The three e-commerce game changers announced at Shopify Unite 2019
Ryan Petrimoulx is BetaKit’s e-commerce expert. We sent him to Shopify Unite to report back with his thoughts on the biggest announcements from Canada’s…
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Uniting the Prairies Conference showcases a tech ecosystem poised to take off
In February, the CVCA released its annual report highlighting the amount of VC & Private Equity capital deployed across Canada. Once again, Saskatchewan was…
3 things I learned leading ThoughtWire’s $20M Series A
I’ve had the pleasure of being CFO at two tech startups during my career, most recently with ThoughtWire, where I led a $20 million…
3 things I wish I’d known before scaling tech companies
It’s no secret that Canada has a scale-up problem. Often, we cite finite resources—talent, money, expertise—as the major barriers to scaling our tech companies…
Canadian tech needs to redefine its sense of scale
If, like me, you spend a lot of time poring over the latest in Canadian tech, chances are good that you see both the…
How to interview tech talent remotely
Yousuf Khatib is the co-founder and CEO of Global Skills Hub, which helps Canadian companies find highly-skilled technical developers and engineers from around the…
What #Budget2019 got right for Canadian tech
Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled the 2019 Federal Budget on Tuesday March 19. Overall, it was a positive budget for the Canadian tech…
The State of Canadian SaaS
I was in Ottawa recently to present my thoughts on the state of the Canadian SaaS industry. The fact that 500 people showed up…
How we built a tech company that is 50 percent women
Tech has a gender problem. According to Fortune, only 2.2 percent of venture funding in 2018 went to female-founded companies. Only 21 percent of…
11 Prairie startups to watch in 2019
One of my favorite articles each year in the Canadian startup world is reading Kevin Sandhu’s predictions for the 11 Canadian tech companies to…
Which Canadian city has the best FinTech ecosystem?
Six months ago we published the second edition of FCP’s FinTech Map and received great feedback. We explored the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities within…
11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2019
Thanks to my friends at BetaKit, for the last three years I’ve had the opportunity to share my thoughts about some amazing Canadian technology…
Over $20B in funding is available to Canadian tech companies (if you know where to look)
If you’re a Canadian tech company, listen up: there are billions of government dollars available to you, and chances are, you’re not yet taking…