OMERS Ventures Looks for These Three Attributes When Investing Into a Startup
OMERS Ventures, the investment arm of pension fund OMERS, has a core focus in the technology, media, telecommunications, clean…
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Calgary Startup that Helps Bitcoin Transact with Traditional Banks Raises $8.5 Million
Calgary’s Redfall Technologies Inc. (a.k.a Vogogo) has raised $8.5 million in funding for its Bitcoin risk management…
WSU Business School Names Canada Second Best Location to Start a Company
A new infographic put together by Washington State University’s School of Business has named Canada as the second best…
Chance Trip to Montreal Leads Guelph Startup into FounderFuel
Jason Ernst said that when the leaders of Montreal’s FounderFuel accelerator program asked them for their investor deck…
InboundCon 2014 Looks to Please the Startup Marketers
The St. James Conference Centre in downtown Toronto will play host to InboundCon 2014, a conference that will bring together “world…
2014 Startup Fest: Over 1,500 Patrons, $200K In Investments Given Out
Early July’s International Startup Festival in Montreal didn’t fail to deliver an action packed week with keynotes,…
Jack Astor’s to Bring Potato Salad Kickstarter Guy to Canada
In what can only be described as this week’s terrible branding initiative, Jack Astor’s restaurants is bringing…
MakeWorks Nears Crowdfunding Goal, Calls Itself The”Startup Factory of the Future”
Toronto’s MakeWorks has raised over half of its targeted $20,000 crowdfunding project, in which the creative marker studio…
Forget the Cottage, Startup Weekend is Coming to Muskoka
Startup Weekend, the 54 hour global marathons that bring together developers, designers, marketers and startup enthusiasts,…
C100’s Atlee Clark To Join Shopify
Atlee Clark, now the former executive director of the C100, Canada’s US-based organization that supports Canadian technology…
Thalmic Labs to Ship 40,000 Motion-Controlled Myo Armbands to Developers
Kitchener-based Thalmic Labs is shipping over 40,000 motion-controlled Myo armbands to developers who pre-ordered the product.…
Here’s Five Tricks To Help Your Crowdfunding Project Win
The Next 36’s Chris Grouchy recently took to the Financial Post to drop a bit of knowledge about how crowdfunding projects…
Nova Scotia Judge Gives Thumbs Up to Live Tweeting in Court
A Nova Scotia judge has praised Twitter and the ability for reporters to live-tweet court cases after the province’s judiciary…
Are We Finally Turning the Corner? Tech Sector “Slowly Changing” Gender Diversity
The Canadian Press took to tech journalism’s longstanding recent tradition of talking about how few women currently possess…
Ottawa Startup Raises $3.5 Million Seed Round for Anonymous Patient Data Solution
Ottawa’s Privacy Analytics has raised $3.5 million in venture capital. The round was led by Vanedge Capital of Vancouver…