Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Victoria’s MakeShift. MakeShift is a web and mobile solution that streamlines team scheduling for managers. With MakeShift, you can drastically reduce the time and effort required to schedule and communicate with your staff while also empowering […]
SOTW 020: UVX
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting B.C.’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s UVX. The negative socio-economic effects of pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, H1N1, E-Coli, Salmonella, and more are undeniable. Yet traditional chemical disinfectants and UV solutions fail to effectively and efficiently mitigate these issues. Recognizing the shortcomings […]
SOTW 019: Arya EHR
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Arya EHR. Today’s Healthcare Industry is complex, multifaceted and ever changing. Yet prevalent methods of tracking client medical records offer an outdated, expensive and “one size fits all” process which often fails to meet the […]
SOTW 018: aDolus
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Victoria’s aDolus. What the world wants now is peace of mind. Given the growth of ever more cunning cyber attacks, that’s a tall order. But aDolus has found a robust solution to deliver on it. Specifically, […]
SOTW 017: Foraged
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Foraged. It happens that a startup can change the way we look at the world. That’s what Foraged is doing. It is proving that fungi are not just for eating, but instead have extraordinary and […]
SOTW 015: Locelle
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting B.C.’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Victoria’s Locelle. If you work in tech, you can’t fail to notice the gender imbalance in your sector. Women account for only 25% of the industry. Victoria-based Locelle was created to help level the playing field […]
SOTW 014: Flash Forest
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Flash Forest. What’s your higher purpose? That’s the multi-million dollar question for any startup. For Flash Forest, the answer comes easy. The planet loses 13 billion trees per year and regains less than half of that. […]
SOTW 010: MazumaGo
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column by Switchboard Public Relations highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Victoria’s MazumaGo. The story of just about every company begins with someone casually asking a question. For the fintech startup MazumaGo, the question was simple and to the point: Why is it […]
SOTW 011: Omnisearch
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Omnisearch. A pain point can spark the best ideas. That was the case for Omnisearch. This company arose out of its co-founder’s frustration with the time-consuming nit-picking task of searching for an exact minute within […]
SOTW 010: ThyForLife
Welcome to Startup of the Week, a column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s ThyForLife. With World Thyroid Day coming up on May 25th, it’s the perfect time to highlight ThyForLife—an award winning mobile thyroid health tracking app. Over 400 million people around the world have thyroid conditions but […]