Fortay believes in developing a startup culture beyond free booze and office dogs
As startup success stories get more publicity, many large companies have attempted to emulate startup culture within their…
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Hootsuite opening Toronto and Sydney offices
Buried deep in a media release about Hootsuite achieving cash flow positive status last week was this little tidbit: the Vancouver-based…
TouchBistro talks building in Canada and scaling globally on #TheDisruptors
When a large group of people go out for dinner after work, it can be a tedious and time-consuming process for waiters to manually…
Vantage’s growth a reminder that great product is nothing without market fit
2015 was a good year for Vantage. Following a $1.1 million seed round the year prior, the Toronto-based ecommerce analytics…
How Edusight’s platform wants to help school boards make better decisions with data
While school boards regularly collect data about students’ grades and performance, they aren’t always able to collect and…
BetaKit Next selectee Sampler pitches a solution to in-store sampling on #TheDisruptors
When stores hand out product samples in-store, they lose out on potentially valuable data like who is buying their product…
Griffin Farley Search for Beautiful Minds Canada opens applications for annual pitch competition
The Griffin Farley Search For Beautiful Minds Canada (GFBM Canada) is opening applications for its bootcamp and pitch competition,…
Quandl raises $12 million Series B to expand its financial data platform
Quandl, which provides alternative datasets alongside financial and economic data for investment professionals, announced a…
Scotiabank investing $1.75 million in entrepreneurship initiatives at Rotman School of Management
Scotiabank announced that it is dedicating $1.75 million to establishing the Scotiabank Disruptive Technologies Venture at…
Announcing the BetaKit Next selectees
BetaKit isn’t particularly fond of awards for entrepreneurship. For example, how can anyone reasonably name an ‘entrepreneur…
Financeit and Concentra acquire TD Bank’s indirect home improvement financing assets
Toronto-based POS financing platform Financeit and Concentra, which provides wholesale finance and trust solutions for Canadian…
#WWTO examines the long road to embracing healthtech wearables
While many past We Are Wearables Toronto events have explored the wearable industry’s impact on lighter, consumer-facing…
Startup jobs of the week: UDIO AgTech, Easy Automated Sales, Linquet, QuickTapSurvey
Every day, Canada’s best startups post their latest and greatest job opportunities on the BetaKit Job Board. From early stage…
Real Ventures hires Facebook’s Mike Shaver, Frank & Oak’s Isaac Souweine
Real Ventures has announced two major hires to its investment team in an effort to “better support our portfolio companies…
Slack announces plans to open Toronto office and hire 145 people
During TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Vancouver-based Slack announced the expansion of its business…