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…
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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…
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…
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…