Small, Remote Thunder Bay’s Startup Scene is Growing
Tucked up all the way in northern Ontario and sitting on top of Lake Suprerior is the small city of Thunder Bay, a 16-hour…
Funding
Toronto’s Top Hat Gets $10 Million in Series B Money
Toronto’s Top Hat has raised a $10 million series B round from Georgian Partners. Funny, we just wrote about the guy…
Shop.ca Raises Healthy $31 Million Series B Funding Round
Drew Green’s Shop.ca has raised $31 million in venture capital from Shaw Ventures, an affiliate of Shaw Communications…
Extreme Startups Alum Shoebox Raises $1.2 million from BDC
Former Extreme Startups alumnus Shoebox has raised $1.2 million in venture capital from the Business Development Bank of Canada…
Communitech’s HYPERDRIVE Accelerator is Raising a New $10 Million Fund
Earlier this week at the Series Round Venture Investment Forum in Toronto, HYPERDRIVE‘s managing director Doug Cooper…
Waterloo’s GTAN-START Contest Names its Eight Startup Finalists
Waterloo Region’s GTAN-START Pitch Contest has named its eight startup finalists. They’ll compete for three $5,000…
100,000 Different Businesses Are Now Using Shopify
According to Shopify founder Tobias Lutke, a major milestone has been crossed for the company that helps businesses sell their…
40 Days Left to Apply for “World’s Largest Business Plan Competition”
43North‘s executive director Andrew Pulkrabek is heading back to the Toronto area today to espouse the virtues of his…
Dragons’ Den Star to Launch $200M Fund in Waterloo
New Dragons’ Den star Michael Wekerle is launching a $200 million investment fund in Waterloo, to be aimed at startups…
Alumnus Donates $150K To Let U of Windsor Students Make Investments
John Simpson, the managing director for Ridgeview Capital Asset Management, has donated $150,000 to the University of Windsor’s…
“Nobody Gives a S*** Anymore”: Life As a Failed Startup CEO
Last month I attended a startup event called FailCamp, which sought to bring entrepreneurs together to celebrate failure. It…
Real Ventures Fund III Gets First Close at $50 Million
It came with a lot of talk leading up to it, but this morning Montreal-based venture capital firm Real Ventures officially…
U of Waterloo Student Startup Wearability Takes $13K At Norman Esch Awards
A University of Waterloo student startup has received $13,000 for its victorious “Wearability” product design at…
Canadian-Made AppDirect Raises $35M in Series C Money
AppDirect CEO Daniel Saks says his company doesn’t actually need the $35 million it just raised from Mithrill Capital…
Toronto’s BrandProject Creates, Invests in New Company, TUNED Brands Inc.
Toronto-based BrandProject, a “company creation studio” that builds, buys and makes seed stage investments in…