{"id":44806,"date":"2012-11-27T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=44806"},"modified":"2012-12-05T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T07:12:38","slug":"cix-crowd-names-canadas-two-hottest-companies","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/cix-crowd-names-canadas-two-hottest-companies","title":{"rendered":"CIX Crowd Names Canada&#8217;s Two Hottest Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8348\/8164137200_44c18a67f8_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"89\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/event\/cix-2012\">Canadian Innovation Exchange<\/a> (CIX) annual forum took place in Toronto today and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/canadian-innovation-exchange-announces-canadas-20-hottest-innovative-companies-2012-11-07\">20 of Canada&#8217;s Hottest Innovation Companies<\/a> presented to an audience of 500 Canada&rsquo;s top business leaders, investors and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>Attendees picked the People&#8217;s Choice Awards with Montreal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankandoak.com\">Frank &amp; Oak<\/a> taking the top spot in the Digital Media category and Toronto&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/Jibestream.com\">Jibestream<\/a> named the fan favorite of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) finalists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/the-canadian-innovation-exchange-top-20-the-winners-are-2011-12-02\">Last year<\/a> Toronto&#8217;s Wave Accounting won the CIX&#8217;s people&#8217;s choice award as most innovative ICT company and Wattpad took the digital media category prize. Wave Accounting went on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/torontos-wave-accounting-secures-12-million-in-series-b-funding-2012-05-16\">raise a $12 million Series B round<\/a> six months later and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/wattpad-raises-173-million-in-series-b-funding-led-by-khosla-ventures-2012-06-06\">Wattpad raised a $17 million Series B round<\/a> seven months later.<\/p>\n<p>So look out for Frank &amp; Oak and Jibestream in 2013!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) annual forum took place in Toronto today and 20 of Canada&#8217;s Hottest Innovation Companies presented to an audience of 500 Canada&rsquo;s top business leaders, investors and entrepreneurs. Attendees picked the People&#8217;s Choice Awards with Montreal&#8217;s Frank &amp; Oak taking the top spot in the Digital Media category and Toronto&#8217;s Jibestream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1358,"featured_media":44808,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-44806","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/44806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/44806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44806"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=44806"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=44806"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=44806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}