Vancouver’s Dapper Labs today announced $11 million in funding and the development of Flow, a new blockchain built to enable decentralized applications at scale. Dapper Labs is the creator of uber-successful CryptoKitties and upcoming projects such as NBA Top Shot. CryptoKitties is a blockchain game on Ethereum developed by venture studio Axiom Zen that allows players to purchase, […]
PayByPhone Sends Over 2 Million Text Messages Per Month
If you’ve parked a car in Vancouver, you’ve heard of PayByPhone. 50% of Metro Vancouver households are taking advantage of the PayByPhone app’s smart features including the ability to pay for parking remotely, receive parking reminders and extend a parking session at any time. Finding a good parking spot is difficult enough without worrying about […]
Forbes Names Traction Guest a Rising Star in the Cloud 100 List
Vancouver’s Traction Guest has been named one of 20 Rising Stars as part of the Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 list of the 100 top private cloud companies in the world. Habitually dominated by Silicon Valley companies, this year’s Rising Stars list includes two Canadian companies, Traction Guest and Mississauga’s PointClickCare. Traction Guest is a cloud-based visitor […]
Are You A Thought Leader?
Thought leadership is a great way to establish yourself as an expert or leader in your field. Techcouver is on the look out for thought leaders who would like to contribute great content to our growing library. Whether it be analyzing the trajectories of home-grown startups like Steve Lowry did with What’s your Business Type: Clio […]
Baseball Legend Invests in Vancouver Startup
Vancouver’s Fitplan, a personal training app that connects its members to world-class trainers for their workout plans and, is teaming up with a group of prominent investors: baseball great Alex Rodriguez, VC fund Corazon Capital, and fitness mogul Mark Mastrov. The USD $4.5 million funding round was co-led by Corazon Capital, a VC fund that […]
London Drugs Successfully Tests Drone Delivery of Emergency Medications
Maybe drone deliveries aren’t that far off? Last month Canada Post, in partnership with London Drugs and InDro Robotics, successfully completed Canada’s first-ever Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) flight carrying pharmaceuticals via drone from a London Drugs pharmacy to Salt Spring Island. Canada Post was selected along with InDro Robotics to participate in Transport Canada’s BVLOS […]
Clio Raises $333 Million in Largest Growth-Stage Transaction in Canadian History
Burnaby’s Clio announced today that they have raised USD $250 million in the largest growth-stage transaction in Canada’s history. The Series D round, led by US growth-equity firms TCV and JMI Equity illustrates their confidence that Clio will lead the legal tech market and that the legal tech industry is the next industry to watch. […]
Picovoice’s Speech Recognition Brings Cloud-level Accuracy to Edge Devices
Vancouver AI startup Picovoice announced today that they have developed the world’s first real-time speech recognition engine that can run offline anywhere. Voice user interfaces like Amazon Transcribe make it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capability to their applications thanks to cloud-based Speech recognition services. Despite the ubiquity of speech-enabled devices, processing speech in […]
BrainStation Launches Income Sharing Agreements in Vancouver
Just in time for their fall cohort, BrainStation has added income sharing agreements to its payment and financing plan options in Vancouver, allowing students to defer payment until they are employed and earning a minimum level of income. Capitalizing on the income share trend in the digital skills training space, BrainStation is the first educational […]
Work for a Silicon Valley Startup Without Leaving Vancouver
San Francisco startup Terminal builds and scales elite, remote engineering teams to accelerate the growth of technology companies around the world. And by remote, we mean in Canada. Terminal has identified Waterloo, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver as emerging tech hubs that provide the most value in the engineering field. By partnering technology companies with engineering […]