Two Canadians Selected for EY’s Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program
Two Canadians have been given the nod for Ernst and Young’s 2013 Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program. Kelsey Ramsden,…
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Ottawa’s Nuvyyo Announces $4 Million Funding Round, Initiates Crowdfunding
Ottawa-based Over-the-Air (OTA) HDTV startup Nuvyyo announced this week that earlier in the year Celtic House Ventures committed…
Toronto’s HQVB is the First Full-Service Ad Agency to Accept Bitcoins as Payment
Toronto-based ad agency HQVB is shaking things up in how it accepts currency from clients. Today the ad agency started accepting…
Toronto Startup Hooks Up with Youth Group to Create Virtual Citizen Program
Toronto-based startup Locolo is partnering up with the Coalition of Youth Councils (CYC) to create the Virtual Citizen Program…
“This is a generational opportunity to increase entrepreneurship”: New Startup Canada Task Force
Startup Canada is up to it again. Today the national, entrepreneur-led and volunteer-run organization that promotes startups…
Calgary’s Slyce Closes $2.2 Million in Financing
Calgary-based visual search platform Slyce, which enables consumers to buy any item they see in the real world simply by…
Toronto’s TouchBistro Raises $4.5 Million from Relay Ventures
Toronto-based startup TouchBistro has raised $4.5 million in venture capital from several sources. The round was led by Relay…
A CEO’s Perspective: Who’s Your Competition?
I’ve just finished sitting on a judging panel, and reading a stack of applications from eager entrepreneurs looking for funding.…
Taxi Battle Heats Up in Montreal as Hailo Makes Its Presence Known
On the same week that Uber Montreal is offering three free taxi rides under $20 to anyone who downloads the app, its main competitor…
Montreal’s Beyond The Rack Launches iPhone and iPad App
Montreal-based flash sale eretailer Beyond The Rack announced this morning it has released its mobile app compatible with iPhone…
Security Software Makers Elliptic Technologies Gets $4 Million from BDC
Ottawa-based startup Elliptic Technologies, a leading provider of security for digital content, today announced $4 million…
Montreal’s PasswordBox Raises $6 Million in Venture Cap, Hits One Million Users
PasswordBox has already won over a lot of users and now they can call a few high profile angel investors, including a Facebook…
Montreal Kickstarter Project Shutters After Fraud Allegations
In yet another example of crowdfunding projects failing to deliver what they say they will provide backers, apparently a case…
An App in 60 Days? Dandy Wants to Help
Waterloo-based startup Dandy, the group of guys that I first met at the CN Tower Elevator World Tour event last winter in Toronto,…
Kids Health Record Lets Parents Take the Information Online…Forever
Toronto-based startup Kids Health Record launched this weekend at the Babytime Show at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre…