronto with over $1 billion raised in Q1 2021
- Foodee acquired by global food service company Sodexo
- Today in acquisitions: VitalHub, Shift CRM
- Float secures $5 million seed round to make corporate credit cards less of a headache
- Googleâs Steven Woods joins Inovia as partner and CTO
- Today in funding: Enedym, Side Door, Empower, FREDsense, Konfidis, 3D Planeta
- Canvaspop acquired by HIG Capital-owned Circle Graphics
- Today in acquisitions: Modern Campus, Kovo HealthTech, OSF Digital, DeFi Technologies, Bubblebox
- Ollie Order acquired by Next Glass, aims to bring liquor sales software to Ontario, the US
- Microsoft, AltaML among partners in new University of Waterloo student training program
- Inovia Capital raises $450 million Growth Fund II to find another Lightspeed
- Wealthsimple rolls out fractional shares trading in Canada, US companies
- Non-committal on a banking license, Wealthsimple CEO Michael Katchen says companyâs ambitions extend âbeyond Canadaâ
- Great Hill Partners acquires majority stake in Auvik Networks for $312 million CAD
- Prairie Robotics secures $690,000 CAD to identify recycling contaminants
- Relay Ventures bolsters investment team, while Antler expands to Canada
- Today in funding: Oneka, Rootly, Convergence.Tech, Bird&Be, Rithmik, Scatr, Sonero
- Miovision acquires Traffop to expand traffic management software platform
- Latest CBRE report shows Canada has some of the fastest-growing tech talent pools in North America
- Swift Medical secures $44 million CAD in Series B financing
- Happin raises $1.2 million to fuel growth of its hybrid event platform
- Shopify launches new, centralized chat product for merchants
- RBC joins as financial anchor partner for new Kanata tech hub
- B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy to launch in fall with $105 million in funding
- New report shows Montréal relies too much on the megadeal to compete with other Canadian tech hubs
- Think Research to acquire BioPharma Services for $44.6 million
- Three startup jobs available in Halifax right now
- Accenture acquires Toronto consulting firm Cloudworks
- Oxio secures $25 million CAD to accelerate Canadian expansion
- Today in funding: FansUnite, 7Gen, GHGSat, Visualping, Alpha, Spaceful
- Brokrete secures $2.7 million CAD, launches e-commerce platform for construction suppliers
- Coinsquare brings on Tradelogiq exec, Martin Piszel, as CEO
- Intel-backed Untether AI raises $125 million, adds CPPIB, Tracker Capital as investors
- Properly closes $44 million CAD Series B from key strategics, US investors to tackle Canadian real estate market
- Clearco launches new partnership recommendation service as part of push to serve founders âbeyond capitalâ
- WELL Health launches venture arm, announces investment in Bright
- Following string of exits, Rhino Ventures expands focus across Canada for third fund
- Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack
- Shopify invests in US-based Loop’s $65 million round
- Portage FinTech SPAC boosts IPO target to $240 million USD, begins trading on Nasdaq
- Funding roundup: Conquest Planning, Amphy, XCO, OceanSync
- Technical debt: the other innovatorâs dilemma
- FrontFundr secures funding through FrontFundr, a crowdfunding platform
- RBC launching Calgary Innovation Hub, with plans to hire 300 employees
- Paystone secures $30 million from Crédit Mutuel Equity as part of plan to expand beyond North America
- Toronto-based Mommy Monitor selected for Googleâs Black Founders accelerator
- What to do when over 300,000 people count on your old code for their pension
- Three tech companies on hiring sprees across Canada
- Ready to launch: how StarSpec is building the bits to get us to space faster
- Firmex acquired by US-based Datasite in Vertu Capitalâs first exit
- Following rebrand, Notch raises $12.5 million CAD to bring restaurant supply chain software to new markets
- Wealthsimple adds Inovia partner, former Google exec Patrick Pichette to board of directors
- Deep Genomics secures $226 million CAD led by SoftBank as it scales AI drug discovery platform
- Shopify surpasses $1 billion quarterly revenue milestone in Q2 2021 results
- BetaKit Live: Solving Big Problems on July 29th
- BetaKit Live: The future of virtual care on July 27
- Digital Technology Supercluster announces $20 million digital wellness project
- Antler eyes $30 million fund as part of Canada expansion
- Silofit secures $15.25 million CAD to bring micro-gym model to United States
- MindBeacon sees revenue increase in Q2 as it ramps up for international expansion
- Communitech takes over Canadian tech startup job board Prospect
- Lumira Ventures closes $276 million CAD for fourth fund
- NACO, Bay Mills Investment Group partner to create new investment group for Black entrepreneurs
- Maple looks beyond public markets for growth and scale
- Five tips for remote employee onboarding
- How tech can promote a collaborative, patient-centric approach in healthcare
- Hootsuite nabs conversational AI startup Heyday in $60 million deal to further social commerce push
- Mako Fintech secures $2 million CAD to meet âabsolute tsunami of client demandâ for wealth management automation
- Funding roundup: Voiceflow, Cold Bore, Kraken Robotics, Spark, Novamera, QuoteToMe
- Acquisition roundup: Clio, ChainSafe, Versaterm, Obie, Covience, SquareFeet.ai, LifeLearn Animal Health
- Deloitte Canada acquires Clockwork to strengthen SAP consultancy business
- WorkJam secures $35 million to fuel growth of frontline worker platform
- Synctera launches card API as company builds its Banking-as-a-Service marketplace
- How KitchenMate evolved its foodservice product for the post-pandemic workplace
- Canada open banking report released
- Lightspeed sees Q1 2022 revenues surge as economies reopen
- Yaletown Partners raises $130 million in first close of Innovation Growth Fund II
- theScore to be acquired by Penn National Gaming for $2 billion USD
- Healthcare scheduling platform Gray Oncology draws $1.25 million from angel investors
- Federal government reveals details on new RDAs for British Columbia, Prairies
- With a new name and product, Wisedocs targets US expansion
- Ontario commits $109 million towards Telesat’s race to launch low-earth-orbit satellite network
- Funding roundup: Smile CDR, Carebook, Hydrostor, Dcbel, 1Valet, Montrium
- Climate change is a strategic issue for businesses, says Manifest Climate CEO
- Three tech roles available in Calgary right now
- Mero Technologies sweeps up $3.1 million CAD for its cleaning sensors
- Four tech firms join new program addressing systemic barriers Indigenous people face
- Federal government invests $5 million in Alberta Innovates program to attract more technology, business accelerators to province
- Acquisition roundup: Converge, WeCommerce, Carebook, Deloitte Canada, Mednow
- FreshBooks secures $163 million CAD and unicorn valuation to increase global reach
- New report shows drop in angel investment during COVID-19 pandemic
- Portage Ventures secures additional $210 million USD for third FinTech fund
- Investors back ORO Healthâs telemedicine vision with $3 million CAD seed round
- Medimap raises $3.5 million to bring walk-in clinic wait time tech to more medical practices
- Branch Energy closes $5.6 million CAD seed round to solve a Texas-sized carbon problem
- Dave Wessinger takes over as PointClickCare CEO as brother and co-founder Mike becomes executive chair
- Dialogue, Thinkific, Mogo post mixed results in Q2 2021
- Fluid Biotech secures $5.8 million CAD to accelerate development of innovative brain aneurysm stent
- RainStick raises $1 million CAD to commercialize water conservation tech
- Quantum Pigeon wants to change the social media game for content creators
- Government of Canada establishes FedNor as standalone regional development agency
- XpertSea secures $25 million CAD to expand sustainable aquaculture solution to new markets
- Telesat secures $1.44 billion commitment from Government of Canada
- Telus, BlackBerry bank on Car IQâs new connected car payment platform
- Green Shield Canada acquires digital mental health startup Tranquility Online
- Lightspeed aims to raise $716 million USD through public offering
- Bessemerâs State of the Cloud report says MT SAAS is coming for FAANG
- Federal Black Entrepreneur Ecosystem Fund kicks off, financing 30 Canadian businesses
- How virtual care in Canada will change post-pandemic
- VerticalScope continues an upward trajectory following its second quarter 2021 results
- Magnet Forensics, Nuvei report revenue increases in second quarter 2021
- LifeSpeak posts strong results in first quarter since going public
- WELL Health revenue increased 484 percent in Q2 2021, bolstered by acquisition strategy
- Buildable secures $3.76 million CAD to empower developers with low-code software
- Ownr report suggests more entrepreneurs placing faith in digital over brick-and-mortar
- mCloud Technologies one step closer to listing on the NASDAQ
- Neo Financial prepares to open innovation hub in Winnipeg
- Today in acquisitions: OSF Digital, BrĂŒush, Pluribus, Semios, NeuPath, VidHug
- Following recent top-up, Superclusters allocate funding to new initiatives
- Funding roundup: Blue J, Fable, Eavor, HaiLa, and more
- Funding roundup: Aviron, Symboticware, Shopistry, ICwhatUC
- Canada Drives secures $100 million CAD Series B, plans Alberta expansion
- Venbridge latest lender to add SR&ED financing advances to venture debt offerings
- Softdrive secures $1 million CAD to productize virtual computer streaming solution
- Twitter chooses Wealthsimple as first Canadian payment service for its Tip Jar
- What Carol Leaman learned from scaling a company and selling it to Google
- Three remote tech roles available in Canada right now
- Ontario, Michigan collaborating on advanced automotive and mobility technology
- Startupfest announces next in-person festival will be in 2022
- theScore bets big on new office space in downtown Toronto
- Aux Caves FinTech latest target as Canadian securities commissions continue to crack down on crypto asset firms
- Seven tips for the first day of your new (remote) job
- Hopper secures $175 million in Series G funding
- 54e Dev Studios pulls in $1.7 million to build its low latency robotics platform through golf
- Coinberry second crypto asset dealer to receive regulatory approval by OSC
- Acquisition roundup: One45, Medivolve, Wondershare
- BuildDirect and Think Research post mixed second-quarter results
- Open letter from Canadian tech execs challenges party leaders to outline their vision for sustainable economic growth
- Blockstream secures $266 million CAD at $4 billion valuation to monetize the Liquid Network
- Shopify, TikTok expand partnership to allow shopping directly through social app
- Dfuse rebrands, secures $73.5 million CAD grant to develop blockchain infrastructure project
- Province commits $3.9 million CAD for internet improvements in BC Indigenous communities
- Toronto entrepreneur helps raise over $350,000 CAD in support of Afghan refugees
- Shopify moving "vast majority" of employees to permanent remote work
- BetaKit Live: The Future of Work on August 31st
- #paid secures $18.9 million CAD Series B round to capitalize on the exploding creator economy
- Braze Mobility among four Canadian businesses accepted to Googleâs second Women Founders accelerator cohort
- Maple continues push for all-in-one virtual care with new mental health offering
- Cybersecurity startup Cmd to be acquired by enterprise search firm Elastic
- Acquisition roundup: Semios, Lone Wolf, Pluribus, Graph Blockchain, Frenter, NestReady
- Three tech roles available in Ontario right now
- Funding roundup: Figment, FIX4 Capital, Highstreet, Appili Therapeutics, Viridis Terra
- Funding roundup: Zilia, Lytica, GrowthGenius, Plentywaka, LifeBooster
- High rate of mental health conditions in women entrepreneurs âalarming,â reports FLIK study
- Liberals and Conservatives both promise to introduce open banking on election trail
- Funding for unicorns Wealthsimple and Trulioo help push VC investment to highest levels yet in H1 2021
- Attabotics files patent infringement claim against Boston-based Urbx
- Gatik raises $107 million CAD Series B round, announces Texas expansion
- COVE to collaborate with three European ocean tech orgs
- While venture funding stays consistent, BC startup deal count sees Q1 decline
- Toronto tech venture deal count plummets in âunfortunateâ first quarter of 2020
- Late-stage AI deals push Waterloo Regionâs venture funding to five-quarter high in Q2 2020
- Montréal tech saw five-quarter high in venture deals prior to COVID-19 crisis
- BC venture funding keeps pace in Q2 2020 as deal volume continues downward trend
- Montréal sets new funding record with two massive travel tech deals in Q2 2020
- Toronto venture funding lags behind Canadaâs record-setting Q2 2020
- Faire megadeal icing on top of Waterloo Region’s strong Q3 2020
- AppDirect megadeal casts long shadow over Montréal startup funding in Q3 2020
- BC venture deal volume dropped to new low in Q3, but total funding shows a healthy ecosystem
- Toronto venture funding in Q3 rebounds following disappointing first half of 2020
- D3 Security secures $18.9 million CAD in growth equity, debt financing
- Meet the 16 Canadian startups participating in Y Combinatorâs Summer 2021 Demo Day
- Former Shopify VP Janeen Speer joins Benevity as company preps for hiring spree
- New Ventures BC reveals 10 finalists for 2021 competition
- Payments Canada launches real-time payment transfer system
- Liberal Party platform promises SR&ED reform, plans for $2 billion advanced research agency
- Quantum Algorithms Institute seeks new partners as it works to accelerate BCâs quantum computing ecosystem
- Audette secures $1 million to help commercial real estate sector build and implement carbon reduction plans
- New interactive database examines attention candidates give to Indigenous matters during the federal election
- Toronto tech smashed venture funding records in Q2 with $1.46 billion raised
- Montréal saw best venture funding quarter yet in Q2 as local startups clinched more megadeals
- ApplyBoard, Faire megadeals pushed Waterloo Region tech funding to new record in Q2
- Lack of late-stage deals in Q2 deflated Calgary venture funding to two-year low
- New York-based FinTech startup Jeeves announces $71.6 million CAD, expansion into Canada
- New York teledentistry platform Grin enters Canadian market
- FedDev Ontario commits combined $12 million to OneEleven and new Waterloo-London healthtech hub
- PLATO Testing to bring Indigenous software tester training program to Victoria
- BC set a new venture funding record in Q2 as total investment eclipsed previous quarter
- BMO and Riskfuel collaborate on AI for financial transactions
- Facebook makes payments product available off platform, starting with US Shopify merchants
- Michael Peters to replace Pascale Audette as CEO of Carebook
- Facedrive co-founder claims company considering insolvency amid face off with former CEO
- Traction on Demand acquires New Zealandâs Trineo to create 24-hour work cycle
- AON3D gets $14.4 million CAD in Series A funding, announces partnership with private space agency
- Ontario government announces tech, standards for planned Digital ID program
- Facedrive fracas heats up as company confirms it filed suit against its co-founder
- Clio acquires San Franciscoâs Lawyaw as it ramps up merger and acquisition efforts
- Jeanne Lam named first president of Wattpad
- Rebranded Nuula secures $120 million for real-time data app, loan offering for small businesses
- Inovia Capital partner and former RIM exec Dennis Kavelman joins board of BenchSci
- RBCx partners with CAN Health Network to increase Canadian medtech firms’ access to capital
- Creative Layer secures backing from Shopify CEO, Celtic House for personalized printing platform for Shopify creators
- Yr Plans partners with Sun Life on student debt repayment pilot
- OMERS and Vector Institute sign five-year collaboration agreement
- Canon to acquire British Columbia semiconductor company Redlen for $341 million CAD
- Irwin raises $25 million CAD as investor relations startup claims increased demand due to pandemic
- Canadian tech leaders want more government guidance before returning to the office
- Five ways to keep your employees engaged while working remotely
- Cohere raises $40 million USD to make natural language processing more accessible
- ShopperPlus secures $20 million to expand online marketplace
- Fresh Prep raises $21 million Series B round to bring its meal kits to new markets
- Alberta organizations launch database for tech startup ecosystem
- Lightspeed, Google partner to offer marketing, advertising tools to retailers
- Google opens applications for new Canadian cloud accelerator
- Following Google accelerator nod, Paperstack attracts $250,000 pre-seed round, interest from Canadaâs unicorns
- OneEleven alumni pass $2 billion USD in collective funding milestone
- Panache Ventures acquires Commonwealth Ventures, launches Fund II
- Hiring roundup: Benevity, Unbounce, Afterpay, PocketHealth, Wrapbook
- Opendoor acquires team from Toronto-based Skylight amid hiring expansion in Canada
- CruxOCM secures $7.6 million CAD to bolster automation software for energy sector operations
- Millions.co raises $12.6 million CAD for social commerce platform for athletes
- Magnet Forensics acquires evidence software company DME Forensics in $9 million deal
- Shopify rolls out new solution meant to help merchants manage global commerce, cross-border shopping
- MedStack secures $3.93 million CAD to capitalize on increased demand for healthtech
- VanHack women in leadership panel offers advice for young women wanting to build a career in tech
- Halifaxâs Proposify receives $5 million to help growth of proposal creation solution
- Toronto-based Private AIâs language redaction tool attracts $3.15 million in seed funding
- AbCellera acquires TetraGenetics, announces multi-year partnership with Moderna
- Gallea raises $1.5 million CAD in seed funding to expand art distribution network
- Clearco partners with Californiaâs MicroAquire to help founders find acquisitions
- Neo Financial secures $64 million CAD led by Peter Thiel-backed Valar Ventures
- Shopify grows 846 percent over three-year period, places second on 2021 TSX30 ranking
- What Juno has learned offering Income Share Agreements to Bootcamp students
- Foxquilt raises $8 million Series A round to accelerate US expansion
- PwC Canada acquires Ottawa-based cybersecurity consulting firm Avaleris
- CarDoor raises $3 million, prepares its online car retail platform for cross-Canada expansion
- Urbx moves to dismiss Attaboticsâ patent infringement claim
- Duda acquires Quebec-based e-commerce startup Snipcart
- Techstars Toronto tapped for second cohort as early-stage accelerator expands
- SMRT1 crowdfunds over $484,000 for smart touchscreen for vending machines
- WeCommerce announces new hires, including CFO
- Montreal-based BrainBox AI, American Internet of Things company partner to lower energy consumption in commercial buildings
- LearnExperts raises $1.25 million in seed funding to accelerate digital training solutions
- IIROC briefly halts Facedrive stock after two days of heavy trading
- Radical Ventures expands leadership team, adds partner in San Francisco
- Think Research switches banks, increases credit facility to $28 million
- Attabotics appoints former Microsoft, Amazon leader Cyra Richardson as CTO and CPO
- Vancouver-based First Fund closes additional $6 million for pre-seed investment fund
- Sparrow raises $3.25 million CAD to accelerate computational health tech development
- Rewind fundraise shows that slow and steady can win the market
- Rebelstork strikes deal with Hudsonâs Bay for baby gear resale program
- Following Series A raise, Medchart adds VP of product design to support product development, expansion
- Rebranded Daylight Automation raises $15.7 million CAD in Series A funding
- Acquisition roundup: Ramp, Top Hat, Wishpond, Trade X, Enthusiast Gaming
- PhenoTips secures $2.5 million CAD to expand reach of medical genetics software
- Shopify reportedly surpasses Amazon in online traffic, heating up race between the e-commerce firms
- Wealthsimple, Clearco top LinkedInâs Top Startups Canada 2021 list
- Toronto-Waterloo rises in Startup Genomeâs 2021 global ecosystem rankings, as Vancouver falls
- Angel Host raises $5.2 million USD to capitalize on vacation rental industry spike
- Inovia partners part of newly launched acquisition company, Soar Technology, and $230 million USD IPO
- Thirdera acquires Appoxio to enhance UI/UX in ServiceNow platform
- Micromobility expert, Horace Dediu, joins Relay Ventures as a partner, chief market strategist
- WELL Health to acquire Aware MD for $4.5 million CAD
- 3D BioFibR raises $700,000 in funding round
- Canadian municipal regions call on federal government for more support for foreign direct investment program
- Former Tungle, Foko Retail employees team up to launch new hybrid work-focused calendar startup
- RBCx launches venture debt product as market for it heats up in Canada
- StandUp Ventures reveals second fund dedicated to women-led startups with $30 million initial close
- Convictional receives $6.7 million in Series A funding as it works to become digital backbone of B2B trade
- Regulators caution crypto trading platforms, issue guidance over misleading language in advertising
- WELL Health filing indicates company may raise up to $500 million to support acquisition strategy
- BetaKit Live: Canada’s ‘New’ Innovation Policy on September 28th
- Salesforce set to acquire Toronto-based LevelJump.io
- CIX lists top 20 early-stage startups, top 10 growth startups of 2021
- Vancouver-based Dapper Labs raises $250 million USD, partners with Spainâs LaLiga
- JITbase raises $650,000 in seed funding to accelerate smart manufacturing software
- Staffy hires new head of operations, looks to US expansion
- Fobi to acquire Qples for $3.2 million USD to expand retail opportunities
- Stripe to open Canadian office in Toronto, announces new products
- Thinkific appoints former Hootsuite marketing VP as first CMO, switches up CTO
- Former innovation minister Navdeep Bains joins CIBC as vice-chair of global investment banking
- BC Innovator Skills Initiative receives $14 million in private investment, expands under-represented individuals support
- Square brings card for businesses to Canada
- MSP Corp secures $35 million from BDC Capital, CIBC to fuel acquisition efforts
- Conexiom secures $130 million in growth investment
- Zuva closes $20 million CAD Series A round, launches AI document solution
- Samdesk secures $13.5 million to fuel expansion of crisis detection and monitoring platform
- Wishpond secures $6 million revolving credit from National Bank to fuel acquisition strategy
- AutoLeap revs up growth with an $18 million Series A funding round
- With new platform update Flinks claims open banking is already in Canada
- Traction on Demand to open Winnipeg office, hire 100 with support from Manitoba government
- Shopifyâs global Indigenous programs lead joins Indigenous-owned Animikii
- WELL Health to acquire majority stake in US-based digital pharmacy startup Wisp
- Hookdeck raises $320,000 USD in pre-seed funding to fuel development of webhooks solution
- Lightspeed dismisses report from activist investor critical of companyâs metrics
- Sandpiper Ventures closes first $10 million of its $20 million CAD target fund
- Hootsuite brings on Tiziana Figliolia as new CFO
- Gatik reveals Goodyear as strategic investor, announces partnership deal
- Properly receives $100 million in financing to fuel tech-enabled home buying process
- Clearco commits $100 million AUD, adds former Google exec as part of Australian expansion
- The Property Brothers invest in Properly as part of new partnership
- Lightspeed to acquire two e-commerce companies for $925 million USD
- OSC announces new members for Small Business Advisory Committee
- Venture Newfoundland and Labrador fund raises $16.3 million CAD, announces new hires
- Dapper Labs acquires Brud as part of plan to form new DAO-focused business unit
- Coconut Software on growth trajectory with $28 million CAD Series B funding
- Company behind digital payout service Tipstoday adds $8.5 million via private placement
- TrafficDriven, Train Fitness, Moment Energy secure podium at 2021 New Ventures BC Competition
- D-Wave launches performance update to existing quantum computer, teases next-generation system
- Hooked on Phonicâs platform, investors back voice-based surveys
- Semios secures $100 million to further acquisition strategy, become global AgTech leader
- Koho rolls out Instant Pay, overdraft protection
- Acquisition roundup: Nanotech Security, Kira Systems, iQmetrix
- Smartricity raises $1 million to scale motor testing technologies
- Thentia receives $15 million credit from Espresso Capital to fuel GovTech innovation
- Experts explain why Canadaâs ânewâ government needs to prioritize competition, talent, and open banking
- Moneris completes acquisition of UEAT to bolster commerce solutions for restaurants
- Emerge Commerce to acquire BattlBox, Carnivore Club for up to $23.8 million CAD
- New accelerator aims to give Black-led startups in the Prairies a kick-start
- Bay Mills Investment Group âon pauseâ following departures and alleged health issues with executive team
- Q4 Inc resumes plans to go public on the TSX
- On mission to make audio and video files searchable, Omnisearch raises $565,000 CAD
- Perch raises $1 million to fuel mortgage data platform
- Trellis to acquire Apixibot to bolster automated marketing tech for Amazon, Shopify merchants
- SVB expands to Montréal amid competition, growth in Canadian venture debt market
- SWTCH pilots blockchain-enabled, electric vehicle charging station
- R-LABS and Teranet launch real estate innovation company RIOS with $4 million investment
- Relocalize closes $1.4 million to deploy thousands of micro-factories in containers
- Doctor-backed KixCare secures $2 million to make pediatric care more accessible
- Nuvei files for initial public offering on Nasdaq
- Deloitte Canada acquires Ouest Business Solutions to bolster Western Canadian presence
- Callia secures $6.4 million to move beyond flower delivery, fuel North American expansion
- Paystone acquires NiceJob, expanding its payment and customer engagement solutions
- ResQ raises $48 million CAD to bolster restaurant repair and maintenance platform
- In its goal to modernize trucking operations, Rose Rocket raises $31 million CAD
- Kevin Durantâs Boardroom enters multi-year brand deal with Dapper Labs
- Announcing the SAAS NORTH BetaKit Keynote Stage
- Offering a nanotech drywall alternative, Trusscore lands $26 million in Series A funding
- EnPowered launches new payments platform to boost cleantech adoption
- Top Hat founder Mike Silagadze shifts from EdTech to crypto investing with new DeFi fund
- Inovia Capital launches $416 million CAD continuation fund to stick with its winners until IPO
- A culmination of its acquisitions, Lightspeed brings revamped restaurant platform to North America
- Freshii inks deal to acquire Natura Market
- Pathway raises $1.6 million to make medical knowledge more accessible
- EdTech startup Thinkific files offering with potential to raise $300 million
- Thomson Reuters launches $100 million corporate venture capital fund
- Coveo acquires Englandâs Qubit to extend European e-commerce reach
- Alida obtains $20 million Series D funding to fuel expansion
- Pani Energy raises $8 million to bring water treatment tech to global market
- FinTech startup Propel Holdings aims to raise $60 million in TSX IPO
- LifeSpeak to acquire ALAViDA, extending solutions to address substance use
- LifeSpeak acquires online wellness company Lift for approximately $15 million
- Carbon Upcycling Technologies, Adaptive Pulse among startups recently chosen for competitions, accelerators
- BetaKit Live: Solving the developer-security divide
- Twitter eyes Canada as product launchpad amid developer hiring spree
- Former Shopify Plus GM Loren Padelford joins US startup Podium as COO
- Tokens.com purchases 50 percent of virtual real estate group Metaverse
- Bedrock AI receives $1 million to extract hidden information from financial documents
- BBTV, Spotter enter partnership worth $154.7 million to fuel content creator growth and monetization
- Following refocus and rebrand, Lydia AI secures $10 million CAD to make health insurance more inclusive
- With $21 million CoLab aims to double size, enable manufacturing collaboration and communications
- Hopper acquires PlacePass, scores Marriott Bonvoy as customer for B2B business
- Lightspeedâs Dax Dasilva launches environmental nonprofit, pledges $40 million for conservation, restoration projects
- Big Whale Labs raises $655,000 to accelerate NFT product development
- Axis Auto Finance lands $15 million to roll out digital loan product
- Hoot Reading secures investment from new $100 million Spin Master venture fund
- Steadiwear raises $1.1 million CAD to fuel launch of glove designed to combat hand tremors
- CapIntel signs partnership with IG Wealth Management
- Wisely acquires Hopeful to create AI-powered fundraising powerhouse
- Following $61 million TSX IPO, Propel Holdings eyes US expansion
- FTEX raises $485,000 to increase efficiency of electric vehicles through its motor tech
- Kirstine Stewart joining TribalScale as president and chief revenue officer
- Former Twitter exec Kirstine Stewart joins Rivalryâs board of directors
- Penn National completes $2 billion acquisition of theScore
- Online vehicle auction marketplace E Automotive revs up IPO plans
- Affinio to be acquired by NowVertical Group for $9 million CAD
- Pocketed secures $1 million CAD to help more companies access grant funding, power US expansion
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- SkyHive secures $49.3 million CAD Series B raise for automated job skills tech
- General Fusion to expand HQ in Richmond, BC and quadruple workforce
- EmergConnect raises $350,000 to fund emergency room wait time predictor
- Despite COVID-19, Ontario AI ecosystem continues growth trajectory, report finds
- Shopify to help bands merch-ify their Spotify
- With Bermuda incubator launch, DMZ aims to gain foothold in blockchain
- D2L files to go public on TSX
- Rumor Avenue acquires FLIK as company aims to empower women founders
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- Plurilock to acquire assets of CloudCodes Software to bolster cloud security solution
- 7shifts moves HQ to Nutrien Tower for its post-COVID workforce
- BC entrepreneur wins $1.6 million prize from Prince William-founded competition
- US private equity firm Crest Rock Partners takes majority ownership of Vancouver-based Unbounce
- Three Toronto companies hiring tech roles right now
- Q4 Inc. reduces TSX IPO target following weaker than expected investor demand
- In Q3, Toronto startups broke venture funding records⊠again
- Wealthsimple launches crypto investing for group retirement funds
- Q4 Inc. makes TSX debut, joining growing wave of Canadian tech IPOs
- Amid potential PayPal-Pinterest deal, Scott Galloway predicts Shopify will purchase Snap
- aDolus raises $3 million CAD to bolster supply chain security solution amid growing demand
- White Star Capital closes $446 million CAD for new fund
- Former Slack leader Allan Leinwand joins Shopify as new CTO
- CCI launches board training program to increase tech knowledge, diversity
- Link Investment Management revs up to take on insurance, banking incumbents with $2.5 million
- Felicia Bochicchio named CEO of Unbounce; Rick Perreault becomes board chair
- Clio expands into VC, FinTech with payments product, investment fund
- BCâs tech investment boom continued in Q3
- Bridgit secures $24 million in funding; announces new C-suite hires
- Trudeau cabinet shuffle divvies up regional economic development agenda to handful of ministers
- CalendarHero parlays successful pivot into potent acquisition by Vendasta
- Fellow.appâs meeting productivity software attracts $24 million
- New York-based Jeeves launches corporate financing solution in Canada
- GrubMarket expands to Canada by acquiring e-commerce startup Funtech
- Shopify partners with Microsoft, Oracle, Infor to launch global ERP program
- Flahmingo raises $1.88 million CAD, teases launch of new app in Q1 2022
- Propel closes over-allotment option, pulls in $70 million for public offering
- Hootsuite plans to IPO before Christmas, raise $200 million on TSX
- Neo Financialâs Series B leads Calgaryâs venture funding bounce back in Q3
- Crewdle raises $2.15 million to make video conferencing environmentally friendly
- Shopify increases revenues and gross profits, posts operating loss in Q3 2021
- Former CTO the latest Coinsquare exec to sue the crypto startup
- D2L cuts size, pricing of TSX IPO
- After booming Q2, Waterloo Region deal volume hit two-year low in Q3 2021
- Lumira Ventures latest Canadian VC to jump on SPAC trend in pursuit of US medtech firms
- BetaKit Live: The State of Canadian Startups on November 3rd
- CoinSmart the latest Canadian crypto trading platform to receive exemption from regulators
- Lightspeed continues e-commerce push with product developed through Ecwid acquisition
- Microsoft acquires BC-based Two Hat to moderate Xbox content
- Sonder lowers valuation expectations for SPAC deal amid market conditions
- Hopperâs Series G kept MontrĂ©al funding strong in Q3
- Mogo planting trees to offset carbon emissions from Bitcoin mining
- Alberta government, Platform Calgary launching province-wide hackathon
- Q4 Inc. CEO downplays IPO concerns after going public, sets sights on M&A to fuel growth
- AlayaCare buys Pennsylvania-based Delta Health Technologies to bolster US presence
- Optina raises $24 million to bolster AI-powered early Alzheimer detection device
- IBM Canada, University of Ottawa to build cybersecurity learning facility
- Amazon, BMO, PLATO Testing team up to offer tech training to Indigenous students
- CoinSmart begins trading on Neo Exchange following regulatory exemption for crypto platform
- US proptech Opendoor plots Canadian hiring expansion, aims to add 100 engineers
- Ecobee aims to leverage Generacâs energy products, global presence post-acquisition
- Rebranded Shakudo secures $4.2 million CAD to help data science teams get AI solutions to market
- Fluence acquires XLCubed to build an expansive finance reporting platform
- San Francisco AI startup Sama eyes Montréal R&D expansion with $70 million Series B round
- Trufan rewards consumers for web data, lands $2 million CAD
- Lightspeed posts record revenues in second quarter of fiscal 2022
- How this Indigenous-led VC firm invests for financial and community impact
- Why Cisco Canada wants to give your startup $300k to solve big problems
- GHGSat receives $20 million from SDTC to bolster satellite technology
- Smart thermostat startup Mysa raises $20.3 million
- Irish FinTech startup Swoop lands in Canada ahead of open banking framework
- Despite reduced offering, D2L founder says public markets present “tremendous opportunity” for tech firms
- Felix Health moves into diagnosis and treatment of anxiety, depression
- McRock Capital leads $57 million USD round for Californiaâs Landing AI, created by former Google Brain lead
- Attain Insight to acquire map intelligence tech from Australia’s Integeo
- Clio doubles C-Suite with four new execs to support product, international expansion
- Why Truliooâs Steve Munford thinks âwe donât need more unicornsâ
- Sharethrough postpones TSX debut amid Canadian tech IPO market struggles
- Elevate to host social impact summit in October
- Coveo latest Canadian tech company to file for TSX IPO
- Mimik Technology raises $17.9 million CAD to make any computing device act like a cloud server
- Communitech, CAN Health partnering to address barriers to healthtech procurement
- Fobi to acquire PassWallet for $1.2 million CAD to enter FinTech space
- Gradient MSP raises $12.7 million CAD to launch automated billing solution
- Calgary, the city that offered to fight a bear for Amazon HQ2, gets new Amazon data centre
- EnPowered reveals $12.75 million in funding to become Stripe of cleantech
- Borrowell co-founder secures seed capital for Savvyy to tackle banking side of digital lending
- HugOps: how to get developer and security teams working together
- Dialogue Health announces record revenues in its third quarter, 2021
- Nuvei, Magnet Forensics, Thinkific see increased revenues in third quarter of 2021
- Patrick Pichette joins Neo4j’s board as Inovia leads startup’s $66 million USD Series F extension
- Dialectica plans to hire 500 people in Canada, open Vancouver office
- CDW survey uncovers troubling data about the state of cybersecurity in Canadian startups
- Knak nabs $31 million CAD to market its drag-and-drop, no code platform
- Shopify, Ledger dodge class action as California court dismisses 2020 data breach lawsuit
- Enso Connect secures $2 million CAD to tackle short-term rental market
- Wealthsimple Crypto launches wallet support
- Ikeaâs investment arm buys into Bolt Logistics as part of Series B round
- Plug and Play expands to Alberta as part of program to bolster provinceâs startups
- Ottawa-founded Threekit raises $43.6 million CAD to bolster product visualization tech
- Sports and live audience engagement startup StellarAlgo secures $16.5 million Series A
- Think Research acquires assets of Ireland-based healthtech competitor Pharmapod
- Market Watch: Q4 Inc, Mogo report increased revenues in the third quarter of 2021
- D2L, E Automotive make their Toronto Stock Exchange debuts
- Why you need to stop cancelling your one-on-ones
- BetaKit Live: Dax Dasilva on making a difference on November 15th
- Market Watch: Well, Lifespeak revenues climb in the third quarter of 2021
- Interface Fluidics raises $6.7 million CAD to accelerate deployment of oil recovery tech
- Bootstrapped Ataccama hungry to win global data management market
- Breather co-founder secures $12.4 million CAD for new coaching software startup
- Maritime Launch Services to go public on CSE via reverse takeover
- Canadian Starlink competitor Telesat to go public on the TSX
- Quebecor launches venture capital fund, asterX, to back startups aligned with its key verticals
- Market Watch: E Automotive, Copperleaf post robust results in third quarter following IPOs
- Market Watch: VerticalScope makes acquisitions after revenue increase; BBTV posts positive Q3
- Wrapbook claims $1 billion valuation with $100 million USD Series B raise
- Five reasons to attend SAAS NORTH
- Breather, Ritual alumni look to ride retail investing wave with new automated trading platform Composer
- Billdr secures $4 million CAD to build up its home renovation marketplace
- Emerge Commerce enters B2B space with purchase of WholesalePet.com for up to $31.2 million CAD
- Canadian VC funding hits all-time high as seed investment continues to lag
- US-based research firm acquires Methodify, AskingCanadians from Toronto-based Delvinia
- Sagard Holdings secures $200 million in first close of private equity fund
- Canadian SaaS funding in 2021 rebounds from 2020 low, fuelled by influx of US investors
- ETS Strategic Capital takes majority stake in admissions assessment startup Kira Talent
- Manitoba grants Neo Financial $1.6 million to expand Winnipeg workforce
- Snapcommerce, Maple top 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 50
- Klir raises $20.1 million CAD to help cities, utilities better manage water
- New York-based Bizzabo acquires Klik for $13.5 million to enhance live events
- Ontario delays launch of digital ID program until 2022
- Shopify CEO Tobi LĂŒtke’s Thistledown Foundation donates $26 million to children’s hospitals
- Judo scores $3.8 million CAD to expand no-code mobile app development solution beyond sports
- Simplyk scores seed capital to take free nonprofit fundraising platform to the US
- Northleaf Capital Partners to launch new technology fund
- L-SPARKâs Leo Lax: Canadian SaaS has âarrivedâ
- How a shift in strategy took once-struggling Looka back to profitability
- Coveo makes strong debut on the Toronto Stock Exchange
- Bessemer’s Alexandra Sukin shares best-in-class SaaS strategies
- Telesat makes TSX, Nasdaq debut
- Espresso Capital secures $200 million USD credit facility to fund tech firms in red-hot venture debt market
- Moment Energy secures $3.5 million to repurpose retired electric vehicle batteries
- GaN Systems nails $189.7 million CAD to drive semiconductor innovation
- BetaKit Live: How to drive growth and innovation through impact investing
- PwC’s FinTech market map takes stock of growing Canadian tech sector
- Plaidâs Irene Zhou on getting a ‘Yes’ faster from financial institutions
- Truliooâs Steve Munford says a unicorn valuation is part of the journey, not the destination
- Maritime Launch Services gears up to launch âCanadaâs first commercial spaceportâ
- SAAS NORTH launches award in tribute to prolific tech investor Greg Smith
- What To Expect From Your Lead Investor
- Rhino Ventures unveils $120 million third fund to invest beyond Western Canada
- Faire banks $400 million USD Series G at $12.4 billion valuation
- Unbounceâs Tamara Grominsky shares why companies need to develop a category alongside their product
- OSC opens applications to test innovative capital markets solutions through new program
- Bill Gates firm backs Mangrove Lithium, as need for faster lithium processing for electric vehicles booms
- Maturing Canadian tech ecosystem still dependent on government support: RBCxâs Anthony Mouchantaf
- Dapper Labs, Thinkific, AbCellera among 11 winners of 2021 BC Tech Awards
- Coveo closes $215 million CAD in Toronto Stock Exchange debut
- Tired of waiting, Flinks launches its own Open Banking Environment with National Bank
- mCloud aims to secure capital for push into Middle East, as it lists to Nasdaq Capital Markets
- Armed with first close of $6.3 million CAD, PaceZero aims to bring focus on sustainability to Canadaâs private credit market
- Gotcare, Nectar raise seed funding supported by Telusâ corporate impact fund
- California-based FinTech Tipalti expanding Canadian presence with Toronto office, 300 hires
- As CIOSC preps consumer framework, Canadian FinTech startups fear another open banking boondoggle
- Previously bootstrapped, appointment booking solution Booxi raises $1.5 million
- Hootsuite eyes 2022 as “window has closed” for new Canadian tech IPOs
- Dax Dasilva on using Lightspeed learnings to address the worldâs climate crisis
- HiMama rakes in $70 million baby bonus to pursue growing childcare market
- Versaterm to bolster next generation 9-1-1 calling tech with acquisition of QuĂ©becâs Komutel
- WELL Health raises $70 million of target $500 million from bought deal offering
- Constellation Software launches $200 million venture fund to find potential acquisitions
- Tech4SickKids e-auction raises $50,000 towards $25 million goal to modernize SickKids hospital
- Anatomy of an IPO: How Coveo prepared to take itself public
- How Katherine Regnier found the right enterprise customers for Coconut Software
- Survey suggests progress, room for improvement on equitable compensation for women in venture capital
- UK FinTech Wise rolls out payments card to Canadian users
- Spring Activator, Telus Pollinator fund partner for investor challenge
- Shopify merchants generate record $6.3 billion USD in sales during Black Friday, Cyber Monday
- General Fusion powers up with $166 million CAD round for its energy technology
- Klue scores $79 million CAD from Tiger Global, Salesforce Ventures
- Alida secures additional $3 million from BMO Capital to accelerate growth strategy
- mCloud raises $12.1 million CAD in Nasdaq uplisting
- Volta Cohort program gives five early-stage Atlantic-Canadian startups $25,000 each
- San Franciscoâs Maple VC closes $16.5 million for second fund focused on Canadian founders
- South Korea AutoTech startup AutoCrypt to open Canadian office in Whitby
- Staffbase acquires Valo Solutions to extend communications solution to Microsoft 365
- Life House closes $77 million CAD round co-led by Inovia, Kayak to help hotels boost profitability
- How startups can break their addiction to paid media
- Montréal-based cleantech startup Polystyvert receives $3.5 million in government funding
- Coveo closes over-allotment option, raises additional $32 million as part of IPO
- Arteria AI pens deal to acquire assets of H4
- InBC appoints former FrontFundr, Female Funders exec Jill Earthy as CEO
- Willful lands Dragon Michele Romanow in new $750,000 round
- Gradient Spaces, Georgian launch incubator program for early-stage 2SLGBTQIA+ founders
- Benevity reports record Giving Tuesday with over $112 million donated through its platform
- Bidmii secures $1 million round led by Scott McGillivray to scale home renovation marketplace
- Toronto right-wing video platform Rumble to go public on Nasdaq through SPAC
- Samsung opens Regina office to bolster 5G presence in Saskatchewan
- Legible sees CSE debut as stepping stone to global growth of ebook reading platform
- Spare ready to roll with $18 million Series A funding for its on-demand transit software
- Summit Nanotech wins $1 million Women in Cleantech challenge
- Extreme Venture Partners founders, Chamath Palihapitiya lose appeal in Tinder sale lawsuit
- How SaaS startups move from seed to scale
- 3 tips for SaaS founders forecasting their next fundraise
- Payment Rails rebrands to Trolley, closes $7 million Series A to expand reach of global payouts platform
- Inside the rise of Canadian venture studios
- AlayaCare bolsters C-Suite, board to support next phase of growth
- Tech panel thinks Canadian startups are ready to move from defence to offence in 2022
- Cisco Canada survey reveals how startups and SMBs are approaching post-pandemic recovery
- Just Boardrooms raises $3 million, launches marketplace for in-person meeting spaces
- Ritual alumni launch GoodGood with $6.5 million to scale commerce for local food and drink makers
- Alison Sunstrum, Kookai Chaimahawong join The51âs new AgTech fund
- The metrics that show your startup is healthy
- Damon Motors secures $37.9 million CAD for its AI-backed electric motorcycles
- Former Shopify employees raise $8.5 million from Sequoia, Bessemer for new developer productivity startup Gadget
- AbCelleraâs antibody treatment becomes first to receive emergency FDA approval for kids under 12
- Nuvei shares drop amid short seller report
- Benevity acquires Swiss firm Alaya to extend global reach
- D2L records rising revenue, net losses in first quarterly report since IPO
- Lockheed Martin partners with, invests $1.3 million in UniversitĂ© de Sherbrooke’s Institut Quantique
- Sleep Country acquires 25 percent stake in blackout curtains manufacturer Sleepout
- Cross-Border Impact Ventures launches with $30 million in commitments for women, youth-focused healthtech fund
- Influitive acquires PostBeyond to expand customer advocacy platform to employees
- Four startups from initial Entrepreneur First Toronto cohort raise collective $5.7 million CAD
- 10Adventures, SOS WebAR take home Startup Calgary 2021 Launch Party awards
- Rebranded Nomic Bio raises $17 million to fuel development of protein-measuring platform
- Kudos secures $10 million from Canadian Business Growth Fund to boost employee engagement
- How to (successfully) pivot your startup, from a company that did it twice
- Whitecap Venture Partners closes $140 million Fund V to invest across Canada
- NACO names Backbone Angelsâ Arati Sharma 2021 Angel of the Year
- Wealthsimple sells UK book of business as FinTech giant focuses solely on Canada (for now?)
- WFHomie raises $1.9 million CAD to help companies better engage, retain employees
- SVB report finds Canadian venture activity reached new heights in 2021
- Snappy receives $2 million to scale restaurant management tech
- IBM to hire 350 tech employees in Nova Scotia
- eLeapPower closes $21 million Series A round to solve electric vehicle pain points
- Halifax-based LeadSift third company acquired by IDG Communications in last 18 months
- TealBook looks to become global leader in supply chain data with $50 million in new funding
- Ryan Holmes, Manny Padda launch venture fund to invest in founders under 30 years old
- Narwhal Project Canadian accelerator ranking shows need for improvement compared to US counterparts
- Narwhal Project creator looks to apply unicorn research with new accelerator
- Tiggy raises $6.3 million to expand 15-minute grocery delivery service beyond Vancouver
- Xandar Kardian raises $10 million for contactless health monitoring tech
- Rockport Networks raises $61.9 million CAD, appoints Marc Sultzbaugh as co-CEO
- Consumer products investor IVEST launches $200 million SPAC to pursue innovative technologies
- Ledn raises $70 million in Series B funding, plans launch of Bitcoin-backed mortgages
- Alongside acquires CareerBeacon from Brunswick News
- Ukko Agro closes $5.1 million seed round to help farmers make crop management decisions at scale
- Nicoya’s $20 million Series A extension enables continued development of digital proteomics solution
- Armed with $1.2 million, Eva plans to bring ride-sharing, delivery software to new markets
- WealthTech startup PureFacts raises $37 million to pursue acquisitions
- How the global âphenomenonâ of impact investing is heating up in Canada
- Marlow brings innovative D2C menstrual product to market
- LifeSpeak acquires Torchlight to expand digital education to caregivers
- CDL-Rockies promised $4.8 million from OCIF, federal government
- As 2021 breaks records, can the Canadian tech sector sustain its growth in 2022?
