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Canada’s venture capital crisis explored
(Photo: REB Images/Getty) A couple months back, I couldn’t help but notice an editorial on Canada’s innovation problem in Canadian Business magazine. In it, James Cowan wrote about how Canadians like...
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Cutest. Tycoon. Ever.
After spending the past few years packing stadiums with screaming teenage girls, Justin Bieber apparently is now looking to diversify his portfolio and add venture capitalist to his resumé. At least...
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Canada’s tech sector is in a bad place, but there’s hope
(Photo: Richard Drury/Getty) Brent Holliday, a partner at Vancouver-based Capital West Partners, has been watching the Canadian tech industry for two decades. He’s seen the good years and the bad, the...
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For Israel’s tech startups, size doesn’t matter
(Photo: Wikimedia) Israel is a fascinating country on a technological level because of the sheer number of companies, innovations and entrepreneurs it produces. This week, fresh from a tour of Israel’s...
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Vancouver’s BuildDirect scores $30 million in growth funding
BuildDirect founder and CEO Jeff Booth (BuildDirect) When Jeff Booth started BuildDirect in 1999, the venture capital cycle was near its all-time peak. As the recipient of a new, $30-million round of...
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Q&A: Kent Thexton of OMERS Ventures on how to build Canada’s next RIM
HootSuite is one of OMERS Ventures’ best-known partners (Photo: HootSuite) If you work for a Canadian startup, you almost certainly know OMERS Ventures. Though relatively new to the scene, OMERS has...
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Three Canadian provinces now attract more venture capital than all but 6 states
(Photo: Sam Jeffrey Coolidge/Getty Images) Tech startups in Canada have long complained about how hard it is to secure funding—but that’s changed. Overall, venture capital spending in Canada shot up by...
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Toronto’s Wattpad, the ‘YouTube of eBooks’, scores $46 million in funding
More good news for Canada’s tech sector: Toronto-based Wattpad, often described as the YouTube of eBooks, announced this morning that it has raised $46 million in Series C funding. Unsurprisingly, the...
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Kik aims to win at mobile messaging by not playing Facebook’s game
Kik founder Ted Livingston, doing his best unicorn impression. (Illustration by Nigel Buchanan) We’re at the end of our allotted 35 minutes, and the iPhone in Ted Livingston’s hand is ringing. But...
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Is Canada finally developing a sustainable startup ecosystem?
Achievers founder Razor Suleman. (Portrait by Peter Power/Globe and Mail/CP) Four years ago, Razor Suleman moved to Silicon Valley. The founder and then-CEO of employee recognition platform Achievers...
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Canada’s Most Powerful Business People 2016: #17 — Angela Strange
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Canada’s Most Powerful Business People 2016: #3 — John Ruffolo
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Why the low loonie could be great news for Canada’s tech scene
(Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket/Getty) Canada’s tech sector will likely see a flurry of foreign investment in 2016, as the tumbling dollar turns homegrown startups into absolute bargains for American...
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After a strong 2015, VCs are getting more selective about startups
VC-hosted hackathons are a way for investors to spot developer talent and new ideas. (Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg/Getty) A recent joint report from professional services firm KPMG International and...
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After years in the slow lane, Canada’s e-commerce ecosystem is booming
Shopify is one of Canada’s highest-profile e-commerce players, but there are dozens more. (Kevin Van Paassen/Bloomberg/Getty) Canada hasn’t had the best reputation when it comes to innovating in...
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Why Canada’s tech startups need to prepare for a funding slowdown
(Illustration by Josh Holinaty) Ever since it launched in 2011, Payfirma Corp. has been on an upward trajectory. Until recently, anyway. The company was formed during the heady infancy of mobile...
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Venture capital funding is rushing into machine learning startups
Shivon Zilis. (Portrait by Roberto Caruso) Several years ago, Big Data was the new thing turning every venture capitalist on his (or, only very occasionally, her) ear. Today’s go-to trend is using...
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How Tony Lacavera is helping Canadian startups cross the “Valley of Death”
(Illustration by Min Gyo Chung) In many ways, James Sun is emblematic of today’s tech entrepreneur: He’s scarily young (21), fluent in business jargon and running a company that’s baffling to anyone...
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The smartest startups invest in their sales team early and often
Vidyard’s office in Kitchener, Ontario. (Anthony Reinhard/Vidyard/Communitech) When Michael Litt’s company was first starting out, he spent a lot of time on the phone. In 2011 Vidyard, the...
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Thalmic Labs’ $120 million funding round shows the limits of Canada’s VCs
The Myo arm band, Thalmic Labs’ first product. (Thalmic Labs) Thalmic Labs announced recently that it raised a whopping $158 million in funding, a deal that’s being touted as one of the biggest venture...
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