New BDC-Backed Accel-Rx Health Sciences Accelerator Will Give Startups $500,000
More government money is going towards Canadian startups, this time to those in the health sciences sector. The Business Development…
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Ontario “Cheese Whiz” Wins BDC’s Young Entrepreneur Award Contest
The votes are in and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has named its 2014 Young Entrepreneur Award winner, in Gunn’s Hill…
After Seven Years of Bootstrapping, UBC-Born TaskTop Technologies Raises $11 Million
TaskTop Technologies, a startup out of Vancouver that created a software development toolkit integration technology, has raised…
Why We Work Remote: The Evolution of the Work Place
Last year in December of 2013, we made a decision to give up our office space in the Accelerator Center in Waterloo and become…
The OCE and Extreme Startups are Extending the SmartStart Program
According to the Ontario Centres of Excellence and Toronto-based startup accelerator Extreme Startups, dozens of entrepreneurial-minded…
Toronto’s SnapSaves Gets Aquired By Groupon
Toronto startup SnapSaves has announced on its website that it has been acquired by Groupon. The terms of the deal were not…
Project: SPACES Demo Day Shows Off Six Toronto Startups
Toronto’s Project: SPACES coworking space network hosted its first ever “demo day” last week at one of its…
Former Twitter Developer Advocate Joins FounderFuel as New Head
Sylvain Carle, a former senior developer advocate at Twitter, will lead Montreal’s FounderFuel accelerator program as…
Next 36’s Trip to New York City Is About Relationships, Not Cheques
Next 36 mentor Christian Lassonde was pretty blunt on the phone about what he tells a handful of startups from every cohort…
Recent Waterloo Visit Sees Prime Minister Harper Interact with Thalmic Labs and its “Myo” Armband
It looks like even the Prime Minister himself couldn’t wait to get a glimpse of the Myo. Prime Minister Stephen Harper…
Conversion Rate Optimization Made Easy, With AlterSpark’s Brian Cugelman
At NXNE Interactive 2014 we caught up with Brian Cugelman of Toronto’s AlterSpark, a a group of digital marketers, researchers,…
Microsoft is Giving One Startup Seed Money and Mentorship at Its New “Surface Cafe”
Microsoft Canada is unveiling its new tablet and it wants to party. The software giant will award one startup seed money and…
Uh-Oh: Nearly 60% of Canadian IT Teams Don’t Think They Can Stop Data Theft
In one of the more optimistic stories of the day, nearly three in every five Canadian IT professionals don’t feel that…
Canada is the Best Place in the World for Business Tax: KPMG Report
Startups working out of the Great White North may be living the good life after all. Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver placed…
Trio of Startups Win VentureLynx’s “Ready for Funding” Competition
Three startups were selected as winners of VentureLynx‘s “Ready for Funding” Competition. Altranex, an innovator…