- Trulioo sees crypto firms lean toward compliance verification as regulatory environment changes
- New mandate letter gives Minister Champagne long to-do-list for Canadian tech and innovation
- Hybrid workers are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Here’s how employees can play defence at home and in the office
- Wealthsimple Trade to launch ‘Plus’ tier, sunset ‘Premium’ offering, streamline US trading
- Hubly raises $1.7 million CAD to help financial services firms improve their productivity
- Following Moka acquisition, Mogo launches stock trading app
- OpenText to acquire Zix in $860 million deal meant to bolster Microsoft relationship
- Why Benevityâs new CEO Kelly Schmitt is already thinking about her successor
- CoinSmart second crypto trading platform to receive marketplace status this month
- CDPQ invests $100 million CAD in AppDirect channel partner program
- Xero to acquire Calgaryâs TaxCycle in $75 million CAD deal to expand Canadian presence
- Weedbox acquires ecommerce tech provider Goodtimes
- Traction Guest acquired by US growth equity firm PSG
- Accelia Capital launches $50 million VC fund to back women-led startups in Québec
- Findings in SVBâs global healthtech report mirror 2021 trends in Canada
- Execs, investors sell $74.4 million in Magnet Forensics shares
- Headversity raises $12.5 million CAD to scale workplace mental health solution
- Following recent acquisitions, LifeSpeak files to raise up to $450 million CAD
- TrojAI secures $3 million in seed funding to protect AI solutions against security threats
- Assent Compliance Canadaâs newest unicorn after $446.5 million CAD raise
- BuildDirect appoints David Lazar as interim CEO as former chief exec Dan Park joins Imperfect Foods
- In preparation for IPO, Clio nabs Clearco CFO
- Wishpond acquires SMS marketing firm Winback.chat for $700,000
- Dax Dasilvaâs Age of Union Alliance donates $4.5 million USD to Sea Shepherd to fight illegal fishing
- Mogo filing says relationship with Coinsquare is delaying CSA exemption
- Tech leaders call on Toronto Police Service Board to strengthen proposed AI policy
- Thin Air Labs taking startup support services to Toronto
- Future Fertility secures $7.6 million CAD for AI-powered in vitro fertilization
- Y Combinator boosts size of standard deal to $500,000 USD
- Federal government calls for new proposals under the Women Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Fund
- Telus Health launches virtual pharmacy service nationally
- Ecopia lands $3.39 million federal government contract for broadband mapping
- Platform Calgary and Innovate Edmonton launch new pre-accelerator, Alberta Catalyzer
- Maple acquires Wello to expand employee healthcare business
- Wagepoint makes first acquisition, purchasing Timesheet Mobile
- AmpMe accused of boosting app sales through fake reviews by noted App Store critic
- Unbounce acquires US-based marketing tech startup LeadsRx
- VC economics: why startup valuations are art while dilution is a science
- FundThrough acquires invoice financing business from Silicon Valleyâs BlueVine
- Conduitâs âStripe for DeFiâ approach bags startup $21.2 million CAD round led by Portage
- Provision Analytics raises $6 million CAD to improve food safety with its SaaS platform
- Neo Financial to bolster presence in Calgary with 113,000 square feet of new office space
- Boosted.ai raises $43.7 million CAD to scale AI platform for investment managers
- Vendasta makes second acquisition after dashed IPO plans, venture round
- Alberta launches tech worker immigration stream after calls from community
- Ryan Holmes, Manny Padda-led LOI Venture secures more than one-third of $20 million target in first close
- Together lands $6.2 million CAD to pair mentors and mentees in companies
- TSXV-listed CloudMD to acquire TSX-listed MindBeacon in $116 million deal
- Review of 11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2021
- 13 Canadian companies crack 2022 Global Cleantech 100
- NACO and Angel Investors Ontario promised $5.4 million from FedDev
- Owl.co raises $30 million Series B to scale insurance claim monitoring solution
- PayFacto acquires iShopFood Inc. to offer all-in-one restaurant solutions
- Unreserved closes $33 million seed round to build property auction platform
- PainWorth secures $2.1 million CAD to settle personal injury claims using machine learning
- D-Wave increases European presence with quantum computer in Germany
- XMachina AI acquires Bain Public in its second acquisition since forming in mid-2021
- Redbrick acquires Indianapolis-based email marketing platform Delivra
- Maropost acquires Australiaâs Retail Express in $50 million CAD deal
- Aspire, DarwinAI project recognized as âoutstandingâ by United Nationsâ AI research centre
- Emmertech closes $60 million to grow âdominantâ Canadian AgTech companies
- Shopify strikes partnership with JD.com to help US merchants sell to Chinese consumers
- Ikea expands EV partnership with Bolt following Series B investment
- $1 million round caps off busy 2021 for legaltech startup Goodlawyer
- Amplitude Ventures, AltaML pen partnership to build AI, biotech companies
- 1Password claims $744 million CAD round is largest in Canadian history
- Hyivy Health secures $1.1 million in pre-seed funding to ease womenâs pelvic health problems
- NowVertical, Emerge Commerce file base shelf prospectuses to fund acquisition plans
- Sonder makes Nasdaq debut following close of SPAC deal
- Valence Discovery announces $10.9 million CAD for AI-aided drug discovery and formulation
- Space data startup Wyvern reveals $4.5 million in pre-seed and seed funding
- Funnelytics snags $1.85 million to launch version 2.0 of its analytics platform
- Diversio secures $8.13 million CAD on journey to improve corporate diversity and inclusion
- Ionomr Innovations lands over $18 million led by Shell Ventures
- New Brunswick Innovation Foundation launches AI fund with support from feds
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- Kepler raises $72.6 million CAD as the firm looks to grow network, expand to US
- Shakepay secures $44 million Series A led by QED Investors to roll out more Bitcoin products
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- Clio alum launches legaltech startup Lawbrokr to match consumers with lawyers
- AI drug discovery startup BenchSci scores $63 million Series C round led by Inovia, TCV
- Hardbacon acquires India-based financial calculator Findmytotal.com
- WonderFi acquiring Bitbuy, Canadaâs first regulated crypto marketplace
- Builders VC debuts $250 million USD for second fund
- Certn acquires United Kingdomâs Credence to expand background checks solutions
- Startupfest plans a “fresh start” for in-person event return in July
- Daylight Automation acquires SaaS startup Proof Data Technology
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- VentureLab receives $1.5 million from municipal government to expand hardware, semiconductor incubator
- OMERS Ventures reinvests in Deliverect as part of $150 million USD Series D round
- Three Canadian regions ranked among the best global cleantech ecosystems by Startup Genome
- Zafin acquires Fincad, adding analytics to its FinTech services
- Wealthsimple launches green ETF on the NEO Exchange
- Toronto shattered venture funding records in 2021 as city grew accustomed to billion-dollar quarters
- Michael Hyatt joins Northleaf Capital Partners as senior advisor
- Calgary broke its venture funding record in 2021 as deal volume almost doubled
- Deloitte Canada launches $150 million CAD venture capital fund
- Ziva Dynamics acquired by Silicon Valleyâs Unity Technologies
- Agtech Accelerator, Volta receive new funding from federal government
- MaRS launches new $100 million Graphite IAF fund
- Marking its sixth acquisition, Paystone acquires Canadian Payment Services
- Techstars Torontoâs all-international cohort prompts discussion on role of city-based accelerators
- Lightspeed adds global tech entrepreneurs Nathalie Gaveau and Dale Murray to its board
- Bench CEO and founder Ian Crosby out, company brings in president
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- New report reveals worrying trends about venture funding in Waterloo Region
- BDC report expects tech sector revenue to grow by 22 percent by 2024
- Fractional real estate investing startup Willow comes out of stealth
- Fyyne launches platform with pre-seed funding to address Black hair care accessibility
- Venture funding for Montréal tech sector grew steadily in 2021, with $1.6 billion raised
- Three tech companies hiring across Canada: Softchoice, TalentMinded, Motion
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- Mila, Vector Institute announce, extend partnerships with Canadian banks
- Vosker receives $60 million CAD investment from GardaWorld founder
- RenoRun closes $181 million CAD Series B to fuel Canada, US expansion
- League enters 2022 as Canada’s newest unicorn with TDM Growth Partners-led round
- Optina secures up to $2.6 million from Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos-backed foundation for Alzheimerâs discovery
- Koho secures $210 million to give more Canadians access to wealth creation
- Vancouver Startup Week postponed, plans for 2023 in-person return
- BKR Capital secures additional $4.5 million, announces first four investments in Black-founded tech startups
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- Gandeeva Therapeutics raises $40 million in Series A funding to scale precision imaging tech
- White Star and OMERS-backed Wrk wants to be “Uber for office tasks”
- WeBC appoints entrepreneur and community builder Shauna Harper as new CEO
- Communitech exploring $200 million venture fund
- ClearEstate raises $16.8 million CAD to help the grieving deal with estates
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- Founder Dax Dasilva out as Lightspeed CEO
- Proptech startup VendorPM raises $6 million in Bessemer-led seed round
- Hopper now valued at $5 billion after $35 million secondary deal
- Amplify Capital closes $30.7 million for second fund, eyes Québec startups with Montréal office
- Australian government taps Bedrock AI for RegTech challenge
- LeddarTech scores $140 million USD in Series D funding and debt
- IBM partners with Québec government to open new accelerator program
- Hiring roundup: Carbon Engineering, ACTO, WorkJam, Wishpond, Volta, Silicon Valley Bank
- Silicon Valley unicorn Productboard eyes Vancouver, Toronto for expansion
- Wealthsimple still working on crypto wallet withdrawals
- MintList secures $2.76 million to fuel growth of online auto sales platform
- Newly TSXV-listed Pluribus Technologies acquires Kesson Group, Social5
- Data monetization platform TickSmith raises $20 million CAD Series A
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- Forma.ai quadruples annual revenue, sets out to disrupt sales compensation
- Stamped AI closes $2 million to simplify financial statement prep for SMBs
- iGan Partners, Faisal Belhoul launch Arabia medtech fund with $250 million USD target
- Dozr raises $27.5 million in Series B funding to support US expansion plans
- D-Wave hopes to raise $431 million CAD as it prepares to go public via SPAC
- With Portage backing, New York-based LoanStreet eyes Canadian market
- Canadian biotech leader Clarissa Desjardins secures $63 million CAD for Congruence Therapeutics
- EDC makes COVID-19 investment matching program permanent, expands eligibility
- Trulioo acquires HelloFlow, adding customer onboarding to platform
- Nord Quantique closes $9.5 million seed round co-led by BDC Capitalâs Deep Tech fund
- Coveo sees 39 percent year-over-year revenue growth in ârecordâ Q3
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- Payment network giant Affirm extends its partnership with Shopify
- Well Health Technologies posts record Q1 revenue, announces $30 million bought deal offering to fuel acquisitions
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- mPowered partners with Ocean Set to build blockchain-powered ocean data marketplace
- Ecobee launches new smart thermostats with built-in air quality monitoring
- OMERS Growth Equity backs US data analytics startup Imply in $100 million USD Series D
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- Pressto secures $1.5 million in pre-seed round to foster healthy relationship between students and media
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- Haloo raises $2.9 million CAD to offer IP verification tech as solution for NFT theft, fraud
- Converge Technology Solutions to acquire San Diego-based Technology Integration Group
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- Flying Fish Partners appoints Tiffany Linke-Boyko as principal for Canada, secures $7.5 million from AEC
- Unbounce expands leadership team with addition of Indochino, RBC Ventures, Mapbox alums
- Gig economy banking app Moves raises $5 million in OMERS-led seed round
- Canadian human resources startup Humi secures $31 million Series B
- WeCook raises $40 million to fuel expansion of âready-to-eatâ meal service
- RBCx’s Anthony Mouchantaf explains why he’s concerned about the (potential) end of VCCI
- Shopify beta testing new rewards program, Shop Cash
- Round13 launches new venture fund with initial $70 million USD to back blockchain companies providing âthe baseâ for Web3
- Worximity secures $14 million for smart factory analytics tech
- Led by former Shopify executive, on-demand delivery service Trexity raises $5 million for Canadian expansion
- Principal to Partner: ĂlĂ©onore Jarry-Ferron, Pablo Srugo get promoted at Brightspark, Mistral
- Doctor-founded Cherry Health closes $1.23 million to expand job-matching platform for physicians
- Dependbuild, Easy Platter, PragmaClin Research win collective $75,000 from Volta pitch contest
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- Memorial University to launch two innovation initiatives with support from feds, provincial government, IBM Canada
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- Mara Renewables raises $39.5 million to expand algae-based offerings
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- Lendified expressed doubts about moving forward as a company after posting first quarter loss
- Acquisitions drive revenues at Emerge Commerce and Plurilock Security
- Why Canalystâs Damir Hot thinks every entrepreneur should have a co-founder
- LimaCharlie closes $7 million CAD to allow companies to manage, develop cybersecurity strategies
- Inossem raises $3.5 million CAD to bolster R&D, add engineers
- Manzil looks to expand Halal financial services platform with $2.44 million CAD, acquisition of Muslim Will
- Jennifer Couldrey to depart executive director role at The Upside Foundation
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- BC startups Kardium, HTEC, Kobalt, Symvivo receive cumulative $11.1 million from feds
- SoulRooms launches initiative to help Ukrainian refugees find homes in Canada
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canada’s blockchain framework
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Kin claps back
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- Pine comes out of stealth to build “Wealthsimple for home buying”
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Revolut’s bid to be the Amazon of banking
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Facebook’s new cryptocurrency
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – A new FinTech task force
- Lightspeed turns NuOrder acquisition into new B2B supplier network
- Platform Innovation Centre promised $3.3 million in provincial, municipal funding ahead of official launch
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- Alberta Innovates invests cumulative $9.1 million to 15 projects focused on tech ecosystem growth
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian crypto regulation
- Penny AI raises $33.9 million CAD Series B to expand direct sales solution
- With Canadian tech IPOs on pause, private markets face a higher bar
- Wealthsimple launches FinTech super app, combining startupâs financial products
- Parvis raises $2.6 million seed round for blockchain-enabled real estate investment management platform
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canada’s new bank
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canada’s best FinTech ecosystem
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The collapse of QuadrigaCX
- Nasdaq to acquire Montréal ESG software provider Metrio
- F|T: The FinTech Times – A bad week for Canadian crypto exchanges
- Federal government looks to “punch our way out of the COVID recession” with #Budget2021
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Point hackers
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Carpe Diem Crypto Copyright
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Ethereum 2.0
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- Shopify finds conflict minerals in its third-party manufactured components
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Shopify strikes a balance
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- QuĂ©becâs innovation minister ânot happyâ with provinceâs R&D commercialization
- Why Canadian tech founders need better mentors
- CanCode doles out $1.1 million to digital literacy training group Grandir Sans FrontiĂšres
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canada’s financial strain
- F|T: The FinTech Times – A catalyst for FinTech
- Accelerator Centre secures $10 million from FedDev Ontario for venture studio program
- Clearco expands to Germany while cutting staff in Ireland
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- Hopper rolls out new FinTech products as it aims to build a “travel super app”
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Record-setting or in decline?
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Bay Street isn’t scared (anymore)
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Teller clashes with Plaid
- F|T: The FinTech Times – It’s all so Wealthsimple
- Mash raises $7.5 million CAD to help builders, developers, and creators monetize
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Visa looks good in Plaid
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Ledn bets on Bitcoin-backed mortgages
- Starting with Ontario, Kruzee aims to become North Americaâs leading online driving school
- PayShepherd closes $3.8 million CAD to fuel North American expansion of contractor billing solution
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Is Wealthsimple building a FinTech super app?
- “Canary in the coal mine”: TikTok presentation shows Big Tech’s influence on Bill C-11 debate
- Shopify shareholders approve increased voting power for CEO Tobi LĂŒtke, 10-for-1 stock split
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Willful in the Dragons’ Den
- IntelliSports raises $2.5 million for gamified fitness app PlayFitt
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Another Canadian open banking boondoggle
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Composer sends retail investors to the moon
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Wrapbook’s billion-dollar claim to fame
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Float has got a Tiger Global’s pace
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Clio spices up its SaaS
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Wealthsimple expands crypto portfolio
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Products of a different Stripe
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Dapper Labs scores big
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Neo is the One
- F|T: The FinTech Times -The SEC is ready to regulate
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Profit crunch
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canada’s latest unicorn
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Coinberry gets the order
- F|T: The FinTech Times – FreshBooks goes global
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Pressing “go” on open banking in Canada?
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Wealthsimple’s big year
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The FinTech SPAC on the Nasdaq
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Smart corporate cards for Canada
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Wealthsimple’s global ambitions
- Vybe Network raises $13.1 million CAD for Solana blockchain data infrastructure solution
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Robinhood pays the Sheriff
- F|T: The FinTech Times – FinTech SPAC attack
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Massive momentum & mega rounds
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Release the Kraken
- Less Than Half of Canadian Small Businesses Have an Online Presence
- Four Ontario Cleantech Projects to Receive $14.7 Million
- C100 Reveals the 16 Canadian Startups Headed to 48Hrs in the Valley
- ecobee launches ecobee3 Smart Thermostat with remote sensors
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Social media’s next generation
- The Knowledge Society is expanding to Ottawa, Boston, New York & Las Vegas
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 42: How does Canadian tech respond to Trump?
- New Vancouver Incubator Invoke Labs Brings on myBestHelper
- BenchSci leads Branham Group’s list of top 25 up-and-coming Canadian companies
- As CTA Conference returns, Unbounce’s Oli Gardner explains why entrepreneurs must learn to write
- Highline BETA relaunches Female Funders angel investing program with NACO
- BufferBox Partners With GO Transit to Offer Parcel Pickup Service to Commuters
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Regulating crypto is “a mess”
- Ottawa Network for Education Places Big Emphasis on Girls at Today’s AppJam
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Mogo gobbles more
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canada’s Open Banking is “insecure and terrifying”
- F|T: The FinTech Times – M&A surge
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Imploding bets
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Silicon Valley’s hottest startup
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Left in the cold
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Alexa, Amazon, and your health data
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – The femtech boom
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian FinTechs in decline?
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Salesforce wants Traction on Demand
- A|I: The AI Times â Meta’s killer app is translation?
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- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Margaret Atwood dances to Disco
- A|I: The AI Times â Two astronauts join the mission to build human-like robots
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Portage secures a boatload
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â M&A over IPO
- A|I: The AI Times â Robots in space!
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- Canadian startup news of the week (3/20/22)
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Vitalik Buterin has concerns
- R|T: The Retail Times – Walmart shops for Toronto tech talent
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â The Pepsi to Indeed’s Coke
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- A|I: The AI Times â Ford to the future
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Canada’s Digital Health and Discovery Platform
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- Market watch: Nuvei, Propel, Payfare, and Mogo
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- Three Canadian companies actively hiring across the country
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- Shopify launches YouTube Shopping integration in latest social commerce push
- Shopify launches ‘Collabs’ to directly connect creators with merchants
- Former BDC investors Meryeme Lahmami, Siddartha Krishnan join Pender Ventures, Blue Vision
- Bank of Canada’s Ron Morrow: FinTechs “need to be ready” for upcoming retail payments regulations
- WellnessLiving secures $66 million USD to scale operations management software for wellness centres
- Federal government invests $11.2 million into 29 companies in television, publishing, video game industries
- Attractions management software startup Connect&Go closes Series A round with $6.2 million top-up
- Moozoom raises $5 million to improve youth mental health with socio-emotional learning videos
- Venture investment returning to pre-pandemic levels, shows Q2 2022 CVCA report
- Metafold 3D secures $500,000 from Active Impact Investments to build 3D printing’s âmissing pieceâ
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- Myplanet raises $14 million CAD to become leader in emerging âcomposable commerceâ market
- The Global Talent Stream needs streamlining
- Vive Crop Protection secures $34 million CAD Series C to drive AgTech R&D
- VendorPM secures $20 million Series A to expand US footprint
- Scale Without Borders wants to bring Canadaâs immigrant tech community together in November summit
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- Insurtech startup Relay Platform acquired by US-based cyber insurance provider At-Bay
- Canadian tech companies continue to hire despite downturn – here’s an (incomplete) list
- Three Canadian startups selected for Googleâs latest Women Founders accelerator cohort
- Amazon makes AWS EdStart accelerator available to Canadians, picks Springbay Studio as first participant
- Solana Ventures, Twitch co-founder buy into Bravo Readyâs play-to-earn, Web3 video game
- BarrelWise secures $3.1 million CAD to modernize wine barrel management
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – A smartwatch for senior citizens
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Muse’s new brain sensing headband
- A|I: The AI Times â Wiped out
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- A|I: The AI Times â Sounding the alarm
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- A|I: The AI Times â AI has joined the call
- A|I: The AI Times â When machine learning goes wrong
- A|I: The AI Times â Wake-up call
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- A|I: The AI Times â Protection from the algorithm
- A|I: The AI Times â Surveillance mandated
- A|I: The AI Times â Recession imminent?
- A|I: The AI Times â Real-world problems aren’t important
- A|I: The AI Times â The disinformation deluge
- Vendasta lays off staff after the pandemic spurred fast-pace growth
- Q4 Inc. lays off eight percent of staff to accelerate âpath to profitabilityâ
- AlayaCare lays off 14 percent of employees, slows M&A plans
- RenoRun lays off 12 percent of staff, pauses geographic expansion amid uncertainty surrounding consumer spending
- Unbounce lays off 20 percent of staff as part of âlarger company restructuringâ
- Coinsquare lays off 24 percent of staff amid turbulent crypto market, shifted focus to regulation
- Ritual lays off 16 percent of staff to “prepare for a recession”
- Bonsai lays off a third of employees shortly after $21 million Series A, citing shift to growth strategy
- In effort to cut costs, CSE-listed Legible lays off over a third of its employees
- Proposify lays off 25 employees as it fails to hit growth targets
- Bonsai has laid off around two-thirds of staff over last two months
- After hiring freeze, Wealthsimple makes staff cuts
- Hootsuite restructuring, laying off 30 percent of employees
- Shopify laying off 10 percent of staff
- Clutch cuts staff to extend runway, citing market conditions
- Stradigi.ai vows to continue despite laying off more than two-thirds of its staff
- D2C startups not immune to downturn as Article, Mejuri make staff cuts
- Dooly latest Vancouver startup to cut staff amid broader market downturn
- Uberflip CEO attributes company layoffs to “unsteady economy”
- Clearco cuts a quarter of staff amid “significant headwinds”
- Introhive cuts 16 percent of workforce citing market conditions
- Jombone closes $3.3 million to modernize the blue-collar staffing industry
- How GrowthX found product-market fit across Canada’s accelerators
- Roblox acquires gamified employee engagement platform provider TriplePlay
- Three generational companies actively hiring for multiple roles
- Plurilock completes acquisition of assets from India-based CloudCodes
- Bench taps current president and CFO, Jean-Philippe Durrios, as new CEO
- 1Password shuffles C-suite, with CPO replaced and CMO to depart
- LumiQ raises $5 million to expand CPA training podcast platform to US
- SureBright raises $3.2 million CAD to reinvent retail insurance
- Accenture continues Canadian tech acquisition spree with Solvera Solutions, Eclipse Automation
- Google selects Canadian startups Node, Beam.city, HumanSquad for third Black Founders accelerator
- Clearco hands overseas business to Outfund to focus on North American market
- A|I: The AI Times â No voice
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- SAAS NORTH unveils speaker lineup for 2022 conference
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- A|I: The AI Times â Clearview opt-out, with a catch
- A|I: The AI Times â Solving Zoom fatigue with trickery
- A|I: The AI Times â AI’s gender gap
- A|I: The AI Times â A new Canadian talent grab?
- A|I: The AI Times â International AI allies
- A|I: The AI Times â Spot the deepfake
- A|I: The AI Times â COVID data concerns
- A|I: The AI Times â A global agenda
- “There’s a storm coming, but we’re on a good boat.” Koho says it’s ready to navigate downturn
- R|T: The Retail Times – Apple faces likelihood for DOJ lawsuit
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Vitalik Buterin gives financial boost to đšđŠ doctors tracking carbon dioxide levels
- Benevityâs platform surpasses $10 billion in donations, brings on 124 clients
- Thoughtwire, Finaeo make staff cuts as Canadian tech continues to face economic headwinds
- Ripple Ventures promotes Dominic Lau to partner as it preps for next fund
- Information VP, National Bank invest in US FinTech FX HedgePoolâs $8 million Series A round
- Supply chain analytics SaaS startup Lytica secures over $13 million in Series A round
- Shopify plans to contest $40 million Express Mobile patent infringement verdict
- A|I: The AI Times â Strategic investments
- A|I: The AI Times â Amazon introduces Kendra
- A|I: The AI Times â Teaching common sense
- A|I: The AI Times â Emerging victorious
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- A|I: The AI Times â Social distancing surveillance
- A|I: The AI Times â Machine learning vs. COVID-19
- A|I: The AI Times â Searching for patterns
- A|I: The AI Times â Conflicting COVID-19 opinions
- A|I: The AI Times â Canada’s quantum edge
- A|I: The AI Times â How to decode a pandemic
- A|I: The AI Times â AI vs. the coronavirus
- A|I: The AI Times â The secret, messy story behind OpenAI
- A|I: The AI Times â Facebook’s quiet AI acquisitions
- A|I: The AI Times â The new Narwhals
- A|I: The AI Times â Argument mining
- A|I: The AI Times â The reality of deepfakes
- A|I: The AI Times â Neon AI’s ethics problem
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Vaccination inequality
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Canadian tech contact tracing
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Calgary’s COVID breakthrough
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Google’s AI screening falls short
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – A new Canadian COVID-19 task force
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Canada’s critical coronavirus breakthrough
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- A|I: The AI Times â Valence’s new discoveries
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- A|I: The AI Times â Inside the Canadian AI for VFX studio behind WandaVision
- A|I: The AI Times â Anatomy of an AI IPO
- A|I: The AI Times â Coveo cashes in on the TSX
- A|I: The AI Times â Embark Trucks embarks upon public markets journey
- A|I: The AI Times â Coveo eyes IPO
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- A|I: The AI Times â Samdesk’s strong year
- A|I: The AI Times â The new new oil
- A|I: The AI Times â Radical squadron
- A|I: The AI Times â Speaking Cohere’s language
- A|I: The AI Times â Gatik gets moving
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- A|I: The AI Times â Artificial unintelligence
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- A|I: The AI Times â A new vision for Algolux
- A|I: The AI Times â Scrutinizing facial recognition tech
- A|I: The AI Times â Ghost’s paradigm shift
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- A|I: The AI Times â Raquel Urtasun’s life mission
- A|I: The AI Times â Instacart’s robot army
- A|I: The AI Times â The big piggyback
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- A|I: The AI Times â Predictive language for the masses
- Open banking working group failing to address critical governance, standards issues
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â 1Password shuffles C-suite as Snap lays off 20% of employees
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify to contest $40 million patent infringement verdict
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Telus has its Lifeworks
- A|I: The AI Times – This AI won top prize at the state fair
- Adam Nanjee departs Microsoft for Startups to lead venture capital in Canada for Amazon Web Services
- Canadian-founded healthtech startup Power emerges from stealth with $7 million
- Learning from embedded FinTech leaders at Traction
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- A|I: The AI Times â Canada’s supply chain AI team-up
- A|I: The AI Times â MontrĂ©al’s AI map
- A|I: The AI Times â A civil rights issue
- A|I: The AI Times â Surveillance nation
- A|I: The AI Times â Beauty is in the eye of the filter
- A|I: The AI Times â The AI VC, oh my
- A|I: The AI Times â Under pressure
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- A|I: The AI Times â The robots are coming for Phil in accounting
- A|I: The AI Times â Google’s failed attempts to silence critics
- âSocialâ healthtech startup Curatio merges with Australian medtech firm RxMx
- Former Alberta innovation minister Doug Schweitzer joins Deloitte as senior advisor
- Led by ex-Vidyard employees, HyperComply wants to get rid of security questionnaires
- A|I: The AI Times â Who should stop unethical AI?
- A|I: The AI Times â Quantum error
- A|I: The AI Times â Do you know where your face is today?
- A|I: The AI Times â AI’s bad ideas
- A|I: The AI Times â Straight out of science fiction
- A|I: The AI Times â Dr. Robot
- A|I: The AI Times â AI and the avocado armchair
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Inside LifeSpeak’s largest acquisition to date
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Elizabeth Holmes was always in control
- The51 appoints former AltaML, CDL manager Danielle Gifford as director for Movement51
- FreshBooks appoints Wayne Jackson as CFO to support global expansion, M&A plans
- Shopify swaps CFO, COO amid financial downturn
- Essential Accessibility merges with Level Access to combine accessibility solutions
- D2L increases revenues as it tries to buck market downturn
- Panache closes $100 million for second fund as firm doubles down on seed-stage startups
- Headversity acquires Health Improvement Solutions to build out its mental health platform
- Canadian tech is (still!) hiring
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Best Buy buys into healthtech
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Talkspace’s stock tanks as executives depart
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – MindBeacon melds with CloudMD
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Fullscript’s new funds, Dialogue’s record Q3
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – AlayaCare continues push into the US market
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Lumira Ventures hunts US medtech
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – 23andTelemedicine
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Open banking working group failing to address critical issues
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Meta cuts Responsible Innovation team as Instagram fined âŹ405 million for mishandling teen data
- A|I: The AI Times – The AI chip war goes hot
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify swaps key execs amid financial downturn
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – CVS acquires Signify Health over Amazon
- Bright secures $1.45 million from Atlantic Canadian investors to bolster its “wellness-at-work” platform
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Staffy staffs up
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – AbCelleration
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Carebook CEO changeover
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- GrowerIQ closes $3 million seed round to help cannabis producers stay compliant
- Idealist Capital secures $250 million initial close for new climate impact fund
- Ideon Technologies raises $21 million CAD Series A to fuel transition to low-impact mining and EVs
- Insurtech ProNavigator secures $10 million to power US expansion
- Mila, Intel expand partnership to use AI for addressing climate change, digital biology
- Espace CDPQ appoints Nicolas Rubbo as managing director
- Startup syllabus: how Dal Innovates embraced innovation education in Atlantic Canada
- The Rounds closes $5.1 million CAD Series A from US VC firm Panoramic Ventures
- Indigenous venture firm Raven Capital eyes US market as it secures $46 million for second fund
- WELL Health among few tech companies to crack TSX30 amid sector downturn
- Shopify rolls out new employee compensation system to recruit, retain talent amid stock slump
- Composer secures $6 million USD to help retail investors adopt sophisticated trading strategies
- Important financial metrics every early-stage founder should know
- With backing from celebrity investors and mortgage lenders, Verifast wants to improve identity, financial verification
- Protein Industries Canada secures $30 million from Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, launches AI-focused co-investment program
- SkipTheDishes lays off 350 employees following global workforce review by parent company Just Eat
- Communitech acquires Briefed.in to add data-backed insights to its repertoire
- Three companies actively hiring right now
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Maple moves into mental health
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Ransomware epidemic
- With $20 million, Goldsky aims to make blockchain data easy to use
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – PointClickCare’s exec shuffle
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Adobe has $20 billion designs on Figma
- BC Tech Association reveals four finalists for 2022 startup award
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – LifeSpeak’s mental health milestone
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Maple targets US, not public markets
- PolicyMe reveals $18 million in Series A financing to tackle Canadian insurance market
- Andgo Systems raises $5.6 million to make employee absence management easier
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – New ventures for WELL Health
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – The Theranos trial
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Coming back stronger
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – The rising demand for mental health support
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Building pandemic preparedness
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Data meltdown
- New research surveys competitive intensity in Canadaâs banking and payments sector
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- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Topping LinkedIn’s top startups list
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- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Microsoft makes moreâquietâstaff cuts
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- BC Securities Commission seeking input on modernizing securities laws
- BC Tech Association announces Technology Impact Awards finalists
- BCF Ventures and Holt FinTech Accelerator announce strategic partnership
- BCIC-New Ventures Competition accepting applications
- BDC Venture Capital Is Giving $135 Million to Healthcare Tech
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- Beekeeping tech startup Nectar raises $1.1 million CAD seed round
- Belly Launches Belly Bites to Entice Potential Customers With Local Rewards
- BenchSci raises $10 million Series A for antibody search engine
- Bet on Collision coming to Toronto in 2019
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- OSF Digital acquires UK-based Oegen in its drive to become âbiggest Salesforce integratorâ
- Federal government invests $2.4 million in P&P Optica to help meat processors automate food safety
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- Toronto’s Bionym Announces The First Wearable Bitcoin Wallet
- Bionym Releases its Beta Nymi SDK for Free for Developers, Will Showcase Best Software
- Bionymâs Nymi Is The Bluetooth Breakthrough Winner of the Year
- Bitmaker partners with Centre for Social Innovation to support impact startups
- BMO launches digital-only line of credit service
- Book’d Launching Scheduling Platform to Fill Tungle Void for Service Providers
- Borrowell, Crowdriff, Ada among startups named Best Workplaces for Women 2019
- Borrowell, Traction on Demand, Jobber among Canadaâs best workplaces in tech for 2019
- Borrowell, Trulioo among PwC Canada’s Vision to Reality Awards finalists
- BridesMade targets pricey bridesmaid industry with its rent-a-dress platform
- Bridgit brings on new chief technology officer
- Brightspark now open to accredited investors through wealth management firms
- Brightspark raises $6 million to expand team across Canada, accelerate investment pace
- Brookfield Institute launches research series to explore the state of digital literacy in Canada
- Brookfield Institute report: Canadians account for 4.4 percent of developers globally
- Brookfield Institute report highlights lack of accessibility to digital literacy programs
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- C100 announces 2016 summer cohort for 48 Hours in the Valley program
- C100 announces newest 48Hrs in the Valley cohort, postpones event to October
- C100 Gives Top Fundraisers the Nod in Year-End Review
- C100 launches application-based membership model for Canada’s up-and-comers
- #C2M17 panel: Universities must change recruitment methods to bring more women into AI industry
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- Calgary tech companies unite to draw in more entrepreneurial talent
- CAMP Accelerator brings 10 Canadian companies to Beijing to scale internationally
- Canada Learning Code launching week-long education initiative to celebrate Canada 150
- Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance urges feds to release backlogged SR&ED funding
- Canadian agri-food network receives $49.5 million to develop agri-tech solutions
- Canadian Association for Girls in Science receives $548,804 from federal government
- Canadian Business Growth Fund launches with initial capital commitment of $545 million
- Canadian Girl-Coders Can Apply to Squareâs College Code Camp
- Canadian government looking to create new regional development agency focused on British Columbia
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Elon had one hell of a first week at Twitter
- As demand booms and recession looms, Busbud acquires fellow Canadian travel tech startup Betterez
- Wyvern raises $9.45 million CAD in seed-plus round
- Dapper Labs lays off 22 percent of staff
- BDC commits $400 million for second cleantech-focused fund
- Meta mass layoffs hit Canada less than a year after major expansion plans
- Ontario Teachers-backed FTX plans sale to competitor Binance following liquidity crunch
- Twitter’s mass layoffs hit Canadian office
- A|I: The AI Times – Inside Google’s commitment to QuĂ©bec tech
- Xero appoints Canadian native Sukhinder Singh Cassidy as new CEO
- R|T: The Retail Times – TouchBistro secures big funding amid looming recession
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – OnCall & AeroDPC acquired, HealthJoy fundraises
- Direct-C closes $3.9 million Series A from Henkel and GreenSky to scale oil leak detection tech
- Waverly and the broken internet
- Canadian gov’t and World Economic Forum want to use biometrics to expedite air travel
- Canadian gov’t appoints former RBC exec as infrastructure bank chair
- Canadian gov’t dedicating $50 million to coding programs for youth
- Canadian gov’t officially launches $1.26 billion strategic innovation fund
- Canadian gov’t opens applications for $950 million ‘supercluster’ initiative
- Canadian “Hackathon on Wheels” Prepares for North American StartupBus Competition
- Canadian medtech needs more early-stage funding
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- Canadian tech companies forced to act quickly in wake of COVID-19
- Canadian tech leaders form coalition advocating for new blockchain regulation
- Canadian tech leaders sign #weneedboth pledge asking women to advocate for men on diversity panels
- Canadian VC activity is down, but corporate investors are stepping up. Is that a good thing?
- Canadian VCs Ranked Favourably in New Deloitte-NVCA Survey
- CANARIE Supports Startup Communities to come to the Capital
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 112: Keeping pace with innovation in Toronto
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 24: What’s going on with Canadian e-commerce?
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 34: The wrong way to run a billion-dollar company
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 38: Where should you build your startup?
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 37: Can a Canadian VR company compete with Facebook and Google?
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 41: Why Canadian entrepreneurs are so happy with the federal government (right now)
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 43: Did Canada blow it at Web Summit?
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 44: The conspiracy killing startups
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 54: What should Shopify do about Breitbart?
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 6: Is Canadian tech a “branch-plant economy?”
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 73: Who are the founder-friendly VCs? What about women-friendly VCs?
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 74: Silicon Valley’s harassment problem is Canada’s problem, too
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 76: Saadia Muzaffar, Harley Finkelstein, Bruce Croxon at #BetaKit150
- CanCon Podcast Ep. 84: Minister Morneau, what were you thinking?
- Canvass Analyticsâ Steve Kludt on AIâs need for speed
- Cape Breton University’s UIT Startup program now accepting applications, five spots reserved for women
- Capillary Technologies Adds $15.5M to Take Loyalty & CRM Platform Global
- Carbon Engineering to expand capacity of Direct Air Capture plant
- CBRE report sheds new light on tech job growth in Vancouver
- CCI, NACO, CVCA, and AceTech respond to gov’t tax changes in joint letter
- CCLA files suit over Sidewalk Labs, #BlockSidewalk holds rally
- CDL grad EnergyX receives $500,000 as it expands into Atlantic Canada
- CEO Tobi LĂŒtke responds to petition asking Shopify to stop powering Breitbart store
- Change Heroes Wins Startup World Vancouver
- Chatbots MTL panel says AI-powered bots key to personalized future of retail
- Chrysalix announces second close of RoboValley Fund, still wonât say how much
- CIBC acquires Wellington Financial to support launch of CIBC Innovation Banking
- CIFAR and OSMO partner to give women training opportunities in AI
- Cinchyâs Karanjot Jaswal on keeping enterprise customers comfortable (and happy)
- CIRA partners with Beauceron to launch cybersecurity training platform
- Ciscoâs #InnovationChallenge giving away $250,000 in prizes to IoT startups
- City of Toronto using Fundica API to help Toronto entrepreneurs access funding
- CIX names top 20 early-stage startups, top 10 growth-stage startups of 2019
- How Poseidon Ocean Systems pivoted internationally when domestic opportunity dried up
- Audette raises $12.8 million CAD to âlevel upâ decarbonization of buildings
- CIX reveals its 2017 list of Canada’s top 20 most innovative tech companies
- CIX Top 20 announced ahead of November event
- CleanSlate UV raises $8.4 million CAD as COVID-19 increases demand for device sanitization
- Close.io’s Steli Efti headlining Halifax’s Amplify
- Code for Canada opens applications for 10-month civic tech fellowship
- Collision event at MaRS builds anticipation for Toronto and 2019
- Communications in times of crisis: how tech companies and startups can best respond
- Communitech and T-Hub launch program giving startups access to Indian markets
- Communitech announces first cohort of female-led companies for its Fierce Founders Accelerator
- Communitech launches bootstrap program to help startups gain early adopters, validate products
- Communitech opens data hub to encourage startup and enterprise collaboration
- Communitech Rev announces fourth cohort of startups refining their marketing processes
- Communitech Rev awards $50,000 to protein testing solution Nicoya
- Communitech Rev Demo Day splits $100,000 between TritonWear and SSimwave
- Communitech Rev launches third cohort to help startups boost sales and marketing
- Communitech seeking female entrepreneurs for Fierce Founders Accelerator
- Compass calls #WaterlooRegion the David vs. Goliath story of startup ecosystems
- ContactMonkey Secures $800K for Address Book Solution
- Content Management for NGO’s: PeaceGeeks is Innovating with Amani
- Contest: Win a pair of tickets to the Premiere Screening of ‘Day Job’
- Continuuity Adds $10M Series A to Help Developers Build Big Data Apps
- Coopérathon challenges Montreal startup community to make the world a better place through innovation
- Council of Canadian Innovators execs found not to have violated federal lobbying rules
- Create more value than you capture: An oral history of Toronto product development
- Creative Destruction Lab expands seed-stage program to Paris
- Crowdfunding Platform CircleUp Raises $5.5M for 5 Packaged Food Companies
- Crypto community unites to support Canadian entrepreneur paralyzed in Thailand
- CryptoNumerics launches tool to help companies identify dataset privacy risks
- CryptoNumerics raises $3.3 million CAD seed funding for data analytics, privacy software
- CSI launches business model accelerator to help social entrepreneurs scale up
- CVCA: $652 million invested over 127 deals in Q3 2018
- CVCA, other Canadian orgs pen letter to US over âonerousâ investment law
- CVCA report: Later-stage companies received 54 percent of total dollars invested in H1 2018
- CVCA report: VC firms invest $1.3 billion in Q4 2018
- Cyclica launches drug design platform for pharmaceutical scientists
- Davender Gupta representing Startup Quebec City at 2014 Startup Canada Day on the Hill
- DeepLearni.ng raises $9 million Series A to bring AI to enterprise
- #DellSMBChat: The changing ways we work
- Deloitte forms innovation hub within Communitech called d { }
- Dentons launches seed financing document generator
- Departing Velocity Director Mike Kirkup looks back on four years of building the #WaterlooRegion startup ecosystem
- Desjardins launches innovation lab with city of Montreal
- Desjardins wants to invest $500 million over five years in Quebec-based SMEs
- Despite election pullout, Afraj Gill has advice for politicians and entrepreneurs working together
- Dialogue partners with insurer Canada Life to offer virtual healthcare benefits
- Discover Tectoria panel says tackling unconscious bias, education part of building inclusive workplaces
- #DisruptMining wants to bridge the gap between innovation and mining with $1 million challenge
- DMZ and Out On Bay Street hosting Launching into Inclusion event June 21
- #DMZSession says governments can’t keep up with automation taking over workforces
- Dragons’ Den hosting open auditions starting February 6 in Toronto
- Drivewyze, Intelligent Imaging Systems raise $81.7 million CAD from Sageview Capital
- Dun & Bradstreet’s new office keeps your head in the Cloud
- Edmonton-based Showbie acquires classroom assessment platform Socrative
- Elastic Path acquires Moltin as it looks help clients leverage e-commerce microservices
- Element AI acquires MLDB.ai open source machine learning database
- Element AI creates platform to help researchers identify patterns in COVID-19 research
- Elevate announces Canada’s 50 most innovative workplaces
- Emissions Reduction Alberta launches $50 million Natural Gas Challenge
- Emovi raises $15 million CAD Series C led by TVM Capital Life Science
- Empire Startups Conference wants to connect Canadian FinTechs with US investors
- #EmpireFinTech Conference says thinking beyond Canada, adopting AI key to scaling ecosystem
- Endloop acquired by Demac Media
- Engagio Launches, Raises Seed Round for Engagement Inbox
- Engagio Launches Search & Discovery Features to Be “Google for Online Comments”
- Entrepreneurship rising in Ontario, but more women report fear of failure preventing them from starting businesses
- eSight, CNIB partnership to expand public access to smart glasses for the visually impaired
- Euclid Adds $17.3M to Scale ‘Google Analytics for Offline Retailers’ Platform
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- Extreme Startups to Graduate Its Fifth Cohort Tonight
- Facebook and the DMZ announce winners of Digital News Innovation Challenge
- Facebook Canada offering $3.5 million to support 650 Canadian small businesses
- Fashion e-commerce startup BlackCart raises $2.8 million CAD to fast-track platform launch
- Fashion rental e-commerce platform Dresst raises $525,000
- FedDev Ontario dedicates $880,000 to Communitech to support women-led businesses
- Finalists Named for University of Waterloo’s $60K Design Awards
- FinancialForce Acquires Burlington’s Vana Workforce for HCM Software Solution
- FinTech-focused Holt Accelerator announces 2019 cohort
- First cohort announced for InnoCité MTL smart city accelerator
- First we take Manhattan: How Canadian startups can go big in NYC
- Fitness tech startup Trainerize acquired by ABC Financial
- Five Canadian cities with highest volume of investment dollars and deals in 2018
- Five Canadian companies selected for latest 500 Startups seed program
- Five Canadians selected among 6,000 applicants for 2016 Thiel Fellowship
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- FreshBooks, Plusgrade, Day & Ross among six Scale AI projects to receive $25 million
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The FTX clustercuss has ties to Canadian tech
- Symend eyes global markets with $54 million CAD Series B extension led by Inovia
- Tech4SickKids raises almost $51,000 in second annual virtual auction
- Vetster raises $30 million in Series B, partners with investor Pet Meds
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Verified trolls cut Musk’s work out for him
- Louis TĂȘtu explains how Coveo is bucking tech trends ahead of SAAS NORTH keynote
- Raquel Urtasunâs Waabi gearing up to hit the road
- Symend closes $54 million CAD to pursue global expansion amid uncertain economic environment
- Intuit launches third edition of Prosperity Accelerator for Toronto FinTech startups
- BoostSecurity emerges from stealth with $12 million CAD to automate cybersecurity for DevOps
- A|I: The AI Times – Canada’s latest unicorn is a quantum computing firm
- BluWave-ai, Tehama receive collective $4.4 million from FedDev Ontario for product development, hiring
- Cyclica receives $2.4 million CAD grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Former SkipTheDishes COO Howard Migdal steps up to the plate as food delivery firmâs new CEO
- Alvéole closes $8.1 million Series A to help companies meet ESG goals with beekeeping
- R|T: The Retail Times – Inside Hopper’s key strategic relationship and $5 billion valuation
- Nobul, Hopper top Deloitte Canada’s fastest growing startups lists for 2022
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – ‘Self-therapy’ startups are blooming
- Teralys receives $40 million from CDPQ in re-up for seed-stage fund of funds
- The painful changes that helped GSoft scale from zero revenue to $100 million ARR
- Canadian tech layoffs continue as tough year comes to a close
- With Passage acquisition 1Password prepares to battle tech giants for passwordless future
- Canada’s 2022 Developer 30 Under 30
- FTX fallout could set back investment in Canadian crypto companies for years, experts say
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Klarna slows expansion, Ripple targets the EU
- Yield Exchange nabs $110,000 after winning both SAAS NORTH 2022 pitch competitions
- FTXâs fall could have implications for more Canadian orgs than just Ontario Teachersâ
- WorkJam closes $50 million USD round co-led by Inovia, Fonds FTQ
- Acerta closes $10.4 million CAD Series B to help automakers like Nissan and GM build car parts more efficiently
- L-Sparkâs Leo Lax: 2022 has been a âdisasterâ for SaaS funding, though sector continues to grow
- A|I: The AI Times – With a new robot and fresh funding, Attabotics CEO says âthe hard partâs done.â
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Nobul, Hopper top Deloitte Canadaâs Fast 50
- Legal tech startup Clio advances its FinTech play with launch of payments product in Canada
- How electrifying transportation could surge Ontarioâs economy
- Bold Commerce swaps CEOs, bringing on PayPal, Intuit alum Peter Karpas
- Following government cutbacks, OCE makes significant staff cuts
- For DataHero’s “Big Data Star” Chris Neumann, Vancouver is a Familiar Place
- For Richmond’s 505 JUNK, Relying on Social and Mobile Proved Worthwhile
- Former Prime Minister Paul Martin speaks out on investing in indigenous innovation
- Founder Institute demo day showcases fifth cohort of the Montreal pre-seed accelerator
- Founder Institute launches sixth Canadian chapter in Calgary
- Founder Institute Toronto graduates 17 new startups in fourth cohort
- FounderFuel announces eight companies joining 2019 cohort
- FounderFuel announces Spring 2015 Cohort
- Four Canadian companies chosen in Interface Health Excellence Challenge top ten
- Four startups win $50,000 investments at Velocity Fund Pitch Competition
- Frank And Oak set to close stores, look for buyer or financing as existing investors unwilling to back
- Frank & Oak Releases its 2013 Numbers, And They Sold A lot of Pants
- FreshBooks announces partnership with the Bank of Montreal
- From ownership to sharing – the evolution of mobility in 2020 and beyond
- F|T: The FinTech Times – AI banking assistants
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Bank AI but no ICO
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Bank execs hate Apple’s secret project
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Blockchain meets big data
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Bring in the enemies
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian crypto-miners
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian FinTech in four charts
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian FinTech is sooo hot right now
- F|T: The FinTech Times – eBay is ditching PayPal
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Excluding Canada
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Innovate together
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Is Alexa ready for P2P payments?
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Jack Ma’s giant
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Like a Ledn balloon
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Losing a generation of women in finance
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Money-managing chatbots
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Portag3 Powers up
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Pulse of FinTech
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Scooping up FinTech
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The FinTech scaling problem
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The first bitcoin unicorn
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The merits of digital currencies
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The new hotness
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The rise of zero-commission investing
- F|T: The FinTech Times – What’s in your digital wallet?
- F|T: The FinTech Times – What’s missing in FinTech?
- Wiseday enters Canadaâs digital mortgage space with âinstantâ pre-approval process
- Federal governmentâs Climate Action and Awareness Fund invests $58 million into 24 cleantech projects
- OMERS Venturesâ Laura Lenz says âego raisingâ is over in #CDNtech
- FullContact Raises $7M to Bring Contact Management APIs to Business Users
- FundThrough raises $34 million led by ScaleUP Ventures, David Mirvish
- Futurpreneur Canada Wants Your Startup to Represent Canada at ‘Get in the Ring’
- Futurpreneur announces 32 founders representing Canada at G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance summit
- GDPR is comingâhereâs what Canadian tech companies need to do
- Gemba Software Solutions launches with $1.5 million investment
- ‘Getting religious’ about AI could be more complicated than it appears
- Global emission monitoring startup receives $3.3 million to monitor oil and gas in BC
- Globalive’s Anthony Lacavera wants to undergo IPO for blockchain firm by mid-2018
- Globalive’s charity arm hosting social enterprise pitch competition with $60,000 in prizes
- #GlobeSBS16: Shopifyâs Harley Finkelstein on how large companies maintain startup culture
- GoDaddy awarding $2,500 to small business ventures
- GoDaddy awards $5,000 seed money to three Canadian ventures
- Golden Ventures launches platform to connect Canadian talent
- Google and Actua launch Codemakers project to ‘change the way Canadaâs youth think about computer science and technology’
- Google Glass App Store To Launch in 2014
- Google invests $500,000 in Actua to develop AI education programs across Canada
- Government of Canada invests $6 million in clean-air technology
- Government’s Social Finance Fund includes support for startups
- Gov’t seeking applicants for youth entrepreneurship conference
- GrindSpaceXL Is an Ottawa-Based Accelerator
- Grow partners with Westoba Credit Union to pioneer online lending in Manitoba
- #GrowthHacking: Fad or For Real?
- Hack to Start Ep.132: Michael Sacca, president of Crew
- Halal FinTech startup Manzil launches private placement offering on FrontFundr
- Health in Reach/PriceDoc Merger Widens the Reach of Doctor Deals
- Healthtech company Dapasoft & cybersecurity consultancy iSecurity merge
- Healthy Minds Canada Is Putting the Spotlight on Youth Bullying With New Game
- Healthy Pets raises $500,000 for veterinary telemedicine service
- Heartbeat AI’s Lana Novikova says humans have to be at the center of AI
- HEC Montréal to Offer Free Online Entrepreneurship University Courses
- HEIST is done: another Toronto design agency calls it quits
- HelloFax Launches HelloSign to Take On Electronic Signature Industry
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- Here’s Four Toronto Startups Reinventing The Wheel
- HGTV Host Bryan Baeumler launches Baeumler Reminders, a Mobile App Helping Property Owners Protect their Biggest Investment
- Highline Beta, Aviva Canada launch road safety, smart city accelerator
- Highline BETA launches program to fast track corporate-startup partnerships
- HIGHLINE Brings Silicon Valley Tech Networking Series ‘Startup Socials’ to Canada
- HitchBOT, the Hitchhiking Robot, starts its journey across the United States
- Canadian tech venture funding continued to fall in Q3 2022, CVCA reports
- Holdun investment firm launches FinTech accelerator in Montreal
- Home healthcare platform AlayaCare raises $13.8 million Series B
- HopIn Launches WebNote, a Gesture-Based iPad Browser & Bookmarking App
- How AI and empathy could modernize the role of retail associates
- How banks are making friends with FinTech
- How Canadaâs tech industry should prepare for impending tax changes
- How Canadian #legaltech is changing the face of billable hours
- How COVID-19 is highlighting the need for Canada to embrace digital signatures
- How smartphones and startups are increasing access to healthcare
- How tech companies can give back
- How technology can tackle the global problem of financial inclusion
- How to Build an Agile Mindset Beyond Your Dev Team
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- How Acuva balances global growth with local impact to provide clean drinking water
- What Coconut Software CFO Matt Petrow learned while raising a Series B
- Potential Motors, Chinova Bioworks, Introhive feted at New Brunswick innovation awards ceremony
- R|T: The Retail Times – SkipTheDishes’ new CEO steps up to the plate
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced for fraud
- Potential Motors closes $4 million CAD to improve off-road electric vehicle performance
- #HTML500 by the numbers, words, pictures
- HyperGrowth: Life healthtech accelerator announces second cohort graduates
- IBM joins MaRS FinTech hub to work with startups on cognitive technologies
- Iddiction Launches App-o-Day to be “Groupon for Apps”
- iGan Partners pitch event promises one healthtech startup $250,000
- Igloo Softwareâs Julie Forsythe has a preference for process
- ImStar Therapeutics raises $1.8 million to research ALS treatment solutions
- InboundCon 2014 Looks to Please the Startup Marketers
- Incumbents, consumer complacency barriers to innovation in Canadian banking
- Industrial safety platform Focus FS raises $1.4 million from BDC Capital
- Will some Canadian tech companies die during the downturn?
- Ada, 1Password, and Scotia Digital are all looking to hire engineers right now
- Canadian tech hubs not immune to downturn as Communitech lays off 10 percent of workforce
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- WeaveSphere’s 2022 Tech Titans list names 20 tech leaders in Canada
- Think Research reports increased revenues, debt in Q3
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian crypto leaders want “consequences” after FTX fall
- Coveoâs Louis TĂȘtu on market cycles, mentorship, and ârecipes for failureâ
- Ha Nguyen named McRock Capitalâs third partner as firm looks to raise $200 million fund
- Nortel alum-turned-mystery novelist combines her tech and writing background with Fictionary
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â What’s old is new again: Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny
- AgTech startup Ground Truth secures $4 million to improve grain analysis for farmers
- Attabotics secures $95 million CAD from EDC, Ontario Teachersâ to scale its warehouse robots
- UgoWork closes $22.8 million Series B to help expand the use of lithium-ion batteries in Fortune 500
- ApplyBoard cuts back customer experience department
- RailVision Analytics closes $5.5 million CAD to cut train emissions by curbing fuel consumption
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Can at-home nursing alleviate hospital crowding?
- Produce8 lands $6 million in seed funding to improve digital-first team productivity
- Influitive Acquires Engagio, Aims to Engage Advocates By Tapping Into the Social Web
- InnoCité MTL accelerator launches to help build a smart Montréal
- InnoCité MTL announces fourth cohort of smart city startups
- Integrate.ai raises $39 million CAD Series A
- Interac wants to elevate the FinTech conversation at Canadaâs largest tech festival
- International Startup Fest Crowns Second Elevator Tour Winner with $100K
- Inventures 2019 announces lineup of speakers, includes Michele Romanow
- IoT613 conference tackles everything Internet of Things this week
- Is Techstars Coming to Toronto-Waterloo?
- Itâs time to stop calling BCâs tech talent situation a âcrisisâ
- Janet Bannister, Arlene Dickinson, Saadia Muzaffar and more recognized by Dutch-based Inspiring Fifty project
- Janice Sousa named travel startup Groupdesk’s CEO
- Jim Orlandoâs 2016 Venture Capital predictions scorecard
- Equibit: John McAfee joining Toronto-based blockchain security startup (McAfee: definitely not)
- John Ruffolo honoured with Telfer Private Sector Leadership Award
- Johnson & Johnson opens 40,000 square feet life sciences incubator at MaRS Discovery District
- JOLT Accelerator Unveils Fall ’13 Cohort Along with New Online Look
- JUICE Mobile CEO launches Freckle IoT beacon-based ad network
- JUICE Mobile opens Waterloo office
- Karen HR acquired by Alexander Mann Solutions
- Kik’s bot play begins with 16 chat bots from brands like Sephora, Funny or Die
- Kik’s Kin Foundation announces plans to build its own blockchain
- Kira Talent acquires LikeLive, adding 40 schools to its client base
- Kirstine Stewart joins Diply as chief strategy officer
- Keep the ‘Startup City’ alive: City of Kitchener proposes ‘Landing Pad Grant’ for property owners to renovate
- Kitchener’s VeloCity Names Its Next 30 Startups
- KPMG is accepting nominations for FinTech100
- Koho’s Daniel Eberhard says FinTech success is about understanding customers’ psychology
- KPMG Venture Pulse reports strong Canadian VC activity in Q2 2018
- L-Spark announces six SaaS startups participating in fall 2019 cohort
- LANDR marks launch of private sharing tool with contest to get track mixed by MixedByAli
- LawGives Partners With Mozilla for its Open Legal Library and Marketplace
- Lazaridis Institute announces Scale-Up cohort, plans to launch women founders program
- Leadership is not about your good intentions
- LEAGUE, SecureKey lead list of Canadian companies atop FinTech 100 list
- Lendful wants to give Canadians on-demand personal credit lending. Seriously.
