Former MaRS Manager to Lead New Cossette Labs Business Incubator
Cossette has announced a new business incubator in Toronto seeking to help startups who develop technologies that will benefit…
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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…
Rice is a New Location-Based Marketplace App for Trading Cool Stuff
Torontonians Aubrey Jesseau, Rishabh Varshney and Francis Lata- who call themselves Basmati Labs Inc.- have created a new…
Millions of People Around the World Are Using Toronto’s SurfEasy for Privacy
Toronto’s private, encrypted web-browsing tool SurfEasy has its hands full. The startup currently has millions of…
A Tinder for Finding Help and a Snapchat for Location: Two Cool Ways to Connect
How do you find people you know? Mobile and web applications are changing the way we find and connect to people who matter…
CareGuide Sets Sight on Rapid Growth
Toronto-based CareGuide has closed its seed round and attracted venture backing from 35 prominent investors in Canada and…
Toronto’s PumpUp Raises $2.4 Million Seed Round
Toronto’s PumpUp has raised $2.4 million from General Catalyst Partners, for its photo-sharing community for healthy…
blogTO Names Montreal’s Transit App ‘Best TTC App’
blogTO, the popular blog devoted to all things Toronto, today named Montreal startup Transit App as its “Best TTC App”.…
Mike McDerment’s FreshBooks Raises $30 Million In First Funding Round
Toronto startup FreshBooks, the online cloud accounting software for freelancers and professionals, has raised a $30 million…
Montreal’s Engagement Labs Acquires Social Media Analytics Agency Entrinsic
Montreal-headquartered Engagement Labs, a publicly traded company that provides social media performance analysis and optimization…
After Quietly Reaching Profitability, Toronto’s ParkBench Looks to Expand
In the beginning, ParkBench CEO Grant Findlay-Shirras said he was simply looking for a solution for himself and his business…
Waterloo Community to Welcome Indian Startups for GSF Global Accelerator Tour
Several India-based startups are spending time in the Toronto-Waterloo corridor this week as part of GSF India’s 13-week…
Wattpad Rolls Out Creative Commons, Users Can Access Millions of Stories
Wattpad has established a rather significant partnership today, bringing the realm of creative sharing to written story-telling.…
New Design-Focused Event Seeks to Bridge Toronto and KW Communities
The folks at Heist, Boltmade and GRAND are teaming up to launch the first “Method Jam” event in Toronto, which…
Blynk’s $100,000 Win Just a Small Example of the Ecosystem Working Correctly
Our nation of Canadian entrepreneurs and investors are consistently vowing to improve, and find more ways to get early-stage…