The Robots Will Take Over the World (If You Fund Them on Kickstarter)
With 12 days to go in its kickstarter campaign, Toronto’s Ainova Robotics Inc. has raised $25,000 of a $30,000 funding…
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Toronto’s YEDI Incubator to Graduate Second Cohort on Friday
After the York Entrepreneurship Development Institute (YEDI) incubated its first cohort of startups, those companies ended…
Why Startups Should Acqui-Fire Government Policies: Part One
Startups are often the subject of acquihires: one company buys another for their talent. The trend of acquihires speaks volumes,…
MaRS and Norton Rose Fulbright to Launch Free “Innovation Law Clinic”
The MaRS Discovery District has partnered with Norton Rose Fulbright to offer startups a new free “Innovation Law…
Toronto’s TouchBistro Adds Mobile Payments to Its Restaurant POS Solution
TouchBistro today announced it’s adding mobile payments to its POS solution for restaurants, allowing diners to pay…
Toronto Design Firm Creates Flux, a Time-Travel App
Flux, a new iPhone app developed by Normative, a Toronto-based design agency, puts time-travel right in your pocket. The Flux…
SalesForce to Beef Up Canadian Presence, Will Open Two New Data Centres
SalesForce today announced that it will launch two new data centres in Canada in a bid to further increase both investment…
Investor Analytics Platform HockeyStick Lands The NAO-O as a Client
One might think that the best kind of client to land might be an venture capital firm. It looks like Toronto’s HockeyStick…
The OCE and Extreme Startups are Extending the SmartStart Program
According to the Ontario Centres of Excellence and Toronto-based startup accelerator Extreme Startups, dozens of entrepreneurial-minded…
Toronto’s SnapSaves Gets Aquired By Groupon
Toronto startup SnapSaves has announced on its website that it has been acquired by Groupon. The terms of the deal were not…
Project: SPACES Demo Day Shows Off Six Toronto Startups
Toronto’s Project: SPACES coworking space network hosted its first ever “demo day” last week at one of its…
Next 36’s Trip to New York City Is About Relationships, Not Cheques
Next 36 mentor Christian Lassonde was pretty blunt on the phone about what he tells a handful of startups from every cohort…
Conversion Rate Optimization Made Easy, With AlterSpark’s Brian Cugelman
At NXNE Interactive 2014 we caught up with Brian Cugelman of Toronto’s AlterSpark, a a group of digital marketers, researchers,…
The Funding Portal Wants to Make It Easier for HealthTech Companies to Get Money
The Funding Portal, a Toronto-based government grants consultancy service that also offers a searchable database of over 7,000…
Trio of Startups Win VentureLynx’s “Ready for Funding” Competition
Three startups were selected as winners of VentureLynx‘s “Ready for Funding” Competition. Altranex, an innovator…