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Elena Yunusov

Elena Yunusov works at the intersection of digital communications and experience design. She is known in Toronto’s startup community as a HoHoTO & Toronto Maker Faire co-organizer. She likes coffee, robots, and wearable tech.

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Toronto

Create more value than you capture: An oral history of Toronto product development

Dec 8, 2017

Warning: you are now experiencing BetaKit #longform content. TL;DR does not apply. Feature photography: Sanjay Chauhan. CREATE…

Toronto

Connected Lab exits stealth, enters new home to build software for new hardware

Nov 17, 2015

Connected Lab, founded by former Xtreme Labs team, has exited stealth mode and moved to a new 10,000- square-feet office in…

Wealthsimple
FinTech

Wealthsimple rebrands as the FinTech company sheds its startup skin

Nov 4, 2015

Rebrands are not often the purview of small startups, left usually to larger institutions trying to shed the impression of…

Clearbanc
FinTech

Clearbanc promises entrepreneurs modern banking

Oct 15, 2015

The shift in the way that people work gave Andrew D’Souza, formerly of Nymi and Top Hat, an idea to do banking differently.…

Retail

Ritual expands rapidly in Toronto, plans to enter U.S. lunch market

Oct 1, 2015

If you’re a Torontonian that hates wasting time in lineups and prefers to just grab your coffee or meal quickly, you…

sam:)

ScribbleLive founder wants Sam:) to make you happy

Sep 22, 2015

What would happen if you could join the opposite of Facebook: something private, messy and honest; a community of people where…

Influitive
Funding

Influitive Closes $30.5M Series B Round. CEO Mark Organ shares how

Jul 9, 2015

Influitive, a prominent player in advocate marketing category has closed $30.5 million in a Series B round of funding led by…

Toronto

BNOTIONS acquired by Symbility Solutions for $5 million

Jun 29, 2015

After a nine-year ride, BNOTIONS, the Toronto-based mobile, data and analytics innovation firm, announced today that it was…

Funding

Whitecap III venture fund hits $100 million

Jun 23, 2015

New funds raised by Whitecap Venture Partners brought Whitecap III, the venture capital firm’s third fund, to a total of…

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Keep Up With Your Dreams at Creative Destruction Lab

May 20, 2015

Can your startup make the cut? The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a Dragon’s Den style startup accelerator based at the…

STEAMLabs
Toronto

STEAMLabs, a makerspace for all ages, set to open in Toronto

May 12, 2015

STEAMLabs, a new all-ages makerspace has reached its Kickstarter funding goal, and will be opening its doors at the Centre…

Mark MacLeod SurePath Capital Partners
VC

FreshBooks CFO Mark MacLeod steps down to launch SurePath Capital Partners

May 4, 2015

The Canadian startup ecosystem is about to get a lot more exit and fundraising advice from Mark MacLeod, the now former FreshBooks…

Future Design School
Toronto

Sarah Prevette launches Future Design School in MaRS

Apr 24, 2015

The Future Design School launched in Toronto this week, a new initiative to encourage entrepreneurship in high schools around…

Events

FITC Toronto 2015 breaks records, inspires with ‘heart and wonder’

Apr 17, 2015

FITC Toronto 2015 – a three-day celebration of design, development, media, and innovation – broke every record…

InstaBuggy
Retail

New grocery delivery service InstaBuggy goes live in Toronto

Apr 15, 2015

Toronto is now one click away from getting all of our grocery shopping done while waiting in line for that morning coffee.…

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