Featured Stories

StartUP HERE takes off to support entrepreneurs and share success stories

Elena Yunusov Wednesday, February 17, 2016

The City of Toronto launched StartUP HERE Toronto platform to celebrate the rich startup, technology and innovation community in Toronto and KW and share success stories with the world.

City Building, Digital, Research and Innovation

Toronto Startup Ecosystem Strategy creates symbiosis between the city's emerging ventures

Kaitlyn Kochany Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Digital, Employment, Research and Innovation, Small Businesses

Church & Wellesley - Yorkville - Annex

Evan Hadfield's out-of-this-world agency sets out to brand Canada

Elena Yunusov Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Digital

Entertainment District

Deloitte predicts: The tech and media trends that will shape our year

Kelli Korducki Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Every year, Deloitte predicts the tech and media trends that will define the year ahead. This year, we listened.

Digital, Research and Innovation

Zhibin Wang, Jacky Qiu and Michael G. Helander in the aerelightdesign studio.

Five must-watch startups for 2015

Igor Bonifacic Wednesday, January 07, 2015

With Toronto picking up speed as a North American epicentre for entrepreneurialism, we rounded up some young businesses poised to make big things happen in the year ahead.

Digital

Church & Wellesley - Yorkville - Annex

Anisa S. Mirza, CEO and Co-founder of Giveffect.

Charitable giving gets a techie twist

Andrew Seale Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Toronto startups Giveffect, FlipGive and Hospital Connection set out to rewire and disrupt the billion-dollar charity market in Canada.

Corporate Social Responsibility, Digital

Central Waterfront, Financial District, Entertainment District, Downtown Eastside - Old Town - Corktown

Datifex founder and CEO, Chris Erickson.

Staying on top of a data-driven world

Kelli Korducki Wednesday, November 19, 2014

A group of Toronto businesses are changing the way we interact with data.

Digital, Research and Innovation, Small Businesses

Financial District, Church & Wellesley - Yorkville - Annex, Entertainment District

A local entrepreneurial guru tells all

Kelli Korducki Wednesday, November 12, 2014

After 15 years developing companies in Germany, Mexico, California, and the UK, Hamid Arabzadeh returned to Toronto in 2010 to launch the startup incubator Spoke Technologies Inc. He spoke with Yonge Street about the local startup scene and what it takes to make businesses run.

Digital, Research and Innovation, Small Businesses

Pressure gauge: The future of weather is in your back pocket

Tiffy Thompson Wednesday, October 29, 2014

A Toronto-based company wants your smartphone data, but it's not for what you think. How crowdsourcing is changing the climate of weather forecasting.

Digital, Research and Innovation

Downtown Eastside - Old Town - Corktown

The return to making and the rise of urban manufacturing in Toronto

Elena Yunosov Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Toronto is getting its manufacturing groove back. We take a look at the contemporary companies making manufacturing, and locally made goods and products, a priority.

Arts and Culture, City Building, Design, Digital, Employment, Small Businesses

Parkdale, Downtown Eastside - Old Town - Corktown, Queen/King West

How three Toronto companies are changing the way we interact with our computers

Igor Bonifacic Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Move over Siri, there's a new voice-activated computer in town. Meet Ubi, a small computer with a remarkable understanding of natural language, and two other distinct Toronto-based user interface innovations. Over the next three to five years, we will see a renaissance in UI and experience design.

Design, Digital, Higher Education , Small Businesses

Kensington Market - Little Italy - Little Portugal

Lucy McGarry, in the Harry Rosen Research Commons, Psychology Research and Training Centre at Ryerso

New therapies are helping children with autism overcome sensory barriers

Tiffy Thompson Wednesday, August 20, 2014

From music to video games, new technologies are making therapies for children with ASD more affordable and accessible. Meet the Toronto-based researchers whose innovations are helping children understand themselves—and the world around them—in new ways.

Digital, Diversity, Healthcare and Wellness, Research and Innovation

Church & Wellesley - Yorkville - Annex

Emma Nemtin, Marketing Director at Hubba

A smarter storefront: How a new crop of digital platforms are innovating the retail floor

Kelli Korducki Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Find out how a group of Toronto-based startups are rethinking how stores, brands, and retail floors interact with consumers. As customers become more informed shoppers, stores need to match and expand their expertise.

Arts and Culture, Design, Digital, Research and Innovation, Small Businesses

Kensington Market - Little Italy - Little Portugal

A round-up of innovative medical developments happening right here in Toronto

Sarah B. Hood Wednesday, June 11, 2014

In the latest in our series reporting on innovations coming out of MaRS Discovery District, we look at several cutting-edge medical advances currently in development--from revolutionary cancer treatments to personality-based patient care.

City Building, Digital, Healthcare and Wellness, Research and Innovation, Small Businesses

Kensington Market - Little Italy - Little Portugal, Markham

Shirin Habibi, Tariq Haddadin and Amie Sergas of the MaRS Business Acceleration Program

The dream of a Canadian Silicon Valley

Igor Bonifacic Wednesday, May 14, 2014

By bridging Toronto and the Kitchener-Waterloo area, both through collaborative networks and the facilitation of a high-speed rail system, regional organizations aim to create a powerhouse of Canadian talent.

City Building, Digital, Diversity, Employment, Research and Innovation, Small Businesses, Transportation

Kensington Market - Little Italy - Little Portugal, Financial District, Entertainment District