When growing your business, there are many considerations like marketing, sales, investment, and product-market fit. But are there legal things to consider when it comes to business? Suresh Law says yes.Suresh Sriskandarajah is a technology and business lawyer with Suresh…
NORCAT, the global leader in skilled labour training and development, is pleased to announce the launch of the Common Core Graduate Referral Program designed to help build Ontario’s future mining workforce. This new referral program will allow former graduates of…
Spark Centre is always incredibly proud of our clients’ achievements, and here are just a few of our clients’ recent successes! Longan Vision Awarded $1M ContractLongan Vision Corp. has been awarded a $1 Million contract from Innovative Solutions Canada and funded by…
MARKHAM, Ontario - April 12, 2022 - Leading technology hub, ventureLAB, has announced a $2.5 million investment from the Government of Ontario to establish a MedTech-specific stream within its Hardware Catalyst Initiative (HCI), Canada’s only lab and incubator for hardware…
Apr 11, 2022 1,266 words | 5 minutes A month of 2022 International Women’s Week (IWW 2022) events conclude, but the momentum continues. On March 8th, the world celebrated International Women’s Day, and from February 28th to April 6th, Invest…
Celebrating its 12th anniversary in 2022, Lions Lair is Hamilton’s premier pitch competition that gives up-and-coming entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their business to a panel of Hamilton’s top business experts and investors. Applications for the Lions Lair pitch competition…
ventureLAB is pleased to announce our very first Accelerate AI Cohort! Accelerate AI, ventureLAB’s newest program, enables high potential, scale-ready AI startups across Canada to accelerate their growth. Funded through Scale AI (Canada’s AI Supercluster), Accelerate AI propels technology startups powered…
Armed with helper robots, automated vehicles and carbon-banishing innovations, these ventures are on a mission to help companies navigate disruptions — and make supply chains more sustainable. From paper to potash, disruptions in the supply chain continue to bedevil corporations…
London Ontario based interVal, the software company that helps business owners and their advisors leverage real-time valuation analysis to drive better decision making, announced the closing of a new investment round.The investment is led by Fresh Founders, a mastermind and…
originally published: 2022-04-08 10:43:20 Patrick McGuire (00:00)Hey, it’s Patrick. Before we start, at the time of this recording, we went through a bit of a name rebranding from RIC Centre to Altitude Accelerator. With that in mind, we hope you…
Innovations such as on-the-ground sensors and satellites orbiting the earth are already monitoring the environment and saving lives. Last fall, Slobodan Simonovic experienced the academic equivalent of “going viral.” An engineering professor emeritus at Western University who was recently named…
Governments of all levels put up hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money as incentive to lure the $5 billion electric vehicle battery plant to Windsor and that includes a sizeable contribution from the city. In the next two…
Niravong encourages other entrepreneurs to find mentors. “There’s so much value,” she said. “As a solo entrepreneur you need someone to share business ideas with rather than making decisions in your own bubble.” She appreciated having someone to check in…
While virtual events have helped get us through the pandemic, there’s still nothing quite like experiencing something new with people in the real world. Thankfully, the dream of returning to in-person events and festivals is becoming a reality as summer…
Women’s health and medical device start-up Cosm Medical (“Cosm”), has announced it has raised US$3.8M in seed funding, led by Fusion Fund, with participation from iGan Partners, MaRS IAF, TELUS Pollinator Fund, and several industry experts, physicians and angel investors. …
Data. It’s the raw material of technological advancement. But data can be a dirty, inconsistent mess, and that can be a huge obstacle for under-resourced startups looking to use that data to fuel their AI and machine-learning innovations. This is…
America’s market is 10 times the size of Canada’s but competition is fierce, and it pays to be prepared. For ambitious Canadian entrepreneurs, life holds three certainties: death, taxes and expanding to the U.S. Our southern neighbour is an enticing…
New podcast focuses on the journey of community leaders, entrepreneurs and people who make Northern Ontario a great place to live Today a new podcast launched that explores the resilience of Northerners in a rapidly changing world, The Packsack Project. It…
International Women’s Day 2022 was a chance for our innovation economy to reflect, revise, and make equity-driven changes that will have an eternal impact on the women in our community. This month, we reflect on the history of women’s equality,…
Academy at Innovation Factory is an online learning platform for entrepreneurship that directly connects users to Innovation Factory’s extensive and invaluable ecosystem of industry and domain experts. On March 31st, 2022, Innovation Factory announced a new, multi-disciplinary learning platform, Academy…
