We all went through that phase as kids where we wished we could transport ourselves to another place in another time—a chance to walk among dinosaurs, perhaps. Partners Farhad and Faraz Shababi relived this moment as adults when visiting an exhibition about King Tut of Egypt in 2022 conducted by National Geography. Only it dawned […]
Dapper Labs Adjusts Company to New Crypto Reality
Dapper Labs spun out of startup studio Axoim Zen in 2017 and was named to Techcouver’s 10 Homegrown B.C. Startups to Watch in 2021. Soon after, the startup raised a USD $250 million funding round which valued the digital collectibles startup at over $7 billion and set them up for a busy 2022. Last year Dapper Labs cracked the […]
Faceprint, Please: Air Canada Launches AI Technology Project at YVR
Advancing artificial intelligence continues to penetrate a broad swath of sectors in Canada, such as financial technology. British Columbia is aiming to be a world-class AI hub, with many startups and scale-ups operating and growing in the space. Air Canada is furthering this mission to have Vancouver at the forefront of AI innovation and usage […]
Victoria Brewery Taps AI for Latest Beer, Marketing Campaign
Fintech.ca this month noted how artificial intelligence has seeped into nearly every aspect of financial technology—and is now quickly spreading to other, less tech-forward industries. Take the brewery business, for instance. Whistle Buoy Brewing Company recently used artificial intelligence to concoct a recipe for its latest beer, a Hazy Pale Ale. In fact, the Victoria-based […]
Croptimistic Raises $9 Million Series B Round, Acquires CropPro Consulting
Croptimistic Technology is feeling optimistic. Why? First, the Kelowna-based agriculture technology company this week secured $9.1 million in capital. The Series B round was led by Forage Capital Partners, which operates as Canada’s most experienced team of agriculture investors, having managed over $500 million in commitments to the industry over the last 18 years. “This new […]
Canada Invests $15 Million in BCIT to Advance Innovation
The Government of Canada is targeting “hot spots of innovation and growth in British Columbia,” including bio-tech and aerospace. With over 200 companies, British Columbia has one of the largest aerospace clusters in Canada. However, the industry is facing labour shortages. The Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada wants to see this figure grow further, […]
LOI Ventures’ First Investment Pays Off with Acquisition of WFHomie
A provider of flexible software solutions for HR, benefits, and payroll, this week announced the acquisition of WFHomie, an employee experience and people analytics platform built for remote-first companies. It is the first acquisition for Houston-based GoCo.io, which raised USD $15 million last year in a round led by ATX Venture Partners. With the addition of […]
BC Sees Tech Sector as ‘Key Growth Area’ for Next Decade
Following the highest tech jobs growth in North America, the Vancouver region has seen a lot of layoffs in tech over the past year. Hootsuite trimmed some fat and appointed a new CEO. Thinkific also made some changes. As did web3 darling Dapper Labs. We could go on. Combined with a Pandemic-fuelled shift to hybrid work, Vancouver has entered a state of […]
Vancouver’s Railtown AI Improves Release Notes for Software Everywhere
Release Notes are an essential and important part of releasing software and its inevitable updates. These notes are communicated to engineering teams, to parties outside of engineering, and to the end users of the software. But the problem is that Release Notes “require a great deal of effort,” according to a statement from Railtown AI […]
Vancouver’s Fintech Fitness
When people think of “Finance” in Canada, minds go straight to Bay Street. The same can be said for financial technology, where downtown Toronto houses the country’s largest hub of fintech startups by a wide margin. Ontario is home to a majority of Canada’s fintechs, including Shopify, Wealthsimple, Koho, Borrowell, and hundreds more. Vancouver seldom […]