From 2009-2014 StartupNorth had an index of Canadian emerging technology companies and service providers. We have removed this feature.
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Why I won't be on The Dragon's Den
The Dragon’s Den on CBC is taking applications for startups who want to get funded on national TV. It probably seems like an OK idea to begin with. You fill out an application, show up in front of…
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ConceptShare gets a lot of love on the ScobleShow
Canada’s most loved, and arguably best, startup, Conceptshare has been doing the conference circuit lately, and this past week at Mix’07, Scoble did an interview and demo with Bernie Aho. The lesson for startups? When you can afford…
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Lululemon files for IPO
Lululemon, a hipper than thou yoga wear company, has filed for an IPO to raise as much as $230 Million. Founded by Chip Wilson in 1999 after a particularly good yoga lesson, this Vancouver company?s beautiful stores (think…
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The state of Candian Venture Capital
Suzie on the state of Canadian Venture Capital While there’s been a VC famine here for several quarters, public discussion of the issue has been tepid at best. Thank goodness, some of our most prominent players are finally…
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Jeremy Wright – Startup Lessons
Jeremy Wright, fellow Canadian and startup CEO, wrote a great post about his experience starting b5media over at the Chitika blog bash. I remember in early 2005 when the first email that kicked b5media off was written. It…
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fortuito.us – getting started online
fortuitous is written by Matthew Haughey. Matt plans to chronicle is experience in starting his own blogging business online. If you have been thinking about getting more serious about your own blog, or about blogging about your own…
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Sunday Startup Roundup
Sundays seem like as good a time as any to round up what’s been happening in the Canadian startup scene in the last week. We blogged about Eqo.com getting funded and the sale of R|Mail to NBC Universal.…
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clearRoot.com – Florist Solutions
clearRoot is a Toronto based startup that is building a back-end system for flower shops that allows thousands of independent stores to place orders with each-other as easily as it is for them to fill an order themselves.…
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iUpload moving south
Word comes from Suzie at Venture Law Line that iUpload, an enterprise blogging platform based in Ontario will now be moving south to the US. iUpload recently took on a large Round A of funding which came in…
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R|Mail – RSS to your inbox, just acquired
Randy Charles Morin is best known to some of us as one of the early advocates and defenders of RSS and a member of the RSS Advisory Board, but he also maintains a handful of blogs and has…
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eqo.com – Instant Messaging and Skype on your cell
eqo.com is a Vancouver, BC based mobile services company that has just gone from Startup to well-funded with a 9 million dollar series B round of funding, which actually included real live Canadian Venture Capital firms Ventures West,…
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Resources
Our full series on Angel Investors by Craig Hayashi Canadian Angels & Venture Funds Corporate Angels – Toronto, Ontario Maple Leaf Angels – Toronto, ON Toronto Industrial Angels – Toronto, ON Toronto Life Science Angels – Toronto, ON…
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devshop.com – online software project management
Devshop.com is a hosted project management application for software projects. I took Devshop for a test drive a few months ago at the beginning of their beta and found it to be straightforward, but took a pass on…
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yourteamonline.ca – social software for sports teams
Yourteamonline.ca is a Saint John, New Brunswick based startup that is building an online sports team management app, which first launched in November 2006. YourTeamOnline allows coaches and teammates to share game plans, schedules, statistics, photos, videos and…
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Contact
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