Sentences with phrase «canadian startup company»

If you own a Canadian startup company or small business, you'll want to do everything you can to ensure your business is still around well beyond five years.

Not exact matches

Executives from all three companies agreed that innovative Canadian startups can still find money, but unlike their American cousins — which often have such funds thrown at them — they have to work at building a proper business first.

In fact, a recent ranking of the top 20 «startup ecosystems» by research company Startup Genome listed three Canadian cities (Toronto ranked eighth, Vancouver, ninth and Waterloo,startup ecosystems» by research company Startup Genome listed three Canadian cities (Toronto ranked eighth, Vancouver, ninth and Waterloo,Startup Genome listed three Canadian cities (Toronto ranked eighth, Vancouver, ninth and Waterloo, 16th).

What these people know — and what more Canadians need to understand — is that truly innovative companies tend to create more value as time goes on, as they shed the hype and tumult of the startup phase and gain the customers, experiences and processes needed to become global businesses.

He said 68 per cent of Canadian startups have been sold to U.S. companies in the past five years, citing the sale Halifax - based GoInstant's to Salesforce.com for $ 70 million in 2012.

Align Commerce, a San Francisco — based startup, is already facilitating business - to - business transactions across borders in local currencies using the bitcoin blockchain; Canadian companies can currently receive payments via the service but not send them.

«Even for the patriotic, diehard Canadian who insists on their startup being in Canada, in many cases the company gets to a point where it's forced to sell to a U.S. big tech firm,» said Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company.

The Vancouver company, like other Canadian tech companies, is competing with San Francisco's Silicon Valley which regularly draws software engineers to work at heavyweights Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and LinkedIn, and startup firms.

PROFIT and Canadian Business identified companies on the STARTUP 50 — which serves as a companion to our PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies — by ranking businesses based on two - year revenucompanies on the STARTUP 50 — which serves as a companion to our PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies — by ranking businesses based on two - year revenuCompanies — by ranking businesses based on two - year revenue growth.

Over lunch, Canadian Business will celebrate the entrepreneurial successes of this year's PROFIT 500 and STARTUP 50 winners, and give special recognition to companies for achievements in such areas as revenue growth, international trade and job creation.

In an April post on StartupNorth, you wrote: «Rather than being the companies who are getting picked off for $ 20 million here and $ 50 million there, we need to find opportunities that let Canadian startups become the acquirer and growth engine.»

I've provided educational and ethics consulting services to corporate boards, professional associations, hospitals, startup companies, major charitable foundations, and to the Canadian military.

C100 Charter Members include some of the most successful Canadians working in some of the most important tech companies in the Silicon Valley, include startups CEOs, top executives of companies such as Apple, Cisco, EA, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, and venture investors representing more than $ 8 billion in capital.

While getting Canadian companies to Asia is a challenge, a prior challenge is helping startups like Jose's set up shop in Canada.

While Shopify and Hootsuite hit the scene before the proliferation of local startup hubs, DEEP recommends that potential high - growth companies would benefit from specialized support programs that encourage Canadian startups to learn from and expand in international markets.

While over 140 startup assistance organizations (such as business incubators, accelerators, and hubs) operate in the country, high - growth companies like Shopify and Hootsuite did not participate in Canadian programs.

Companies seeking to participate in the IDEABOOST community and programs should be growth - oriented Canadian startups that are building technology platforms, products and brands for the media and entertainment industry.

The Roundtable report sets out recommendations to increase access to growth capital for Canadian innovation economy companies as they progress beyond the seed and startup stages.

About JOLT JOLT (www.joltco.ca)(Twitter: @joltco) is a Toronto - based startup accelerator dedicated to building high - growth Canadian web and mobile companies focused on startups in the IT, communications and entertainment industries.

On the heels of a record - breaking year for investment in Canadian life science companies, over 200 international investors will descend on Toronto to scout startup innovation at RESI on MaRS, Canada's largest health investor conference.

Shopify hasn't been just another company in the Canadian startup space, they've played a strong role as a catalyst.

As a co-Founder of an early stage startup, Shopify's IPO validates the investor demand for Canadian companies that can offer access to a global market.

Angel investors are prepared to take extraordinary risks to support the development and growth of Canadian companies and are therefore a critical source of funding for the startup ecosystem.

But Vancouver is also home to three of the four Canadian tech «unicorns» — startup companies that are valued at US$ 1 billion or more.

Web4Realty, a software provider for Canadian real estate professionals based in Mississauga, Ont., has opened up applications for an in - house incubator to help local startup companies grow their businesses.

Maturing big - name Canadian startups like Shopify, Wattpad, and Hootsuite helped pave the way, Wealthsimple's Mike Katchen told Reuters, for the next «cohort of companies that are coming of age on the international stage.»

According to Reuters» Solarina Ho, Canadian fintech is «revitalizing the startup scene and has attracted a new crop of Canadian venture capital funds looking to invest specifically in young fintech companies.»

Meanwhile, Japan's NTT Data Corp, one of the world's largest technology services companies, and the MaRS announced a partnership in November to help Canadian startups expand into Japan and give NTT access to technology being developed by Canadian startups.

Kobo has abandoned the US market and their Canadian interests are waning with the sacking of close 50 people at their Toronto headquarters and high level executives leaving the company to found their own startups.

Neil Gross, executive director of investor rights group FAIR Canada, says for the most part Canadian consumers are too complacent in terms of tolerating fees from companies such as banks, rather than switching to lower - cost options such as credit unions or some of the emerging financial technology startups.

He notes that, «I've only listed startups that are active, have a software service or product, and appear to have their main office in Toronto... some of the established players are Canadian subsidiaries of foreign companies that have a larger headquarters elsewhere.»

We learn from Technaute that Praized, a Quebec web2.0 startup, just got an 1M $ investment from the canadian branch of Garage Technology Venture, the venture capital company behind Pandora.

And while startup companies struggle to market themselves, and law - abiding companies shell out cash to upgrade their databases and track their communications, Osborne says he expects CASL to have a negligible effect on the inboxes of ordinary Canadians.

Global crypto fintech company QUOINE announced on Thursday it has formed a partnership with Canadian fintech startup Blockwave to bring blockchain fintech services to Canada, starting with the launch of a cryptocurrency exchange before the end of this year.