New data on Montreal startup ecosystem shows need for investments in scaling, capital
Montreal’s startup ecosystem has been changing over the past number of years. In 2015, Startup Genome ranked it among the…
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Impact Centre updates Narwhal List to reflect 2019’s big rounds, exits
Following Canada seeing a number of significant raises in addition to large exits in the first half of 2019, the University…
Digital Finance Institute names Canada’s top 50 FinTech companies for 2019
The Digital Finance Institute has released its top 50 FinTech companies in Canada for 2019. The top 50 companies in this report…
Digital Finance Institute names Canada’s top 50 women in FinTech for 2019
The Digital Finance Institute has released its top 50 women in FinTech for 2019, a curated list of 50 women disrupting financial…
Report: Canadian businesses are lagging in the e-commerce race
The majority of Canadian small and medium-sized business (SMBs) are missing major growth opportunities by not focusing on an…
New report provides fresh data on familiar diversity problems in Canadian VC
A new report from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) and BDC Capital offers more detail on…
QuadrigaCX CEO moved customer funds into his own accounts
The late founder and CEO of now-defunct crypto exchange platform QuadrigaCX used customer funds to trade crypto for his own…
Canadian Securities Administrators considering crypto “regulatory regime” by 2022
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) said it wants to adapt current securities regulations to specifically address…
Angel groups say they lack resources needed to fulfill mandates: report
The biggest challenge for angel investor groups in Canada is a lack of resources needed to vet and mentor companies, according…
Sidewalk Labs update: Waterfront vote delayed, new public funds needed, critics turn to Digital Charter
Sidewalk Labs’ plans to develop Toronto’s Quayside neighbourhood are expected to experience a new three-month delay.…
Canadian VC investments up 48 percent since same time last year, CVCA report finds
Canadian venture capital investments in the first quarter of 2019 marked another billion dollar quarter, the fifth billion…
QuadrigaCX investigation recovers $28 million of missing assets
Efforts to recover more than $200 million in cash and cryptocurrency from the former trading platform QuadrigaCX have resulted…
Five Canadian cities with highest volume of investment dollars and deals in 2018
Canada’s tech ecosystem is consistently growing year-over-year. Startup Genome’s recent report revealed that not only is…
Startup Genome report finds cleantech, life sciences, AI put Canadian cities on global stage
Although only Toronto-Waterloo and Vancouver made Startup Genome’s top 30 list this year, several other Canadian cities…
Toronto-Waterloo takes top Canadian spot in startup ecosystem rankings, Vancouver nosedives
Vancouver’s place in the startup ecosystem rankings has significantly dropped, while Toronto-Waterloo is making a steady…