Tech entrepreneurs launch donation platform to help Canadian local businesses affected by COVID-19
Toronto Mayor John Tory has announced the launch of an online donation platform created by a group of tech entrepreneurs allowing…
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Shopify’s Tobi Lütke and wife Fiona McKean pivot charitable foundation, make donations to fight COVID-19
Shopify CEO and founder Tobi Lütke and his wife Fiona McKean last year started a philanthropic organization focused on technological…
Raw Signal Group launches online course to help bosses manage new COVID-19 realities
Toronto-based leadership training company Raw Signal Group is offering an online course for bosses dealing with the new work…
How counselling changed my life as a startup founder and CEO
As a startup CEO and co-founder, your drive and passion help you convey a vision in such a compelling way that audiences do…
ResQ uses platform to help service industry deliver meals to frontline workers in Toronto
ResQ, which has created a restaurant repair and maintenance app, is raising donations to buy meals from the restaurants on…
Québec organizations rally residents to buy from local startups on April 2
A group of organizations is putting together an event on April 2 that encourages Québec residents to buy a product or service…
InkSmith to hire 100 employees as it ramps up development of face shields for healthcare workers
Kitchener-based educational toy manufacturer InkSmith is creating personal protective equipment (PPE) to help healthcare workers…
Knix launches fundraising campaign to donate medical equipment to healthcare workers
Knix a Toronto-based startup that develops intimates for women, has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help the startup purchase…
Grassroots Victoria group offering pro-bono tech and marketing support to local businesses
YYJLocalsForLocals, a grassroots community of software workers in Victoria, are looking to use their digital skills to help…
Startup Canada Podcast: funding the future of social entrepreneurs with Wayne Miranda
Want to build a business that’s about more than a bottom line? Wayne Miranda, social finance investment readiness lead at…
Here’s how #CDNtech companies are pitching in during COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic escalates in Canada and around the world, businesses are taking steps to help flatten the curve and…
Hockeystick launches list of active funders as COVID-19 creates cash crunch for Canadian startups
As the Canadian economy prepares for the effects of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, Toronto-based market data company…
Grassroots database launched to help unemployed Canadian startup workers amid COVID-19
In an effort to support out-of-work Canadian startup employees amid COVID-19, a group of Canadian organizations have created…
Canadian tech companies forced to act quickly in wake of COVID-19
Around the world, a growing number of organizations are taking serious precautions to help curb the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus).…
Lessons learned attending eight days of tech events for International Women’s Day
My past eight days have been a true whirlwind of launches and activity in the women entrepreneurship space. A big takeaway…