Vancouver’s Dooly is putting their fresh funding to work. The connected workspace pioneer and leading CRM automation software making Salesforce fast and painless, today announced four new additions to its leadership team: Nikita Miller as Vice President of Product, Michelle Pietsch as Vice President of Revenue, Candace Bajgoric as Head of People and Culture, and […]
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WELL Health Acquires MyHealth To Become Largest Outpatient Medical Clinic Provider
Vancouver-headquartered WELL Health Technologies is at it again. Laser-focused on consolidating and modernizing clinical and digital assets within the healthcare sector, WELL Health has acquired MyHealth Partners for up to $266 million. MyHealth provides primary care, specialty care, telehealth services and accredited diagnostic health services from 48 locations across Ontario and 22 locations across British […]
Vancouver’s CoinOS Launches First White-label NFT Marketplace
Artists, digital creators and luxury brands are cashing in on transactions worth millions of dollars, on an explosion in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) — but only if they know what they’re doing. The barrier to entry for any individual or company just dropped to almost zero thanks to LNFT, an open source marketplace platform developed by […]
Transition into Tech Encourages Women To Explore Tech Careers
Northeastern University in Vancouver is hosting a virtual Transition into Tech event next week in collaboration with Athena Pathways in an effort to encourage more women (and the community in general) to explore a career in tech. The session kicks off with an all-women industry panel, followed by a tech program highlight from B.C. academic institutions including […]
Trulioo Closes Massive Series D Round At $1.75 Billion Valuation
Vancouver-born Trulioo has completed a $394 million Series D round at a massive $1.75 billion valuation, joining the city’s growing stable of unicorns. Trulioo is a global identity network enabling companies to reliably onboard customers in a digital-first world. For Trulioo’s customers, this speeds international expansion, mitigates fraud risk, and ensures regulatory compliance. Over past […]
New Ventures BC Narrows Field for 2021 Startup Competition
The 21st annual New Ventures BC Competition presented by Innovate BC is well underway. Despite the current uncertain circumstances, this year’s annual competition broke records with over 200 applications from B.C.’s early stage tech startups. 206 of those startups moved onto Round 2 and today they announced the names of 15 companies that are advancing directly into Round […]
Nano One Graduates to the Toronto Stock Exchange
Nano One Materials is moving to the Toronto Stock Exchange. Nano One shares will commence trading on the TSX effective as of market open on Tuesday June 8th under a new trading symbol “NANO”, and will cease to trade on the TSX Venture Exchange. The cleantech company has a patented, scalable and low carbon intensity […]
SOTW 011: Omnisearch
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Omnisearch. A pain point can spark the best ideas. That was the case for Omnisearch. This company arose out of its co-founder’s frustration with the time-consuming nit-picking task of searching for an exact minute within […]
Brüush Acquires The Dollar Brush As It Gears Up For Expansion
Vancouver’s Bruush Oral Care has acquired The Dollar Brush, a direct-to-consumer player in the electric toothbrush subscription space. The acquisition will allow Brüush to accelerate its strategic initiatives, including increasing brand awareness as well as bolstering the company’s innovative, integrated, subscription-based business model. “At the end of 2020, we committed to aggressively building our brand […]
Business Is Killing The World; Can Social Enterprise Save It?
Approximately $40,000 worth of plastic is dumped into the world’s oceans every minute. Since the pandemic was declared, the amount of trash filling our oceans has only multiplied. In fact, COVID-19 has triggered an estimated global use of 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves every single month. Single-use plastic has exponentially increased because […]