In death, BlackBerry gives life to startups in southern Ontario

April 30, 2013 8:29 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Best known, perhaps, for being the headquarters of BlackBerry, Waterloo is a small suburb of Toronto with a population of 98,000 in which 500 startups were born in 2012.

Ed-tech startup says its Netflix-like recommendation tool will get you through college faster

January 24, 2013 11:03 AM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

With its acquisition of Degree Compass, well-funded startup Desire2Learn is exploring how predictive analytics can reduce the time it takes for students to graduate college.

Desire2learn pulls in $80M, the largest-ever VC investment in a Canadian software startup

September 4, 2012 4:19 PM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

Ed-tech is on fire! Desire2Learn, a startup that has bootstrapped for over a decade, has raised its first round of venture capital funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of one of Canada’s largest pension fund managers.