Videogame titan Activision Blizzard this month tapped Akshon Media as an official content production company for the 2022 seasons of Overwatch League and Call of Duty League, two of the world’s largest e-sports franchise. Akshon’s work is not new to Activision. In fact, the latter has been utilizing Akshon to producing highlight videos for the Overwatch […]
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Canada Drives Secures $40 Million to Expand Market, Grow Inventory
Canada Drives has raised $40 million in equity funding from Mississauga-based goeasy. The Vancouver-based online car marketplace says it will use the funding for several purposes, including: expand into new provincial markets, grow available inventory, and enhance its digital platform. In addition, Canada Drives says it will partner with goeasy to further integrate automotive financing […]
New Ventures BC Announces Top 25 For 2022 Competition
The 22nd annual New Ventures BC Competition, presented by Innovate BC, has determined their Top 25 startup ventures. Earlier this month they narrowed the field, naming the 15 companies that would advance directly into Round 3 as well as 27 ventures that were selected to pitch in Round 2.5. Today they announced the ten ventures from […]
Doodles NFT Project Taps Pharrell Williams as Chief Brand Officer
Two months after being named as Partner and CEO of Vancouver-born Doodles, Julian Holguin has named star music producer Pharrell Williams as its chief brand officer. The announcement was made at a private Doodle-holder event during NFT.NYC, flashing a video of Williams speaking on the big screen of a packed Palladium Theater. “I’m a big […]
ENVO Drive Systems Leverages In-House Engineering to Maximize Inventory of E-Bikes
The Pandemic was the start of all manner of turbulence, including the supply and demand balance of several different products. Many things became expensive in response to increased demand. Bicycles were one of them—for nearly two years it was nearly impossible to purchase a new ride, at least without waiting astronomical lengths of time. The […]
ABOzymes Raises Seed Round To Fund Tech For Universal Blood Tranfusions
Vancouver’s ABOzymes has completed a substantially upsized seed financing. Built upon the discoveries of Dr. Peter Rahfeld and Professor Stephen G. Withers of UBC’s Michael Smith Laboratories, ABOzymes was named one of 10 homegrown startups to watch in 2021 by Techcouver. In emergency situations when there isn’t time to cross-match a patient’s blood type, doctors […]
Vancouver Startup Brings ‘Hyper-Immersive VR’ to Playland This Summer
A new experience from XR Immersive Tech is coming to the largest ticketed event in British Columbia. The Vancouver-based immersive entertainment platform announced recently that Uncontained will be available for guests to enjoy for the first time this summer beginning at Playland Amusement Park and the annual Pacific National Exhibition Fair. Uncontained is described as “hyper-immersive virtual […]
DoorDash and Loblaw announce PC Express Rapid Delivery in Vancouver
DoorDash and Loblaw have announced a collaboration that will bring a new grocery delivery service to customers in Canada. Starting this August, PC Express™ Rapid Delivery will make grocery and convenience items available to customers in an expected express delivery time of 30-minutes-or-less. Kicking off in major cities across the country, including Vancouver, the express […]
AI-powered Chatbot Finn AI Acquired By Glia
Vancouver’s Finn AI has been acquired by Glia, a leading provider of digital customer service. Finn AI is an AI-powered chatbot platform for banks and credit unions and the two companies have been working together since 2020 when Finn AI first launched its banking-focused virtual assistant for Glia’s DCS platform. The deal aims to mainstream […]
10 B.C. Startups to Keep an Eye on in 2022
The BC Tech Association recently announced the finalists for the 2022 Technology Impact Awards. BC Tech announced 48 finalists across 12 Technology Impact Award categories who achieved exceptional success in the past year. “Ambition” is the theme for this year’s awards. “What is thrilling about this year’s 48 finalists is that they represent exceptional ambition […]