Brand new District 3 space at Concordia gets $1 million ‘Startup Gift’
Concordia University’s District 3 startup innovation centre received a $1 million gift as it formally opened its doors to a new collaborat..
‘Goliath-slayer’ Lickstats wants to do shortlink tracking better than Bit.ly
It’s just a one-man outfit in a Montreal office, but Sun Knudsen thinks his shortlink tracking tool Lickstats can do more for a startup th..
Breather cashes in on $20 million deal from Peter Thiel’s fund
Breather, a Montreal startup that 0ffers on-demand private office space in multiple cities around North America, has hit a big pay day. Th..
Lightspeed cloud POS platform raises $61 million
Well, that escalated quickly.
Today, Lightspeed, a longtime Montreal-based cloud POS platform for retailers and restaurants, announced US..
Fuzzy.io forges ahead at 500 Startups with the help of Gmail’s designer
Their first day at one of Silicon Valley’s famous startup accelerators wasn’t too fun for Montreal’s Fuzzy.io, a team dedicated to helping..
Kickstarter gadget turns regular bicycle into a ‘smartbike’
Xavier Peich said he’d never seen that much money on a computer screen in his life. But there it was, in plain english. Just under $215,00..
Montrealer cashes in on sale of telephone scammer database
“It’s the dirtiest scam ever,” said Ildar Khakimov as he sat in his office at Notman House in Montreal. “It’s a person who calls an elderl..
Veteran startup pair release new online budgeting tool for entrepreneurs
“Cash is king,” says a new Montreal startup seeking to show entrepreneurs just how important it is to map out their finances.
Longtime ..
Former FounderFuel startup InfoActive acquired by Tableau
InfoActive, a former FounderFuel company that simplifies data visualization, has been acquired by Seattle-based Tableau Software.
The t..
New $10 million foodtech fund Edō Capital has grand visions
Foodtech and ag-tech startups in Montreal and beyond have reason to smile these days. That’s because Hamnett Hill and his partners have ra..
Five university entrepreneurship initiatives in Montreal you need to check out
The golden statistic surrounding Montreal’s student ecosystem has always been this: as early as 2013, the city was credited as having the ..
McGill’s new X-1 accelerator models itself on MIT program
The manager of McGill University’s new X-1 accelerator program, Thibaud Marechal, had just ten minutes to speak to us before he was due fo..
Recruiting firm Stacked HR is building world-class startups in Canada
Nearly two years after Montreal entrepreneur Ilan Saks formed The FounderProject, a movement that spurred hundreds of the city’s talented ..
Selective Few’s high-end fashion marketplace received the boost it needed
Selective Few cofounders Andrew Peker and Jeremy Weiss aren’t buying recent criticisms surrounding Canadian accelerators.
“We did have ..
Kickstarter success MakerBloks says kids today need more to work with
Things are going well for MakerBloks CEO Francois Poirier and his Montreal-based team. Having now far exceeded their $25,000 ask on Kickst..