GROW Conference Heads to Whistler This Year
GROW Conference, the American-made startup conference typically held in Vancouver, is changing its venue location this year.…
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Fed’s $20 million Business Innovation Access Program Officially Unveiled
The government of Canada’s $20 million Business Innovation Access Program (BIAP) officially launched yesterday after Minister…
Toronto-Waterloo Corridor to Get More GO Trains By 2016
Everyday there’s a bus bringing Google employees from Toronto, where they live, to work in Waterloo. And you can bet…
Several BC Startups Named “Ready to Rocket” Companies for 2014
Several Vancouver and BC-based startups have been named “Ready to Rocket” ICT companies for 2014 by Ready to…
Canadian Indentity-Privacy Pioneer Austin Hill Has a Message for the Founders of Whisper and Secret
Two new apps called Secret and Whisper that encourage anonymous posting were all the conversation last week among high-profile…
BCIC-New Ventures Competition Means Lessons Learned and Cash Earned
Faced with the reality of being idea-rich and resource-challenged, the lure of the BCIC-New Ventures Competition catches the…
New Study Finds Half of Canadian Startups Run by Part-Timers
A new Intuit study has found that more than half (53 percent) of all new startups in Canada are run by part-time entrepreneurs.…
Hootsuite, Shopify, BuildDirect and Others To Go Public?
A new Bloomberg report that quote’s OMERS Ventures’ John Ruffalo is saying that several Canadian technology companies…
BC Tech Financings Had a Monster Year in 2013
The BCTIA has reviewed the numbers and the story reveals that 2013 was a banner year for BC Tech. BC was not only home to Godzilla’s…
Toronto Gets a Bitcoin Accelerator
The world’s first Bitcoin accelerator program has launched in Toronto. Bitcoin Decentral, a Toronto-based hub for the…
Teachings from the Digerati at Invoke University
Just like there’s no such thing anymore as a job for life, there’s no such thing as an education for life either. Getting…
Silicon Valley’s The Founder Institute to Launch Montreal Chapter
The “world’s largest startup accelerator” with over 1,000 graduate companies is coming to Montreal. The Founder…
BetaKit at DX3 2014: Chatting with the CFC’s ideaBOOST Program
BetaKit’s Joseph Czikk caught up with the Canadian Film Centre‘s (CFC) recruitment and talent manager, Leonardo…
BetaKit at DX3 2014: What Will Slyce Do With $11 Million?
At DX3 2014 this week, our Joseph Czikk spoke with Calgary’s Slyce, the product visual recognition startup for retailers.…
BetaKit at DX3 2014: Catching Up with Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone
Joseph Czikk caught up with Elise Darmanin of Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) incubation space this week…