This January is Mentorship Month. Canadian coding bootcamp Lighthouse Labs is celebrating the role of mentorship in Vancouver’s tech industry through free events and resources, equipping Vancouverites with the tools they need to pursue more intentional mentorships. Why celebrate mentorship? In a rapidly changing workforce, lifelong learning is the key to continued career advancement. Mentorship […]
ePACT Banks $2.5 Million from CIBC Innovation Banking
Vancouver’s ePACT Network has secured a $2.5 million growth capital financing round from CIBC Innovation Banking. According to funding announcement, the debt capital complements a recent Series A equity raise co-led by Disruption Ventures and Yaletown Partners. Launched in 2012, ePACT is an online emergency preparedness network allowing users to build support networks, securely store […]
Elastic Path Acquires Fellow Commerce Technology Leader Moltin
Vancouver’s Elastic Path has acquired fellow commerce technology leader Moltin. Moltin’s employees have joined Elastic Path, including engineering, customer support, sales, marketing, and operations. Elastic Path will also maintain Moltin’s U.S. and U.K. offices in Boston and Newcastle. The acquisition comes as global demand grows for extensible, flexible, and scalable enterprise commerce solutions and bolsters […]
APOLLO Partners with Navacord for Digital Insurance
APOLLO has partnered with Navacord, a leading Canadian insurance and risk management brokerage to provide innovative products and technology to its more than 900 insurance professionals across Canada. Navacord will begin to utilize the APOLLO Exchange technology platform that enables brokers to instantly transact insurance online. “Navacord is broker-focused, forward thinking, with a strong entrepreneurial […]
Tesla Invites Hackers To Find Flaws For Prizes In Vancouver
The 21st annual CanSecWest conference returns to Vancouver next month along with the Zero Day Initiative and their popular Pwn2Own contest. It was in Vancouver where the contest began back in 2007 and continues to be where they push the research community with new challenges. Last year they raised more than a few eyebrows by partnering […]
Fusion Genomics Receives $1 Million for Clinical Study
Vancouver’s Fusion Genomics has been awarded a one-year, $1 million grant to evaluate novel genomic diagnostics platform in collaboration with Sunnybrook Research Institute. The one-year project will evaluate the ability of ONETest, a highly sensitive, cost-effective next-generating sequencing (NGS)-based assay for infectious disease diagnosis, to identify pathogens responsible for respiratory tract infections (RTI) in a […]
Microsoft Expands Cloud Services in Vancouver
Microsoft Canada announced today that it is undertaking the largest expansion of its Canadian-based cloud computing infrastructure since the launch of two Canadian cloud datacentre regions in 2016. As part of the announcement, Microsoft will be adding Azure Availability Zones in the Azure Canada Central region, increasing compute capacity by more than 1300% since the region was […]
Lendesk Launches Purpose-Built Mobile Application for Brokers
Vancouver’s Lendesk has launched the Lendesk Spotlight mobile application, a first of its kind, purpose-built tool for Canada’s mortgage industry professionals. This launch comes on the heels of Lendesk’s acquisition of LenderSpotlight late last year and the now complete integration of LenderSpotlight into Lendesk’s existing platform. Leveraging Lendesk’s core desktop functionalities, including Spotlight Search (Product Pricing […]
Damon Motorcycles Wins CES 2020 Innovation Award for Hypersport
Damon Motorcycles‘ flagship Hypersport electric motorcycle has won a CES 2020 “Best in Innovation” award for its cutting-edge technology designed to make motorcycling safer and smarter than ever before. The annual CES innovation Awards Program honors outstanding design and engineering in a multitude of consumer technology product categories and distinguishes the highest rated in each […]
Damon Motorcycles Partners with BlackBerry on Electric Superbike
Vancouver’s Damon Motorcycles announced today that its CoPilot™ advanced warning system will be powered by BlackBerry QNX technology across its entire line-up of advanced electric motorcycles. As part of the agreement, Damon has licensed BlackBerry QNX technology, including its real-time operating system to serve as the foundation for the Damon CoPilot warning system on its new […]