Tagged: incubators

Ryerson and MLSE sports technology incubator now accepting applications

Meagan Simpson

Published: November 6th, 2018

Here’s what Silicon Valley can tell us about Fin Tech trends for 2015

This month I had the opportunity to attend a Fin Tech Conference The Future of Money and Technology in San Francisco. It was a well organized and mostly an American audience. I recommend you

Published on: December 30th, 2014 Gerard Buckley
Cloud Computing

Google offering startups $100,000 credit for Google Cloud Platform

Google Inc. announced today it’s giving out a one-year, $100,000 credit to startups using its Google Cloud Platform service, a boon for new companies looking to use the cloud to get their businesses

Published on: September 12th, 2014 Candice So

Ottawa getting an enterprise-focused accelerator

Ottawa is getting a new accelerator, and it's opening up its application process to startups and entrepreneurs today. L-SPARK, which will be housed in Kanata, Ont., a suburb of Ottawa, aims to work

Published on: September 2nd, 2014 Candice So

Why a pre-commercialized company stresses about business valuations

When you take advice from your shopping friend, drinking buddy, the person you last met at a startup get-together or the latest mentor thrown at you by an accelerator, you basically get what

Published on: August 25th, 2014 Gerard Buckley
clouds, skyscraper

CANARIE offers cloud resources to 1,400 more ICT companies

CANARIE, a non-profit, federal government-funded research corporation focused on digital and networking technologies, is partnering with the Association of University Research Parks (AURP) Canada to help small businesses in tech with commercializing their

Published on: March 4th, 2014 Candice So
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Federal budget has ‘good solid items’ for small businesses, startups

With the federal budget for 2014 now in play, Canadian small businesses and startups are cautiously optimistic towards what Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has promised for the fiscal year to come. Releasing the

Published on: February 12th, 2014 Candice So

Ideaboost accelerator announces graduates, ushers in third cohort

Toronto-based accelerator IdeaBoost launched six of its graduating startups out into the world on Wednesday, and it’s bringing in six more into the fold. In an event down at the Steam Whistle Brewery,

Published on: November 21st, 2013 Candice So
Contract Negotiation

Dentons kicks off program for startups’ legal needs

Multinational law firm Dentons is launching a startup program in Canada, helping tech startups incorporate and advising them on all things legal in their line of business. While Dentons Canada has already been

Published on: November 21st, 2013 Candice So

Welcome to our incubator and accelerator directory

I'm excited to introduce a new feature to ITBusiness.ca that will be useful to our readers involved in Canada's technology startup community. It's an all-Canadian directory of incubator and accelerator style programs! I

Published on: October 11th, 2013 Brian Jackson

New Incubes’ startups hope to disrupt home security, customer loyalty markets

Toronto-based accelerator Incubes has just announced its fourth cohort, bringing in seven startups that will be spending the next three months working in hyperdrive to fine-tune their products and business models. ARB Labs,

Published on: June 20th, 2013 Candice So

School’s in for summer: AcceleratorU opens doors with ‘innovation challenge’

For kids, having to attend summer school is a sentence worse than prison. But for entrepreneurs looking for help getting their business launched, taking some courses at the brand new AcceleratorU might seem

Published on: June 18th, 2013 Brian Jackson

MaRS to unveil report on Canadian accelerators

With so many startup accelerators sprouting up in Canada, the MaRS Discovery District has been gauging their efforts to boost companies emerging into the startup space. On June 6, MaRs Data Catalyst announced

Published on: June 10th, 2013 Candice So
entrepreneurship@Alacrity

entrepreneurship@Alacrity

Program targets students in and recent graduates of engineering and business programs. Participants receive grants to cover their basic costs, living expenses and are provided office space at Wavefront in Vancouver. Graduating companies

Published on: May 10th, 2013

entrepreneurship@AccelerateTectoria

Unclear if program will be offered in 2013. 2659 Douglas Street, 2nd Floor.

Published on: May 10th, 2013