Vancouver’s Pixieset has acquired Los Angeles-based Flothemes, a premium WordPress website designer for photographers, and other creative businesses. Pixieset is an all-in-one SaaS platform that offers a range of solutions including client galleries, websites, online stores to help photographers and other creatives manage their workflow. As part of the acquisition, Flothemes Founder Ross Tanner has […]
EMERGE Commerce To Acquire Subscription Brands BattlBox and Carnivore Club
Direct-to-consumer e-commerce leader EMERGE Commerce is in acquisition mode, adding their 6th and 7th brands in North America. EMERGE has acquired subscription businesses BattlBox and Carnivore Club for up to USD $19 million. Atlanta’s BattlBox is a market leading survival, outdoor and camping goods subscription business-based in the US, and notably, featured in its own […]
PDFTron Acquires PDF-to-Office Innovator Solid Documents
Vancouver’s PDFTron Systems has acquired New Zealand’s Solid Documents, a provider of best-in-class document reconstruction and archiving solutions embedded in blue-chip company internal software, including that of Coca-Cola and Volvo. The deal marks the sixth acquisition as part of PDFTron’s roadmap acceleration strategy since receiving a $71 million growth investment by Silversmith Capital Partners in 2019 and strengthens the company’s position […]
Cybersecurity Startup Cmd Acquired By Elastic
Vancouver cybersecurity startup Cmd has been acquired by Amsterdam-headquartered Elastic. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Cmd’s technology provides runtime security for cloud infrastructure, helping organizations gain better visibility into processes that are running. The acquisition comes just days after Elastic announced the acquisition of build.security. With Cmd on board Elastic will […]
Unbounce Names Ad-Tech Finance Veteran As Chief Financial Officer
Vancouver’s Unbounce has named Greg Dos Santos as Chief Financial Officer. Dos Santos comes to Unbounce with over 20 years of financial leadership experience in the technology industry for growing Software as a Service (SaaS) and professional services companies. “Greg is a modern CFO. His decades of experience leading global financial teams, mergers and acquisitions, […]
Google Selects Vancouver’s SafetyDocs For Women Founders Accelerator
Four Canadian startups are among the 12 chosen to participate in the second Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders program cohort. The Women Founders accelerator is open to tech startups in the seed to Series A stages, with headquarters in Canada or the United States. The program is designed for companies with women founders, or […]
Optical Imagery-focused EarthDaily Analytics Emerges From UrtheCast With AWS Partner Status
Vancouver’s EarthDaily Analytics is now an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). EarthDaily is a provider of satellite Earth Observation processing services and analytics. EarthDaily’s satellite technology provides evidence-based, actionable insights for addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges, from sustainable agriculture and disaster management to climate […]
Nextech AR Selected As An Early Access Partner for Google’s 3D AR Search Program
Vancouver’s Nextech AR have been named an early access partner for the Google 3D AR Search Program. With this, Nextech AR will grant exclusive early access of the 3D search program to its current Threedy.ai customers, which include some of the world’s largest furniture retailers – Kohl’s, Pier 1, Lighting Plus and Kmart Australia. With Nextech […]
Victoria’s Blockstream Joins Crypto Unicorns With USD $3.2 Billion Valuation
Victoria-based Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream has raised USD $210 million as part of our Series B financing and has hit unicorn status with its latest valuation at USD $3.2 billion. The new capital will go towards accelerating their Bitcoin mining efforts and the acquisition of Spondoolies to launch an enterprise-grade miner, continuing to scale the […]
FORM Launches First-of-its-kind Guided Workouts Powered With Smart Swim Goggles
Thanks to Vancouver direct-to-consumer fitness technology startup FORM, swimmers can now be led through immersive workout swim experiences and access hundreds of workouts in an ever-expanding library. FORM announced the launch of a new Workouts feature today. The new feature guides swimmers through motivating workouts in real-time using the FORM goggles’ augmented reality display. Available […]