VeloCity Graduate PiinPoint Is Latest Y Combinator Startup
PiinPoint, a location analytics startup that previously won $25,000 at the VeloCity Fund Finals, has become the latest company to…
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CrowdFundFusion Aggregates Nearly Every Project Out There
Jon Mushey loves hearing the personal stories of crowdfunding campaign creators. So much so that the Winnipeg-based project…
Telus & Globe and Mail Bring Back $100K ‘The Challenge’ Contest
Big money is up for grabs for Canadian entrepreneurs once again. Telus and the Globe and Mail are bringing back The Challenge…
Victoria’s Sendwithus Is Headed to Y Combinator
Getting accepted to join Y Combinator must feel like winning the Super Bowl. With alumni like Reddit, DropBox, AirBnB, and…
Vancouver’s Elastic Path Software Gets $5 Million
Elastic Path Software Inc., a digital ecommerce software vendor, has raised $5 million in convertible debt and term facilities…
Hootsuite, Shopify, BuildDirect and Others To Go Public?
A new Bloomberg report that quote’s OMERS Ventures’ John Ruffalo is saying that several Canadian technology companies…
BC Tech Financings Had a Monster Year in 2013
The BCTIA has reviewed the numbers and the story reveals that 2013 was a banner year for BC Tech. BC was not only home to Godzilla’s…
Extreme Startups’ Marcus Daniels: “Now We’re Bringing In Rockstar Founders”
We’ve known this for a while, but now we have video evidence that Marcus Daniels may be one of Canada’s most outwardly…
Vancouver’s Identity Verification Experts Trulioo Lands $6 Million
Vancouver-based startup Trulioo has raised $6 million in venture capital. The deal was announced yesterday and sees the identity…
UWaterloo’s VeloCity Fund Finals Set to Hand Out $100,000
The University of Waterloo startup’s incubator Velocity unveiled today the ten finalists that will compete for their…
Canadian-Made Basis Sells to Intel for “Around $100 Million”
Intel has won a sweepstakes of sorts, agreeing to buy Canadian-born startup Basis for “around $100 million,” according…
Toronto’s AskForTask Gets $500,000 in Seed Funding, Will Launch App
Toronto-based marketplace for tasks, AskForTask, has raised $500,000 in funding and is announcing an April app launch. The…
2014 Funding Roadshow Formally Invites Entrepreneurs and Funders
Last time we wrote about Fundica’s 2014 Funding Roadshow founder Mike Lee told us the Montreal company had booked nine…
The Accelerator Series: FounderFuel
The Accelerator Series is a multi-part spotlight on Canada’s startup accelerators and the people who lead them. Canada’s…
Bitstrips is Raising a Huge $15 million Series B Round
Toronto-based Bitstrips, the company that raised $3 million in December after its users had basically crashed the system creating…