Vancouver’s UpMeals has partnered with Simon Fraser University (SFU) and one of their SmartVending machines will be on the Burnaby campus this fall. The machine will provide 24/7 access to healthy, fresh, and sustainable meal options for students and an alternative to costly meal delivery services and restaurants in the area. SFU will install their […]
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TraceSafe Enters Oil & Gas Industry With Wearables Solution
Vancouver’s TraceSafe is making moves in the oil & gas space. The BC Tech Award finalist has landed Oil Search, a responsible energy company, as a wearables client. Oil Search is the largest oil and gas exploration and development company in Papua New Guinea and operates all of Papua New Guinea’s oilfields. Founded in 1929, […]
Svante Receives $25 Million To Centre Of Excellence For Carbon Capture
Federal Minister of Science, Innovation and Industry François-Philippe Champagne has announced a $25 million investment in Burnaby’s Svante today. Named after Nobel Laureate Svante Arrhenius, one of the first scientists to identify the atmospheric carbon-climate change connection, Svante captures carbon dioxide directly from industrial sources at less than half the capital cost of existing carbon removal […]
XenCALL Becomes ReadyMode, Secures $4 Million, and Is Hiring
Vancouver’s XenCALL has changed its name to ReadyMode and secured $4 million in venture debt to scale its operations. ReadyMode is a call centre software provider that offers industry leading dialing speeds through its cloud-based predictive dialer. The new brand marks a new era for the company and better aligns with the startup’s ambitions and […]
BlocPal Launches OneFeather APP To Make Digital Banking More Accessible for Indigenous Peoples
Vancouver’s BlocPal has partnered with OneFeather, a national leader in dedicated Indigenous banking solutions, to launch OneFeather APP, a new digital banking application. BlocPal is a digital transaction platform that integrates blockchain and payment processing solutions to make financial services more affordable and accessible. The launch of the OneFeather APP marks a significant milestone in […]
Active Impact Investments Closes $54 Million Climate Tech Fund
Vancouver’s Active Impact Investments has closed its oversubscribed second fund at $54 million, making the firm one of the fastest growing environmental impact venture capital companies in Canada. Active Impact Investments is a Certified B Corp with a mission is to support environmental sustainability through profitable investment. With two limited partnership funds with over $64 […]
Ideon and Orano Deploy World’s First Borehole Muon Tomography Solution
Canadian Earth ‘x-ray’ startup Ideon Technologies and top world uranium producer Orano have deployed the world’s first cosmic-ray muon detector for use in industry-standard boreholes. The EUREKA-approved research and development project, which is receiving advisory services and funding support from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP), will run from […]
The Future of Residential Real Estate
What we know today to be traditional real estate in Canada is almost as old as the country itself. The very first real estate board was set up in 1888 in the growing community of Vancouver. Over the next 100 years regulations and associations were formed to assist consumers to purchase or sell property. Little […]
Dan Mangan’s Side Door Raises USD $3 Million Round Led By Rhino Ventures
Dan Mangan is a Vancouver-based singer-songwriter with two Juno Awards to his name and he’s added startup founder to his resume as well. Mangan’s rise in the music ranks was not overnight. It was slow and hard and he’s no stranger to the tiny venues that struggling musicians are resigned to play until they make […]
Vancouver Drops Five Spots In Global Startup Ecosystem Rankings
Canada has maintained its fourth position in StartupBlink’s 2021 global ecosystem rankings, but the gap between Canada and the top three countries has widened. StartupBlink ranks the startup ecosystems of countries and cities around the world by scoring ecosystems on the quantity of startups and support entities, the quality of the startup ecosystem, and the business […]