In FP Tech Desk's Startup Roundup series, we take a look at Canadian startup news from the past week. Startup Weekend As speed dating met entrepreneurial drive, dozens of cities around the world took part in the latest instalment of the 54-hour company-building challenge known as Startup Weekend from last Friday to Sunday, including Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Winnipeg and Ottawa. The events bring together software developers, designers and non-technical entrepreneurs who listen to dozens of one-minute pitches, vote on the most promising ideas and form teams around those concepts and work all-out over the weekend. The Toronto event was held at the offices of web and mobile app developers The Working Group on Adelaide St. W. and the gathering of about 190 hopeful business builders led to the creation of 22 teams, said co-organizer Sunil Sharma. He said the Seattle-headquartered Startup Weekend organization told him that was the largest number of teams to emerge out of any startup weekend to date. Will any be around in a year? Mr. Sharma pointed out that Venio -- one of the current cohort at Extreme Startups, the Toronto accelerator he helps run -- was formed during last year's event and returned this year for a panel on stubbornly sticking with it. Back in May I was working on a story on online-to-offline commerce and spoke with Karan Walia, who was studying business administration at York University when he attended last year's Startup Weekend Toronto and ended up forming Washly , an on-demand mobile