Should I Join an Accelerator?

To startups looking to jumpstart their businesses, accelerators may seem like a godsend. Who wouldn’t want to a structured environment in which to grow their company? While accelerators can indeed provide superb value to startups, not all are made equal. The effectiveness of some are contested, a ...

How to Determine Your Company’s Stage

What is a Company Stage?It’s occurred to you before while scrolling through the press release of a recently-funded startup. Seed? Surely that company is Series A. Pre-seed? No, they’re definitely seed. Everyone is familiar with the stages applied to startups, and yet, nobody seems entirely sure ...

August Funding Deals

Though August's funding rounds were smaller than previous months, there were nevertheless some significant funds exchanged, the largest ($459M USD) moving from CITIC Metal Co. to Invanhoe Mines, a copper mining company based in South African. See below for August's top twenty-five largest deals. Dat ...

Going Global: Taking on National Expansion and Emerging Markets

As a founder—especially an early-stage founder, knee-deep in the many tasks required to keep a new business afloat—it can be difficult to see the horizon line, let alone look beyond it. Progress is measured day by day, new ground broken inch by inch, connections painstakingly ...

Tech in Time For Mother's Day

It’s that time of year again; fathers are fumbling through their kitchens at 5AM, making breakfast with bleary eyes; young children are crafting colourful cards under the careful supervision of their teachers while older children—perhaps miles away from home, weathering university or their first ...