Marketing is essential for any business, even more so for startups. In the early stages of business, some startups to get so wrapped up in the logistics of business, like finances, product development and team building, that they overlook marketing…
News from across the Regional Innovation Centres
We have gathered news from all the regional innovation centres (RICs) in Ontario. Be sure to connect with your local RIC to be a part of your local ecosystem.
Oct 21, 2022 In 2018, Alok Ahuja, former Shopify executive turned stay-at-home dad, sat at his kitchen table struggling to find time to pick up medications for his father, who was battling cancer, and buy groceries for his family. Ahuja…
Today, ventureLAB hosted a hybrid open house for the first time to celebrate Vaughan Small Business Week, a national celebration of small businesses' contributions to local economies. The open house took place at ventureLAB's space at the Pierre Berton Resource…
Business is booming for Karen Schuett, CEO of Livestock Water Recycling, a company that transforms animal waste into valuable fertilizers and renewable natural gas. Photo illustration by Kelvin Li Farmers have a big, stinky problem: what to do with the…
Coursana Canada is an advanced career development platform utilizing blockchain technology to digitally deliver courses and educational certificates. With a full suite of career development services like Smart LMS with a built-in spaced repetition system, ATS-ready Resume and Work Portfolio,…
Companies Funded / Acquired Life Sciences and Advanced Health
VoxNeuro closes $4 million to help diagnose concussions and Alzheimer’s diseases
ORIGINAL ARTICLE, Josh Scott, betakit.com, October 20, 2022 Backed by decades of research, VoxNeuro aims to bring objectivity to brain health assessments. Cognitive health assessments are something that a lot of people have experienced, whether you’re a professional athlete or…
SingleKey acquires competitor Naborly to take the risk out of renting
The BusinessFormer journalist and broadcaster Sonya Denton is the founder of weDstll Inc. that has built a mobile platform to help build trust with beauty and wellness brands through peer circles. “People come to weDstll to get the support they…
Women
Katie Skyvington, Travelling Physio: Gaining the confidence to take ownership with increased savvy and know-how
Skyvington had participated in another business program, Starter Plus and was looking for more support. Rhyze Ventures’ focus on women supporting women appealed to her. “My practice has taken off with the support of other women, and, my client base…
Databricks acquires Vancouver-born Datajoy
DMZ reopens New York City office as it continues international expansion
Following pandemic hiatus in 2022, Vancouver Startup Week set to return next year
VoxNeuro closes $4 million to help diagnose concussions and Alzheimer’s disease
Super Advisor secures $2 million to give financial advisors independence
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AutoVerify Acquires Car Media to Provide Comprehensive Digital Merchandising for Dealers
AutoVerify, powered by Mobials Inc., is pleased to announce the acquisition of Car Media 2.0 Inc.The automotive industry is becoming increasingly digital. Consumers now expect the ability to complete much of their pre-purchase research online, including a detailed view of…
Oct 19, 2022 Scaling Up Your New Solution Congratulations! You’ve designed your new tech product! It’s intuitive to use, functions without errors and solves all your future customers’ problems. You’re now ready to launch into the marketplace, but before you…
Life Sciences and Advanced Health
Ontario’s Premier Life Science Competition Celebrates 10 Years of Health Innovation
Applications are now open for this year’s cohort of innovative startups Hamilton – October 12, 2022 – Fresh off the heels of celebrating innovation at the recent LiONS LAIR pitch competition and gala event, Innovation Factory has turned its attention…
In the last year, investment in Canadian cleantech has increased 200 percent. But cleantech ventures still face a lot of challenges in scaling their solutions. Clean technologies will power the global economy in the coming decades — both literally and…
When Paystone made it to the Team True North list earlier this year, the Southwestern Ontario region anticipated the addition of more scaling ventures from our ecosystem to the list in the future. The anticipation ends as we are excited…
Work-from-anywhere policies moved from rare perk to normal practice in the space of a few months. But making them work in the long term will be the tricky part. Axonify CEO Carol Leaman has a simple answer to the increasingly…
There was plenty of sausage, beer and Gemütlichkeit as the Communitech Hub in Kitchener was transformed into Founderhaus to celebrate the community of tech and the newest members of Team True North. Dubbed “Techtoberfest,” today’s event coincided with Waterloo Region’s…
“The help and support that Haltech provided really helped formalize that maturation process to move the company from that very early startup stage, more into a company that’s that’s focused on implementing and developing the technology” Andrew Lee | President…
Digital Media and ICT RIC News
Info-Tech Research Group Recognized Among Top 1% of Canada’s Global Private Companies, Named to Team True North 2022 List by Communitech
