Today in Funding: TouchBistro, Ayogo, McRock INFund + HarbourVest VCAP
Funds are raising funds and April is the month of Series A rounds. Here’s the latest on who raised how much, from whom. …
Toronto
New grocery delivery service InstaBuggy goes live in Toronto
Toronto is now one click away from getting all of our grocery shopping done while waiting in line for that morning coffee.…
Microsoft acquires Toronto’s Datazen Software
Microsoft announced that it has acquired Toronto’s Datazen Software. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the entire…
Toronto’s maker movement grows up with Maker Festival
It was only last month I made the claim that Toronto’s maker movement was exploding. The truth, however, is that it has…
EDC and MaRS announce partnership to help Canadian companies “go global”
Export Development Canada (EDC), Canada’s trade finance agency, and MaRS have announced a new partnership that will assist…
PwC’s Vision to Reality Conference focuses on “disruptive innovation”
A lead up to the annual PwC “Vision to Reality” (V2R) Awards, which Waterloo-based Thalmic Labs won last year,…
Wealthsimple CEO talks $30M Investment and the future of financial industry
Wealthsimple made waves this week with the announcement that it had secured a $30 million Series A investment from a financial…
FreshBooks named one of the Best Workplaces in Canada
Toronto-based FreshBooks announced today that it has been named one of Canada’s great places to work. The cloud accounting…
Digifest 2015 announces finalists for IT’S A START pitch competition
Digital creativity showcase Digifest 2015 is set to take over the Corus Quay building on Toronto’s waterfront May 7-9.…
Meta Glasses get their Canadian debut as augmented reality goes mainstream
The small hotel room I’m in barely holds two people, never mind six, but I am close quarter chatting with a bevy of Meta…
Tilt talks money, expansion, and why Canadians are boring
Some services, like Yelp, solve a problem of finding a great restaurant. Others, like Uber, the problem of finding a cab. Tilt…
Toronto mayor John Tory creates Big Data Innovation Team to combat traffic congestion, hackathon coming in September
To combat frustration with Toronto’s growing congestion problems, Toronto Mayor John Tory unveiled a plan this week…
11 Waterloo-based startups participating in $5k pitch competition in Toronto
Waterloo is once again coming to Toronto. Eleven startups from Waterloo will be travelling down the 401 to participate in a…
Toronto-based MagniWare creates “quantitative second skin” wearable
Toronto-based startup MagniWare announced last week that it has created what it dubs “a quantitative second skin”…
Product-Focused Bootcamp Opens in Toronto
ThoughtKite launches its first series of weekend and evening courses starting April 11th out of Workhaus and Workplace One.…