Jumpstart Refugee Talent and Ontario Angel Investors launch REinvest, an innovative program aiming to address funding barriers faced by refugee entrepreneurs. Now on its second edition, REinvest gives refugees the chance to pitch directly to a panel...
One of Canada’s big five banks is making it easier for their tech and innovation clients to grow and achieve financial independence. CIBC has introduced Innovation Banking, a full-service business that offers advice and funding to North American...
As the ex-CEO of VMware, Paul Maritz is a well-known name in enterprise software. But he's the first to admit he knows nothing about video games, much less the hyper-competitive world of eSports. He's not even a little bit of a gamer. That's why...
After pouring over thousands of nominations, the finalists for the Canadian Innovation Awards have been named. The list features some of the hottest startups, biggest companies, and cutting-edge entrepreneurs in the country—so take a look and think...
The Ontario government is dedicating $5.47 million in 12 projects through its Health Technologies Fund through 2018, which supports partnerships between publicly funded health service providers, patients, academia, and industry. Through the fund,...
Is everything okay in Canada's tech scene? Many think so. Many global tech giants are building capacity in our major cities, and our startup ecosystem is proving increasingly lively and promising. Look no further than the Toronto-Waterloo corridor...
Getting more women to become investors in early-stage startups will help increase the number of female leaders in the tech sector, says the founder of the country's first accelerator for women entrepreneurs. Danielle Graham created the Fierce...
Angel Investors Ontario is excited to share the release of its 2016/17 Annual Report. The Report details our network’s Fiscal Year performance, as well our cumulative performance between 2007 and 2017. Other highlights include Success Stories,...
Round 13 Capital has officially closed its $95 million fund to invest in Canadian growth-stage companies. In July 2016, BetaKit reported that Round 13 had raised $35 million for its fund. Lavalife co-founder and Round 13 managing partner Bruce...
Building their portfolio company by company, the angel invests each time with the belief that the company in question might well succeed. But when stepping back and appraising their portfolio as a whole, they must reconcile with the fact that they...
Sharoon Thomas could have applied and begun the multi-month wait last year to secure his permanent residence through the startup visa program created by former U.S. president Barack Obama’s administration. Good thing he didn’t. He is the CEO...
When Huda Idrees founded Dot Health, a health technology startup in Toronto, she had a radical thought: what if her new company's culture didn't have to suck? In an industry where women and people of colour are often underrepresented, a company's...
There are some pretty incredible companies in this country who are aiming to change the face of women's healthcare. And, it just so happens they're run by women, too! From tampon delivery services to at-home HPV testing, here are a few of the...
The Canadian government announced that the Startup Visa program would now become a core part of the country’s immigration policy starting in 2018. Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains and Minister of Immigration,...
Waterloo’s Communitech innovation hub has launched Communitech Bootstrap, a new program that aims to help startups validate their products and find early-adopters. The three-month Communitech Bootstrap program, which is run four times a year, is...
Female Funders includes an online education portal featuring topics like getting started as an angel investor and a curated list of angel investment resources, while providing access to deal flow and a global community of women investors and...
When it comes to high-skilled immigration, the U.S.'s loss could be Canada's gain. Canada recently launched a Global Skills Strategy visa program to make it easier for its companies to bring in foreign workers with specific technology or business...
Judging from the media headlines and gauging by the universities and incubator clusters, you’d think that Toronto and Waterloo are the only reasonable choices to found a startup in Ontario – at first. But upon closer inspection, it’s the growing...
How quickly business fortunes can change. The travails of Uber, transformed in recent months from a case study in high-growth entrepreneurialism to a business with a leadership vacuum following the ousting of its founder and chief executive, is a...
What an impactful year 2016 has been for the Network of Angel Organizations - Ontario and the Ontario Angel investor community, and we look forward to kicking off 2017 with a bang! If you were unable to join us for our Annual General Meeting and...
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