Peter-Paul Van Hoeken is the CEO of FrontFundr, a Canadian crowdfunding platform. When he moved from the Netherlands to Vancouver in 2010, he worked closely with startups to help them raise capital–this is where he noticed a gap in the Canadian market. An opportunity to enable everyday Canadians to invest in the private market. Peter-Paul […]
B.C. Minor Hockey Platform HiSports Acquired By Montreal’s Spordle
Vancouver-born HiSports Ventures has been acquired by Montreal’s Spordle, a national leader in sports technology. Minor hockey team managers across the province will recognize the HiSports brand as it is the official and exclusive league and tournament management platform of all minor hockey in B.C. Founded in 2015, HiSports started with the simple idea that […]
Olive Raises $3 Million Seed Round And Opens Office In Chicago
Vancouver’s Olive has raised a $3 million seed round led by Chicago Ventures and has set up shop in the Windy City. Co-founded by Dan Harrison and Chris Heard in 2018, the Techstars 2020 alum transforms the buying process by moving customers away from archaic RFP/RFI processes to a fully agile evaluation. This leads to […]
Floorspace is Vancouver’s Digital-first Commercial Real Estate Brokerage
If you’ve been working in the Vancouver tech ecosystem over the past 5-10 years, you’ve likely connected with Matt Carlson. Matt is the most tech-savvy commercial real estate professional in Vancouver. But that really shouldn’t come as a surprise. I met Matt in 2006 when he enthusiastically pitched me to cover his tech startup on […]
Silicon Valley Unicorn Rebrands As Motive & They’re Hiring In Vancouver
Fleet management software company KeepTruckin is reinventing itself as an ‘Internet of Things’ automation company and rebranding itself as Motive to better reflect the fact it’s no longer focused solely on the trucking industry. Established in 2013, Motive has modernized the trucking industry with its fleet management platform, which brings trucks online to change the […]
Trulioo Appoints Identity Industry Expert Dawn Crew as First Chief Marketing Officer
Vancouver’s Trulioo today announced the appointment of Dawn Crew as the company’s first Chief Marketing Officer. Crew joins the leading global identity verification company with 25 years of experience in defining and leading global marketing strategies for technology companies in the identity verification, authentication and human resources industries. Most recently Crew served as Senior Vice […]
SoleSavy Introduces the SS4, Their First Original Physical and Digital Sneaker
This week marks a big milestone for Vancouver’s SoleSavy. SoleSavy is a fast-growing sneaker startup that gives its members access to highly sought after sneakers at retail prices. The startup recently raised $12.5 million in a Series A round led by Bedrock capital with participation from investors such as Dapper Labs’ CEO Roham Gharegozlou, Shopify’s Harley […]
Peter Jackson’s Award-winning VFX House Wētā FX To Open Vancouver Studio
New Zealand’s Wētā FX, one of the world’s premiere visual effects studios, announced today that they will be opening a Vancouver office as part of the next phase of the company’s growth following the $1.6 billion technology deal with Unity late last year. The Vancouver location will initially house 75 artists with a vision to expand […]
Article Sees More Than 45% YoY Revenue Growth, Expands Logistics Network
At the beginning of the pandemic, furniture retail boomed as professionals shifted to work-from-home and ordering furniture online became more mainstream, but some companies haven’t been able to keep up with the demand in the long-run. Vancouver-born Article was not one of those companies thanks to warehouses across North America, an office in Vietnam to […]
Victoria’s Cognito Health Raises $1.1 Million For Better Mental Healthcare
Victoria’s Cognito Health has closed a $1.1 million pre-seed round led by Garage Capital. Investors also included in the funding round were Rasool Rayani, Andrew Wilkinson (Tiny), Jason Warner (Former CTO Git-Hub & Heroku), Scott Lake (co-founder Shopify), Tobyn Sowden (CEO and founder, Redbrick), and Rob Fraser (CEO and founder, endūr). Co-founded by Jason Cridge […]