- Lessons on scaling from TradeRev founder Mark Endras
- Lightspeed reports 51% revenue growth in fiscal Q2 2020
- Lightspeed sees 36% revenue growth in first quarterly report since IPO
- Lightspeed shows strong growth YoY, but revenues flat after COVID-19 quarter
- Limelight Platform appoints Shawn Naggiar as new president and COO
- LINKETT has “seen its valuation significantly increase” since the Apple Pay Announcement
- LâInstitut quantique becomes the first IBM Q Hub in Canada
- Location-based Gaming: The Next Big Payday?
- Lutebox Pivots, Debuts Public Beta of Social Video Shopping Experience
- Lyft officially launching in Toronto on December 12
- Map showing Canadian tech start-up successes
- Markham EHR Tech Startup Nightingale Receives $3.5M Secured Loan
- MaRS and EDC announce new program for startups expanding internationally
- MaRS bringing Canadian cleantech startups to San Francisco for Cleantech Canada Demo Day
- MaRS Catalyst Fund rebrands to Amplify Capital, targets $30 million Fund II
- MaRS CEO Ilse Treurnicht, Minister Navdeep Bains among those named to Toronto Techweek 100
- MaRS embedded executive program gives startups up to $50,000 and C-level exec mentorship
- MaRS HealthKick 2015 pitch competition offers $60,000 in prizes to health startups
- MaRS launches initiative allowing healthcare providers to collaborate with startups
- MaRS’ new District 20 means business
- MaRS partners with Tangerine and Envestnet | Yodlee
- MaRS’ Studio Y Officially Unveils Cohort of Young Leaders
- MaRS’ Studio Y Youth Academy to Unveil First Cohort Tomorrow
- Winners announced in the MasterCard N>XT Developer Challenge
- May #WWTO argues mind-controlled software, emotional AI the future of computing
- McMaster University to open new $11 million engineering lab
- Medella Health named international runner-up for the James Dyson Award
- Medical organizations look to assess virtual healthcare technology
- MentorMob Goes White Label With Its Teacher and Student Software
- Michelle Obama to speak at Elevate 2019
- Microsoft is Giving One Startup Seed Money and Mentorship at Its New “Surface Cafe”
- Microsoft, VCGA launch tech education lab in Vancouver’s Chinatown
- Minister Bains says extending IRAP IAP âmakes a lot of senseâ following anticipated CEWS extension
- Mobile Ad Platform MoPub Adds $12M to Build Tools for Agencies and Brands
- Cross-border payments startup Buckzy takes the smart money in downscaled $19.5 million CAD Series A
- Durable aims to help solo entrepreneurs launch service-based businesses with AI
- Avatar Innovations receives up to $500,000 investment from OCIF for carbontech accelerator
- Mobiles Republic Raises $3M as News Audiences Grow
- Mogo opens more than 200,000 new member accounts in 2018
- Mogo receives approval to list on the NASDAQ
- MolecuLight receives $7.5 million USD loan from Oxford Finance
- Moment.me Launches Android App, Aggregates Digital Content Into ‘Moments’
- MoneyTree Q3 report: Strong AI and FinTech funding pushing 2017 back on track
- Montreal Artificial Intelligence Ethics Institute launches call for applications for inaugural fellowship
- Montreal-based law firm launches AI assistant to help people navigate Canada’s immigration process
- Moregidge secures $500,000 pre-seed round to bridge gap between brokers and realtors
- NACO hopes its Common Docs will standardize angel investment term sheets in Canada
- NACO report says Canadian startups received $90.5 million from angel groups last year
- Nanology Labs receives investment from oncology research fund
- National Girls Learning Code Day returning to 35 communities across Canada
- Nest Wealth receives close to $50 million in new deal with National Bank
- New Brunswick-based money saving app Quber raises $450,000
- Fredericton-based SomaDetect wins 43North $1 million grand prize
- New Brunswick second annual Open Data Visualization Challenge launches
- New data on Montreal startup ecosystem shows need for investments in scaling, capital
- New Event Seeks to Convince Canuck Expats to Return and Work for Canadian Startups
- New Frank + Oak 50/50 Foundersâ Fund promises funding equality to entrepreneurs
- New Glassware Makes Toronto The Most Google Glass Ready City In The World
- New government supported software teaches kids to code in Ojibwe
- New HYPERDRIVE Accelerator Cohort Announced, brings on 11 new startups!
- New investor network ArchAngel launches fund in response to COVID-19
- New Jersey’s D&B Acquires Vancouver Business Intelligence Startup Indicee
- New report indicates just 14 percent of Canadian VCs are women
- New report outlines how Toronto can improve support for women entrepreneurs
- New report provides fresh data on familiar diversity problems in Canadian VC
- New Startup Next Toronto cohort gets down to business
- New Toronto Hackathon Sees Next 36 Team Up with Google, Bionym and Thalmic Labs
- Avatar Innovations targets $3 million for new decarbonization tech fund
- Next 36 founders learn to “see through a corporate lens” at Mastercard Challenge
- NEXT Canada celebrates cohorts at Venture Day, receives $1 million investment
- Nextdoor Adds Another $21.6M, But Can it Meet the Hyperlocal Challenge?
- Nine projects to receive $28.8 million as part of Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster investment
- Sanctuary secures $30 million from Canadaâs SIF to build robots with human-like intelligence
- A|I: The AI Times – Unpacking 10 years of AI funding
- R|T: The Retail Times – GoodGood shuts down down as funding tightens
- #NoFilters: when technology makes all media social
- Nominations Are Open for The Small Business BC Awards
- Northleaf closes $300 million VCCI-backed Venture Catalyst Fund II
- Notes from Siggraph 2014: The Fusion of Compassion and Technology
- Nova Scotia, Nunavut projects among winners of government’s Smart Cities Challenge
- Nuclear medicine startup ARTMS Products raises $26.4 million CAD Series A
- Nutrien Radicle Challenge awarding $1.25 million USD to foodtech companies
- Nymi a partner in MasterCard’s new Commerce for Every Device program
- OBIO report: Funding and infrastructure key to tackling healthtech’s scaling challenge
- OCE Discovery panel says Canadian gov’t must provide “sustained” support to AI industry
- Ocean Supercluster launches competition for ocean tech innovators
- Often overlooked, QuĂ©bec City’s tech is “punching above its weight”
- OMERS Ventures releases talent playbook for scaling companies
- OMX receives investment from Lockheed Martin for international expansion
- On the government tech trail at #FWD50
- One year after Elevate hackathon win, StableHacks launches first product
- One year after returning home, Razor Suleman remains Canadaâs biggest startup champion
- OneID Raises $7M to Consolidate Digital Identity
- Online Menswear Innovators Frank & Oak Open Brick and Mortar Locations
- Ontario Access to Justice Challenge selects ten startup finalists
- Ontario launches tool to help Canadian businesses with international exports
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan announces incubator with Boston Consulting Group
- OntarioMD to provide clinicians digital access to provincial drug and immunization records
- Opencare lays off one-quarter of staff as it prepares to âweather the stormâ of COVID-19
- OpenTable Founder Launches Glyder, a Mobile-First SMB Marketing App
- Orbityl, LevelJump named outstanding ventures at NEXT Canada Venture Day
- Orchard Labs receives $500,000 from the MLA48 Angel Investment Fund
- Ottawa-based Graphite Software raises $8 million Series B
- Ottawa DroneFest takes flight
- Ottawa startup CEO Ali Pey named as victim of Ukrainian plane crash
- Ottawa’s Foko Launches Photo-Sharing Startup for the Workplace
- Ottawa Startup Raises $3.5 Million Seed Round for Anonymous Patient Data Solution
- Over half of Canadian small businesses will take six months to return to profitability, finds CFIB survey
- Overbond to launch three AI analytics labs in Montreal for R&D in bond pricing
- Pair of Luxury Brand Veterans Create Ecommerce Solution for Designer Shoe Lovers
- PasswordBox Will Now Use Bionym’s ECG-Sensing Tech for Authentification
- It’s David vs. Goliath for Square and PayPal
- Payso co-founder Nat Cartwright: Women founders in tech can turn the tables
- PCH Hardware Hackathon hits #KWRegion this June
- Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky joins Y Combinator as partner
- PinPress wins $100,000 N100 Startup Competition
- Pipes, Screens, and Filler: Conversations from Merging Media 2013
- Platfora Announces $20M Series B to Scale Big Data Visualizaton Platform
- Platform Calgary receives $30,000 from federal government for summer incubator program
- Plug and Play to open first Canadian location
- PopRX spins off prescription delivery app into Herbsy, a medical marijuana marketplace
- Procurement could be Canadaâs biggest barrier to commercializing healthtech innovation
- Progressa closes $84 million funding round as company preps for IPO
- Propel creates $25,000 sales award to honour co-founder Gerry Pond
- Propel ICT announces startups scaling their businesses in spring 2017 cohort
- Propel opens applications for Phase 2 of Incite program
- Propel reveals 30 Atlantic Canada startups in spring cohort
- Propel reveals 32 companies selected for its largest Incite cohort to date
- Prospect adds founding partner BDC as it looks to fill Canadaâs talent gap
- PwC’s Vision to Reality Conference focuses on “disruptive innovation”
- QuadrigaCX owes its clients $250 million CAD that the company cannot access
- Quartic.aiâs Rajiv Anand: CTOs that canât pivot daily will fail
- RBC launches Reach accelerator with Highline BETA
- Real Ventures’ Janet Bannister says FinTechs that use AI can build “winning” companies
- Recent Supreme Court patent ruling could put Canadian companies at a disadvantage
- Reddit Founder to Tell Waterloo Students to “Suck Less” Next Month
- Report: 61 percent of Canadian companies use automation to run their business
- Report: 77 percent of Canadian IT leaders say employees wonât return to office as normal after COVID-19
- Report: AI drives VC investment as Canada hits $900 million USD for second straight quarter
- Report: As COVID-19 causes job postings to plunge, software development stable
- Report: Canadian tech investment hits record $1.3 billion CAD in Q1 2018
- Foresight 50 list names Canadaâs âmost investableâ cleantech firms
- How to keep yourself safe from cyber threats
- Mozilla acquires Canadian-founded startups Pulse, Active Replica to fuel metaverse strategy
- One year after raising $6.5 million, GoodGood shuts down claiming it can’t find more money
- Prairie tech celebrates its own with Calgary Launch Party, Start Alberta Awards, Startup TNT Summit
- Report: Canadian tech sector responsible for 7.1 percent of countryâs economic output
- Report: Canadian VC activity falls for second straight quarter in Q3 2018
- Report: Capital gains tax policies not doing enough to support Canadian growth companies
- Report: Female entrepreneurs struggle to get funding due to perception they are more ‘risk-averse’
- Report: Lack of awareness among job seekers contributes to tech’s talent challenge
- Report: Less than one in five Canadian small businesses use online payment tools
- Report: Number of Canadian startups significantly impacted by COVID-19 slightly higher than global average
- Report: Only three percent of Canadian factories have digitized their production
- Report ranks Canada third in top 10 startup ecosystems worldwide
- Provincial government taps Novari Health to help reduce pandemic-fuelled surgical backlog in Eastern Ontario
- Led by former Ada employees, Lancey secures $2 million to let B2B software buyers âtry before you buyâ
- Dissecting the anatomy of a Canadian tech seed round with Two Small Fish, Calico & Wavy
- Report reveals widespread impact of COVID-19 on underrepresented entrepreneurs
- Report: SaaS investment in Canada hits $1.62 billion
- Report: Smaller Canadian towns most likely to be impacted by automation
- Report: Women-owned businesses face funding, revenue gap
- RESI conference wants over 200 global investors to invest in Toronto life sciences startups
- Responsive client base hits $10 billion CAD AUM, powered by its behavioural AI
- Retinad co-founder Samuel F. Poirier is the first French Canadian to be named a Thiel Fellow
- Revolut is rolling out early account access ahead of Canadian launch
- Ridejoy Raises $1.3 Million to Become AirBnb for Drivers
- Rio Investment Partners secures $77.5 million CAD for new agri-food tech fund
- RockMass Tech wins $50,000 at DMZ Women Founders pitch competition
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- SalesForce Wants to Build Apps for Wearables; Launches Software Program
- Sampford Advisors: 95 percent of tech CEOs positive about revenue growth for 2018
- Samsung opens second Montreal-based AI lab, moves into Mila
- Saskatchewan government providing up to 45 percent tax credit for startup investment
- Scan Launches Version 2.0 to Engage 90% of People Who Don’t Use QR Codes
- Scotiabank partners with AI startup DeepLearni.ng to develop credit card payment system
- Scratchpad Launches to Help Non-Designers Convey Their Design Concepts
- A|I: The AI Times – Turing tested: ChatGPT is craaaazy
- F|T: The FinTech Times – BlockFi bankruptcy, Buckzy takes the smart money, the Kraken is re-leashed
- MontrĂ©al Startup Community Awards 2022 honours #MTLtech’s best and brightest
- Private AI secures $10.7 million CAD to protect personal data from privacy breaches
- Wattpad president Jeanne Lam resigns months after being tapped to lead company
- Slack founding CEO Stewart Butterfield to depart company in January
- CIO Strategy Council wants to establish a national standard for cybersecurity workers
- Former head of marketing at Klaviyo and Dropbox joins Lightspeed as chief marketing officer
- Fintel Connect closes $4.8 million CAD to help financial institutions drive cost-effective growth
- Top Hat acquires STEM EdTech startup Aktiv Learning
- FigBytes secures $14.5 million USD in venture funding and debt
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Inside Mozilla’s bid to enter the metaverse
- Private wireless network startup Expeto closes $12 million Series B supported by Samsung Next, 5G Open Innovation Lab
- ScribbleLive lays off 40 more staff, reportedly shutting down European offices
- Senso.ai announces $1.5 million CAD raise at #CollisionConf
- Sepio resurrects analog photos with your smartphone’s digital camera
- September #WWTO is watching you
- Seven Canadian companies among Batch 21 of 500 Startups’ seed program
- Seven reasons we’re excited for Startup Canada Day on the Hill
- Several BC Startups Named Finalists in Small Business BC Awards
- Several BC Startups Named “Ready to Rocket” Companies for 2014
- SFU gets $17 million from BC government to establish quantum research institute
- Shad Valley, Pathways to Education and More Win 2015 Youthspark Grants from Microsoft
- Shopify announces $509 million total revenue in 2016, expects up to $785 million in 2017
- Shopify hosting first-ever Shopify Partner and Developer conference
- Shopify launches Sello to democratize ecommerce through social media
- Shopify releases Q1 2016 results, announces 95 percent increase in revenue YoY
- Shopify to host program for developers reentering tech industry after extended leaves
- Shopify’s 2017 financial results report $843 million CAD total revenue
- Shopify’s global Build a Business competition names two Canadian winners
- Sidewalk Labs announces it will âno longer pursueâ Quayside project
- Sidewalk Labs launches infrastructure company with Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
- Sidewalk Labs update: Waterfront vote delayed, new public funds needed, critics turn to Digital Charter
- Sidewalk Toronto shies away from data privacy, focuses on urban planning at third public roundtable
- Signs youâre confusing product-market fit with a niche market
- SingularityU wants to connect government and tech in Canada through exec program
- Six neurotech startups receive $50,000 from Ontario Brain Institute
- Skill Marketplaces Make Anyone a Teacher
- #smallrooms podcast: Adam Epstein of Tab on being acquired
- #smallrooms podcast: Adam Rabie of Big Terminal on FinTech and big data
- #smallrooms Podcast: Andrew Graham of Borrowell on growing a fintech startup
- #smallrooms podcast: Andrew Peek on Shopify acquisitions and too much funding
- #smallrooms Podcast: Balaji Gopalan of MedStack on enabling healthcare apps
- #smallrooms Podcast: BlancRide
- #smallrooms podcast: Brice Scheschuk of Globalive Capital & Wind Mobile on investing
- #smallrooms podcast: Chris Bryson of Unata on success in retail
- #smallrooms Podcast: Collage’s Elijah Moore on reinventing benefits in Canada
- #smallrooms Podcast: Collision 2016 – Behind the Conference
- #smallrooms Podcast: Dan Holowackâ of CrowdRiff on visual marketing
- #smallrooms Podcast: Daniel Klass of Klass Capital on Alternatives to VC
- #smallrooms podcast: Dr. Ali Esmail of PopRX on mobile prescription delivery
- #smallrooms podcast: EventMobi
- #smallrooms podcast: Flixel’s Philippe LeBlanc on finding the right market
- #smallrooms Podcast: Gary Saarenvirta of Daisy Intelligence on Applied AI
- #smallrooms Podcast: Hany Fahim of VM Farms on DevOps as a Service
- #smallrooms Podcast: Hussein Fazal of Snaptravel on bots and travel
- #smallrooms Podcast: Ivan Tsarynny of PostBeyond on bootstrapping an enterprise startup
- #smallrooms Podcast: Jane Podbelskaya of Georgian Partners on hands-on investment
- #smallrooms podcast: Kerry Liu of Rubikloud on big data in retail
- #smallrooms Podcast: Kevin Kliman of Humi on experienced entrepreneurship
- #smallrooms Podcast: Mark Bailey of JobHubble on recruiting using influencers
- #smallrooms Podcast: Martin Kratky-Katz of Blockthrough on circumventing ad blocking
- #smallrooms Podcast: Matt Roberts of ScaleUP Ventures on early-stage investing
- #smallrooms Podcast: Matthew Liebowitz of Plaza Ventures on growth investing
- #smallrooms podcast: Michael Katchen of Wealthsimple on scale & trust
- #smallrooms Podcast: Michael Kousaie of the TSX on going public early as a funding source
- #smallrooms podcast: Michael Kovacs of OpenChannel on app marketplaces
- #smallrooms podcast: Michael Van of Four Walls on not raising and Startup Next
- #smallrooms Podcast: Michelle McBane of MaRS IAF on early stage investing in Canada
- #smallrooms Podcast: Nick Corneil of Trainer+ on the Fitness Market
- #smallrooms podcast: Nicole Verkindt on being a new investor & Dragon
- #smallrooms Podcast: Nima Gardideh of Suto on bots and YC Fellowships
- #smallrooms Podcast: Nudge co-founder Steven Woods on repeat entrepreneurship
- #smallrooms Podcast: Nudge Rewards’ Jordan Ekers on mobile in the enterprise
- #smallrooms Podcast: Richard Tuck of Riipen on effective graduate recruiting
- #smallrooms podcast: Roger Chabra of Rho Ventures on Investing in Canada
- #smallrooms Podcast: Sam Ifergan of iGan Partners on Early Stage Investment
- #smallrooms Podcast: Sam Molyneux of Meta on AI, machine learning and science
- #smallrooms Podcast: StartupFest Part 1: HelloMD, Parlay, Fans Unite, Gatsby
- #smallrooms Podcast: #Startupfest Part 2: Zoom.AI, Tunestars, Ubios, Tylio
- #smallrooms podcast: Stephen Ufford of Trulioo on identity management
- #smallrooms podcast: Tiny Hearts
- #smallrooms podcast: Venzee’s Kate Hiscox on retail & 500 Startups
- #smallrooms podcast: Vitaly Pecherskiy of StackAdapt on branded content
- #smallrooms podcast: Wave
- #smallroooms Podcast: Mark Bachman of FlipGive on sport tech and growth
- #smallroooms Podcast: Nick Chepesiuk of OnCall Health on building a telemedicine startup
- Smart city accelerator InnoCité MTL announces its third cohort
- Social Network for Kids PixyKids Grabs $3M in Funding
- Solver’s Market is a Marketplace for Tough Science and Engineering Problems
- SomaDetect closes $2.6 million CAD seed round for dairy farming sensor technology
- Some garbage I used to believe about equality
- Spacefy launches in New York City, hits 500 locations on its platform
- Spotify is Coming to Canada
- Spring University challenges the traditional “one-size-fits-all” incubator model
- Springboard Atlantic receives $9.6 million from ACOA
- SR&ED payments beginning to flow to Canadian tech following delay caused by COVID-19
- St. John’s-based Genesis announces $775,000 micro fund for early-stage companies
- Stanley Park Ventures hopes to steer startups past the noise
- Starting with the man in the mirror
- Startup Canada and Evolocity offering up to $5,000 grants to women-led businesses
- Startup Canada and Intuit team up to give entrepreneurs a crash course in financial literacy
- Startup Canada and Sparks Street Join together to Celebrate Entrepreneurship on Parliament Hill
- Startup Canada invites #EveryEntrepreneur to join nationwide tour
- Startup Canada Names Its Startup Awards Winners
- Startup Canada Podcast: Flexibility, finding time for family as a founder with Manny Padda
- Startup Canadaâs Canadian Export Challenge to be held virtually due to COVID-19
- Startup Culture Diaries: How to build a transparent organization
- Startup Genome report finds cleantech, life sciences, AI put Canadian cities on global stage
- Startup Jobs Spotlight: Financeit is hiring
- Startup Weekend Ottawa wants to help students build their companies
- Startups and insurance companies collide in #WaterlooRegion to disrupt 100-year-old industry
- Startups Asking “Why Buy When You Can Rent, Share and Borrow?”
- Startups can receive $100,000 through Facebook and the DMZ’s Digital News Innovation Challenge
- Street Contxt expands its sell side platform to buy side investors
- Study: Ontario government support of clusters key to encouraging economic growth
- Submit your nominations for the 2015 Startup Canada Awards
- Suncayrâs Rachel Pautler on the importance of a killer pitch
- Surrey, BC: “Weâll be like a Silicon Valley for Health Care in Canada”
- SVB payment deferrals during COVID-19 pandemic extend to Canadian companies
- Swept raises $2.5 million to tackle employee turnover in the cleaning industry
- Taking on Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Wishpond Launches All-in-One Marketing Suite
- Talking Data with a Really Big Nerd: DataHero’s Chris Neumann
- Tease Tea opening doors for underrepresented entrepreneurs with new fund
- Techstars Toronto showcases 2019 cohort, announces new partnerships
- TechVancouver speakers share insights on motivating talent and customers
- Ted Livingston says Kik will not stop fighting until it has “no dollars left”
- TELUS and Vancouver’s Mojio to offer Canadians a connected car solution in Q4
- Telus Technology 2019 cohorts pitch at Platform Calgary, Telus event
- Tempo acquires Torontoâs Roadmunk to unify roadmaps and team management software
- Tencent, Bell Canada join Blockchain Research Institute as founding members
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- ThinkData Works raises $8 million Series A for data management platform
- Thirdshelf moves out of stealth mode after raising $800,000, partnering with Lightspeed
- Three Canadian teams win big at global Technovation Challenge
- Three Ignite Labs startups win collective $100,000 from Spark Innovation Challenge
- Three women technology titans discuss the past, present, and future at the Canadian Cloud Council’s Control
- To #MoveTheDial, tech needs more women on boards
- To The Startup City! Grow Your Startup at Creative Destruction Lab
- Today in AI: Diligen launches real estate contract assistant, University of Waterloo partners with Plum
- Today in AI: mnubo opens Tokyo office, DeepLearni.ng rebrands to Dessa
- Today in AI updates: Stradigi joins IVADO, DeepLearni.ng joins NVIDIA partner network
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- Today in company updates: Sortable launches analytics tool, Highmark Interactive announces Olympic athlete advisors
- Today in company updates: Zambah, Maluuba
- Today in cryptocurrency: Bitcoin investment fund approved in Canada, NextBlock Global plans $50 million IPO
- Today in executive hires: Susan Van Klink (League), Bhavin Shah (Top Hat)
- Today in funding ($4.1M): GoFetch, Hack Capital
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- Today in funding: ICwhatUC, Emma
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- Today in funding: Thoughtexchange, Wellington Financial, HonkMobile
- Today in SaaS: Staffy partners with Platterz, SlimCut Media acquired by Telaria
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- Toronto App Makes Dinner and a Movie a ‘Groovie’ Experience
- Toronto-based Crescendo forms anti-racism coalition of North American tech companies
- Toronto-based Qvella raises $25 million Series B to improve molecular diagnostics
- Toronto Edtech Startup Raises $1 Million, Changes Name That Was Previously Really Bad
- Toronto Filmmakers Are Ready to Show “Day Job” to the World
- City of Toronto launches RFP for manufacturing incubator
- Toronto-Made Hand Held Food Scanner to Use Texas Instruments Technology
- Toronto Region Board of Trade launches program to help Ontario businesses go digital
- Toronto tech community teams up to support CWHL all-star game
- Toronto Trade Accelerator Program receives $6.7 million from federal government
- Toronto-Waterloo takes top Canadian spot in startup ecosystem rankings, Vancouver nosedives
- Toronto’s GreenOwl Mobile Gets $2 Million in Funding From Chinese Investors
- Toronto’s INcubes Accelerator Program Unveils International Exchange Program
- Toronto’s Juice Mobile Acquires Proximity Marketers Gauge Mobile
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- Trapit Launches iPad App to Serve Up Mobile Content Recommendations
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- TribalScale names former Tangerine CEO as executive-in-residence of Financial Services Venture Studio
- TribalScale opens applications for Venture Studios second cohort
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- Twenty-one organizations receive $12.4 million from government’s CanCode program
- TWG wants a Product Manager who can handle end-to-end projects
- Two Canadian startups land a spot at Google Demo Day
- Two MaRS-incubated programs are branching out
- Two Vancouver companies are leading the charge in sustainable ridesharing
- U of T’s self-driving car dominates 2019 AutoDrive Challenge
- Uberflip raises $41 million CAD from DC-based Updata Partners
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- Unbounce hosting 5th annual Call to Action conference for marketers
- Uniting the Prairies Conference showcases a tech ecosystem poised to take off
- University of Waterloo announces four $25,000 winners of Velocity Fund Finals
- University of Waterloo launches supercomputer for big data and machine learning research
- University of Waterloo opens Artificial Intelligence Institute
- Bionym Launches Biometric Wristband Nymi That Unlocks Smart Things With Your Heart
- Upside Foundation reaches 100 pledge milestone in its mission to turn equity into charity
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- Valkerie opens cohort applications six week growth marketing program
- Vancouver-based CozyStay launching co-living space in Kitchener-Waterloo
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- Velocity Fund Finals announces winners of $25K and $5K competitions
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- Volta announces 15 Atlantic Canadian startups in fall cohort pitch event
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- Waterloo Community to Welcome Indian Startups for GSF Global Accelerator Tour
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- Wealthsimple, Flipp make Great Place to Work list
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- Elastic Path secures $60 million to scale âcomposable commerce movementâ
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- InBC announces first three venture fund investments: Evok Innovations, Raven Capital, Yaletown Partners
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- Successful use of AI in government means doubling down on human and democratic values
- Subsidiaries of FinTech startup Lendified face creditors over unpaid loans
- New BC innovation minister Brenda Bailey lays out how she plans to support provinceâs tech, innovation
- Statements from Alberta innovation minister cast doubt on return of investor tax credit
- Founding CEO of agtech unicorn Semios stepping down
- Innovobot holds initial close of targeted $40 million fund to invest in âdeep tech for goodâ
- Canadian startup news of the week (12/18/22)
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- Newly announced investment tax credits a huge leap forward for cleantech cashflow
- AlayaCare co-founder launches venture fund Storytime Capital with $15 million
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The inevitable arrest of SBF
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- A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI projects $1 billion in revenue in two years
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- Ontario commits $19 million to the provinceâs regional tech hubs to bolster EV manufacturing
- Ocean Supercluster launches initiative to increase Indigenous participation in ocean economy
- Clioâs Natalie Archibald on creating digital-first workspaces
- Canadian tech talks down rounds, disasters, and “recipes for failure”
- 26 Ontario companies named semifinalists in 43North global competition
- 500 Startups conducting cross-country tour to bring more Canada into its accelerator
- Taking social further: A Conversation with HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes
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- Blueprint wants to change Vancouver’s music festival experience with Generate
- Element AI launches newest standalone product, turning data into actionable insights
- Qoints wins N100 Startup Competition and $100,000 in equity financing
- Intelligent recycling system Waste Robotics receives $1.4 million investment
- #TractionConf featuring talks from Moz, AppDynamics, almost sold out
- Locketgo raises $1.2 million seed round for turnkey smart locker service
- Today in accelerators: Volta Cohort, FounderFuel
- Free Boswell: Canadaâs anti-competitive policy
- Here’s a list of Canadian tech initiatives for international women’s day
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- ideaBOOST Narrows List of Potential Cohort Teams to 11
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- Startup Next announces 2014 Toronto Winter Cohort
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- DMZ partners with Index Exchange to help AI startups connect with corporates
- Canadian Pro Race Car Driver Launches Charitable Clothing Startup
- SEOmoz Raises $18M Series B for Online SEO Tool
- SingularityU announces two Canadian Global Impact Challenge winners
- SkillPages Crosses 1 Million UK Members, Approaches 4 Million Globally
- Skywatch invites Waterloo tech community to space-focused NASA hackathon
- Two Canadian tech companies named as finalists in 2019 SXSW Pitch competition
- Communitech announces 24 founders participating in Fierce Founders bootcamp
- The biggest Canadian startup stories of 2014
- ThreatMetrix Raises $18M for Cybercrime Prevention
- Coalition of Young Chamber of Commerce of Quebec seeking startups for Marrakech and Tel Aviv trade missions
- A|I: The AI Times – Google Duplex calls
- #PayCanSummit argues open data is critical for FinTech innovation
- Toronto-based proptech Properly raises $22 million Series A
- Vancouver-based NodeFly Joins Forces with StrongLoop
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – SaaS VC boom
- With new sponsorship, WeTeachStartup bootcamp now free to attend
- Winners of Startup Canada’s regional awards
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Need a Lyft?
- Five reasons why AI in Canada needs more women
- InvataCloud is the first canadian company to join Microsoft BizSpark Plus
- The Accelerator Centre Announces Third AC Jumpstart Cohort
- MaRS, federal government launch Healthy Neighbourhoods Data Challenge
- Mailchimp, Box, Zapier headline Traction 2019
- Uber, Trello, Moz execs headline this year’s #TractionConf
- Impact Centre updates Narwhal List to reflect 2019’s big rounds, exits
- OSMO, L’OrĂ©al Canada launch open innovation program in Montreal
- A|I: The AI Times – The quest for conversational AI
- Shopify launches commerce stack for enterprise retail
- Unbounceâs Peter Housley on hitting your targets in a downturn
- Year in review: biggest tech stories of 2022, 2023 predictions
- Year in review: Kim Furlong talks VCCI and what comes next for Canadian venture
- Ribitt raises $600,000 to help independent retailers offer rewards programs
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – A tale of two hospitals
- Thomson Reuters closes acquisition of US tax software company SurePrep for $500 million
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- A|I: The AI Times – AI that’s good for people
- Keep Up With Your Dreams at Creative Destruction Lab
- Canadian startup news of the week (1/19/20)
- Ex-Shopify leaders launch $10 million angel fund Ramen Ventures
- Want a Different Kind of iOS Inbox? Toronto’s Inbox Cube To Launch
- Water purification startup Acuva Technologies closes $5.4 million Series B
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – The biotech IPO boom
- UPPlift announces winners piloting smart city technologies across Toronto
- DailyDealy closes an undisclosed amount of financing, says they will “introduce ground-breaking technologies”
- Qype Expands Into Turkey, Extends European Lead Over Yelp
- BDC commits $160 million to fund IP development in Canada
- Reports: Canadian VC investments in 2022 projected to lag behind 2021 figures, but still top 2020 funding
- Ackroo acquires Simpliconnect to bolster client base
- BetaKit and HIGHLINE are taking over Thursday night at #VSW2015 (with some help from our friends)
- Ontario Angel Group Selects Eight Startups to Pitch at Follow-On Investment Forum
- Former INcubes Director Helps Toronto Startup Launch Pricey New DJ System
- Global Law Firm Dentons Lends a Helping Hand With Startup Program
- How new SaaS companies should be using content marketing
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Billion-dollar smiles
- Will ChatGPT replace BetaKit?
- Koho secures $70 million Series C to scale adoption of its digital banking services
- R|T: The Retail Times – Market dominance
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times – A new blueprint for changing health care
- Volta Labs announces 16 startups to pitch for $25,000 investment
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Canadian Lyft-off
- Applications open for $25,000 Pitch for the Purse program
- Ernst & Young announces regional finalists for Entrepreneur of the Year program
- Quebecâs budget looks to fuel digital transformation, overlooks skills gap
- Join us tonight for AI, Bots, and Social Media, (Oh My) at #SMWiTO
- CIX Cleantech reveals 10 most innovative cleantech companies
- Collision offering $10 tickets to help students attend the conference
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- DMZ launches FinTech accelerator with BMO
- Report: Only 25 percent of entrepreneurs see gov’t initiatives as helpful to their businesses
- H|T: The Healthtech Times Newsletter – The elephant in the room
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Symptom surveillance
- Vector Institute taps seasoned executive Tony Gaffney to lead AI hub for next five years
- R|T: The Retail Times – Is Shopify the new Amazon or another Amazon?
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Telehealth for pets
- Bird Canada launches e-scooter pilot in Toronto’s Distillery District
- Foxquilt raises $3.5 million for B2B insurance tech platform
- Data mining innovation spawns a new kind of Gold Rush
- HalTech receives $307,000 to create accelerator for women entrepreneurs
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Compensating SaaS sales
- Quark Venture and China-based GF Securities establish $656 million health science fund in Vancouver
- Refugee entrepreneur program looks to empower Syrian founders
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – SaaS sprawl
- As SEC files suit, Kik’s Ted Livingston argues loss would be “disastrous” for crypto
- World Health Organization, Canadian startup Firstline team up to combat global health threat of antibiotic resistance
- Amazon layoffs hit Canadian teams, according to LinkedIn posts
- Gradient Spaces opens applications for second incubator cohort for 2SLGBTQ2IA+ tech founders
- Layoffs persist at Canadian tech companies amid bleak outlook for 2023
- Tokens.com’s metaverse subsidiary acquires NFT minting platform CocoNFT
- Salesforce layoffs show Canadian employees caught in ongoing Big Tech cuts
- A|I: The AI Times – Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever
- Applications open for 75% Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy
- R|T: The Retail Times – Uber’s Uber for grocery delivery
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- R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon jumps into health
- Today in funding ($39M): Bee Vectoring Technology, VISR, Marketing.AI, Coveo
- Bird Canada takes international counterpart Bird Global under its wing in merger
- Calgaryâs SensorUp closes $6 million Series A to strengthen location intelligence platform
- Manny Padda wins Angel of the Year award from NACO
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Shopify’s newest sales channel
- Unified Computer Intelligence Corporation Takes N100 Startup Competition
- KnowledgeTree Raises $4.75M for Enterprise-Level Document Management
- A|I: The AI Times – Sergey Brin’s AI warning
- Federal government extends commercial rent relief program through August
- Carrot Rewards wins global innovation award at World Government Summit
- Ontario-wide collaboration on Canadian-made electric vehicle unveiled at CES
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Salesforce and big data
- Future of Sport Lab accepting applications for second cohort
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The Quadriga quandary
- SVBâs Barbara Dirks talks about keeping Canada at the forefront of innovation
- Today in funding ($400,000): MadLipz, Parlay
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Salesforce’s $100 million Canadian VC fund
- A|I: The AI Times â AI dogfight
- A|I: The AI Times â Better machine learning through MIDI?
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Netflix-like ambitions
- Northumberland CFDC launches loan program for women-led ventures in Eastern Ontario
- What Canadian provinces are doing to support businesses amid COVID-19
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Scaling when everything breaks
- A|I: The AI Times â AI arms race
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- Submissions open for MaRSâ Spinal Cord Rehab Innovation Challenge
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- A|I: The AI Times – Building on Canada’s AI progress
- Here’s how #CDNtech companies are pitching in during COVID-19
- Nominations open for Startup Canada Awards recognizing Canadian entrepreneurship
- The world is on fire: we need leaders ready to build resilient, informed digital nations now
- LookBookHQ raises $13 million Series B led by New Jersey-based Edison Partners
- Today in funding ($1.2M): SWFTCharge, Dash MD, Athennian
- ApplyBoard announces leadership switch-up, with founding CEO replaced by brother
- NorthStar raises $47 million CAD Series C round for expected satellite launch in mid-2023
- BetaKit is hiring across Canada
- Tech companies still looking for remote workers across Canada
- Canadian startup news of the week (1/8/23)
- F|T: The FinTech Times – TikTok plots push into payments
- Descartes Systems Group acquires shipment management SaaS provider Supply Vision for $16 million CAD
- Radical Ventures raising new $550 million USD fund as AI sector heats up
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Watson Health up for sale…again
- A|I: The AI Times – ChatGPT creator OpenAI in talks to raise at $29 billion valuation
- Nanoprecise closes $13.4 million CAD Series B round for its manufacturing monitoring software
- Thinkific makes more layoffs as part of push towards profitability
- Able Innovations, Cognota, BlueDot among recipients of $14 million FedDev investment
- GoBolt lays off five percent of staff shortly after $75 million raise, citing worsening consumer demand
- Glassdoor names Google, Microsoft, Salesforce among best 25 places to work in Canada
- Aptum Technologies acquires CloudOps to expand its cloud solutions
- Nokia opens new Toronto office as part of broader Ontario-wide expansion
- Interacâs CTO on how to hire for technical roles
- Terramera forms new subsidiary to address more problems facing farmers
- University of Waterloo leading consortium for 5G innovation that includes Rogers, BlackBerry
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Virtual Reality is now the superior reality
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Google’s Daydream
- W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Google Glass, Obama and Facebook VR
- With 1.6M Downloads, Lemon Adds $8M Series A for Digital Wallet App
- Wattpad’s Seema Lakhani promoted to chief product officer
- Wattpad, Sony Pictures Television teaming up for TV programming deal
- Wantful Raises $5.5M for Online Gifting Service
- Vidmind Launches Cloud TV Platform to Let Anyone Create a White Labeled Netflix
- VanHackathon connects Canadian companies to a world of talent
- Vancouver cleantech Inventys closes Series C at $34 million CAD
- UWaterloo, Microsoft partner to use AI for socially-driven projects
- University of Toronto students compete to address international social impact problems
- Twitter Acquires Summify, Eyes Social News Curation
- Twitter Acquires Simplified Blogging Platform Posterous
- Twelve Canadian firms named to 2019 Global Cleantech 100 list
- Toronto startup uses blockchain to help Mongolian farmers create sustainable supply chain
- Toronto mayor Tory calls on Canadians to ‘brag’ about #ToWRCorridor ahead of Valley trade mission
- Today in government funding: cleantech, healthtech, AgTech
- Today in accelerators: IDEABOOST and Volta open submissions for new cohorts
- The top Canadian tech hubs you donât know about
- The Ten Types of Entrepreneurs You’ll Meet at an Accelerator
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Will developers kill the cloud wars?
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Who’s investing in SaaS?
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – What happened to the prosumer model?
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – How fast is enough for SaaS startups?
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Hootsuite’s buying spree continues
- Startup Train giving away 2 free tickets ahead of Startupfest
- Startup Canada Awards announces 2019 national winners
- Startup Canada announces four BC co-working partnerships & funding for women entrepreneurship
- Software engineers create online tool to help companies find available government COVID-19 relief
- Six Nova Scotia ocean tech startups join Innovacorp’s Early Adopter Program
- Six startups selected to scale at Boston’s Canadian Technology Accelerator
- Shopify’s Satish Kanwar in Forbes’ Retail & Commerce 30 under 30
- Shopify donates funds in response to racial injustice, resurfacing long-standing criticisms
- Seven startups awarded total of $225,000 at 2016 Spark Cape Breton Innovation Challenge
- R|T: The Retail Times – Why Shopify thinks AR is the future of retail
- R|T: The Retail Times – Rejecting $400M offers
- Report: Canada’s gaming industry contributes $3.7 billion to economy
- Report: Atlantic Canada startups raised record $166.6 million in 2018
- Real Ventures Launches 10-Week “Fellowship” Accelerator for Individuals
- Quote Kong and Vini named winners of Fundica’s $1 million investment prize
- Ottawa workspace analytics startup Relogix closes $4 million Series A
- Nova Scotia’s Affinio, Inc. Raises $1.5 Million for Tactics Cloud Tool
- Nova Scotia-based CelluFuel scores $5 million investment to expand cleantech business
- Northumberland CFDC commits $900,000 for rural Eastern Ontario tech startups
- New federal directive looks to increase automated decision making in government
- MontrĂ©al makes Startup Genome’s top 30 as Toronto, Vancouver ecosystems drop in rankings
- Montreal Founder Institute opens applications for fourth cohort
- Montreal Founder Institute launches map of city’s startup resources
- Lyft managing director to speak at Traction on Demand’s 2019 conference
- LGBTQA+ tech conference Venture Out returns to Toronto this month
- Lemon Opens API to Developers, Payment Providers to Build a Smarter Mobile Wallet
- L-Spark, Telus, BlackBerry, Solace launch accelerator to support Canadian IoT ventures
- Innovacorp’s CleanTech Accelerate Program accepting applications
- Innovacorp names four winners of $25,000 Sprint competition
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Canada’s new COVID alert app
- How to incentivize employees with stock option plans
- Hereâs how to watch Lean Startup Conference in Canada if you canât attend
- F|T: The FinTech Times – When growth “at all costs” goes wrong
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Vena customers allege SOC compliance falsehoods
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Travel lending for your dream vacation
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The U.K.’s Open Banking Revolut-ion
- F|T: The FinTech Times – New FinTech accelerators
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Grappling with FinTech
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Cryptocurrency crackdown
- Finger Food receives $3.5 million from Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund for new office
- Federal gov’t announces winning supercluster proposals
- Favery Launches Pinterest-Style Platform to Help Shoppers Poll Their Friends
- Companies building diversity surveys must consider metrics of “belonging”
- CoHealth upgrades app to better coordinate patient recovery
- Choosing the right technology to help your business scale up
- CFC’s ideaBOOST Accelerator is Looking for Its New Cohort
- CarbonCure, Smarter Alloys, E-Zn among winners of Breakthrough Energy Solutions Canada initiative
- Canadian startup news of the week (12/13/20)
- Canada’s tech talent industry tracks renewed interest with permanent Global Talent Stream
- Calgaryâs Orpyx raises $7.6 million Series A to commercialize, develop shoe-based diabetes tech
- Calgary will fight a bear, Toronto offers monetary savings in Amazon HQ2 showdown
- BufferBox service is winding down and will stop accepting packages on March 31st
- Blockchain API startup Dfuse raises $4.5 million CAD in oversubscribed funding
- BDC Capital launching $135 million VC fund for energy and cleantech startups
- Aviva Ventures wants to invest up to $10 million in startups during its Pitch Day
- Auvik Networks raises $15 million Series B to help small businesses build IT networks
- Amorchem closes $44.2 million for biotech fund
- Amit Bhaga on how small businesses can prepare for the digital transformation of work
- AlayaCare closes $47.9 million CAD Series C extension, acquires Procura
- AlayaCare acquires New York-based Arrow Solutions to tackle US Medicaid market
- A|I: The AI Times – Time for AI to grow up?
- A|I: The AI Times – The societal implications of AI
- A|I: The AI Times – Is ethical AI even possible?
- A|I: The AI Times – How large a neural network do we really need?
- A|I: The AI Times â Google’s “AI-first” approach
- A|I: The AI Times â A risky bet
- 2015 Spark Cape Breton Innovation Challenge winners announced
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify targets enterprise retail with new commerce stack
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Salesforce latest Big Tech company to make cuts in Canada
- WonderFi releases public statement following Coinsquare merger report
- Two Canadian companies chosen for John Deereâs 2023 Startup Collaborator program
- BMO, Georgian partner on access fund as venture firm secures nearly half of second alignment fund
- Properly pivots away from home sale guarantee as real estate market dips
- ReelData raises $10.6 million CAD using AI to monitor fish populations
- BC holds consultations on employment standards for gig workers as Uber, Lyft offer own visions
- AI regulation is coming. What’s Canada’s approach?
- UK autonomous vehicle company Oxbotica plans to expand Canadian presence following $140 million USD raise
- Clearco CEO Michele Romanow steps down as company cuts almost 30 percent of staff
- NowVertical secures $7 million CAD credit facility, completes Acrotrend, Smartlytics acquisitions
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Coinsquare breaks up with CoinSmart, courts WonderFi?
- Canadian startup news of the week (1/15/23)
- What Xero learned after 15 years of building software for SMBs
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shop Pay vs. ‘Buy with Prime’ begins
- A|I: The AI Times – Radical strategies for AI & quantum in Canada
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Carbon Health cuts staff, closes $100M
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â The best places to work in Canada are US SaaS companies
- Lightspeed to lay off 300 employees as it targets âprofitable growthâ
- Vancouver PR firm Switchboard gets national support following Earnscliffe acquisition
- Vidyard sets sights on $1 billion in revenue as it bolsters go-to-market efforts
- Smart horticultural lighting provider Sollum closes $30 million CAD to expand library of âlight recipesâ
- CoinSmart rejects Coinsquareâs notice to terminate acquisition deal
- Market intelligence startup Klue moves closer to all-in-one platform vision with DoubleCheck Research acquisition
- Hootsuite CEO Tom Keiser replaced amid third round of layoffs
- Volvo backs Waabi to accelerate driverless trucks commercialization
- Milk Moovement countersues US competitor Dairy LLC, alleges monopoly abuse over dairy intelligence industry
- Summit Nanotech secures $50 million USD to scale lithium extraction for EV production
- Coinsquare moves to terminate CoinSmart acquisition deal
- Delphia closes $60 million USD to improve AI-driven investment platform with user-owned data
- Harvest Builders, Headversity, among 15 recipients of $25.5 million PrairiesCan investment for Calgary businesses
- TSX-listed Magnet Forensics to be acquired by Thoma Bravo in $1.8 billion CAD deal
- A Web3 vibe check with Round13’s Satraj Bambra
- StoryTap founder Bernadette Butler on how she overcame the âshocksâ of entrepreneurship
- Benevity cites lower than expected customer demand as cause for 14 percent layoffs
- Stephen Marche on how generative AI will transform academia (and everything else)
- Front-end, back-end, full-stack developers needed across Canada
- Canadian startup news of the week (1/22/23)
- Delphia places co-founder on leave over sexual assault allegations, lawsuit from former employee
- Québec to house IBM quantum supercomputer as Xanadu secures $40 million from feds
- F|T: The FinTech Times – A Clearco co-founder resigns as CEO, again
- Spinout Traction Complete standing on its own with new $6.7 million CAD Series A, big-name clients
- Investor liquidity issues are putting the squeeze on Canadian startups
- Tenstorrent swaps CEOs as Apple, AMD, Intel alum takes helm of AI chip unicorn
- Layoffs spread to Clutch, Canada Drives as online auto marketplaces gear down
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – How Tomi Poutanen is using AI to tackle Canadian healthcare
- Canadian-led, New York-based AtomicJar aims to hire in Canada with $25 million USD Series A
- Alphabet company DeepMind shutters Edmonton site as part of Google layoffs
- With Signal 1, Tomi Poutanen is using AI to tackle Canadian healthcare
- Five Canadian programs listed among top incubators, accelerators globally
- Alberta Innovatesâ Bryan Helfenbaum on the future of energy in Canada
- After navigating “major” changes to restaurant industry, Notch closes $13.7 million CAD to fuel pivot to FinTech
- R|T: The Retail Times – Why everyone is making layoffsâexcept Apple
- How to turn new grads into successful employees
- A|I: The AI Times – Microsoft wants OpenAI everywhere, Google calls in reinforcements
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Hootsuite swaps CEOs amidst third set of staff cuts
- Shopify, Benevity set records for Black Friday-Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday
- Nuula sold to Nav Technologies following collapse of Series A round
- Shopify CTO Allan Leinwand to depart company, citing âpersonal reasonsâ
- Can Amber Mac explain WTF is happening in tech right now?
- Bitcoin infrastructure startup Blockstream raises $125 million USD to expand crypto mining services
- Fintech Cadence, Atlantic FinTech partner to create national reach
- Pender Ventures closes first half of $100 million target for second venture fund
- Tiny enters deal to go public on TSXV through merger with WeCommerce
- SVG Ventures Thrive aims to raise $75 million CAD for third agrifood fund
- Canadian startup news of the week (1/29/23)
- Tech-related roles dominate Indeedâs best jobs list in Canada for 2023
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripe’s path to IPO
- Vector Institute, Communitech partner to expand AI training program across Canada
- RocketRez closes $20 million CAD Series B to fuel European tourism expansion
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify loses third C-Suite exec since September
- Faced with insolvency, Ottawaâs Tehama forges ahead with founder-backed restructuring
- Raven Indigenous Capital Partners tops initial target for second fund with $100 million final close
- As Clearco and Wayflyer struggle, Paperstack secures $9 million in equity, debt to fuel pivot into e-commerce lending
- As Big Tech makes mass layoffs, recent Canadian startup reductions might cut deeper
- OpenText closes $5.8 billion USD acquisition of Micro Focus, makes workforce reduction
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Smile Digital Health nabs $30 million Series B
- VerticalScope becomes latest public tech firm to make layoffs with 22 percent staff reduction
- Ada latest Canadian unicorn to make additional staff cuts
- A|I: The AI Times – Tenstorrent swaps CEOs, DeepMind exits Edmonton
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Google slapped with antitrust suit
- Lightspeed one-time net loss of $814.8 million USD sends Groundhog Day signal: six more weeks of tech winter
- Hippoc announces $3 million to help marketers test ad campaigns using neuroscience
- Invest Ottawaâs 10th birthday party comes with over $6.6 million in funding to support Area X.O
- CIBC Innovation Banking president Mark McQueen to depart for “next adventure”
- Why I killed my startup
- Report maps Indigenous representation in BC tech, calls for need to address systemic barriers
- Engineers needed across Canada
- Canadian startup news of the week (2/5/23)
- Mark Usher named CIBC Innovation Banking lead after Mark McQueen announces departure
- Canadian Web3 Council calls on Senate to examine how to “effectively harmonize” regulatory framework for digital assets
- F|T: The FinTech Times – CoinSmart, Coinsquare split leads to legal proceedings
- Alphabet commences Canadian layoffs
- Garmin Canada to expand Alberta presence, hire for 200 STEM jobs
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Big Tech discovers austerity
- Conquest Planning raises $24 million to expand AI financial advisor solution to US, UK markets
- RBC acquires Canadian operations of US proptech startup Ojo
- Koho lays off 14 percent of staff
- Atlantic Canada healthtech firms NovaResp, SiftMed, The Rounds secure funding
- Raven.ai aims to address supply chain issues following $12 million USD Series A
- A|I: The AI Times – Google bets on Anthropic, Ada makes more layoffs
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Spotify founder takes on healthcare
- R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon facing antitrust, slower growth
- Levr.ai closes $1 million in pre-seed funding to simplify loan applications
- CoinSmart to seek monetary damages from Coinsquare following collapse of acquisition deal
- Canadian startup news of the week (2/12/23)
- Shopify invests in US-based e-commerce analytics aggregator Triple Whale
- Winnipeg-based Cerebra to assist with provincial sleep test backlog
- Shopify unveils new features for shopping app, fulfillment network in latest products update report
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – A Shopify for pharma
- GreenSky expands team, secures $17 million first close of Fund V as firm sees opportunity amid the downturn
- WFHomie acquired by Houstonâs GoCo to create all-in-one HR platform
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Layoffs continue to hit Canadian FinTech
- Fight brews over Magnet Forensicsâ proposed $1.8 billion acquisition by Thoma Bravo
- What comes after the attention economy?
