Emoticast closes $5m angel round backed by Sean Parker, Will.i.am and David Guetta
Emoticast, the entertainment industry’s go-to partner for mobile messaging, announced a super angel round that brings its total investment to...
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The Lightning Pitch: Moblers, to fix your app building woes
Company: Moblers Headquarters: HaOgen, Israel Founding Team: The chief tech doc himself, Guy Doron. Why we like it: Because when a company...
Three perspectives on Canada’s thriving startup ecosystem
The burgeoning startup ecosystem in Canada is recently gaining a flurry of mainstream attention and more and more eyes seem to be on the country’s...
Montreal launches first incubator in North America dedicated to tourism, culture and entertainment
Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and its School of Management (ESG UQAM), Tourisme Montréal and the City of Montréal have launched MT...
The benefits of hanging out your washing in public: Three lesser known facts about customer reviews
Many SMB owners gave a knowing smile when the South Park episode “You’re not Yelping” aired. In the episode local businesses are terrorized...
Unifi Secures $17.5m in series B funding from scale venture partners
Unifi Software, the only self-service catalog and prep tool combined in a cloud-optimized Data as a Service platform, today announced it has secured...
Top blogs your design startup needs to follow
If you’re a designer and you want to stay up to date on the latest in the design industry, you could follow up-and-coming designers such as Seb...
The Lightning Pitch: (Ticket to) PapaRide
Company: PapaRide Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec Founding Team: CEO, Ayoub Moutiya, the Chief techie, Nilesh Savani and the iOS developer,...
The Lightning Pitch: Say hello to MediaHound, the Kayak of content
Company: MediaHound Headquarters: Los Angeles, California Founding Team: Young Media Mogul in the Making, Addison McCaleb Why we like it:...
Six brilliant tools to kickstart your startup
Do you have a killer idea for a startup company? Perhaps you've already got a plan in motion, and you're getting the initial stages worked out, or...
Startup World Cup regional semifinal to hit Luxembourg in March
The Startup World Cup, which gives startups and founders the chance to win £1m in investment, is to reach Luxembourg in March. Luxembourger startups...
The Lightning Pitch: MoveEasy, powering moving companies
Company: MoveEasy Headquarters: Columbus, Ohio, United States of America Founding Team: Venkatesh Ganapathy Why we like it: Because moving...
