Vancouver’s much anticipated purpose-built coworking space for ecommerce brands is open for business and they want to get to know you. ECOMsquare is hosting a Happy Hour on Friday, February 25th. Join them for food and drinks with loads of chatter and mingling alongside Vancouver’s ecommerce operators, owners and enthusiasts. Launched by the ecommerce experts […]
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Good Gamer Launches Tournament Platform and Skills-Based Real-Money Games
Vancouver’s Good Gamer Entertainment has launched the Good Gamer Tournament Management Platform (TMP) and its first two real-money skills-based game titles on the platform. Good Gamer’s TMP expands the gaming ecosystem by turning Unity-based mobile games into Esports tournaments, giving iOS and Android mobile gamers the opportunity to compete against friends, family and people in North […]
Budget 2022 Supports Genome BC to Advance Life Sciences
Budget 2022 is out and Genome BC is among those happy with the news. The provincial government announced $78 million to enable Genome BC to lead cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs to improve human health, increase food security, adapt to our changing climate and support sustainability in BC’s natural resource sectors. This significant commitment to genomics and […]
Opting-in > Leaning-in: the Key for Cultivating Empowered Employees
Attaining buy-in: each employee needs to opt-in to feel empowered The challenges facing Vancouver’s tech sector are many and amplified by the additional hurdles of working while raising healthy families when the home is the office and vice versa. There are silver linings, companies that are rising up to these challenges with agility, innovation and […]
Operto Checks In With $15 Million Series A Funding Round
Vancouver’s Operto Guest Technologies has secured a $15 million Series A funding round led by FUSE, with follow-on investments from Watchfire Venturers, BlackPines Capital Partners, and a consortium of other investors. Operto – from the Italian word aperto; meaning to open – is a leading property automation and IoT operating system for vacation rentals, hotels, and serviced […]
Ionomr To Open R&D Facility In New York State
Vancouver’s Ionomr Innovations is heading to New York… State. The award-winning developer and manufacturer of breakthrough ion-exchange membranes and polymers for the hydrogen economy is establishing a U.S. fuel cell and green hydrogen electrolysis research and development center in the Greater Rochester area. The company will renovate space located at Metro Business Park in the […]
5 Ways for Retail Businesses to Thrive in a Post-Pandemic World
Retailers need to not only adapt to but also anticipate changing customer behaviour as we move into a new reality. The COVID-19 pandemic dealt the retail sector a series of massive blows, greatly reducing in-store foot traffic and forcing a technological revolution virtually overnight. Even with retail stores now reopened, the pandemic has likely changed […]
Vancouver’s Metriport App Lets You Become Your Own Personal Data Scientist
Metriport is a new platform for tracking anything and everything, for the sake of improving health and wellness. Developed in Vancouver by software engineers Dima Goncharov and Colin Elsinga, Metriport is your personal data companion for discovering patterns in your life. Quantify your life and track what matters to you: habits, health symptoms, mood, nutrition, finances, […]
Vancouver’s New-guard Tech Leaders Launch Frontier Collective
Vancouver’s new-guard tech leaders have come together to launch the Frontier Collective. The Frontier Collective is the first organization to formally represent and advance the interests of the region’s fastest-growing industries, including Web3, the metaverse, VR/AR, AI, climate tech, and creative industries such as eSports, NFTs, VFX, and animation. Did you know the Vancouver area […]
Trulioo Onboards Four New Customers in the Banking Industry
Vancouver’s Trulioo is racking up customers in the banking industry with the addition of Bambu Systems, Guardian Gold, Nerve and Simba to their growing resume. Financial services providers rely on identity verification for seamless and secure customer onboarding. With Trulioo GlobalGateway, the world’s largest network of identity data and services, financial institutions can deploy identity […]