Today in funding: Snug Vest, Milestone Pharmaceuticals, Lending Loop
A first-time entrepreneur and a new startup one year in the making are finally seeing their hard work pay off. Here’s the…
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Dx3 Canadian Tech Spotlight: Dream Payments
Tech journalist and TV personality Amber Mac was all over Dx3 2015, interviewing founders and senior execs from some of Canada’s…
Today in Funding: Yesware, Kensington Venture Fund, iGan Partners, Luxury Retreats and Osprey Informatics
Calgary-based companies are getting noticed in the tech scene as two Calgary-based companies raised generous funds. Here’s…
Orchard Labs receives $500,000 from the MLA48 Angel Investment Fund
Toronto-based Orchard Labs, the company that makes it easy for iPhone owners to sell their smartphone, has received $500,000…
How one Toronto Bitcoin Hackathon led to the latest Andreessen Horowitz investment: OpenBazaar
The core development team of the OpenBazaar project announced today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from Union…
ACCEO Solutions acquires Toronto-based Multipost
Montreal-based ACCEO Solutions, a company that was started by Gilles Létourneau in 1988 under the original name of Conceptum,…
iNovia is implementing accelerator-style service partnerships to support its startup portfolio
As the founder and CEO of CareGuide, it’s John Philip Green’s job to stay on top of any source of revenue opportunity to…
BattleHack Toronto is happening July 18th, offering developers a chance to ‘own the axe’ and $100,000
The annual BattleHack competition is once again making a stop in Toronto. The PayPal, Braintree, and Venmo-backed event will…
Ear-O-Smart and Pawly pitch on #TheDisruptors
On last week’s episode of BNN’s The Disruptors, hosts Amber Kanwar and Bruce Croxon featured pitches from two companies…
VarageSale CEO Carl Mercier addresses rumours of moving South on #TheDisruptors
Last night’s edition of BNN’s The Disruptors featured the CEO of a startup that knows one person’s trash is another…
#ProductHuntTO showcases latest in art and tech
Watching almost 300 people gathered on the sixth floor of the Burroughes building, it’s hard to believe that Product Hunt…
Four young Canadian entrepreneurs named Thiel Fellows
The Thiel Foundation announced today the 2015 class of Thiel Fellows. Drawn from an application pool of 2,800, the 20 newly…
BrainStation announces BrainStation Academy, a coding summer camp for high school youth
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but coding is the new literacy: with the majority of stable and well-paying jobs…
#WWTO has gone to the dogs
Faithful wearable enthusiasts got a treat last night at the MaRs Discovery District during the June meetup for We Are Wearables…
HEIST is done: another Toronto design agency calls it quits
A shockwave went through the Toronto tech community when it learned that globally recognized design agency Teehan+Lax was shutting…