In the wake of Amazon’s recent move to trademark “Amazon Pharmacy” in Canada, Vancouver digital pharmacy PocketPills is holding its ground, today announcing it has raised a $7.35 million in Series A funding round. The round was led by a large Canadian family office and Waterbridge Ventures and caps a year of 325% growth for […]
#BCTECHSummit Announces First Round of Speakers
Innovate BC announced today that Janet Bannister, the newly appointed Managing Partner of Real Ventures, is the first keynote speaker for the 2020 #BCTECHSummit. Bannister is one of the most high-profile and successful venture capitalists in Canada. A leading thinker on innovation, Bannister has seen and managed stunning shifts in business and tech. She was […]
Explore Your Career Options With Amazon And More
Exploring your career options in Vancouver? We’ve got the event for you! Produced in partnership with Techcouver, the Tech Talent Vancouver Job Fair is a unique recruiting event that connects Vancouver’s fastest growing companies with the top tech talent in the city. Throughout the evening, hiring company execs pitch a crowd of potential employees on […]
Attention Vancouver Software Developers: Amazon is hiring 862 of you
Vancouverites are well aware of Amazon’s plans for our city. The e-commerce giant has signed a deal to occupy the largest parcel of office space in the city’s core, taking up the full city block where the old Vancouver Post Office stood. To fill that space Amazon needs to hire like crazy. Amazon currently has […]
Wenco Emphasizes ‘Work Hard, Play Harder’ Culture
Life is far too short to spend five days per week doing a job you don’t even enjoy. This wisdom hails from Neil Khare, a marketing communications manager for Wenco, a company which utilizes cutting-edge technology to develop solutions for the mining industry. Wenco hired Neil at a Tech Talent Vancouver Job Fair last year, […]
Vancouver Company Hiring to Defend World from Threats like Coronavirus
The time between the coronavirus outbreak capturing our attention and AbCellera working on a solution was impressively short. AbCellera, a biotechnology startup based in Vancouver, discovers and develops next-generation therapeutic antibodies through partnerships with organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Together with the latter, the […]
Local Acquisition Sees Eventbrite Blossom in Vancouver
You don’t have to be a concert junkie or hustling networker to have heard of Eventbrite—the global ticketing and event technology platform provides creators of events with tools and resources to plan, promote, and produce live experiences. Their app is probably already on your phone from a past event. In the summer of 2018, the San […]
Following Meteoric Rise, Brex Looks North for Talent
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 […]