Four early-stage ocean technology startups have won the first-ever Ocean Idea Challenge. The challenge was hosted the Ocean Startup Project, national organization working to make Canada one of the best places in the world to start and grow an ocean venture. “The high-calibre ocean ideas and founder talent this competition drew out from across the […]
Trendi Bolsters Seed Funding to Accelerate Agri-Food Technology
TrendiTech announced this week that it has raised additional seed funding of more than $6 million CAD for its agri-food technology. The Vancouver-based robotics startup is dedicated to up-cycling food waste into valuable products. The funding was led by current investors WGG Capital Canada and Florida’s Vestech Partners and brings Trendi’s accumulative seed round total […]
Home Reno Startup Swede Lands Investment from Sprout.vc to Accelerate Launch
Swede wants to disrupt the home renovation market by simplifying the way home renovations are planned and purchased. The BC-based startup looks to streamline otherwise complex relationships, such as those between interior designers, customers, manufacturers, and suppliers—in order to make the experience “as simple as ordering stylish furniture online.” “Work with one of our featured […]
WeCasa to Streamline Vacation Home Ownership for Canadians
A new startup has sprouted in Vancouver looking to fix what founder Mark Proudfoot calls “broken”: the current model for vacation home ownership. “The most desirable second homes sit empty most of the year and are financially out of reach for most people,” Proudfoot said in a statement about his latest venture, WeCasa. “Other options […]
Metriport, Using AI for Healthy Habits, Joins Y Combinator
Metriport is a platform for tracking everything for the sake of health and wellness. Developed in Vancouver by software engineers Dima Goncharov and Colin Elsinga, Metriport announced this week that they have been accepted into Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups. Quantify your life and track what matters to you, says Metriport: habits, health symptoms, […]
Fully Charged LIVE Canada Coming to Vancouver Next Year
The founder of Fully Charged is inspired by the fact that British Columbia is powered by 98% clean electricity, thanks to our utilization of natural resources like rivers and mountains. Popular YouTuber Robert Llewellyn from the UK announced this month that he is bringing his annual Fully Charged LIVE show to the Vancouver Convention Centre […]
UBC Researchers Receive Grant to Help Design ‘Healthy’ Metaverse
The term “Metaverse” has been a white-hot buzzword since Facebook transformed into Meta last year with ambitious promises of a whole new reality to immerse in. This new dimension currently in creation—a tangled combination of virtual and augmented realities woven into blockchain technology—represents chaos but also potential. To help convert chaotic potential into something tangible […]
VoltSafe Launches Equity Crowdfunding Campaign to Rethink Electrification
Vancouver tech startup VoltSafe is aiming to redefine how the world connects to electricity. VoltSafe has filed patents in over forty countries for the world’s first, prongless, high power, electrical connector technology that doesn’t incur power losses like competitors. The Canadian company says its “revolutionary design hasn’t been seen since electricity first came into homes […]
Freshly Public NFT Tech Taps Move-to-Earn Trend with Walken
NFT Technologies this week announced this week its participation in the Move-to-Earn project Walken. The Vancouver-based NFT startup will apply its crypto expertise to Walken, a move-to-earn mobile app that uses the movement detection capabilities of standard smartphones and wearable devices to capture the step counts of users, who are then rewarded with WLKN tokens for […]
Parvis Raises $2.6 Million Seed Round to Unlock Real Estate Through Blockchain
Parvis Invest announced that it has raised $2.6 million to launch a blockchain-based platform designed to modernize the investing process and unlock real estate opportunities. The Vancouver-based fintech startup raised the capital in a seed round led by Gravitas Securities. “Access to institutional real estate investment has long been an opportunity reserved for an elite […]