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 […]
Why This Flourishing Startup is Staying—and Hiring—in Vancouver
You don’t have a clue how your competitor is doing so well. With Klue, you just might. Since emerging from stealth two years ago, Klue employs what it calls “competitive enablement” to help enterprises boost sales—by finding out what is and isn’t working for your competitors. If the capitalist market is competitive—and who could argue […]
BBTV’s Shahrzad Rafati Named Business Woman of the Year
BroadbandTV Founder Shahrzad Rafati has been named CanadianSME Magazine’s Business Woman of the Year in recognition of her success in the media and technology industry. Vancouver-headquartered BBTV is an enabling platform for content owners that is advancing the world through the creation, distribution, management and monetization of content. European entertainment conglomerate RTL Group acquired 51% […]
Silicon Valley’s OmniSci Taps Vancouver for Local Tech Talent
When you’ve been a roll like OmniSci, you celebrate by creating your own annual conference. The rapidly growing analytics company had a bustling 2019: Expanding into new regions, upgrading their headquarters in San Francisco, and reaching a milestone of 5,000 enterprise, community and cloud users. OmniSci recapped its progress—and pointed toward its future—at Converge, an inaugural […]