Today in funding: Snug Vest, Milestone Pharmaceuticals, Lending Loop
A first-time entrepreneur and a new startup one year in the making are finally seeing their hard work pay off. Here’s the…
FinTech
Dx3 Canadian Tech Spotlight: Dream Payments
Tech journalist and TV personality Amber Mac was all over Dx3 2015, interviewing founders and senior execs from some of Canada’s…
How one Toronto Bitcoin Hackathon led to the latest Andreessen Horowitz investment: OpenBazaar
The core development team of the OpenBazaar project announced today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from Union…
Control raises $1.5 million from Vanedge and BDC Capital
Vancouver-based Control has announced the close of an oversubscribed $1.5 million seed round, led by Vanedge Capital and BDC…
FreshBooks announces partnership with the Bank of Montreal
In 2005, two years into launching FreshBooks, the cloud-based accounting software for small businesses, Mike McDerment only…
Koho closes $1 million seed round, moves one step closer to building 21st-century banking
Koho is a litmus-test startup. Ask anyone in the Canadian FinTech space for their thoughts on the company, and you’ll get…
#FinTech companies take over the pitch on #TheDisruptors
The Canadian FinTech sector is a hot topic, as several Canadian companies have recently launched or raised funding to shift…
Financeit CEO Michael Garrity says the lending industry is ripe for disruption
Toronto-based Financeit offers a point-of-sale customer financing and recently doubled its lending muscle to $75 million, having…
#FinTech Food: Grabb wants to eliminate wait times in Toronto’s restaurants
They say the average person spends five years of their life waiting in line. I’m not entirely sure who ‘they’…
OnDeck wants to finance Canada’s 99%
You run a reputable small business. You’re looking to grow, but you can’t get you the credit you need from traditional…
Payso wins OCE FinTech Investor Pitch Competiton
The OCE Discovery conference is taking place today in downtown Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. New to the conference…
CIBC to launch innovation hub inside MaRS
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce announced today that it will be creating a new innovation hub inside of the MaRS Discovery…
Payso CEO Jake Tyler explains how social is the future… of money
A few weeks back, social giant Facebook announced that U.S. users would soon be able to send money to each other via the company’s…
Vancouver’s Koho wins Nasdaq FinTech Innovation Award at NY TechDay
NY TechDay, the world’s largest startup event, with over 400 exhibitors and 10,000 attendees, doesn’t take place until…
Borrowell’s lending marketplace launches
Back in December, Toronto-based raised $5.4 million in seed funding to accelerate the launch of its Canadian lending marketplace,…