Win a Tailored Business Trip for your Startup to the UK
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is looking for Canada’s most promising innovative technology companies to introduce to the UK’s vibrant tech community.
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B2B Startup Marketing and How to Crush Thought Leadership
I was simultaneously thumb wrestling one-on-one with a bearded business executive and a group of fellow attendees during a keynote at Canada 3.0.
Canadian Startup Postach.io Turns Evernote into a Powerful Blogging Platform
There is a seemingly never-ending amount of uses for Evernote. The productivity app, which started off as a way to remember everything across any device, has evolved into a robust content creation and management system with over 60 million users worldwide.
Waterloo's Auvik Networks Raises $6 Million from BDC Venture Capital IT Fund and Others
Waterloo-based Auvik Networks has secured a $6 million first round of funding from Celtic House Venture Partners, Rho Canada Ventures, BDC Venture Capital IT Fund, and its founders.
Wavefront and Communitech Forge Collaboration Designed to Accelerate Tech Startups in Canada
Wavefront and Communitech this week announced a collaboration agreement.
Canada Targets Foreign Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley with Billboard
Canada’s federal government has made the call for the world’s best and brightest entrepreneurs and this week they started advertising it in a big way.
Offshore Development for Startups: The Five Pillars of Success
Everyone loves the classic story about bootstrapping the company in your garage, spending late nights eating pizza and fixing bugs, then finally hitting it big with your 100% homegrown product.
Meet A Canadian Startup's Beginner Guide to Navigating Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a land of opportunity for thousands of startups, but it's also cutthroat—you won't survive in the wild for long if you don't know the lay of the land.
How to Run Your Own User Conference
Just as soon as the snow melts it seems that people are ready to get out and network.
It’s conference season!
read moreBorderless Investments: The Path to Acquisition
This article is the 2nd in a series that highlights how to properly go about funding and growing your startup.
While we know US corporates are driving the majority of Canadian company exits, it is helpful to understand how Canadian ventures are actually attracting the attention of these acquirers. Is it through strategic relationships―or is it, as we believe, through a company’s investors?
CeltxStartup Chooses Vancouver over Toronto, New York City, and Silicon Valley
Eight months ago Techvibes covered startup Picatic.
At the time they were part of an Extreme Startups cohort in Toronto and launching a crowdfunding platform called EventTilt that promised event organizers that they would never lose money again.
read moreCanadian Startup Suitly Suits up to Take on Indochino in Custom-tailored Men's Apparel Arena
E-commerce startups targeting men with offers that both tailor to their unique body size and aim to save them the hassle of going into a physical store have found a budding marketing with companies like Indochino and Frank & Oak leading the way.
BDC Venture Capital Partners with DFAIT to Expand Canadian Technology Accelerator Program in US
In recent months, Canadian tech accelerators have sprouted in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, with another in Denver scheduled to host its first cohort early next year. Canadian accelerators have been in Silicon Valley since 2009.