Seymour Schulich Gives 40 Canadian Students Largest Ever STEM Scholarships
Forty young Canadians are heading into their first year of university with a large financial boost, after Schulich Leader…
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Deadline Approaches for PwC’s 2014 Vision to Reality Awards
There’s not too much time left to give a shout-out to those startup entrepreneurs in Canada who deserve to be recognized,…
BDC Capital Partners with Creative Destruction Lab, Aims to Reach $1 Billion in Equity Value
Creative Destruction Labs (CDL), who is based at Rotman School of Management at U of T, started in 2012 and has exceeded is…
Canadian VCs Ranked Favourably in New Deloitte-NVCA Survey
Canadian venture capitalists and private equity firms scored big marks in a recent Deloitte-NVCA survey that revealed global…
Following a Year of Little Progress, Federal Minister Discusses Startup Visa
It hasn’t exactly been the speediest implementation of a government program over the last year in regards to the Startup…
BDC and Corus Entertainment Pitch in for New Gibraltar Venture Capital Fund
Toronto is getting a brand new venture capital fund in Gibraltar Partners Fund One. The new fund achieved its first close…
Hardware Projects on Kickstarter Raised Over Five Times More Investor Funding as Those on Indiegogo
A new report has revealed some interesting facts about crowdfunded hardware projects that graduate from Kickstarter and Indiegogo.…
Tacit Innovations Scores $450,000 Investment, Will ‘Enhance the Restaurant Experience’
Tacit Innovations, a graduate from Communitech’s third cohort last year, has announced $450,000 in seed funding from The…
This Week in Canadian Startups: August 2-8
Here’s what turned out to be the biggest stories in the world of Canadian tech startups in the week of August 2-8. August…
Montreal’s Busbud Wants to Fix the ‘Archaic Systems’ Within the Bus Industry
Montreal’s Busbud has been experiencing a wild ride since soft launched in late 2011. During one of our earliest conversations…
Are You One of ‘Canada’s Most Remarkable Small Businesses?’
Canada is filled with talented people who are building amazing companies. Our friends at The Globe and Mail are seeking feedback…
Google and Communitech To Give Away Six Months of Office Space
No matter what level of business you’re at, office space is expensive. Sure, one can coast along for years working out…
OMERS Ventures Looks for These Three Attributes When Investing Into a Startup
OMERS Ventures, the investment arm of pension fund OMERS, has a core focus in the technology, media, telecommunications, clean…
Cape Breton University’s UIT Startup program now accepting applications, five spots reserved for women
UIT Startup is a new 11-month program based out of Cape Breton University. The goal is incredibly inspiring: Developing Startup…
Snip.ly surpasses 10 million clicks, a whopping increase of 9 million in 1-month
Michael Cheng previously stated in an interview with us that he’s a “always been a believer of go big or go home.”…