Healthy Minds Canada Is Putting the Spotlight on Youth Bullying With New Game
Healthy Minds Canada (HMC), a national charity that raises funds to support research and education about mental illness and…
Moncton’s Agora Mobile to Launch App-Building Platform With $1M Seed Investment
Moncton-based startup Agora Mobile has raised $1 million in seed funding from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF),…
PasswordBox Will Now Use Bionym’s ECG-Sensing Tech for Authentification
PasswordBox has inked a partnership with Toronto-based wearable tech startup Bionym (the startup everyone loves), to add ECG-sensing…
New Do416 Site Partners with Six Toronto Music Blogs to Be The Go-To Site for Event Info
Given the vibrant indie music scene in Toronto (and to a lesser extent Montreal and Vancouver), I think that there’s…
Toronto’s TouchBistro Bumps Funding Up to $6 Million
In November Toronto’s TouchBistro, the company that facilitates tablet-based payments at restaurant checkouts, raised…
Toronto-Made Hand Held Food Scanner to Use Texas Instruments Technology
Toronto-based startup TellSpec has partnered up with Texas Instruments to incorporate the famous calculator maker’s “DLP…
Less Than Half of Canadian Small Businesses Have an Online Presence
Less than half (41 percent) of Canadian small businesses have an online presence, according to a new report issued this morning…
Several BC Startups Named “Ready to Rocket” Companies for 2014
Several Vancouver and BC-based startups have been named “Ready to Rocket” ICT companies for 2014 by Ready to…
Frank & Oak Releases its 2013 Numbers, And They Sold A lot of Pants
We’ve known for a while that Montreal’s men’s efashion startup Frank & Oak has been doing well for itself.…
Georgian Partners VC firm Makes First Close with Help from Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund
Georgian Partners, a Toronto-based seed stage venture capital fund has completed the first close of its second fund. It came…
The Accelerator Series: UTEST
The Accelerator Series is a multi-part spotlight on Canada’s startup accelerators and the people who lead them. Despite…
The Bitcoin ATM Craze Continues in Montreal and Ottawa
The craze for Bitcoin ATMs continues this week as CoinDesk has reported that Ottawa installed a crytocurrency-spitting machine.…
Thalmic Labs Takes Techvibes’ Startup of the Year Award
Techvibes has announced its 2013 Canadian Startup Awards after its readers voted on five different categories, including startup…
Solver’s Market is a Marketplace for Tough Science and Engineering Problems
A story on Montreal TechWatch caught my eye last week when I read about Solver’s Market, a question and answer marketplace…
Vancouver Startup Headhunts Talent and Gives Back
For four years Chad MacRae bounced around the Middle East, living and working in Dubai, Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates…