Canexia Health has raised a new financing round from PacBridge Capital Partners to support the company’s long-term global growth and accelerate its roadmap to make cancer testing for treatment selection and monitoring accessible to all cancer patients. The amount of the funding round was not disclosed. Formerly known as Contextual Genomics, Canexia makes high-quality cancer […]
Darwin Labs & Clevest Launch Platform To Help Utilities Battle COVID-19
Public Utilities around North America are under increasing pressure to meet their provinces’ and states’ “back to work” safety advisories and requirements amid Covid-19. Most employ a diverse workforce comprising remote, facilities-based, and field workers that have a high degree of interaction with members of the community, so protecting their health is not only critical […]
Beanworks and SkyHive Named To Canadian Innovation Exchange’s Top 20
The Canadian Innovation Exchange has announced the CIX TOP 20 Early and CIX TOP 10 Growth innovative Canadian technology startups for their 2020 program. The selected companies represent a diverse range of technology companies spanning software, AI, medtech, fintech, big data, security, SaaS and cleantech sectors. CIX has two curation programs – the CIX TOP […]
Vancouver’s SeaHawk Robotics Shortlisted For Ocean Startup Challenge
The Ocean Startup Challenge is a competition designed to support innovators who are developing technologies that can be applied to large ocean challenges. The Challenge is led by the Ocean Startup Project, the first Innovation Ecosystem Project announced by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster. The Ocean Startup Project is a pan-Atlantic collaboration to create and grow high-quality […]
Victory Square Health Receives European Union Approval for COVID-19 Antibody Test
Vancouver’s Victory Square Health has been granted approval in the European Union to commence marketing, sales and distribution for its Safetest ELISA Covid-19 antibody test. Victory Square Health acquired Brazilian Covid19 test developers Safetest in June. The European Union approval comes on the heels of Safetest being granted permission by the Food & Drug Administration […]
Tesla Looks North To B.C. For Source Of Low Carbon Nickel
According to Reuters, Tesla is in discussions with B.C.’s Giga Metals about helping to develop a large mine that would give the electric carmaker access to low carbon nickel for its batteries. Giga Metals is focused on the metals critical to modern batteries with their Turnagain Project, a massive nickel and cobalt resource in Northern […]
Amazon To Host 2020 Career Day on Sept 16th
Amazon is hosting its 2020 Career Day on Wednesday, September 16th and for the first time the event is open to Canadian job seekers. As a part of the North America-wide virtual event, Amazon will give participants the opportunity to learn more about the nearly 800 corporate and tech jobs currently available in Canada, with additional hourly positions in […]
Victory Square Health Receives Brazil’s Approval for COVID-19 Antibody Test
Vancouver’s Victory Square Health has been granted approval by the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency to commence marketing, sales and distribution for its Safetest ELISA Covid-19 antibody test. Victory Square Health acquired Brazilian Covid19 test developers Safetest in June. The Brazilian approval comes on the heels of Safetest being granted permission by the Food & Drug […]
East Side Games Named To Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020
Pocket Gamer has published their Top 50 Mobile Game Makers list and a Vancouver game developer is in the mix. Now in its 11th year, the list is the who’s who of the mobile games industry and East Side Games claimed spot #47. “Carving out a niche in the crowded mobile market is a pretty […]
Thrive Health Launches COVID-19 Self-Assessment Tool at University of Toronto
Vancouver’s Thrive Health has launched an online COVID-19 self-assessment tool called UCheck for the University of Toronto to start of the 2020-2021 academic year. Thrive Health is also the creator of Health Canada’s official COVID-19 support app, which has already provided over 10 million COVID-19 risk assessments and is the #1 trusted pandemic response software […]