Vintage T-Shirt Startup from Toronto to Plant 1,000 Trees with Awesome Holiday Promotion
Toronto-based online vintage t-shirt store Defunkd is in the giving spirit this holiday season. For every genuine vintage tee…
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Salary or dividends? CIBC Expert Gives the Inside Scoop for Startup Owners and Their Year-End Compensation Strategies
Its the end of the year, and for startups that means office Christmas parties and for some, year-end bonuses or dividends.…
Quebec’s NovaCap Technologies Raises $250 million for Fourth Fund
Longueuil, Québec-based Novacap, one of Canada’s oldest private equity firms, has announced that it has secured $250 million…
Toronto’s Figure 1 Raises $2 Million from Version One, Rho Canada
Toronto-based photo sharing service for medical professionals, Figure 1, has raised a $2 million seed round. The app allows…
More Than Just Contests, BrightKit is Changing the Engagement Game
Marketers have always wanted something in return for the chance to win the concert, car, or cash. They want us, and we’re…
Next 36 Grad Michael Cheng Launches platform for Discovering the Greatest Musicians You’ve Never Heard Of
Michael Cheng couldn’t sit still for long after graduating Toronto’s The Next 36 program and launching a startup…
Following Vancouver Expansion, San Francisco’s Homejoy Raises $38 Million
San Francisco-based home cleaning network Homejoy expanded to Vancouver a few months ago, its second Canadian city among a…
Leapfrog Lighting Shines a Path for “Intelligent Optics” LED Lighting
With the worldwide market for LED bulbs projected to grow to $107 billion US annually within three years, and a recent surge…
Offline Magazine Seeks to Pay Writers a Fair Buck
After working at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters for three years, Tom Smith got the entrepreneurial itch. Armed with a…
Calgary’s Slyce Acquires Former INcubes Startup Hovr.It
Toronto-based startup Slyce, the advanced visual search platform which enables smartphone users to discover and buy any product…
Broadband TV CEO First Female to Win Digi for Executive of the Year
Last week I issued a challenge to Montreal women leaders in tech to step forward and make their presence known like many of…
LiveQoS’ New “LiveQaas” Platform Makes Mobile Internet Connection A Lot Cleaner
Since acquiring former FounderFuel startup Openera in late October, Ottawa’s LiveQoS has been toiling away at its “Quality…
Vancouver’s Hootsuite Lands Spot on Mashable’s “Winners of Tech 2013”
It’s been going so well for Vancouver-based startup Hootsuite that Mashable has proclaimed that the social media dashboard…
Ottawa’s Blue Line Launches App for Home Energy Monitoring
Ottawa-based startup Blue Line Innovations Inc., a leader in home energy monitoring solutions, is launching its mobile app…
Toronto Research Startup Xagenic Nets $20 Million
Toronto-based research startup Xagenic, a molecular diagnostics company heavily associated with the MaRS Discovery District…