Spring Loaded Technology wins the 2015 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award
Halifax-based Spring Loaded Technology, makers of the Bionic Boost, has been awarded with the 2015 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award and also $100,000. Bionic Boost…
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Nicoya Lifesciences, RENOMii and TeTechS graduate from the Accelerator Centre
Kitchener-Waterloo based Accelerator Centre has announced that Nicoya Lifesciences, RENOMii and TeTechS have graduated from its program. Nicoya Lifesciences, founded by University of Waterloo…
MasterCard’s Masters of Code Developer Competition happening in Montreal this September
You might remember MasterCard Canada’s N>XT Developer Competition from years past. We’ve proudly been judging this event for 2-years and declared it to be…
.CA Community Investment Program commits $1 million in funding for 25 projects
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) launched its Community Investment Program (CIP) last year with a goal to make the internet better for all…
Six startups selected to participate in the MasterCard Women in Entrepreneurship program
Back in March, MasterCard and Ryerson’s DMZ teamed up and announced the “MasterCard Women in Entrepreneurship program.” This gave the opportunity for six women-led…
CVCA: $362 million in Canadian VC investments in Q1 2015
The Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) released its Q1 2015 statistics and revealed a total of $362 million was invested into…
YouTube FanFest happening in Toronto May 2nd
YouTube has more than 1 billion users with 300 hours of video uploaded every minute. To celebrate its user, Google and YouTube have announced…
Founder Institute is seeing the “most applicant demand in history”
The Founder Institute, which is dubbed as the “world’s largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program,” began in 2009 and has graduated over 1,310…
The C100 launches new monthly program called Valley 101 to “learn the basics about how the Valley operates”
The C100, a non-profit, member-driven organization that supports Canadian technology entrepreneurship through mentorship, partnership and investment, recently announced it passed the $1 billion mark…
Slack acquires Screenhero
Slack Technologies, the communication tool that was first started in Vancouver and now located in San Francisco, recently raised $120 million, for a post-funding…
BDC now accepting applications for its annual Young Entrepreneurs Award
Starting today, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is accepting applications for its annual BDC Young Entrepreneur Awards. The grand prize is a…
Shopify reportedly prepping for 2015 dual-IPO to raise $100M at $1 billion valuation
Ottawa-based Shopify has been rumoured to go public for about a year now. According to the Wall Street Journal, the ecommerce company is poised…
One Year Later: Looking back at the seven Canadian wearable tech companies changing the world
Back in November of last year I introduced seven Canadian wearable tech companies working on technologies that were set to change how we live…