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HOW DO YOU BUILD A MORE DIVERSE TECH COMPANY? IT STARTS AT THE TOP
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...
THESE CANADIAN, WOMEN-RUN STARTUPS AIM TO SERIOUSLY IMPROVE WOMEN’S SELF-CARE
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...
CANADIAN GOV’T ANNOUNCES THAT STARTUP VISA PILOT PROGRAM WILL BECOME PERMANENT
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,...
COMMUNITECH LAUNCHES BOOTSTRAP PROGRAM TO HELP STARTUPS GAIN EARLY ADOPTERS, VALIDATE PRODUCTS
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...
HIGHLINE BETA ACQUIRES FEMALE FUNDERS WITH GOAL TO SUPPORT 1,000 WOMEN ANGELS BY 2020
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...
CANADA’S PLAY FOR IMMIGRANT TECH TALENT
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...
YORK REGION IS A LITTLE NORTH AND A LITTLE NICER FOR STARTUPS
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...
WHAT ENTREPRENEURS SHOULD LEARN FROM UBER’S LEADERSHIP CRISIS
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...
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: NAO-ONTARIO UNVEILS NEW NAME & BRAND
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...
NAO-ONTARIO HOSTS GENERAL MEETING AND SYMPOSIUM
On Wednesday June 8th, 2016 NAO-Ontario held a general meeting and symposium in Toronto. Angel investors, group managers, and other partners in the Angel ecosystem gathered to compare notes and share best practices, plus attend brief educational...
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