Vancouver unicorn Clio is celebrating its 15th anniversary this week. When Clio launched in 2008 at ABA TECHSHOW, no one could have predicted its significant impact on the legal industry. Clio has grown into a global force in legal technology, with over 150,000 customers in more than 100 countries. For 15 years, the Burnaby-born startup […]
Zenhub Raises $10 Million to go from Plug-in to Platform
Vancouver’s Zenhub has raised $10 million in its Series A funding round led by Yaletown Partners. Founded in 2014 and spun out of innovation studio Axiom Zen, ZenHub is a leading team collaboration and project management suite in GitHub, empowering teams of 2 to over 20,000 to work together. The new funding will be used to expand […]
Semaphore Solutions Lands Significant Investment from Cypress Ridge Capital
Victoria’s Semaphore Solutions has received a significant investment from Cypress Ridge Capital, a healthcare-focused growth equity firm. Founded in 2010, Semaphore Solutions is a leading SaaS and informatics services company addressing inherent challenges in the paradigm shift to personalized medicine. The new partnership will enable the company to accelerate investments in its highly innovative SaaS […]
East Side Games and BBC Studios Launch Doctor Who Mobile Game
East Side Games Group (ESGG) has launched Doctor Who: Lost In Time, a mobile game available on iOS and Android, in partnership with BBC Studios and co-developed with Bigfoot. In this idle game, fans of the Doctor Who franchise act as the Doctor to explore space and time, collecting energy to save the universe while […]
Burnaby’s Loop Energy to Power New Hydrogen-Electric Forklifts
Burnaby’s Loop Energy has been selected by Wiggins Lift Co., a leading American material handling vehicle manufacturer, to provide the fuel cell system for its new hydrogen-powered eBull forklift product. Loop is a designer and manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cell solutions and will support commercial deployment of the hydrogen-electric forklifts in late 2023. Wiggins provides material […]
UBC Uses AI To Predict Cancer Patient Survival By Reading Doctor’s Notes
A team of researchers from the UBC and BC Cancer have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that predicts cancer patient survival more accurately and with more readily available data than previous tools. The model uses natural language processing (NLP) – a branch of AI that understands complex human language – to analyze oncologist notes […]
Lucent Bio Wins Scale-Up Award at Climate-Smart Agriculture Challenge
THRIVE has announced the winners of this year’s THRIVE | Shell Climate-Smart Agriculture Challenge and Vancouver’s Lucent Bio has taken home the Scale-Up Award. Lucent Bio delivers crop nutrition that improves yield and soil health while sequestering carbon and was recently named to the Foresight 50. The THRIVE | Shell Climate-Smart Agriculture Challenge aims to […]
Fresh Prep Acquires Surplus Grocery Delivery Service Peko
Vancouver “peculiar” & surplus grocery delivery service Peko has been acquired by meal delivery service Fresh Prep. With community at the core of its mission, Peko aims to reduce food waste and promote access to affordable and healthy diets. Since May 2021, Peko has saved customers close to $1 million in grocery bills and diverted […]
ShareWares Selected for the 2023 Google for Startups Accelerator
Vancouver’s ShareWares has been selected to participate in the 2023 Google for Startups Accelerator Canada program. ShareWares will be joining eleven other Canadian startups in the 10-week, equity-free program, designed to bring the best of Google’s programs, products, people and technology to Canadian startups – at a time when AI continues to advance. ShareWares developed a platform that pairs […]
Tesla Looks North to B.C. for Source of Lithium
Tesla is reportedly considering purchasing Sigma Lithium, a Vancouver-headquartered Brazilian lithium mining company, for an estimated $3 billion. The battery metal miner is one of multiple mining options Tesla is exploring to potentially source more of its lithium-ion battery supply chain, sources told Bloomberg. Coincidentally, the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) 2023 Venture 50 was released […]