Report: FinTech regulation, cybersecurity among top 10 legal risks for businesses in 2017
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG), a Toronto-based law firm focusing on business law, commercial litigation and arbitration,…
Reports
Report: ICT and life sciences industries get the most attention from VCs
The National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) released its 2015 report on support for early stage companies in Canada, taking…
Report: Ontario businesses created 58 percent of new jobs across Ontario in the last 10 years
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) has released a report which examines the contributions of small and…
Report: 87 percent of Canadians trust online banking services, but robo-advisors see more hesitation
After surveying 1,000 Canadians and going through its own traffic data and Google search volumes data, Toronto-based RateHub…
Report: Canadian deal value reached $2.11 billion through October; exit activity remains sparse
PitchBook, a Seattle-based company providing a platform informing its clients of VC, PE, and M&A activity to make more…
Report: startups contribute $704.6M to Montreal economy per year
While a number of reports have examined the growth and progress of startup ecosystems in Toronto, Waterloo, and Silicon Valley,…
Report: Canadian business leaders more confident in company use of technology than employees
According to an Oxford Economics report sponsored by SAP, there’s a disconnect between senior leaders of Canadian businesses…
VC Report: $2.5 billion invested in first nine months of 2016 best since 2001
Thomson Reuters released its analysis on venture capital deal activity for Q3 2016, stating that venture capital activity in…
BC tech sector gets ‘A’ grade nationally, but big picture is more mixed
In another sign that the west coast’s tech industry is surging ahead, the BC Tech Association (BC Tech) together with…
Report: 42 percent of millennial entrepreneurs hold a second job to follow their dreams
A new report commissioned by American Express Canada, in partnership with Startup Canada, is attempting to glean some insight…
TechTO report says tech accounts for 15% of all Toronto jobs
As more Toronto tech founders grow businesses and raise millions, people from all industries — especially those being disrupted…
Report: Post-secondary institutions must do more to integrate e-learning into programs
A new study by The Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for Skills and Post-Secondary Education (SPSE) has found that while…
Report: Okanagan tech industry contributed $1.3 billion to the local economy in 2015
The tech industry in the Okanagan is booming, according to a recent Economic Impact Report by a technology-driven accelerator,…
BDC study: Only two percent of mid-sized businesses succeed in scaling up to 500 employees
A new study by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) found that when compared to 15 years ago, Canadian small and mid-sized…
Global Risk Institute calls emerging quantum computing technology major threat to cybersecurity systems
According to a report from Toronto-based Global Risk Institute, emerging quantum computing technology threaten to undermine…