Rivian will be opening its first Rivian Space showroom later this month at The Amazing Brentwood in Burnaby. In addition to having an R1 on display and demo drive availability, the Burnaby location will be a first to use augmented reality to provide customers with a look at any configurations they choose digitally. Rivian will […]
German Giant Bosch To Acquire Vancouver’s Paladin Technologies
German engineering giant Bosch has announced plans to acquire Vancouver’s Paladin Technologies. Paladin Technologies, part of the Paladin Group of Companies founded in 1976 in Vancouver, is a leading provider of security and life safety solutions and system integration services. Paladin Technologies employs around 1,500 associates across 35 locations in Canada and the US with […]
Mastercard Goes Beyond The Card To The Blockchain
Mastercard has helped create trusted global standards in traditional card-based payments that have stood the test of time and today support billions of transactions per year. The global tech leader continued to put its payments mastery on display at their new tech hub in New York City for its North America Innovation Day last month. […]
Technology Helps Unlock Indigenous Learning in B.C. Classrooms
Many Vancouver classrooms have implemented required Indigenous-focused coursework in the upcoming school year for students, especially those pursuing a B.C. Certificate of Graduation. For teachers, this means ensuring that education is authentic and accurate to reflect the lived experience of Indigenous Canadian history. One way that educators across the region are doing that is through […]
TIMIA Capital to Deploy USD $100 Million with New Joint Venture Fund
Vancouver’s Montfort Capital is deploying $100 million of funding through a new joint venture with Arena Investors, a USD $3.5 billion institutional investment manager. Arena is a global investment firm that provides creative and flexible capital solutions for special situations. The joint venture combines Arena’s extensive capital base and history of growth-oriented specialty finance with […]
Canadians’ Lack of Understanding of the Tech Sector Threatens its Future
As Toronto opens its doors this week to the international tech community for the Collision Conference, Canada takes centre stage in a global conversation on the future of technology. Big societal topics and trends, including AI, sustainability, and life sciences are being pushed to the forefront by renowned speakers like Geoffrey Hinton, known as the […]
Four BC Startups Will Be Pitching Onstage At Collision 2023
2,000+ startups will be exhibiting at this week’s Collision Conference but only 70 have been selected to PITCH onstage live. PITCH is Collision’s startup competition that brings together the world’s leading early-stage startups to battle it out onstage. Among the 70 lucky startups to get stage time in Toronto is four that call British Columbia […]
Upskilling for a Fast-Track to Success in Tech in BC
Embracing the next wave of tech innovation in British Columbia It’s clear that BC’s tech industry is booming—bouncing back from the slowdown that followed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, with over 11,000 tech companies employing more than 250,000 British Columbians. Not only are tech professionals across the province feeling confident about moving up […]
BC’s Technology Ecosystems Network Builders Establish Alliance
BC’s leading technology ecosystems builders announced today that they are establishing an alliance of not-for-profit innovation hubs, known as BC’s Technology Ecosystems Network (BCTEN). The goal of this alliance is to leverage their diverse and dynamic regional ecosystems into one powerful network that supports transformative company building across British Columbia. Following years of collaboration on […]
Svante Recognized as a Top Carbon Capture Provider on the XB100 List
Svante has been recognized on the XB100, a notable ranking of the world’s top 100 private deep tech companies published by XPRIZE and Bessemer Venture Partners. Svante has been headquartered in Burnaby since 2007 and has made sizeable advancements in the global carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) space since then. The company manufactures nanoengineered filters […]