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 […]
New Ventures BC Announces Top 10 for 2019
New Ventures BC has announced the Top 10 companies of this year’s startup competition. The New Ventures BC Competition started in 2000 under the direction of Wal van Lierop, to encourage innovation in BC’s tech sector. Since then, the organization has supported 2,360 startups, who have created 3,720+ jobs and have raised $302 million in […]
TechCrunch Names AVA a Top Pick for Disrupt 2019 Conference
TechCrunch’s Disrupt is the original tech startup conference. An authority on game-changing technologies and revolutionary innovation, Disrupt is still the conference that startups dream of being discovered at. When TechCrunch issued the call for applications to their TC Top Picks program for this year’s Disrupt San Francisco 2019, the response was overwhelming and the competition […]
PDFTron Secures $95 Million Round Led By Silversmith
Vancouver’s PDFTron Systems has secured a $95 million investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm. PDFTron’s software development kit (SDK) is used by hundreds of enterprise customers around the world to enable digital transformation initiatives by providing a comprehensive document processing, conversion, and collaboration platform. This investment comes as the company […]
Cybersecurity Startup Cmd Raises US $15 Million from Google Ventures
Vancouver cybersecurity startup Cmd announced today the close of a US$15-million Series B funding round led by GV. Formerly known as Google Ventures, GV is the venture capital arm of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. The funding round also included participation from Amplify Partners and Expa. Cmd allows organizations to proactively secure their Linux environment by providing […]