From 2009-2014 StartupNorth had an index of Canadian emerging technology companies and service providers. We have removed this feature.
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StartupWeekend Toronto is rumbling along
Reports are rolling in from StartupWeekend Toronto, both from various blogs and some more candid reports via the backchannel. Attendees were as many as 60 on Saturday, with an estimated 40 working away today (Sunday). The good news?…
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Startup Weekend Toronto starts tonight
Startup Weekend Toronto get’s underway tonight at 6pm. They are completely sold out, and even if half of those who signed up actually show up then there will be more than enough people to get a fun, and…
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What happens when it all goes wrong?
I have been meeting with a decent number of startups in and around Toronto lately. I have been doing this for a few reasons. The most obvious is that I want to find interesting startups to profile here…
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DemoCampToronto 14
We are going to try to do a better job of covering the various *camp events in Canada. For now, a reminder: DemocampToronto14 is coming up on Monday, September 17th at the Toronto Board of Trade. Come out,…
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Break time is over. What are you planning for the fall?
Ok. So the summer has been nice. Drinks with friends, long evenings with few worries and beautiful places to see. The bad news is: that is all over. September is rumbling towards us and if you have been…
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Blognation Canada is here
I had heard rumors it was coming, and now it’s here, Tris Hussey is now writing Blognation Canada for the London, UK based Blognation conglomorate. All the new national and regional blogs that are popping up in Canada…
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Ontario "Premier's Catalyst Awards" nominations open
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and his new Ministry of Research and Innovation (with himself as Minister) have been making waves for the past few years in the Ontario innovation community. McGuinty appears to genuinely love the innovation policy…
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Amazon selects Freshbooks for new Payment Service
You have probably heard about Amazon’s new Flexible Payments Service… what you didn’t know is that FreshBooks, the Toronto based invoicing startup, was one of the very first companies invited by Amazon to try integrating the payment service.…
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Mickey Mouse devours Club Penguin
Club Penguin, based in Kelowna, has been acquired by Disney for $700M. In an open letter announcing the acquisition, the site’s founders promise to keep the site free of advertising and hint at site localization. Sony had previously…
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Canada's greatest startup city?
We are looking for writers who are in love with their hometown, or adopted hometown. You are running a startup or heavily involved in your local tech and startup community and you are convinced that your town is…
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Weblo Raises $3M – Brooklyn Bridge for Sale
Weblo.com, founded by Rocky Mirza, has raised $3,300,000 in a second round of funding from Vantage Point Ventures. Based in Montreal, Weblo is some kind of horrible cross between MySpace, Second Life, and Monopoly. You can spend real…
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aideRSS.com – What's next in RSS
If you are like me, your blog aggregator is getting a little out of hand. Once you start climbing over 150 feeds, and well in to the 200s, you are starting to get overloaded. I have, on a…
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NowPublic gets kudos from Time.com
NowPublic, the website concept we all thought about in 1999 but didn’t do anything about, has been named one of the Top 50 websites by Time.com The Vancouver, BC company has almost 100,000 different contributors and can often…
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10 Small Canadian Tech Companies to Watch
For the low low price of $3,500 you can read about 10 up and coming Canadian tech companies. “This IDC study profiles 10 relatively small, emerging software companies that IDC believes are worthy of highlighting to the broader…
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JobLoft post Dragon's Den
All this talk of Dragon’s Den got me thinking about Job Loft, a map based job website for the retail, food service, and hospitality industries. For those of you who don’t know… Job Loft made a great pitch…
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Freshbooks opens up
Freshbooks announced today that they are releasing a mature API. From what I understand, this is a direct result of their hiring of Ben Vinegar some time ago. Why does this matter? Freshbooks is demonstrating a very mature…
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Is Dragon's Den bad for innovation?
Originally posted on davidcrow.ca. I was talking to Greg Wilson about the Dragon’s Den on CBC. I think that this show has really done a disservice to entrepreneurs and innovators. It might make interesting television for a government…
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You are a superhero
Sunir Shah, who now works at Freshbooks has started a series of posts called “Entrepreneurs are superheroes“. Entrepreneurism is in my blood. My parents both came from Kenya, where they were children of retailers and industrialites. In fact,…
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Canadian Startups on Read/Write Web
Heri Rakotomalala, of MontrealTechWatch wrote a fantastic post on Read/Write Web which profiles canadian web startups! MontrealTechWatch is quickly becoming my favorite canadian startup blog (besides Startupnorth of course!). I won’t recap the article here, head over to…
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Yes, of course, we are on Facebook
I took a few minutes to create a Facebook group for Startupnorth today. Join in and use the space to talk about Canadian Startups, running a company in Canada, and anything else related to startup life. Update: Wow,…