Promising to empower the next wave of startups, the 6th Annual Gravitas Securities Growth Conference takes place on Thursday, March 2nd at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel. This year’s event will welcome an extensive audience that includes venture capital, family office, and institutional investors, as well as investment bankers from across Canada and abroad. For […]
Vancouver’s No Story Lost Takes Home Top Prize At Tiny Summit
Tiny Summit is an opportunity for a select group of entrepreneurial University of Victoria Gustavson School of Business alumni to compete for up to $24,000 in funding prize money. Sponsored by Victoria’s Tiny, the summit’s competition is for startups five years and younger that are looking to scale their business and reach their next milestone. […]
Levr.ai Lands $1 Million To Change The Way Businesses Access And Manage Loans
Vancouver fintech startup Levr.ai has secured $1 million to transform the way businesses access and manage loans. Co-founded by Kaylan Pepin and Roman Hartmann, Levr.ai makes the process of finding, applying for, and managing business loans easy. Levr.ai uses accounting and banking APIs to accelerate the process of looking for a loan, applying for a loan, […]
GM Invests $650 Million in Vancouver’s Lithium Americas
General Motors will become the biggest shareholder of Lithium Americas in a deal that’s expected to speed up production of the key electric-vehicle battery metal in Nevada. The auto manufacturer and Vancouver-headquartered lithium miner announced that they will jointly invest to develop the Thacker Pass mine in Nevada, which is the largest known source of lithium in […]
Trulioo Launches New Global Identity Verification Platform
The surge in online shopping, mobile payments and digital currencies in recent years presents opportunities for innovation and growth. But it also poses challenges for businesses to mitigate fraud and meet evolving regulations such as Know Your Customer, Know Your Business and Anti-Money Laundering requirements around the world. Vancouver’s Trulioo has launched a new global […]
AI Translation Tool Being Leveraged by Vancouver’s IR Labs for Capital Markets
Artificial intelligence tools are beginning to make their mark in many industries and work spaces, including in the field of investor relations. Vancouver-based IR Labs has partnered with Alexa Translations to leverage AI translation tools for their capital markets activity on behalf of clients. IR Labs is a tech-savvy investor relations agency founded in 2021 by Caroline Sawamoto and […]
Clio Announces International Expansion to APAC Region, Starting with Australia
A Vancouver-born unicorn is going down under. The developer of the world’s first comprehensive legal operating system has announced plans to expand the company’s footprint in Australia. Clio is rapidly growing its Australian team to support and expand product development, sales, partnerships, and customer success as Clio’s product offerings evolve to suit the specific needs of […]
Traction on Demand Spin-off Raises $6.7 Million for RevOps Apps
Port Moody’s Traction Complete has secured a $6.7 million growth financing round led by Vancouver’s Pender Ventures and San-Francisco-based Thomvest Ventures. A spin-out from Salesforce-acquired Traction on Demand and founded by Greg Malpass, Traction Complete is a leader in revenue operations apps native to Salesforce. The company has enabled high-growth organizations like DocuSign and the […]
Hootsuite Appoints New CEO, Lays Off 70 More Staff
Hootsuite has conducted its third round of layoffs in about six months, laying off 70 more staff today. According to The Logic, the layoffs affect about seven per cent of its staff. Last year Hootsuite laid off five per cent of its workforce in November and 30 per cent in August as tech firms looked to extend their […]
Seattle Unicorn Highspot Expands Global Footprint With Vancouver Office
Seattle unicorn Highspot announced today that they’re expanding into Vancouver with their fifth international office. Highspot is a sales enablement platform that increases sales team productivity. The company raised a $248 million Series F last year and has since been recognized across leading industry awards such as Forbes’s Cloud 100, Forbes’s America’s Best Startup Employers, […]