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…
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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…
Canadian Innovation Exchange to Hit Montreal and Toronto Next Month
The dates have been set for the Canadian Innovation Exchange‘s (CIX) Montreal and Toronto events, prior to the big flagship…
VanHawks Poaches Former Cervelo Bikes Designer to Join Team as Head of Design
VanHawks, the Toronto startup that hit it big on Kickstarter with is Valour smartbike, has hired former Cervelo Bikes designer Mark…
Canada Has the Most Bitcoin ATMs After CAVIRTEX Unveils Ten More
Bitcoin ATMs- or more specifically, “BTMs” started appearing in Canada last year, with the first one appearing…
BDC and Corus Entertainment Pitch in for New Gibraltar Venture Capital Fund
Toronto is getting a brand new venture capital fund in Gibraltar Partners Fund One. The new fund achieved its first close…
Hackernest Hooks Up With British Consulate-General Toronto for New ‘DementiaHack’
Dementia affects almost a million people in the UK alone and over 35.6 million people worldwide, and early next month Toronto’s…
Waterloo’s Hyperdrive Evolves its Graduation Ceremonies into Dual-Event Show
Hyperdrive, the Kitchener-Waterloo region-based accelerator out of the Communitech startup hub, announced on its blog that…
Shopify to Debut ‘Beyond the Code’ Event, Will Celebrate Women in Tech
Shopify is hosting an event in September that will celebrate women in technology. The event, called Beyond the Code, is an…
This Week in Canadian Startups: August 2-8
Here’s what turned out to be the biggest stories in the world of Canadian tech startups in the week of August 2-8. August…
Computer Science and Machine Intelligence Prof David Fleet Among Speakers At Next TEDX Toronto
Notable computer science and machine intelligence professor David Fleet (of University of Toronto) is among the latest round…