Vancouver’s Canada Drives has launched a new “Sell My Car” feature. The platform provides a quote within minutes, customers can sell directly to Canada Drives or trade in their vehicle and have it picked up from their front door. Historically, Canadians would be limited online to receiving a price range for trading in their vehicle […]
Hootsuite Welcomes Natalia Williams as Chief Product Officer
Hootsuite continues to grow its c-suite nest with the announcement today that Natalia Williams has joined the Vancouver-born company as Chief Product Officer. In her role, and as part of the executive leadership team, Natalia will have responsibility for Hootsuite’s strategic product direction, product management, and product design. Williams brings over 15 years of product […]
SkyHive Receives Strategic Investment from Deutsche Bank
Vancouver’s SkyHive, a workforce technology innovator that delivers powerful insights for improved human capital management (HCM), has received a ‘sizable equity investment’ from Germany’s Deutsche Bank via its strategic Corporate Venture Capital unit. The investment from Deutsche Bank will support SkyHive’s growing global operations, particularly the company’s continued expansion in the European market. SkyHive also maintains […]
Good Chemistry Company Lands Accenture Investment To Drive Quantum Computing Advancements
Vancouver’s Good Chemistry Company has landed a strategic investment from Accenture Ventures. Terms of the investment were undisclosed. Good Chemistry uses quantum chemistry, machine learning and quantum computing to accelerate new materials design. Good Chemistry started off in 2018 as the incubated computational chemistry simulation division of 1QBit — the pioneering company in leveraging advanced […]
Canada’s First Subscription Electrical Bike Service Launches in Vancouver
Canada’s first subscription electrical bike service has launched in Vancouver. Zygg mobility provides weekly and monthly subscription plans for a variety of ebike models, starting from $49/week or $99/month. Zygg’s founding ambition is to provide simple and affordable ebikes for everyone. The high cost of electric bikes and unknown maintenance costs can prevent some people […]
Appfire Acquires Vancouver’s Comalatech In Atlassian Ecosystem Consolidation
Vancouver’s Comalatech has been acquired by Appfire, a global authority in the Atlassian ecosystem. Appfire has the largest portfolio of apps on the Atlassian Marketplace with 225,000 active installations worldwide. Founded in 2005, Comalatech was first-to-market with powerful collaboration solutions for Confluence, one of Atlassian’s leading work management solutions. Notable Comalatech products include Comala Document […]
Victoria’s Assembly Digital Acquired by St. Joseph Communications
Victoria’s Assembly Digital has been acquired by St. Joseph Communications, Canada’s largest privately-owned print, media, and content marketing company. Through its acquisition of Assembly, St. Joseph is furthering its investment in the digital publishing space. Launched in 2015 by Redbrick, Assembly is a digital publishing company that currently reaches over 25 million visitors, monthly across the brands […]
Vancouver Enters The Metaverse With 4D Holographic Capture Facility
Vancouver’s Departure Lounge and Los Angeles-based volumetric capture pioneers, Metastage, announced today that they have been selected by Microsoft as the exclusive licensee for its volumetric capture technology in Western Canada. Launching in Spring 2022, Metastage Canada will be the first 4D holographic capture facility in the region to bring humans into the metaverse and will […]
It’s Official: LayerZero Labs Becomes Vancouver’s Newest Unicorn
Vancouver’s LayerZero Labs announced today that it raised USD $135 million in a round co-led by Sequoia Capital, FTX Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz and with participation from Coinbase Ventures, PayPal Ventures, Tiger Global, Uniswap Labs, and more. This funding round values LayerZero Labs at $1 billion and will accelerate the development of cross-chain decentralized applications […]
Thinkific Lays Off 20% of Workforce, Growth Remains On Track
Vancouver’s Thinkific announced today that they are reducing their workforce to better reflect the areas of focus and growth at the company. Co-Founder and CEO Greg Smith sent this letter to Thinkific employees. “We have made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce. We have grown from 270 at the end of Q1 2021 to […]