In addition to job boards, there are many sites containing valuable company and industry information:

• Strategis is an excellent starting point to find company directories, industry contacts, business statistics,and so on
• Bellzinc is another great way to search Canadian companies by category (over 600,000 companies are included with an easy search capacity)

Here are some sites with good information about venture capital sources, start-up companies and IT industry trends:

• Canadian Venture Capital Association has information, events and contacts in Canadian Venture Capital
• Toronto VC contains links to hundreds of venture capital sources
• Silicon Valley North allows you to subscribe to an on-line newsletter offering technical and financial insights

For local listings of businesses: all cities and regions generally list the companies in their jurisdiction under an "Economic Development" heading:

• Markham
• Toronto
• York Region