TELUS is buying one of Canada’s leading providers of security solutions, paying $700 million for ADT Canada as telecommunications giants race to expand their product bundles. ADT Canada provides security and automation solutions to 500,000 residential and business customers and has 1,000 staff across the country. This acquisition builds on TELUS’ strategy of leveraging its […]
Renewal Funds Raises $145 Million for Renewal4 Impact Fund
Venture capital firm Renewal Funds has closed its latest fund, Renewal4, at $145 million making it one of the largest early stage impact funds in North America. Vancouver’s Renewal Funds is a sustainability focused firm that invests across North America in environmental technology and sustainable consumer products. Today’s funding announcement brings the firm’s total assets […]
Genome BC Invests in Safe Drinking Water
Genome BC has invested $1 million in Acuva Technologies through its Industry Innovation (I²) program. The I² Fund provides commercialization support for companies developing innovative life science technologies that address biological challenges in key economic sectors in BC: Agriculture, Energy and Mining, Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Forestry, and Human Health. Access to safe drinking water […]
New Zealand’s Xero Brings Road Show to Vancouver
New Zealand-born Xero is a cloud-based accounting software platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Sold as a software as a service (SaaS), Xero now has 1.4 million subscribers in over 180 countries and a thriving ecosystem seamlessly integrating with 700+ apps. Xero’s commitment to Canada got a boost last year when they acquired Toronto-based document […]
Clir Renewables Raises $7.1 Million Series A Round
Vancouver’s Clir Renewables, closed their Series A round of C$7.1 million this month, led by strategic investor ArcTern Ventures. Clir’s software platform uses machine learning algorithms to categorize and quantify areas of underperformance across wind farms, resulting in recommended actions for improvement, including yaw alignment and blade pitch. Customers realize Annual Energy Production (AEP) gains […]
Who are Vancouver’s Top Growing Tech Companies?
The Globe and Mail has unveiled its inaugural Report on Business ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies. The list of 400 businesses operate in such hot sectors as fintech, e-commerce and cannabis, along with long-established industries like manufacturing and transportation. Each company on this list is rising fast with average revenue growth of 511% over […]
Terminal Raises $17 Million to Solve Tech Talent Shortage
Terminal, the remote teams company helping future unicorns work around the talent shortage and hire top tech talent across the globe, has announced a $17 million Series B funding round that includes notable investors Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Headquartered in San Francisco, Terminal is trying to solve the hiring crisis in tech. With […]
Vancouver Tech Salaries Now Higher than Toronto and Montreal
HR Tech Group’s annual BC Tech Salary Survey has been released and the numbers are great with salaries and headcount in B.C. continuing to increase. B.C.’s tech sector is experiencing an incredibly fast-moving compensation market with Vancouver paying some of the highest rates in the country for high demand tech jobs. According to the survey, […]
How to Make B.C. a Worldwide Hub for Artificial Intelligence by 2022
The Artificial Intelligence network of British Columbia (AInBC) is officially launching on October 1st. Community ties are so essential in building out a strong ecosystem, so if you have an interest, passion, project or company in the AI space, the AInBC invites you to their launch event. AInBC’s mission is to connect talented people with […]
Vision Critical Open Doors to Job Seekers
Vision Critical is hiring and they’re hosting an Open House on September 26th. Whether you’re a candidate interested in current open roles or a student who wants to learn about their campus recruitment program, we Vision Critical wants to meet you. Vision Critical provides a cloud-based customer intelligence platform that allows companies to build engaged, […]