Northumberland CFDC Brings back N100 Startup Competition
The Northumberland CFDC, a business development corporation dedicated to providing financing, strategy, and a comprehensive…
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Recent Kickstarter Winners Palette Look to Build a Future in Waterloo
After having split the past four months between Shenzhen, China and San Francisco, California while running what would go…
Real Ventures’ New Fund Could be $100 Million, But Still Uncertain
PEHub this morning reported that Real Ventures is approaching its “first close of its third $100 million partnership,”…
Extreme Startups and Dx3 2014 Conference Hook Up to Showcase New “Advanced Track” Cohort
The Dx3 2014 conference is just two months away and along with a new roster of impressive speakers, the Toronto-based digital…
C100 Gives Top Fundraisers the Nod in Year-End Review
C100, the non-profit, member-driven organization that supports Canadian technology entrepreneurship through mentorship, partnership…
Taking Play a Little More Seriously: Toronto’s Twenty One Toys Thrashes Kickstarter Goal
Why not kickstart a toy revolution? Toronto-based startup Twenty One Toys scored a recent win on Kickstarter with more than…
Two Canadian Gaming Studios Raise $180,000 for Philippines Disaster Relief
While Toronto grapples with the effects of one unfortunate weather-related event in the ice storm, a few Canadian gaming studios…
Canadian VCs Weigh in On Boston “Pay to Pitch” Fiasco
On Wednesday a conference called the “New England Venture Summit” took place in Boston on the same day that another…
Canadian Tech Companies Need to Step Up Their Appetite for Innovation: PwC
Canadian technology, entertainment and communications companies need to step up their innovation game, both in enthusiasm and…
Vancouver’s Launch Academy Releases Startup Stats After 18 Months
Vancouver-based Launch Academy recently released an infographic detailing some of the stats revolving around the incubator-coworking…
Cisco Canada To Invest $4 Billion in Ontario High Tech Workforce
In early September I wrote a feature for the Financial Post, basically trying to say that Cisco has a lot of money north of…
How Do the $150K BDC Convertible Notes Work?
Yesterday we covered a story about three startups from the Maritime provinces who received $150,000 in funding from the Business…
BDC Invests $150,000 into Three Maritime Startups
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has invested $150,000 convertible notes into three startups that graduated from…
Montreal’s 3D Photoreal Rendering Startup Lagoa Raises $5.3 Million Series A Round
Today Boston-based VC, Fred Destin of Atlas Venture Partners, wrote a blog post that I believe was meant to be written in a…
“It was long, tedious, and extremely stressful”: An Insider’s View Into Canadian EdTech Fundraising
My motivation for writing this piece was very simple. From the time I began to work with startups and fellow entrepreneurs,…