1. Introduce yourself and your position in the tech industry. A: 1. My name is Nuha Aljammas. Fun fact, my name means intelligent in Arabic. I got my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science specializing in Software Engineering and minoring in Mathematics from…
Rhowena Adolfo Patel, founder of Healing Mama™ Co. wants the expectant and new mothers of Ukraine to know they are magical, they have all the natural power and ability to be their best through birth and postpartum. She also wants…
KITCHENER, ONTARIO, March 29, 2022 – Scispot, a Y Combinator-backed life science lab informatics startup, launches Labsheets to help life science labs go beyond non-scientific spreadsheets and old-school lab information management systems (LIMS). Labsheets is a no-code relational database product exclusively…
Posted in Blog, Thrive in Ottawa Mar 29, 2022 Welcome to Invest Ottawa’s Taking Root segment. Each month, this reoccurring article will highlight a driven tech or business professional who took advantage of Invest Ottawa’s talent program and successfully landed…
Looking to make your next career move? Look no further than Canada’s unmatched innovation community. Canada’s startup scene is hot. There’s something for anyone, whether you’re looking for a career pivot or your next dream job. There are amazing opportunities…
WINDSOR, ON., March 28, 2022 WETechAlliance is pleased to announce the winners of the 5th annual Tech Awards. First launched in 2017, the WETechAlliance’s Tech Awards are a fun, informal way of celebrating technology innovators, in all stages…
More than 500 thousand babies are born prematurely in North America every year. The earlier a baby is born, the more likely they are to experience health problems - not only in their infancy, but throughout their life. Indeed, preterm…
Have you ever considered hiring a student to help you with your business? With the rapidly evolving landscape of the advanced manufacturing sector and adaptations of new technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), visual machine learning etc. in the fields of…
The usability & tolerability of the product Whether participants will show self-reported improvements in their quality of life, medication adherence, and seizure tracking Whether care partners of individuals with epilepsy have a reduced care burden, and reduced anxiety The team…
Posted in Blog, Ottawa Success Apr 6, 2022 1,102 words | 4 minutes When App8 was launched, the company was filling a void in the foodservice industry and helping restaurants save money and clientele by offering diners a quick way…
ORIGINAL ARTICLE – Betakit, April 4th, 202 Medtech startup Cosm Medical has secured $4.7 million CAD ($3.8 million USD) in an oversubscribed seed round to create custom medical devices for women suffering from pelvic floor disorders. The new funds will…
TORONTO, ONT., April 5, 2022 – From only two unicorns at the end of 2020 to 19 today shows incredible growth in just one year in the Canadian tech ecosystem. The Narwhal Project has been tracking this growth for the…
AutoVerify, powered by Mobials Inc., is pleased to announce a new partnership with Auto Shield Canada aimed at helping automotive dealers increase profitability and finance and insurance (F&I) product penetration, and improve customer experiences and retention.Through a consultative approach with…
Driftscape, a location-aware discovery app, has released more than 50 audio tours for the City of Toronto as part of the City’s ArtworxTO initiative, a year-long celebration of public art. The Driftscape team developed the tours in collaboration with the…
CYPRESS, Calif. – (April 4, 2022) – Christie has announced Hideaki Onishi as its new chairman and CEO. With more than 30 years of management experience in various positions within the Ushio, Inc. group – parent company of Christie – Hideaki will…
Hey Founders, we’ve got some great news for you. The HubSpot for Startups team has invited our community to participate in their mentorship program. If you want to learn more about this opportunity, please keep reading. What is it? HubSpot…
Rhyze Ventures participant Maria J. Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist, and a voice and movement coach. As an artist, she works with song, spoken word, spray paint, movement, and installation to tell stories and express from her perspective. As a…
ORIGINAL ARTICLE – Financial Post, March 30, 2022 TORONTO — VoxNeuro Inc. (“VoxNeuro” or the “Company”), a Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) brain health company that analyzes brain-based biomarkers to assess cognitive function, announced a number of significant developments…
Love it. Distrust it. Live in it. Make oodles of money off it. It’s still a mystery as to how humanity will embrace the metaverse. But one thing’s for sure: it’s going to be interesting. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MONICA GUAN…
Danielle Veneruzzo graduated from university wanting to find a job that matched her skills, that made her feel that her degree was worth something, and that she could excel at. Jelena Psenicnik wanted to expand and diversify her business. She…
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