Five reasons WEST will repeat as the year’s best wearables conference
Canada’s first wearable tech conference, WEST, is back again this year, and it’s bringing a heavy-hitting line-up…
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Feast your eyes on this #TheDisruptors pitch
This week, Toronto-based Feast went on The Disruptors to talk about getting a piece of the food delivery pie. Customers can…
Michael Garrity talks Goldman Sachs and Financeit’s new equity financing round
Financeit, a Toronto-based FinTech company offering a cloud-based point-of-sale platform, announced the closing of an equity…
#smallrooms podcast: Tiny Hearts
Rob Kenedi sits down with Robleh Jama, founder and CEO of Tiny Hearts, one of the most popular iOS app developers in the world.…
Meet Canada’s biggest investors at The Upside Foundation charity event
On October 22, The Upside Foundation, a registered charity that encourages Canadian startups and high-growth companies to “share…
The Next Big Thing partners with Canada’s largest tech conference for startup competition
After announcing the winners of its 2015 Next Gen startup winners, The Next Big Thing has announced that they are partnering…
New Startup Next Toronto cohort gets down to business
Startup Next, the pre-acceleration program run by Techstars, kicked off its new Toronto cohort last night at the MaRS Discovery…
Griffin Farley Search for Beautiful Minds coming to Canada with startup twist
For the past few years, the Griffin Farley Search for Beautiful Minds in New York has honoured the legacy of Griffin Farley,…
InteraXon’s Ariel Garten makes the case for mindfulness on #TheDisruptors
InteraXon, the company behind the brain-sensing headband Muse, has been having a good run since it launched five years ago.…
Scotiabank creates Digital Factory to churn out the best in FinTech
Like many other financial institutions, Scotiabank is turning to tech startups to facilitate the next generation of FinTech…
Mayor John Tory to put spotlight on Toronto startups in London, England
On October 21-23rd, John Tory will be making a business trip to London, England with six startups to make a case for why Toronto…
#smallrooms Podcast: BlancRide
Rob Kenedi sits down with Hamid Akbari to talk about his two-year-old startup, BlancRide, a carpooling app that hopes to make…
Fresh City makes first acquisition with Fresh Canteen
Toronto-based Fresh City, an online grocer and city farm that delivers organic, local groceries, announced an acquisition that…
Today in funding ($50M): SoapBox, Cymax, Figure 1, Chef’s Plate
Toronto-based companies flipped the bat in funding this week as their home team moved one step closer to the World Series.…
Clearbanc promises entrepreneurs modern banking
The shift in the way that people work gave Andrew DâSouza, formerly of Nymi and Top Hat, an idea to do banking differently.…