One year after returning home, Razor Suleman remains Canada’s biggest startup champion
Many Canadian entrepreneurs have left the homeland in favour of the opportunities provided by Silicon Valley, but few have…
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Cossette Health opens applications for fall cohort
Just over a week after Cossette announced it was seeking tourism-related startups for Cossette Lab, the marketing communications…
TouchBistro partners with Square to allow its users to accept Apple Pay, access loans
Toronto-based TouchBistro, a leading iOS point of sales apps for restaurants and bars in 37 countries, announced today that…
Georgian Partners Growth Fund III doubles up previous fund with $485M CAD raise
Toronto-based Georgian Partners has raised $485 million CAD ($375 million USD) for its third growth equity fund, more than…
#smallrooms Podcast: Mark Bailey of JobHubble on recruiting using influencers
Rob Kenedi talks to Mark Bailey of JobHubble, a recruitment platform that uses influencers to find candidates. Mark discusses…
Startup jobs of the week: ColdBlock Technologies, Unata, Interaxon, WIRL
Every day, Canada’s best startups post their latest and greatest job opportunities on the BetaKit Job Board. From early stage…
Manulife LOFT now backed by machine learning with new indico partnership
Manulife’s Lab of Forward Thinking (LOFT), which is meant to encourage employees to collaborate and come up with tech…
Blue J Legal CEO Benjamin Alarie on Toronto’s potential to be a machine learning capital
As machine learning takes hold across industries, Blue J Legal CEO Benjamin Alarie believes that Toronto can be a leader in…
#WWTO strikes a pose with wearable fashion event
Now that the general public has become accustomed to the idea of wearables thanks to FitBits and Apple Watches, the novelty…
TWG releases TIFF chatbot to help moviegoers decide what movies to watch
You know you want to watch various films at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year, but aren’t sure movies…
Helpwear wins $25,000 grand prize at CNE’s Emerging Innovators Pitch Competition
Over the course of a weekend, startups got the chance to pitch and showcase their products in a venue not commonly associated…
Genesys Capital closes $90 million of its $125 million target for third fund
Toronto-based Genesys Capital, which is focused on investing in seed healthcare startups, announced that it’s closed…
TMX Group launches roundtable to examine scalability issues facing Canadian businesses
TMX Group, which owns the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, and Montreal Exchange, announced that it is funding…
VarageSale hires Craig Dunk as new VP of engineering
Almost eight months after Toronto-based VarageSale announced that it was laying off nearly 30 staff, including its VP of engineering,…
PopRX spins off prescription delivery app into Herbsy, a medical marijuana marketplace
After the Liberal government announced plans to unveil a bill for recreational pot use next spring, what started out as initial…