The Internet Archive boasts a new Canadian headquarters. The new space, on West Pender Street in Vancouver, is actually pretty old: from 1907, in fact. The building formerly housed the B.C. Permanent Loan Company and more recently has been used event venue for weddings and movies. The headquarters will be as much a communal “gathering place” […]
Six BC Companies on Track to Reach Billion-Dollar Revenue Milestone
Communitech this month unveiled the first ever Team True North. The Kitchener-based hub for entrepreneurship created the list to spotlight “the best of Canadian tech”—which by their measure is defined as high-performing tech firms “tracking to $1 billion in annual revenue with growth rates that match the top 1% of companies in the world.” “Why did […]
Metaspectral Secures Capital from Canadian Space Agency to Detect Gas Emissions on Earth
Metaspectral has received funding from the Canadian Space Agency. The Vancouver startup, software company delivering the next generation of computer vision, secured the capital through smartEarth, a funding initiative related to Earth observation applications development. Metaspectral says it will use the funding to build a method to systematically and methodically quantify carbon dioxide levels present at […]
APOLLO Insurance to Integrate with Yardi Voyager Software for ‘Effortless Digital Experience’
Vancouver’s Apollo Insurance has partnered with Yardi Systems. Established in 1984, Yardi provides software solutions to the real estate industry. Now the California company will bring Apollo’s digital insurance fulfillment to its clients to allow tenants and landlords “an effortless digital insurance experience.” “Apollo is excited to partner with such an innovative real estate software […]
Two Vancouver Startups to PITCH at Collision Competition
The Collision Conference is returning to its first in-person event in two years, marking Toronto’s Enercare Centre June 20 through 23. The tech event will be the largest international gathering of its kind in Canada since prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, with 35,000 attendees expected to convene in our nation’s fintech hotspot. “While we’ve successfully hosted Collision online […]
Flush with Capital and Tech, Sanctuary AI Positions Self as Robotics Leader
Sanctuary AI believes it has created the world’s smartest robot. There is reason to be cocky: the Vancouver-based robotics and artificial intelligence startup is experiencing a bout of momentum. In March, the BC tech company raised a whopping $75 million in capital from an oversubscribed Series A round, which included strong interest from Bell, Export […]
Boris Wertz Celebrates 10 Years of Version One Ventures
In the summer of 2012, Boris Wertz proudly announced the launch of Version One Ventures. Fast-forward a decade and Wertz is celebrating 10 years of venture capital under his brand. In that time, Version One has grown from a single fund into an entire franchise spanning six different funds, several dozen companies, and a quarter […]
Rogers Deploys 5G Spectrum in Nanaimo Ahead of Canada-wide Launch
Rogers Communications announced this week that it has started to deploy its 5G network in Canada. The first location in the nation to experience Rogers’ 3500 MHz spectrum holdings is Nanaimo. The telecom titan plans to follow up quickly with deployment in major urban cores including Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary. “As the country’s … first […]
Earls Group Chooses Reusables.com Tech to Tackle Restaurant Waste
Earls Restaurant Group is the latest company to partner with Reusables.com, a Vancouver-born startup offering a zero-waste packaging platform. After a pilot at the famous Earls Test Kitchen in downtown Vancouver, all Earls customers are now able to select reusable takeout packaging for pickup and delivery through their ordering channels. “At Earls, we are committed […]
One Year After Becoming a Unicorn, Clio Advances to Centaur Status
Clio has achieved the fabled Centaur status. The Burnaby-based provider of cloud-based legal technology is Canada’s first legal technology company to wear the crown, and one of only 150 companies globally. In the startup world, a Unicorn is a company with a valuation north of $1 billion—a status Clio earned just last year. To become […]