If youโve ever walked into a tiny store, mom-and-pop shop, or cool chic boutique and seen the amazing and unique products they carry, youโve probably interacted with Hubba at some point.
How Maayan Ziv is Taking Over a $25B Underserved Market?
Four years after founding her company AccessNow, a mapping application that ranks buildings for accessibility features, the company announced it received $2.7 million in funding to continue their mission.
Why Bird is ditching the gig economy as it expands to Canada
Following the companyโs recently announced expansion into Canada, Bird Canada CEO Stewart Lyons spoke with Tech Daily about regulatory hurdles, Birdโs franchise-style business model, and why the company is moving to permanent workers over gig workers.
Battle of the accounting software: Freshbooks vs Wave
Both Wave and Freshbooks advertise towards the small business owner – anywhere from solopreneur to a small handful of employees – but they do it in a slightly different way.
Lightspeed CEO Dax Dasilva on why going public was just a step, not an end
Now that the company is public, Lightspeed CEO and co-founder Dax Dasilva is more energized than ever. What some would consider an end unto itself – going public, cashing in, and bringing on more governance to help run the company – Dasilva says is just a stepping stone for the company to become a global acquirer and power player.
10 diversity and inclusion educational courses you can take online right now
Learning about diversity and inclusion is all but necessary for business. Not only are inclusive businesses more innovative, they are more profitable, making D&I training a value-add for any business or employee (on top of the interpersonal benefits).
How one video game helps people learn about mental health
The user-generated gaming platform already sees 24 billion hours of play from 2 million users, a huge feat theyโve accomplished mostly in the past few years. With Lukeโs Roblox game, players get to not only enjoy the challenges of the game, but they get to learn about mental health.
New partnership offers up to $2 million in venture capital funding to women-led businesses
Connecting support with money, startup accelerator The Big Push and venture capital firm Disruption Ventures today announced a partnership to invest between $500,000 to $2 million in Seed or Series A rounds of women-led startups.
Zoho bets on centralization to win battle against Hubspot, Salesforce
The hallmark of Zohoโs 10-year-plus journey has been the fact that Zoho has not acquired a single piece of its technology, said LSP. The company has been โbuilding frameworksโ for years based on the vision of a fully integrated office in the cloud. This is also the anchor of Zohoโs big bet: that purpose-built technology will integrate faster and work better than Frankenstein-ed technology from acquisition.
30 Resources To Find Canadian Startups
As big as the startup ecosystem has grown, itโs still hard to Google โCanadian (industry / business type here) businessโ and get good answers. Itโs equally hard to see a lot of Canadian startups showing up on the more popular blog lists of the โtop 10 startups in X industry.โ