Dragons’ Den Star to Launch $200M Fund in Waterloo
New Dragons’ Den star Michael Wekerle is launching a $200 million investment fund in Waterloo, to be aimed at startups…
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Billionaire Mark Cuban Invests in Vancouver’s Procurify
Procurify, an international cloud procurement software firm headquartered in Vancouver, has closed a $1.2 million seed round…
Montreal-Born 5By To Partner Up with VICE Media, Tribeca Film
Montreal-born and San Francisco-based startup 5by announced today it has entered a partnership with VICE Media, Tribeca Enterprises,…
Vancouver’s Pulse Energy Announces Multi-Million Dollar Deal With British Gas
Vancouver’s Pulse Energy has secured a multi-million-dollar, three-year contract with British Gas, the United Kingdom’s…
New Invoke Labs Startup Cleanify Joins the Home-Cleaning Race
Vancouver’s incubator Invoke Labs has welcomed a new startup to the rolling program in Cleanify. Cleanify is a service…
Victoria’s KeyNexus Stores Cloud-Based Apps in a Really (Really) Secure Way
Speaking of Heartbleed, here’s a little something of interest: “When you’re using a software based encryption technology,…
Video: Frank & Oak Cofounder Talks About The Jump From Employee to Entrepreneur
Frank & Oak cofounder Hicham Ratnani recently gave a talk at a free Founder Institute startup event, and the entrepreneur…
Wattpad Secures $46 million in Funding, Aims to “Become One of the Most Successful Consumer Internet Companies in the World”
I always wonder at what point a company just has enough money. I suppose the Toronto-based writing platform Wattpad didn’t…
Halifax’s Compilr Gets Acquired by US-Based Online Education Company
Halifax-based startup Compilr, a software coding and development editor that allows people to learn, write, compile and test…
Check Out Hootsuite’s Animated Play on Game of Thrones’ Opening Sequence
Sunday night’s premier of Game of Thrones season 4 attracted a ton of viewers worldwide, and one Canadian startup in…
The “Facebook for Sports”, Montreal’s Insidde Sports Launches its V2 Web App
Montreal-based social network for sports, Insidde Sports recently launched its version two of the product, and already one…
Vancouver’s BuildDirect to Launch New Chocolate Flooring
Vancouver’s online building materials merchant BuildDirect is about to “take a bite” out of home improvement,…
Moncton’s Agora Mobile to Launch App-Building Platform With $1M Seed Investment
Moncton-based startup Agora Mobile has raised $1 million in seed funding from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF),…
Ex-TeamBuy Cofounder is Set to Go After Uber
If there’s a night in shining armour ready to come to the defence of the helpless taxi fleets, losing revenue that could…
Video: Hurrier is the Toronto-Based “Uber for Goods”
It’s our fourth instalment of our Extreme Startups video series and this time Joseph Czikk asks the million-dollar question:…