Montreal-based adtech startup District M raises $8 million in funding
District M, an adtech company that provides programmatic solutions for publishers and advertisers, announced $8 million in…
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Hopper wants to help you find the cheapest (and best) flight
If you’ve travelled by air at all, you know how frustrating and arduous shopping for flights can be. While there are dozens…
Startup Canada Podcast: Aman Mann on looking inward to scale
Aman Mann, the founder and CEO of Procurify, a cloud-based procurement platform used by tech heavyweights like Hootsuite, shares…
Shopify goes fully mobile with new Android and iOS apps
Ottawa-based e-commerce company Shopify has overhauled its iOS and Android apps, adding a significant amount of features and…
BookJane pitches caregivers on-demand in a competitive market
Whether someone has to go out of town for a work conference or a couple decides to make last minute plans for an evening out,…
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Product-market fit
The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the major SaaS news from Canada, and around the globe. S|W is sponsored by…
How new SaaS companies should be using content marketing
CMI’s 2016 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Survey found that 88% of B2B companies are using content marketing. Why?…
#smallrooms Podcast: Gary Saarenvirta of Daisy Intelligence on Applied AI
Rob Kenedi a coffee with Gary Saarenvirta, founder of Daisy Intelligence, a business insights tool based on artificial intelligence.…
An inside look at Slack’s renovated Vancouver office
Working at Slack today is going to be like working for Microsoft or Facebook in their early days, says Slack co-founder and…
Subscribe to S|W: The SaaS Weekly
What’s this? Two new BetaKit newsletters in one week? Life is a matter of timing. As the wearables and FinTech verticals…
FreshBooks releases first major design change since 2003 launch
In early February, FreshBooks CEO Mike McDerment revealed in an open letter to customers that the company was planning on launching…
Fortay believes in developing a startup culture beyond free booze and office dogs
As startup success stories get more publicity, many large companies have attempted to emulate startup culture within their…
Hootsuite opening Toronto and Sydney offices
Buried deep in a media release about Hootsuite achieving cash flow positive status last week was this little tidbit: the Vancouver-based…
Vantage’s growth a reminder that great product is nothing without market fit
2015 was a good year for Vantage. Following a $1.1 million seed round the year prior, the Toronto-based ecommerce analytics…
BetaKit Next selectee Sampler pitches a solution to in-store sampling on #TheDisruptors
When stores hand out product samples in-store, they lose out on potentially valuable data like who is buying their product…