Provincial crown corp InBC Investment (InBC) has announced its first investments into venture capital funds aligned with its triple bottom line mandate to consider people, planet and profit. InBC has $500 million to invest in venture capital funds and growing small and medium-sized businesses to benefit British Columbians. InBC has invested into three B.C.-based funds […]
Brenda Bailey Named Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation
British Columbia Premier David Eby has announced his new cabinet. Replacing Ravi Kahlon as Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation is Brenda Bailey. And unlike Kahlon, Bailey comes from British Columbia’s tech industry. Bailey co-founded Silicon Sisters in 2011, Canada’s first women-owned and operated video game studio, in response to the lack of high-quality […]
Province Launches Initiative To Reduce Emissions, Electrify YVR
A new government initiative will create jobs and economic opportunities for British Columbians by supporting made-in-B.C. companies to develop and sell clean-tech solutions locally, so they can solve industry challenges. As part of the StrongerBC Economic Plan, the Integrated Marketplace Initiative kicks off with a pilot project that links Vancouver International Airport (YVR) to B.C. […]
Is Your Breakthrough Tech Accelerating The World Towards A Net-zero Carbon Future?
To accelerate the world towards a net-zero carbon future we need to catalyze breakthrough innovations that have the potential to significantly reduce GHG emissions and address ‘hard to decarbonize’ challenges. The British Columbia Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE) is doing just that. The CICE has announced their 2023 Open Call for Innovation with […]
TAP Network Highlights BC’s Diversity in Tech with Latest Report
Tech and People Network this week announced the release of their “2022 Diversity in Tech Dashboard,” which reports year-over-year progress on the “representation of equity-deserving groups” in Canada’s tech sector. For the first time since measurement began three years ago, the annual report shows increases in representation, says Vancouver-based TAP Network, a non-profit association for People and […]
Airbus and Air Canada Invest Millions in Squamish’s Carbon Engineering
Squamish’s Carbon Engineering (CE) announced today they have received millions in investments from Aviation industry leaders Airbus and Air Canada. These investments support the advancement of CE’s Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology that pulls carbon dioxide (CO2) directly out of the air at large, industrial scale. This funding will contribute to CE’s ongoing technology development work […]
TELUS Health To Provide Walmart Associates with Comprehensive Virtual Health Services
Walmart Canada and TELUS Health have announced a new strategic initiative to bring TELUS Health’s full suite of total health and wellbeing solutions to all Walmart associates in Canada. This robust suite of health services will provide Walmart Canada associates and their families with confidential access to hundreds of health professionals from a variety of […]
Kardium Announces Successful First-in-Human Clinical Study
Vancouver’s Kardium has announced the first-in-human study of its next generation Globe® Pulsed Field System to treat atrial fibrillation (AF) using pulsed field ablation (PFA) therapy. Working with Dr. Vivek Reddy from New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, and Prof. Petr Neužil and Dr. Jan Petrů from Prague’s Na Homolce Hospital, the Kardium team successfully treated […]
8 BC Startups Selected for National Ocean Startup Challenge
The Ocean Startup Project has selected 30 idea and early stage ocean technology startups for the Ocean Startup Challenge. Up to $700,000 will be distributed to the winners, plus additional program benefits such as mentorship, networking, events, and workshops. “It is invigorating and exciting to review such cutting-edge ideas from new, early stage ocean technology […]
Web3 Darling Dapper Labs Lays Off 22% of Staff
Less than one month after picking up not one award, but two awards, at BC Tech’s 2022 Technology Impact Awards, web3 darling Dapper Labs has laid off 22 per cent of staff. Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain, topped the Spirit of BC Tech – Ambition and Excellence in […]