“Nobody Gives a S*** Anymore”: Life As a Failed Startup CEO
Last month I attended a startup event called FailCamp, which sought to bring entrepreneurs together to celebrate failure. It…
Venture Capital
Real Ventures Fund III Gets First Close at $50 Million
It came with a lot of talk leading up to it, but this morning Montreal-based venture capital firm Real Ventures officially…
Wattpad Secures $46 million in Funding, Aims to “Become One of the Most Successful Consumer Internet Companies in the World”
I always wonder at what point a company just has enough money. I suppose the Toronto-based writing platform Wattpad didn’t…
Real Ventures to Announce New Fund Next Week?
According to Les Affaires, the french language weekly newspaper, Montreal venture capital fund Real Ventures will announce…
Canadian Venture Capital Had Some Big Wins in Q1 of This Year
Ahh Q1- the fresh new beginnings of the year, when the snow melts and the Maple Leafs’ playoff hopes shatter before our…
Meet CBC Dragons’ Den’s New Fire-Breathers: Michael Wekerle
One of the two newest members to CBC’s Dragons’ Den has a multitude of tattoos (about “38 to 42”) and…
Meet CBC Dragons’ Den’s New Fire-Breathers: Vikram Vij
It was a little disappointing when we found out that Kevin O’Leary and Bruce Croxon were both leaving CBC Dragons’…
The New $100M OpenText Venture Fund Is Looking for Startups
As a startup founder I often think about money, including raising it. Yet the overall name of the game is forward progress.…
PHEMI Health Systems Raises $2.8 Million from BDC, Yaletown, Others
Vancouver-based PHEMI Health Systems has announced its $2.8 million seed round, lead by the Business Development Bank of Canada…
BC Tech Financings Had a Monster Year in 2013
The BCTIA has reviewed the numbers and the story reveals that 2013 was a banner year for BC Tech. BC was not only home to Godzilla’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…
Vancouver’s Identity Verification Experts Trulioo Lands $6 Million
Vancouver-based startup Trulioo has raised $6 million in venture capital. The deal was announced yesterday and sees the identity…
BetaKit at DX3 2014: What Will Slyce Do With $11 Million?
At DX3 2014 this week, our Joseph Czikk spoke with Calgary’s Slyce, the product visual recognition startup for retailers.…
Check Out This BDC Infographic on “The Real Impact of Venture Capital”
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has released an infographic on the morning that the CVCA released its 2013 overview…
Bitstrips is Raising a Huge $15 million Series B Round
Toronto-based Bitstrips, the company that raised $3 million in December after its users had basically crashed the system creating…