Henrique Dubugras, 24, and Pedro Franceschi, 23, founded a startup in 2018 after dropping out of Stanford University. Today, Brex is valued at more than $2 billion. The Silicon Valley superstar’s primary offering is what it describes as “the smartest corporate card in the room”—a credit card built by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, in essence. The […]
Vancouver Musician Launches Startup with Side Door to SXSW Campaign
Dan Mangan is a Vancouver-based singer-songwriter with two Juno Awards to his name and he’s in the process of adding a startup as well. Mangan’s rise in the music ranks was not overnight. It was slow and hard and he’s no stranger to the tiny venues that struggling musicians are resigned to play until they […]
North American Engineers Weigh In On The State Of The Tech Industry
Terminal announced the results of their their inaugural Engineer 2020: Solving The Tech Talent Shortage Report today. Terminal builds world-class remote engineering teams for high growth tech companies and has locations across Canada including Vancouver. The research, commissioned by Terminal, aims to benchmark and offer insights into the market outlook of engineers in Canada and […]
Vancouver’s AbCellera Is Racing To Fight Coronavirus
One month after 2019-nCoV coronavirus was first reported from Wuhan, China the world seems to be bracing itself for what could be the next great pandemic. There are plenty of misconceptions about coronavirus, including how quickly it spreads, and how lethal it is. Whether this coronavirus turns out to be a one-time killer like the […]
Rhino Ventures Doubles Down On Fatigue Science
Vancouver’s Fatigue Science has closed a Series A financing round. The financing amount was undisclosed but made up of a syndicate of new and existing investors including Vancouver’s Rhino Ventures, the company’s first venture capital investor. Fatigue Science is a leader in providing predictive human performance data around sleep in elite sports, military and heavy […]
Rivian Has An Office In Vancouver And Is Hiring
With the recent stock-price surge, Tesla has become one of the most valuable and talked about companies in the United States. With a market capitalization topping $140 billion, Tesla has now become larger than U.S. Big 3 automakers General Motors ($50 billion), Ford ($36 billion), and Fiat Chrysler ($26 billion) combined. Tesla has busted open […]
Rad Power Bikes Raises $25 Million to Grow Direct-to-Consumer eBike Business
Seattle’s Rad Power Bikes has closed $25 million in funding led by Vulcan Capital. Rad Power Bikes is the largest direct-to-consumer electric bike brand in North America with more than 100,000 owners across 30 countries and a full lineup of ebikes for both personal and commercial use. Founded in 2007, the company has 200 employees spread […]
Vancouver’s Olive Selected for Techstars Seattle Class of 2020
Making decisions on enterprise technology can be stressful and complicated. Fitting a new solution into your business is even more complex. The risk of choosing the wrong solution necessitates deep analysis, both of the available options AND of your business. This is what Olive is purpose built to solve. The Vancouver startup provides you with […]
GeekWire 200 Index Update Reveals B.C. Is On The Rise
Our favorite tech publication south of the border has updated their monthly GeekWire 200 rankings and B.C. is on the rise. The GeekWire 200 is derived from the Seattle publication’s database of Pacific Northwest tech startups, including Washington, Oregon and Idaho, and British Columbia. The rankings are generated from publicly available data, including social media […]
Vancouver’s Clearly Puts a Fitting Room in Your Phone
Clearly is well-established as a direct-to-consumer brand in the optical space. But the Vancouver-born company is clearly more than just a retailer, as their latest technological development shows. Ordering glasses online, even from an award-winning site like Clearly’s, presents certain risks. That’s because for some reason, even when glasses look cool, it rarely translates to them looking […]