startups in Montreal
TagCleantech startup Electrobac gets $1 million funding, wants to hire
Electrobac, a Montreal-based cleantech company working on the recovery and repackaging of small electronics, has closed a $1 million seed ..
US online lending power Upgrade to open Montreal office, hiring 75
San Francisco-based online lending company Upgrade will open a new development centre in Montréal. The company expects to hire 75 people w..
Montreal’s Sonder raises $110 million
Montreal-based startup Sonder, which rents out hotel-quality apartments through Airbnb and other websites, said Thursday it has raised $11..
Centech’s Propulsion accelerator announces new Fall ’18 cohort
Centech‘s Propulsion accelerator program in Montreal is announcing six new startups that will join its fall 2018 cohort.
Centech is par..
Pair of Montreal startups land investment from BDC’s Women in Technology fund
Two startups in Montreal are among four total recipients of investment from the BDC’s new $200 million Women in Technology fund.
The tw..
McGill University + Centech incubator to create joint medtech cohort
McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine will join forces with Centech, the École de Technologie Supérieure’s startup incubator, to acceler..
Ubisoft, Concordia University offshoot create Innovation Factory for AR, VR
Ubisoft and Galilei, a Concordia University company, will together unveil a new incubation program for augmented and mixed reality compani..
Shopify buys Montreal startup Return Magic to beef up return game
Shopify’s own collection of unique apps and the developers that create them is paying dividends.
The Canadian ecommerce engine has acqu..
Local Logic will now provide neighbourhood data for Realtor.ca
Montreal-based startup Local Logic is announcing a new partnership with The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) in which it will provi..
Breather raises $60 million
Montreal-born Breather, a provider of flexible and private workspaces, has raised $60 million (US $45 million) in additional financing fro..
Canadian startups find that elusive handshake at CTA@Boston
Ten years and 30 minutes is how Tim Vasko explains it. That’s what it took for the Vancouver-based CEO of Finaeos to meet with Microsoft.
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Sharethebus, now Bus.com, gets $6.5 million
I saw two familiar faces that had recently been hired on at Sharethebus as I walked up to their office building on Parc avenue Tuesday. Af..
Workjam and its new $12 million round make bold claims
Montreal’s Workjam is a startup that makes it easier to send an alert to hourly employees on their mobile phones. This week it raised $12 ..
Quebec SMEs to gain access to $90 million more in funds
Small and medium-sized businesses in Quebec will once again be able to gain access to $90 million in funds provided by Capital régional et..
BusBud announces Apple Pay integration
Busbud, the Montreal-based bus travel booking website boasting the largest coverage of its kind, announced Apple Pay integration to their ..