- Thinkific, WonderFi, VerticalScope face leadership changes following layoffs
- GSoft acquires Didacte to bolster employee engagement software suite
- Blaise Transit signs contract to deploy on-demand transit tech in Nova Scotia
- R|T: The Retail Times – Ssense failed to notify government of its cyberattack
- Descartes acquires US-based GroundCloud for $138 million USD
- Report: investment in Canadian FinTech dropped almost $6 billion USD in 2022
- Doctor-backed Clinify secures $2 million CAD to help digitize African medical records
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Garmin expands Alberta presence
- Following exit to Live Nation, Universe founders secure $10.8 million for online art marketplace Peggy
- Canadian tech can find opportunities during leaner times
- A|I: The AI Times – Meet Googleâs answer to ChatGPT
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Fight brews over Magnet Forensics acquisition deal
- Newly-named Canada Innovation Corporation will see budget double to absorb IRAP
- BBTV secures $21.6 million CAD loan to pay off overdraft facility
- Movement51 launches investment readiness education program for women entrepreneurs across Canada
- Shopify posts 26 percent YoY revenue jump, but growth still below pandemic highs
- Federal government reveals breakdown of $700 million renewed commitment to Innovation Clusters
- Real Ventures partners with Panache, Inovia to relaunch FounderFuel accelerator
- The Indigo hack is bad. Will AI make cyber threats worse?
- Canadian software engineers wanted at these startups
- Prevu3D raises $13.3 million CAD to help enterprises take âfirst stepsâ into industrial metaverse
- Canadian startup news of the week (2/20/23)
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Bank of Canadaâs Ron Morrow: âit is your one chance to shape the regime.â
- Mining, energy companies lead TSXVâs list of 50 top-performing public companies
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â YouTube’s CEO to step down
- Cogeco acquires independent internet provider Oxioâs telecom business
- Despite market conditions, 2022 second-highest year on record for Canadian venture capital
- A|I: The AI Times – Is Canada facing an AI talent drain?
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Clinify’s mission to digitize African medical records
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify’s revenue jumps but beware Amazon’s Trojan horse
- Nuvei enters $1.7 billion CAD deal to acquire US payments tech firm Paya
- Round13 leads System-3’s $3.6 million round to mitigate bias in hiring leadership talent
- Canadian securities regulators tighten rules for crypto platforms following Voyager, Celsius, FTX collapse
- AAVAA closes $2 million CAD to develop smart listening device
- Jobber closes $100 million USD Series D amid strong demand for home services
- Future Fields raises $15.1 million CAD to equip more industries with bioreactors made from flies
- IrisCX secures $6.2 million CAD to help home product, services firms provide video-based customer support
- Bidmii, SalonScale, Moves, TrojAI among 2023 cohort of Googleâs Canadian accelerator
- Dapper Labs faces lawsuit claiming NBA Top Shot NFTs are securities
- Proposed regulations for Retail Payment Activities Act open for public comment
- Croptimistic acquires CropPro Consulting, secures $9.1 million from Forage Capital
- At adtech startup Nova, president Matt Crenshaw steps into the CEO position
- Shopify launches initiative to expand partner program
- Canada’s small businesses want open banking, too
- Canadian privacy commissioners launch joint investigation into TikTok data use
- Lighthouse Labs, TechNL each secure over $20 million in federal funding for tech upskilling programs
- MaRS, adMare BioInnovations launch new biotech accelerator for early-stage ventures
- CDPQ makes executive changes following Celsius investment write-off
- Canadian startup news of the week (2/26/23)
- Backed by Bay Street veterans, Obsiido wants to make alternative investing accessible
- Generative AI will test what’s worse: biased data or user bad faith
- Government of Canada to launch $250 million initiative to train skilled workers
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian regulators tighten crypto rules as Dapper Labs cuts staff, faces class action
- Shopify built Indigo’s new website in three days following ransomware attack
- Dapper Labs cuts another 20 percent of staff while fending off class action suit
- Miovision acquires Winnipegâs MicroTraffic to better predict traffic collisions
- Hootsuite follows Twitter lead as company ditches free plans
- R|T: The Retail Times – Indigo ransomware attack gets personal
- AssistIQ raises $2.5 million CAD to cut down on medical waste in hospitals
- Amazon climate tech fund backs Genecis to turn food waste into bioplastics
- Northleaf closes $675 million USD for latest private equity fund
- Paper acquires MajorClarity to add post-secondary planning into its K-12 platform
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â TikTok under investigation in Canada for data use
- Plum secures $8 million CAD to help big businesses navigate tight labour market
- Yoshua Bengio, Element AI co-founders back AI startup Glowstick in $1.3 million round
- How to build a diverse talent ecosystem for Canada
- Felix Health CFO Paritosh Gupta on why finance leaders need a new approach to risk
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Is Apple close to no-prick blood glucose tracking for its watch?
- A|I: The AI Times – Google researchers take key step towards Quantum future
- How to grow investment in women-led startups
- Sonder lays off 14 percent of staff as it aims to become cash flow positive in 2023
- Eight months after a personal tragedy and a lab fire, e-Zinc has bounced back with a $31 million CAD Series A
- Lightspeed COO Brandon Nussey to depart in latest C-suite shakeup
- Shopify changes employee compensation model: âbeing a manager now has no effect on compensationâ
- Latest Alberta, BC budgets target talent shortage with otherwise minimal new tech investment
- Able Innovations strikes deal with Ottawa hospital for robotic patient transfer tech
- Fresh Prep acquires fellow Vancouver food delivery startup Peko
- Uplinq partners with World Bank Group-linked global network to educate on financial inclusion
- Panache’s Chris Neumann on FounderFuel’s return and “shitty” VC behaviour
- Canadian startup news of the week (3/05/23)
- Toronto venture funding saw a âreturn to sanityâ in 2022
- Drug discovery startup Congruence Therapeutics closes $20 million CAD extension of Series A
- Adaptis secures $2 million CAD to help building owners move to net zero with AI
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Bad news comes in threes for Dapper Labs
- Loopio, Reelhouse co-founders launch Barley to help make employee compensation easier, more equitable
- Cohere among first investments from Salesforceâs new $250 million AI fund
- #MoveTheDial, Feminuity offer strategies for companies at all stages to retain women in tech
- BDC Capital report finds Canadian VCs are hiring more diverse candidates but facing difficulties with talent retention
- Daily Blends raises $2.7 million CAD, signs Metrolinx deal to deploy smart vending machines
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Salesforce’s ‘one big family’ is showing cracks. Can Slack’s new CEO hold it together?
- Dwindling tech deal volume remained a thorn in the Waterloo Regionâs side in 2022
- Wattpad lays off 15 percent of workforce
- R|T: The Retail Times – The Shopify divide: manager or crafter?
- Magnet shares independent advisor report recommending $1.8 billion acquisition as some shareholders push to halt deal
- Zenhub closes $10 million to make platform for managing software projects more accessible
- Yaletown Partners hits $200 million final close for Innovation Growth Fund II
- Firehood hands out $100,000 in prizes as the DMZ, CVCA announce women of year awards
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – AstraZeneca announces big Canadian expansion, hiring plans
- Six months after petition launch, federal minister calls market benefits plan “essential” to Global Talent Stream visa
- Intuit, Highline unveil 2023 cohort of joint FinTech accelerator
- A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be
- Sanctuary marks first commercial test of âhuman-likeâ robots in Markâs clothing store
- Synctera secures National Bank funding, partnership to bring banking-as-a-service platform to Canada
- CAN Health Network to serve all of Canada with Québec, northern territories expansion
- From desk to doorstep: KitchenMate expands smart food kiosk to condo market
- Web3 startup Helika closes $4 million seed round led by Diagram Ventures
- BDC appoints SĂ©vrine Labelle as head of $100 million Thrive Lab for women entrepreneurs
- Canadian startup news of the week (3/12/23)
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripe looks to raise another $6 billion
- Venture funding surged in Québec and Alberta tech sectors over 2022, bucking national trend
- Dan Breznitz unmuzzled: Canada Innovation Corporation architect explains how we got here
- Applications now open for the 2023 New Ventures BC Competition
- Metaâs additional staff cuts further call into question Facebook parentâs Canadian hiring plans
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Qualtrics shopping for a private offer
- Ontario proposes new regulations to tighten rules around mass layoffs
- RenoRun raises $22.5 million Series A
- R|T: The Retail Times – Amazonâs belt-tightening is causing concerns
- Policy Talks: Canadian policy leaders meet in person to talk remote work
- Spark Microsystems raises $34 million to meet chip demand amid supply crunch
- PointClickCare acquires Patient Pattern to support healthcare providersâ transition to value-based care
- A|I: The AI Times – Embark Trucks explores liquidation, AI beer invades Alberta
- Vendasta acquires customer engagement platform Broadly
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – CAN Health Network expanding… across Canada
- After losing $10,000 in crypto, Staging Labs co-founder developing solutions to protect digital assets
- Shinydocs raises $16.25 million to make it easier to find buried files, media, documents
- Paper acquires literacy tool Readlee to help curb pandemic-fuelled literacy crisis among children
- BC government extends tax credit for digital media companies to cut employment costs
- Raine Maida and Senator Deacon discuss Big Tech’s control over digital creators (and the news)
- Canadian startup news of the week (3/19/23)
- Proptech startup Operto raises $34.4 million CAD to open the door to new markets, literally
- Ericsson sets up new quantum research hub in Montréal
- DMZ Demo Day event to hand out $300,000 in prizes for startups
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Signature Bank collapse another blow to crypto
- Amazon wonât confirm how many Canadians impacted by forthcoming 9,000 employee layoffs
- FreshBooks lays off 10 percent of staff as company targets profitability
- BC suffered biggest year-over-year venture funding drop among all Canadian ecosystems in 2022
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Magnet Forensics proxy advisors split on takeover
- Haply Robotics secures $4.8 million CAD seed round to develop tactile tech used for surgical training, gaming
- Mila, UNESCO warn against use of AI in âharmful contextsâ in joint book on AI governance
- Symend reduces team by 25 percent in restructuring, four months after $54 million round
- Noze receives $1 million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to build TB- and malaria-detecting breathalyzer
- A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI unveils GPT-4 as Google-backed Anthropic launches Claude
- Shopify enterprise merchants can now use Googleâs AI tools to improve searchability
- Vertu Capital closes first private equity fund with over $300 million
- Québec budget aimed at stimulating the economy with investments in tech sectors, skilled labour
- Mercator AI raises $5.1 million CAD as it develops early project detection tool for construction
- R|T: The Retail Times – SkipTheDishes gets a new CEO…again
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Google is flexing its health care AI muscle
- Backed by Mark Cuban-led $2.4 million round, TransCrypts uses blockchain to help Ukrainian refugees access health records securely
- Canada Drives undergoing restructuring as it files for creditor protection
- How 1Password plans to build a passwordless future
- Magnet shareholders approve $1.8 billion Thoma Bravo acquisition as campaign against deal proves unsuccessful
- Alberta Innovates invests $30 million into Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute to spur research
- Rewind cuts 27 percent of staff as its growth slows in parallel to Shopify
- Canadian startup news of the week (3/26/23)
- UBC, BC Cancer researchers develop AI model to predict cancer survival rates
- Valhalla Private Capital partners with Plug and Play Alberta to boost exposure of startup companies to investors
- F|T: The FinTech Times – FreshBooks cuts 10 percent of staff to target profitability
- Canadian government ups semiconductor focus, invests $36 million in Ranovus
- Carbon Neutral Club secures $1.4 million to incentivize employees to help companies meet climate targets
- Federal #Budget2022 surprisingly heavy on innovation policy
- R|T: The Retail Times – Washington prepares for war with Amazon
- After a tough year, Goodfood switches up CFO, promoting VP Roslane Aouameur
- Metaspectral selected to join South Australian government accelerator program
- A|I: The AI Times – Bill Gates is blogging about AI now
- Coveo taps former Lightspeed, D2L exec Brandon Nussey to replace retiring CFO Jean Lavigueur
- BBTV among 10 BC orgs receiving total $25.7 million from PacifiCan to help job retention amid tech layoffs
- Evol receives nearly $10 million from Canadian Economic Development to support diverse Québec entrepreneurs
- Ontario budget gains kudos for streamlining procurement, increasing access to skilled talent
- As regulators take over SVB Canada, companies still have questions about impact
- Canadian tech calls on feds to inject more liquidity into sector to avoid SVB-caused âfull-blown crisisâ
- Regulators force Silicon Valley Bank Canada into liquidation, paving way for auction
- How the Silicon Valley Bank shutdown might impact Canadian tech
- CVCA CEO: Tech still needs influx of capital given possible investor pullback, even as liquidity concerns calm
- Birdseye raises $500,000 to help Shopify businesses automate marketing strategies using AI
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Haply building Surgeon Simulator backed by BDC Deep Tech
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Magnet shareholders ignore critics, back acquisition
- Federal budget a âhuge winâ for cleantech, but Canada still at risk of missing out
- Toronto’s Hypercare sole Canadian startup selected for AWS healthcare accelerator
- Back for second cohort, Ryerson Venture Zone in Brampton expands program beyond healthcare into smart mobility
- PureFacts acquires Xtiva to bolster its revenue management solutions
- 2023 is the year ESG should drive enterprise decision-making
- RealSage secures $2.1 million CAD to help multi-family rental managers make better decisions with AI
- Brampton angel group launches with support from Angel Investors Ontario, Altitude Accelerator
- MaRS Discovery District launches new program for âhigh-growthâ Canadian companies
- Michelle Scarborough explains why BDC is thinking bigger with Thrive Platform
- With no open banking update in #Budget2023, FinTech executives are increasingly jaded about timeline for delivery
- Canadian startup news of the week (4/2/23)
- Nimble Science raises $2.7 million to collect data from previously inaccessible regions of small intestine
- Nulogy raises $20 million to make collaboration easier for multiple companies in a supply chain
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian FinTech startups tired of open banking waiting game
- WonderFi, Coinsquare, CoinSmart to merge as Canadaâs crypto industry consolidates
- LayerZero Labs raises $120 million at $3 billion valuation to enable more multi-blockchain apps
- A|I: The AI Times – Sam Altman isn’t worriedâbut Yoshua Bengio is
- ChopValue raises $10.36 million CAD to globalize its chopstick-repurposing technology
- Eli raises $5 million to make at-home hormone testing for women more accessible
- Canadian privacy commissioner launches investigation into ChatGPT
- Felix expands into more complex categories of care following $18 million Series B
- Brizo Data raises $12 million to bring data insights to foodservice industry
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â RenoRun’s “Hail Mary” deals fail to save it from creditor protection
- How startups can access an untapped pool of talent in Canada
- VCCI-backed Kensington Capital Partners secures $158 million first close for third venture fund
- Saskatoon-based Fidu places third at American Bar Association pitch competition
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – BC researchers have an AI model that predicts cancer survival rates
- Meet the Canadian startups participating in Y Combinatorâs Winter 2023 Demo Day
- R|T: The Retail Times – Alibaba to split into six groups and explore IPOs
- High performance computing platform Agnostiq closes $8.22 million CAD seed extension
- Real estate auction platform Unreserved files $25 million lawsuit against real estate associations
- Was RenoRun abandoned by investors or just another mannequin startup?
- OneEleven to close Ottawa and London offices
- Canadian startup news of the week (4/9/23)
- Founders Assemble Summit launches to help entrepreneurs navigate current market conditions
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian crypto’s Bizarre Love Triangle ends in three-way merger
- BetaKitâs most-read March stories show #CDNtech sector struggles continue as government innovation promises continue to lag
- Ariglad raises $1.3 million to help HR teams communicate better, fulfill ticket systems
- Startup TNTâs 2022 report maps over $3 million invested into startups, pan-Prairies expansion
- AutoLeap gears up for growth with $40 million CAD Series B
- A|I: The AI Times – Samsung workers made a major error by using ChatGPT
- Online vehicle retailer E Inc. to delist from TSX citing limited trading volumes
- MY01 raises $12.5 million CAD for microsensors that aid in physician diagnostics
- R|T: The Retail Times – iGaming competition heats up in hot market
- Magnet Forensics to delist from TSX as $1.8 billion merger deal closes
- Graphite Innovation & Technologies secures $10 million to help reduce emissions from marine shipping vessels
- Volta moves to new office to further focus on hybrid support for Atlantic Canadian startups
- Calgary Police Force, Chainalysis partnership aims to reduce cryptocurrency scams
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Inside Janet Bannister’s new fund for B2B software startups
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Lululemon’s failed attempt at becoming a tech company
- Mila secures $21 million from Québec government to support ethical AI research, projects
- ChargeLab secures $15 million, commercial partnerships with electric vehicle companies to expand US presence
- Yoshua Bengio, major tech leaders call for six-month pause on advanced AI development in open letter
- Round13 nabs $200 million first close for third fund as co-founders Bruce Croxon, John Eckert step back
- One year in, competition in Ontarioâs iGaming market remains red hot
- Kepler Communications raises $122.7 million CAD to launch more high-speed satellites
- Janet Bannister launches Staircase Ventures with $22 million first close
- These companies are hiring product managers across Canada
- Down rounds in 2022 lower than expected amid reliance on bridge financing: Osler report
- Canadian startup news of the week (4/16/23)
- Miovision acquires Global Traffic Technologies, raises $260 million from Telus, Maverix, EDC
- BDC launches $150 million Sustainability fund in revamp of Industrial, Clean and Energy Technology Venture Fund
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Will FTX actually attempt a relaunch?
- Tab Commerce closes $1 million USD to help restaurants manage expenses
- BBTV resolves dispute with Ethan Klein as YouTube creators raise concerns over revenue payouts
- General Assembly takes slice out of business, sells frozen pizza line
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â With more layoffs coming, Meta is facing a morale crisis
- Wealthsimple co-founder Rudy Adler steps back as CMO as company makes exec changes
- Optable raises $26 million CAD to help companies improve advertising campaigns
- A|I: The AI Times – Quantum pioneer D-Wave gets $50M lifeline
- Fairly AI raises $2.2 million CAD to help AI firms comply with forthcoming regulatory requirements
- AI beauty lab Omy raises $11 million CAD to expand personalized skin care product line in North America
- Raghwa Gopal to retire as head of Innovate BC, kicking off search for new leader
- Certn targets global expansion of background check tech with $30 million USD Series B extension from EDC
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – More healthtech fraud with Outcome Health ex-exec judgment
- R|T: The Retail Times – E Inc. to delist from TSX, Sleep Country scoops up Casper’s Canadian operations
- Medfar secures $30 million CAD, looks to acquire more electronic medical record software providers
- KB Nam officially named president of Wattpad following recent leadership change
- Yield Exchange raises $700,000 CAD to simplify access to guaranteed investment certificates
- Product sampling startup Sampler acquires Abeo to deepen footprint in beauty industry
- Unreserved dismisses portion of $25 million lawsuit against real estate associations as new regulations for open bidding expected
- Cannabis vaporizer startup Greentank Technologies closes $22.2 million CAD Series B
- Regina-based parking validation app Offstreet closes $1.2 million seed round
- Flash Forest raises $11.4 million CAD to support reforestation using drones and AI
- Ocean Supercluster tops up 16 projects with $23 million to drive commercialization
- Is Canada ready for an EV future?
- Canadian startup news of the week (4/23/23)
- Thales to build cybersecurity hub, hire 110 people in Fredericton with government funding
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Wealthsimple co-founder steps back in C-suite shake-up
- Vivid Machines raises $5.8 million CAD to help growers virtually monitor fruit trees
- Federal government names six funds to distribute $50 million VCCI life science financing
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify goes ‘stealth spear-fishing’ for tech talent
- US data integration company Boomi plans expansion into Canada, starting with new office in Vancouver
- Smart display company E2ip Technologies raises $120 million
- Canada, France to collaborate on AI, quantum science as part of new joint committee on innovation
- RenoRun granted court extension in insolvency filing to pursue sale
- A|I: The AI Times – How AI Drake is testing copyright law and fair use
- After âpilotâ program in Canada, Google expands cloud accelerator to US startups
- Practice Better raises $27 million USD to grow client management software for wellness providers
- Another round of layoffs hits Amazon employees in Canada
- Tentree founders spin out platform to help businesses keep their tree planting promises
- Reddit says Canada one of its largest and most key markets globally
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Certn targets global expansion, Huawei builds Oracle replacement
- The51 closes $30 million of targeted $50-million Food and AgTech Fund
- How new tools will change the way developers learn to build software
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – GSK to buy Bellus Health for $2 billion USD
- CIFAR names eight new AI chairs as part of second phase of federal AI strategy
- Inside the reborn OneEleven
- Academics, CEOs push for AI regulation, as Canadian companies race to adopt the technology
- Yung Wu to depart as MaRS CEO at end of 2023 as innovation hub begins search for next leader
- University of Toronto, Université de Montréal get combined $325 million as part of $1.4 billion federal investment into university innovation
- Scale AI’s COO explains how Canada can build an AI-powered economy
- Neo Financial bets on embedded finance, D2C combo amid tough consumer banking market
- Revisiting BlackBerry’s extraordinary rise and spectacular fall
- Odaia closes $34 million CAD Series B to fix âbottleneckâ in drug delivery process
- Canadian startup news of the week (4/30/23)
- Three FinTechs hiring experienced software developers in Canada
- “Godfather of deep learning” Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to warn against dangers of AI
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Super and Neo evolve, Pillar and Billi shut down
- RenoRun shuts down operations as it pursues sale of assets
- Shopify backs Nigeria-based FinTech Nomba in $30 million round
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Inside the Salesforce slowdown
- Brightspark seeks to recreate its “home run” exits of Think Dynamics, Radian6 as it launches $120-million fund
- The DMZ awards $35,000 to Black-led startups Blue Guardian, Gia Health, Scooli
- Banking apps Pillar and Billi shut down as funding dries up for FinTech businesses
- R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon begins more layoffs as Shopify employees brace for same
- Startup Montréal awards $400,000 to startups as FounderFuel reveals first revamped accelerator cohort
- Bell to acquire Montréal cloud services provider FX Innovation
- Diagram Ventures closes $100-million for latest fund as it continues to bet on FinTech
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Apple developing an AI-powered health coach
- A|I: The AI Times – EU proposes new copyright rules for generative AI as OpenAI adds ChatGPT privacy options
- Canadian venture capital investment in Q1 2023 drops by 82 percent compared to last year
- Conference Board of Canada, MaRS launch new innovation group as growth in Canadian ecosystem lags
- BrainBox AI acquires ABB technology in its mission to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in buildings
- As Bill C-11 passes, YouTube influencers, content creators express concern while Big Tech quiet
- Well Health looks to invest $2.5 million into AI companies developing healthcare solutions
- How Super raised $85 million USD after rebranding from Snapcommerce
- BlackBerry considering breaking up its businesses to improve revenue, cash flow
- Elevate to return for 2023 with Lisa LaFlamme, Dragonsâ Den, and Shark Tank stars among speaker lineup
- Shopify cuts 20 percent of staff, announces sale of logistics division
- 1Password CEO calls Googleâs move to passkeys âtipping pointâ for eliminating passwords
- Canadian startup news of the week (5/7/23)
- Hopper co-founders launch new carbon capture startup, Deep Sky, with $10 million in funding
- Next Canada names startups in latest cohorts for its three accelerators
- Report: powerful, new foundation models set to transform how businesses use AI
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify sheds staff, offloads logistics business to focus on “main quest”
- GeoComply acquires OneComply to automate licensing for regulated industries
- A|I: The AI Times – Geoffrey Hinton issues warning, Cohere is soaring
- Float launches new corporate card as it experiences growth in economic downturn
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â 1Password’s CEO responds to Google’s âtipping pointâ
- D2L acquires Connected Shopping to let clients sell online courses
- Hopper to power Uberâs expansion into flight bookings
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Diagram Ventures adds $100M onto its FinTech bet
- Attabotics sues Canadian Tire over warehouse fire
- Ontario innovation consortium SOSCIP shuts down as three-year federal funding ends
- BDC, Vanedge invest in semiconductor startup Bonsai Micro to create advanced wireless networks
- KoĂŻos Intelligence raises $6.5 million to expand conversational AI assistant for insurance brokers
- Mysa acquires United States smart thermostat company as it expands into commercial heating
- Inflation blamed for decline in mental health of Canadian founders in the last year
- Startups SensaioTech, OroraTech look to mitigate wildfires with early detection services
- How startups can better manage their e-waste
- Three Canadian startups hiring AI and machine learning roles right now
- Canadian startup news of the week (5/14/23)
- How Inkbox CFO Louise Hucal handled the process of being acquired by a global corporation
- ChrysaLabs raises $15 million to help farmers unearth soil data using AI
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Absolute Software sold to Crosspoint for $657 million
- Small business banking platform Vault launches with backing from Googleâs Gradient Ventures
- Canada ranks 12th in Shopifyâs first report on economic impact of merchants
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Binance set to leave Canada in face of new regulation
- Wealthsimple to let users insure up to $300,000 as global bank failures prompt better depositor protection
- A|I: The AI Times – At I/O, Google makes up for lost time
- Pfizer Canada partners with Communitech to launch health-focused accelerator program
- Mayor Toryâs departure, competing bids, and financial pressure on province and feds place Collisionâs future in Canada in doubt
- CVCA: Canadian venture capital continues to fall back to pre-pandemic levels
- R|T: The Retail Times – Alibaba logistics arm eyes up to $2 billion Hong Kong IPO
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Recursion acquires two Canadian AI drug-discovery companies
- 1Password launches passkeys for businesses as shift to passwordless picks up
- Lightspeed Commerce makes gains in fiscal 2023, fourth quarter
- Shopify claims best conversion rates among checkout solutions on the market
- Withe raises $1.1 million in mission to address hospitality hiring challenges
- Bloom raises $7 million to make applying for reverse mortgages easier
- Alberta’s tech sector remained resilient in first quarter of 2023
- Stathera closes $20 million CAD Series A to commercialize semiconductor timing tech
- Energy management startup Peak Power raises $47 million CAD to expand across US
- Tough Commerce raises $2 million to become Shopify for âcomplexâ industries like construction
- Ailing MCI OneHealth divests five clinics in Calgary to Well Health for $2 million
- Caucus group launched to deal with emerging technology like AI, blockchain
- âThe revolution has launchedâ: OpenAIâs Sam Altman charts the promise and peril of AI at Toronto event
- âThereâs a revolution in the wingsâ: Why Canadaâs semiconductor industry needs an overhaul
- Canadian startup news of the week (5/22/23)
- F|T: The FinTech Times – PayPal spent $1 billion on Xoom, now facing pressure to sell
- List highlights 10 fast-growing, impactful SDTC-backed Canadian cleantech firms
- As Nasdaq delisting looms, asset management firm mCloud looks to go private
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â 1Password launches passkeys for businesses
- Code for Canada ED: Laid-off tech employees are overlooking opportunities in public service
- What impact do provincial budgets have on Canadian tech?
- A|I: The AI Times – OpenAIâs Sam Altman says this Canadian city should become a hub for AI
- OneEleven head Matthew Lombardi stepping down
- âA new bottomâ: Toronto and Waterloo Region venture funding fell short in first quarter of 2023
- Locorum raises $1.2 million to help local service businesses grow through referrals
- Spellbook, formerly Rally, raises $10.9 million to automate legal contracts using generative AI
- Novisto closes $27-million CAD Series B to help companies improve their ESG reporting
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – FTC signals tougher rules for health companies’ use of data
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify touts checkout conversion rates, ranks merchants
- Wingmate secures $1 million CAD to market and sell its lead-generation app for frontline staff
- Cognosys raises $2-million seed round to create AI personal assistants
- Three SaaS companies hiring software developers in Canada
- Québec attracted more venture funding than any other Canadian region in Q1 2023
- BenchSci closes $95-million CAD Series D to expand AI drug-discovery platform
- AbCellera receives $300 million in combined government funding for biotech campus
- Canadian startup news of the week (5/28/23)
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Now in Canada: Hiive’s VC secondary trading platform
- Communications startup Vrify secures $6-million Series A to help attract mining investment
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Microsoft launches Fabric, mCloud looks to go private
- Picketa raises $1.4 million CAD to help farmers analyze plant tissue in real time
- SAAS NORTH producer reveals new Vancouver-based INNOVATEwest tech conference
- A|I: The AI Times – AbCellera and BenchSci secure big funding
- Ex-Panache, ScaleUp partners team up to launch new early-stage VC fund CMD Capital
- PSG makes investment in Hostaway to expand its vacation-rental software amid travel rebound
- Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio warn ârisk of extinction from AIâ in public letter
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – FDA approves Elon Musk’s Neuralink for human clinical study
- R|T: The Retail Times – Loblaw axes its third-party seller-driven e-commerce marketplace
- Platformatic secures $3.5 million, launches tech to simplify back-end development for enterprises
- Over $1 million in cash available for Canadian startups in FinTech, sciences, and more
- OSC advisory panel backs stronger regulation of crypto platforms
- FemTherapeutics raises $2.5 million CAD to address pelvic floor disorders with custom vaginal prosthetics
- Doormat raises $1.25 million to make real estate legal services easier
- As crypto markets consolidate, Bitbuy debuts new staking offering
- A survey of the challenges women founders face when fundraising (and how to overcome them)
- Evaluating UCP and NDP plans for tech as Alberta’s election day approaches
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripe looks to enter the credit space
- Inside Canada’s new early-stage VC firm
- PacifiCan invests over $4 million into Indigenous-led clean energy, tech upskilling projects
- Interac appoints Jeremy Wilmot as new president and CEO
- Vietnamâs FPT and Quebecâs Mila renew three-year strategic partnership, vow to practice responsible AI
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Is Salesforce repositioning itself as a data company?
- Rhino Ventures leads Twig Fertilityâs $8 million Series A to improve fertility experience with tech
- Oamo emerges from stealth with White Star Capital backing to build decentralized data brokerage
- GSoft secures $125-million CDPQ investment to pursue growth through acquisitions
- BC regulator suspends ex-Blok Technologies CEO, CFO from investment market for misrepresenting 2018 share sale
- A|I: The AI Times – Public letter escalation: Bengio & Hinton sign another warning
- Saskatoon startups Rivercity, 7shifts team up to enhance food temperature monitoring for restaurants
- York University partners with OneEleven to launch joint venture studio for new tech MBA degree
- Shopify plans to âaggressively pursueâ ID of funders in cases against âpatent trollsâ
- Soar reveals its Indigenous entrepreneur-focused acceleratorâs first cohort
- More than $110,000 in investments awarded to startups at Inventures 2023
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify’s birthday gift: a new class-action lawsuit
- Vive Crop Protection adds $11.2 million CAD extension to Series C to improve efficiency of agricultural chemicals
- AlayaCare founder, Alberta Innovates and Strata Health Solutions executives honoured at e-Health Conference
- Report: 2021 VC boom in Canada was short-lived as market resets to pre-pandemic levels
- Coveo CEO Louis TĂȘtu wants to take risk out of generative AI
- Hereâs how Canadaâs top 10 cities rank in the global startup ecosystem
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Pharma giant Bayer moves deeper into digital health
- EvenUp raises $50.5 million in Clio-backed round for AI that turns raw files into legal documents for personal injury lawyers
- Three tech companies hiring remote workers in Canada
- With Collision nearing a one-year Toronto extension, efforts are mounting for a West Coast alternative
- Tech leaders, academics gather to discuss how Canada can reach net-zero emissions by 2050
- American biotech Recursion acquires two Canadian AI drug-discovery companies, Cyclica and Valence
- Boast.ai report maps government tax, grant programs available for small businesses
- Binance exits Canada as crypto trading platforms feel broader impact of stricter regulations
- Shopify launches Shop Cash rewards program in the US
- Shopify facing $130-million lawsuit for alleged attempts to slash post-layoff severance pay
- Shopify extends point-of-sale hardware to Canadian retailers after initial US launch
- Pick up the pace: federal agencies form new body aimed at collaborating on issues related to tech innovations
- Three Canadian cities ranked in the global top 50 startup ecosystems
- F|T: The FinTech Times – SEC sets sights on crypto firms Binance and Coinbase
- AI prompting Is the new coding for kids
- Canadian app Apollo to shut down amid user protest against Reddit API pricing
- Applications are open for Googleâs startup accelerators for women and Black founders
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Instabase notches $2 billion valuation on the back of AI
- Wealth management startup OneVest raises $17 million CAD Series A
- Dapper Labs makes investment in Web3 gaming company GameOn
- BC venture deal volume reached a three-year low in first quarter of 2023
- A|I: The AI Times – Microsoft is moving top AI experts from China to Canada
- Saskatoon startups SolusGuard, BetterCart win a combined $75,000 at Uniting the Prairies 2023
- Tech talent-sourcing network VanHack secures $3 million for global expansion
- Water sampling, agtech startups among Ontario Genomicsâ first cohort for BioCreate program
- Following Alberta launch, insurtech QuickFacts raises $1.13 million CAD to expand across Canada
- Cohere is the highest ranking Canadian startup on Bessemerâs top 100 deeptech companies
- Collision whispers, new AI officer, fundraising landscape the talk of Vancouver Startup Week 2023
- Shopify partners with Volt to offer open banking solutions (but not in Canada)
- Micharity targets US expansion for its charitable fundraising platform with $7 million Series A
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify uses new weapons in battle against patent trolls
- Kibbi, a job-finding app for newcomers created by a newcomer, raises $1.1 million CAD
- Canada invests $25 million in a new program to address barriers for 2SLGBTQI+ entrepreneurs
- Someone built a guide to all the Collision afterparties
- Synthetic biology startup Ardra is brewing up big plans with its fermentation technology
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Twig Fertility secures funding, Bunnii shuts down
- The two Canadian cities rising in Startup Genomeâs global ecosystem rankings
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Oracle tops sales estimates as AI-frenzy spurs cloud demand
- Semiconductor working group launched to advocate for industry priorities
- Startup Train returns as Startupfest 2023 announces over $300,000 in prizes
- Masthead Data raises $1.3 million to help data engineers monitor errors without client data
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canada’s Real-Time Rail delays are an unmitigated disaster
- After several tech exits, Minutebook founder raises $3.5 million to automate legal tasks
- 2022 angel investment in Canada mirrored VC dip, dropping 37 percent year-over-year
- Eavor secures $80 million to support Austrian oil and gas firm OMVâs transition to green energy
- Poka to be acquired by Swedish enterprise software giant IFS in reported $200-million deal
- Rose Rocket raises $50.2 million CAD Series B to expand trucking solution
- Building-design startup Augmenta raises $15.57 million CAD to hire staff, refine beta
- R|T: The Retail Times – Canadian-founded company behind Instant Pot files for bankruptcy
- Train Fitness closes $2.5 million USD to expand automatic workout-tracking app for strength training
- Chexy raises $1.3 million for platform that lets tenants pay rent with credit cards
- Shopify makes checkout solution Shop Pay available to enterprise retailers not using Shopify
- A|I: The AI Times – Cohere is on Bessemer’s list, D-Wave is moving execs to the US
- EDC increases its matching investment maximum from $5 million to $25 million
- Gaming and esports tech firm Swarmio files for creditor protection
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Canada’s latest big biotech exit
- Altis Labs closes $7.9 million CAD to evaluate cancer treatments using AI
- QuĂ©becâs quantum scene gets boost with new factory, startup studio
- Neo Financial launches secured credit card to help Canadians build credit
- Toronto-Waterloo, Vancouver, and MontrĂ©al hold the fort as Calgary and Ottawa rise in Startup Genomeâs latest global ecosystem rankings
- Québec bolsters quantum footprint as semiconductor industry forms advocacy group
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Neo launches secured credit card, Robinhood acquires credit card startup
- Harvest Venture Builders adopts AI focus with new climate and energy vertical
- A100 partners with software maker REES to tackle harassment in Alberta tech community
- Financeit acquires consumer-loans competitor Simply Group Financial
- Canadian-led, California-based Joyful Ventures closes $23 million USD to back sustainable protein startups
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Adobe-Figma deal under threat as IBM nears $5B Apptio deal
- A|I: The AI Times – Can QuĂ©becâs Quantum Innovation Zone fill Canada’s D-Wave-sized hole?
- Rollout of Canadaâs Real-Time Rail payment system delayed again as project undergoes second review this year
- Canadian clusters team up to drive $30 million in quantum technology commercialization
- Cohere announces $270-million USD Series C from Inovia, Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce
- Can the feds build a talent strategy for digital nomads?
- Three Canadian FinTech startups hiring full-stack developers
- AWS, NVIDIA launch global FinTech accelerator for seed-stage startups
- ventureLAB unveils Hardware Angel Network, supporting pre-seed and seed-stage hardware startups
- Shipping container marketplace Boxhub raises $12.4 million for global expansion
- ApplyBoard co-founder launches Passage to address Canada’s skilled worker shortage with $40-million seed round
- Elevate and The Firehood receive $2.3 million in federal funding to train women leaders
- Vector Institute, Ontario Centre of Innovation secure combined $77-million provincial funding
- Tribe Network launches $20-million VC fund to invest in early-stage stage businesses led by people of colour
- University of Waterloo uses $5 million from endowment to launch VC fund
- Shopifyâs venture arm unveils portfolio in new website launch
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify is in a “fight” with CRA over merchant records
- Loopio makes âdifficult decisionâ to lay off nine percent of its team
- PitchBook analysts say 2023 VC funding is âpretty much shot,â long-term recovery appears likely
- Tokens.com acquires Startup Slang to link in-game purchases to Shopify Plus storefronts
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Aledade secures big funding to fuel M&A
- Syzl crowned PITCH winner at Collision 2023 as other startups win cash prizes from The DMZ
- TIMIA Capital and Arena Investors aim to fill SVB lending gap with new $100-million USD venture
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripe & Robinhood make layoffs, Financeit acquires competitor
- Feds update talent strategy as cleantech flees south
- Jombone secures $1 million from FedDev to address industrial staffing needs
- Porta raises $10.5-million for frozen, ready-to-cook Italian meal delivery service
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â ApplyBoard co-founder launches new skilled worker startup as feds update talent strategy
- Shakudo closes $9.5-million CAD Series A to help companies adopt generative AI
- A|I: The AI Times – PitchBook says VC is done for 2023, but AI startups continue to raise
- York Universityâs Schulich School of Business continues tech leadership focus with new certificate programs
- Collision will remain in Toronto for 2024
- Canada is falling behind on cleantech as capital and companies flee south
- Immigration Minister details strategy for attracting foreign tech talent, digital nomads
- Omnirobotic raises $6.5 million CAD as it looks to develop industrial autonomous robots
- Thoughtworksâ Rebecca Parsons on using threat models to prevent AI peril
- Vector Institute, Kids Help Phone team up to expand use of AI in mental health services
- Leading steel company ArcelorMittal SA invests $6.6 million in Char Technologiesâ decarbonization tech
- R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon faces FTC antitrust case and free returns backlash
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Iodine Software teams up with OpenAI on AI tech for hospitals
- Summer camp for Canadian tech is back: Startupfest returns July 12-14
- Here’s a list of all the Startupfest afterparties
- AI risks: overblown, existential threat, or something else? VCs and tech experts disagree
- Protein Industries Canada offers $10 million to help grow AI use in food sector
- Canadian startups Oncoustics, OneCup AI among Googleâs first North America-wide cloud accelerator cohort
- Almost sideswiped by a Stripe acquisition, Helcim responds with new Smart Terminal
- Alberta tech is hungry
- Restructuring is here for Canadian startups as VC funding dries up
- Hypercontext completes HR pivot with new AI-powered performance management tool
- Tiptap and Omnirobotic pursue restructuring after startups fail to raise additional funding
- i4 Capital closes over $40 million toward new $60-million deep tech fund
- Tapping into Vaughan’s emerging world-class healthcare hub with Mayor Del Duca
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Binance unravelling, Kraken founder investigated by FBI
- Canadian cleantech continues fundraising streak as Orennia, CarbonCure raise collective $105 million USD
- Ditch Labs secures $3.25 million to treat nicotine addiction with tech
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Dye & Durham accuses startup rival of ripping off its software
- Shopify teases AI assistant for entrepreneurs, Sidekick
- Sampler acquires AdMassâs tech, founders to add AI, user-generated content to its product sampling platform
- Formaloo raises $2.9 million CAD to help businesses build apps without any code
- After buying Cyclica and Valence, Recursion secures $50 million USD from Nvidia for AI drug discovery
- R|T: The Retail Times – Uber, DoorDash, Grubhub sue NYC over minimum pay law
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Spotify CEO’s Neko Health gets some big-name backers
- Graphite Ventures secures $10 million from AEC to continue Alberta commitment
- Dapper Labs makes third round of layoffs since November as crypto winter continues
- WonderFi, Coinsquare, CoinSmart merge as landmark Canadian crypto deal closes
- WaitWell closes $1.5 million to bring its queue management tech to new markets
- PacifiCan invests nearly $23 million in BC cleantech, zero-waste projects
- Alberta Technology Ministerâs mandate letter appears to support reducing restrictions on title âsoftware engineerâ
- Oco partners with Adidas to launch shoes sporting carbon-captured ink
- Well Health adds anesthesia subsidiary CarePlus Management in its latest acquisition
- MaRS, UK innovation agency team up to host eight UK startups for new AI incubator
- A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI has a new team to fight âsuperintelligentâ AI
- HEC Montréal secures nearly $1 million for new entrepreneurship professional certification
- CAAIN appoints former Edmonton Unlimited VP Darrell Petras to lead AgTech innovation agency
- SenseNet raises $1.3 million CAD for its wildfire-detecting technology
- Three game-development companies hiring in Canada
- Canada attracts 30,000 tech workers, BDC wants Thrive co-investment partners
- F|T: The FinTech Times – WonderFi completes three-way merger in landmark Canadian crypto deal
- Vantage Circle, Eventcombo both relocate their headquarters to Calgary, plan to hire hundreds
- Active Impact, Breakthrough-backed Othersphere secures $3 million to strategically locate climate tech projects
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Hypercontext’s HR pivot looks to accelerate performance reviews with AI
- Metafold 3D closes $2.35 million CAD to fuel industrial adoption of 3D printing
- YC-backed Reworkd secures $1.65 million CAD to build AI agents for business tasks
- On the death of the Girlboss with Chelsea Fagan (The Financial Diet)
- Meet BC Techâs first Innovators Hall of Fame inductees
- A|I: The AI Times – FTC investigates OpenAI as Elon Musk launches competitor
- Hereâs how much Canadaâs top public tech company CEOs were paid last year
- ProShop ERP raises $32 million to help manufacturers digitize operations
- Construction software firm Vitruvi to be acquired by US-based Bow River Capital
- Cohere secures strategic investment from SAP as enterprise demand for generative AI grows
- Toronto and Montréal added the most tech jobs in Canada in the last five years: Report
- British Columbia moves to protect its intellectual property with new programs
- Bold Commerce reveals product that allows retailers to add checkouts to video and email
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify wants to give you an AI Sidekick
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Recursion secures $50M from Nvidia following Canadian drug-discovery acquisitions
- Canadaâs private tech firms gather to talk AI, growth, global appeal
- Nuvei, Plaid extend payments partnership to expand to different regions and businesses
- After a three-year pause, TechPong bounces back for 2023 return
- 3D BioFibR secures $3.52 million in seed funding for automated collagen fibre manufacturing
- Liberum raises $1.8 million for âprotein synthesis as a serviceâ
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Backers buy back Clearco’s debt amid SVB Canada windup
- Québec venture funding maintained upward trajectory in Q2 2023
- Venture funding in Toronto, British Columbia rebounds in second quarter of 2023
- Report: Canada saw over 30,000 tech workers immigrate while losing nearly 1,700 to the US
- Ontario organizations secure nearly $20 million in federal funds to drive entrepreneurship, job creation
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â What is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman doing?
- Practice Better acquires That Clean Life for a healthy-sounding eight figures to continue expansion
- These two Canadian cities added 115,000 tech jobs in the last five years
- Long-time VP and product leader Satish Kanwar departs Shopify
- Review of Alberta Innovatesâ Scaleup GAP program shows $147 million raised, 118 jobs created
- Waterloo Region deal volume has been tanking steadily since 2019. Could undisclosed deals be partly to blame?
- A|I: The AI Times – Cohere partners with SAP, Apple preps “Apple GPT”
- MindBridge closes $60 million USD from US growth equity firm, appoints interim CEO
- Solink secures $60-million USD Series C and backing from Goldman Sachs to become cloud video surveillance leader
- Shopify reveals AI suite, business credit card, dropshipping-like feature in latest product showcase
- PasswordBox, Intel alums build enterprise low-code tool for natural language models
- Canadian tech unicorns Ada, Clio, Lightspeed among first cohort of Canadaâs Global Hypergrowth Project
- Vital Biosciences reveals desktop blood-testing device with funding from OpenAI, Salesforce CEOs
- Hopper to power travel portal for Brazilian digital banking giant Nubank
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify looks for a Faire deal, Temu sues Shein
- Foxquilt raises $12 million to expand small business insurance solution in North America
- East coast latest Canadian region to act to protect its intellectual property with new program
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Ora Medical gets the BDC Bump
- FinTech investor Holt Xchange launches fund at intersection of Web3, sports media, entertainment
- Three companies hiring software engineers at $100K+ salaries in Canada
- With initial $8-million close for Nex Gen VC Partners, KJSM Venturesâ team targets more early-stage tech startups
- DeFi company Wellfield inks deal to acquire crypto custodian Brane Trust
- Hopper closes $96 million USD from Capital One at more than $5 billion valuation
- Sun Life Canada to acquire Dialogue Health Technologies
- The BetaKit Podcast: LIVE from Startupfest!
- Startupfest 2023 awards Hutsy twice while Ora Medical receives BDC prize match
- Part3 serves North American construction mega-projects. With new funding, âthe vision is biggerâ
- Alberta tech is on track to outpace 2022 with lively Q2 2023
- BDC’s Climate Tech Fund backs Carbon Upcycling in new $34.4 million CAD round
- Oil and gas-backed Climate Investment leads $12-million CAD round into SensorUp’s methane leak-detecting platform
- Ask John Ruffolo Anything: SVB fallout, VC groupthink, government dependence & more
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripe to power Shopify’s new business credit card
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â OpenText’s acquisition of Micro Focus spurs IP and patent questions
- Local Logic raises $17.5 million CAD to develop AI decision-making for location-based risks and opportunities in real estate
- With school districts ‘striving to achieve more with less,’ layoffs come to Paper
- Shopify posts positive revenues in Q2 2023 for third quarter running
- A|I: The AI Times – Cohere releases Coral, Shopify unveils AI suite
- Graphite Ventures closes $110-million Fund IV as firm builds its national presence
- Samsung, Hyundai, Kia back AI chip manufacturer Tenstorrent in $100-million USD round
- Experienced developers share their career advice for young professionals
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify adds new merchant tools, loses long-time VP
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Turnstone Biologics goes public, Dialogue Health to be acquired
- Canada’s H-1B visa play strikes a nerve as feds pick tech companies for Hypergrowth
- New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, Opportunities NB inject $2-million top-up to Climate Impact Fund
- VoxNeuro raises $4.5 million CAD to scale brain performance software across US clinics
- A wake for BuzzFeed, Gawker, Vice with CANADALANDâs Jonathan Goldsbie
- What’s next for Shopify?
- Do the feds have an innovation strategy? CCI’s Ben Bergen isn’t so sure
- How YouTuber Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) hunts internet grifts
- Paddy Cosgrave is not forcing you to come to Collision
- Apple’s Vision Pro won’t make the metaverse happen
- The Collision conversation is a microcosm for Canadian tech
- Canada is in a health care crisis. What’s the prescription?
- Canadian startup struggles continue with more layoffs, shutdowns
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Neo Financial goes all-in on partner credit cards, US regulators worry of Binance bank run
- Niricson closes $10-million Series A to monitor critical infrastructure using tech
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Atlassian & Cloudflare score big, Zoom sends employees back into the office
- Luge Capitalâs David Nault on making investment decisions through the AI hype cycle
- Google Canada commits $2.5-million grant to NPower Canada to help 5,000 job-seekers develop tech skills
- General Fusion raises $33.5 million CAD as it renews focus on Canadian project
- Canadian startup struggles continue as Silofit closes up shop, Top Hat and Fable cut staff
- National Bank acquires Silicon Valley Bank’s Canadian commercial loan portfolio
- After only four years in market, OMERS Ventures is pulling out of Europe to focus on North America
- Brookfield and Sequoia Heritageâs reported new fund is well-positioned to scoop up discount tech startups
- RBCxâs Sue Umapathy on the âreturn to due diligenceâ in a down market
- A|I: The AI Times – Canadian AI chip manufacturer closes $100M from global backers
- 1Password only Canadian company to crack Bessemer, Salesforce Ventures’ 2023 Cloud 100 list
- EventMobi acquires US-based virtual events platform Run The World
- Home-sharing platform Happipad partners with Nova Scotia government to aid province’s rental crisis
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – How Y Combinator decides which health care startups are worth a shot
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify and Lightspeed bring positive earnings to pessimistic markets
- As startups look to US for capital, Antlerâs Shambhavi Mishra calls on Canadian VCs to lead more rounds
- Three tech companies hiring full-stack developers for remote work in Canada
- Salesforce, Radian6 veteran Chris Ramsey named CEO of criminal-intelligence startup Cybercheck
- #CDNtech talks VC risk, due diligence, and the AI hype cycle
- OMERS Ventures exits Europe while Pinegrove looks to scoop up discount startups
- F|T: The FinTech Times – FinTech platforms are leaning more on buy now, pay later
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Only one Canadian company made Bessemer’s Cloud 100 list
- Bootstrapped to date, Field Effect closes $41 million CAD Series A to expand SME-focused cybersecurity business
- With new funding, Athennian hopes to follow in Clioâs unicorn footsteps
- Innerspace reveals $10-million Series A round to scale workspace utilization tech
- AI startup Voiceflow raises $15 million USD to help companies collaborate on customer-service agents
- Do Canadian entrepreneurs take risks?
