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D2L ‘just getting warmed up’ with $85M Series B round: Baker
15 August 2014 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Enterprise, Featured, News
Kitchener-based Desire2Learn has closed an $85-million Series B investment round as its global footprint in educational technology following the $80-million Series A round it closed in 2012. Read more
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Dining-app maker draws investors to the table
08 August 2014 | By Samantha Clark in: Featured, startup
Tacit Innovations focuses on improving the dining experience for restaurant-goers. With the Maegan application, customers can discover restaurants, view menus and place customized orders instantly on their… Read more
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PumpUp raises $2.4M seed round to scale social fitness app
24 July 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Startups
PumpUp has landed $2.4 million in seed financing to help the app scale to meet demand from its ever-growing online community. Its social app combines photo sharing and fitness tracking, allowing users… Read more
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Milestone by milestone, Wagepoint takes on North American payroll software market
24 July 2014 | By Samantha Clark in: Featured, Startups
Wagepoint, Canada’s only online payroll startup, recently surpassing 500 customers and launching in the U.S. this week. Wagepoint is an alternative to the old, frustrating payroll process, and developed… Read more
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Connection by design: Toronto, Waterloo Region creative teams join forces
23 July 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured
Method Jam, a gathering that started out of a collaboration between Toronto-based creative firms Heist and GRAND, and Waterloo-based Boltmade, is exploring the process for designers, developers and project… Read more
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Structur3D prints its way to Kickstarter success
22 July 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Startups
Communitech HYPERDRIVE company Structur3D Printing celebrates funding the mass production of the Discov3ry paste extruder, which is an add-on for 3D printers, an inexpensive option to use household materials… Read more
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Collaborative video app turns moments into memorable events
17 July 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Startups
To solve the problem that people experiencing an event together have trouble reliving it later, because each person’s photos and videos wind up scattered across their individual social feeds. Clipter is… Read more
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This Is Your Out, an 'eject button for bad situations,' launches on Indiegogo
15 July 2014 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, Startups
Billed as “an eject button for bad situations,” Lukianchuk has developed This Is Your Out – TIYO, for short – a Bluetooth-enabled key fob that you can press to make a call to your mobile phone. On Tuesday,… Read more
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New library blows away dusty stereotypes
14 July 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Ecosystem, Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Library stereotypes have gone the way of the dinosaur. Our library and many others are now big, bright spaces that invite interaction. They showcase art, encourage makers and offer resources as likely… Read more
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Kinect for Windows Hackathon coming to Kitchener Aug. 8-10
11 July 2014 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, Startups
Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows team will be hosting a hackathon in downtown Kitchener Aug 8-10. It’s the only Canadian stop on its world tour in search of exciting new applications for its motion-sensing… Read more