Destination: Silicon Valley North

Last year startups in California alone raised $15 billion in funding – Canada? Less than $2 billion. In this episode we compare Canada and Silicon Valley as destinations for tech startups. How can Canada become a hub for innovation? We speak with James Smith, partner at LaBarge Weinstein LLP; Joe Frasca, general counsel at Shopify; Professor Allison Christians, Stikeman Chair in tax law at McGill’s Faculty of Law; and Gareth MacLeod, CEO at Tinker.