- Jesse Wente wants Canada to “tax the hell” out of Big Tech, but he’s open to cutting deals
- How a cold DM to a16z helped Finofo raise its $1.6-million CAD pre-seed round
- A|I: The AI Times – Stability AIâs lead threatened by key departures, CEO concerns
- Carbon Engineering sold to US oil and gas company Occidental for $1.1 billion
- R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon reduces private-label operation as it battles costs, regulators
- Coinbase says it wants to be a long-term leader in Canadaâs crypto market
- Dcbel closes $50-million USD Series B led by climate-focused Idealist Capital
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk buys MontrĂ©alâs Inversago for $1 billion
- Horizn acquired by US conversational AI firm Inbenta
- Cybersecurity startup Field Effect on the hunt for acquisitions following $30-million CAD debt facility from Scotiabank
- Athennian feels growing pains as Coinbase looks to grow into a Canadian crypto leader
- Hopper continues embedded FinTech push with Air Canada partnership
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian FinTech investment drops to pandemic lows
- Founders of VendorPM, Shakudo, Moment Energy among C100âs 2023 fellows
- Milaâs new partnership with KPI Mining Solutions will focus AI on efficiently capturing critical minerals
- Magnet Forensics acquires digital-media startup Griffeye to help investigate child abuse online
- OCI, Communitech team up with Ukraine to seek tech solutions that address national security challenges
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Ex-Salesforce VP claims company lied about data platform capabilities
- Aptum promotes CloudOps founder to CEO following January acquisition
- Smile Digital Health secures $30 million Series B to expand AI, machine learning capabilities
- Redbrick expands portfolio with acquisition of video-editing software Animoto
- A|I: The AI Times – Inside Meta and Google’s plans to attack OpenAI
- Elevate, The Firehood reveal first cohort of 37 startups in new incubator for women entrepreneurs
- Blanka raises $2.7 million CAD to simplify launching beauty brands
- OpenText acquires solutions partner KineMatik
- R|T: The Retail Times – Instacart is planning an IPO for as soon as September
- Coinberry team relaunches with APX Lending platform prioritizing ‘safety and security’
- Identity-verification company Trulioo unveils new capabilities to accelerate person-matching
- Ideogram launches with $22.3 million CAD for generative AI text-to-image platform like DALL-E
- Alberta IoT, Movement51 among recipients of Alberta Innovatesâ cumulative $13.6-million investment
- PointClickCare launches PatientPay integration to increase payment efficiency in health-care facilities
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Medtech funding expected to rise throughout 2023
- MindBridge founder Solon Angel joins Fresh Founders as managing partner
- Digital medical-billing platform ResolvMD secures $2-million loan from PaceZero to pursue strategic acquisitions
- TikTok to remove âStorefrontâ integration with Shopify and others, pushing merchants to use TikTok Shop
- OBIO offering up to $20,000 in grants to women-led health science companies
- Xanadu, Toronto Metropolitan University to develop quantum computing educational program
- Three tech companies hiring Python developers in Canada
- AI, cleantech stay hot as mega-deals carry Canada to second-largest Q2 on record
- Canadian startups NLPatent, BorderlessHR, Monark accepted into Googleâs Women Founders accelerator
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canada’s open banking lead extends his term as delays continue
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- Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business receives $500,000 in federal funding to address barriers for Indigenous entrepreneurs
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- A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI employee secondary values company at at least $80 billion
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- Dapper Labs, Nesto, Certn, top Deloitteâs 2023 Technology Fast 50 list
- TSX-listed Q4 Inc. to go private with $257-million buyout by Sumeru Equity Partners
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- “We are still waiting”: FinTech leaders urge Liberals to enact much-delayed open banking rules
- Hopper-linked Deep Sky closes $57.5-million Series A to make Canada a âcarbon removal capitalâ
- Boosted by $6.8 million in government funding, Volta unveils its new space
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- Float launches new high-yield product geared toward Canadian SMBs
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- McGill, venture studio BXVentures spin out cleantech venture FeX Energy
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- A|I: The AI Times – Everything you need to know about the sudden firing of Sam Altman
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- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Q4 Inc. joins pandemic IPOs returning private, Ambyint returns to Calgary
- Rogers Communications and RBC commit additional $16 million to Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Apple cuts Goldman’s card, Coinbase praises Canadian crypto regulation
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- A|I: The AI Times – Sam Altman is back, Microsoft grabs a board seat, OpenAI plans governance changes
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- Neo Financial goes all-in on embedded finance with new suite of credit cards
- As ailing WeWork reduces Canadian footprint, BDC opens new collaborative work location in Vancouver
- Workleap expands through acquisition of US-based HR tech firm Pingboard
- R|T: The Retail Times – How Hopperâs Fred Lalonde went from hacker to tech titanÂ
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- Founded by Alphabet alums, Canadian-led AI hardware startup Extropic secures over $14 million
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Wealthsimple targets fourfold AUM growth, Koho targets profitabilityÂ
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- R|T: The Retail Times â SkipTheDishes appoints its third CEO this year
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- H|T: The Healthtech Times â Healthtech startups among targets of Sixty Degree Capital’s new $338-million CAD fund
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- F|T: The FinTech Times – Synctera and Monarch Money seek to fill Canadian finance gaps
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- Webull launches stock trading app for retail investors in Canada
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- After 10 years leading Tulip, Ali Asaria steps down as CEO
- Alida secures $12.3 million CAD debt facility to pursue product-driven expansion
- Founder resolutions: Six Canadian tech leaders share their goals for 2024
- F|T: The FinTech Times – US competition is coming for Wealthsimple
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- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Constellation Software scoops up Conduent subsidiaries for $260M USD
- AppDirect acquires ADCom’s network operations centre, monitoring platform to launch managed services suite
- AppDirect acquires TBI to expand offerings for technology advisors
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- MedEssistâs Joella Almeida on going slow with AI in healthtech
- Danielle Gifford on expanding Canadaâs investor funnel
- L-SPARKâs Patrick White on the state of SaaS
- Solon Angel explains which industries will be dominated first by AI
- Workforce micro-learning platform Spiffy acquired by Oliver Solutions
- A|I: The AI Times – Jeff Bezos bets on an AI-based Google Search challenger
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- R|T: The Retail Times – Ali Asaria steps down as Tulip’s CEO
- CiteRight and fellow Canadian legaltech startup Jurisage ink deal to merge
- Struggling, TSX-listed BBTV announces plan to become a private company
- Operto to acquire US-based proptech firm Dack, bolster property management platform
- Eavor, Ionomr Innovations, Summit Nanotech among 13 Canadian companies named to 2024 Global Cleantech 100
- Paul Patterson named CEO of enterprise data startup Cinchy
- H|T: The Healthtech times – Custom Health to go public via SPAC at $185 million valuation
- ArenaX Labs closes $6 million to develop AI-powered battle game
- OpenAIâs GPT store launch is bigger than you think
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- 1QBit spinout Good Chemistry acquired by SandboxAQ
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Wealthsimple is starting to look like Canada’s next big bank
- Top Hat headlines another slew of #CDNtech C-suite changes
- Springdel closes $5 million as it looks to bring automation to mobile device management
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly â Exec turnover trend hits Top Hat and Alida
- League Data acquires credit management software company Technicost from Co-operators
- Bot management software startup Wysdom acquired by US-based Calabrio
- ventureLAB receives $4.5 million from feds to scale more hardware, semiconductor companies
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- A|I: The AI Times – Why OpenAI’s GPT Store will be bigger than Apple’s App Store
- FinTechs offer CEBA loan refinancing ahead of Jan. 18 deadline CFIB says will âstrangleâ Canadian businesses
- MindBridge headlines slew of #CDNtech companies making executive leadership changes
- PointClickCare continues growth through acquisition with American HealthTech purchase
- R|T: The Retail Times – Rent the Runway decimates corporate workforce in new restructuring plan
- Clay Financial raises $1.7 million CAD to develop its home-equity sharing agreement platform
- Plooto, GoDaddy bring new payment, commerce offerings to Canadian businesses
- Vistara Growth bets on two US-based supply chain software companies
- Miovision acquires one of its customers, traffic data collection firm CJ Hensch
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – This DeepMind spin-off wants to cut drug discovery times in half
- OCI is bringing back innovation conference DiscoveryX
- Software acquirer Valsoft closes $229 million CAD in growth financing
- These three Canadian tech unicorns are hiring
- NowVertical appoints Sandeep Mendiratta CEO as board looks to put company âback on track for growthâ
- The biggest tech questions of 2024
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Neo and Pine backer Thomvest secures new $250M fund
- In snagging Kensington, AGF avoids the messy middle
- UK-based Liberis launches embedded lending solution in Canada
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – NowVerticalâs boardroom drama spills into the public
- Why are there 100,000 fewer Canadian entrepreneurs?
- Digital wealth management startup Nest Wealth acquired by Objectway Group
- Does Canadian Innovation Exchange have a diversity problem?
- Canadian FinTech Summit has a lot to teach about disruption, a lot to learn about diversity
- TIAP partners with OBIO to open applications for healthtech funding stream
- Beatdapp unveils $22.9 million CAD, partnerships with Universal Music Group, SoundExchange, Napster
- A|I: The AI Times – Zuckerberg flexes Metaâs power on the AI market
- Bello raises $1.5 million for its consumer water filter and infuser
- Vinod Khosla headlines CIX 2024 investment summit
- AI photography startup Skylab acquired by ImageQuix
- Ontario invests $14.9 million into Waterloo Regionâs Quantum Valley Ideas Lab
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify has payments power over Amazon and a new $260M cheque into Flexport
- Alberta Securities Commission orders crypto exchange Catalyx to cease trading following security breach, loss of assets
- Nesto enters brokers channel through partnership with M3 Mortgage Group
- Femtech Canada officially launches network to support womenâs health innovation
- Bagel Network closes $4.18 million CAD for machine learning data network
- Bridge the gap: SMB cybersecurity challenges threaten customer trust and business viability
- Fantuan acquires Chicago-based Chowbusâ delivery business to fuel US presence
- Interest rates remain unchanged (for now). What does that mean for Canadian tech in 2024?
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – OMERS reportedly puts LifeLabs up for sale
- The war against tech enshittification
- Spellbook secures $27-million CAD Series A to scale âAI copilot for lawyersâ
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Brex burning bucks while Klarna mulls IPO
- Ecosystem insiders on what Canadian tech should expect in 2024
- Formerly Qui Identity, Wave alumni launch digital ID verification platform Confirm
- Eight Canadian foodtech projects receive $1.9 million in pilot funding from CFIN
- Innovate BC taps IP expert Peter Cowan as next president and CEO
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – The âmother of all breachesâ and more layoffs at Salesforce
- R|T: The Retail Times – How Shopify goes after enterprise brands
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – $135M CBIV fund, Femtech Canada put womenâs health in the spotlight
- Wealthsimple’s Hanna Zaidi on the “lack of political will” harming FinTech innovation
- Sports content startup STN Video acquired by Minute Media
- Femtum raises $5 million CAD to commercialize lasers for semiconductor manufacturers
- Startup consulting firm Flow acquired by Deloitte Canada
- Pluribus Technologies starts trading on TSX Venture Exchange after reverse takeover
- Telus acquires TSX-listed HR tech firm LifeWorks for $2.3 billion CAD
- Auvik acquires international SaaS firms Saaslio, Boardgent
- Checkfront merges with Australiaâs Rezdy to scale online tourism reservations
- AGF Private Capital acquires majority stake in Kensington Capital Partners for $45 million
- FreshBooks acquires Germanyâs FastBill as it pursues global expansion
- Tribe acqui-hires founders of peâąple to revamp its online customer community platform
- Today in acquisitions: Haivision, Converge Technology Solutions, Modern Campus, WhereiPark
- Today in acquisitions: Paymi, EchoLotto, EssayJack, Company Capital, Allocadia, Pluribus
- Galvanizeâs journey from âwritten offâ tech company to $1 billion exit
- Today in acquisitions: Manifold, Navotar, ShipperBee, FranchiseBlast
- Today in acquisitions: Flexiti, Athena Software, Vanrx Pharmasystems
- Today in acquisitions: Khure Health, TechX Technologies, Nolk, WorldReach Software, BuzzBuzzHome, Zorbitâs Math
- Today in acquisitions: Sourced, Eddyfi/NDT, MCI Onehealth, District M, Vanilla
- Video streaming software provider Haivision acquires Teltoo
- Foodee secures $13 million to weather COVID-19, fuel acquisition of US competitor Chewse
- TouchBistro acquires TableUp to launch new loyalty solution for restaurants
- Well Health acquires services division of cybersecurity startup Cycura for $2.55 million
- Toronto-based Fiix Inc. to be acquired by Rockwell Automation
- Waterloo, U of T, and UBC rank among top 25 computer science schools globally
- Eight Canadian universities land in PitchBookâs 2022 top 100 schools for founders
- Magnet Forensics files for $950 million CAD offering for âfinancing flexibilityâ
- Uvaro lands $14.8 million CAD to expand tech sales training program
- Pitchbook names four Canadian universities in 2021 list of top 50 colleges for founders
- BlackBerry, L-SPARK unveil third cohort for connected car accelerator
- Despite small decline in deals, Waterloo Region remained a healthy startup ecosystem in 2020
- Today in Funding: RockMass Technologies, DarwinAI
- Today in funding: Manifest Climate, Clearpath Robotics, ReFuel Mobile, theBoardlist, Zentrela, Librestream
- BlackBerry launches $50 million fund to work with AutoTech startups
- Today in Funding: Potloc, Aifred Health, Kenota Health, Indiegraf
- Toronto tops tech talent, Canada well-positioned amid pandemic, CBRE report finds
- Clearpath Robotics raises $40 million CAD Series C for industrial robot division
- Today in hires: TextNow, d1g1t, Volta
- Waterloo startup TabNine acquired by Israeli startup Codota
- Startup jobs of the week: Franklin Empire, ANSYS, Sanimax
- Startup jobs of the week: SAP ABAP Developer, Technical Product Manager, Business Development Representative
- AVIN Waterloo Ventures Fund announces first cohort of startups
- Ford Motor unveils new Waterloo innovation centre
- OpenText to buy data security firm Carbonite for $1.88 billion CAD
- A|I: The AI Times – Ex-CPPIB chief wants to raise $500M USD AI growth fund
- With federal backing, University of Calgary gears up to launch ElevateIP Alberta program
- As Canadian innovators wonder what a proposed SR&ED review would accomplish, CCI lays out recommendations
- Communitech names six new Canadian tech companies on track to reach $1 billion in revenue by 2030
- Exro to acquire California-based SEA Electric in $332-million CAD EV-tech deal
- Canada, UK sign agreements to work together on AI compute capacity, high-tech research
- Laura Mock tapped to lead Cultivator as incubatorâs new director
- Tiny to purchase WholesalePet from Emerge Commerce for $12.5 million CAD
- SumoQuote acquired by Utah-based roofing software firm JobNimbus
- Inovia report indicates Canadian software sector is returning to normal
- Palisade closes $1.5 million CAD, launches email deliverability score tool
- Accelerator Centre opens applications for new aerospace accelerator program
- Government of Canada finally launches consultations on SR&ED modernization
- Shopify unveils term loans, lines of credit for merchants
- Amid rising business costs, GoDaddyâs Young Lee shares how Canadian companies can keep them in check
- Workspace analytics startup Relogix acquired by HubStar
- These three SaaS companies are hiring developers, engineers in Canada
- How to make data-driven decisions in your startup
- Six Canadian tech founders share their wins and learnings from 2023
- C100 hires Michael Buhr as next leader, with Ray Newal out as CEO
- Untether AIâs new CEO is here for global scale
- Koho wants to be the new bank on Bay Street
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Block and PayPal cull staffers in latest tech layoffs
- Maybe the Rogers-Shaw merger wonât lower prices after all
- Q4 Inc. delists from TSX as Sumeru Equity Partners buyout closes
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Toronto trio of tech firms shed jobs a second time
- A|I: The AI Times – AI is expensive. Cue the M&A.
- Wealthsimple surpasses combined $200 million for venture, private credit, equity funds
- Toronto software companies Top Hat, Loopio, Wattpad make layoffs
- University of Calgaryâs âventure philanthropy fundâ UCeed targets pre-seed funding gap
- After years of providing free accounting and invoicing software, Wave rolls out paid model
- CBIV surpasses $135 million CAD in final close to back women, children-focused healthtech startups
- Climate tech VC ArcTern Ventures closes $450-million CAD Fund III from large institutions
- Visa Canada, Plug and Play team up to support Canadian FinTech startups
- 7shifts cuts 19 percent of staff in new layoffs to start 2024
- Climate tech VC Blue Vision Capital adds Vladimir Savic to support global ambitions
- Clinia secures Series A funding, partnership with Telus Health to deploy its search tech
- Top Hat CEO Joe Rohrlich and CRO Matt Schurk depart EdTech company
- CDPQ invests $136 million CAD into AppDirect financing program for tech advisors
- Untether AI names Intel veteran Chris Walker as its new CEO
- Private open banking update: TD signs with Plaid, Xero signs with Flinks
- Beauty tech startup Fyyne acquired by Nigeria-based e-commerce company Bumpa
- EZee Assist reveals $1.85 million in funding to help franchises manage institutional memory
- FinChat secures $1.5 million USD from Social Leverage to expand AI-powered stock research platform
- Montréal FinTech firms target payments with latest offerings
- Diagram Ventures announces new $60-million VC fund to build and back early-stage cleantech startups
- Co.Labs hires Broad Street Bulls, Rhino Ventures alum Jonathan Lipoth as executive director
- Wealthsimple rolls out private equity offering for retail investors
- FreshBooks president and CEO depart as company lays off six percent of employees
- WonderFi-owned Bitbuy acquires customers of fellow regulated Canadian crypto exchange Bitvo
- VentureLabâs latest HardTech Summit explores barriers, opportunities facing Canadian deep tech startups
- Cavelo secures $5-million Inovia-led seed round to help financial services firms protect their data
- Lightspeedâs stock rises as firm exceeds outlook for fiscal Q2, achieves positive EBITDA
- Shopify shares jump after companyâs Q3 revenue, profit beat analyst expectations
- RBCx hires former SVB Canada employees to bolster support for seed-stage and life sciences startups
- Hyatt brothers aim to build their ânext big thingâ with majority ownership of DataStealth
- Buffer’s Chief Product Officer on how it connects a fractured internet
- Deal volume in Canadaâs FinTech sector fell by 50 percent in 2023
- Blockchain startup Hivello raises $3.3 million CAD in pre-seed funding
- As stablecoin compliance deadline looms, Canadaâs crypto industry calls for consultation
- Maple VC backs Canadian-founded Dexaâs $6-million seed round
- With doubling revenue and Scotiabank partnership, Solfium is bringing solar power to Latin America
- Nord Quantique claims industry first quantum error correction at qubit level
- R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon wants Rufus to shop with you
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Neuralink implants in first human test subject
- Ted Livingstonâs new micropayments startup Code closes $6.5 million in seed financing
- Northleaf Capital Partners completes final close of $285-million CAD growth equity fund
- NGen investing $32.3 million into 15 advanced manufacturing projects
- EdTech startup Prodigy Education raises $159 million CAD Series B round
- Google rebrands Bard to Gemini as chatbot finally launches in Canada
- Tracey Black to step down as president, CEO of Payments Canada
- Professor Esma AĂŻmeur discusses the double-edged sword of GenAI ahead of the World AI Cannes Festival
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- Canadian VCs are less confident about 2024
- F|T: The FinTech Times – 50 percent drop in sector deal volume last year
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Snap cuts senior execs amid sector-wide layoffs
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shein seeks Chinaâs green light to IPO
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Beleaguered 23andMe weighs splitting
- Visa Canada, Plug and Play host Toronto FinTech Innovation Showcase to spotlight Canadian startup ecosystem
- Staircase Ventures bets on Sibli as VC firm reveals first four investments
- Float secures $50-million credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank to expand its financial products
- Bank modernization software provider Zafin to be acquired by Nordic Capital
- OpenHouse.ai raises $1.5 million CAD for house-planning and marketing tool
- Digital transformation consulting firm Levio receives $125-million commitment from CDPQ
- Evercloak closes $2-million seed round as it looks to cool buildings without heating the planet
- EdTech game developer Prodigy Education adds CFO to refreshed leadership team
- A|I: The AI Times – Deepfaked: employee falls for $25M USD money transfer order
- Why this Canadian VC strongly recommends SR&ED financing to his portfolio companies
- Ocean tech company Xeos Technologies acquired by Spainâs Satlink
- Mining tech company GeologicAI acquires consultancy Resource Modeling Solutions
- Unbounce among the latest #CDNtech companies making changes at the top
- Supply chain software company Nulogy receives strategic backing from US private equity firm Rubicon
- ZayZoon, Symend, Peggy named to CIXâs top early-stage, growth startup lists
- Fuelled by Well Health partnership, Healwell looks to apply AI to preventative care
- OneEleven taps Chris Greenfield as new managing director
- Lightspeed exceeds fiscal Q3 revenue, profitability targets but companyâs shares still slide
- Shopify beats Q4 estimates with strong holiday season, but stock still drops
- Alida appoints Efrem Ainsley CEO as software firm targets âlong-term sustainabilityâ
- Social Finance Fund-backed Realize Capital Partners reveals first nine investments
- Vistara Growth secures $200-million CAD initial close for fifth private credit fund
- Spring Impact Capital launches $20-million fund to back cleantech, healthtech startups
- Active Impact Investments launches third climate tech seed fund with $70 million in initial commitments
- TechBrew rebrands to 4AG Robotics, closes $17.5-million Series A to build mushroom-picking robots
- Conexus, Emmertech alum Sean OâConnor joins TechBrew Robotics as CEO
- Acton Capital closes $240-million USD Fund VI to invest in tech startups across Canada and Europe
- Trio of Canadian tech companies show progress towards profitability in earnings this week
- Slack CEO Lidiane Jones to depart after a year in the role
- These aerospace and defense companies are hiring in Canada
- York Region commits $1 million to support international, women entrepreneurs
- Google and Nvidia-backed CentML secures $37 million CAD to help companies deploy AI amid chip shortages
- Lightspeed founder Dax Dasilva returns as interim CEO, replacing JP Chauvet
- Maple VC co-leads $4-million USD seed round for Canadian-led Inference.ai
- Vector Institute leaders chart AI hubâs progress and the challenges that remain
- Can this FinTech startup become Canadaâs next bank?
- Think Research to be acquired by lender Beedie Capital
- Round13 Digital Asset Fund claims over 40 percent gains despite tough crypto market
- Levr.ai closes $1-million seed round for AI-powered loan platform for small businesses
- Love troubles? Thereâs an AI chatbot for that.
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Float expands with $50M debt financing from SVB
- 1Password acquires Boston-based device security platform Kolide
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Prodigyâs got a new plan, a new CFO, and a leaner team to boost growth
- A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI debuts Sora, a hyper-realistic text-to-video generator
- R|T: The Retail Times – Dax Dasilva returns as Lightspeed CEO, Shopify drops on strong earnings
- BEKH, Volta and Tribe launch new initiatives to support Black Canadian founders
- Y Combinator and Yoshua Bengio-backed Armilla AI secures $6 million CAD in new funding
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Healwell CEO dishes on evolution from clinics to AI
- Profitable payments startup ZĆ«m Rails closes $10.5-million Series A
- Canadian late-stage VC funding continued to slip in 2023
- BCâs tech companies stand out in 2024 TSX Venture 50 list
- Ontario companies receiving $17.2 million in federal funding to commercialize quantum solutions
- Helika closes $10.8-million CAD Series A for Web3 gaming analytics platformÂ
- Golden Ventures closes nearly $140 million CAD for fifth seed-stage VC fund
- Yoshua Bengio co-signs statement calling for new laws to combat deepfakes
- Helius raises $12.8 million CAD to help devs build blockchain apps on Solana
- As Techstars makes changes, the future of its Toronto accelerator is uncertain
- As crypto market bounces back, Balance reachieves $2 billion in assets under custody
- Medical sharing platform Figure 1 acquired by Physician’s Weekly
- After Ecobee, Stuart Lombard has no regrets
- GrowerIQ acquires cannabis tech competitor Ample Organics from US-based Akerna
- F|T: The FinTech Times – BC court upholds ban on crypto mining, Sequoia backpedals Klarna ousting
- Is AI Canada’s productivity saviour?
- Helcim closes $27 million CAD to bring payment stack to underserved SMBs
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Redditâs power users will get first dibs on its IPO
- R|T: The Retail Times – Temu and Sheinâs success = air freightersâ stress
- EdTech startup Tokidos secures $1.35 million CAD for screenless gaming console
- QueerTech acquires accelerator Gradient Spaces to support more 2SLGBTQ+ tech workers
- A|I: The AI Times – Nvidia rides the AI wave to a $2-trillion valuation
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Apple Vision Pro goes to the hospital
- Canadian-founded Power closes $16.3-million CAD Series A to connect patients with clinical trials
- Four startups win over $210,000 at SAAS NORTH 2023
- Elevated Signals raises $7.9 million CAD Series A to scale its manufacturing operations software
- With new president Sarah Miller Wright, Certn targets profitable growth over acquisitions
- Bench IQ raises $2.8 million CAD in pre-seed funding with buy-in from Maple VC, Haystack
- Jacob Homiller replaces co-founder Chris Stern as CarbiCrete CEO
- Fuelled by new funding, RetinaLogik wants to prevent vision loss with AI and VR
- How money actually flows from VCs to startups
- Angel Investors Ontarioâs long-term future is unclear as FedDev funding dries up
- OMERS Venturesâ Laura Lenz explains how startups can stand out when fundraising
- These tech companies are hiring machine learning engineers in Canada
- How to fix SR&ED
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripeâs $65B valuation indicates an IPO isnât anytime soon
- Does corporate VC have an advantage in AI investments?
- Two Small Fish goes big with third fund, targets $40 million CAD final close
- Tokens.com blazes in asset sale to StoryFire
- Canadian tech leaders headline speaker lineup for inaugural INNOVATEwest
- General Atlantic becomes major investor in travel perks platform Plusgrade
- Miovision nabs Traffic Technology Services in second acquisition this year
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Why is Marc Benioff buying up Hawaiian land?
- RBCx launches second edition of mentorship program for women in tech
- A year after its fundraising failure, Omnirobotic emerges from restructuring as a profitable robot builder
- Finix launches integrated payments offering in Canada
- Synctera secures $18.6-million Series A extension, launches new payments integration
- R|T: The Retail Times – Thrasio raised $3 billion. Now itâs filing for bankruptcy.
- Tenstorrent founder reveals new AI chip startup Taalas with $50 million in funding
- Contractor management platform PayShepherd closes $7 million CAD as product, market expansion continues
- A|I: The AI Times – Cohere will cover its customers sued for copyright violations
- McMaster University partners with Celesta Capital to support Canadian deep tech startups
- Middleware land grab: Flinks wants to kill screen-scraping and make APIs king
- Virtual mental health platform Cognito raises $2 million in seed funding
- Three Canadian startups earn spots in Googleâs latest Women Founders accelerator cohort
- Passwords are showing their age. Hereâs the tech set to replace them
- Ziing acquires Metroland Parcel Services from TorStar
- Intellectual Property Ontario finds permanent CEO in Dan Herman
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Canadian pharmaceutical research spending dropped in 2022
- Canadian businesses are optimistic about growth in 2024. Hereâs why
- Lack of inclusion, unclear parental leave still hamper retention of women in Canadian VC
- Ontraccr secures $1.2 million for construction management software
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Boardroom skirmishes prevent Klarnaâs IPO prep
- CVCA spotlights women leaders across Canadian venture capital, private equity
- Reflecting on inclusion in #CDNtech
- Minerva thinks it can stop the flow of dirty money faster with AI
- US-based Fortinet to open new cybersecurity tech hub in Calgary
- US private equity firms make $300 million CAD strategic investment in Fullscript
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Appleâs walled garden hit with $2 billion fine
- A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI says Elon Musk agreed to plans he is now suing them for
- R|T: The Retail Times – Life House CEO departs following mismanagement accusations
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Salesforce launches an AI healthcare assistant
- #Tech+Biz4SickKids launches with new name, lineup of Canadian tech ambassadors
- Yamaha Motors leads Joyrideâs $7-million CAD Series A as startup sets sights on enterprises and OEMs
- MDF Commerce to go private in $255-million acquisition by New York-based KKR
- Opalia closes $2 million to make more milk with less moo
- Alberta earmarks $55 million to build tech, science hub at the University of Calgary
- Ex-BDC partner aims to back early-stage âAI frontierâ startups with Defined Capital
- Majority owner Markus Frind named permanent CEO of Cymax Group
- Saskatchewan government doubles cap of startup investor tax credit to $7 million
- Biotech startup Noa Therapeutics raises $2.2 million in pre-seed funding
- Floatâs CEO on bridging the spending and software divide
- Music collaboration startup BeatConnect raises $2.25 million CADÂ
- DevOps platform Codezero raises $3.5-million seed round
- MarineLabs looks to bring safety to oceans following $4.5-million seed round
- DarwinAI acquired by Apple amid Big Tech arms race
- These three FinTech companies are hiring in Canada
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Minerva chases anti-money laundering big leagues
- The BetaKit Keynote Stage lands in Vancouver for INNOVATEwest 2024
- Alberta gains on Québec in venture activity
- Sonder faces class action investigation after delaying financial results due to errors in past statements
- Ocean tech startup Poseidon raises $28-million CAD Series B to make fish farming more eco-friendly
- Google Canada provides $2.7 million in research grants to major Canadian AI institutes CIFAR, Amii, CEIMIA
- A|I: The AI Times – Apple scoops up Waterloo startup DarwinAI
- R|T: The Retail Times – Loblaw is an everything company, and it isnât done
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Toronto biotech secures $2.2M to treat immune diseases
- WonderFi to acquire Australian crypto trading licence as âsolid foundationâ for international expansion
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – The US could ban TikTok. Will Canada follow?
- Busbud continues Latin American expansion with acquisition of Buson
- Top Hatâs Maggie Leen appointed CEO two months after Joe Rohrlichâs quiet departure
- NGen launches $100-million sustainable manufacturing challenge, calls for project proposals
- Proptech startup Landerz plots a course for growth with $1.5-million CAD seed round
- With $45-million CAD Series B, PocketHealth gears up to continue North American expansion, AI push
- Flosonics Medical raises $27-million CAD Series C to scale uptake of wearable ultrasound device
- Clarius, Fintel Connect among seven Vancouver tech orgs receiving new PacifiCan funding
- NowVertical resolves dispute with founder, shareholder Daren Trousdell
- FinTech startup VoPay makes inroads in US, UK markets
- Borderless AI launches from stealth with $27 million for HR assistant
- Rithmik secures $2 million to lower mobile mining equipment emissions
- Nuvei stock rises as company confirms discussions following report of potential buyout
- CDPQâS $250-million Equity 25Âł Fund is done after only four investments
- F|T: The FinTech Times – WonderFi goes international with Australian crypto licence
- John Ruffolo has advice for Canadaâs pension funds
- Idealist Capital receives $50 million from Canada Growth Fund
- Waabi to use Nvidia chip to power autonomous trucking solution
- Québec to invest nearly $42 million in new AgTech innovation centre
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Constellation wants underperforming Canadian companies
- RealSage closes $5.5 million CAD to fuel growth of AI-powered real estate software
- Initiatives from R-LABS, OCI call for a tech-first approach to solving Canadaâs housing challenges
- Notman House is for sale. A startup-led effort wants to buy it back
- Dialogue acquires IP, other assets of fellow digital health platform Koble
- R|T: The Retail Times – Tobi Lutke granted a nine-figure Shopify compensation package
- A|I: The AI Times – Cohere seeks big-time valuation despite small-time revenue
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – AstraZeneca pays $2B for Hamilton biopharma firm
- Applications open for 2024 New Ventures BC Competition
- C100 launches new Growth Program to support later-stage companies
- Flare acquires US-based competitor Foretrace
- Ontario Budget 2024 tops up existing funds and innovation centres, allocates funding to healthtech procurement
- Tofu nets $1.2 million to fast-track hiring for tech startups
- BetaKit Live with Mastercard Canada: Emerging techâs impact on financial innovation
- WonderFi responds as shareholders Kaos Capital, Mogo push for board overhaul
- Earned wage startup ZayZoon brings on two new backers with Series B extension
- These B2B software companies are hiring in Canada
- Carbonova secures $6 million to turn GHGs into carbon nanofibres
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years
- Cory Doctorowâs new tech crime thriller takes us back to the days of Yahoo!
- These are the most in-demand roles at tech companies in Canada
- Can video games teach kids math?
- Four Canadian companies selected to Comcast SportsTech Accelerator
- Helika launches $50-million accelerator for Web3 and traditional gaming studios
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Peek inside Canvaâs battle plan against Adobe
- Recon Instruments founder unveils new AR swim goggles
- Cohereâs Aidan Gomez talks scaling AI for enterprise, Vinod Khosla explores risk-taking at CIX Summit 2024
- BeniPlus secures $1.1 million to simplify employee benefits
- A|I: The AI Times – Canadian pension manager to co-lead deal valuing Cohere at $5 billion
- With latest funding and Scotiabank partnership, Willful sets its sights on profitability
- Bianca Bharti joins BetaKit as newsletter editor
- Siri Agrell joins BetaKit as CEO
- Startup Open House returns to its roots after acquisition by MTL NewTech
- Lightspeed reduces staff by 10 percent in suite of cost-cutting steps following Dax Dasilva’s return
- Why Dax Dasilva thinks about taking Lightspeed private
- R|T: The Retail Times – Why women in retail are leaving CEO positions
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Ontario budget allocates funding to healthtech procurement
- Innovation Factory and Haltech amalgamate to serve Hamilton, Halton area startups
- Feds, Québec commit $16 million to create an AI computing cluster at Université Laval
- Coinbase becomes first international crypto exchange to secure restricted dealer licence in Canada
- Cohere introduces new LLM for businesses alongside Microsoft Azure collaboration
- BetaKit Live: How Coinbase is growing crypto adoption in Canada
- With $7.75 million CAD, new CEO, Boston office, TrojAI looks to expand operations
- Eirene raises $4.1-million seed round to simplify end-of-life solutions
- Mastercardâs Darrell MacMullin explains how emerging tech turns into financial innovation
- As crypto regains momentum, Coinbase Canadaâs Lucas Matheson zeroes in on the next big goal: adoption
- SEC orders Delphia to pay $225,000 USD for âfalse and misleadingâ statements about use of AI
- Hard Knocks: Marcus Daniels on creating impact over activity in #CDNtech
- Tax Court disqualifies government loan spending from SR&ED, with potentially devastating implications for Canadian tech
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Coinbase secures restricted dealer status in Canada
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Microsoft faces new Excel rival as it’s forced to separate teams from office
- Major Canadian retailers choose Rivercity Innovations to keep things fresh with cold chain monitoring solution
- The stapler problem in #CDNtech procurement
- US-based JMI Equity buys out Safe Software co-founder in strategic investment
- Nuvei to be acquired by US-based Advent and taken private in $6.3-billion USD deal
- Hootsuite to acquire social media analytics company Talkwalker
- âThe stakes are highâ: CCI report calls on feds, provinces to revamp approach to buying from Canadian tech companies
- Is QuĂ©bec Canadaâs quantum province?
- Flow Ventures partner Bryan Watson lands at Venbridge as SVP of business development
- Appili Therapeutics to be acquired by Virginia-based life sciences company Aditxt
- R|T: The Retail Times – Lightspeed makes first cuts since Dax Dasilvaâs return
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Teladoc CEO axed after 15 years at the helm
- Federal government commits $90 million to boost intellectual property support for startups
- Now-private Farmers Edge partners with Gevo to carbon track US agriculture
- A|I: The AI Times – Microsoft and OpenAI team up to build $100-billion AI supercomputer
- Federal #Budget2023 includes cleantech commitments, little else for innovation
- Government software provider Clariti Cloud secures $24.6 million CAD from Vistara Growth
- Brim Financial closes $85-million Series C led by EDC to fund US expansion
- Gerri Sinclair steps down as BCâs innovation commissioner
- Harvest Ventures, New York-based IA Capital back Summit’s $3.5-million seed round
- Riskthinking.AI selected by OSFI to provide financial institutions with climate risk data
- Avidbots launches Kas, a smaller cleaning robot targeting new markets
- CleanBC program investigation prompts fear of provincial startup fallout from cleantech and grant experts
- Pinterest is on a Toronto hiring spree to scoop up AI talent
- IPON invests $4.6 million to build IP capacity at post-secondary institutions
- Electronics startup SmartD Technologies powers up with $14.2-million Series A
- These global tech giants are recruiting Canadian workers
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian banks rank high in global AI innovation
- WordPress owner acquires Eric Migicovskyâs messaging app Beeper following spar with Apple
- What made you first love tech?
- As tech talent crunch persists, Indeedâs Iain Hamilton on how companies can fill seats faster
- Why Pinterest is after Canadaâs AI talent
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Hootsuite acquisition fuels shift to intelligence
- Untether AI to collaborate with semiconductor giant Arm on smart vehicle solutions
- As FinTech sector anticipates open banking in Budget 2024, Payments Canada reveals no Real-Time Rail until at least 2026
- Intel says enterprises need choice to scale AIâs potential
- A|I: The AI Times – The feds have used AI in nearly 300 projects
- Federal government commits $2.4 billion to AI compute, startups, and safety through Budget 2024
- Vidyard rolls out AI avatars after securing funding from EDC and existing backers
- What Alberta Innovates learned from sending 50 local startups to SXSW
- Well Health acquires 10 primary care medical clinics from Shoppers Drug Mart
- Eocycle Technologies secures $25 million CAD to expand wind turbines in US, Europe
- Business leaders urge feds to require public pension funds to invest at home
- DMZ receives $500,000 grant to expand Basecamp program for student entrepreneurs
- R|T: The Retail Times – StubHub plans to test IPO market this summer
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Bayer taps Google to bring AI to radiology
- Capital gains tax changes strike a nerve with Canadian tech ecosystem
- Contango Digital Assets closes $5 million for âBlockchain x AIâ seed fund
- FinTech leaders say âdevil is in the detailsâ with #Budget2024 open banking promises
- Where #CDNtech companies stand on remote, hybrid, in-office work
- Community-led bid to buy back Notman House unsuccessful
- Finance Minister Freeland undeterred following meeting with Canadian tech leaders over capital gains tax changes
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Business leaders react to open banking updates in #Budget2024
- Canadian techâs essential #Budget2024 primer
- Happly.Ai, Verano.ai, aiphrodite.ai among winners at INNOVATEwest 2024Â
- Versaterm continues acquisition spree with purchase of Integrated Computer Systems
- Across-the-pond acquisitions: Descartes acquires ASD, HR Path acquires GroupeX
- Changemakers: Did the SEC just help Manifest Climate scale?
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Is Salesforce reviving the M&A market?
- Swtch Energy secures $27.2 million USD to continue deployment of EV chargers for multi-unit buildings
- AI and Web3 startup Inference Labs secures $2.3 million in pre-seed funding
- A|I: The AI Times – This Canadian AI startup will collab with semiconductor giant Arm
- R|T: The Retail Times – Who gets a raise inside Shopifyâs employee scoring system?
- Tech hub watch: Genesis loses its CEO, Edmonton Unlimited welcomes a new one
- Interac acquires âkey employees,â exclusive Canadian rights to payments personalizer Vouchr
- Forcen closes $8.35 million in funding to develop its touch-tech for robots
- Boom and goConfirm launch new products from experienced #CDNtech leaders
- Zafin founder and CEO joins latest slew of #CDNtech executive turnover
- Sanctuary AI reveals seventh-generation robot it calls âanalogous to a personâ
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – AbCellera plays the long game despite losses
- AutoAlign spins off from Armilla AI, launches firewall solution for LLMs
- FreshBooks expands Stripe partnership with new embedded payments offering
- Qohash secures $17.4 million in Series B funding for data security platform
- These three US tech giants are hiring in Canada
- How Canadaâs capital gains tax changes might impact Canadian tech
- BetaKit launches new program for Innovation Leaders
- #Budget2024 emergency pod: spoiling for a fight
- Sheinâs Canadian delivery partner UniUni secures nearly $70 million CAD
- Pendium Health wins $10,000 at OCIâs DiscoveryX Conference
- INNOVATEwest: Vancouver’s newest tech conference plays host to capital gains and local innovation debates
- F|T: The FinTech Times – UK law enforcement can now seize crypto before an arrest
- Earth Day has us asking questions about cleantech tax credits
- Wealthsimple and Koho CEOs talk productivity, entrepreneurship, and financial innovation
- Geoffrey Hinton, Raquel Urtasun, Aidan Gomez set to speak at Collision 2024
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Following reports of grooming, WattPad turns off DMs
- Galatea secures $2.7 million to help oil and gas companies tackle waste disposal
- Feds, province contribute nearly $85 million to IBMâs QuĂ©bec semiconductor expansion plans
- FinTech startup Fluence Technologies agrees to be acquired by Anaplan
- Biointelligence raises $5 million for biomanufacturing efficiency platform
- A|I: The AI Times – Meet Sanctuary AIâs most human-like robot yet
- WonderFiâs Bitbuy purchases clients of Bitstamp as fellow crypto exchange exits Canada
- Five things youâll want to do at the worldâs most interesting crypto conference
- Feds set hard cap on Start-up Visa program applications, pause self-employed persons program
- Versaterm acquires American mental health platform for first responders
- Save da Sea closes seed financing, becomes the first investment of BDCâs Thrive Lab
- R|T: The Retail Times – Klarna joins growing BNPL trend, sunsets rewards program
- South Koreaâs neighbourhood buy-and-sell app Karrot hits one million Canadian users, builds Toronto tech hub
- 1Password looks to help businesses secure unmanaged devices with a new offering
- Netskrt Systems secures $10 million CAD in Series A financing to improve streaming speeds in “underserved” communities
- Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst and RBC launch FinSec incubator
- Potential Motors secures $2 million to commercialize terrain-perception software for off-road vehicles
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Recent hospital research undercuts AIâs timesaving promises
- AlterBiota closes $4-million seed round in mission to decarbonize concrete
- ITIF president wonders whether Canada has the “political will” to fix its productivity issues
- Meet the economist calling for a culture shift in Canadaâs innovation economy
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Jack Dorseyâs Block investigated by US federal prosecutors
- QueerTech report finds change is lagging for 2SLGBTQIA+ tech workers in Canada
- ACOA grants Springboard Atlantic $9.8 million to aid research commercialization
- Maia Farms secures $2.3 million as it looks to turn mushrooms into meat alternatives
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Is Bill Gates still the real brains behind Microsoft?
- Xatoms is planning a quantum leap to clean the worldâs water
- Wealthsimple enters mortgage space through Pine partnership
- Hard Knocks: The lawyer behind some of Canadaâs biggest (and quietest) deals
- The Growcer raises $3 million Series A backed by former Farm Boy Co-CEO Jeff York
- Propel unveils latest Atlantic Canada cohort, ventureLAB opens applications for semiconductor incubator
- WATCH: Shopifyâs Tobi LĂŒtke fireside and AMA with Satish Kanwar
- A|I: The AI Times – Why Nvidiaâs CEO handpicked this U of T professor
- Shopify posts revenue beat and surprise loss in Q1, touts European growth
- AppDirect acquires low-code B2B marketplace builder Builtfirst
- R|T: The Retail Times – South Korean retail unicorn to set roots in Toronto
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Walmart ditches telehealth and cyberattack paralyzes Canadian pharmacy chain
- #CDNtech companies Nuvei, WonderFi, Thinkific saw revenue growth in Q1 2024
- New open letter from business groups condemns capital gains changes as âdivisiveâ
- Three Canadian companies among finalists of Musk-funded XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition
- OSC introduces new initiatives to boost capital access for angel investors and startups
- Three Canadian companies are hiring for hybrid tech roles
- FINTRAC fines crypto giant Binance $6 million for flouting anti-money laundering laws
- Lessons learned trying to build a profitable company using only Canadian tech
- What comes next for Canadian tech?
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Wealthsimple begins offering mortgages with Pine partnership
- Tobi LĂŒtke finally comes on the BetaKit Podcast
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – How investment banks are helping Canva and Figma stay private
- The best place to aim AI? The mirror
- Baseline closes $2.2 million CAD to help private lenders manage their businesses
- Nfinite Nanotech closes $8.9 million CAD to nanocoat sustainable packaging
- A|I: The AI Times – The Toronto startup using quantum chemistry to clean the world’s water
- Earned wage startup ZayZoon returns its services to Canada
- BĆde secures new funding to streamline home sales with AI
- Toronto Gets a Bitcoin Accelerator
- Relocalize closes $2.3 million to decarbonize the food supply chain with micro-factories
- Cleantech startup Relocalize secures $3.5 million CAD to develop hyperlocal food distribution
- Jack Dorsey to speak in Waterloo and Toronto on September 19th
- Why every business leader in Canada needs a Tech MBA
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify posts surprise Q1 loss, Lululemon under âgreenwashingâ investigation
- Gatik secures $41 million CAD from Isuzu Motors as pair expands partnership to build autonomous trucks
- Vantage points: Cohereâs Ivan Zhang on making Canada the place to scale
- Vantage points: Jocelyne Murphy on how Canadian tech can help Gen Z founders feel less alone
- Diversio acquires CCDI Consulting to expand its workplace-inclusion services
- Lightspeed stock jumps as Dax Dasilva stays put, posts positive Q4 earnings
- ThinkLabs AI spins out of GE with $6.8 million CAD to simplify electrical grid management
- TrueContext to be acquired by Battery Ventures in latest Canadian go-private deal
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Neuralink encounters its first problem in a human patient
- CloudMD to be taken private by CPS Capital
- Vantage points: Serial entrepreneur Ali Asaria on the Canadian tech “bubble” and how to beat the US
- WATCH: Vantage points panel with four Canadian tech founders
- Meet the founder who wants to expedite Parkinsonâs patient care with her tech
- Bench and Shopify alumni announce $11 million CAD to build âthe Stripe for accountingâ with Teal
- The procurement problem in Canadian healthtech
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Is Canada an easy mark for international money laundering?
- Vantage points: MedEssistâs Joella Almeida on why being the âShopify for Pharmaciesâ is not enough
- Pesa is banking on Canadiansâ sense of duty
- CoLab raises $28.6-million CAD Series B to grow its team and incorporate AI
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Squarespace to go private in $6.9 billion deal after hefty IPO
- Blossom closes $2.1 million to grow its investing social network in the US
- Paytm, PSP Investments alumni announce $5.25 million to build a super app for Canadian immigrants called Beacon
- Boeing backs QuĂ©becâs new aerospace innovation zone with $240 million CAD
- A|I: The AI Times – AI is jeopardizing Microsoftâs climate goals
- Busbud acquires South African revenue management platform Ratality
- R|T: The Retail Times – The Shopify exec paid more than Tobi LĂŒtke and Harley Finkelstein
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Uber Health rolling out caregiving solution in US
- Gradient Venturesâ Darian Shirazi on where AI value will accrueÂ
- Daniel Vranesic of TXIO is on a mission to improve personal finance
- Report: Canadian corporate venture capital funding is dismal compared to the United States
- Q1 Canadian VC funding posts mixed results as PE market rebounds, CVCA reports
- Shopify CEO says Canada must overcome âgo-for-bronzeâ culture at BetaKit Town Hall
- Federal government invests $2.5 million in Co.Labs to maintain Uniting the Prairies
- Conexus Venture Capital launches its second $30-million fund to back Saskatchewan tech startups
- US court overturns $40-million USD patent infringement verdict against Shopify
- Forma.aiâs first acquisition nets fellow Toronto sales software startup SeaMonster
- DIGITAL invests $10.5 million across four AI projects from healthtech startups
- Major skills shortage looming in cybersecurity, AI
- Startupfest shares full schedule for 2024 tech festival
- Government of Canada reveals plans for $360 million National Quantum Strategy
- Google has a glue problem
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Bench and Shopify alumni get $11 million to launch âStripe for accountingâ
- Artemis closes $2 million CAD to improve data quality for analytics and AI
- CIFAR, CABHI among recipients of more than $850 million in federal science and research funding
- BeyoncĂ©âs former digital director thinks your culture is meaningless
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Newfoundlandâs CoLab to go on hiring spree with Series B funding
- Ecosystem Spotlight: Alberta tech is striking gold
- Clarius Mobile Health partners with Novartis to deploy ultrasound scanners to Canadian rheumatologists
- A|I: The AI Times – OpenAIâs âwhether you like it or notâ philosophy
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Healthtech startups get DIGITAL funding for AI
- Accelerate Fund III backs Care Group as it looks to expand mental healthcare platform into new markets
- BCV leads second round in Relay, as SMB-focused FinTech closes $44-million CAD Series B
- Amplitude Ventures closes $263 million for second precision medicine VC fund
- Genesys, Longbow and others recognized for big exits at 2024 CVCA awards
- Toronto’s lead over other Canadian cities continues to widen in new startup ecosystem rankings
- R|T: The Retail Times – Gildanâs board resigns after months of boardroom battle
- Elevate reveals speakers, content tracks ahead of 2024 tech festival
- Alberta Innovates launches new program to connect healthtech startups with early adopters, investors
- Maxa secures Series A funding led by Framework and BDC Capital
- Four women-led startups receive a combined $135,000 at Uniting the Prairies 2024
- Bobbie Racette on how the trifecta of being a queer, Indigenous woman helped her create an inclusive, successful platform
- These three organizations are making tech hires in Ontario
- Ginger Desk secures $1.5 million to power health and wellness front desks across North America with virtual assistants
- Fading 2023 VC performance underscores Canadian techâs âvulnerability,â BDC reports
- Consensus crypto conference coming to Toronto in 2025
- After selling startup to Instacart, New School Foods founder raises $15.9 million CAD to create plant-based meat
- Can this Canadian company make a splash in plant-based fish?
- Acorn Biolabs announces $11-million CAD Series A to boost access to regenerative medicine via cell preservation
- Real-Time Rail, real-time headache
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Bitfarms bites back at activist takeover
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Salesforceâs first revenue miss in 18 years
- After validating âenterprise farming playbookâ in the US, IntelliCulture closes $3.5 million
- When the classroom works to scale
- Valsoft nabs Progitek in sixth acquisition of 2024
- Apollo Insurance closes $18.5 million CAD for new buy now, pay later subsidiary
- BCâs Centre for Innovation and Clean EnergyâŻopens $3-million call for wildfire management tech solutions
- A|I: The AI Times – Sam Altman is more powerful than ever
- R|T: The Retail Times – Battle of food delivery apps leads to $20B in losses
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Amplitude Ventures closes $263M for second precision medicine fund
- Hunting remote sea mines helped Kraken Roboticsâ revenue swell in Q1
- Shopify acquires popular no-code checkout customizer Checkout Blocks
- Feds resume SDTC funding under NRC following damning AG report
- Mesosil secures $2.2 million to develop infection-fighting biomaterials for medical devices
- Anthropicâs AI chatbot, Claude, is now available in Canada
- Fusion Pharmaceuticals to be acquired by AstraZeneca for more than $2 billion USD
- Meet the Y Combinator Winter 2024 cohort startups with Canadian roots
- Surveillance hardware tech startup Vosker secures $171.2 million CAD in debt financing
- McRock Capital announces initial $111-million CAD close of third fund
- Canadian-founded Staging Labs acquired by Merkle Science
- Canada’s AI Global Innovation Cluster invests $31.3 million across 22 projects
- After over a decade at Lightspeed, JP Chauvet aims to be âgood sounding boardâ as Inoviaâs newest executive-in-residence
- PLATOâs Keith McIntosh among EYâs Entrepreneur Of The Year 2023 regional winners
- Myomar Molecular closes $1.1 million to bring its muscle monitoring device to market
- Federal, BC privacy watchdogs investigating Certn over its use of personal data
- Midjourney competitor Ideogram closes $80-million USD Series A as it launches latest text-to-image model
- Tiny appoints WeCommerce head Jordan Taub as its new CEO
- Dapper Labs reaches tentative settlement in NBA Top Shot class-action suit
- Propel unveils new Validation cohort of early-stage founders in Atlantic Canada
- Executive turnover continues in Canadian tech as Ratehub names new CEO
- The Startup Train returns for its 10th year to kick off Startupfest 2024
- Why arenât Canadian VCs more âcutthroat?â
- F|T: The FinTech Times – The unravelling of LoanSnap after raising $100 million
- French private equity firm Jolt Capital to open North American headquarters in Montréal
- Toronto, Vancouver slip in Startup Genomeâs 2024 rankings as MontrĂ©al, Calgary, Ottawa rise
- Sonya Shorey officially named president and CEO of Invest Ottawa
- A|I: The AI Times – Cohere had a busy week
- R|T: The Retail Times – Exclusive: Ex-Lightspeed CEO nabs Inovia gig
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Acorn Biolabs secures $11 million for regenerative medicine
- Inovia raises initial $300 million USD for CDPQ-led third growth equity fund
- The BetaKit Guide: Collision Week 2024
- Float launches bill payments and personal expense reimbursement products
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Certn gets investigated by privacy watchdogs
- FLO charges ahead with $136 million CAD to expand network, product line
- Michelle McBane knows how to play the long game
- Copperleaf Technologies to join wave of #CDNtech go-privates in $1-billion deal with IFS
- Parity closes $26-million CAD Series B round as it eyes new verticals, markets for HVAC optimization software
- Capital gains tax changes not included in fedsâ Budget 2024 motion bill
- A match made by AI
- Legaltech startup Alexi looks to ramp up hires with $15 million CAD in new funding
- Zero Point Cryogenics secures $2.67 million to help cool quantum computers
- Descartes acquires UK-based logistics platform BoxTop for $18 million CAD
- Vancouver will host rebranded Collision in 2025 and beyond
- Google for Startups Accelerator opens 2024 Canadian cohort applications
- Paula Cruickshank to lead BDC Capitalâs fund investments as senior VP
- Northleaf and Kensington both close their VCCI-backed funds
- Led by former Solium CEO, CreditApp secures $2.7 million to commercialize auto lending software
- Borderless AI makes its Cohere-powered HR agent free to use
- Parliament sets the stage to enact capital gains tax changes
- Three companies looking for Canadian tech workers with cloud experience
- Two Small Fish Ventures holds $41-million CAD final close for Fund III
- WWDC: Did Apple just kill your AI company?
