Why Toronto’s New Stock Exchange Should Focus on Nanotech
A monopoly’s favourite casualty – innovation – has thus far not been spared in the case of Canada’s stock markets. But…
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Toronto’s Aislelabs Raises $1.5 Million, Provides Intelligent In-Store Marketing via the Cloud
Toronto-based startup Aislelabs has raised $1.5 million in venture capital from IAF, Rho Ventures, Salesforce Inc. and a number…
Video: Preo’s New App Ensures You’ll Never Have to Wait In Line For a Drink Again
In the second instalment of our Extreme Startups series, our Joseph Czikk chatted with Preo CEO Richard Liang. The startup’s…
Toronto-Waterloo Corridor to Get More GO Trains By 2016
Everyday there’s a bus bringing Google employees from Toronto, where they live, to work in Waterloo. And you can bet…
Video: New Extreme Startups Company Provides Higher Education to Sub-Saharan Africa
In our first profile of the five new Extreme Startups companies, our Joseph Czikk chats with Fora cofounder Ian Carnevale.…
Toronto’s Encore Wants to Give Concert-Goers the Digital Equivalent of a Ticket Stub
About 70 percent of concert-goers take photos or videos with their phones or digital cameras, which is either really annoying…
Who Can You Trust With Your Data? This Toronto Startup Wants to Help
Who can you trust with your data? That’s a multibillion-dollar question. Three years before Snowden’s plea to the…
Toronto Gets a Bitcoin Accelerator
The world’s first Bitcoin accelerator program has launched in Toronto. Bitcoin Decentral, a Toronto-based hub for the…
Brainstation’s Mobile Development Education Takes its Act to Extreme Startups
Toronto-based technology education organization Brainstation has taken up residence at its new home: Extreme Startups. It’s…
Extreme Startups’ Marcus Daniels: “Now We’re Bringing In Rockstar Founders”
We’ve known this for a while, but now we have video evidence that Marcus Daniels may be one of Canada’s most outwardly…
Toronto Recruiting Software Startup Fitzii Gets Acquired
Fitzii Inc., a Toronto-based recruiting software company that has developed a predictive applicant tracking system, has been…
BetaKit at #SXSW: Bionym’s Karl Martin Shows Us The Nymi
Joseph Czikk chatted with Bionym cofounder Karl Martin at the #SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Czikk’s first…
Brothers in Arms: Skyprep’s Sibling Cofounders Mix Business and Friendship
Babak Barkhodaei spoke about the power of three brothers working towards a common goal. He’s the CEO of Toronto-based…
BetaKit at DX3 2014: Chatting with the CFC’s ideaBOOST Program
BetaKit’s Joseph Czikk caught up with the Canadian Film Centre‘s (CFC) recruitment and talent manager, Leonardo…
BetaKit at DX3 2014: Catching Up with Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone
Joseph Czikk caught up with Elise Darmanin of Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) incubation space this week…