From 2009-2014 StartupNorth had an index of Canadian emerging technology companies and service providers. We have removed this feature.
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New $150 million Blackberry Fund, based in Canada
VentureBeat decided to jump the gun this weekend and post some news that has been floating around lately about a new Blackberry fund. They deleted the post from their blog, but it was still available in Google Reader…
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$4,000,000 for IGLOO
IGLOO Software, an enterprise social software company based in Waterloo, has raised $4M from RBC Venture Partners. Kevin Talbot, Managing Director of RBC Venture Partners, has joined IGLOO’s board, which is chaired by Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of Research…
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viigo.com – A new round of funding and a cool new app
Viigo has announced a new round of funding today. They had previously raised a total of $6.4M and this round, at $1.5M now puts them at a total of $7.9M in angel and VC investment. The $1.5M, which…
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Idée, who we have covered a few times, is slowly going public with their skunkworks project, called TinEye. TinEye is a major undertaking, and it is going to bring Idée out of the shadows of the Enterprise product…
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CIX – Our chance to create something great?
I think a lot of people considered CIX, held in Toronto last week, to be a simple extension of the defunct Canadian Venture Forum. The Canadian Venture Forum, which was dealt a fatal blow last year with the…
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Weekend Reading – May 3, 2008
Add some startups, deals, and investors to StartupIndex this rainy weekend. Inky the Octopz accepts ‘Best of Show’ award at CIX. The iPhone is coming to Canada. Oz Communications raises $10M in venture debt from Wellington Financial. The…
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Refresh Analytics – Analytics and Demographics for Facebook developers
My love for Facebook Applications is no secret. There is, however, a shining light in the world of Facebook Applications and that is the smart folks who build custom Facebook applications for other people. The business model is…
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SmartHippo – Chowhound for Mortgages
SmartHippo, based in Montreal, has had quite an exciting week. In addition to launching a new version of the site, a US mortgage search engine and comparison community, at Finovate San Fransisco, George Favvas SmartHippo’s CEO has managed…
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startupindex.ca – Free our data, free the community
Tonight at StartupCamp Toronto we are launching Startupindex.ca, an open, community-managed and free startup tracking database for the Canadian startup community. This is Version 1, and we will be putting a lot of work in to it in…
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Founders & Funders Toronto – June 4, 2008
Jevon MacDonald and I are please to announce the second Toronto Founders & Funders dinner on June 4, 2008. What: Founders & Funders TorontoFounders & Funders is a private, invite only social event. Founders and Funders is dedicated:…
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Akoha – $1.9million for gaming that does good
Akoha is going public today with details on their financing to date. The $1.9million in investment, which has come in over two rounds, will go towards expanding the development of their game which is targeted for a Fall…
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communitynorth.ca – Welcome to the family
Our CEO and mascot, David Crow, is going live today with CommunityNorth.ca, the latest addition to our little family of blogs alongside Wirelessnorth. David will be profiling what is working, and what isn’t, in Canada’s communities both online…
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Weekend Reading – April 26, 2008
We have an exciting week ahead! LoyaltyMatch, Brainpark, Natural Semantic Modules, SocialDeck, and AskKinjo will be pitching at StartupCamp Toronto. And the amazing whip-cracking Leila Boujnane, CEO of Idee, will be kicking off the night. If that wasn’t…
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Thanks for coming out!
Thanks to everyone who came out last night to celebrate a year of StartupNorth. Putting names to faces is always nice. We got to meet some new startups, some VCs were working the room and the Imperial worked…
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Tripharbor.com – community, cruising and a real business!
Here is an industry that you don’t see a lot of startups jumping in to. There is something about starting a travel website that scares people off. It is a huge industry, and one where customers actually spend…
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indochino.com takes new round of financing from Burda Digital
Shanghai (by way of Victoria) based startup, Indochino.com, who we first profiled in September, and who I finally got around to ordering from a few weeks ago, has announced that they have taken a new round of financing…
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SummerCamp Toronto – *campers can have fun too
Well, as if the next week+ isn’t packed enough. With StartupCamp Toronto 2, CIX and our slightly more easy going Thursday plans, Mark Kuznicki has taken it upon himself to throw the biggest party of the year yet:…
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StartupCamp Toronto 2 – What we expect from you
Pitching is never easy, and every pitch is different, but there are a few basic pieces of information that every audience would like to hear, so I decided to throw together an outline of the critical components that…
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StartupNorth is a year old! How did that happen?
It is hard to believe that its been a year since we started writing StartupNorth. It was a hairbrained idea that has grown bigger and has given us more opportunities to connect with other startups than we could…
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I would like to thank . . . – ITWorldCanada names us in the Top 10
ITWorldCanada named their list of the 10 best technology blog(gers) last week. We are honored to have been named in this list and can only hope we are still doing a good enough job next year to stay…