Seattle-based online real estate brokerage Redfin announced today that they will be launching a national Canadian real estate search site and brokerage service in Vancouver and Toronto by March 2019. “Our goal is to make buying and selling Canadian homes more affordable, with Redfin agents who always put customers first,” said Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman. […]
Slack Plans to Forego IPO for a Direct Offering
According to the Wall Street Journal, Vancouver-born Slack is planning to go public through a direct public offering (DPO), potentially making it the second big technology company after Spotify to bypass a traditional initial public offering (IPO). A DPO is similar to an IPO in that securities, such as stock or debt, are sold to […]
Jane App books $2 Million from CIBC Innovation Banking
North Vancouver’s Jane Software has closed a $2 million growth capital financing round with CIBC Innovation Banking. Jane is a practice management software based used by practitioners in a variety of health care disciplines including physiotherapists, massage therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists and counsellors. Jane offers a secure, cloud-based platform to perform online booking, charting, scheduling and […]
Work for a Silicon Valley Startup Without Leaving Canada
San Francisco startup Terminal builds and scales elite remote engineering teams to accelerate the growth of technology companies around the world. And by remote, we mean in Canada. Terminal has identified Vancouver, Waterloo, Toronto, and Montreal as emerging tech hubs that provide the most value in the engineering field. By partnering technology companies with engineering […]
AVA Pitches Byte Smart Garden for $10K at #CES2019
Vancouver’s AVA Technologies is at CES in Las Vegas this week and has already made the trip worthwhile. Exhibiting in the Eureka Park pavilion for startups, AVA and their Byte Smart Garden was a finalist in Trend Micro’s popular Forward Thinker Award competition. Trend Forward Capital and its investor partners carefully selected this year’s 24 finalists based […]
Vancouver Startup to Help Develop a Driverless Bus System for E.U.
The European Union is turning to a Vancouver startup for help in developing an automated transit bus system. Spare Labs is one of five companies taking part in the EU-funded FABULOS (Future Automated Bus Urban Level Operation Systems) project to develop driverless buses that can safely interact with regular traffic. Spare’s mission is to help accelerate the global […]
Wiivv Partners with Dr. Scholl’s to Deliver Custom 3D Printed Insoles
Vancouver’s Wiivv announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas that it is partnering with Dr. Scholl’s to help expand the 100+ year old brand’s business into custom 3D printed insoles. Using a simple smartphone app powered by Wiivv Fit Technology, consumers can personalize their own design and order a Dr. Scholl’s Custom […]
Mojio’s New eCall App Calls Emergency Services after a Car Crash
Today at CES in Las Vegas, Bosch and Vancouver’s Mojio unveiled a jointly developed, IoT integrated emergency response solution. The new offering adds crash detection and emergency call (eCall) response to an existing connected car solution from Mojio. Through the simple combination of a plug-and-play device for the vehicle’s OBD-II port and a mobile app, […]
Vancouver Startup Singled out as 2019 Billion-dollar Breakout
The Vancouver startup behind a garbage bin that’s powered by artificial intelligence has been singled out by Macleans magazine as a potential billion-dollar breakout in 2019. Co-founders Hassan Murad and Vivek Vyas are the pair behind the smart bin that blends robotics and machine learning to identify and divert trash into the appropriate spot. Intuitive has developed an AI sensor […]
Vancouver Team Behind ‘Into the Spider-Verse’
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse became one of the highest rated films of 2018 and is already considered one of the greatest comic book movies ever made. But did you know that the movie has a Vancouver connection? The animation and VFX work in the new flick was done entirely at Vancouver-based Sony Imageworks. Josh Beveridge […]