The prevalence of security automation has exploded in recent years, a trend that appears to have been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies adapt to remote workforces and a growing attack surface. In response to growing online security threats, Vancouver’s D3 Security has secured a growth equity investment of USD $10 million from Vistara […]
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Pixieset Acquires Leading Provider of WordPress Themes for Photographers and Creatives
Vancouver’s Pixieset has acquired Los Angeles-based Flothemes, a premium WordPress website designer for photographers, and other creative businesses. Pixieset is an all-in-one SaaS platform that offers a range of solutions including client galleries, websites, online stores to help photographers and other creatives manage their workflow. As part of the acquisition, Flothemes Founder Ross Tanner has […]
New Ventures BC Announces Top 10 for 2021 Competition
New Ventures BC has announced the Top 10 companies of this year’s startup competition. The New Ventures BC Competition started in 2000 under the direction of Wal van Lierop, to encourage innovation in BC’s tech sector. Since then, the organization has supported 2,360 startups, who have created 3,720+ jobs and have raised $302 million in financing. Who […]
EMERGE Commerce To Acquire Subscription Brands BattlBox and Carnivore Club
Direct-to-consumer e-commerce leader EMERGE Commerce is in acquisition mode, adding their 6th and 7th brands in North America. EMERGE has acquired subscription businesses BattlBox and Carnivore Club for up to USD $19 million. Atlanta’s BattlBox is a market leading survival, outdoor and camping goods subscription business-based in the US, and notably, featured in its own […]
Connecting The Dots: August 2021
Each month, Kathleen Reid (Founder + Managing Director at Switchboard Public Relations) connects the dots between the trends, headlines and narratives that are informing the BC tech sector. With record-breaking heat waves and wildfires in the province, and the calling of a federal election on September 20, it comes as no surprise that BC’s recent […]
PDFTron Acquires PDF-to-Office Innovator Solid Documents
Vancouver’s PDFTron Systems has acquired New Zealand’s Solid Documents, a provider of best-in-class document reconstruction and archiving solutions embedded in blue-chip company internal software, including that of Coca-Cola and Volvo. The deal marks the sixth acquisition as part of PDFTron’s roadmap acceleration strategy since receiving a $71 million growth investment by Silversmith Capital Partners in 2019 and strengthens the company’s position […]
Cybersecurity Startup Cmd Acquired By Elastic
Vancouver cybersecurity startup Cmd has been acquired by Amsterdam-headquartered Elastic. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Cmd’s technology provides runtime security for cloud infrastructure, helping organizations gain better visibility into processes that are running. The acquisition comes just days after Elastic announced the acquisition of build.security. With Cmd on board Elastic will […]
Unbounce Names Ad-Tech Finance Veteran As Chief Financial Officer
Vancouver’s Unbounce has named Greg Dos Santos as Chief Financial Officer. Dos Santos comes to Unbounce with over 20 years of financial leadership experience in the technology industry for growing Software as a Service (SaaS) and professional services companies. “Greg is a modern CFO. His decades of experience leading global financial teams, mergers and acquisitions, […]
What Does It Take To Be A Winning Tech Startup In BC?
The future is bright in North America’s top large city of the future. B.C.’s tech scene, much of it based out of Vancouver, just keeps winning with companies like Dapper Labs and Clio announcing huge funding rounds. However, many of those “overnight success” stories were actually years in the making. Who’s the next big winner? […]
Google Selects Vancouver’s SafetyDocs For Women Founders Accelerator
Four Canadian startups are among the 12 chosen to participate in the second Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders program cohort. The Women Founders accelerator is open to tech startups in the seed to Series A stages, with headquarters in Canada or the United States. The program is designed for companies with women founders, or […]