Vancouver’s FoodX Technologies has landed a strategic partnership with French multi-national retailer Carrefour Group to boost the efficiency of the company’s e-commerce operations. The Carrefour Group is one of the world’s leading food retailers with a network of more than 12,000 stores in more than 30 countries. FoodX is a scalable end-to-end software solution for online […]
Shopify First To Tap Carbon Engineering’s CO2 Capture Technology
Today Shopify announced a planned commitment for carbon dioxide to be permanently removed from the atmosphere on Shopify’s behalf using technology from Squamish, B.C. Carbon Engineering‘s groundbreaking Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology can be used to create large-scale carbon removal from the atmosphere. Shopify is the first organization to plan to purchase permanent carbon dioxide removal […]
Vancouver’s Fitness App Trainerize Acquired by ABC Financial
Vancouver-born fitness app Trainerize has been acquired by ABC Financial. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Trainerize is a client engagement mobile app and software that allows fitness coaches and fitness businesses to expand their reach beyond their physical spaces, better connect with members, and digitize the training experience. ABC Financial is owned by […]
Klue Raises $15 Million From David Sacks’ Craft Ventures
Vancouver startup Klue has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Silicon Valley’s Craft Ventures. Klue helps companies collect and curate hard to find competitive intelligence, combining the best of what the web knows about your competition with the best of what your employees know into a single repository. This combined source […]
Brüush Raises $6.5 Million For Electric Toothbrush Subscription Biz
Vancouver’s Bruush Oral Care has raised a $6.5 million Series A financing round for their modern-day electric toothbrush. Launched in 2019, Brüush sells premium electric toothbrushes that have a luxury look and feel to consumers in North America. The company’s direct-to-consumer, subscription-based business model provides an easy brush head refill plan, ensuring consumers are able […]
Vancouver’s Mobify Acquired by Salesforce
Mobify CEO Igor Faletski announced today that Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mobify in what he calls “a natural extension of our multi-year partnership”. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Mobify has been a member of Salesforce’s beta program for their new Commerce APIs and launched a Headless Commerce Accelerated program […]
Zennea Among Google’s Inaugural Women Founders Accelerator Cohort
Five Canadian startups are among the 12 chosen to participate in Google for Startups Accelerator for Women Founders inaugural cohort. The Women Founders accelerator is open to tech startups in the seed to Series A stages, with headquarters in Canada or the U.S. The program is designed for companies with women founders, or members of […]
WELL Health Raises $23 Million And Goes Shopping In Silicon Valley
WELL Health Technologies has invested $18.2 million in Circle Medical, giving them majority control of the Silicon Valley healthcare startup. In tandem to this Circle Medical announcement, WELL announced that it has received an additional $23 million investment from Li ka-Shing, a previous WELL investor and major investor in Zoom, Spotify, and Impossible Foods. With […]
Vancouver Startup Fable Home To Participate In Techstars Demo Day
Techstars Toronto is Techstars’ first Canadian accelerator program and is a joint partnership with Real Ventures, the most active seed fund in Canada. On September 3rd the accelerator will be showcasing their 2020 cohort of rising startups with a a Virtual Demo Day. The event will feature their most diverse class of founders to date, […]
New Ventures BC Announces Top 10 for 2020 Competition
New Ventures BC has announced the Top 10 companies of this year’s startup competition. The New Ventures BC Competition started in 2000 under the direction of Wal van Lierop, to encourage innovation in BC’s tech sector. Since then, the organization has supported 2,360 startups, who have created 3,720+ jobs and have raised $302 million in […]