City of Vancouver Councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung has proposed closing select streets in downtown Vancouver, including the Granville Entertainment District, to vehicle traffic in order to help revitalize areas hard-hit by COVID. Kirby-Yung’s ideas also include expanding patio spaces for businesses, bringing in live music, and allowing farmer’s markets and craft markets to set up shop. The […]
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SOTW 008: Faber
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Faber Technologies. Construction work isn’t just business, it’s personal. The team that created Faber Connect knew that to be true. They talked and, more to the point, they listened to construction workers and contractors. They […]
Vancouver’s OpsGuru Acquired by Toronto’s Carbon60
One day after being named Canada’s AWS Consulting Partner of the Year, Vancouver’s OpsGuru has been acquired by Toronto-based managed cloud hosting service provider Carbon60. OpsGuru helps clients around the world adopt cloud technologies, upgrade workflows to cloud-native designs and secure and optimize systems for greater efficiency. The company is a leading Canadian partner for […]
Absolute Software to Acquire Seattle’s NetMotion
Vancouver-headquartered Absolute Software is acquiring Seattle’s NetMotion Software for USD $340 million. Founded all the way back in 1993, Absolute’s original mission was to enable individuals and businesses to manage, track and secure computers regardless of the physical location of the device. Absolute has grown into a leader in Endpoint Resilience solutions, focused on minimizing […]
Boast Expands Leadership Team with Industry Heavyweights
Vancouver-headquartered Boast is putting their recent fundraising dollars to work. The Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit platform has added a new board member and three new executives to its c-suite. Laurie Schultz joins Boast’s board of directors. She was most recently the CEO of Galvanize, a SaaS Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) […]
Vancouver’s OpsGuru Named AWS Consulting Partner of the Year
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the 2021 Canada AWS Partner Award winners, recognizing channel leaders playing a key role helping Canadian customers drive innovation and build solutions on the AWS Cloud. Announced during the annual AWS Partner Summit, the AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of born-in-the cloud, and traditional AWS Consulting and […]
Snack Dating App Offers Up Snack-sized Investment Opportunity To Gen Z
Vancouver dating app Snack is launching a dedicated investment platform to enable the app to be powered by the community that uses it, Gen Z. Snack is a video-driven dating app -think Tinder meets TikTok- where users share videos of themselves on Snack and match with other users. Snack believes video promotes authenticity, transparency, and […]
TiE Vancouver To Host Demo Day On June 10th
TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) was founded in Silicon Valley in 1992 by successful entrepreneurs with roots in the Indus region (the Indian subcontinent). With a mission to support startups through networking and the raising of capital for entrepreneurs, TiE has spread over 72 chapters in 17 countries with over 20,000 Members. The British Columbia Chapter […]
Covalent Goes Community-led Closing $10 Million in the CoinList Public Sale
Vancouver’s Covalent, a unified API for blockchain data, has closed $10 million in funding from a CoinList Public Sale. Through the CoinList public sale, over 14,000 new token holders were added to the Covalent community. The new funding will bring the Covalent Query Token, CQT, to the public for the first time as Covalent continues to […]
Q+A with CEO of WELL Health on the Future of Digital Care in Canada
This past year has seen the North American healthcare system stretched to its limits, with hospitals and frontline workers being overwhelmed and Canadians struggling to access healthcare as they’ve done before. 2020 demonstrated the need for increased innovation in health technology and, at WELL Health Technologies, the focus has always been on leveraging technology to […]