Victoria’s Redbrick has acquired Delivra, a provider of advanced email marketing automation that helps businesses engage in meaningful conversations with customers through email and SMS marketing strategies. The announcement marks Redbrick’s second major acquisition in the past two years, with Delivra becoming the fifth company within the Redbrick portfolio. Redbrick has acquired Minnesota’s Leadpages in 2020. Leadpages is […]
Damon Unveils Electrifying HyperFighter Family of Motorcycles at CES
Vancouver’s Damon Motors officially unveiled the newest edition to its family of motorcycles today at CES in Las Vegas. The mobility startup introduced the HyperFighter Colossus motorcycle, as well as a future model, HyperFighter Unlimited. HyperFighter is a raw, muscular-silhouetted, electrifying streetfighter motorcycle built for a new generation of urban riders. The HyperFighter is derived […]
Kevin O’Leary-backed WonderFi To Buy Crypto Platform Bitbuy
Vancouver’s WonderFi is acquiring Bitbuy, a leading cryptocurrency platform and the first approved crypto marketplace in Canada. Under the terms of the agreement, Bitbuy shareholders will receive approximately $206 million consisting of shares and cash, upfront and deferred. WonderFi is on a mission of create better access to decentralized finance (DeFi) through their high-growth consumer […]
Anna Sainsbury Returns To CEO Role At GeoComply
Vancouver unicorn GeoComply has announced that Chairman Anna Sainsbury has been reappointed as the firm’s CEO, a position she held for seven years when she co-founded the company in 2011. GeoComply announced last March that they have received a significant investment from Blackstone Growth and Atairos at a valuation over $1 billion. Sainsbury will succeed fellow […]
WestCoastNFT Partners with The MetaArt Club to Launch NFT Collectibles Project
Vancouver’s WestCoast NFT has announced the launch of their latest drop, The MetaArt Club (TMAC), the first dedicated fine art NFT platform linking emerging and established digital artists to global blue-chip art collectors. Launching on December 20th, The MetaArt Club is a collection of 9,888 NFT artworks designed by a curated mix of 35 established […]
Autozen Expands into the Okanagan After Accelerated Success in Vancouver
Online private auto sales marketplace, Autozen is expanding from Vancouver into the Okanagan, starting with the Kelowna, Kamloops and Vernon areas. Positioned to disrupt the stressful and unnecessarily complex car sale process, Autozen is a new consumer-to-business (C2B) marketplace on a mission to create an easier, safer and more transparent way for car owners to […]
BlocPal To Launch A Financial Services Marketplace In Nigeria
Vancouver’s BlocPal and PayPassage have announced a partnership to uplift and integrate financial services in Nigeria. Nigeria is one of the top three unbanked countries globally, with almost half of Nigerian adults having no access to a bank account. Out of the 59 million unbanked adults, 73 percent don’t have the required documents to open a […]
Traction on Demand Incubated Traction Guest Acquired by ShieldCo
Vancouver’s Traction Guest has been acquired by ShieldCo, a PSG portfolio company focused on building the visitor management space. PSG is a leading growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies. The acquisition marks ShieldCo’s second investment in the visitor management space, following its earlier investment in Sign In App. Traction Guest […]
GenXys Inks Deal with Precision Genetics for Personalized Medicine
Vancouver’s GenXys Healthcare Systems has inked a deal with Precision Genetics that will see the company use GenXys’s software solutions to embed pharmacogenetics (PGx) and offer an improved and transformative approach to precision prescribing. Precision prescribing has become a leading method to bring PGx closer to the standard of care for certain conditions that often […]
Ryan Holmes’ LOI Venture Invests In Employee Engagement Platform WFHomie
Ryan Holmes’ new venture fund has made its first investment. LOI Venture, a collaboration between Holmes and New Avenue Capital’s Manny Padda, has led a USD $1.5 million seed round in WFHomie, an employee engagement and distributed team culture platform. LOI Venture invests solely in early-stage startups who enrol in League of Innovators programs. Both […]