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 ..
Yackathon 2.0’s ‘smart city’ weekend will be a busy one
Yelp’s Montreal office is putting the final organizing touches on its upcoming Yackathon 2.0, set to take place April 1-3 at La Gare cowor..
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..
The Caisse de depot set to make a big bet in India’s future
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The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec announced Wednesday that it will open an office in Delhi and that it inte..
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..
Monthly product meetups flourishing in Montreal
Product aficionados have an abundance of choice these days in Montreal when it comes to monthly events. That’s because two meetup groups -..
Lightspeed unveils its ecommerce weapon
Lightspeed, Montreal’s point of sale (POS) system for retailers and restaurateurs, is launching its ecommerce tool for North American busi..
XPND Capital Closes $75 million fund, invests in two startups
XPND Capital has closed on a $75 million fund to invest in sustainable and electric transport. It’s first two orders of work were investme..
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..
Unito raises $575,000
Unito, a Montreal-based startup that builds specialized connectors for business apps, has raised $575,000 from Real Ventures, Pascal Pilon..
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..