Creative Capital
of Canada

The Canadian startups that could be billion-dollar breakouts in 2019

Sending congrats to these #Canadian #startups featured on @macleans list for having the potential to be billion-dollar breakouts this year (@Ben_Zifkin @srlake). Great to see. (c/o @_mainguyen)

Amazon-Backed Smart Glasses For $1,000: First Look

Region looks to become green-tech hub with evolvGREEN

evolv1 became Canada’s first project to receive a carbon-zero building certificate

Sudbury natives cross creative borders

“Storytek is designed to focus on the storytelling industries, content industries, and they bring creative industry together with the start-up tech world”

Five Waterloo companies on list of high-potential Canadian tech firms

University of Toronto’s Impact Centre identifies five Waterloo companies that hold the potential to explode onto the world stage, including the possibility of becoming Canada’s newest “unicorn.”

How Google won over Kitchener-Waterloo

Steve Woods had been in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont. less than two days when he found himself seated at a table apprehensively sipping wine with half a dozen of the town’s business leaders.

These are the best cities in Canada to launch a tech startup

Ontarian tri-cities Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo beat out the competition for first place.

Google helps Waterloo’s Velocity incubator to expand

The University of Waterloo’s startup incubator Velocity, which has produced companies including Kik and Thalmic Labs, is getting even bigger, with the help of Google.