Vancouver’s Curatio Wins $100,000 for Mobile Healthcare App
Vancouver-based startup Curatio is sitting pretty these days. The four-month old company, part of Wavefront’s Venture Accelerator…
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Dragons’ Den-Pitching Fitness Geeks Launch App for Personalized Workouts
Waterloo-based fitness startup PumpUp has launched its 2.0 version, adding a fitness community function to its 100,000 user-strong…
MP Tony Clement to Launch “National Open Data Appathon” With U of T
Tony Clement has made a name for himself as Canada’s “techie” MP over the years, from supporting the granting…
One Man’s Trash Is the Dragons’ Den’s Treasure: Woodstock’s Modern Waste Products Woos Investors
I love Dragons’ Den. I love when old rural Ontario couples who remind me of my parents pitch the dragons and go home…
Is Canada Experiencing A Renaissance for Hardware Startups?
Following the aftermath of BlackBerry’s agreement to a tentative offer from FairFax Financial Holdings (and the inevitable…
Vancouver-Born Basis Extends Series B Round to More Than $23 Million
The “wearables” market is poised to grow from 14 million devices shipped in 2011 to as many as 171 million units…
Vancouver’s Indicee is Leading the Consumerization of Business Intelligence Software
If you were constructing a lineage list of Vancouver’s technology business, contributors from Aerospace, Fuel Cell/Clean-Tech,…
Waterloo’s VeloCity Renames Venture Fund, Shakes Up Funding Structure
Waterloo-based startup incubator, VeloCity, has changed the name of one of its most successful programs, the “VeloCity…
New Toronto Mobile Payments Startup Wi-Py is the Free PayPal Alternative
Don’t feel like paying PayPal’s annoying transaction fees? One Toronto-based startup is launching today and wants…
Vancouver’s RentMoola Means No Paper and All Perks
The payment industry is being disrupted by companies like Stripe and Payfirma, and the smartphone is becoming our wallet.…
Life Long Employment is Dead, Long Live the Entrepreneur
The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well amoung young Canadians. According to a new report from the Council of Ontario…
Startup Weekend Calgary Looks to Promote Women in Design
Startup Weekend Calgary had an encouraging past 10 months, throwing two successful events while attracting over 200 participants.…
Hootsuite is Hiring 100 and They Want You to Come Over Tomorrow
It was only a matter of time before Ryan Holmes and Hootsuite opened the wallet following their massive $165 million Seried…
Call Them The Dubliners: Vancouver’s Clio To Open Office in Ireland
Business is “bloom”ing for Burnaby-based startup Clio, a leader in cloud-based management tools for the legal…
Former Well.Ca Founder Ali Asaria Raises $2.4 Million for New Waterloo Startup
Ali Asaria left Well.ca in the winter to relative surprise, but really you kind of knew he was just going to start some other…