When consumers depend on retail businesses the most, those businesses are the most vulnerable to cyber-attacks. With seemingly never-ending Christmas shopping lists and lengthy grocery store lines, consumers rely on their trusted retailers during this time of year more than any other. But these retailers are also at heightened risk of cyber-attacks, with businesses facing […]
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GenXys Inks Deal with Precision Genetics for Personalized Medicine
Vancouver’s GenXys Healthcare Systems has inked a deal with Precision Genetics that will see the company use GenXys’s software solutions to embed pharmacogenetics (PGx) and offer an improved and transformative approach to precision prescribing. Precision prescribing has become a leading method to bring PGx closer to the standard of care for certain conditions that often […]
Ryan Holmes’ LOI Venture Invests In Employee Engagement Platform WFHomie
Ryan Holmes’ new venture fund has made its first investment. LOI Venture, a collaboration between Holmes and New Avenue Capital’s Manny Padda, has led a USD $1.5 million seed round in WFHomie, an employee engagement and distributed team culture platform. LOI Venture invests solely in early-stage startups who enrol in League of Innovators programs. Both […]
Daanaa Raises USD $7 Million Series A Round Led By VoLo Earth Ventures
Vancouver startup Daanaa Resolution has raised a USD $7 million Series A round led by VoLo Earth Ventures. Daanaa’s proprietary semiconductors provide medium- and modality-free power transactions. That allows solar panels to overcome conventional hardware restrictions of cell connectivity, optimizers and inverter composition, dramatically increasing power production and reducing BOS costs. Alumni of UBC’s HATCH Accelerator […]
Streamline Athletes Acquires Collegiate Distance Running Analytics Site
Vancouver’s Streamline Athletes has acquired The Stride Report, a site that provides NCAA track/cross-country rankings, projections, and analysis. The acquisition comes after The Stride Report ceased operations in June 2021. The acquisition means that The Stride Report will be able to immediately return to covering collegiate distance running via articles, podcasts, rankings, and projections. With […]
Sonic Incytes Raises $9.3 Million To Accelerate Velacur Commercialization
Vancouver’s Sonic Incytes has completed a $9.3 million Series A round led by Nimbus Synergies. The strategic equity round, which was oversubscribed by 150%, comes after the launch of Velacur, the first handheld 3D liver health assessment solution, in the US market in early 2021. Cleared by the FDA, Velacur is a handheld, point of […]
Wishpond Acquires Shopify Shopping Cart Abandonment Tool
Vancouver’s Wishpond has gone shopping again. In its fourth acquisition of the year Wishpond has acquired New York’s Winback, a SMS marketing solutions platform including a cart abandonment tool for use with Shopify. The acquisition of WinBack provides Wishpond with an intuitive and user-friendly automated SMS marketing product and cart abandonment tool for Shopify merchants that […]
Crypto Firms Lean Toward Compliance Verification As Regulatory Environment Changes
Today Vancouver’s Trulioo announced six new customers in the cryptocurrency industry: Centbee, GMO Trust, Omni Matrix, Skilling, Strike Protocols and Vintech Capital. Trulioo is the leading global identity verification company, building trust online so that businesses and consumers can transact safely and securely. Trulioo’s platform provides real-time verification of 5 billion consumers and 330 million […]
Ryan Holmes Teams Up With Manny Padda To Launch Venture Fund
In 2017, Hootsuite co-founder Ryan Holmes launched League of Innovators because there was a shortage of mentorship for young entrepreneurs. Today, Holmes is teaming up with fellow Vancouver angel Manny Padda to announce a $20 million venture fund called LOI Venture to address the shortage of capital for founders under 30. There was a shortage […]
Hockey Canada Selects TraceSafe For 2022 IIHF World Junior Championships
For the second year in a row Vancouver’s TraceSafe will be the exclusive provider of wearable safety technology and data analytics for the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Junior Hockey Championships. The extension follows the successful implementation of TraceSafe’s award-winning wearable technology and IoT platform at last year’s World Junior Championship, as well as […]