With more than one million job openings forecasted over the next ten years by the Province of British Columbia, the Digital Supercluster has announced investments in two new Leadership Training programs, Athena Digital Leaders and Asia Competence for Tech Professionals. The Athena Digital Leaders and Asia Competence for Tech Professionals programs will help the Canadian workforce build transferable […]
Startup Category Bolstered As BC’s Technology Impact Awards Focus On Ambition, Extend Application Deadline
With ‘ambition’ being the theme of these 29th annual awards, BC Tech has bolstered its Company of the Year: Startup category to include an additional pitch competition on September 22nd. This will be a live community event with participants making their case in front of a panel of judges. “We all know that startups embark […]
Doodles NFT Appoints Veteran Billboard President as New Partner and CEO
A community-driven collectibles NFT project, Doodle NFTs are a collection of 10,000 unique characters made up of a hundred exciting traits of faces, hair, hats, bodies, and backgrounds living on the Ethereum blockchain. Designed by burnt toast, each Doodle is meant to spark joy – and they do. Vibrant, pastel colours are the primary palette of […]
Boast Names Veteran SaaS Executive As CEO To Scale Company
Vancouver-born Boast has named Alok Tyagi CEO for the next phase of the company’s growth. Boast is a fast-growing fintech that helps businesses automate the cumbersome process of preparing and financing Research and Development (R&D) tax credit claims. The new CEO has helped scale companies from low revenue to hundreds of millions of dollars, with […]
TIMIA Capital To Acquire Brightpath Capital For $30 Million
Vancouver’s TIMIA Capital is acquiring Brightpath Capital, one of Canada’s leading private providers of residential mortgages focused on Ontario and British Columbia, for approximately $30.5 million. Post acquisition the combined company will have pro forma assets surpassing $200 million and the acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive for TIMIA shareholders Brightpath specializes in arranging […]
Unicorn Visier Extends People Cloud With Acquisition of Yva.ai
Vancouver’s Visier has acquired the technology of Silicon Valley’s Yva.ai, a leading collaboration analytics company. Recently crowned a unicorn, Visier is the globally recognized leader in people analytics and on-demand answers for people-powered business. Visier raised a USD $125 million Series E funding round led by Goldman Sachs last year. Yva.ai shines light on employee well-being, […]
Canada Drives Launches in Saskatchewan
The average price of a used car in Canada has jumped nearly 50 per cent as brick-and-mortar dealerships struggle to maintain inventories due to the global chip shortage. This has opened it up for a new direct-to-consumer class of dealerships to stake their claim–online car dealerships. This week Canada Drives increased its lead as Canada’s […]
Lime Launching E-Scooters in Richmond with First Ride Academy Safety Training
Lime Scooters are coming to British Columbia. Not Vancouver, but close. Lime is launching its micromobility service in Richmond tomorrow with 75 e-scooters and plans to scale up to a fleet of 200 in the coming days. To celebrate the launch of Richmond’s e-scooter sharing program Lime will host a First Ride Academy safety training […]
Victory Square Partners To Host Fintech Pitch Battle
Vancouver venture studio Victory Square Technologies is co-hosting a fintech pitch battle with The Holt Xchange on May 17th. The live pitch event will consist of five early-stage fintechs who will present their company to an audience of investors and advisors. The audience will be able to engage in live voting and provide their feedback, in addition to the […]
Vancouver’s LQwD joins Visa’s Fintech Fast Track Program
Vancouver startup LQwD Fintech (TSXV: LQWD) has joined Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program. LQwD is the first publicly traded, pure play, purpose-built bitcoin company that’s focused on solutions that power the growth of the bitcoin Lightning Network. Their goal is to deliver scalable, off-chain, instantaneous, and cheap payments, that will make bitcoin, as a digital cryptocurrency, more […]