Vancouver’s Trulioo has been named to not one but two impressive lists today. The identity verification company was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers” and its GlobalGateway platform was named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 List. The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers are growth-stage companies that are involved in the design, […]
Terramera Leads Collaborative Effort to Predict New COVID-19 Virus Strains
Few would expect the science behind stopping the next wave of COVID-19 to come from an AgTech company on a mission to reduce global pesticide loads but Terramera’s computational chemistry, machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) innovations are being called upon for just that purpose. Today, Vancouver’s Terramera announced its participation in a collaborative project […]
Clearly Payments Wants To Be The Friendliest Payment Processor On Earth
Canada has a new player in the payments space and they want to be “the friendliest payment processor on Earth”. Not a bad goal for an industry that is rife with hidden fees and small print. Vancouver’s Clearly Payments is on a mission to drive down the cost of accepting payments and are committed to […]
Victoria Fintech Startup DivDot Raises Oversubscribed Pre-Seed Round
Victoria fintech startup DivDot has raised $500,000 in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round co-led by Sprout Fund, WUTIF Capital, E-Fund, Hello Ventures and local angels. DivDot is a payment processing provider that enables businesses to securely send and receive no-limit payments for a flat fee. With DivDot, companies can collect payment from customers, pay suppliers, […]
Five B.C. Companies That Have Adapted & Thrived During COVID-19
COVID-19 is forcing companies to adapt quickly to change and redesign their products or services or even create new ones to respond to our new reality. Fortunately this has brought the best out of Vancouver’s tech community. Companies have no choice but to adapt as quickly as they can during the Coronavirus pandemic. While some […]
Turo To Roll Out Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing in B.C.
With the exit of Car2Go from the Vancouver car sharing market, Turo’s timing couldn’t be much better. B.C. will soon welcome a global leader of the car sharing industry. Turo, the world’s largest peer-to-peer car sharing platform, has secured the required insurance coverage from ICBC it needs to operate in the province. Turo allows private […]
CTO.ai Launches SlackOps For Remote Development Teams
CTO.ai‘s mission is to make DevOps accessible to the next 40 million developers. And what better place then where collaboration and communication happens. With the future of work accelerating towards remote, the Vancouver startup has launched The Ops Platform in the Slack App Directory so anyone can easily automate a DevOps workflow. As the first […]
Beatdapp To Transform Streaming Music Royalty Payouts in India & Japan
Streaming music services’ share of total music revenues is bigger than ever. According to a report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, global music sales grew for the fifth consecutive year to $20.2 billion in 2019 with streaming accounting for more than half of all label revenue for the first time. Highlighting record […]
Shopify’s ‘Digital By Default’ Declaration Turns Vancouver Office Into Recruitment Hub
Earlier this year Shopify announced that they were making a significant investment in Vancouver, with plans to hire 1,000 employees and open their first permanent office. It was big news for Vancouver. For the six years leading up to 2020, Shopify had been growing their presence in B.C. by supporting hundreds of employees who work […]
Victoria’s LlamaZOO Selected For New Lab’s Prospect Mining Studio
Last year Indian mining conglomerate, the Vimson Group, and New York City innovation hub, New Lab partnered to create Prospect Mining Studio, a venture studio program to address the biggest challenges facing the mining sector. Prospect Mining Studio’s focus is on enhancing sustainability and closed-loop production, environmental sensing, worker performance and safety, mineral extraction and […]