There’s a traditional model of employee expenses, and it looks something like this: employees are asked to spend money on their personal or corporate cards, file expense reports, and then wait for reimbursement. Rob Khazzam knew there must be a better way. That’s why he, along with Griffin Keglevich and Ruslan Nikolaev, founded Float Financial […]
Vancouver To Be Home To World’s Tallest Passive House Building
Canadian developer Brivia Group has selected downtown Vancouver as the location of its newest and most sustainable project yet. CURV, a 60-storey residential development between Burrard and Thurlow Streets, will be the world’s tallest passive house building – a modern, low carbon and energy efficient building that contributes to a healthier planet, mirroring the environmental ethos of […]
Pocketed Wins Odlum Brown Forum Pitch Finale and $25,000 Prize
Brianna Blaney and Aria Hahn, co-founders of Pocketed, were this year’s winners of The Odlum Brown Forum Pitch Finale and prize of $25,000 to support their business vision and growth. The rapidly growing Vancouver startup has created an intelligent matching platform and marketplace to connect businesses to billions of dollars in grants and tax credits. Late last […]
Vancouver’s Later Acquired by Boston’s Mavrck
Boston’s Mavrck has acquired Vancouver’s Later, a visual marketing platform that allows businesses to manage their Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, TikTok, and LinkedIn accounts, from end to end. Mavrck is a leading influencer marketing platform for enterprise consumer brands. Originally named Latergramme and rebranded as Later.com, the Vancouver startup was the first Instagram scheduling tool. Later […]
Q+A with CEO of FrontFundr, Canada’s Leading Equity Crowdfunding Platform
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 […]