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 […]
Merchant Growth Launches E-commerce Financing During COVID-19
According to Adobe Digital Insights, digital commerce jumped 49% in April and e-commerce companies experienced Black-Friday-like sales boosts as the COVID-19 pandemic drove traditionally offline economic activity online. To take advantage of this unprecedented rise in e-commerce, Vancouver’s Merchant Growth has launched an e-commerce financing platform to help support Canadian businesses. The fintech startup expedited […]
Ziva Dynamics Raises $7 Million To Bring Lifelike Characters To Major Game Titles
Vancouver’s Ziva Dynamics has raised a $7 million seed round led by Grishin Robotics, Toyota AI Ventures and Millennium Technology Value Partners’ New Horizons Fund. Ziva Dynamics is a virtual character software company that is changing the character creation process by bringing physics-embedded soft tissue simulation to the forefront of the media and entertainment industry. With […]
Meal Kit Delivery Service Fresh Prep Has Now Raised Over $10 Million
Vancouver meal kit delivery service Fresh Prep has raised a $7 million Series A round led by Renewal Funds. Fresh Prep raised $3.3 million from First West Capital in 2018 and has now raised over $10 million. Genevieve Pinto, a partner at Renewal Funds, has joined Fresh Prep’s board of directors. Fresh Prep was started […]
Finger Food Advanced Technology Acquired by Unity
San Francisco’s Unity Technologies, the world’s leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content, has acquired Port Coquitlam’s Finger Food Advanced Technology Group. The acquisition price was undisclosed. Founded in 2009, Finger Food uses artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality and robotics to solve complex business problems for some of the world’s […]
FansUnite Raises Millions, Acquires UK Betting Service, And Lists on CSE
Victory Square Technologies portfolio company FansUnite had a big day yesterday. The online sports betting startup completed a $3+ million non-brokered private placement, acquired U.K. betting service McBookie, and listed on the CSE under trading symbol FANS. Under the terms of the financing, FansUnite issued almost 9 million common shares at $0.35 cents. FansUnite paid […]
Canadian Tim Bray Quits Amazon, Cities Firing Of Activist Employees
Vancouver’s Tim Bray, a Vice President and distinguished engineer at Amazon Web Services has quit, citing the company’s firing of employees he said voiced concerns over work conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In a blog post on his personal website, Bray, who has worked at the company since 2014, denounced the firings and said the […]