BC Tech is hosting their first ever Dragon’s Den Pitch Night for the #2022TIAs tomorrow. The event will feature all 10 finalists of the #2022TIAs Company of the Year – Startup Award category as they pitch to our esteemed panel of judges. This year’s Company of the Year – Startup Award finalists are: Arya Health […]
Celebrate NFT Day On September 20th With Dapper Labs
September 20, 2022 marks the five-year anniversary of when Dapper Labs CTO Dete Shirley first submitted the NFT standard ERC-721 and coined the term “non-fungible token.” Since then, NFTs have become the heart of countless communities, innovation, and mainstream adoption of blockchain technology. To celebrate the special date and occasion, September 20th has been named […]
Nominate Vancouver’s Cleantech Leaders For The Foresight 50
Vancouver is a cleantech cluster. More than one-third of the country’s cleantech ventures are based in British Columbia and the region has been recognized as a top 10 cluster worldwide. Much of the recent progress on this front can be attributed to the work of Foresight, Canada’s largest cleantech accelerator, and the light their annual […]
Nominate Your Fav New Ventures BC Alumni For Impact Award
Over the past 22 years, we’ve seen New Ventures BC (NVBC) alumni achieve great things: going from innovative ideas all the way to multi-million dollar companies. Last year NVBC created a new award category and turned back the clock to honour AbCellera with inaugural Alumni Impact award. This year they want the community’s help again […]
TiE Vancouver Launches CXO Event Series For Operators Of Startups And Scaleups
This fall our local TiE Vancouver chapter is hosting a series of learning, mentoring and networking events for operators of startups and scaleups and the first event is on September 29th. TiE Vancouver is part of TiE Global Angels, an umbrella organization representing the TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) chapters in North America and their affiliated […]
Immersion Week at UBC Looks to Weave Equity, and Justice into Fabric of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs and innovators who seek to bring ideas and projects to bear should ensure practices and belief systems are imbued with values-based approaches necessary to the sustainability of our future, suggests a University of British Columbia event looking to weave “justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion into the fabric of entrepreneurship.” entrepreneurship@UBC Immersion Week wants to redefine […]
Future Capital Partners with BDC to Train 150 Angel Investors
Vancouver’s Future Capital has announced a second Women in Technology Series. The learning and opportunity platform for investors says the collaboration with BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture will launch this summer. The collaboration aims to “activate a new pipeline of women angel investors and diversify the ecosystem that supports tech founders,” according to a […]
SIGGRAPH 2022 To Showcase Latest Innovations In Digital Art
SIGGRAPH is the world’s leading computer graphics and interactive techniques conference and it returns to the Vancouver Convention Center next month after being held virtually for two years. SIGGRAPH 2022 raises the stakes with 26 selected research projects out of more than 100 submissions from 27 countries as part of both its Emerging Technologies and Immersive […]
Thinkific Unveils All Women of Color Lineup for Think in Color 2022
Thinkific has announced the speaker lineup for its virtual summit Think in Color 2022 and it is one-of-a-kind. The annual event connecting, empowering, and promoting women of color in the knowledge economy will feature 20 top-tier speakers including, Lisa Nichols, Simran Kaur and Ellie Diop. “Think In Color is a safe, positive space for women […]
Vancouver Startups Selected To Participate In 2022 Google for Startups Accelerator
Two Vancouver-based startups have been selected to participate in the 2022 Google for Startups Accelerator Canada program. MintList and Miru join 10 other Canadian startups looking to grow and advance by bringing the best of Google’s products, people and technology to startups that leverage machine learning and AI today, or plan to in the future. MintList is […]