Extreme Startups announces its Fifth Cohort includes Dubb, Fora, Hurrier, Preo and Uplette
Toronto’s Extreme Startups announced five new companies to enter their Spring 2014 Cohort (Cohort 5). According to managing…
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EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Program Officially Kicks Off Today
Every year Ernst & Young (EY) professional services firm throw a Canada-wide contest aimed at honouring the nation’s…
Life Sciences Startups Have Until March 5 to Apply for Silicon Valley Program
The Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco is accepting applications from Canadian life sciences companies for the Canadian…
Federal Government’s #CODE2014 is Officially Underway
The first national Open Data hackathon in Canada, The Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE) is officially underway in Toronto…
Audicus Undercuts Hearing Aid Costs by As Much As 80%, Making Many Canadians Happy
An interesting report from CBC Manitoba this month brought our attention to one New Jersey-based startup that has a ton of…
Check Out This BDC Infographic on “The Real Impact of Venture Capital”
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has released an infographic on the morning that the CVCA released its 2013 overview…
VC Investment in Canada Jumps by Nearly a Third in 2013 (452 deals with an average size of $4.3 million)
Last year saw 31 percent more venture capital investment in Canada compared to 2012, up to $2 billion from $1.5 billion. In…
WordPress Now Lets Users Sell Stuff, Partners with Shopify and Shoplocket
WordPress, the most popular and fastest growing publishing platform on the web, announced yesterday that it had struck deals…
Grade 12 Toronto Student Wins Doodle 4 Google Contest
A 17-year-old Toronto student named Cindy Tang has won the first Doodle 4 Google contest for Canada. Her drawing is of a girl…
2014 CRC Robotics Competition Showcases Student Innovation Today and Tomorrow
The 2014 CRC Robotics Competition at Vanier College in Montreal has already been underway for a day now. The competition’s…
BufferBox service is winding down and will stop accepting packages on March 31st
BufferBox, the Canadian start-up that was founded by three engineering grads (Jay Shah, Aditya Bali and Mike McCauley) from…
Toronto’s JOLT and Moncton’s Launch36 Accelerators Make Calls for Applications
Two Canadian accelerator programs are announcing their calls for applications today, in Toronto’s JOLT and Moncton’s…
The Accelerator Series: The Next 36
The Accelerator Series is a multi-part spotlight on Canada’s startup accelerators and the people who lead them. As…
Toronto and New York-Based BorderFree to Go Public
Toronto-based BorderFree (which also has offices in New York, Tel Aviv, Shanghai and Dublin) is reportedly set for an initial…
Ottawa-based Klipfolio raises $1.7 million from BDC, FundFire, BOLDstart and others
Data, especially big data, can be complicated. Many moving parts and several variables come into play that help you understand…