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WMNinTECH: Interview with The Mindful Scholar cofounder Rekha Magon
Five months of bed rest, flat on her back, was exactly what Mindful Scholar co-founder Rekha Magon needed to launch her company. The forme..
WMNinTECH: Marie-Pier Hébert Launches Montreal On-Demand Babysitting Company
“Do you need a drink tonight? We’ve got you covered!” That’s part of the branding for Kiid, the on-demand babysitters web app (think Uber ..
Holt FinTech Accelerator Set to Launch in Montreal
Canada’s First FinTech Lab with an Associated AI Lab to Begin Inaugural Cohort This Fall
Innovation is difficult. Especially in the fie..
Four golden tickets up for grabs as New York’s Zola plants a stake in Montreal
New York-based ‘wed-tech’ startup Zola is headed to Montreal, ready to hand out four golden tickets to talented engineers in the city.
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WMNinTECH: on BDC’s “Women In Tech: Finding Opportunity on the Challenging Path to Success”
On Wednesday, May 23, BDC, BDO and MontrealNewTech hosted an event at Salon 1861 called “Women In Tech: Finding Opportunity on the Challen..
Find Your Cereal
There are alternatives to raising money from the usual suspects, namely angels and VCs. And since you probably won’t get money from them, ..
Lightspeed’s new CFO vows to help company become “Canada’s next great technology story”
Lightspeed, Canada’s leading point-of-sale and e-commerce software provider, appointed Brandon Nussey as CFO on April 25. Nussey joins the..
Interview with Unsplash App Developer Olivier Collet
“You guys are incredible! I can’t wait to share about it.” That feedback from an early adopter of the new Unsplash iOS app is enough to ma..
Workmode: Masha Krol reveals the neurological evidence of empathy
Welcome to Workmode, the podcast from our friends at Dynamo.
Masha Krol led design crews at IBM and Kinaxis, and co-founded Postca..
McGill AI for Social Good summer lab for women returns for a second year
After the success of last year’s inaugural program, AI for Social Good is back for a second year.
McGill Innovation launched the one mo..
Female-led XpertSea raises $10 million Series A to make aquaculture more sustainable and profitable
Aquaculture startup XpertSea has announced it has raised $10 million in Series A financing to further its mission to make aquaculture more..
The Fundica Roadshow returns to Montreal on May 1st
The Fundica Roadshow is back for its sixth edition, and a partnership with Panache Ventures means startups have a chance at $500,000 in in..
The Big Lie of Venture Capital
I was part of the problem. As a journalist covering the startup ecosystem, rag-to-riches startup stories were my bread and butter. I’m not..
Nectar offers a helping hand to beekeepers in response to colony collapse disorder
Nectar—which graduated as part of the 2017 cohort at FounderFuel—is just a year and a half old, but already their technology is proving to..
Ml+ joins with MicroHabitat for the second event in its annual competition series
Montreal-based AI and machine learning startup ml+ (machine learning +) has launched its first annual competition series, and the second m..