Five Reasons Why the Time is Now to Launch a Startup
Ask a 4th year business class “how many of you want to be entrepreneurs?” and about half the class will raise their hands.…
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Vancouver’s Medeo Thinks the Future of Healthcare is Right in Front of Us
I’ve seen the future of healthcare: it’s my doctor’s presence on the screen in front of me. From the comfort of my home,…
Mashable Picks Montreal’s InfoActive As One of Its Kickstarter Favourites for 2014
British-American tech and social media news blog Mashable listed its top Kickstarter gadgets for 2014 and one Canadian startup’s…
Montreal McGill Students Accepted into Startup Chile’s New Cohort
Montreal-based encrypted social network startup Syme has been accepted into Startup Chile’s ninth generation, announced…
Go on Social Media; Edmonton’s Empire Avenue Reward’s with Music, Movies and eBooks
Edmonton-based startup Empire Avenue today announced that it will reward social media users with a new virtual currency called…
Windsor’s Tiksoo Uses Phone Monitoring to Save Businesses Headaches
It may not be the sexiest space, but Windsor-based phone number monitoring platform Tiksoo can save businesses thousands of…
Montreal Startup Launches to Provide Gambling Website Analysis
Montreal-based startup PlayOnline launched today, a site that provides players with reviews and current information about…
BDC Invests $150,000 into Three Maritime Startups
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has invested $150,000 convertible notes into three startups that graduated from…
Have an Interesting Personal Website? Newly Launched ‘The Development’ May Want to Feature It
A pair of Ontario-based university students have launched The Development, an interesting new website that, simply put, is…
Vancouver’s LX Ventures To Acquire Strutta Media
Vancouver’s seed-stage venture capital investment firm, LX Ventures, has signed a letter of intent to acquire Vancouver-based…
Shopify Adds $100 Million in Series C Money to Its Arsenal
Everything in life seems to go in circles: yesterday we sold stuff in a shop, today we do it online and tomorrow we’ll…
Toronto’s Bitstrips Raises $3 Million After Users Created Over 30 Million Avatars
The resounding message from an update (in comic strip form I might add) from Bitstrips is that once the Toronto-based startup…
For DataHero’s “Big Data Star” Chris Neumann, Vancouver is a Familiar Place
For many people home is simply where the heart is. For DataHero cofounder and CEO Chris Neumann, even with a Palo Alto zip…
Toronto’s Matterform Affordable 3D Scanner to Hit the Shelves in February
In Spring 2013 Toronto’s 3D Scanning company, Matterform, became the one of the largest non-US Indiegogo campaigns when…
Toronto’s Kryptokit Launches First Instant Bitcoin Wallet in a Browser
Toronto startup Kryptokit thinks that whatever happens in Vegas should be plastered out in the open for all to see. Today at…