Info-Tech Research Group has been named as a member of Team True North, a proactive, data-based initiative by Communitech that serves to identify the country’s highest-potential tech companies and strengthen the entire Canadian tech ecosystem through all phases of the economic cycle. Companies…
Communitech welcomed our community of founders and friends back to the Hub for Techtoberfest on Thursday, Oct. 13. The day-long event featured Hub tours, investor meetings, peer-to-peer gatherings and an update on Team True North – all against a backdrop…
You have something to announce. It could be a really big deal to you personally, like diving into entrepreneurship. It could be a really big deal to the company you work for, like a new product line. The possibilities are…
Photo illustration by Kelvin Li Humans generate an incredible amount of trash. In Canada alone, 35 million tonnes of food is wasted every year. That’s a lot of energy spent growing, processing, packaging and delivering food that ultimately goes uneaten…
Life Sciences and Advanced Health
Three ways smart site selection is helping Life Sciences companies turn innovation into commercialisation
ORIGINAL ARTICLE, investmentmonitor.ai, September 23, 2022 Making a smart site selection could drive the commercialisation of your intellectual property. Here are three examples that are helping to make Hamilton, Ontario, the next leader in life sciences research and commercialisation. Business…
Life Sciences and Advanced Health Women
Koble Partners with Maple to Provide On-Demand Healthcare For Growing Canadian Families
ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE, Business Wire, October 12, 2022 Koble, a digital health and well-being platform for expecting and new parents, is pleased to announce today its partnership with Maple, a leading virtual care platform that provides on-demand access to healthcare providers.…
Cleantech Women
Bug Mars featured on list of 10 innovators with technologies to help you live sustainably
ORIGINAL ARTICLE, marsdd.com, Jacqueline Spicer | September 29, 2022 A new group of entrepreneurs has joined the RBC Women in Cleantech Accelerator, and they’re changing everything from the food we eat to the clothes we wear. Animal-free milk, compostable menstrual…
Life Sciences and Advanced Health
Adapsyn Bioscience enters into strategic collaboration with Evotec
ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE, PR Newswire, September 21, 2022 Adapsyn Bioscience Inc., a chemical bioinformatics company that discovers novel drug-like small molecules, today announced a strategic collaboration with Evotec SE (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, MDAX/TecDAX, ISIN: DE0005664809; NASDAQ: EVO). Under the collaboration,…
Entrepreneur Stories RIC News
The British are coming (again): U.K. manufacturing startups aim to make it in Canada
MaRS has partnered with Innovate UK to launch its second cohort of promising advanced-manufacturing startups towards North American expansion. Another British invasion is afoot. But this time the Brits aren’t hoping to wow us with their music. They want to…
Soil sensing technology developed and commercialized in Ontario is now going to be offered to more farmers across continental and Eastern Europe. SoilOptix® Inc. of Tavistock is expanding its official distributor agreement with United Kingdom-based Hutchinsons, a leading agricultural and…
From left to right: Ian Haase, Brian Maxfield, Karen Chalmers, Christine Haas, Asha Parekh TechAlliance recently brought together four of Southwestern Ontario’s most impressive serial entrepreneurs, Christine Haas Co-Founder & President at Renix Inc., leaders in liquid purification; Ian Haase, Co-Founder…
WATERLOO, ONT., October 6, 2022 – eSentire, Inc., the Authority in Managed Detection and Response (MDR), announced today the addition of two cybersecurity industry veterans to its Board of Directors. Amit Mital, former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director in the…
TORONTO, ONT., Oct. 6, 2022 – Ecopia AI (“Ecopia”) today announced that it was named to Canada’s Clean50 for its contribution to the low-carbon economy. Every year, Clean50 recognizes leaders in Canadian sustainability for their innovations contributing to climate resiliency…
Filomena Tassi swept into Communitech today bearing funding and encouragement for the Canadian tech community. “All of us here today understand how vital the tech sector is to the economic prosperity of our region and our nation,” said Tassi, the…
TORONTO, OCT. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – Ledn Inc. (“Ledn”), a global financial services provider for digital assets, is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement to acquire Arxnovum Investments Inc. (“Arxnovum”), a regulated Canadian digital asset investment manager.…
Posted in Blog, Thrive in Ottawa Sep 23, 2022 1320 words | 6 minutesBy: Randy Gaudreau Regardless if you’re a fan of pumpkin spice or not, October can be an absolutely stunning time of year in Ottawa, whether you’re taking…
WATERLOO, ONT., Oct. 6, 2022 – EnPowered, the on-bill payment platform for the energy industry, announced today that its Founder & CEO Tomas van Stee has been recognized as a 2023 Clean50 Emerging Leader by Delta Management Group. The Clean50…
When growing their business, Founders must wear multiple hats to gain momentum and scale, whether that’s validating products, identifying new markets, selling their products or hiring employees. And as a result, the “back-office” part of the business tends to suffer.Finance Without Borders provides the…