Uber Calls Montreal Its Newest City As Offroad Battles Continue
Love em’ or hate em’ after their surge pricing antics, but Uber keeps on expanding to new Canadian territory. The…
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Two Canadian Startups Chosen Among ‘GEW 50’
Two Canadian startups in Vancouver’s Rosterbot and Whitby’s Enginuity Search Media have been recognized among…
Young Business Owners Need Strong Business Strategy As Boomers Look to Retirement, Says Report
Business owners under 35 years of age are twice as likely to be planning a business expansion when compared to owners 55 and…
Victoria’s Tapstream Secures $700K Seed Round From BDC
Victoria-based startup Tapstream is announcing a seed round worth $700,000 this morning, lead by the Business Development…
Montreal’s Polar Electro Unveils Biometric Bracelet
Montreal-based Polar Electro Canada– not to be confused with Toronto-based startup Polar– has released its “Polar…
RBC: Female Entrepreneurs are a “Relatively Untapped Resource” for Economic Growth
According to a new RBC Economics report, female entrepreneurs are “relatively untapped resource” for economic growth,…
A Biased List of The Top Five Coworking Spaces in Montreal
Well, its more like the only five, but we’ve come up with a list of options for entrepreneurs to look at when choosing…
CMF Experimental Stream Startups Can Get an Extra $30K Towards an Accelerator Program
The Canadian Media Fund (CMF) has announced a new funding announcement that will give $30,000 to 12 startups accepted into…
Reddit Founder to Tell Waterloo Students to “Suck Less” Next Month
Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian is giving a talk to students at the University of Waterloo in late November. According to a release,…
98.2% of Businesses in Canada Have Fewer Than 100 Employees: BDC
According to a nice infographic from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), “small business is big in Canada”.…
Ottawa’s Foko Launches Photo-Sharing Startup for the Workplace
Ottawa-based photo sharing startup Foko launched today at DEMO Fall 2013, where it showcased its technology in the “Work”…
Regina’s TaxiMe Launches Taxi Fare Estimation App
Regina-based startup TaxiMe has launched its taxi fare estimation app for iOS, taking the guesswork out of estimating taxi…
Beyond 2.0’s New App Won’t Solve the TTC, But it Will Tell You When the Bus is Coming
Ottawa-based startup Beyond 2.0 recently launched its TTC Bus Tracker, a rudimentary web-based app that can make life a tad…
Digital Medicine and the Healthcare Industry: It’s Complicated
The tricorder is no longer just a Trekkie’s thing, as fellow BetaKit writer Tom Emrich found out last week. Digital medicine…
Toronto Hipster Denim Startup Calls out Rob Ford to Wear its Pants
A new Toronto startup that makes cycling jeans for women is telling Toronto mayor Rob Ford that if it succeeds in meeting its…