- Triptyq Capitalâs Bertrand Nepveu talks Apple Vision Pro, Vrvana, and XR
- Tax credit, grant financier Finalta Capital secures $31 million in funding
- The âuselessâ lobbying against capital gains
- F|T: The FinTech Times – Brex drops a CEO and looks to IPO
- Vint Cerfâs internet history lesson at University of Waterloo mixes humour and hope with words of warning
- Sharethrough to merge with French adtech firm Equativ
- Kardium secures $143 million CAD to help bring irregular heartbeat treatment to market
- Chexy secures $4.1 million to improve its rent-to-rewards platformâs payments infrastructure
- DMZ Ventures launches new fund for early-stage startups
- S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Regulations? Uber can âsuck it up,â says BC premier
- TD Bank launches Innovation Partners banking platform for tech companies
- Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds completes $20.4-million first close
- A|I: The AI Times – Samsung values Torontoâs Tenstorrent at $2 billion
- As Collision kicks off, four Canadian tech startups unveil new funding
- R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify achieves $1 trillion GMV
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – BCâs Kardium secures $143M CAD for heart treatment
- Riot Platforms raises stake in Bitfarms following Riotâs rejected takeover bid
- PragmaClin, Willful, NovaResp among nearly 30 healthtech startups backed by new CABHI funding
- Propulso raises strategic funding to facilitate US expansion
- Canadian OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever launches new company focused on safe AI development
- Putting their chips on the table
- Accelia Capital promotes Julien Letartre to become its third partner
- Binance is appealing $6-million CAD fine from FINTRAC, report says
- VoxCell BioInnovation takes the crown at the last-ever Collision PITCH competition
- Nesto acquires mortgage-lending giant CMLS Group
- âBuckle up.â The promise of AI will transform healthcare, housing, and your job
- DistriQ joins Quantum Industry Canada as advocacy group continues membership drive
- Everyone at Collision is talking about Web Summit Vancouver
- BDC earmarks $250 million CAD to support underserved entrepreneurs
- âThe reality check is happening nowâ: AI leaders on the state of the market at Collision
- Shopify announces embedded AI as part of Summer 2024 Edition product updates
- Collision has come and gone
- Hereâs what VCs are saying about the fundraising environment at Collision
- CRA issues guidance on new cleantech investment tax credits
- Digital trust experts headline annual EXCITE Summit
- Ottawa companies receive FedDev funding for AI, semiconductor, biotech work
- CoGuard received funding from OpenAIâs Cybersecurity Grant Program
- ReturnBear to launch operations in UK in July
- Here are 10 programs to help you find your next job opportunity in Canada’s tech sector
- Why SaaS shouldnât sleep on customer success in a down market
- Fed invests $2.4 million into two Ontario accelerators
- INOVAIT and federal government invest $10.7 million across seven image-guided therapy tech projects
- Susan Hawkins to lead Payments Canada as president and CEO
- IGM Technology joins Lead Edge Capitalâs portfolio with strategic investment
- JĂ©rĂŽme Nycz out as BDC Capital head
- Gaiia closes $18-million CAD Series A as it looks to build the Shopify for ISPs
- From Godâs Pocket to YVR, how a BC program is giving startups a major testbed for scale
- e-Zinc powers up with $42 million CAD to validate energy storage solution in the field
- How Web Summit Vancouver came to be with Casey Lau
- Wealthsimple war rooms, Xanadu moonshots, and an Uber-inspired approach to accelerating Canadian innovation
- Healwell AI invests $2.7 million CAD into Elon Muskâs xAI to tap into companyâs expertise, resources
- Following pivot to enterprise SaaS model, Haloo closes $4.7 million CAD
- Three US companies hiring software engineers at six-figure salaries in Canada
- Former Team Canada support staff secure $1.3 million to deliver Olympic-level corporate team building
- Raven Connected intends to grow workforce by 25 percent with Series A funding led by Telus Global Ventures
- Former 7Geese leaders secure seed funding for new AI-powered performance management platform
- Vantage points: Canadian startups choose between growth and profitability
- Eric Sprott-backed Argo Digital Gold secures strategic investment from WonderFi, Paxos
- This deep tech PE firm was drawn to Canada by the data
- Trader Corporation and Freelance.ca strengthen their online marketplaces through new acquisitions
- Constructive criticism for Canadian VCs and founders
- Bitcoin miner Hut 8 to receive $150 million to provide AI computing power
- Montréal selected to host 2024 Kauffman Fellows Summit with top Canadian tech leaders
- Picketa expands to help farmers in 13 US states analyze plant tissue
- Canadian-founded, New York-based AI startup Clay closes $63-million CAD Series B
- OpenText lays off 1,200 employees as part of restructuring plan
- The Firehood, Pond-Deshpande Centre launch program to support Atlantic Canada women, non-binary founders
- Economic development agencies dole out $30 million to AgTech, AI, EV development
- Federal government invests in seven hydrogen-focused cleantech projects in Alberta
- Patent suit sees Canadian court rule in favour of Farmers Edge
- ISED invests $120 million to build out CMC Microsystemsâ semiconductor network
- Pay gap between men and women in tech tripled over five-year period
- Polystyvert closes $16 million Series B tranche, looks to open first commercial recycling plant
- Bitfarms appoints Ben Gagnon as CEO amidst activist threats from Riot Platforms
- Roga secures $1.7 million CAD to reduce stress and burnout with its nerve-stimulating wearable
- Ex-RBC, Fairstone Bank, Credit Karma execs launch direct-to-consumer personal loans platform
- Accessible transportation platform gives cities options to Spare
- Anticipated innovation hub Ax-C to open on former trading floor of Montréal Exchange
- Clutch receives $10-million strategic investment from iA Financial group
- Bell acquires #CDNtech companies Stratejm and CloudKettle to beef up cloud capabilities
- D2L and MDF Commerce expand software portfolios with latest acquisitions
- Tall Grass Ventures closes $32-million VC fund for early-stage Canadian AgTech startups
- Hereâs where you can find all the Startupfest 2024 after-parties
- Why Gen X and Gen Z both want keyboards on their smartphone
- Intuit closes Edmonton office as company-wide layoffs impact 10 percent of employees
- Point Laz raises $1.2 million to bring mine shaft scanning device to market
- Feds, BC invest nearly $73 million into Aspect Biosystems to establish biomanufacturing facility
- Digital Innovation Cluster invests $15 million into AI megaproject from consortium of Canadian healthtech companies
- Swift Medical among the latest #CDNtech companies to appoint new leaders as industry executive turnover continues
- Armed with $782,000 CAD in pre-seed funding, MedReddie eyes new markets
- After reaching $100 million USD in ARR, Vena becomes Canadaâs latest âcentaurâ company
- TandemLaunch secures $27-million first close of Fund IV to build more Montréal deep-tech startups
- Three companies hiring tech workers in Montréal
- Accelerator Centre appoints alum Ruth Casselman as permanent CEO
- Startup Montréal touts international vision with rebrand to Québec Tech
- Québec is executing its innovation plan. Will it pay off?
- Summer camp for Canadian tech
- PathFactory acquires fellow B2B marketing platform Uberflip in stock-for-stock deal
- Notman House is in trouble. Whatâs next for the home of MontrĂ©al tech?
- QuĂ©bec Tech’s new mission prompts ecosystem vibe check at Startupfest
- Xatoms, Juno win big at Startupfest 2024Â
- Scanning new horizons for healthtech expansion
- RainStick Shower soaks up $2.6 million CAD as it eyes expansion in Canada and the US
- After facing “challenging operating conditions,” Jasper Commerce sells operating business to Digital Commerce Payments
- ReliON secures $3 million as the first company incubated out of Diagram Ventures ClimateTech fund
- Emissions Reduction Alberta commits $44.4 million to 21 cleantech projects
- Shoppers Drug Mart strikes commercial partnership with Weston-backed blood-testing startup Truvian
- Ex-DeepMind researchers secure $17 million CAD to bring generative AI to video games with Artificial Agency
- Acel Power raises $13.6 million CAD to ramp up production of battery-powered boat motors
- WonderFi working on Ethereum-based products with new innovation and development arm
- Corporate events and travel startup Planned closes $35-million Series B, adds Hopper CEO to board
- Fifteen years after spinning out Hootsuite, Invoke gets with the Incrowd
- Unbounce to merge with California-based Insightly following CEO change
- Are you an AI company or a company that uses AI?
- Ontario is getting rid of ghost jobs
- Ethica secures $2.3 million to deliver “enterprise-grade” internet access to emerging markets
- BDC among those to experience interruptions as part of CrowdStrike outage
- Predicting the perfect VC vintage
- Trulioo hits $2 billion CAD valuation following $476 million Series D led by TCV
- Cohere launches program to help early-stage startups adopt AI and secures $450 million USD
- 1Password closes $265 million CAD in first round of institutional funding
- 1Password claims $2.5 billion CAD valuation in new round as investors rave about “generational security software business” opportunity
- How Symcor is helping Canada get ready for open banking
- Claudette McGowan closes $10-million Series A for cybersecurity startup Protexxa
- Cohere Series D hits $500 million USD raised at $5.5-billion valuation
- Workstaff closes $1.6-million seed round with ambitions to expand beyond Canada
- Giving Canadians a fair shake
- Y Combinator grad Gumloop secures $3.1 million USD in seed funding to grow no-code automation tool
- BCâs Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy invests $7.6 million across nine companies following call for innovation
- Cohere lays off five percent of staff a day after announcing $500-million USD Series D
- Nascent AI user research startup Cycle acquired by US blockchain platform Crossmint
- Looking for a job? Try a company that makes money
- Healwell AI accelerates M&A strategy with acquisitions of VeroSource Solutions and BioPharma Services
- RetiSpec secures $13.8 million Series A to detect Alzheimer’s early through retinal imaging
- Clio tops $4-billion CAD valuation with largest software funding round in Canadian tech history
- Xanadu and CMC among partners in academic quantum projects receiving $7.4 million in federal grant funding
- Airwallex continues Canadian expansion with Float partnership
- Ceragen closes $2.7 million CAD to boost greenhouse food production with âprobiotics for plantsâ
- Why has developer hiring slowed?
- Three Canadian FinTech firms strike new partnerships
- Innerspeech translates brain signals in the cloud
- Arcadea Group secures $336 million CAD to acquire vertical SaaS companies
- VitalHub agrees to acquire MedCurrent Corporation for up to $34 million
- Lithium-ion battery developer UgoWork closes Series C funding to expand HQ, production facility
- Canadian telecom is gearing up for a quantum leap
- Interior design project management platform Mydoma acquired by Californiaâs Studio Designer
- Tracktile raises $575K to bring operations software to manufacturing industry plagued with âexpensive and legacyâ tech
- AI-powered medical record reviewer Wisedocs closes $12.7-million CAD Series A round
- CAAIN seeks automation, âdata-drivenâ AgTech projects for $6-million challenge
- Former McMaster researchers announce $2 million to bring endometriosis test to market
- Ottawa announces second tranche of VCCI funding to support underrepresented entrepreneurs
- Lightspeed beats revenue forecast in first full quarter under Dax Dasilvaâs renewed reign
- Justice Department involved following Invest Nova Scotia employee email scam
- RenoRun files for creditor protection after failed pursuit of âHail Maryâ deals to save company from insolvency
- Why Clio didnât IPO
- Former Delve Laboratories, Dialogue leaders secure $2 million to help cyber insurance brokers sell policies and assess risk
- FinTech software firm PureFacts sells majority stake to New York-based GrowthCurve Capital
- Perceptive Space emerges from stealth with $3.9 million to help predict solar flares and other âspace weatherâ
- Nuvei posts 30% revenue growth in second quarter
- National Bank reinvests as Walnut secures $4.6 million to expand embedded insurance capabilities
- Miru closes $27.4-million CAD Series A as smart windows startup prepares to launch in 2025
- Ecosystem Spotlight: MontrĂ©alâs tech sector faces change with savoir-faire
- Monadical launches Developer Capital to fund early-stage AI startups with help from its team of software devs
- Shopify’s venture into brick-and-mortar payments pays off, revenue grows 21% in Q2
- INNOVATEwest is on indefinite pause after Web Summit lands in Vancouver
- Power marks up value of stake in Wealthsimple for third consecutive quarter
- Merchant-focused FinTech startup Sona acquired by Celero Commerce
- What Vaultâs co-founder learned at Revolut
- Planswell shuts down
- Marketing platform MaxBounty acquired by German ad firm Mrge
- NGen invests $21.4 million across quantum, space, and EV manufacturing projects
- Loop Energy alerts creditors to restructuring after layoffs, strategic review
- Targeted by activist investor, Bitfarms chairman and co-founder Nicolas Bonta steps down
- Kraken appoints Alex Mehrdad as new leader of crypto exchangeâs Canadian operations
- Feds reveal new changes to Canadian Entrepreneurs’ Incentive as part of capital gains tax overhaul
- Well Health plans to spin out, publicly list SaaS and services business in 2025
- Feds inject $39.2 million into digital literacy program CanCode with renewed focus on AI
- Canadian VC investment grows in Q2 but seed funding a cause for concern
- Svante gets $137-million CAD commitment from Canada Growth Fund
- InsurTech platform QuickFacts secures $2 million to continue North American expansion efforts
- Summer hiring alert: Here are three organizations seeking tech workers in Canada
- Canadian Web3 regulations & Coinbaseâs year in review
- Cardata names Haywood Marsh CEO as Canadian tech executive turnover continues through the summer
- Canadian entrepreneurs get new incentives, but what about their employees (and investors)?
- Get ready for the BetaKit Keynote Stage at SAAS NORTH 2024
- European online car marketplace AutoScout24 agrees to purchase AutoTrader parent from Thoma Bravo
- MolecuLight closes $11.7 million in Series C financing for market expansion
- Government of Canada launches consultations on Budget 2024 proposals
- Virtual care holds the key to better employee mental health
- Two new contracts take off as SBQuantum looks to send its tech to space
- Insurtech startup YouSet raises $3.5-million CAD seed round
- IRCC takes over sole administration of Start-up Visa Program from NACO, CVCA
- Radical Ventures launches $800-million USD AI growth fund
- Sampler files for bankruptcy
- Ex-Google DeepMind leaders bring Reliant AI out of stealth with $15.4-million CAD seed round
- LeddarTech’s Nasdaq listing in jeopardy as stock falls below $1-USD minimum
- Knox Custody founders close $1.8 million CAD to launch borderless Bitcoin payments with Tmrw
- American hospitality tech firm Agilysys acquires Book4Time for $204 million CAD
- Sonder inks Marriott licensing deal, secures additional liquidity amid continued challenges
- MKB raises $145 million for third cleantech fund mostly from government agencies
- Canada may lead the US on workplace flexibility, but thereâs a catch
- Humi co-founderâs nuclear power venture closes $27-million USD Series A
- CruxOCM closes $23.3-million CAD Series A led by Microsoftâs venture fund
- Borealis Biosciences emerges from stealth with $202 million CAD from Novartis and Versant
- Summer VC check-in with Sand Hill Northâs Ryan Henry
- CEO roundtable: Shopify, Wealthsimple, Lightspeed, Koho, Ecobee
- OMERS sells medical testing giant LifeLabs to American firm Quest Diagnostics for $1.35 billion
- Viggle AI closes $26-million CAD Series A to expand AI-powered video generator
- TSX-listed Givex to be acquired by American payments firm Shift4 for $200 million CAD
- The right Caliber for Canada
- BC chopstick recycling startup ChopValue picks up additional $4 million CAD
- Koho rolls out reporting feature to help Canadian renters build their credit history
- New School Foods lands big fish as IKEA joins returning investors in $8-million CAD seed extension
- Shopify taps Microsoft executive Mikhail Parakhin as its new CTO
- FansUnite sells American subsidiary back to co-founders, delists from TSX
- Uni-One closes $10-million CAD Series A as foodtech startup’s revenue run rate surpasses $100 million
- Sagard hires Georgianâs Parinaz Sobhani as investment firmâs first head of AI
- Andgo Systems, Conexus among recipients of Saskatchewan-focused PrairiesCan funding
- Hardbacon to file for bankruptcy after Google search changes crush affiliate business
- QueerTech among 17 organizations selected by feds to deliver $8-million 2SLGBTQI+ Ecosystem Fund
- JustEat, SkipTheDishes lay off 800 Canada-based employees following âcomprehensive reviewâ
- Benevity appoints MeridianLink president Christopher Maloof as CEO Kelly Schmitt steps down
- Technology complicated travel. FlightHub is simplifying it
- Paper CEO Phil Cutler out, startup cuts 45 percent of HQ staff and all Canadian tutors
- Carbon6 acquires American firm Junglytics to provide AI tools for Amazon sellers
- ALL IN 2024 returns to Montréal for its second year
- A100, HaloHealth, InterGen get federal funding boost to help commercialize Alberta tech
- Hereâs what will make or break the next wave of Canadian IPOs
- Happipad has only signed 31 leases since signing $1.3-million deal with Nova Scotia last August
- AI roundtable: Hugging Face, Zapier, Tenstorrent (and more)
- Six Canadian universities among PitchBookâs 2024 top 100 schools for founders
- Executive director Michael Buhr wants C100 to help Canadian tech startups scale
- Recon Instrumentsâ co-founder wants to advance autonomous driving systems with latest venture Matt3r
- The most important work in tech is happening on-chain
- Canadian Ilya Sutskeverâs Safe Superintelligence closes $1 billion USD in funding
- Bitfarms and Riot continue public squabble leading up to October shareholder meeting
- Canadian healthtech company Deep Breathe bags top prize at US Army’s xTechInternational 2024
- Northside Ventures closes first early-stage VC fund at $15 million CAD
- Fed issues $5.2-million investment to boost southern Ontario cleantech
- âThe impact can be devastatingâ: ASC launches $130,000 tech challenge in bid to combat crypto scams
- Shopify to become Robloxâs first platform commerce partner
- Luge Capital navigates emerging manager minefield, closes second early-stage FinTech fund at $96 million CAD
- The Canadian universities that ship the most founders
- Academics, nonprofits caught in middle of data consent fight as AI companies push for access to copyrighted works
- Ideon, Calabrio headline $53 million AI project investment from DIGITAL Innovation Cluster
- Round13, Nvidia-backed Wombo announces $12.2-million CAD to launch more generative AI apps
- Terramera spinout Catalera secures $8.8 million CAD in first Series A tranche
- âItâs just straight mathâ: Assent CEO Andrew Waitman sets bar higher after hitting centaur status
- âGordon Ramsay doesnât want to flip burgersâ: Rundle acquires photography startup Iris Booth as founder prepares to step back
- US-based business banking startup Mercury acquires accounting platform Teal for an undisclosed amount
- AI is learning fast, are we?
- Transit platform Spare raises $42 million Series B led by Inovia
- Saskatchewan tech sector employment doubled over four-year period: report
- NPower Canada bags $4 million to prime underrepresented youth for the tech sector
- Beacon launches remittance solution to help Canadian newcomers receive money from India
- Amplitude Ventures, Gates Foundation lead Radiant Biotherapeuticsâ $35-million USD Series A
- OMERS Ventures to be moved under new Private Capital group run by Michael Block
- Canadian AppDirect co-founder launches Landbase with Inovia, Desmarais family backing
- Global trends report shows AI adoption still lags in Canada
- ZĆ«m Rails moves recently-named CEO Miles Schwartz to Miami to lead US growth initiative
- Ecomtent closes $1.15 million CAD in pre-seed funding for its AI-powered content generator
- Xatoms, Permalution among 10-startup RBC Women in Cleantech accelerator cohort
- Coveo snags SIF investment as AI project funding flows during ALL IN 2024
- BDC appoints GeneviĂšve Bouthillier as head of BDC Capital amid âuncertain market conditionsâ
- BDC writes down venture capital portfolio by $220 million in annual report
- Disaster restoration startup Kahi looks to solve âadversarial relationshipâ between insurance companies and subcontractors with IoT
- PathPresenter to establish subsidiary in Waterloo Region following Series A round
- Armed with $2 million CAD, SecondShop launches B2C âre-commerceâ platform to change how Canadians buy
- Harley Finkelstein wants Canadian entrepreneurs to ignore the âbullshitâ
- AI startups dominate latest Google for Startups Acceleratorâs Canadian cohort
- Two years after pivot to international financial management, Loop has processed over $1 billion in payments
- In banking licence pursuit, Koho is chasing a âseat at the tableâ and real competition
- Union representing Canadian Paper tutors threatens legal action following mass layoffs
- Federal governmentâs massive $2 billion CAD loan to Telesat sparks Elon Musk debate between ministers
- Pablo Srugo wanted to be âinsanely rich.â It killed his startup.
- Mosaic to scale homegrown 3D printing infrastructure with $28 million CAD of equity growth funding
- Nomic Bio secures $42 million Series B to expand startupâs protein mapping platform
- Five unmissable highlights of this yearâs Elevate Festival
- Fears of repeating Web 2.0âs mistakes permeate AI-focused Competition Summit 2024
- Motion closes $30-million USD Series B in bid to become âcommand centre for creative strategistsâ
- Rebelstork raises $5 million Series A round to bring baby gear resale platform to new markets
- Teralys Capital says it âshouldâ hit $570-million fund-of-funds target by end of year
- Paper co-founder Roberto Cipriani steps down from day-to-day role
- Canadian startup formation data from Panache Ventures points to future demand for capital
- BCâs cleantech, AgTech startups dominate 2024 New Ventures BC Competition
- Rebelstork secures $24.45 million CAD Series A to bolster tech and operations
- Tips for finding a job in a tough market
- Koho set to launch line of credit offering through partnership with Propel Holdings
- California-based Agilent Technologies agrees to buy Biovectra for $1.3 billion CAD
- Evolving Canadaâs AI strategy with CIFARâs Elissa Strome
- Evaluating our 2024 tech predictions as Q4 approaches
- Pangaea Ventures closes $115-million CAD impact fund to back sustainability-focused hardtech solutions
- Months-long dispute between Bitfarms and Riot Platforms draws to a close as companies reach settlementÂ
- Pulse check: BetaKit Town Hall attendees discuss the state of Canadian tech and where it needs to go
- With Nmbr, former Humi execs want to power embedded payroll products across Canada
- Former CVCA chair alleges CEO Kim Furlong âappeared unwilling or unable to advocateâ for membership in meeting with foreign LPs
- Ayrton Energy raises $9.1 million CAD in bid to expand clean hydrogen solution in the US
- Alberta looks to hydrogen as the ânext frontierâ in energy, invests $45 million in related technologies
- Hydrogen production tech startup Ekona Power closes $79 million Series A
- Hydrogen power projects receive $57 million in funding from Alberta government
- Microsoft among corporate investors backing Cyclic Materialsâ $71-million CAD Series B
- Clioâs Jack Newton headlines BetaKit Town Hall: Vancouver on Oct 22
- Putting a new sense of purpose in motion
- Universe alums aim to leverage developer infrastructure experience with Bemi
- âEyes wide open” and a clear view on success
- How adtech startup Shoelace ended up at the brink of death
- EdTech startup LumiQ receives strategic investment from Vertu Capital
- Stripe opens new Toronto office with plans to hire 50 team members
- Itâs not the technology, itâs what you build with it
- Looking for a tech job in Toronto? Here are three companies hiring
- What Canada can learn from AI use in South AfricaÂ
- a16z leads Scribenoteâs $11-million CAD seed round to boost AI-powered writing tool for vets
- What to expect from Zoholics Canada 2024
- Is BC tech âlethargicâ or âon fire?â
- GreenSky’s $15-million first close of Fund VI puts VC firm in rare company
- Lightspeed confirms strategic review of business as company reportedly explores sale
- Orpyx closes $26.9 million CAD in growth capital to fuel US expansion
- Loss of DoorDash partnership prompts Payfare share price plummet and strategic review
- Nano One to increase battery material manufacturing capacity with funding from US Department of Defense
- Fujitsu launches Cohere-powered Japanese LLM for enterprise use
- The greatest threat to startups today is playing it safe
- Iris Booth appoints Shopify director Brandon Ghaeli as CEO
- PocketHealth kicks off breast cancer awareness month with AI-powered tools for early detection
- Sagard-backed Audensiel acquires tech consultancy Maltem Canada
- Carbonhound raises $1.3 million help small, medium business get ready for emissions regulations
- Cohere and Float once again top LinkedInâs Top Canadian Startups list
- With regulatory approval, Hiive launches VC secondary trading platform in Canada
- Elevate FinTech speakers tout need for customer-centric innovations
- Repeat founders return with $1.1 million to help AI SaaS companies launch API integrations through Unified.to
- Addressing the 600-pound beaver in the room
- MaRS makes layoffs as part of business model âresettingâ
- BlueCat Networks to acquire San Francisco-based LiveAction from Insight Partners
- Flora Fertility closes $1.5 million CAD to bring individual fertility insurance across North America
- Indiegraf to expand independent news solution after raising $2.9 million CAD
- NACO launches fellowship program with national innovation orgs
- Can Wealthsimple build Canadaâs largest financial institution?
- âAI godfatherâ Geoffrey Hinton co-wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Real Ventures launches revamped fellowship program for founder well-being
- Toronto delivers for Uberâs tech team
- Rivercity Innovations freshens up with $2 million CAD to further expand cold chain monitoring around the world
- Do you own your .CA domain? BetaKit didnât
- Diagram Ventures beats target to close first ClimateTech Fund at $80 million
- atVenu secures $130 million USD to fuel expansion into new live events markets
- Moselle secures $2.1 million CAD to help brands manage their inventory with AI
- An 82-acre medtech campus emerges in Vaughan
- Fall job alert: Here are three tech companies hiring in Canada
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- Government-backed Montréal innovation hub Ax-C gets boost from private sector
- Nunafab, SnapWrite, Aruna Revolution among startups to score prize money at Elevate
- How Dax Dasilva plans to get Lightspeed to $1 billion in revenue
- Can Canada successfully scale AI companies?
- Ryan Holmes steps down as CEO of Hootsuite
- The untold story of Recon Instrumentsâ impact on the Vancouver tech scene
- Flinks co-founders trade open banking for open utility with new startup Deck
- Canadaâs AI godfather takes a shot at Sam Altman
- Meet the BetaKit Town Hall: Vancouver speakers
- Ontario launches second phase of life sciences strategy to bolster research and funding
- Fable raises $25-million USD Series B round from Five Elms Capital to tackle accessibility in AI
- Bitcoin infrastructure unicorn Blockstream raises $289 million CAD to boost mining operations
- NCC commits $22.8 million to 37 cybersecurity projects
- Hong Kong billionaire ups stake in Well Health Technologies with $81-million CAD private share purchase
- SAAS NORTH puts AIâs impact under the microscope
- Round13 Capital to acquire startup lending platform TIMIA Group for $6.5 million
- New funding for Kepler and Wyvern headline busy month in Canadian space tech
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- Georgian Partners isn’t the only one
- Untether AI, Tenstorrent headline ventureLABâs 2024 HardTech SummitÂ
- Inside FreshBooks’ struggle to reach profitability
- PacifiCan and PrairiesCan commit $17.7 million to companies in Western Canada
- Free Agent is building a LinkedIn-style career marketplace for athletes
- Information VP forgoes fourth fund in favour of SPV-style investing
- MaRS CEO lays out reset business model as innovation hub makes more cuts
- Family office software MyFO secures $3.5 million USD seed round led by Rhino Ventures
- QuĂ©becâs early-stage ecosystem eyes American investment amid fundraising woes
- Top Down Ventures completes $10-million USD first close of new venture fund for managed service providers
- Phaseshift Technologies raises $4.1 million CAD to fuse material discovery with AI
- Thomson Reuters acquires American portfolio company Materia AI
- Spark Real Estate acquires Juniper Homeowner Care to expand home developer CRM offering
- Jane App, Daanaa headline 2024 BC Tech Impact Awards winners
- Moment Energy secures $28.1 million CAD from US Department of Energy to establish gigafactory in Texas
- Planetary Technologies secures $15.8-million CAD Series A to alkalize the oceans and fight climate change
- Parachute closes $1.5 million to help struggling Canadians improve their financial health
- Kraken Robotics raises $51.75 million CAD through bought deal public offering
- CABHI and EnvisAGE unveil funding programs for Canadian AgeTech startups
- Montréal healthtech startup with transatlantic ties raises $43 million CAD for RNA-based cancer immunotherapies
- QuĂ©becÊŒs tech ecosystem is now valued close to $95 billion CAD. Here’s who’s likely to hire soon
- The BetaKit Quiz, Oct. 25, 2024
- Brightspark closes latest early-stage VC fund at $100 million, appoints new BC partner
- BC tech leaders look to reconnect at BetaKit Town Hall: Vancouver
- Jane App co-founder reveals companyâs centaur status at BetaKit Town Hall: Vancouver
- Canadian techâs lost generation
- Clioâs Jack Newton can build another Shopify without building like Shopify
- Canadian-founded, YC-backed Revyl closes $1.5 million CAD to help companies catch bugs with AI
- Invest Nova Scotia has recovered most of stolen funds following summer scam
- Applications open for federal SMB programs aimed at AI adoption
- Shopify combines its financial solutions into one dashboard
- How to tame a large language model
- Tetra Trust to become Canadaâs first qualified crypto custodian, raises funding from Coinbase, Mogo
- Momentum Venturesâ CEO Henri Chelhot on the evolving needs of global travellers
- Vantage Points: Anne Stevens explains how Canada almost lost AbCellera to the US
- Vantage points: Josh Nilson thinks BC should focus on its sector strengths
- Mave reveals $2 million CAD in pre-seed funding following beta launch of real estate AI assistant
- Vantage Points: Alison Taylor thinks tech is actually kind of weird
- Procurify launches new accounts payable product following growth capital from CIBC
- George Damian named new executive director of the Venture Capital Association of Alberta
- BCâs Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy makes $3 million available for women-led cleantech companies
- Vantage Points: Scott Langille says the next generation of BC tech needs help
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- Does Canada have the leverage to regulate Big Tech?
- Alexis Ohanian and Matt Damon can help Xatoms clean water around the world
- What keeps Canadaâs zombie startups alive?
- âIntensely patrioticâ Jack Newton shares practical approach to scaling Clio at BetaKit Town Hall: Vancouver
- Father-son Schwartz duo team up with FinTech founders to launch Exit North Ventures
- While US moves forward on open banking, Canadian FinTechs met with more âzombieâ discourse
- Founders of Sysomos, Aislelabs find traction bringing their AI research to AEC
- Shopify alums secure $7-million CAD seed round for AI mobile commerce platform Reactiv
- Cracking the code with AI
- Neo Financial snags top spot on Deloitteâs 2024 Technology Fast 50
- Manzil acquires Aghaz to expand Halal financial solutions to the United States
- MedEssist offers pharmacists medication delivery through new partnership with Uber Direct
- Québec launches $4.5-billion CAD Grand V funding initiative for sustainable innovation projects
- Longbow Capital completes $150-million initial close of second Energy Transition Fund
- Ex-PathFactory CEOâs Sparrow BioAcoustics closes $10 million to turn smartphones into stethoscopes
- Lightspeed, Well Health hit new revenue milestones in latest quarterly earnings
- Citing national security risks, feds order shutdown of TikTokâs Canadian arm but forgo outright ban
- Online legal database CanLII sues Caseway AI for copyright infringement
- Chris Albinson departs as Communitech CEO but keeps reins of True North Fund
- Addressing Canadaâs speed of financial innovation
- âThe worldâs biggest problems are not going to be solved with softwareâ: HardTech talks semiconductors and AI
- Meanwhile, in Canada
- 4AG Robotics, Daanaa return to Foresightâs 50 âmost investibleâ cleantech ventures list in 2024
- Koho secures $190 million CAD in equity and debt to bolster banking licence efforts
- Armed with $1.6 million CAD, runQL wants to take the chaos out of data query management
- Torontoâs rising tech stars have one big thing in common: they worked at Uber
- Aron Levitz named co-president of Wattpad as #CDNtech executive turnover continues through the fall
- Office management startup GPHY plans to grow sales outside of Québec with $5-million CAD seed round
- 1Password alters leadership with David Faugno appointed co-CEO alongside Jeff Shiner
- TikTok Bans, CEO kidnappings, and Canadian techâs Fast 50
- ImaginAble Solutions founder Lianna Genovese recognized at 11th annual Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards
- Report: QuĂ©bec venture ecosystem still âhighly dependentâ on public and para-public funding
- SAAS NORTH gets real
- Report: Canada must close its talent gap or risk falling behind in the AI race
- Report: Canada’s quantum talent pool punches above its weight
- Okanagan tech sector generated just under $5 billion of economic impact in 2023
- Trolley secures $32-million CAD Series B to expand payout platformâs global reach
- Richa Mehta joins Radical Ventures as San Francisco-based partner
- Scaling infrastructure for a market that never sleeps
- Report: Québec VC funding continues downward spiral in Q3 2024, but shows early-stage promise
- Mastercard and VoPay help empower a cross-border economy
- Manitoba launches new innovation and technology department amid cabinet refresh
- Power marks up value of stake in Wealthsimple beyond 2021 peak
- Canadian-led Medeloop closes $15.5 million USD in Inovia-led Series A round
- Propel Holdings to acquire UK-based QuidMarket for $95.9 million CAD
- Kitchener-Waterloo tech leaders launch new community-building platform Waterloo Inc.
- UniUni secures additional $42.2 million CAD to strengthen US expansion
- Neo’s backers, Wealthsimple’s value, and Shopify’s concerns
- Neo Financialâs $360-million Series D features big names, unanswered questions
- Clio boosted Canadian VC investment in Q3 2024, but early-stage funding reaches âworrisomeâ low
- As Google and Cohere expand multilingual AI offerings, experts warn of âplausible BSâ
- The key to Luxury Retreats’ exit to Airbnb was optionality
- Exploring the forgotten history of Canadian venture capital
- One chart that will make you feel good about Canadian tech
- Nuvei posts revenue growth in final earnings as go-private deal gets green light
- Sonaro, Celestra, Oasis Learning AI among competition winners at SAAS NORTH 2024
- Insurance giant Intact scoops up home maintenance startup Jiffy
- Lightstrike raises $1.1 million CAD pre-seed round to commercialize AI-powered code mapper
- Five startups chosen for first round of QuĂ©bec Techâs export mission
- Alberta Innovates the second provincial innovation agency affected by cyberattack this year
- Noble closes $15-million USD Series A to fuel growth of its digital asset issuance platform
- University of Waterloo’s Velocity moves out of the Garage & into the Arena
- Elon Musk-owned Neuralink receives permission to recruit for Canadian medical trial
- Leaders from ZayZoon, Verano.AI, Toast recognized at 2024 Start Alberta Tech Awards
- BDC hopes to reverse trend of declining Canadian entrepreneurship through Community Banking initiative
- AI skills are becoming non-negotiable. Hereâs how job seekers can stay ahead in #CDNtech
- Following Québec launch, NotaryPro brings notarization services to Staples Canada
- North acquired by Google
- Boosted.ai raises $20.9 million CAD to grow AI investment manager platform
- Neuralink in Canada, Champagne in the Valley
- The Reporting Hub, Moovez, and ResVR stand out among Calgary’s startups at Launch Party 2024
- FDA clears drug for rare and deadly GI cancer developed by Canadian firm Zymeworks
- TechTO acquires Peerscale to broaden support for later-stage tech entrepreneurs
- Iconiq reportedly buyer of $100-million worth of Wealthsimple employee shares
- The state of Canadian software in 2024
- Why Sampler failed, according to its founder
- The story of Sampler (live at SAAS NORTH 2024)
- We need to talk about startup failure
- DĂ©multiplIA will connect AI startups with academic research (for a price)
- Manzil launches Halal wealth management solution following acquisition of Canadian Islamic Wealth
- Interest rate cuts havenât helped Canadian small businessâyet
- QuĂ©bec International to bring Finnish networking conference SlushâD to QuĂ©bec City
- Practice Better looks to opportunistic growth with $18-million CAD credit facility from CIBC
- Dentists helping dentists: Clinician-founded OraQ secures $2.6 million to help assess patient risk with AI
- Montréal-founded FightCamp launches Peloton-style boxing lessons in Canada
- WonderFi and Kraken Canada each break $2-billion CAD mark for assets under custody
- Belgian VC Theodorus relocates to Canada under new name to target early-stage life sciences startups
- Workers are embracing AI faster than employers can keep up
- Pow! Bam! Biff! Special effects studio Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies raises $6.5 million
- Canadian innovators wonder what proposed SR&ED review will accomplish
- Tehama returns as management team buys it out of bankruptcy
- Ecobee to be acquired by US-based Generac for $770 million
- While some Canadian tech companies move to support Ukrainians, others cut ties with Russia
- Five months in, details on Canadaâs new Innovation and Investment Agency remain sparse
- Shopify calls on feds to âdo whatever is necessaryâ to resolve Canada Post strike before Black Friday
- Founders of Propel Holdings, Plusgrade, and Redbrick among 2024 EY Entrepreneur of the Year regional winners
- Raw Signal Groupâs new book extracts leadership lessons from the pandemic
- Hopper restructures again following renewal of Expedia partnership
- The painkiller for pharmaceutical reps
- Nurau raises $1.5 million CAD in seed funding to take AI-powered HR coach to the US
- Shareholders file proposed class action alleging Exro misrepresented revenue projections
- Shopifyâs federal swing, Hopper trims its wings, Google gets served
- Charles Mandel always filed on time
- Canadaâs Competition Bureau targets Google for anti-competitive practices
- Women VCs are now earning more at the highest levels (if they can reach them)
- MontrĂ©al tech marks yearâs successes and struggles at sixth Startup Community Awards
- The DOJ wants to take Google Chrome away, Rob Kenedi wants to decelerate tech
- Why Hopper might be the next Canadian tech company to play the secondary game
- With new name, FleetOps secures $30.8-million CAD Series A round
- British Columbia deploys combined $9.2 million into projects tackling climate, nutrition, health and more
- Online brokerage Questrade lays off undisclosed number of employees
- Lightspeed lays off 200 employees in second restructuring of the year
- Stability and speed: Mastercard’s partnership with Koho
- Canada Post strike didn’t slow Shopifyâs record-breaking BFCM weekend
- BC Securities Commission panel finds crypto platform ezBtc diverted one-third of customer funds to gambling, personal accounts
- The one role companies are struggling to fill
- BC Securities Commission fines ezBtc owner $18.4 million over crypto fraud
- Markets change. Venture debt doesnât have to.
- BDC launches program to help small businesses access financing to adopt AI
- Musical AI partners with Indiaâs Beatoven.ai to create âfully licensedâ AI song generator
- Mississaugaâs rising entrepreneurs are cleaning water, transforming legal services, and making robot EV chargers
- Trexo Robotics has helped children with disabilities take 100 million steps
- Lessons from Wattpadâs $754-million exit
- Jeff Bezos bets on Tenstorrent, Questrade and Wealthsimple trade markets, Shopifyâs big BFCM
- Aramis Biotechnologies secures $80 million CAD for vaccine development do-over
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- Cyder closes $1.5 million to fuel launch of loyalty platform for credit unions
- Foreign and domestic AI with Tenstorrent and Cohere
- Firestarter program goes national with funding from BDC Thrive Lab
- Katherine Homuth’s unbreakable goal
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- Early-stage startups grapple with fallout after Québec-funded investment program suspended
- Geoffrey Hinton decries tech companies chasing “short-term profits” in Nobel Prize acceptance speech
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- Privacy Commissioner announces LinkedIn will pause training AI with data of Canadian members
- TikTok challenges fedsâ shutdown order, calls national security review process âprocedurally unfairâ
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- KisoJi raises $57-million CAD Series B to advance antibody cancer therapy
- D-Wave completes $175-million USD stock sale to fuel quantum computing development
- Spexi raises $16.2-million CAD Series A for blockchain-based drone imagery network
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- Feds announce VCCI renewal, SR&ED and pension fund changes ahead of Fall Economic Statement
- Fluid Biomed closes $27-million USD Series A to fund expanded human clinical studies
- Liberals’ Fall Economic Statement contains more promises to Canadian tech
- Jolt Capital moves newly acquired French semiconductor carveout to Québec
- Realize Capital Partners reveals second round of support for impact-focused funds
- Global AI gets a startup perspective: Insights from ventureLABâs Garry Chan
- Check your SR&ED history: Canadian tech companies could be in for post-holiday windfall
- Hostaway announces $365 million USD from US investors to fuel European expansion and AI plans
- Why Round13 Capital is betting on venture debt
- Champagne stays put as Liberals name new FedDev, PrairiesCan ministers in cabinet shuffle
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- Alison Nankivell departs MaRS for Export Development Canada
- 2025 tech predictions: embrace chaos
- Koho rolls out AI tool to help investigate fraud and scams
- Minister Navdeep Bains reveals federal government’s Digital Charter
- Fall Economic Statement brings more delays for open banking in Canada
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- Ali Asaria on the limits of computer-like logic
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- Deep Sky secures $40-million USD grant from Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Catalyst
- Fiserv to acquire Payfare in $201.5-million CAD deal after swiping its DoorDash business
- Thomson Reuters acquires American tax automation software SafeSend for $600 million USD
- Wrong answers only: industry continues to grapple with âinherent characteristicâ of GenAI
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- Valsoft reloads acquisition war chest with $216.7-million CAD funding round
- 1Password builds on B2B growth with acquisition of UK-based Trelica
- BrainBox AI acquired by Irish HVAC giant Trane to cut building emissions using AI
- Shopify acquires Shop.ca domain from Emerge Commerce
- Deep tech is thriving in the Maritimes
- New Blue Action Canada oceantech accelerator launches backed by COAST and Founders Factory
- Carbon6 to be acquired by US-based SPS Commerce for $301 million CAD to grow e-commerce merchant toolkit
- Broadsight appoints Steve Lowry as CEO to help UBC spinout build âthe Salesforce for commsâ
- Humi acquired by Australian HR software company Employment Hero
- Doctor-led Oxford Cancer Analytics closes $16-million CAD Series A to improve early lung cancer detection
- How AI can get you a job in 2025
- Cohere launches customizable enterprise AI workspace platform North
- D-Wave CEO says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is âdead wrongâ about quantum computing
- A requiem for the feds’ (failed) innovation strategy
- Shakepay bolsters regulatory standing with CIRO membership
- California-based loan collection platform Eltropy acquires Lexop for undisclosed amount
- Mastercard helps fight the ânever ending arms raceâ of cybersecurity
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- Work automation platform Gumloop raises $24.5-million Series A as it relocates to Silicon Valley
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- Float raises $70-million Series B CAD led by Goldman Sachs
- It’s time for Canada to show “spine and toughness”
- Uvaro acquires coding school Lighthouse Labs to take on AI-augmented job market
- Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne will not seek Liberal leadership
- League hits user milestone and secures $100-million USD credit facility from RBCx
- Ritual CEO, R&D team members to join Shopify
- Vasco raises $11.5 million CAD to help startups manage revenue trajectory with AI
- CCI launches Balsillie-backed innovation policy institute Canadian SHIELD
- Lyteflo secures $3 million CAD in seed funding to rev up EV sales platform
- Major Canadian news orgs sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
- Cyclic Materials, Ionomr Innovations, Summit Nanotech among Canadian returnees to the 2025 Global Cleantech 100
- Uvaro acquires, Float soars, Shopifyâs order is ready for pickup
- Home hardware: Canadian founders at CES talk challenges and opportunities
- Luge Capital, Pender Ventures hire in Alberta following investments from AEC
- âIs there life after acquisition?â Canadian founders get candid at TechTO
- Leaders from Clio, Certn, Humi and others talk M&A at TechExit.io
- Former Extreme Startups Company Shoplocket Acquired by PCH International
- Canadian tech is locked in on election season
- Sheertex maker SRTX gets $35 million CAD backing from IQ to grow manufacturing operations in Québec
- Moment Energy raises $21.5-million Series A amidst tough funding climate for cleantech hardware startups
- Feds pledge nearly $100 million in grants to commercialize research innovation
- Canadian tech advocates join movement to free social media feeds from billionaire control
- Tailscale hits 10,000 paid business clients after doubling customer base in 10 months
- The51 holds $51-million final close for Food and AgTech Fund amid challenging venture market
- Paper looks to rebound from turbulent 2024 with new CEO Martina Tam
- Xanadu closes $100 million USD Series C as quantum computing firm becomes Canadaâs latest unicorn
- Your âmouth commands attentionâ: Boardy CEO apologizes after emphatic negative response to Trump-themed marketing miss
- Federal government provides $3.5 million for DMZâs new Centre for Housing Innovation
- Amazon to close all Québec facilities, hand over delivery to third parties
- Canadian quantum commercialization and research projects get federal funding boost
- Atlantic Canadaâs startups are finding creative ways to grow
- Private equity firm Novacap raises more than $1-billion USD for first digital infrastructure fund
- Street Context acquired by American market intelligence firm BlueMatrix for undisclosed amount
- Innovation Minister says Canada will review business relationship with Amazon following Québec retreat
- Boardyâs blunder, Xanaduâs quantum breakthrough, and Paper turns the page
- Pierre Poilievre pledges to scrap capital gains tax changes under Conservative government
- SRTX’s Katherine Homuth wants to solve for everything
- Optable raises $28.8 million to grow data management solution in United States
- Plutera Capital buys Hardbaconâs assets out of bankruptcy following 2024 shutdown
- Canadian-founded Clay achieves unicorn status with $57.5-million raise
- Intuit is focused on letting the builders build
- Shopify president calls MontrĂ©al âthe most entrepreneurial city on the planetâ at North Star event
- Federal, Ontario governments contribute to Linamar’s $1-billion EV manufacturing investment
- Why Canadian commerce startups are building âlive shoppingâ into their marketing plans
- Conexus Venture Capital makes first Fund II investment into parking software startup Offstreet
- OneVest closes $29-million CAD Series B led by Salesforce Ventures to fuel US expansion
- Big in Japan: Nuvei acquires Paywiserâs Japanese subsidiary in Asia-Pacific market push
- Canadian-led Nue raises $28.8-million Series A round led by Inovia
- Shopify quietly kills Indigenous entrepreneurship program Build Native
- VueReal secures $58.4-million CAD Series C to boost its semiconductor production
- Majority of Canadian IT workers say they’d consider relocating to the US: survey
- Xanadu claims networking breakthrough with new photonic quantum computer Aurora
- Sound Blade closes $23.8-million Series A for ultrasound tech targeting liver tumours
- Liberal leadership candidates signal party pivot on capital gains tax rate changes
- AstraZeneca to invest $820-million CAD in Ontario facilities expansion
- Boardy partners with Diversio in effort to make its AI more inclusive following email backlash
- Nuvei is big in Japan, AIâs Sputnik moment, and the Uber for what?
- Federal government delays implementation of capital gains inclusion rate increase to 2026
- Mangrove Lithium secures $50.4 million to construct lithium refining plant in British Columbia
- FLiiP raises $4.4 million in seed financing to grow fitness industry management software
- An AI report to distract you from tariffs
- Startup support networks ventureLAB and The Firehood appoint new leaders
- A reality check on cyber insurance
- US pauses tariffs on Canada as two countries work through new border commitments
- MaRS appoints Grace Lee Reynolds as permanent CEO, adds board membersÂ
- Waabi fuels up to launch fully driverless trucks in 2025 with $275-million CAD Series B
- Cohere leaders think DeepSeek proves their point about AI innovation
- Teachersâ Venture Growth leads round valuing StackAdapt near $2.5-billion USD
- Ontario to cancel $100-million Starlink contract in response to US tariff threat
- Waabi inks partnership with investor Volvo to develop and deploy self-driving trucks
- Glen Ventures lands $5 million CAD from IQ fund to back early-stage healthtech startups
- Deputy Chief Trade Commissioner on tariffs: Canada ânot out of the woods yetâ
- SRTX temporarily lays off 40 percent of staff ahead of US tariff âworst-case scenarioâ
- University of Waterloo to open GENESIS, a new blockchain and AI research lab
- Wealthsimple launches margin trading feature for eligible users
- Lightspeed to stay public company after strategic review
- RetinaLogik ready to execute on vision with $1.1-million financing, Health Canada Class II approval
- Federal government launches $175.1 million Canadian Genomics Strategy to advance sector commercialization
- Emmertech leads Rayhawk seed round to automate dangerous rail car loading work
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- Accelerating software that helps the helpers
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- CDPQ launches program to help Québec startups pivot amid tariff threat
- Clio and Intel add new general managers in Canada as #CDNtech exec shakeups carry into 2025
- Reliant on US materials and production, Canadian consumer goods startups could be caught in trade war crossfire
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- Why Alistair Croll wants Canadian startups to be more evil
- Canadian tech leaders launch Build Canada for AI-refined policy ideas from entrepreneurs
- Loopioâs Zak Hemraj shares tips for Canadian CEOs leading teams through âcrisis after crisisâ
- GTMfund closes $54-million USD Fund II to back more early-stage Canadian B2B SaaS startups
- Is Canada a secret video game powerhouse?
