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December 12, 2018
Seven companies have been chosen as the initial class of a new accelerator program set up by BlackBerry and L-SPARK, Canada’s leading software-as-a-service accelerator, with the goal of growing the next great, global technology company. Applications were received from across Canada with senior representatives from BlackBerry and L-SPARK ultimately narrowing down the highly competitive field…
October 25, 2018
The State of Data Privacy Today The state of data privacy is evolving globally, with the major regulatory policy revamp called the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) now implemented in Europe. This is the strongest data privacy protection law to date, and is seen by many as the Gold Standard in terms of the individual…
October 25, 2018
Portfolio company Tutela, the crowdsourced mobile data leader, announced new partnerships with two mobile network operators during the Quarter. The company extended their relationship with Telefonica in Europe, and signed an agreement with Freedom Mobile in Canada. Both operators have successfully trialed the comprehensive data set and real world insights the Tutela technology provides, and…
October 15, 2018
Wesley Clover backed initiative uses unique partnership model to build international ecosystem. The Alacrity Global Initiative continues to expand its portfolio of tech startups and venture capital funds around the world, with recent additions in Mexico City and Pune, India. The Alacrity Global Initiative was developed around five years ago by local company Wesley Clover,…
May 31, 2018
In celebration of #NationalAutonomousVehicleDay, the Kanata North Business Association has established a first of its kind resource that will capture a comprehensive listing of the growing number of contributors to the AV ecosystem across the country. This will include innovators, companies, post-secondary institutions, and other organizations with AV technologies, solutions, and knowhow. The launch of the…
May 28, 2018
By Pratteek Bathula, Product Director at Hut Six What is GDPR? Everyone’s favourite acronym. If you are a business owner, work in IT or handle customer or employee data, these four letters present a massive shake-up to data protection laws that you need to be aware of or risk unprecedented fines. The General Data Protection…
March 28, 2018
The messages you try to communicate with emails can only be effective so long as the emails are actually getting opened in the first place. Below are two tips to increase open rates and email responses: 1. Resend the same email to everyone who didn’t open it For your next group email, try this trick…
March 20, 2018
The following article is a guest post by Paul Bailey, Marketing & Design Director for Wesley Clover. Recently Wales’ technology sector monthly networking event, Digital Tuesday, held an interesting event about Europe’s new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). This article dives into the questions and concerns that were raised at the event, and hopefully addresses people’s doubts…
March 14, 2018
The following article is a guest post by Mike Manson. Mike is Chairman and Co-founder of Canada and India-based TaraSpan Inc, Partner for India at Wesley Clover International, and General Partner of the Alacrity India startup fund. The Canadian media reported Justin Trudeau’s recent visit to India as fraught with diplomatic missteps and embarrassing political…
January 31, 2018
Pretty well every technology startup out there these days has the importance of product-market fit battered upon them on a daily basis. Whether it’s the advisors they meet, the blogs and videos they reference, or the success stories they try to emulate, product-market fit will undoubtedly emerge as one of the key milestones on the…
