Mississauga's startup ecosystem took center stage yesterday as IDEA Mississauga hosted its highly anticipated Step-Up Program Pitch & Showcase, spotlighting some of the region’s most promising early-stage ventures. Held at the Mississauga Civic Centre, the event gathered investors, mentors, and...

Toronto’s airfairness, which made waves at the Collision Tech Conference 2024, is already turning momentum into action. Today, the travel tech company launched its flagship consumer-facing product, the Flight Navigator, an AI-powered tool that simplifies the often-confusing process of claiming...

Toronto-based startup Cansulta is on a mission to shake up the consulting industry—and it’s doing so by bridging a crucial gap in access to expert advice. Founded by Alexandra Kapelos-Peters, Cansulta was born out of a need she witnessed repeatedly:...

Web Summit Vancouver 2025 is set to make waves as the global tech conference lands in North America for the first time, relocating from its previous home in Toronto. This highly anticipated event will bring together over 750 startups, 600...

In an industry notorious for its glacial timelines and staggering costs, Variational AI is flipping the script on how new medicines are born. While big pharma often relies on brute force screening or legacy cheminformatics models, Variational AI is deploying...

Walk into any tech meetup or conference in 2025, and you'll see the usual suspects: venture capitalists, growth-hacking evangelists, and AI-powered dreamers pitching their way to the next funding round. But look closer—who’s missing from the stage? The bootstrappers. The...

In a time when support for women entrepreneurs is dwindling, one initiative is defying the trend — and doing it with bold intention. The Self-Made Breakfast Tour, launched by Toronto-based Sinclair Creative Agency Inc. (SCA) in partnership with PARO Canada,...

Toronto Tech Week is the city’s marquee moment for innovation, where founders pitch, VCs connect, and developers dive deep into what's next. But as the official programming wraps up, there’s one event bringing the week to a thrilling close: SUPERCOLLIDER...

Samantha Lloyd fintech Marketing Leader In a celebration of trailblazing innovation and leadership, FoundersBeta has unveiled its latest list of Top Female Founders & Leaders 2025 — a powerful showcase of women reshaping the global startup ecosystem. From building cutting-edge...

The internet wasn’t built with interoperability in mind. Most valuable data, utility bills, royalty statements, insurance records, is still trapped behind credentials and fragmented portals. Deck is on a mission to fix that by building the infrastructure for user-permissioned data...

Commodity trading has been broken for years. Not in the sense of volume or scale, those metrics look fine on paper. Trillions change hands. Warehouses fill, ships sail, and terminals blink. But the real story, the one that starts on...

Canada is the second-largest country in the world by land, but when it comes to growing startups, we often play small. Too many Canadian founders are leaving the country in search of better funding, larger markets, and stronger ecosystems. If...