As the state of artificial intelligence in BC continues to heat up in 2023, local robotics leader Sanctuary AI has announced a significant milestone for its specialized technology. Sanctuary AI, which raised a sizeable round of funding last year, has successfully completed the first-ever “deployment of a unique system designed to deliver the world’s first […]
Precision Agtech Startup Verdi Accelerates Toward Next Stage
Since its inception in 2013, entrepreneurship@UBC has supported several hundred ventures that have gone on to raise financing, generate revenue, and create jobs across BC and Canada. Among the successes of University of British Columbia’s esteemed incubator program is Verdi, which joined the HATCH Accelerator in 2021. After graduating later that year, they were ready-to-raise. Verdi helps […]
The State of Artificial Intelligence in BC in 2023
It was not long ago that Techcouver highlighted a variety of innovative BC-based startups using artificial intelligence across sectors. This coverage showcased Canada Drives, which must predict market prices and reconditioning costs to provide accurate prices to sellers and buyers, as well as Charli AI, whose generative artificial intelligence platform Ancaeus is designed for cross-functional use across […]
JackRabbit Wants to Put Your Business on Autopilot with AI
A Victoria-born startup wants artificial intelligence to run your business. “Are you tired of trying to keep up with the constant changes in business operations? Are you tired of digging through processes and asking your coworkers for answers?” ask the founders of JackRabbit Ops, an AI startup on Vancouver Island, which boasts a unique tech […]
Bench Boosts Business Owners with Real-Time Financial Insight in Latest Partnership
Digital bookkeeping and tax advisory platform Bench recently announced a partnership with Wealth Factory, a provider of personal financial education and implementation programs for entrepreneurs and small business owners. The Vancouver-based fintech, named last year to Team True North, says the partnership provides real-time financial insights to a network of 25,000 entrepreneurs. “Wealth Factory customers […]
When NFTs Cross the Line from ‘Baseball Card’ to ‘Investment Contract’
There has been much talk in the last year of so-called non-fungible tokens in Canada—what are they, what can they do, what will they become? The answer, it seems, is still unraveling itself. Bitcoin launched over a decade ago as a simple, decentralized alternative to fiat currency. Eventually, companies decided to compete in some sense […]
Vancouver Studio Earns Accolades from Snapchat for King Tut AR Lens
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 […]