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The Financial & Professional Services sector in Greater Toronto’s York Region is over 6,000 companies strong; with 3,100 of them being financial, insurance, and accounting firms. You’ll find global corporations down to startups in the Region, supporting over 60,000 sector related jobs. There’s also a fast-growing group of companies focused on developing innovative FinTech solutions.
Source: Canadian Business Count, Dec 2015
Source: Canadian Business Count, Dec 2015
| 1 | City of Toronto | 4 | Ottawa Region |
| 2 | York Region | 5 | Halton Region |
| 3 | Peel Region | Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Business Count | DEC 2015 | |
Ceridian HCM Holding Inc., a global human capital management (HCM) technology company, today announced plans to accelerate hiring in Canada, with 400 new jobs in 2020 and more than 2,000 over the next five years.
Markham, Ontario-based technology hub ventureLAB has announced the first cohort of companies in its Hardware Catalyst Initiative (HCI), Canada’s first hardware and silicon-focused incubator for tech companies.
On Feb. 6 in Markham, Ont., ventureLAB, a York Region-based tech business development organization, celebrated the launch of its new incubator for silicon-powered technologies, the Hardware Catalyst Initiative (HCI).
Markham, Ontario-based technology hub ventureLAB has announced the first cohort of companies in its Hardware Catalyst Initiative (HCI), Canada’s first hardware and silicon-focused incubator for tech companies building solutions for technologies like AI, IoT, wearable computing, 5G, and other transformative technologies that will enable the creation of products and solutions that scale globally.
As part of this growing hub, York Region’s ventureLAB has launched the Hardware Catalyst Initiative (HCI) to help spur the global adoption of Canadian-made hardware and silicon technologies; namely the technologies that form the foundation for artificial intelligence, machine learning and quantum computing.
View the 2019 York Region Foreign Direct Investment in York Region Snapshot