PayByPhone has partnered with TransLink to offer its mobile parking payment app at 5,500 parking spaces across all nine TransLink Park and Ride lots. Commuters in the Metro Vancouver area using the designated lots along the TransLink line servicing buses, the SkyTrain, and the West Coast Express can now pay for their parked vehicles with […]
Vancouver Fintech ForwardAI Partners with Swoop Funding to Streamline Loan Access
A Vancouver-based fintech startup providing aggregated access to accounting and business data recently announced a partnership with New York’s Swoop Funding, a business platform to discover funding solutions across loans, equity, and grants. ForwardAI says that, through the partnership, Swoop Funding will be augmenting its current data collection process and leverage ForwardAI’s API for access to […]
CloudAdvisors Upgrades Platform to Take on New Customers, Bigger Challenges
CloudAdvisors has unveiled “Version 3” of its platform. The Vancouver-based insurtech startup recently announced a slew of updates to its platform which result in “a complete overhaul of [the] core user experience,” according to a statement from the company. “With Version 3, we’ve taken a bigger step forward with both our user experience and technical […]
Ticketmaster Flows with Dapper Labs as NFTs Enhance Live Events in Canada
Live events effectively disappeared from the planet for about two years. This summer they have rebounded with gusto, as evidenced by successes like Collision, driven by pent-up demand for a return societal normalcy. Of course, two years is a long time for tech to stay quiet. So you may notice some changes to the live […]
Launchpad Technologies Strikes Partnership with Avalara to Integrate Solutions
A Vancouver-based provider of enterprise integration software and post-configuration support services is partnering Seattle’s Avalara, a cloud-based tax compliance automation platform. Launchpad Technologies says that integrating its iPaaS platform with Avalara’s tax compliance solutions “will increase workflow efficiency while automating and digitally transforming their accounting functions.” “We are delighted to partner with Avalara to make automation […]
Genome BC Project to Identify New Scourge on Province’s Blueberry Industry
Loaded full of vitamins, rich in antioxidants, and bursting with flavour, blueberries are an icon of summertime in British Columbia. Like all food producers in Canada, BC’s blueberry farmers routinely deal with various pests and pathogens that damage plants and affect crop yields, such as the blueberry scorch virus. These scourges tend to cause a […]
AltFee Integrates Lawyer Pricing Software into Clio’s Legal-Tech Ecosystem
A North Vancouver-based knowledge management and collaboration pricing software platform for law firms this month integrated with Clio, Canada’s pioneer in cloud-based legal practice management software. AltFee provides an alternative fee arrangement system to help lawyers scope out fixed fees, improving the client-lawyer relationship and boosting realization rates. An easy-to-implement tool to support the accurate […]
Trendi Earns Food Innovation Funding for Robotics-Based Circular Economy Project
TrendiTech, a Canadian robotics startup focused on innovative food waste and up-cycling solutions, has earned an $85,000 investment from the Canadian Food Innovation Network. The CFIN recently announced investments in four projects across Canada, including one in BC—Burnaby-based startup Trendi. “The CFIN team is energized by innovative activity we’re seeing nationally as demonstrated in the applications […]
TELUS Agriculture Expands Its Scope To Include Consumer Goods
TELUS is changing the name of its agriculture unit to TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods as a signal of its commitment to deliver data insights and a wide range of integrated digital solutions to customers beyond the agricultural sector. Rapidly growing its assets and capabilities since its launch nearly two years ago, the newly rebranded […]
Vancouver’s Blume Raises $2 Million For Superfood Latte Brand
Vancouver’s Blume has raised a $2 million seed round for their superfood latte brand. Co-Founded by Karen Danudjaja in 2017, Blume is North America’s leading superfood brand that features locally made products with 100 percent natural and all organic ingredients, such as turmeric, reishi and more. Retailing in over 1,500 stores nationwide, including Whole Foods, […]