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Toronto and Calgary lead the latest round of FinTech and AgTech funding announcements. Here’s the latest on who raised…
Toronto
Tony Clement: Canada #1 amongst G7 in R&D support for tech innovation
Recently, MP and Treasury Board President Tony Clement made an appearance at the INcubes offices in downtown Toronto. The federal…
Microsoft knows that speed kills
In just two weeks, hundreds of marketers will descend upon Dx3 Canada to learn new ways to present their brands to customers.…
Hardware Hackathon takes over MaRS next weekend
You can’t throw a stick without hitting a hackathon these days. But a hardware hackathon? That’s new. Organized…
MaRS HealthKick 2015 pitch competition offers $60,000 in prizes to health startups
It takes a special kind of person to be in healthcare. Caring for others takes heart and an enormous amount of patience. At…
Lighthouse Labs coding bootcamp goes national in new HIGHLINE partnership
Vancouver-based Lighthouse Labs announced today that it is expanding its coding bootcamp school across Canada in 2015. A Toronto…
Toronto celebrates its first Coworking Day
Toronto celebrates its first Coworking Toronto Day today, officially acknowledging the new reality of how work gets done in…
Toronto Startup WINR Games launches Big Time, the first gaming app that pays users to play
WINR Games, founded by Toronto native Jeremy Zuckerman, aims to change the future of gaming with the launch of the first…
MaRS partner UGO adds new features and iPhone support to its mobile wallet
UGO Wallet was announced in 2013, then officially launched in November last year, and dubbed as “Canada’s First Open…
Adam Nanjee wants Canada to be a global FinTech leader
Last week, MaRS launched its new financial technologies cluster. The announcement, filled with partners across the financial,…
Ryerson and Rogers team up to launch The Next Big Idea in sports competition
Canada’s Year of Sport just got bigger. Ryerson and Rogers have embarked on a quest to find the “Next Big Idea in Sport”…
MaRS’ new District 20 means business
“This is a great space. We lobbied hard to get here.” I’m sitting across from Eric Riz,…
SKE Labs is building a smart world one jar at a time
The Internet of Things (IoT) is real. BI estimates that by 2019, the IoT market will be more than double the size of the smartphone,…
MaRS Launches FinTech cluster to tackle Financial Tech innovation
Cryptocurrencies, blockchain, alternative lending, and the tech payments wars have the financial services industry buzzing…
Towit wants to be John Tory’s favourite mobile app
Dashing inside for “just a few seconds” to grab a cup of joe from your favourite coffeehouse? Not only will it cost you…