The City of North Vancouver runs on a hydronic district energy system that delivers heat to 100 residential and commercial buildings. Lonsdale Energy Corporation (LEC), the award-winning district energy utility wholly owned by the City, is on a decarbonization journey to implement more renewable and clean energy, transitioning from the use of conventional natural gas. In […]
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Pani Energy Lands $8 Million To Use AI In Water Treatment Facilities
Victoria’s Pani Energy has raised $8 million to accelerate the adoption of their software in the global water treatment market to improve clean water yield and reduce cost, risk, and emissions. The $8 million round includes a seed equity round co-led by Blue Bear Capital and Blue Coast Partners, along with participation from Mazarine Ventures […]
Looking Glass Labs Sells NFT Offering for $6.2 Million in 37 Minutes
Vancouver’s Looking Glass Labs announced this week that its flagship studio House of Kibaa recently conducted the successful sale of a class of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) known as GenZeroes. GenZeroes is a new multi-media franchise and is being developed in collaboration with several artists with work experience that includes projects for both the StarWars and […]
Popular Pitch For The Purse Is Now The Forum Pitch
Earlier this year the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs became The Forum and their Pitch for the Purse program became The Forum Pitch. What could your business achieve with $25,000, mentorship and a community of entrepreneurs, business leaders & investors actively working to open doors for you? The Forum Pitch program is divided into four sections designed […]
Vancouver Startup NiceJob Acquired by Paystone
London, Ontario’s Paystone has acquired Vancouver startup NiceJob, an award-winning reputation marketing platform for service businesses. Founded in 2017, NiceJob has quickly grown to become the North American market leader for small and medium-sized businesses looking to engage in reputation marketing. NiceJob automates the collection of online customer reviews and referrals and distributes them to […]
Province of B.C. Investing In World-leading Clean Fuels Plant In Merritt
The Province of B.C. is contributing $2 million from the Innovative Clean Energy (ICE) Fund to support the engineering and design of a first-of-its-kind plant in Merritt to capture carbon dioxide and convert it to clean fuels, creating new jobs and economic opportunities in B.C.͛s cleantech sector. “The Merritt Electro Fuels Project advances made-in-B.C. technology […]
Lucid Motors To Open Vancouver Showroom This Weekend
Sales of zero-emission cars accounted for almost 10 per cent of all car sales in B.C. in 2020 — the highest electric vehicle uptake in North America. So it should come as no surprise that the recently public electric car brand Lucid Motors will open its first showroom in Canada in Vancouver. The new showroom […]
Epic Selected For Canada’s Only Hardware & Semiconductor-Focused Incubator
Canada’s only hardware and semiconductor-focused lab has announced its third cohort of participating companies and one of B.C.’s own is in the mix. ventureLAB’s Hardware Catalyst Initiative has selected Vancouver’s Epic Semiconductors as one one of eight emerging tech companies from across Canada that the initiative will support as they aspire to join the $7 trillion […]
Alida Lands $20 Million Equity Investment from Round13 Growth Fund
Vancouver- born Alida has raised a new $20 million Series D funding round by Toronto’s Round13 Growth Fund. The leader in customer experience management (CXM) rebranded to Alida from Vision Critical one year ago. The funding round will accelerate Alida’s global growth trajectory and build on the company’s product roadmap to deliver transformative SaaS solutions […]
Fresh Off New Ventures BC Award, Train Fitness Looks to Perfect Product
Many flirt with fitness on and off. They will attend the gym religiously—for a month, perhaps two—before vanishing into the ether. This may occur perennially. The friction that stops people from maintaining long-term consistency with regards to working out is often minimal. Yet it becomes the difference between developing the gym into a desired habit […]