Vancouver’s BarrelWise develops and manufactures a barrel management system that helps winemakers protect and enhance the quality of their wines by mitigating the risks of contamination in the barrel-aging process. Today they announced that they have received funding from Genome BC’s Rapid Response Funding for COVID-19 research and innovation projects. But not because winemaking is an […]
PocketPills Partners With MyHSA To Give Members Online Access To Medication
PocketPills has announced a strategic partnership with myHSA, an employee benefits platform distributed through advisors, MGAs, TPAs, and insurance providers. The partnership will bring online access to medication to myHSA’s 10,000+ Canadian employer and advisor clients. Headquartered in Surrey, PocketPills is Canada’s first full-service digital pharmacy that allows patients to fill their prescriptions online, with […]
As Working From Home Skyrockets, Internet Speeds Slow in B.C.
COVID-19 has changed everything. Overnight the entire country had to move their work, schooling, and social calendar online. New survey data from the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) offers insight into how technology and internet use has changed in Canada since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Widespread school closures, social distancing, and work from home has significantly […]
1QBit’s Chest Radiography AI Tool Gets Expedited Health Canada Approval
1QBit has announced the launch of 1QBit xrAI, a chest radiography AI tool that significantly improves the accuracy and timeliness of diagnosing lung abnormalities. The company’s first healthcare product received expedited Health Canada approval in just one week following its recently completed extensive clinical trials. 1QBit employs physicians, biomedical experts, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, […]
Cybersecurity Startup MergeBase Raises $500K For Software Security
Will cybercrime cause $1 trillion in damage to an already-vulnerable economy by 2021? Not if MergeBase Software has anything to do with it. The Vancouver startup just raised a $500,000 funding round for its cybersecurity product and plans to use the funds to ramp up sales and distribution. MergeBase protects the security of software supply […]
Victoria’s StarFish Medical To Develop Open-source Ventilator Design
On March 20, 2020, the Government of Canada sent a call to action to Canadian businesses and manufacturers to help deliver critical health supplies that will help Canada fight the COVID‑19 pandemic. Since then, the government has been working with almost 3,000 companies who have stepped up to offer their expertise and capacity. One of […]
The State of Vancouver and BC’s VR/AR Ecosystem
In today’s COVID-19 world, both human connection and personal distance are essential day-to-day requirements to keep our economies alive and populations safe. There’s very little we can say for certain, but the way we connect and communicate has likely changed forever. Real-time collaboration through virtual meetings, classes and events have become the norm as people […]
Creative Destruction Lab Launches COVID-19 Recovery Program
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) has launched a new program called CDL Recovery, which aims to rapidly transform scientific innovations into useful products and services that address public health and economic challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The seed-stage accelerator, which is based at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and boasts a global network […]
Mangrove Water Technologies Joins Chevron Technology Ventures’ Catalyst Program
Vancouver’s Mangrove Water Technologies has been selected by Chevron Technology Ventures to join its Catalyst Program. The waste-treatment startup seeks to convert produced water from oil and gas operations to chemicals such as hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide and desalinated water for re-use. The Catalyst Program helps advance early stage startups that have developed technologies beneficial […]
B.C. Startups Selected For 48 Hours In The Valley
The C100’s 48Hrs in the Valley is a two-day program that offers strategic networking and business development opportunities to Canada’s most promising entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The 19th edition of 48Hrs in the Valley was scheduled for May 2020 but due to the COVID-19 global pandemic the C100 is postponing the event until later this […]