By Alexandra Reid If you’ve read any of our posts here, you will know that we’re heavily involved in the Canadian and international startup scenes, from Ottawa to Montreal all the way to B.C.’s
By Leo Valiquette Victoria Lennox and the team at Startup Canada were back in Ottawa recently and my brief showing at one of the events left me with plenty of food for thought. (more...)
By Alexandra Reid Ottawa’s startup ecosystem received some much-needed support this month as TheCodeFactory launched Government to Startup (G2S), an incubator program developed by the learning centre’s founder and president Ian Graham to address the challenges faced by
Quebec City startup Crowdbase has raised $650,000 from iNovia Capital, Real Ventures and Martin-Luc Archambault. Based on our source article from BetaKit,Crowdbase's platform soundslike a combination of social HR tool meets workplace intranet
By Francis Moran Those of you who are regular readers of our posts will know that I am passionate about entrepreneurship and a huge fan and supporter of startups. So it’s not unusual
Flush with VC cash, U.S. startup Stripe has brought its online payments platform to the Canadian market. What Stripe has to offer is an easy sell to Canada's busy, resourcestarved SMBs who want
INcubes Demo Day INtake02 for all intensive purposes was a glowing success, even though it was up against a blockbuster of all geek events, the Apple iPhone 5 launch. The 200+ private invitees
Apple may not be betting on NFC but Zaptap certainly is.The U.S. giant didn't include near field communication capability inthe new iPhone 5 it unveiled yesterday, despite wide speculation thatit would. Canadian startup
LemonStand started the day with some sweet seed funding this morning.The Vancouver startup has secured an undisclosed amount of financingfrom the Business Development Bank of Canada's IT Venture Fund and fourangel investors: Michael
Ottawa is poised to introduce a new immigration visa to speed the stream of foreign startup entrepreneurs into Canada.Immigration minister Jason Kenney's office confirmed to Reuters thatthe new visa is in the works.
This is the eighth article in a continuing monthly series chronicling the growth path of Screach, a startup based in Newcastle upon Tyne in England’s North East. Screach is an interactive digital media platform that
On paper, Shahrzad Rafati seems to have all the odds stacked against her.She's female. She's only 32. And she had to adapt to a whole newculture after immigrating to Canada from Iran at
Canada's tech incubator scene is going global.Toronto's Ryerson University is welcoming nine youngentrepreneurs from India for a four-month stint at its Digital MediaZone. It may just be the first time a Canadian technologyincubator hasformally
Montreal startup Wajam has picked up three honours from the International Business Awards, popularly known as the Stevie Awards.The social search engine firm won gold for best online press room, plussilvers for best
