Six early-stage Atlantic Canadian startups join Volta Cohort
Six Atlantic Canadian technology startups were selected to each receive a $25,000 investment from Volta Cohort, a micro-fund co-founded by Volta, BDC Capital, Innovacorp…
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Velocity Fund Finals announces winners of $25K and $5K competitions
The University of Waterloo’s Velocity Fund Finals (VFF) has announced the winners for its 23rd event. Membio, which is developing a scalable biological manufacturing…
Future of Sport Lab accepting applications for first incubator cohort
Ryerson University and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment’s Future of Sport Lab is now accepting applications for startups working in sports innovation. “We’re proud…
League of Innovators launches virtual acceleration program
League of Innovators, a program co-founded by Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes dedicated to supporting young entrepreneurs, has launched its LOI Labs virtual program with its…
Facebook’s Digital News Innovation Challenge awards $100,000 to 5 startups
The Facebook Journalism Project, in partnership with the DMZ and the Ryerson School of Journalism, has announced the results of the Digital News Innovation…
TD investing $2.5 million in CDL’s health stream
TD has announced a number of investments in the Canadian tech and innovation space. Over five years, TD will invest a total of $2.5…
Canadian government invests $25 million in Creative Destruction Lab
The Canadian government is investing $25 million in the University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab. The government said the funding will create and maintain…
Centre québécois d’innovation en biotechnologie receives $1.4 million from Canadian government
The Canadian government is investing $1.4 million in the Centre québécois d’innovation en biotechnologie. Based in Laval, the Centre was founded in 1995 to…
City of Toronto launches RFP for manufacturing incubator
The City of Toronto has issued a request for proposals to operate a 14,500 square foot light-manufacturing incubator in the downtown core. The incubator…
Chris Hadfield leading Creative Destruction Lab’s program for space-related startups
The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has launched CDL-Space, a program designed for entrepreneurs building science-based…
OneEleven and Aviva Canada announce five startups accepted into insurtech growth program
OneEleven has announced the five startups that have been accepted into its insurtech growth program, which it is hosting in partnership with Aviva Canada….
Smart city-focused InnoCité MTL merging with Centech incubator
InnoCité MTL, an accelerator focused on smart city startups, is merging with the Centech incubator. Launched in 1996 by the École de Technologie Supérieure,…
DMZ named top university incubator in the world by UBI Global
Toronto’s DMZ at Ryerson University has been named the number one university-based incubator in the world by UBI Global, a Stockholm-based firm that gathers…