- Canadian tech is up against a ticking tariff clock
- Thomson Reuters launches second Corporate Venture Capital Fund with $215 million
- Crowd Control: PixMob lit up this yearâs Super Bowl stands
- Shopify rises on 26 percent revenue growth in Q3, strong holiday forecast
- Coral closes $4.1-million seed round to launch menopause virtual care platform
- Clutch recovers valuation and eyes growth with $50-million Series D round
- Alexi secures $4.5 million in venture debt from TD to develop AI tools for litigators
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- Knix, Hopper, Grammarly founders among business leaders asking for âimmediate recallâ of Parliament
- Canada Growth Fund commits up to $50 million to Longbow Capitalâs second Energy Transition Fund
- Photonic claims breakthrough in quantum computing error correction
- PrairiesCan doles out $6.7 million to help four Edmonton companies scale and expand into new markets
- Canada looks to strike balance between AI innovation and regulation at Paris AI Summit
- Clio donates $3 million to create new innovation hub at the University of British Columbia
- Toronto and Waterloo Region orgs get $34 million in FedDev funding
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- Glassbox announces $1.65 million in funding to âreimagine the spreadsheetâ for corporate finance
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- Reverb Therapeutics closes $17-million seed round led by Amplitude Ventures
- Kraken Robotics emerges from the deep to take top spot on 2025 TSX Venture 50 list
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- BDC Capital targets late-stage tech companies with nearly $1 billion in new fund commitments
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- New government-backed tech hub The Foundry launches in PEI
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- Hyperlume raises $17.8-million seed round to commercialize its AI data centre tech
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- Black merchants disheartened after Shopify guts another Equitable Commerce program
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- DEI rollback is the âwrong direction for Canada,â open letter says
- Dispersa closes $5.8 million to turn food waste into chemicals for everyday products
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- Carebook joins parade of public Canadian tech companies returning private
- Prosus to acquire SkipTheDishes parent company JustEat Takeaway in $6.2-billion deal
- Opal announces $1.5 million USD to build âthe operating system for ad agenciesâ
- Vault rebrands to Venn following $21.5-million Series A round
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- Paperplane Therapeutics raises $1.5 million to ease anxious patients with VR gaming
- TandemLaunch closes $37-million Fund IV to create and back deep tech startups
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- Rewind inks data protection partnership with workflow software giant Monday.com
- Temu opens marketplace to Canadian vendors as ‘buy Canadian’ push picks up
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- Network software startup Kaloom secures $27.4 million CAD from Québec government, Alternative Capital Group
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- Facit and OBIO reveal first cohort of women founders working on health and cancer innovation with WeSEED
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- Deloitte Canada acquires grant matchmaker Pocketed for undisclosed amount
- Federal government revs up funding for EV charging
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- Augmenta closes $14.4 million CAD to advance quest towards AI-driven building design
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- Waabi develops realism metric to gauge reliability of autonomous vehicle simulators
- Redbrick acquires New York-based newsletter advertising platform Paved
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- Phoenix secures equity funding from Valspring, venture debt from CIBC for prescription drug service geared to men
- Clio acquires UK-based ShareDo to move into serving large law firms, fuel global expansion
- Vertu Capital promotes principal and âemployee number twoâ Eric Kafka to partner
- Federal investment to help Telesat take on Starlink with new QuĂ©bec campusÂ
- General Fusion takes major step in quest for Canadian fusion reactors
- US-based neobank Zolve to bring newcomer-targeted services to Canada this summer
- Avitia launches AI-powered cancer diagnostics platform with assets from defunct Imagia Canexia
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- Softchoice taken private, moved stateside by WWT after $1.48-billion acquisition closes
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- Anita Anand named innovation minister, Champagne moved to finance in new Carney cabinet
- Shopify acquires search startup Vantage Discovery for undisclosed amount
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- Mining magnate Pierre Lassonde donates $50 million to establish deep tech institute at Polytechnique Montréal
- Former Klue sales reps secure $500,000 to make cold calling easier with Quack
- Taiv acquihires fellow Canadian adtech startup Local Reach to aid expansion plans
- Canada invests $36.6 million in Strategic Innovation Fund technology networks
- Doormat becomes Ownright, closes $4.5 million to help more Ontarians seal real estate deals
- Cohere says Command A model edges out LLM competition in speed and energy efficiency
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- âMy god, this is exhaustingâ: US delays some tariffs against Canada until April
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- Telus partners with Nvidia to transform its data centre into a Canadian âSovereign AI Factoryâ
- Shopify to transfer US stock listing to Nasdaq, remain on TSX
- Novarc Technologies raises Series B round led by Export Development Canada
- Summit Nanotech closes $36.5-million funding round to commercialize lithium extraction tech
- As trade war rages, Page raises $4.1 million to help organizations track government changes with AI
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- Paging Dr. Cube: UniDoc to buy software from AMD Telemedicine to improve remote healthcare offering
- Google reportedly close to buying Canadaâs AdHawk for its eye-tracking smart glasses tech
- Intuit Canada is hiring key tech roles
- Google eyes AdHawk, Nvidiaâs Canadian partner, and a red light for Tesla
- FreshBooks reveals new CEO Shaheen Javadizadeh after securing $179 million in debt from Morgan Stanley
- Cohere secures federal backing to build multibillion-dollar Canadian AI data centre
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- AI roundup: Cohere commands attention, Apple Intelligence delays, a vibe coding PSA
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- Nokia, Honeywell partner with QuĂ©becâs Numana to develop quantum-safe communication networks
- US deep tech VC Celesta Capital adds BDC alum Charles Lespérance as Canadian partner
- FreshBooks’ data shows many small businesses treat taxes as an afterthought, and it’s costing them
- Peak completes acquisition of Cubeler to launch North America expansion
- ExxonMobil takes CoLab Software’s AI tool out to sea with $5.6-million oil rig partnership
- Vooban hiring up to 25 AI roles in Ontario as it welcomes surge in enterprise AI adoption
- Xanadu teams up with glass giant Corning to network quantum computing chips
- Descartes nabs another American company with $164.4-million acquisition of 3Gtms
- Basetwo closes $16.5-million CAD Series A round to optimize manufacturing with AI copilots
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- Québec budget overhauls innovation tax credits, earmarks millions for tariff impacts
- As online threats get worse, Styx raises $2.7 million for digital risk protection platform
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- Well Health to exercise call options that give majority controlling interest in strategic partner Healwell AI
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- BioAlert secures $2.5 million to help companies detect and manage harmful pathogens in water
- Ontario subsidizes Siemensâ new R&D facility after CEOs plead province to prioritize homegrown production
- Raven Capital cultivates Indigenous-led biotech company AdvancedAg with $2-million seed investment
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- Crypto exchange Kraken gains restricted dealer licence and new leader of Canadian operations
- Former Blue Origin CEO to advise General Fusion on energy strategy
- To survive tariffs, Canadian startups need plans âA through Dâ
- âEvery dollar countsâ: amid trade war, Float launches foreign exchange solution to help companies cut costs
- âChanges nothingâ: Canadian tech still in limbo as country escapes worst of US tariff wave
- Trulioo taps former Nuvei exec Vicky Bindra to take over for retiring CEO Steve Munford
- Three Canadian quantum startups selected for US military-backed quantum race program
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- Healthtech startup Vopemed lands $2.29-million pre-seed funding for AI-powered surgery visuals
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- Katherine Homuth revisited
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- The first medical X-ray to go to space will use Canadian imaging tech
- BBTV rebrands to RHEI, launches new AI training licensing platform for creator content
- UK-based Osney Capital eyes Canadian cybersecurity startups with 50-million-pound first fund
- Shopify CEO Tobi LĂŒtke tells employees to prove AI canât do the job before asking for resources
- Kraken Robotics looks to peer further under the sea with $24.5-million acquisition of 3D at Depth
- Paystone to acquire fellow payments processor Ackroo for $21 million
- CVCA calls for temporary capital gains reduction, national investment tax credit in pitch to federal parties
- Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre promises to defer capital gains taxes if proceeds reinvested in Canada
- Kepler Communications sells its first on-orbit compute power to Axiom Space
- Corporate VPN startup Tailscale secures $230 million CAD Series C on back of âsurprisingâ growth
- Seventy-five Ontario CEOs sign open letter calling on Premier Doug Ford to prioritize homegrown innovation
- Scale AI offering $30-million envelope for Canadian companies to accelerate AI adoption
- Shopify expands Affirm partnership to bring BNPL offering to Canadian merchants
- Inaugural QueerTech accelerator cohort stacked with software, AI startups
- WonderFi spent $3.6 million on ransom and security upgrades in connection with CEOâs kidnapping last year
- Wealthsimple acquihires Plenty, a San Francisco-based wealth management platform for couples
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- Blumind secures $20-million Series A to build the AI chip weâd have if computers didnât exist
- Ontario takes bite out of Premier Doug Ford’s promised US procurement ban
- Shopify, Lightspeed among Canadian tech stocks dragged down in US tariff-spurred market plunge
- Shopify, Lightspeed lead Canadian tech stock surge after US pauses universal tariffs
- Puzzle Medical raises $43 million to pursue clinical trial of less-invasive device for patients with heart failure
- Corinex secures $42 million CAD to continue its European expansion
- Beloved mentor and L-Spark co-founder Patrick White to depart leadership role after 12 years
- Glowtify wants to be the AI-driven marketing solution for lean e-commerce teams
- Wealthsimpleâs acquihire, Shopifyâs AI policy, and Nintendoâs Switch 2 confusion
- Vancouver-based CO280 strikes 12-year carbon removal deal with MicrosoftÂ
- Google Cloud Startups leader sees opportunity for startups building AI agents amid pressure to move quickly
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- Shopify’s Tobi LĂŒtke headlines special BetaKit Town Hall on May 7
- Canadian tech makes federal election asks
- Communitech appoints Sheldon McCormick as new CEO following layoffs
- Xaba aims to make industrial robots smarter with $8-million CAD seed extension
- BetaKit to launch âMost Ambitiousâ issue on June 23, 2025
- New early-stage VC fund Trillick Ventures aims to bring funding to “underrepresented” Manitoba
- Payments Canada pens open letter to Minister of Finance to expand organizationâs membership eligibility
- Vaughan’s Techblocks Wants to Build a $30K App for One Lucky Startup
- Amazonâs Climate Pledge Fund joins Cyclic Materials’ extended Series B round
- Cohere doubles down on agentic search capabilities with new Embed 4 model
- The Manitoba startup that helps companies by hacking them
- Bell and Ericssonâs Ottawa team field-test AI-powered tech to reduce cell network traffic jams
- PolicyMe eyes new insurance products, more big-name partners after raising $30 million over two years
- Online car retailer Clutch taps former Properly CEO Anshul Ruparell as CFO
- Enterprise AI companies announce hiring spree for Montréal AI talent
- Missed it by that much: Well Health falls just short of $1-billion revenue mark in 2024 earnings
- Vector Institute hires ex-TD, Thomson Reuters leader Glenda Crisp as president and CEO
- TruthSayer claims its AI âHedge Fund-in-a-Boxâ is a cheaper, smarter alternative for investments
- QuĂ©becâs LabHost crackdown, Poilievreâs tech endorsement, and Blue Originâs star-studded spaceflight
- Yoshua Bengio warns of âcatastrophic risksâ of agentic AI at World Summit AI
- BMO launches a workplace savings platform with FinTech startup Link
- Canadian VCs have performance anxiety
- Long-life startup NiaHealth exits stealth with $2.5 million in pre-seed funding
- 1Password expands Extended Access Management platform with agentic AI security
- Franceâs Alan comes to Canada with digital group health insurance for tech startups
- FundThrough acquires American company Ampla alongside fresh Series B funding
- Government of Ontario investing $750 million in STEM programs to bolster talent pool in face of tariff threats
- Electric vehicle maker Rivian elects Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez to board of directors
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- Frank And Oak selling brand, closing all stores following second insolvency filing
- Healwell shakes up C-suite following Well Health takeover, shifts CEO Alexander Dobranowski to president
- Several tech figures endorse Pierre Poilievreâs Conservatives in open letter connected to Fairfax Financial
- At World Summit AI, cautious tone of researchers drowned out by cutthroat adoption race
- Federal government launches loan facility to support enterprises impacted by tariffs
- Innovobot unveils ârefreshedâ deep tech VC fund under Neha Kheraâs leadership
- Trulioo sees âsignificant growthâ in Asia-Pacific region soon after entering market
- Latest Google for Startups Accelerator cohort makes AI de facto entry requirement
- Canadian-founded Fluent Ventures bets on global startups with $40-million USD early-stage VC program
- 7Gen charges up with $48 million in debt from UKâs ZenobÄ to help more Canadian firms adopt EVs
- Nagar Rahmani joins EnerTech Capital as Weston family-associated Wittington Ventures promotes from within
- Shopify is poaching customers, Aidan Gomez is on the board, and Canada is getting hosed
- The Canadian Space Mining Corporation thinks it can put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2029
- The best political party for Canadian tech
- A US-Canada crypto summit is shaping up at Consensus 2025
- Cinema tech startup Axibo raises $12 million to kickstart humanoid robot division
- Former Plooto CEO Hamed Abbasi on trial for alleged sexual assault
- Cleantech startup Planetary wins nearly $1.4 million from Elon Musk-funded XPrize competition
- Québec grants Centech $4.5 million to boost deep tech, medtech commercialization
- Prime Minister Mark Carney almost worked at Shopify: former exec
- Former Plooto CEO Hamed Abbasi acquitted in sexual assault case
- Province funnels $9 million into Québec Tech amid critiques over government spending
- Québec Tech highlights hardtech in latest scaleup cohort with international ambitions
- Cleantech accelerator CICE invests $2.5 million in women-led climate ventures
- Veerum raises $12-million Series B to create âdigital twinsâ for heavy industry
- Plooto appoints John McLane as new CEO
- Toronto-based Plooto now allows Canadian small businesses to process payments internationally
- VC firm Antler ramps up, adds Bernie Li as Canadian partner
- Antler Canada adds former Quandl CEO Tammer Kamel as VC firm gears up for Fund II
- Brightspark spinout Brio nabs $3 million to help other VCs manage their LPs
- Shopify rolls back $1-million USD revenue exemption for app developers
- Dragons’ Denâs Arlene Dickinson, Build Canadaâs Daniel Debow recognized as Nation Builders at 2025 NACO awards
- Reusables looks to help cafeterias scrap single-use containers with $3.6-million seed round
- Xanadu forges partnerships with US military, industry to fuel quantum computing ambitions
- Dozr founding CEO Kevin Forestell moves to chair while Dave Frazier joins as president
- Microsoft vibe codes, a Trump in Toronto, Sam Altman is annoyed
- Cohere Labs head calls “unreliable” AI leaderboard rankings a âcrisisâ in the field
- Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund receives $60 million to scale local businesses
- Joe Canavan has a plan for Canada to become an innovation nation
- âHard work lies aheadâ: Canadian tech leaders strike urgent tone on policy asks following Liberal victory
- WonderFi co-founderâs new startup xTAO to list on TSXV following merger with Adrianna Ventures
- Canadian angels just want to write the cheque
- TD Bankâs chief AI scientist talks about emerging models, safety, and Layer 6âs new NYC office
- How does an online car retailer survive a trade war?
- Shakepay becomes first crypto company granted Payments Canada membership
- Fireside chat with Clio execs among more than 60 activities at Vancouver Startup Week 2025
- Exterra secures $20-million Series A to turn mining byproducts into decarbonization gold
- OpenText makes AI ânumber-one priorityâ as company slashes 1,600 jobs
- University of Calgary becomes XPrize Foundationâs first international hub
- Unblocked raises $27.5 million Series A to make sure developers actually understand their code
- Outgoing director Jay Shah reflects on burnout as Velocity evolves leadership structure
- Outgoing Velocity incubator head Adrien CĂŽtĂ© is bullish on Waterloo’s tech future
- Active Impact Investments holds $110-million final close for third climate tech seed fund
- D-Wave remains in the red even as revenue jumps 500 percent in Q1
- Age-Well partners with Ikea, U of T to launch studio for testing tech for seniors
- Amilia raises $35 million led by Vertu Capital to help more community centres manage operations
- Anges Québec looks to expedite early-stage rounds with co-investment angel fund
- OpenAIâs U-turn, XPrizeâs Canadian hub, and Vancouver isnât so Bitcoin-friendly
- Ontario invests $56 million to power âhomegrownâ automotive and mobility companies amid trade war
- Healthtech leaders behind AlayaCare and Mimosa say Canadian procurement lacks transparency and risk appetite
- A guide to how Canadian tech is rising to meet the wildfire threat
- Imperial Oil donates $37-million lab to SAIT for energy research
- Rethinking the relationship between government and entrepreneur support organizations
- Will AI agents replace SaaS before SaaS replaces employees with AI?
- CEO Don Murray says Safe Software’s new features will help replace enterprise SaaS with AI agents
- Vancouver byelection result threatens mayorâs âBitcoin-friendly cityâ brand
- âCan we just write the cheque?â: angel investors encouraged to be bold amidst economic uncertainty at NACO Summit
- Canadian FinTech leaders âcautiously optimisticâ about open banking, payments modernization under Mark Carney
- Biotech Intrepid Labs exits stealth with funding from Radical Ventures and Avant Bio
- Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund’s new Express stream invests $3.5 million of fast funds across 23 companies
- Shopify stocks surge after company says it will join Nasdaq 100 index
- Making AI work beyond the lab
- Tentree spinout Veritree announces $9.1-million CAD Series A to help companies manage nature restoration projects
- Canadian holding company Tiny buys controlling stake in DJ software company Serato for $94.5 million
- Healwell revenue more than doubled in Q1 2025 thanks to acquisition spree and AI
- MĂ©lanie Joly, Evan Solomon to run newly split Industry and Innovation portfolios in Prime Minister Carney’s cabinet
- Una Software secures new seed funding as startup adds AI into its financial planning platform
- Where FreshBooks gets its best product ideas
- An AI-powered Bloomberg for Web3
- âNo plans are setâ but Robinhood expects to âdevelop [its] offeringâ in Canada post-WonderFi acquisition
- Well Health says its healthy Q1 revenue is a symptom of Canadian growth
- Consensus won’t return to Toronto in 2026
- The cloud reckoning is here
- The US economic slowdown is hurting Canadian tech companies selling globally
- Minister of Innovation and AI Evan Solomon part of Liberals’ new Build Canada cabinet committee
- Coinbase Canada CEO pushes for crypto-friendly government just as company reveals hack that could cost up to $400 million USD
- University of Waterloo-backed Velocity Fund II holds $14-million initial close
- Verdi raises $6.5 million to reduce farmersâ irrigation irritation with automation
- Amplify Capital adds Craig Hunter as partner while raising its third impact-focused fund
- New VC data, Shopifyâs new index, Canadaâs new cabinet
- Redstick Ventures wants to give foodtech a seat at the table
- The BetaKit Guide: Web Summit Vancouver
- PrairiesCan commits $6.1 million for downtown Calgary innovation hub, local business retention programs
- Seed deals in Q1 2025 hit pandemic-era low as Canadian VC decline continues: report
- ESG reporting platform Novisto fuels up for European expansion with $37.7-million CAD Series C
- Alberta tech has energy
- COO Alex Petre replaces Damien Steel as CEO of carbon removal startup Deep Sky
- Canada will provide cooling tech for moon-bound astronautsâif NASA gets the mission off the groundÂ
- CVCA CEO Kim Furlong to step down after Invest Canada conference
- Performance anxiety and access to capital top of mind for Canadian VCs
- BetaKit to open full-time Prairies bureau
- Cohere revenue reports paint mixed picture of growth
- Cohere CEO claims AI startup ânot far awayâ from profitability as it snags Dell and SAP partnerships
- Shopify debuts AI-based store designer as part of summer update
- Your R&D is worth more than you think
- Rival Technologiesâ parent company and Angus Reid Group to join forces in Canadian market research merger
- Lagging growth rate knocks Canada out of top four in StartupBlink’s ecosystem rankings
- Half of the internet is bots and theyâre feeding you lies
- Keep emerges from stealth to launch Canadian small business banking platform
- Patience was the price of capital in 2024
- Cohere is close, OpenAI adds Jony Ive, BetaKit has a new bureau
- Prime Minister Mark Carneyâs mandate letter calls for government to deploy AI âat scaleâ
- Stablecorp secures funding to build out its stablecoin pegged to Canadian dollar
- DistriQ and PINQÂČ partner up to commercialize quantum computing in Canada
- Canada’s auto tech industry crashes into a triple emergency Â
- Lightspeed surpasses $1 billion USD in revenue in fiscal 2025 but shares conservative outlook
- Alberta Innovates to name Dr. Mike Mahon as permanent CEO
- Calgary says it has the makings of an innovation capital. Whatâs the next step?
- Google grants Amii $5 million to help post-secondary schools develop AI curricula
- The Canadian engineer trying to fix the internetâs original sinÂ
- Canadaâs next innovation capital
- Jane Software to be reportedly valued at $1.8 billion in upcoming secondary financing
- CWVC wants to map the career progression and retention of women in Canadian VC
- Harley Finkelstein, Valley vets Dorothy Kilroy and Chris Urmson headline 2025 Elevate Festival
- Four tech workers discuss their AI habits
- Jim Balsillie calls on Ottawa to prioritize stablecoins at Inventures fireside with Premier SmithÂ
- General Fusion lays off staff, looks for funding as capital suddenly runs dry
- PacifiCan tops up Innovate BC initiative with $1.8 million for AI projects
- Koho continues expansion beyond core banking with launch of international money transfers
- Outcome of copyright case against Cohere uncertain but likely âprecedent-settingâ: expert
- Katherine Homuth launches âorganizational memoryâ startup as SRTX secures new interim CEO and financing
- Pender and Novacap recognized for cashing in on last yearâs go-private wave at 2025 CVCA Awards
- Canadian VCs arrive at annual industry gathering in need of a âwake-up callâ
- Richard Sutton warns against âcentralized controlâ of AI regulation based on fear
- At Web Summit Vancouver, BC wants to let the world know its cleantech hub is open for business
- Web Summit Vancouverâs opening night offers thoughtful critiques and alternatives to current tech
- A dispatch from the deal room
- Nord Quantique says error-correction discovery could make quantum computing data centres practical
- Innovation Saskatchewanâs first-ever research strategy boosts commercialization, tax incentives for tech
- University of Toronto and Vanguard team up to expand AI research in finance
- BetaKit wins General Excellence, Small Publication at SABEW Canada Best in Business Awards
- BetaKit repeats as General Excellence winner at SABEW Canada Awards
- Amid AI proof-of-concept fatigue, Cohere co-founder urges potential customers to keep the faith and focus on ROI
- Calgary Capital, the King comes to Canada, and nothing but Bluesky in rain city
- Bell to build six AI data centres in Canada as telcos compete on infrastructure
- Farm Credit Canada commits to investing $2 billion in AgTech by 2030
- WareMatch lands $2-million funding round to expand its Airbnb-like warehouse marketplaceÂ
- Zown expands homebuying app into the US after early Canadian success
- Student entrepreneurs and Canadian tech leaders talk inflection points at Cansbridge Story Night event
- BCâs new JEDI says Web Summit Vancouver has been worth âevery pennyâ
- Web Summit Vancouver was worth “every penny”
- âThe energy is hereâ: local leaders call Web Summit Vancouverâs scaled-back debut a success
- UrbanLogiq wants governments to rely on its AI-powered insights
- Women-led startups sweep first Pitch competition on stage at Web Summit Vancouver
- Industry watcher says recent Shopify ruling could embolden companies to challenge CRA data requests
- Tradeoffs are the new muscle behind startup growth
- AppDirect eyes rising energy demand with acquisition of Broker Online Exchange
- Canada Growth Fund commits at least $89 million to Eavor in second big investment to geothermal tech company
- Canada shows its hand: Balatro wins Apple Design Award ahead of developer conference
- Xanadu touts another advancement toward scalable quantum computing
- Amii CEO Cam Linke says Canadaâs AI strategy requires customers
- Google allocates $13 million in funding to strengthen Canadaâs AI workforce
- American gig giants Instacart and Uber add Canadian executives to top leadership positions
- Fispan continues industry trend of secondary-heavy deals with Series B round
- âBoth strategic and patrioticâ: Wealthsimple selects Tetra Trust as its first Canadian digital asset custodian
- Medtech AI startups ProteinQure and AssistIQ each close Series A rounds
- Exclusive: ApplyBoard secures $100-million CAD credit facility to fuel global expansion
- Rails launches hybrid crypto exchange after raising $14 million USD in token warrant sale
- CarbonCure and VerticalScope replace founding CEOs as #CDNtech companies see turnover at the top
- Portless raises $24.7 million to be retailersâ port in a trade storm
- DIGITAL Innovation Cluster providing $15 million across 16 Canadian AI-based training and CareerTech projects
- Trump vs. Musk, Shopify vs. the CRA, plus a Raptorâs assist
- Government-backed program aims to help Canadian non-profits adopt responsible AI
- ApplyBoard lays off employees due to “policy changes across major study destinations”
- Investissement Québec records annual loss on VC and fund investments
- American chip giant AMD to acquire Untether AI team
- Taiv lands $14.4-million CAD Series A to put targeted ads on bar and restaurant TVs across North America
- Nicoya acquires University of Toronto spinout LSK Technologies to bolster testing capabilities, expedite product roadmap
- Canada’s Bengio brothers offer new AI critiques, solutions
- As aging entrepreneurs retire, BDC and FNBC announce $100 million to help Indigenous groups buy their businesses
- Former Raptors star Jerome Williams newest teammate of community connector Swiirl
- Albertaâs tech sector is embracing an AI data centre boom. Will it pay off?
- The canât-miss events at Saskatoon Startup Week and Ottawa Innovation Week
- The program giving global founders a reason to build in Canada
- ENVGO raises $2.7-million seed round to bring its electric âflyingâ boat to market
- Vessel raises $10.3 million to retool VC for the age of AI
- Panache Ventures partner Chris Neumann to depart VC firm, Sarah Willson promoted to principal
- DoorDash next on the menu as Canadaâs Competition Bureau sues for allegedly deceptive pricing tactics
- MesoMat expects smart rubber to hit the road around the world as it builds out commercial tire-monitoring platform
- Building Canadaâs cleantech future from the shores of Nova Scotia
- Eli Health closes $17-million CAD Series A to fuel launch of hormone-monitoring tech
- Pine unveils new real estate tools after topping $1 billion in managed mortgages
- Canada Health Infowayâs AI Scribe Program hooks up primary care clinicians with Canadian healthtech
- Xanadu, NRC, and U of T partner on using quantum to improve electric vehicle batteries
- Alan is challenging the idea that health insurance is just a cost
- Former Anges Québec CEO GeneviÚve Tanguay joins Panache Ventures as partner
- InBCâs Jill Earthy knows Canadian VC âcould be healthierâ
- AI minister Evan Solomon wary of overdoing regulation, but says Bill C-27 ânot goneâ
- Sezzle sues Shopify for alleged âunfairâ privileging of its own buy-now, pay-later feature
- Shopify collaborates with Coinbase and Stripe to support USDC stablecoin payments
- Wealthsimple presents, Meta snags Scale AI, DoorDash gets served
- Nicoya acquires UKâs Applied Photophysics to expand its drug development capabilities and global reach
- Wealthsimple raises $100 million led by Allianz X to build a full stack financial service
- Wealthsimple reveals first credit card, expanded chequing account at inaugural product showcase
- Michael Southworth âspecifically chosenâ as Assentâs new CEO to spearhead $250-million revenue effort
- Cohere bringing AI into public sector through partnerships with Canadian, UK governments
- StatsCan finds AI adoption has doubled in businesses, but hasnât yet affected headcounts
- Toronto-Waterloo, Vancouver, Ottawa drop in Startup Genomeâs 2025 global ecosystem rankings as MontrĂ©al, Calgary hold steady
- Wealthsimple picks a fight it believes it can win
- June Health launches menopause platform nationally to connect women with healthcare through employer plans
- Montréal tech looks to scale up with opening of Ax.c innovation hub
- Wealthsimpleâs Brett Huneycutt explains how its new products advance the companyâs financial services vision
- The BetaKit Guide: Toronto Tech Week
- New School Foods to expand beyond plant-based salmon to other meat alternatives
- Photonic to open UK quantum R&D centre to aid international expansion
- What founders need to know about raising in 2025
- Why a Northern BC credit union took AI sovereignty into its own hands
- Carbon Upcycling lays foundation with $24.5-million round led by Chicago-based impact investor Builders Vision
- US private equity firm Vista ups stake in Assent at reported $1.3-billion USD valuation
- LeddarTech cuts 95 percent of staff in bid to rescue its business
- FCAC commissioner shares update on Canadaâs open banking future, but makes no timeline commitments
- G7 leaders conclude summit with commitments on AI and quantum
- Why Faireâs co-founder wants to bring Silicon Valleyâs DNA to Canada
- Europe is rising on the radar of Canadian tech
- Former Graphite Ventures analyst to launch new Vancouver incubator Althra
- With $3-million pre-seed round, Xatoms launches pilot projects to purify water with quantum chemistry
- David Dufresne joins AQC Capital, Nick Chen makes partner at Golden Ventures
- BrainBox AI CEO Sam Ramadori joins Yoshua Bengioâs LawZero as co-president and executive director
- $100-million credit facility from La Caisse helps AppDirect make second energy brokerage acquisition this year
- Storytime Capital holds $14-million first close of Fund II to back more startups modernizing work
- Canadaâs digital sovereignty: why we canât ignore stablecoins
- CVCA calls for Digital Services Tax pause to avoid retaliatory US tax changes
- Cohereâs new MOU, New School Foods’ new food, and BetaKitâs Most Ambitious
- Chris Greenfield is no longer the managing director of OneEleven
- Botpress closes $34-million CAD Series B to help companies build and deploy AI agents
- The price of admission for Canadian entrepreneurs
- What happens when Creative Destruction Lab puts its top founders in one room
- Conquest Planning raises $110-million Series B to fuel US expansion of its financial management platform
- Why Mastercard is the go-to partner for Canadian FinTech
- Phil De Luna thinks Canada is the perfect place to store the world’s carbon
- Boris Wertz thinks science is the new moat for Canadian tech
- Canadian government opens $300-million AI Compute Access Fund in latest AI commitment
- Building Canada requires competition
- Canadian FinTech community mourns Equitable Bank CEO Andrew Moor
- Rahul Goel wants to give Canada its Apollo moment
- This time, Eric Migicovsky won’t let anything get in his way
- NiaHealth raises $5.75 million as it hopes to become a household name in preventative healthcare
- Why smart companies are using fractional design studios
- âThe end of the era of human dataâ: AI experts discuss new frontiers at CDL Super Session
- Socratica’s IRL revolution is powered by the love of making
- What I Learned: Larry Smith
- What making music taught David Usher about running an AI startup
- 9Bio Therapeuticsâ Philipe Gobeil wants to âresurrectâ clinically validated cancer therapies that failed due to toxicity
- Build Canada appoints Lucy Hargreaves to CEO as tech think tank expands mandate
- Geoffrey Hinton says AI companies resistant to âregulations with teethâ in lively debate with Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst
- âLight, tight, rightâ regulation: Minister Evan Solomon unpacks how Canada plans to support domestic AI and quantum computing
- Shopifyâs Tobi LĂŒtke says his company is embracing AI to prevent stagnation at Homecoming
- Waabiâs Raquel Urtasun calls for Canada to âwake upâ to physical AI revolution at Homecoming
- Teresa Resch knows tech can give the Toronto Tempo a competitive advantage
- Bridgitâs Mallorie Brodie explains why Canadian startups need to think globally from the start
- Sonder co-founder Francis Davidson departs after seeing through Marriott deal
- BetaKit Town Hall showcases Canadian ambition at home and abroad
- The Winnipeg founder who answered a crisis
- Nvidia acquires Canadian AI efficiency startup CentML
- Cohere’s Aidan Gomez says acquisition is “failure”
- Canada pulls Digital Services Tax to avoid stalling US trade negotiations
- Meeting people is easy at Toronto Tech Week
- Michelle Scarborough out at BDC Capital after eight years leading women-focused funds
- D-Wave sells $400 million USD in common shares to fund acquisitions, working capital
- Cohere looks to capitalize on MontrĂ©alâs AI talent with new office
- Last-mile delivery startup UniUni to continue North American expansion with $95.4-million CAD Series D round
- LeddarTech bankruptcy filing reveals $146 million in debts to Québec, BDC, and other backers
- Toronto tech gets in on the joke at the Tech Roast Show
- Clioâs mission, Trumpâs trade timeout, and Toronto Tech Weekâs standout moments
- HR platform Workleap adding compensation management features through acquisition of Barley
- Feds back startup OCCAMâs Technologies as part of $21.5-million Alberta carbon capture investment
- The events, speakers, and prizes youâll find at Startupfest 2025
- What keeps Bluesky’s head of trust and safety up at night?
- ‘Ambition made in Canada’ with Shopify, Cohere, and Wealthsimple
- Is Canadian AI failing?
- Canadian tech leaders tell the next generation to learn to say ânoâ at Homecoming
- Still watching? Rivr closes $3.6 million CAD from GreenSky to help creators and brands identify engaging video content
- Deep Sky science chief Phil De Luna departs company to âbuild something newâ
- Canada steals the spotlight at Europeâs biggest tech event
- LeoMed raises $2.75-million seed round for telehealth patient monitoring platform
- VitalHub acquires referral platform Novari Health in deal worth up to $48.6 million
- Tenstorrent acquires Blue Cheetah to bring more chip design in-house
- R-Labs secures $3.5 million to help create more startups tackling âbig problemsâ in real estate
- OpenText CFO Chadwick Westlake to succeed the late Andrew Moor as CEO of Equitable Bank
- Cobionix secures $4.1 million to commercialize its collaborative medical robot
- Most Canadian companies are walking the AI adoption race: report
- No meetings, no mandates: Inside Intuit’s five-day innovation week for technologists
- Opennote raises $850,000 USD, secures Y Combinator spot for edtech platform
- Clio to acquire Spanish-American legaltech vLex for $1 billion USD
- Robotics startup Attabotics closes down and terminates employees
- Clutch races past $1 billion in total cars purchased amid record growth
- Elon Muskâs new party, Canadaâs AI adoption, and Clutch cracks $1 billion
- Market recovery Canadian VCs expected still on the horizon, experts say at Startupfest
- Kardium closes $340 million CAD to secure regulatory approval, expand manufacturing for atrial fibrillation heart device
- An AI strategy is no longer optional for Canadian startups
- Tailscale CEO Avery Pennarun says pressure to adopt AI has created a âWild Westâ for corporate cybersecurity
- Cohere to open South Korean office, expand AI offerings in Asia Pacific
- Pharmacy AI agent Asepha raises $4 million USD to double staff and open New York office
- Helping service animals catch a ride
- Uberflip co-founder secures $1 million to help families pass down valuables with Trusty
- Canadian co-founded eSIM provider Airalo hits unicorn status with $220-million USD Series C round
- Quandri raises $2 million CAD to automate time-consuming, repetitive tasks for insurance industry
- MTatt takes home top prize at Startupfest 2025 as winnings exceed $1 million for the first time
- Flo shutters Shawinigan EV charger plant, lays off 80 employees citing trade tensions and shifting political dynamics
- Canadaâs former open banking lead joins FinTech startup Brim Financial
- Quandri secures $16.5 million CAD to help North American insurance firms automate renewals with AI
- Define Capital closes $20 million to acquire and nurture profitable niche software companies
- Founders need a good reason to forgo an AI strategy, VCs warn at Startupfest
- Hanna Zaidi joins BetaKitâs board of directors
- Manzil wants to become âthe North American Islamic neobankâ as it expands to the US
- BDC adds RBC as lending partner as it plans to guarantee $800 million in loans to entrepreneurs
- Define Capital fuels up for more niche software acquisitions with $28-million debt facility from Scotiabank
- TD is assembling a roster of top technical talent
- Xanaduâs Christian Weedbrook is raising another $200 million to build a quantum data centre
- GeologicAI cashes in on data centre boom with $60.5-million CAD Series B
- Moonvalley raises additional $84 million USD to meet demand for its Hollywood-friendly AI video generator
- Minister Evan Solomon unveils fresh AI project funding to address âcrisis momentâ at Scale AI event
- Cohere’s got Seoul, Brim nets a former czar, and Zuck gets bumped
- Longtime 1Password CEO Jeff Shiner moves to executive chair, hands reins to David Faugno
- Sleep tech startup Smart Nora files for bankruptcy after tariffs derail product launch and fundraising attempts
- Canadian co-founded Substack raises $100-million USD Series C to grow tools for independent creators
- âCanadaâs edge in applied AIâ with Nvidia and Waabi leaders
- Are Canadian founders getting a raw deal?
- Dig Insights acquires OneCliq to beef up market research tools with social media analysis
- Payroll platform Wagepoint appoints Xero North America lead Ben Richmond as president and CEO
- Former Toronto Raptor Pascal Siakam dishes $50,000 in grants to winners of inaugural EdTech accelerator
- Robinhood to buy WonderFi for $250 million CAD as US trading platform targets Canadian expansion
- What no one tells founders about liquidity
- When form follows function, agentic AI works for businessesÂ
- WonderFi co-founderâs xTAO startup secures $31 million CAD for its decentralized AI network
- AI-powered 9-1-1 call screening startup Hyper exits stealth with $6.3 million USD
- Kyle Braatz got Fullscript to $1 billion in revenue by treating every new business segment like a startup
- Katherine Homuth is making the case for a âfounder constitution.â Here’s what that might look like
- GreenSky closes $23.5-million sixth fund with help from new managing partner Jeff Brunet
- Eyam Health strikes partnership with Swiss non-profit to develop one-dollar malaria treatment
- Michael Yang departs OMERS Ventures as pension fund refocuses on Canada in âstrategic shiftâ
- Mantle rolls out free cap table management tool for early-stage startups
- Femtech Canada hopes to bring womenâs healthtech to market through its first commercialization program
- Trumpâs AI plan, a16z says OpenSesame, and a Yukon-born startup strikes gold
- Ontario nurtures forest-based innovation accelerator CRIBE with $5-million investment
- The living history of Canadian tech
- From a phone call to financial innovation: The story of Mastercard and Neo Financial
- a16z says OpenSesame to Canadian agentic AI startup for its speedrun accelerator
- Lack of M&A and IPOs drives global secondary market to new record
- Why Canada’s federal government keeps talking about quantum tech with Xanaduâs Christian Weedbrook
- Cohere to access Canadian AI infrastructure and new clients through partnership with Bell
- Growcer snaps up assets of bankrupt US rival Freight Farms
- Why the people building the future of AI systems are heading to Toronto for KDD-2025
- Cybersecurity startup Cavelo secures $5-million seed extension round led by Inovia Capital
- Canada awards $14.6 million contract to space triumvirate to build its new lunar rover
- 4AG Robotics looks to grow fleet of mushroom-harvesting robots with $40-million Series B round
- Is Canada’s productivity saviour a hallucination?
- Mara Renewables bringing fish-free omega-3 to global markets with $12.5 million from S2G Investments
- AI bookkeeping startup Ceedar is turning customers into investors
- Yaletown Partners raises $100 million in first close for third Innovation Growth Fund
- New innovation and knowledge hub to help showcase technology battling wildfires
- NGen helps lead $108-million investment in sustainable manufacturing tech
- Canada’s AI safety institute pledges $1 million to UK counterpart for research collaboration
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford officially cancels provinceâs contract with SpaceXâs Starlink
- Northern Irelandâs soft sell to Canada is sticking
- Public safety tech platform Versaterm acquires Texas firm DroneSense for more than $100 million USD
- Lightspeed beats outlook in fiscal Q1 to tepid market response
- Marc-Antoine Cantin to lead Anges Québec as CEO Stéphane Drouin steps down
- Canadaâs tech heavyweights are planting flags in the UK
- Why tech managers are earning their Green Belt
- Cohere rings Bell, Shopifyâs design departure, 4AG Robotics harvests capital
- AI is changing startup math
- LiORA secures $5.1 million in seed funding to scale its soil remediation platform in the United States
- Shopify posts solid Q1 2025 earnings amid trade war but anticipates slight profit dip
- Canadian-founded Clay raises $100-million USD Series C led by Alphabetâs growth fund
- Descartes continues US acquisitions as it navigates global trade upheaval
- Harvey to bring AI legal platform to Canada with new Toronto office
- Co.Labsâ XiR program is turning mentorship into $100 million of momentum
- PEI BioAlliance appoints Sandpiper Ventures principal Lauren Ledwell as CEO
- TeamLinkt scores $8.3-million CAD Series A to expand sports administration platform across North America
- Mogo sells $13.8 million of WonderFi stake to buy Bitcoin ahead of Robinhood dealÂ
- Rozvelt bets on hardware for hunters amid tariff-spurred funding crunch
- Crypto giant Ripple to acquire stablecoin payments platform Rail for $275 million CAD
- Propel has a record first quarter while Thinkific sees modest gains
- Pathway acquired by US telehealth firm Doximity for $63 million USD
- Propel posts another record quarter as Thinkific begins courting larger customers in Q2
- Telling the stories of Canadian techâs Most Ambitious
- How Canada can be a leader in space (and save the world)
- Blue J raises $167.4-million CAD Series D after AI tax research platform more than doubles revenue
- OpenText replaces longtime CEO Mark Barrenechea as it considers selling off “non-core assets”
- Shopify regains status as Canadaâs most valuable company with strong Q2 earnings
- Trade war uncertainty drags on for Canadian tech as US hikes tariffs, changes duty rules
- Enabled Talent is using AI to make every job disability-inclusive
- NordSpace breaks ground on new Atlantic Spaceport Complex in Newfoundland
- Clutch opens BC facility as it hits the gas on renewed Western Canada expansion
- Uno Platform raises $3.5 million to bring âpragmatic vibe codingâ to enterprises
- Waabi hires Uber Freight CEO to lead commercialization of self-driving trucks
- YSpace is turning Toronto and York Region into a springboard for Hong Kong startups
- How Collectr bootstrapped a trading card hobby into an eight-figure business
- Techstars founder Brad Feld says you should give more without knowing what youâll get back
- BinSentry raises $68.8-million CAD Series C as it brings remote animal feed monitoring platform to BrazilÂ
- The platform and technology team powering AI at TD
- Seed-stage rebound a bright spot in QuĂ©becâs gloomy VC landscape: report
- Federal government invests $8 million into six Québec EV battery and charging projects
- US-based Landbase buys team and tech behind Canadaâs Adauris to advance AI roadmap
- Bobbie Racette steps down as CEO of Virtual Gurus after closing undisclosed funding
- Commissioner of Canada Elections will âexplore the useâ of AI
- Cohere secures $500 million USD at $6.8-billion valuation, hires former Uber and Meta execs
- NordSpace breaks ground, Shopify reclaims its crown, Perplexity courts Google
- Healwell plans to offload research, patient businesses as it focuses on AI
- WonderFi Q2 earnings show widening losses ahead of Robinhood takeover
- Bankruptcy docs claim faltering sales pipeline sunk Uvaro and Lighthouse Labs post acquisition
- What can talking to AI teach us?
- Klue lays off 40 percent of staff as startup navigates shifting AI landscapeÂ
- Markhamâs tech ecosystem helped this founder take on constructionâs biggest bottleneck
- Cohere pitches security and productivity with general release of North enterprise AI platform
- Cohere remains Canadaâs AI hope
- âWake-up callâ unheeded as Canadian VC investment hits lowest level since H1 2020
- Friendlier closes $4.5 million to help more food service operators ditch single-use containers
- Vendasta launches AI agents to bring âenterprise-gradeâ automation to small businesses
- Sovra appoints new CEO Tom Spengler as it sells off ânon-core businessesâ to focus on government tech
- Feds sign new agreement with Cohere to explore AI uses within government services
- Queer tech founders explore move to Canada as US abandons DEI
- Peeking through the Canadian tech IPO window
- AGAZ Summit is where Canadian founders go global
- Canadian-led Aalo Atomics raises $100-million USD Series B for its nuclear power plans
- MaRS and U of T seek new partner as Johnson & Johnson pulls support for JLabs Toronto
- Deep Sky boots up inaugural direct air carbon capture facility in Alberta
- Semiconductor manufacturer Ranovus plans $100 million expansion of Ottawa facility
- Databricks opens Vancouver R&D centre as data giant anticipates $100-billion USD valuation
- FreshBooks is making embedded finance feel invisible, and thatâs the point
- General Fusion staves off funding crunch with $30 million CAD to fuel quest for commercial fusion power
- Caseware replaces the majority of its C-suite as AI comes for the accounting tech stack
- Vendasta goes agentic, Databricks builds in Vancity, and Googleâs late-night host
- Can one venture studio stop Canadaâs AI brain drain?
- Taking Pride in Canadian tech
- From a faxed newsletter to 30,000 global customers
- Canada will get a national summit in October to back procurement of homegrown tech
- Construction tech startup Mechasys lays out blueprint to scale with $23-million Series A
- Leaders from Shopify, 1Password, Carbon6 to unpack the biggest exit opportunities at TechExit.io Toronto
- NASA will hold its 2025 Space Apps Challenge in Canada starting October 4
- With new funding, Astrus has secured $3.6 million CAD to date for its AI microchip design offering
- Shopify bolsters product design team with acquisition of Molly Studio
- Wealthsimple acquires Fey to bolster its investment research capabilities
- Frontier signs $43.3-million CAD carbon removal deal with Planetary
- Astrus announces $11 million CAD to automate semiconductor design with AI
- How CoLab reclaimed 100 hours from R&D tax filings
- Ssense seeks to âsafeguardâ company from potential sale through creditor protection
- Cohere president Martin Kon stepping down, remains âkey memberâ of the team
- Bench IQ raises $7.3 million CAD for AI platform analyzing judicial rulings
- xAI bites Apple, Wealthsimple buys insights, and #CDNtech’s newest summit
- Vistara Growth wants out of âtweenerâ category as private credit firm gears up to close fifth fund
- Inside the platform powering a womenâs health uprising
- NordSpaceâs rocket launch thwarted by faulty safety system, weather delays
- Proposed SR&ED changes could boost tech companies and national productivity, experts say
- Telus Digital to rejoin parent company after $743-million CAD acquisition
- “Academically disingenuous”: Cohere co-founder calls out Sam Altman for AGI hype
- Federal challenge grants Photonic and Xanadu funding to advance quantum defence tech projects
- North Vector Dynamics secures $4.2-million contract with National Defence for hypersonic propulsion
- Kensington acquires One9 to establish a defence tech VC platform
- FedDev Ontario pledges millions to support Black entrepreneurs
- Aidan Gomez, Kari Briski, Minister Evan Solomon, Yoshua Bengio to headline ALL IN 2025
- InBC CEO Jill Earthy leaves after âmutual decisionâ with board
- SRTX names BonLook co-founder Sophie Boulanger new CEO
- Dominion Dynamics to test defence tech in âextremeâ environment through Arctic Training Centre partnership
- How VCs are navigating the AI era with Ripple Ventures’ Matt Cohen
- Canadian tech job listings plunge below pre-pandemic levels and AI may be the culprit
- Molecular You secures $6.9 million CAD to scale predictive blood tests across North America
- Klue doubles down on AI with Ignition acquisition
- BDC gets aggressive, Nick Frosstâs cold shot, Google faces the gavel
- Marzieh Fadaee promoted to head of Cohere Labs
- Tech and business groups embrace Competition Bureau study into small business loan fairness
- BetaKit Office Tour: Intuit
- SINs among customer data accessed in Wealthsimple security breach
- BDC commits another $200 million to startups building tech for legacy industries
- Canadian drone maker ZenaTech expands US presence âearlier than expectedâ in response to Trump policies
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford did not deliver the innovation budget tech leaders wanted
- Batteries, services helped ocean tech firm Kraken Robotics sail to strong profit and revenue in 2024
- Every platform promise #CDNtech cares about in the 2025 federal election
- 150 Canadian tech leaders urge federal parties to deliver plan for economic sovereignty in open letter
- Canadian Armed Forces veteran, Shopify co-founder team up for $50 million military tech fund
- Space-tech startup Mission Control shoots for the Moon (and Mars) with funding from GreenSky
- Wyvern secures $4 million from SDTC to use satellite tech for farming
- Are Canadians ready for AI-powered life insurance?
- Student-led takeover of Tri-Cities tech continues with Waterloo Tech Week
- Elon Musk brings Neuralink brain implants to Toronto in global first
- Ontario bets on made-in-province healthtech with streamlined Innovation Pathway
- Wound care device maker MolecuLight secures $39.5 million CAD from UK-based Hayfin
- Aspect Biosystems lands $165-million CAD Series B to advance 3D-printed tissue therapies
- H|T: The Healthtech Times – Telehealth giant Amwell posts nearly $400M loss in Q1
- Nick Frosst sells Canada
- Former Alberta innovation minister and Athennian co-founder team up to get large infrastructure projects built faster with Ultimarii
- New era at Mila as Hugo Larochelle named scientific director
- Float launches SME “hybrid” accounts to take on Canadaâs big banks
- White Star Capital wants to lead Canadian seed rounds with new $50-million USD fund
- Tetra Trust parent secures backing from banks, FinTechs to launch Canadian stablecoin
- Evolo wants to bring choose-your-own-adventure AI marketing to banking and insuranceÂ
- ‘Mission is a go’ for Canadian defence tech
- Teenagers are talking with AI. What are the chatbots telling them?
- Climate tech needs a plan B
- Elon Muskâs SpaceX knocks MDA Space out of $1.8-billion satellite deal
- Calgaryâs Energy Transition Centre secures $10-million expansion investment
- FDA approval marks âmost significant milestoneâ in Kardiumâs history
- Exro Technologies CEO resigns as stock price plummets
- Ssense wins temporary protection in battle with creditors
- Shopify and VitalHub return to TSX top 30 list while Propel Holdings and MDA Space make debuts
- LocusX raises $3-million seed round to debug game code with AI
- Boâs rollercoaster year ends in “seven-figure” acquisition
- The fundamental misunderstanding of open banking thatâs costing us all, big time
- OpenAI pushes for Canadian publishers’ copyright lawsuit to be heard in the US
- NordSpace granted new window for Canadaâs first commercial rocket launch
- Q4 Inc. names Lewis Black as new CEO, founder Darrell Heaps steps back
- Isabelle Hudon says BDC is getting ready to support Canadaâs defence tech sector in âa more aggressive wayâ
- Wittington Ventures hires former MaRS IAF leader Zeeshan Ali as partner
- 2Keys security breach exposes government-stored emails and phone numbers
- AI, startups, and Simu Liu: Elevate Festival announces 2025 schedule
- Christopher Skeete exits QuĂ©becâs innovation portfolio in cabinet shuffle
- North founders launch Jetson with âsmartâ home heat pump
- MDA Space loses EchoStar, Apple trims the iPhoneâs waist, and is there life on Mars?
- Amii receives $9 million from feds to equip energy workers with AI skills
- Ssense reaches agreement with lenders on restructuring plan
- Schulich Venture Academy has a âbigger visionâ for upskilling Canadian tech startups
- Canadian tech execs change with the season
- FeX Energy raises $4.8 million CAD on bet that iron can power the energy transition
- Ex-Vidyard employees sell Torontoâs HyperComply to SecurityScorecard
- The program looking to help Black founders build against the odds
- Canada outpaced US in tech talent growth in 2024: CBRE report
- Pender Ventures partner Isaac Souweine leaves VC firm
- NATO backs Canadian defence tech with nearly $1 million for two companies
- Leadership changes hit Benevity and Fable as CEOs step aside for board seats
- Canadaâs AI edge is human
- Keypr incorporates Nesto mortgage services into platform for homebuyers
- Cohere opens Paris office to create European hub for its AI business
- 1Password locks in new deal with Perplexityâs AI-powered Comet browser
- Shopify COO Kaz Nejatian leaves to lead Opendoor
- Roach Capital’s Fahd Ananta follows Kaz Nejatian to Opendoor
- Why YC and Speedrun feel more like universities than funds
- How TD turned 100,000 employee ideas into 10,000 actionsÂ
- Carney says new Major Projects Office will help build a “Canadian sovereign cloud”
- Canadian VC pre-seed and seed activity continued to slump in H1 2025
- Amber Mac wants parents to know their kids are talking to AI
- Startup groups urge Ottawa to extend ElevateIP funding
- Tatum Bioscience makes case for scalable cancer vaccine
- Elastic Path founderâs new startup ShopVision secures $5.6 million CAD seed round
- Harley Finkelstein and David Segal to explore their entrepreneurial paths at Open House Montréal
- Salary growth in Canadian tech hits three-year low
- LimeWire on Fyre, Cohere au Paris, and Shopifyâs Mensa member
- Canadian tech champion and former Rogers CEO Nadir Mohamed dies at 69
- Canadian-led Dayforce to be taken private by Thoma Bravo in $12.3-billion USD deal
- Why Canadaâs defence tech sector is suddenly exploding
- Mycroft raises $3.5 million USD to deliver âGoldilocksâ security for startups
- An untapped market for Canadian tech
- Venture for Canada taps Steven Wang for CEO
- SAAS NORTH is serving up a new playbook for founders
- Loblaw expands Gatik deal to 50 driverless trucks by 2026
- How Simple Ventures plans to fill a gap in Canadian entrepreneurshipÂ
- Canadian tech leaders back new venture studio Simple Ventures
- CEO of meal delivery company Goodfood abruptly departs amid recent losses
- Impact of Canadaâs H-1B visa talent grab may go well beyond 10,000 applicants
- Nesto bets on big banks as a way to provide more Canadian mortgages
- TikTok collected personal info from “a large number” of Canadian children
- Variational AI lands âup toâ $349 million USD to discover drugs with Merck
- Simple Ventures announces $15 million to bring innovation and talent back to Canada
- Sheertex maker SRTX confirms permanent cuts for 92 employees
- This Canadian entrepreneur put QuickBooks on the Intuit platform to the test
- Telegraph Ventures secures $35 million to back enterprise AI startups in Québec
- Attaboticsâ story ends with asset sale to Kentucky engineering firm
- Google Android head Sameer Samat, FinTech CEO Odilon Almeida join Lightspeed board
- FluidAI lands FDA clearance to sell post-surgery monitor in the US
- NordSpace’s second rocket launch attempt flames out after multiple launchpad fires
- Canadian tech looks to poach H-1B visa castaways as its own âambitious foundersâ flee
- Metaâs super PAC, Trumpâs talent tariff, MDA Space goes rinkside
- Constellation Software shares close week down 17 percent after founder and CEO steps down
- Cohereâs valuation hits $7 billion USD following $100-million round extension
- Canada hopes to build a sovereign cloud to counter US dominance. It won’t be easy
- Telus opens inaugural Sovereign AI Factory in Rimouski
- Canada will update AI strategy a year ahead of schedule: Evan Solomon
- âItâs never been easier to build, but itâs never been harder to win.â FutureSight turns company-building into a science
- âIt used to be lonely being Indigenous in techâ How one tech founderâs question led to a community of hundreds
- Mila partners with Hypertec and 5C to launch Sovereign AI Research Hub in Montréal
- Meet the Toast Top 25 Women in Tech
- Elevate Festivalâs 2025 Startup Open House hits Toronto Oct. 9
- Shopify merchants to sell directly through OpenAIâs ChatGPT with new partnership
- Cohere’s new CFO on carving out space in a crowded AI market
- Tailscaleâs CEO has an idea âworth billionsâ for AI startups
- C-suite execs Pedro Canahuati and Julian Teixeira leave 1Password
- Tiny receives conditional approval to graduate to the Toronto Stock Exchange
- The feds are ALL IN on AI
- Oasis Learning AI is the Canadian startup giving corporate training an AI overhaul
- Avitia partners with Genoscience to expand rapid cancer test access in Québec
- A CTO’s guide to legacy software modernization
- Venn launches product to make incorporation easier for Ontario entrepreneurs
- Hyperlume snapped up by San Jose-based Credo for undisclosed amount
- Shopify adds OpenAI to cart, Constellation loses its star, and Canadaâs new defence agency
- Albertaâs AI legacy runs deep. Hereâs how one founder is building on it
- Canadaâs productivity problem takes center stage at Competition Summit 2025
- Platform Calgary president and CEO Terry Rock leaving for Alberta Innovates
- Swiirl teams up with former Raptors star Jerome Williams for 40-city student tour
- At Munk School event, FinTech leaders call for Canada to take bigger swings
- Are Canadian entrepreneurs willing to let their old companies die?
