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TagUber riders can pitch investors during Thursday’s #UberPitch
Uber will allow Uber users to pitch one of eight investors in 15-minute car rides on Thursday. The event, called #UberPitch, will bring “t..
Nex Band wearable hits Indiegogo as ‘hackable, modular smartband’
Adam Adelman’s Nex Band has officially hit the crowdfunding market after the modular wristband launched on Indiegogo Monday.
Nex is bei..
Hopper gets $16 million investment
Hopper, the Montreal and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based travel startup, has raised $16 million in funding.
The new cash injection was l..
Tech reporter Julien Brault leaves Les Affaires for VC fund
Veteran Montreal tech reporter Julien Brault is leaving Les Affaires after four years of covering the local startup community. He’ll join ..
Kam Lal makes a hit in Nashville with Notetracks
Kam Lal hasn’t yet gone to a Predators NHL hockey game yet, but the startup founder in town for Nashville’s Project Music Accelerator says..
Fundica Roadshow offers big prizes
The 2016 Fundica Roadshow is ready to hit Montreal to offer prospective entrepreneurs some enviable prizes.
The Roadshow is back in..
Inspiring Founders: Salima Visram and the Soular Backpack
Growing up in a small village in Kenya, Silima Visram saw everyday the effects of poverty. She was fortunate enough to receive a good educ..
Teralys Capital closes $375 million fund
It’s a good day for the Canadian startup scene.
Montreal’s Teralys Capital fund of funds today announced that is has closed a new $375 ..
How Hykso rubbed Y Combinator the right way
They were the very last team of 6,000 to have the chance to wow Y Combinator brass, and they pulled it off.
After completing the second..
Algolux’s band of PhD researchers take on big challenges in image processing
The latest safety-savvy vehicles may have as many as eight to ten embedded computer vision cameras in them, mostly to assist with autonomo..
FounderFuel opens call for Spring 2016 cohort
Montreal-based startup accelerator FounderFuel is making a call to startups to apply to its new Spring 2016 cohort. The program will begin..
Quebec, MIT join forces for new tech training program
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, MIT and the government of Quebec have all joined forces to offer a new entrepreneurship traini..
15th CRC Robotics Comp brings lessons beyond the classroom
For 15 consecutive years, hundreds of high school and CEGEP students have flocked to the Montreal-based CRC Robotics Competition, tasked w..
Letter to my younger self as a woman in technology
Last month, I was privileged to have been invited to participate on an entrepreneurship panel at the Annual Women in Computing Conference,..
#Hackthehouse initiative to turn Notman House ‘smart’
An ambitious new initiative put on by Montreal’s Notman House will seek to run four related IoT and smart home hackathons over a period of..