A new experience from XR Immersive Tech is coming to the largest ticketed event in British Columbia. The Vancouver-based immersive entertainment platform announced recently that Uncontained will be available for guests to enjoy for the first time this summer beginning at Playland Amusement Park and the annual Pacific National Exhibition Fair. Uncontained is described as “hyper-immersive virtual […]
Vancouver’s Impro AI Announces Seed Funding at Collision in Toronto
The Collision Conference returned to its first in-person event in two years this week, taking over Toronto’s Enercare Centre. It’s the largest international gathering of its kind in Canada since prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the perfect backdrop for Impro.ai’s latest announcement. The Vancouver-based startup revealed at Collision that it has raised seed funding north […]
Wertz of Wisdom: Version One’s Boris Reflects on 10 Years of Investing
In the summer of 2012, Boris Wertz proudly announced the launch of Version One Ventures. Fast-forward a decade: he this month celebrated 10 years of venture capital under his brand. Today Version One is a multi-fund franchise funds with investments in several dozen companies and a quarter billion dollars in assets under management. Some of Version […]
Internet Archive Canada Opens Gathering Space for Vancouver Tech Community
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 […]