- Canada must not ignore its innovation problems
- NordSpace and C-Core partner to build ground station infrastructure across Canada
- The Hinton Lectures return as AIâs safety cracks widen
- TransPod partners with Canadian steelmakers for 1,000-km/h Alberta rail project
- Radical Ventures holds $650-million USD final close for new early-stage AI fund
- Felix eyes preventative health market with new âlongevityâ testing program
- Cyclic Materials the first Canadian company to crack MIT Technology Reviewâs climate tech list
- CDL Defence, Vimy Forge, and Calian Ventures launch programs to boost Canadian defence tech
- PhenoTips raises $2 million to expand âgenomic health recordâ platform’s global reach
- Inside the tech incubator putting Brampton on Canadaâs startup map
- Former Dye & Durham leaders resurface with $100-million USD SPAC targeting Canadian tech
- Mark Cuban-backed TransCrypts closes $20-million CAD seed round
- EQ Bank unveils new account for Canadian small businesses
- AI takes centre stage on Elevateâs opening night
- Ex-Cohere execs Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy unveil new AI startup
- Sprout Family raises $1.7 million pre-seed round to make fertility benefits more accessible in Canada
- Deep Sky aims to build one of the worldâs largest carbon capture facilities in Manitoba
- Shopify promotes Jess Hertz to COO as chief revenue officer departs
- At Elevate, founders call out barriers holding back Canadian healthtech
- Manzilâs milestone, a venture capital wind down, and the Junk Yard Dog returns
- BDC Capitalâs Cheri Corbett joins Pender Ventures as partner
- âStay tunedâ: OpenAI teases Canadian office
- Canadian cloud providers unite to launch sovereign cloud offering for government
- Serenity Power wins $100K Women+ Pitch Prize at Elevate
- How CTK Bio uses R&D support to compete on cost
- Manzil surpasses $100 million in halal mortgages for Muslim Canadians
- First-ever Toronto Community Week will be headlined by Wattpad, Stripe, and Calendly
- Numrâs Demo Day win proves what structured support can unlock in just four months
- Spellbook raises $50-million USD Series B led by Khosla Ventures
- Canadian VC movement and AI at Elevate
- 1Password holds $100 million secondary sale, inks deal to deepen AI focus
- Mila exploring venture fund to commercialize AI research
- Dominion Dynamics secures $4 million to modernize Arctic surveillance
- Kaz Nejatian brings his former Shopify âsecond-in-commandâ to Opendoor
- Promise Robotics opens second factory to help increase Canadian housing supply
- ABK Biomedical raises $35 million USD to bring liver cancer treatment to market
- SAAS NORTH will feel a little different this year
- Provision raises $7 million USD to build AI co-pilots for pre-construction estimates
- Spring Impact Capital closes $14-million fund to grow Canadaâs climate and healthtech ecosystem
- Why the future of Ontarioâs critical industries hinges on startups
- Clio caps off year of big acquisitions by launching new enterprise division
- Canadian FinTech leaders told to finally expect open banking progress in fall budget
- Evan Solomon heads to the Gulf, Canadian Tire hits a speedbump, and Canadaâs latest Nobel laureate
- FreshBooks partners with Affirm to offer âbuy now, pay laterâ feature
- Danielle Smith expands ministerial team leading Albertaâs $100-billion AI data centre push
- Ocean Startup Project enters third phase with $8 million and economic growth goals
- The gender pay gap in Canadian tech has tripled
- Dax Dasilva wants his bonus
- Is Canadian FinTech making a comeback?
- Tech layoffs drag down the dog days of summer
- Can Canadian FinTech woo the customers that banks have left behind?
- Will Canadian VCs rebound in time to fund early-stage startups?
- Lyft to hire hundreds more staff in Toronto amid plans to open new tech hub
- BDC report finds optimism is up among Canadian entrepreneurs despite trade war uncertainty
- Ready Plan Go raises $750K to automate accountantsâ grunt work with AI
- Entrepreneurs face more than a decade wait for Canadaâs Start-up Visa
- Can Canada build its own social network?
- Gen Z wants BlackBerry back. Why?
- Pawsible Ventures looks to sniff out opportunities in pet health
- Clio the latest Canadian company to partner with Affirm for âbuy now, pay laterâ service
- Can todayâs AI wunderkinds clear tomorrowâs enterprise hurdles?
- Why Canada doesnât buy Canadian tech
- Investissement Québec transforms early-stage program into $200-million VC fund
- âIt is warâ: How Alexi hopes to dominate the AI legaltech market
- YSpace to put women entrepreneurs in the spotlight at ELLA Ascend 2025 Showcase
- Absorb to acquire Together in bid to bring mentorship to its learning software
- The Canva for spreadsheets tackling Canadaâs founder-finance gap
- MaRS relaunches Capital Program to keep Canadaâs âanchorâ companies at home
- Aidan Gomez says Cohere could IPO âsoonâ as company holds secondary sale
- Koho refreshes joint accounts with new reward features
- Calgary’s Future Summit 2025 looks to drive deals in legacy industries, AI, and infrastructure
- Canadian AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton join global call to ban superintelligence development
- Wealthsimple unveils advanced investing tools as it hits $100-billion milestone
- Feds commit $189 million to renew Black Entrepreneurship Program
- Felix Health raises $53 million in growth financing to get more âaggressiveâ in telehealth
- FINTRAC issues record-setting, $177-million fine against crypto exchange Cryptomus
- Canadaâs FinTech industry enters new era as Bank of Canada taps first payment service providers
- Neo Financial completes first-ever hat trick of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 rankings
- âStill processingâ: Lighthouse Labs co-founder shares lessons from sale to Uvaro and bankruptcy
- Start-up Visa takes too long, a Canadian IPO coming soon, and the cloud 404s
- Cybrid closes $10-million USD Series A round to bring stablecoins to the business mainstream
- The feds are picking Canadian tech winners through MOUs
- Paytrie spinout Loon raises $3 million to oversee Canadian dollar-backed stablecoin
- Evan Solomon teases new AI laws as experts warn Canada is behind international peers
- AI minister wonât rule out American involvement in Canadaâs sovereign cloud
- Untether AI files for bankruptcy following AMD acquihire
- âSaaS is dead.â Long live SAAS NORTH
- WonderFiâs acquisition by Robinhood delayed until first half of 2026
- Industry group Technation and tech hub OneEleven tap new leadership after months-long searches
- Maple Bridge Ventures raises $10 million for fund backing immigrant entrepreneurs
- Wealthsimple hits $10-billion valuation in new round backed by Dragoneer, GIC, CPP Investments
- Tech investor associations urge unified capital strategy ahead of budget
- Techskis returns to the slopes in March 2026
- Open House MontrĂ©al brings its grassroots energy back to cityâs startup scene
- Ottawa pushes to become Canadaâs defence innovation hub
- Five trends shaping the future of FinTech: Insights from the Canada Fintech Forum
- Grammarly rebrands to Superhuman as it expands from catching typos to AI productivity
- Hootsuite lays off 20 percent of its global workforce
- Arca strikes 10-year carbon removal deal with Microsoft
- Maket secures $3.4 million to make floor planning quicker with AI
- Stablecoins are at a regulatory crossroads in Canada. Whatâs next?
- New accelerator program aims to give Canadian founders a taste of Silicon Valley
- Founder Katherine Homuth submits bid to rejoin SRTX as company enters strategic review
- Solink expands Ottawa headquarters as it targets 1,000 employees by 2030
- What’s in #Budget2024 for Canadian tech?
- A âterrifyingâ time to build: Canadian VCs debate AI bubble at RevStar Summit
- BDC picks women-led Magnum for its first investment in the search fund asset class
- Wattpad unpacks its evolving strategy under new product head Chelsea Parry
- Time to catch up: Why Canada needs to rethink financial innovation and competition
- Canadian semiconductor leaders see opportunity, and risk, in US takeovers
- Waabiâs self-driving system now powers Volvoâs new autonomous truck
- Sparrow BioAcoustics raises $10 million to scale smartphone stethoscopes across North America
- Goodbye Grammarly, Canadaâs newest decacorn, Letâs Go Blue Jays!
- Maritime Launch gets $10-million loan from EDC to build Nova Scotia spaceport
- Canada sees rebound in angel investments as industry calls for more federal support
- Black-led startups secure record-breaking $400,000 at DMZâs Black Innovation Summit
- What will Budget 2025 offer Canada’s innovation economy?
- What the AWS outage reveals about Canadaâs digital sovereignty
- ventureLAB and the Critical Industrial Technologies initiative are modernizing Canadaâs industrial backbone
- Gander Social raises $1 million to build a Canadian alternative to X and Meta
- Six years later, Questrade can finally launch Canadaâs newest bank
- Canadarm maker invests $10 million in Maritime Launchâs Atlantic Canada spaceport
- Xanadu to go public on Nasdaq and TSX in $3.6-billion USD SPAC deal
- Exro Technologies shuts down US business as possible TSX delisting looms
- âWe didnât even consider building a lab in Toronto.â
- Ottawa launches Defence Investment Agency to overhaul military procurement
- BDC Capital promotes Mona Minhas to managing partner of Thrive Venture Fund
- Purpose CEO Som Seif vows to fight OSC greenwashing allegations
- Feds invest $5.8 million to boost BCâs carbon management tech
- Zenbooks co-founder launches OpenSME to rally Canadian small businesses behind open banking
- BC shuffles cabinet, moving Rick Glumac to AI and Ravi Kahlon back to jobs
- QueerTech launches new 2SLGBTQIA+ accelerator and names Virtual Gurusâ Bobbie Racette board chair
- Trudeauâs tariff team taps Canadian tech to get tough on TrumpÂ
- Feds struggle to table Fall Economic Statement following Minister Freelandâs shock resignation
- Four new Canadian tech announcements in the Fall Economic Statement that shouldnât be overlooked
- Federal government outlines $2 billion in AI compute spending commitment
- CIFAR leader expects CAISI to help inform AI policy in Canada and abroad
- âItâs life or deathâ: QuĂ©bec ecosystem frustrated after IQ suspends early-stage program
- Pender Ventures closes second B2B software, healthtech-focused VC fund at $100 million
- Balance becomes Canadaâs second qualified digital asset custodian
- Champagne, Conservatives point fingers as Canadian cleantech startups suffer continued SDTC funding delays
- Feds announce $4 million for Atlantic Canada tech startups through ACOA
- Social Finance Fund-backed Boann reveals first investments in Canadian impact funds
- OSC accuses Liquid MarketPlace of fraud and pursues action against startup, top execs
- Amii secures $3 million from PrairiesCan to fuel AI adoption in the Prairies
- Strong Community and Government Support Make Canada One of The Best Places on Earth To Make Videogames
- Applications open for Innovate BCâs Ignite program to fund local R&D projects
- Government providing $500,000 for innovative businesses in Québec
- ISED Minister Navdeep Bains announces up to $750,000 funding for digital education in Mississauga and Brampton
- Ontario will be the first province to test self-driving cars
- OCE and Venture for Canada partner to give recent STEM grads work experience
- University of Waterloo creates facility dedicated to smart transportation
- Vancouverâs ePACT secures $1 million in WINN funding
- Is Jim Balsillie right to say that “Canada isnât equipped for global competition?”
- Tony Clement: Canada #1 amongst G7 in R&D support for tech innovation
- The opportunity of open data and the importance of hackathons
- Going Global: Toronto and Chicago startups share dreams of international expansion
- CTI Life Sciences holds initial close for second fund at $134 million
- With $8M in new funding, the Accelerator Centre launches AC JumpStart Program
- U of Tâs Munk School to run $9M government-backed Digital Public Square Project
- Latest Canadian stats reveal $5.8B in government funding and $900M in venture capital investments in first half of 2014
- Government Introduces Small Business Job Credit, aims to save small businesses $550 million over the next 2-years
- Why Startups need to Acqui-Fire Government Policies: Part Two
- Federal Government’s #CODE2014 is Officially Underway
- Is Cisco Set to Pour $100 Million in Canadian Venture Capital Funds?
- Flare raises $42.5-million CAD Series B to go global with cyber threat detection tech
- Beacon raises $250-million USD Series B to buy and equip âMain Street businessesâ with AI
- #Budget2025 hints at full scope of federal governmentâs defence agenda
- Inaugural Melamoon pitch competition awards $200,000 to Black founders
- Shopify stock slides as company beats Q3 revenue outlook with 32 percent growth
- Flare raises another $30 million USD to fuel global cybersecurity expansion and acquisition plans
- Profitualâs No-Pitch Competition will award $10,000 to the startup with the strongest financial model
- Lightspeed upgrades yearly forecast with revenue beat in fiscal Q2 earnings
- Maple expands virtual mental health care through Beyond ADHD acquisition
- Carbonova, SenseNet, Xatoms among cleantech startups named to latest Foresight 50
- Tesla pays Elon, Apple might pay Google, and a #Budget2025 breakdown
- Canadian tech sees #Budget2025 as âabout-faceâ from last governmentâs stance on business
- After years of disappointment and delay, #Budget2025 commits to a âcompetitive and innovativeâ financial system
- Whatâs in #Budget2025 for Canadian tech?
- The story Budget 2025 tells to Canadian tech
- Budget 2025: âcautiously optimisticâ
- Clio secures $500-million USD Series G as it completes vLex acquisition
- Nord Quantique, Xanadu, Photonic advance to next phase of DARPA quantum race
- âWe could be public todayâ: 1Password crosses $400-million USD ARR milestone
- Lab4 and Xena Intelligence claim top pitch competition prizes at SAAS NORTH
- Digitail grows Toronto hub as it fetches $23-million USD Series B round
- Canadian startups meet with Canadaâs Consul General in Dubai
- FrontlineIQ raises $3.3-million seed to âgamifyâ sales jobs with AI coaching
- Is SaaS dead? Tech leaders debate whether it’s time for requiem or rebirth
- CoLab cashes in on AI demand with $72-million USD funding round
- Glowtify hopes to equip e-commerce marketers for the holidays with $3.4-million seed round
- Stingray to buy media streamer TuneIn for $175 million USD
- Whitecap Venture Partners welcomes Damien Steel following his Deep Sky departure
- Wise brings cross-border payments to Wealthsimple customers
- âA shared mission.â CIBC Innovation Banking backs Vessel, modernizing the funds it finances
- Ex-BenchSci exec joins Terminal as COO
- Sarah Rieger joins BetaKit as managing editor
- Lightspeed president JD Saint-Martin to step down in 2026
- Ex-Deep Sky science chief co-launches cement decarbonization startup Cura
- Clioâs big raise, U of Tâs special scholars, and BetaKitâs new managing editor
- CereCura secures $1.4 million to tackle brain disorders with COVID-era vaccine tech
- MDA Space reports 45-percent year-over-year revenue growth in Q3 after losing EchoStar contract
- Shopifyâs shuttered Indigenous entrepreneurship program will relaunch, says program co-founder
- Sonder collapses after spending nearly $3.7 million on now-defunct Marriott deal
- Cohere and OpenAI lose key motions in high-stakes copyright fights
- Minister Solomon: Canadaâs AI and Buy Canadian strategies likely to launch in 2026
- NLPatent’s $3-million USD raise helps it power patent research with AI
- Calgary tech talks about a different kind of energy at Innovation Week
- Dominion Dynamics’ CEO thinks defence is a âgenerational opportunityâ for Canadian entrepreneurs
- Sonder collapses, SaaS is dead, and Clio gobbles up vLex
- Fewer, larger financings give Canadian VC a boost in Q3 as domestic PE stays hot
- BDC pledges $50 million to help women entrepreneurs buy businesses from aging owners
- Harley Finkelstein and David Segal spill the tea on entrepreneurship at âMade in MontrĂ©alâ event
- What is the economic promise of a Canadian sovereign cloud?
- Vistara Growth closes $321-million USD fund after âfriend-raising to the maxâ
- BDC commits $100 million to boost rural entrepreneurship across Canada
- New Life Sciences Fund and leadership churn reveal continued reset at BDC
- Okta to launch Canadian data cell as sovereignty debate intensifies
- Plooto co-founder sues payment software firm, accuses board of ousting him
- The feds might outlaw screen-scraping. Is an outright ban the answer?
- SickKids charity fund takes over management of Upside Foundation
- Meet your new digital team: Intuit introduces AI agents on QuickBooks
- Canadian-led Quilt brings its smart heat pumps north
- Team of Toronto talent unites after Y Combinator to build Clado
- Inovia Capital opens Abu Dhabi office as Canada strengthens ties with UAE
- Questrade doubles down on tools for advanced traders at first product showcase
- Sweden brings urgencyâand royaltyâto MontrĂ©al as it seeks AI research partnership
- Maritime Launch conducts Nova Scotiaâs first commercial rocket launch
- The great Cloudflare outage, Russian robots, and the rebirth of Zork
- TikTok may face class-action lawsuit in Canada over alleged misuse of personal data
- Inside Ottawaâs cautious experiment with an AI-powered digital help desk
- Crypto advocates want blockchain tech added to Canadian AI ministerâs portfolio
- Itâs “Valley or Bust” for Canadaâs young entrepreneurs
- The feds get 4,000 website complaints a day. Can a “responsible” AI chatbot untangle the mess?
- As DEI backlash spills into Canada, Black tech leaders envision a more sustainable model
- Faire co-founder: company has the metrics to go public, but isnât rushing to IPO
- UAE research institute to open lab within Mila
- Canadian founders launch Furble to make pet prescriptions more accessible
- Floss, brush, chew? Toothpod launches a chewable tablet for dental hygiene
- Amid global DEI backlash, Canadian VC sees more women and visible minorities in leadership roles
- FinOps has become the new superpower for CFOs
- Stablecorp claims to have first regulator-approved stablecoin tied to Canadian dollar
- TISC is fine-tuning AI for split-second decisions, starting on the basketball court
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- Feds commit $42.5 million to expand AI compute infrastructure at University of Toronto
- Is the fedsâ FDI approach âtoxicâ for Canadian tech?
- Here are the 400+ ways Canadaâs government is currently using AI
- US firm Forum Ventures bets on Toronto to build next wave of AI software startups
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- How OpenText went all-in on AI
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- Morphocell rounds out Series A at $50 million USD to accelerate liver regeneration tech
- Canada’s NordSpace announces 2026 satellite launch on SpaceX rocket
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- Montréal-based Trustii raises $2.8 million CAD to boost employee risk management software
- Schooling Canada in faster AI Adoption
- Partage Club bets on the sharing economy with item-lending app
- Conquest Planningâs founder and CEO to step down, tap CRO to take over
- Revolut appoints new Canadian CEO four years after retreat from market
- The Nod asks Canadians to shop the âReal Black Fridayâ by supporting Black-owned businesses
- BenchSci inks multi-year partnership with Mila to develop AI for drug discovery
- MaRS innovation hub and insurance firm Definity launch new accelerator for climate adaptation startups
- Clio takes Alexi to court over database at the centre of billion-dollar vLex deal
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- BC offers local businesses up to $500,000 to test early-stage tech innovations
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- How Calgary-based startup Knead tackled the NFL draftâs food waste with software
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- How Vive Crop Protection is helping farmers grow more, while using pesticides less
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- Canadaâs AI ambitions with Minister Evan Solomon
- From sawdust to seed round: ConstructionClock grows from Winnipeg
- Nfinite nabs $4.6 million to prove it can make paper that performs like plastic
- CCI names Patrick Searle CEO ahead of âturbulentâ year for Canadian tech
- Fedsâ new Defence Investment Agency awards first contract to MDA Space and Telesat
- General Fusion reportedly faces pressure to go public after $51.5-million raise
- Enabled Talent gains traction in Africa and Europe following global launch
- Microsoft to spend $7.5 billion on AI data centre expansion with pledge to protect Canadaâs âdigital sovereigntyâ
- Shopify merchants can now sell products through AI chatbots
- AppDirectâs acquisition spree heats up as it reveals plans to purchase vCom Solutions
- Inovia promotes two principals to partner as it readies 2026 fundraising push
- She tried to bring Silicon Valley’s tech energy to Vancouver. Why did she leave to build a US startup instead?
- Canada needs a national semiconductor strategy, industry groups argue
- Assetflo closes $2 million USD to make clientsâ every physical asset âsearchableâ
- Goodfood loses another leader as co-founder says he’s stepping down as president and COO
- Salesforce might rebrand, Shopify gets agentic, and SpaceXâs unexpected beneficiary
- Court order prompts Well Health, Healwell to hand over records in merger probe
- Tuhk raises $6 million USD to crack down on financial cybercrime
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- Employment Hero looks to make Canadian business profitable following Humi takeover
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- Coinbase Canada CEO Lucas Matheson to join former Shopify colleagues at Opendoor
- Simuhealth raises $2.6 million pre-seed to modernize healthcare training
- Twenty Canadian companies join NATOâs largest-ever defence accelerator cohort
- Canada launches its own quantum research program to rival DARPA initiative
- National Bank sues Flinks co-founders for alleged non-compete violation
- Canadaâs Defence Industrial Strategy must include procurement pathways for tech
- Gander hits $1.5-million crowdfunding target as Canadians back homegrown social network
- Tetra Trust clears another hurdle on its path to launching CADD stablecoin
- Scale AI unveils $129 million for 44 new applied AI projects across Canada
- BDC tells VCs it’s willing to lift restrictions on defence investing
- Canadian payments companies’ âsugar highâ ended in 2022. VCs say a new spike is coming
- Feds sign five-year MOU with Coveo in latest AI partnership
- Amiral Ventures holds $40-million first close to address âlack of leadershipâ in Canadian VC
- Queenâs University recruits Ian Karlin from Nvidia in bid to build Canadian supercomputer
- Shopifyâs former head of core product to lead app development at OpenAI
- CoLab joins Nvidia Inception Program to beef up AI capabilities for its engineering tools
- GeologicAI acquires Finlandâs Lumo Analytics to round out suite of critical minerals sensors
- BDC unveils $4-billion defence technology platform
- Canada’s quantum dark horse, DoorDash gets Zesty, and Queen’s Nvidia recruit
- Canadian Space Mining Corporation plans for ârapid expansionâ in 2026 under new name
- Canadaâs job market sucks for Gen Z
- Startup investigation reveals 50 peer-reviewed papers contained AI-hallucinated citations
- Canada’s largest VC reports for duty
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- The year every Canadian startup went AI-first
- The year Canada realized it needs sovereign tech
- The biggest tech stories of 2025
- Canada suspends Start-Up Visa as feds look to transition to new program
- The pressure points shaping payments in Canada
- The year enshittification became undeniable
- Whitney Rockley, VC and diversity advocate, named to Order of Canada
- Canadian small businesses finally have what they’ve been waiting for: a timeline for consumer-driven banking
- Why 2026 needs to be the year of scale-ups for Canada
- OMERS’ John Ruffolo talks Canadaâs new startup lobby group and using the government for leverage
- The ultimate 2025 #CDNtech quiz
- Meet the tech startup casting extras for Shoresy, Hot Frosty, and other Canadian hits
- The biggest tech questions of 2026
- McRock Capital closes $120 million in third fund, backing industrial software startups
- The year Canada’s young entrepreneurs decided to leave
- The year Canadian tech got political (again)
- Clicks releases a phone for your phone, giving users a taste of BlackBerry
- Shopify ordered not to delete merchant data as legal spat with CRA continues
- The Black women founders reshaping Canadaâs venture future
- The Basic Phone launches Kickstarter for âdumbphoneâ thatâs just the right amount of smart
- Thirty bold predictions for AI in 2026
- Sprung Studios launches Sonar, an AI tool to track how players feel about games
- Photonic says itâs ready to commercialize quantum with $180-million fundraise
- âThere is a huge gap in the innovation spaceâ
- Edmonton reporter Jesse Cole joins BetaKitâs new Prairies Bureau
- Fifteen bold predictions on what it will feel like to work in tech in 2026
- Why European startups are coming to Canada
- CanLII and Caseway AI reportedly moving towards settlement in copyright dispute
- From roaming robo-barns to laser weeders, how an innovative program is helping BC farmers
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- Amii launches AI scholarship for environmental and atmospheric sciences
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- Backboard.io looks to solve AI amnesia with “substantial” pre-seed round
- MDA Space signs contract with US Department of War agency to potentially help with âGolden Domeâ project
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- Flare uncovers phishing campaigns scamming Canadians with fake toll and parking violation texts
- Kinaxis appoints former Plainview head Razat Gaurav as CEO
- Kepler to launch historic satellite network on SpaceX rocket this Sunday
- Groq’s staggering Nvidia deal has strong Canadian connections
- Ubisoft Halifax employees âblindsidedâ by surprise closure one month after unionizing
- 1Password promotes Nancy Wang to CTO
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency suspends Goodfood’s safe food licence
- BetaKitâs secret plan for 2026
- Ssense foundersâ bid to buy back company successful, pending approvals
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency reinstates Goodfoodâs safe food licence
- ITC says Canada’s largest Indigenous tech conference aims to break down silos
- D-Wave strikes $550-million USD deal to acquire Quantum Circuits
- The future is a four-day workweek
- Kepler makes history with world-first launch of optical relay satellite network
- Calgary quantum researchers discover rule-breaking new uses for diamonds
- Shopify leans into agentic commerce with Google and Microsoft deals
- âA perfect stormâ: 2025 was the worst year for Canadian VC fundraising since 2016
- How a MĂ©tis game developer is using Roblox to keep his language alive
- Medventions pilot pairs young innovators with Newfoundland doctors to inspire next-gen medtech
- Saskatchewan accelerators invest nearly $2.2 million in Prairies tech
- Polygon buys blockchain startup Sequence to power its stablecoin push
- Slate raises $1.3 million to deliver embedded lending infrastructure to Canadian platforms
- OpenText to sell off eDOCS unit for $163 million USD to continue AI focus
- Miovision partners with TomTom to tackle the worldâs traffic congestion
- Cohere partners with German submarine maker in bid to get its AI into Canadaâs fleet
- Nine Canadian companies make the 2026 Global Cleantech 100
- Science&Humans raises $10 million as hormone health enters the mainstream
- Portage strikes deal to manage Point72 Ventures FinTech assets in Steve Cohen and Goldman Sachs-backed fund
- How AI stands to dramatically change the future of work
- Oceantech accelerator Blue Action Canada opens applications for second cohort
- Mila researchers target âAI psychosisâ amid concerns about chatbots’ mental health impact
- Made from scratch: Toronto tech leaders reflect on 10 years of building Uber Eats
- How AI can help make SR&ED filing painless
- MedEssistâs Access To Care program has turned 100 Ontario pharmacies into mini-clinicsÂ
- Calgaryâs new Aerospace Innovation Hub aims to turn talent and capital into scale
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- Alberta opens registration for private online gambling operators
- Union files labour complaint, demands details from Ubisoft after sudden Halifax studio closure
- Canada Rocket Company wants Canada to stop hitching rides to space
- What Canadaâs AI strategy gets wrong about sovereignty
- Canadian tech embraces Military Keynesianism
- Dominion Dynamics raises $21 million to build Canadaâs âdefence neoprimeâ
- Hootsuite could receive up to $2.8 million USD for contract with US immigration enforcement
- Helcim takes aim at âwalled-offâ payment systems with new extension
- Hacks on, hacks off: How one coding dojo is preparing kids for the AI world
- YC alum DevCycle bought by Dynatrace to help developers move fast, but hopefully not break things
- Alexi escalates legal fight with Clio by filing antitrust claim
- Jetson raises $50-million USD Series A to heat more homes efficiently
- Goodfood sees âpressureâ in meal kit market as it posts 21-percent drop in sales
- Two years after going dark, Techstars is bringing back its Toronto accelerator
- What five years of Canadian tech exits signal for founders heading into 2026
- Chata Technologies closes $10-million USD Series A to scale deterministic AI model
- Canadian companies are generating massive returns in the âbioeconomyâ
- A smarter, safer way to run AI? Vancouverâs LĆD Technologies is betting on it
- The Canadian company solving AIâs latency problem
- Docebo deepens AI capabilities with $55-million USD 365Talents acquisition
- Teamworks, the âoperating system for sports,â buys hockey analytics platform Sportlogiq
- Hereâs whatâs actually driving Canadaâs M&A market
- Court allows TikTok to continue operating in Canada, for now
- Feds call for proposals to build large-scale data centres in Canada
- Mila and Inovia launch venture fund to turn AI research âdiamondsâ into startups
- What CIBC is seeing inside AIâs fastest deals
- QuĂ©bec bets on buying homegrown tech to boost provinceâs productivity
- General Fusion to go public on Nasdaq via $1-billion USD SPAC deal
- Years after selling Inkbox to BIC, the brothers who founded it canât watch it die
- Itâs midwinter, yet these Edmonton companies are prepping for wildfire season
- Prévoir closes $750K pre-seed round to scale its AI-powered fashion platform
- Creditors sue Telesat claiming satellite operator illegally moved assets beyond their reach
- Deck co-founders call non-compete lawsuit from former employer National Bank âfrivolousâ
- Cyclic Materials secures $75 million USD Series C to help it recover rare earth elements from waste
- Drive Capital âtriples downâ on Birdseye with $5 million USD investment for new AI competitive-intelligence tool
- Meet Winnipegâs latest venture studio, Ignition
- Grokâs non-consensual sexual images highlight gaps in Canadaâs deepfake laws
- Shopify makes more job cuts, this time targeting partnerships team
- Billdr relaunches with $4.4 million CAD to build âoperating systemâ for construction
- Growth is not enough for Canadian businesses
- Float secures nearly $100 million in debt to expand credit products for Canadian businesses
- AXL partners with IT firm Compugen to help turn AI ideas into AI applications
- Musk fights an airline, Capital One buys Brex, and TikTok stays online
- Montréal industrial AI scaleup Vention raises $110-million USD Series D
- Cellar Insights pockets $500,000 investment to help it protect potatoes
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- Chamath Palihapitiya, Sanja Fidler among Homecoming headliners as Toronto Tech Week unveils event calendar
- Local leaders launch Toronto Tech Week to accelerate cityâs ambitions
- Toronto Tech Week signs new two-year agreement with City of Toronto
- NordSpace to team up with German researchers to advance 3D-printed rocket engines
- Calian outlines new $100 million platform to bolster Canadian defence businesses
- Float, Wise, Koho, Paramount, and Brim join Payments Canada
- U of A partners with City of Edmonton to study hydrogen-powered vehicles
- TikTok and Grok are messes Canada canât clean up
- Rachel Clark is taking on cybersecurityâs scalability problem
- Waabi claims largest-ever Canadian tech fundraise as it hauls in $750-million USD Series C
- Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in
- FrontFundr posts breakout quarter following Gander Social’s success on its crowdfunding platform
- Canadaâs housing supply is in crisis. Can robots help?
- How AI and a âtightâ fundraising market are reshaping Canadian proptech
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- As AI scribes flood healthcare, experts stress need for responsible adoption
- AI pioneer Richard Sutton to receive honourary degree from U of A
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- Class-action lawsuit targets MDA Space over scrapped, $1.8-billion EchoStar deal
- Canada and Alberta announce 27 new projects to expand high-speed internet access
- Canada is the sixth-best place on earth to build a tech startup, new index suggests
- Ali Asariaâs Transformer Lab launches worldwide
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- OpenText appoints former IBM Americas president as new CEO
- OpenText sells analytics database Vertica to pay down debt
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- US-based welding tech company ESAB to buy Eddyfi for $1.45 billion USD
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- Bengio-led AI safety report warns of growing risks amid rapid capability gains
- BDC head says bank pulled back from life sciences âtoo earlyâ as it preps new VC fund
- Neo Financial secures $68.5 million in equity as it adopts big-bank funding playbook
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- Elevate Farms acquires Fieldless Farms to create âCanadian food powerhouseâ
- Substack hires former Google exec as its first head of partnerships in Canada
- OpenText beats expectations thanks to strong cloud growth in Q2
- Minister Evan Solomon reveals Canadaâs AI Task Force
- Josh Ogden thinks Canadaâs drone industry can gain some altitudeÂ
- Kiwi Charge takes EV-charging robot to showroom floor with $1.7-million pilot project
- Vena moves into âorchestratedâ financial planning with Acterys acquisition
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- Ottawa releases findings from AI task force and public consultation
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- Everyday Payments customers allege their money is missing
- Haply Robotics raises $16 million to build the âsteering wheelsâ for physical AI
- Canadaâs PixMob lights up 2026 Super Bowl and Winter Olympics
- Modem closes $4.4-million USD pre-seed round to help developers ship faster
- Trust Science acquires Lenders API to build fraud defence system for lenders
- Ssense founders can buy back company, court rules
- Elle, MD, Hiive, and LiORA among latest CIX Startup Awards winners
- ApplyBoard researchers say they have a fix for AIâs âsilent failureâ problem
- A seat at the table: Founders Dinner comes to Alberta
- Backboard.io claims its AI has a better memory than yours
- Shopify stock slumps despite record-breaking Q4 revenue
- Kainova closes $32 million to advance cancer and inflammation therapies
- Alberta invests $28 million in six projects to improve environmental outcomes
- Apple strikes deal to acquire Canadian database software startup Kuzu
- The feds asked investors for candid feedback on BDC. It was never actioned
- Inside the Edmonton facility building quantumâs hidden infrastructure
- Photonic claims âworld-firstâ quantum teleportation across Telus fibre network
- Mesosilâs infection-fighting dental tech gets FDA clearance
- pHathom Technologies raises $4 million to pilot its coastal carbon-capture tech
- Black Business Ventures Association brings Dragons’ Den energy to Edmonton Unlimited
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- Fedsâ $6.6-billion Defence Industrial Strategy takes aim at building a ârobustâ Canadian defence sector
- Ottawa, Gatineau launch defence innovation task force in bid for NATO defence bank
- Cohere reportedly soars past revenue target, with $240-million USD ARR
- Is BDC too big to change?
- Taiv wants to let you choose your own TV ads
- From client to cap table: Shakudo converts customers into investors with $7-million USD raise
- From Amharic to Zulu: Cohereâs new multilingual AI model supports more than 70 languages
- Bank of Canada orders XTM to cease retail payment activities after investment regulator halts trading of its stock
- âThe world has changedâ: Canadaâs new Defence Industrial Strategy aims to reduce US dependency
- Canadaâs new AI strategy is off to a bad start
- Wagepoint rolls out two new additions to its payroll software
- Q&A: Xanaduâs Christian Weedbrook on why quantum ought to be a national defence priority
- Québec has a new digital sovereignty plan. Will it work?
- Why Canadaâs defence spending should follow this Cold War blueprintÂ
- MDA Space makes defence-industry push with launch of 49North
- Toyo raises seed funding to further develop âOpenClaw for foundersâ tool
- Feds announce $6.5-million investment in Alberta defence manufacturing
- PrairesCan invests $3 million in Black entrepreneurship
- How Mycroft scaled to over 100 customers without a playbook
- Mecademic secures $21 million to bring its tiny industrial robots to the world
- Wealthsimple named CIX Innovator of the Year
- Ratio.City raises $1 million seed round for urban analytics platform
- Canadian businesses expect more uncertainty as US Supreme Court strikes down Trumpâs tariffs
- Canadian Bitcoin Consortium launches insurance company for digital asset businesses
- Q&A: Why Albertaâs data centre strategy is drawing the attention of tech giants like Meta
- Sheertex maker will be sold to fellow Québec hosiery company AYK
- What will be built from Albertaâs AI data-centre boom?
- Capital concentrates as Canadian VC market narrows: report
- Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst wants to build more Canadian, less Silicon Valley-centric AI
- Canadaâs tech talent crunch is about access, not availability
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- A16z speedrun alum General Magic secures $7.2 million USD to make calling your insurance company less of a slog
- Loop aims to make screen-scraping obsolete for business accounts
- New trade association aims to give domestic SMBs a shot in Canadaâs âdefence renaissanceâ
- Sluggish growth, lost value: what decades of data reveal about Canadaâs early-stage funding gap
- How to fix Canada’s Start-up Visa
- Neo Financial partners with United Airlines to launch credit card
- Alberta-made robots are helping keep this Vancouver shipyard safe
- L-Spark completes its first cohort as a corporate accelerator
- As vacancies rise, Padder aims to insure rent payments for tenants who may not fit the traditional mould
- CoeusAI establishes Dutch HQ after landing major offshore energy gig
- Can Canada find digital sovereignty in the Fediverse?
- The new alliance positioning Edmonton as a Canadian defence hub
- Parabellyx is preparing businesses for digital warfare
- Business leaders urge Ottawa to extend employee ownership tax incentive
- Private equity firm Novacap closes seventh and largest tech fund
- NordSpace launches venture arm with strategic investment in Wyvern
- U of T taps BioLabs to take over incubator after Johnson & Johnson pulls support
- Court filings reveal Sheertex makerâs steep losses ahead of insolvency
- Bubble Technology Industries awarded contract to detect space radiation for astronauts
- Three Regina research projects receive ISF funding from Innovation Saskatchewan
- How PeerSupport.io is helping Yukon docs send referrals using only their voice
- Real estate investment platform Addy enters restructuring one year after fine from regulators
- YSpace, York University open the door between Canada and Koreaâs tech ecosystem
- JetScaleAI secures $5.4 million to keep cloud costs and climate impact down
- OpenAI connection to Tumbler Ridge tragedy puts balance between privacy and public safety in the spotlight
- Rally festival tells doom-scrolling teens âitâs okay to be unavailableâ online
- Ottawa makes first RDII investments in Ontario with $15 million for CDL Defence and Wolf Advanced Technology
- Reflections from a 10-year entrepreneur
- CCI wants governments to buy more Canadian healthtech
- QuĂ©bec government invests $36 million to sustain Mila’s AI research
- Evan Solomon will meet Sam Altman as OpenAI faces pressure over Tumbler Ridge response
- Damon CEO, CFO, and board resign following prolonged struggle on public markets
- Canadaâs small businesses felt the âtrue cost of a fractured global economyâ in late 2025
- Montréal AI conference ALL IN to expand with events in Vancouver, Toronto
- NationGraph raises $18 million USD to bring AI to the black box of government contracting
- Ottawa puts $8.5 million behind 40 Atlantic Canadian AI projects
- The quiet militarization of Canadian AI
- How Stay22 went from pandemic freefall to one of MontrĂ©al techâs biggest growth stories
- Landing Zones Canadaâs AI-enhanced drones get upgrade with $1.1-million investment
- Manitoba looks to spur more investment with tax credit ceiling raise
- Spellbook looks to scoop up legal AI competitors with $40-million USD in debt financing
- Whatâs powering the algorithm that gets you a good nightâs sleep?
- Blackline Safety pairs connected gas detection with K9 leak hunting
- Versos wants to turn video libraries into fuel for AI training
- Ssense cut more than 200 jobs days after founders won bid to buy back company
- OpenAI sets new safety standards following Solomon meeting and pressure over Tumbler Ridge response
- Wealthsimple becomes first Canadian FinTech to join SWIFT network
- CVCA and NACO offer competing visions for fedsâ $750-million venture envelope
- Svante buys Albertaâs Carbon Alpha Corp.
- UniUni raises $85 million USD as it scales gig-powered delivery across North America
- EQ Bank carves out more market share with $800-million PC Financial purchase
- Albertaâs technology minister continues data centre courtship at Digital Innovation Forum
- The compound impact of AI on the labour market
- Syantraâs breast cancer blood test isnât looking for cancer at all
- Kraken dives deeper into defence with $615-million Covelya Group acquisition
- Janet Bannisterâs Staircase Ventures closes $50-million second fund
- Ottawa gives NRC $900 million for drone innovation hub and defence-focused IRAP stream
- Google for Startups Accelerator reveals 14 âAI-drivenâ companies in its Canadian cohort
- Feds say TikTok can continue Canadian operations, but under new rules
- Dominion Dynamics says it will invest $50 million to build a âsovereign autonomous wingmanâ
- “When you deal with advanced technology, science fiction is not too far off.”
- Plurilock eliminates CTO and COO, cuts exec pay as part of profitability push
- Ontario Teachersâ venture growth portfolio posts 30 percent gains in 2025
- OSFIâs Fast Track framework is a wake-up call for Canadian banks
- Alan raises fresh funding as it entrenches in Canada
- NanoTess lands Embecta deal to put its tech in 14,000 Canadian pharmacies
- MDA Space seeks $300 million USD through IPO on New York Stock Exchange
- Gumloop sticks $50-million USD Series B round to let employees build their own AI agents
- Xanadu in talks with government over potential $390 million for domestic quantum manufacturing
- Manitoba launches AI consultations as it weighs tougher privacy and youth protections
- RBC acquires Pinch Financial to streamline its mortgage process
- Femtum thinks its semiconductor cutting lasers are better than yours
- University of Calgary researchers use AI to hunt new treatments for cattle parasites
- Wyvern launches international partnerships in Agtech, oil and gas
- Citing market conditions, Loopio cuts 12 percent of staff
- Walter acquired by Legora as legaltech sector consolidation continues
- BDC expands Defence Platform to $6 billion and names a StrongNorth Fund leader
- Paving the way for a Canadian defence-tech boom
- PrairiesCan puts nearly $1 million behind SK Startup Institute for entrepreneur training and mentorship
- Canadian tech leaders to headline BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
- Nick Frosst and Tobi LĂŒtke among Homecoming highlights as Toronto Tech Week unveils 2026 event calendar
- How Ontarioâs innovation hubs scale startups across the province
- Photonic names former Microsoft Xbox head Don Mattrick CEO
- Boreal Ventures launches second seed fund with $43-million first close
- Tailscale makes first acquisition with Border0 purchase
- Feds commit nearly $225 million to advance Canadaâs sovereign space launch capabilities
- YScope closes $3.9 million USD to track computer activity amid the rise of agentic AI
- 1Password launches new platform to rein in companiesâ AI agents
- Three Alberta genomics projects land federal funding
- âWe’re in a moment in Canadaâ: Solomon brings AI pitch to Platform Calgary
- Montréal computer scientist Gilles Brassard wins Turing Award for quantum discoveries
- Platform Calgary appoints Jennifer Lussier as CEO
- Five Canadian scaleups crack Thrive Top 50 AgTech Companies list
- Xanadu set to go public as SPAC deal clears shareholder vote
- Defence and housing take centre stage at N3 Summit
- Canadian companies make their case at Nvidiaâs GTC conference
- BetaKit Most Ambitious returns on May 25
- Hopperâs biggest customer is bringing its travel platform in-house
- Canadaâs moment to build is now
- BKR Capital secures initial $20 million for second Black Innovation Fund
- Online legal database CanLII and AI startup Caseway settle copyright dispute
- Calgaryâs new cleantech research centre gets $4.25-million boost from federal government
- Spark Microsystems secures additional $17 million in Series B funding
- UBC and InBC launch new fund to support university spinouts
- Cohere teams up with Swedish defence firm Saab on AI for surveillance jets
- MaRS Impact Health returns to showcase Canada’s next big healthcare breakthroughs
- Miraterra announces $16 million to advance its soil measurement tech
- Jacqueline Loch joins BetaKit as General Manager
- Denvr signs two defence deals to deepen sovereign AI push in Canada
- CAAIN launches $9-million open competition to support AgTech innovation
- Canada could still win the AI race
- Chexy raises $14 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures
- Opendoor hiring in Canada as it looks to make Toronto a âmajor hubâ
- Ecolab to acquire CoolIT Systems for $4.75 billion USD
- OpenText lays off four percent of its global workforce
- Defence tech founder warns Canada is getting âwishy-washyâ about defining sovereignty
- Feds reveal streams behind $1-billion VC initiative as budget becomes law
- Mila teams up with Mozilla to build open-source AI tools
- More than $6 million in federal defence funding bound for Alberta
- Xanadu makes solid debut as it begins trading on TSX and Nasdaq
- Will Xanadu lead Canadian tech back to public markets?
- Why SimplyCast bet early on student talent
- Wealthsimple gets regulatory approval to enter prediction markets
- Hopperâs tech will power RBCâs travel reward program
- Canadian VCs are starting to fear an AI-driven âSaaSpocalypseâ
- SBQuantum wants to help the world navigate in a post-GPS era
- The small Saskatchewan city putting big money behind rural tech founders
- ThinkLabs secures $28-million USD Series A to help power grids manage data centre demand
- ContactMonkey founder steps down after 16 years, former Intuit leader to be next CEO
- NACO wants feds to use $750 million in VC funding to back startups earlier
- Relocalize to build fully autonomous âdarkâ microfactory in MontrĂ©al
- Canadaâs first full-stack, university-owned quantum computer comes to USask
- Repay will buy billing platform Kubra for $372 million USD
- Canadaâs budget bill is finally law. Hereâs what that means for innovation
- Lockheed Martin Canada invests $3.6 million into Lemay.ai
- Novisto acquires UK-based Minimum to build âall-in-oneâ ESG platform
- NGen announces nearly $80 million for Canadian manufacturers to adopt AI
- The Canadians behind Artemis IIâs historic moon mission
- Aretek is printing a new path for the construction industry
- Q&A: Clearpath Roboticsâ Ryan Gariepy on killer robots and Canadaâs defence strategy
- Feds invest over $16 million in trio of Prairies-based cleantech research projects
- Carbon Upcycling secures up to $10 million USD as it chases cleaner concrete
- Venture studio AXL appoints fellows from Nvidia, NASA, Samsung
- Feds invest $79 million in Aspect Biosystems to develop 3D-printed tissue treatment
- Feds put nearly $29 million toward cleantech projects across Canada
- The women most at risk from AI aren’t in the rooms designing it
- Why many of Canadaâs tech centaurs are in no rush to go public
- Canadaâs next moonshot?
- Claudeâs source code leak has permanently changed the AI race
- How Sonibel can hear when a welder makes a mistake
- GridBank raises $6-million seed round to monetize the videos in your camera roll
- Ex-AWS leaders bring Soma out of stealth with a plan to ease the data centre power crunch
- Mappedin eyes city-wide indoor mapping with $24.5-million USD Series B round
- NYT claims Bitcoin creator is founder of Canadian company Blockstream
- Toronto gets a new hub for accessibility innovation
- Blackline Safety to go private in $850-million deal
- Neo Financial becomes second FinTech to join Interac payment system
- How new SR&ED changes could supercharge Canadian hard tech and manufacturing startups
- Hypertec becomes key partner for Nvidia in Canada
- Canadaâs spotty support for innovation is grounding its space ambitions
- BDC launches $150-million life sciences fund
- Motorola acquires AI-based 911 call screening startup Hyper
- Jesse Wiebe built Startup TNT’s agri-food arm. Now he’s leaving to solve a larger problem
- Former Alberta Innovates exec joins Toast as COO
- pH7 wraps Series B as it readies to bring critical mineral extraction tech to mining
- Cohere goes Deutsch?
- From student to VP, Solaceâs Ghaith Dalla-Ali shows how startups can grow talent
- How Zoho is rethinking AI risk, context, and control in 2026
- Hootsuite founder Ryan Holmes returns as interim CEO
- Community event platform Wygo secures nearly $1.6 million pre-seed
- Ask an Investor: What’s the difference between a board of directors and an advisory board?
- Kepler to lead testing of European Space Agencyâs high-speed data network
- Cohere exec pledges AI firm will stay Canadian-headquartered amid merger reports
- Industry Minister MĂ©lanie Joly wants to see Nokia invest more in Canada
- Credo paid $92 million USD in cash to acquire Hyperlume, SEC filing reveals
- Common Wealth secures $12-million Series A to help deliver workplace retirement plans
- How to fix Canadian VC
- AppDirect acquires PartnerStack for upwards of $150 million USD
- Canada opens applications to build a public AI supercomputer
- Mangrove Lithium announces $85-million USD financing to power critical mineral refinement for EVs
- Xanadu stock trades halted five times on TSX in two days, following price spike
- Wattpad swaps presidents as Aron Levitz departs to build something new
- SBQuantum nabs $4 million USD, new CEO as it preps for US expansion
- NorthX invests $2.2 million in trio of BC wildfire tech startups
- Why the future of cross-border payments will be built through partnershipÂ
- Edmonton businesses get federal funding to automate homebuilding, manufacturing
- Ex-Shopify engineers raise fresh financing to scale Turbopufferâs AI search
- How StackAdapt quietly built an adtech giant
- Turbopuffer doesn’t want to be Canada’s fastest-growing tech company
- Inside Wealthsimpleâs âsimpleâ effort to bring Canadian talent home
- Wealthsimple partners with Elon Muskâs X for direct stock trading via social media
- Ontario canât lead in AI if it wonât buy Ontario innovation
- Dentistry gig work platform Fairly Staffing aims to help industry meet demand
- Mistral Venture Partners sets up shop in Alberta
- TechJutsu launches browser extension to bring MFA to the web
- Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation takes one small step to support life on the Moon
- New app Think2Switch lets users control devices using their thoughts
- Harmix was a profitable music startup, before AI tools tempted it to build something new
- Q&A: Behind the scenes of Cohereâs new AI transcription model
- Float launches agentic AI solution for corporate credit cards
- What Live Nationâs antitrust loss could mean for one Canadian competitor
- A&K Robotics closes $8-million Series A round to put self-driving pods in airports
- ViewsML secures $4.9 million to help scientists virtually analyze tissue samples
- Carbonyx raises $1.2 million to turn mining waste into usable materials
- We almost hired an AI candidate. Hereâs what saved us
- Canadaâs AI regulation will be âairtightâ on bias, racism, and hate, Solomon says
