Today in Ryerson University: new fashion innovation centre & incubator network
It’s been a big week for Ryerson University, with a slew of major partnership announcements. We’ve compiled the…
Funding
CB Insights: Canadian seed deals are growing
Venture capital analytics platform CB Insights has published a new blog post with a Canadian focus, this time tackling the…
Clearpath Robotics raises $14 million Series A from RRE & iNovia
Kitchener-Waterloo based Clearpath Robotics announced today that it has raised a $14 million CAD Series A round from RRE Ventures,…
CB Insights: BDC, Real Ventures, MaRS IAF top three Canadian VC firms in 2014
Venture capital analytics platform CB insights has published a blog post recounting the most active tech VCs in Canada for…
Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes shares four important funding tips for Canadian startups
Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes has been quite busy recently. In addition to prepping Canada’s first AngelList Syndicate, and…
Today in Funding: Dash Hudson, Vanhawks, RtTech
Lots of east coast love in this addition of ‘Today in Funding’, with rounds being closed in both Halifax and Moncton.…
MaRS Study: Toronto startups with women, foreign founders less likely to raise funding
Last December, the MaRS Data Catalyst team published a study investigating the ethnic and gender diversity of Toronto startups.…
Pressly Raises $2.1 million from Gibraltar Ventures, iNovia and OMERS
Toronto-based content marketing company Pressly has raised another round of funding. Led by Gibraltar Ventures, and with participation…
Pebble Time just became the most successful Kickstarter ever
Pebble launched its Pebble Time Kickstarter campaign one week ago today. The campaign reached a million dollars in less than…
Today in funding: SecureKey, FundThrough, AVAC
Toronto and Calgary lead the latest round of FinTech and AgTech funding announcements. Here’s the latest on who raised…
Perceptiv Labs is on a mission to make drones smarter
If drones are going to take to the skies in the not so distant future, we all need to become amateur pilots or they need to…
MediaCore lands $4.5 million to help “transform how people teach and learn using video”
Victoria-based MediaCore, a company that developed a cloud-based educational video platform, has received $4.5 million led…
Ryan Holmes wants to launch the first AngelList Syndicate in Canada
John Philip Green was fed up. The founder of Toronto’s CareGuide had raised a significant seed round last year from prominent…
eQOL receives $435,000 from Ontario government to enhance patient independence
MaRS Innovation is reporting that Sault Ste. Marie-based eQOL received $435,475 from the Ontario government last week in a…
Reuters says Canadian VC investments reached $2.36 billion in 2014
Last week, we covered the CVCA investment in Canada report, which tallied the total number of disclosed venture capital deals…