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 […]
Four Investments In BC Technology You Can Make Today
Angel investors make small investments in startups to help their business get off the ground and carry the company through its difficult early stages. Angel investments can be a great opportunity for some serious financial upside—or downside—which is why these investments are reserved for high net worth individuals that can afford to make a few […]
Victory Square Gets FDA Permission For Covid-19 Antibody Test
Vancouver’s Victory Square Health acquired Brazilian Covid19 test developers Safetest in June. Today Safetest was granted permission by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States to commence marketing, sales and distribution under the emergency use authorization (EUA) for its Safetest Covid-19 assay for detecting the virus causing Covid-19. Safetest Covid-19 IgG /IgM […]
HR Tech Group Launches Free Online Diversity & Inclusion Tool
Vancouver-headquartered HR Tech Group has launched a free online resource for Canada’s technology industry that provides access to more than 300 best-in-class Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) resources and tools. A 2017 research report by HR Tech Group, Diversity & Inclusion in the BC Tech Sector, found that Indigenous peoples account for less than 1% of […]
Plurilock Receives Funding For Passwordless Authentication Technology
Victoria’s Plurilock is receiving advisory services and $120,000 in funding from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) for a research and development project. The funding will support Plurilock’s passwordless authentication initiative, which is designed to enable users to log in to computing environments and systems without having to perform […]
Supercluster Delivers For Food-X’s eGrocery Management Solution
The Digital Technology Supercluster is providing Food-X Technologies with an additional $2.6 million to enhance its eGrocery Management Solution (eGMS) for retailers to scale safe food delivery. This new funding is ten times the initial amount raised for a feasibility study announced in April, allowing Food-X to continue leading the collaboration of prominent companies, including […]
LlamaZOO Signs Historic Deal With First Nation For Territory Mapping
Victoria’s LlamaZOO, a leader in data visualization tools in the mining, oil and gas, and forestry industries, has signed a partnership with Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation that will enable them to become the first-ever First Nation in Canada to use digital twinning software technology for improving land management and stewardship. Leveraging LlamaZOO’s TimberOps software, Mowachaht/Muchalaht will […]