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The opportunity of open data and the importance of hackathons

Jonathon Narvey February 24, 2015

This past Saturday, coders across Canada took part in CODE 2015, an intense ‘48-hour coding sprint’, creating apps using…

Douglas Soltys January 20, 2015

Last week, 10 startups from Toronto and Chicago pitched their wares as part of an event to help entrepreneurs from both cities…

Douglas Soltys January 16, 2015

The CVCA is reporting that Montreal-based CTI Life Sciences has held an initial close for its second fund, CTI II, with $134…

Douglas Soltys January 15, 2015

The Kitchener-Waterloo based Accelerator Centre has announced today that it has received up to $8 million in funding from the…

Douglas Soltys January 12, 2015

Last week, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced that the federal government has committed $9 million dollars to a…

Ian Hardy November 17, 2014

A new report by The Funding Portal reveals new data on the amount of funding Canadian startups have received. The stats show…

Ian Hardy September 11, 2014

Since the height of the recession, Canada has created more than 1.1 million net new jobs and continues to be have the strongest…

Simon Burns July 25, 2014

In “Why Startups Need to Acqui-Fire Government Policies,” guest poster and San Francisco-based entrepreneur Simon…

BetaKit February 28, 2014

The first national Open Data hackathon in Canada, The Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE) is officially underway in Toronto…

Joseph Czikk September 9, 2013

Earlier today I wrote for The Financial Post that Cisco is reportedly interested in entering Canada as a limited partner,…

Jared Lindzon August 22, 2013

Canada kicks ass at making videogames. From major console game producers in Vancouver and Montreal to the independent mobile…