CIX Announces Speakers for Upcoming Toronto and Montreal ‘Mixers’
The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) has announced its speakers for its Toronto and Montreal “mixers.” Taking…
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New Toronto Hackathon Sees Next 36 Team Up with Google, Bionym and Thalmic Labs
A few of Toronto’s major players within the tech space are teaming up in early October for the Next 36’s 2014 Wearable…
Why Did Bay Street’s Altas Partners Invest in a Grenada University?
Canadian private equity firms are often no strangers to highly-valued tech startups when considered where to spend their capital.…
Markham EHR Tech Startup Nightingale Receives $3.5M Secured Loan
Markham’s Nightingale Informatix Corporation, a technology company on the TSX-V that provides Electronic Health Record…
Toronto Fishing App Reveals Big Numbers at GROW Conference Startup Smackdown
Kyle Reid impressed a panel of four judges (including our Joseph Czikk) enough to win himself a trip to the Startup Smackdown…
CFC and Buffer Festival Launch First ‘YouTube Industry Conference’
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and the Buffer Film Festival have announced Canada’s first Buffer Festival Industry Day,…
Daft Hack Takes #GrowHack $10K Prize, U Grok It Takes Startup Smackdown
It’s been a fun few days of pitches and hacking, but the winners for GROW Conference‘s #GrowHack2014 and its Startup…
OpenText CEO Mark J. Barrenechea to Keynote November’s CIX Event
OpenText CEO Mark J Barrenechea will give the opening keynote address at November’s CIX event in Toronto, the yearly…
GROW ‘One of the Leading Technology Conferences in the World,’ Founder Declares in Opening Speech
The much anticipated GROW Conference in Whistler kicked off earlier today at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, and Dealmaker…
Innovation Guelph to Throw ‘Startup Royale’ for Youth-Led Teams
Innovation Guelph is ready to host its first “Startup Royale” pitch competition. The organization helps ideas…
Seymour Schulich Gives 40 Canadian Students Largest Ever STEM Scholarships
Forty young Canadians are heading into their first year of university with a large financial boost, after Schulich Leader…
Deadline Approaches for PwC’s 2014 Vision to Reality Awards
There’s not too much time left to give a shout-out to those startup entrepreneurs in Canada who deserve to be recognized,…
The Prizes At Next Week’s GROW Hackathon Are Kind of Ridiculous
Next week’s GROW Conference in Whistler is all set to be a great experience revolving around the “connected city,”…
Want to Go to InboundCon 2014 in Toronto? BetaKit is Giving Away Two Tickets
One lucky BetaKit reader will receive two tickets to next month’s InboundCon 2014 in downtown Toronto, and all you have…
Canadian VCs Ranked Favourably in New Deloitte-NVCA Survey
Canadian venture capitalists and private equity firms scored big marks in a recent Deloitte-NVCA survey that revealed global…