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Why Canadian real estate developers are exploring crowdfunding

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Fintech is a growing phenomenon in the real estate sector as industry players look for innovative ways to bring projects to market.

Startup Canada announces 2018 Ontario regional award winners

By Startup Canada Staff Industry association Startup Canada honoured eight entrepreneurs, businesses, and support organizations from across Ontario on Wednesday night, as part of its fifth annual Startup Canada awards. The winners of

Published on: June 20th, 2018 ITBusiness Staff

Startup Canada launches 2018 investment fund for female entrepreneurs

Startup Canada wants to help more of Canada's female entrepreneurs and woman-led companies find their footing. On Monday the industry organization announced the launch of its latest Startup Canada Women Founders in STEM

Published on: June 18th, 2018 Eric Emin Wood

Startup Canada announces 2018 Québec regional award winners

By Startup Canada Staff Industry association Startup Canada honoured eight entrepreneurs, businesses, and support organizations from across Québec on Wednesday night, as part of its fifth annual Startup Canada awards. The winners of

Published on: June 13th, 2018 ITBusiness Staff

Real estate crowdfunding in Canada: portal insights for 2017/18

Real estate and fintech have been integrating in exciting new ways in recent years. Real estate online investment or crowdfunding has been a sector that has attracted significant interest in the U.S. over

Published on: June 12th, 2018 Bret Conkin

Startup Canada announces 2018 Atlantic regional award winners

By Startup Canada Staff Industry association Startup Canada honoured nine entrepreneurs, businesses, and support organizations from across Atlantic Canada on Thursday night, as part of its fifth annual Startup Canada awards. The winners

Published on: June 7th, 2018 ITBusiness Staff

Ontario Election: Capital Hill Group analyzes top parties’ (slim) platforms on high-tech industry

By Ari Laskin, consultant, Capital Hill Group With Ontario voting in a new government and Party today, it's worth taking a look at what (minimal) information the Parties have released discussing what they

Published on: June 7th, 2018 ITBusiness Staff

Winners of Startup Canada’s 2018 B.C. Regional Awards announced

By Startup Canada Staff Industry association Startup Canada named nine B.C.-based entrepreneurs, businesses and support organizations as winners of its fifth annual Startup Canada Awards on Wednesday. The winners of the organization's B.C.

Published on: May 31st, 2018 ITBusiness Staff

Winners of 2018 Prairies Startup Canada Awards announced

By Startup Canada Staff On May 25th, more than 200 business owners, innovators, community builders, and family members gathered in Winnipeg to celebrate some of Canada's top entrepreneurs at the

Published on: May 28th, 2018 ITBusiness Staff

An expert’s survey of the Smart Cities Challenge

By Roy Wiseman On April 24, 2018, the window closed for submitting applications for Infrastructure Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge. By that date, 132 proposals had been submitted from 199 communities across Canada, with

Published on: May 28th, 2018 ITBusiness Staff

What I learned about innovation from my fellow CATA award winners

Published on: May 16th, 2018 Eric Emin Wood
CATA awards 2018

ITBusiness.ca editor Eric Emin Wood awarded for excellence in reporting

ITWC's very own Eric Emin Wood, the editor of this fine website, is the winner of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance's (CATA) MNP Excellence in Science & Technology Reporting Award. The award is

Published on: May 16th, 2018 Brian Jackson
Tech Talks with Karim Kanji

Tech Talks with Karim Kanji: Wade Barnes of Farmers Edge

On March 22, Microsoft Canada held a conference in Toronto called “Future Now,” aimed at teaching companies how they could benefit from artificial intelligence (AI). While attending, I had the opportunity to sit down and

Published on: May 14th, 2018 Karim Kanji

The Business Leadership Podcast: Michael Katchen, CEO of Wealthsimple

Michael Katchen is the CEO and co-founder of Wealthsimple, a leading online investing service operating in Canada, United States, and the United Kingdom. Before starting Wealthsimple, he worked at a YC-backed startup called

Published on: May 14th, 2018 Edwin Frondozo

4 ways to create an engaging and marketable blog in 2018

From dull, keyword-heavy texts to meaningless blog posts only written in the interest of garnering “likes,” content marketing has gone through various phases over the years, and some of them have been pretty

Published on: April 27th, 2018 Ellie Martin