TiE Vancouver is hosting a fireside chat with entrepreneur turned venture Capitalist Boris Wertz on November 24th. In conversation with Maninder Dhaliwal, chair of TiE Vancouver Angels, Wertz will be speaking about building startups and fundraising. Wertz is founding partner of Version One Ventures and one of the top early-stage tech investors in North America. […]
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Science World’s Fourth Annual Girls and STEAM Event To Be Hosted Virtually
On Saturday, November 6th, Science World will host Girls and STEAM, a free, half-day virtual symposium with the aim of preparing British Columbia’s youth for the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art + Design, Math) heavy job landscape of the future. The event will be opened by keynote speaker and popular science communicator, Dr. Samantha Yammine […]
CubicFarms Is Leading the Agricultural Revolution
Langley’s CubicFarms is leading the agricultural revolution. With severe drought, heatwaves, food insecurity and supply chain disruptions plaguing the planet like never before, CubicFarms is responding with the most impactful and disruptive agricultural innovation since the introduction of vertical farming. Attended virtually and in-person by more than 1,600 journalists, influencers, tech insiders, and industry and […]
East Side Games Launches Rupaul’s Drag Race Superstar Mobile Game
Vancouver’s East Side Games (ESG) has announced the worldwide launch of RuPaul’s Drag Race Superstar, in partnership with World of Wonder Productions (WOW). The game is now available on iOS and Android. Earlier this year ESG entered into a multi-year partnership with WOW for the exclusive mobile game rights to the Emmy Award-winning competition series. “We […]
San Francisco’s GrubMarket Acquires Vancouver’s Funtech Software
San Francisco’s GrubMarket has acquired Vancouver’s Funtech Software for an undisclosed sum. Funtech provides comprehensive e-commerce systems and online grocery software solutions to both online grocery companies and brick-and-mortar grocery stores. GrubMarket raised a USD $120 million Series E round last month and is now valued at over $1 billion. This marks GrubMarket’s first acquisition in […]
Scale Your Startup In Bermuda With The DMZ
In today’s increasingly remote world, product market fit has become geographically agnostic. While global traction has become more attainable as a result of the pandemic, Canadian startups need to have a deep understanding of a local ecosystem in order to enter its market. With this shift, the DMZ at Ryerson University has announced a new […]
Be Wary Of Fake Vaccine Passports
To slow the spread of COVID-19 variants, residents of British Columbia must now show their provincial vaccine card to prove their vaccination status before accessing non-essential events, services, and businesses. This month, Prime Minister Trudeau also announced that a federal vaccine passport will soon come into effect. Once again, cyber criminals are capitalizing on current events […]
Pocketed Raises $1 Million To Break Down Financial Barriers For All Entrepreneurs
Pocketed has raised a $1 million seed round led by Mike Volker’s WUTIF Capital, with participation from more than a dozen investors including Hustle Fund, Women’s Equity Lab and New Avenue Capital. The rapidly growing Vancouver startup has created an intelligent matching platform and marketplace to connect businesses to billions of dollars in grants and […]
Award Winning Video Game Creators Reunite to Form SuperNatural Studios
2020 was a big year for Vancouver’s gaming ecosystem. Independent gaming studios thrived as stay-at-home and lockdown orders from the pandemic increased sales of video games to record highs. The year ended with not one, not two, but three acquisitions in the gaming space as $250+ million dollars flooded into the local market as global […]
UBC Entrepreneur Wins Inaugural £1 Million Earthshot Prize
Globally, we generate $120 billion of agricultural waste every year. What farmers cannot sell, they often burn, with catastrophic consequences for human health and the environment. The burning of agricultural waste causes air pollution that in some areas has reduced life expectancy by a decade. This week a social enterprise with innovation roots at UBC […]