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Vancouver Startup Helps Recruiters Connect With Essential Workers During COVID-19 Crisis

April 21, 2020 by Techcouver Newsdesk

Vancouver’s Rectxt announced this week that they are giving away their text recruiting platform for free to recruiters who are hiring essential workers during the COVID-19 crisis. The bootstrapped HR Tech startup has created a Chrome extension that allows recruiters to instantly send text messages and launch text campaigns from any website, customer relationship management […]

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FORM Raises $12 Million Series A Round For Augmented Reality Swim Goggles

April 21, 2020 by Robert Lewis

FORM has raised a $12 million Series A round led by large family offices in the UK and Denmark with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. Vancouver’s FORM is the direct-to-consumer sports technology company behind the world’s first augmented reality swim goggles. The investment comes after the successful launch of the FORM Smart Swim Goggles in […]

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Leading From Beginning to End, Jay Parmar Wraps Up Eventbrite in Vancouver

April 20, 2020 by Robert Lewis

In September of 2012 I wrote about an event ticketing startup called Picatic for the first time on Techvibes. The company had landed itself with Extreme Startups in Toronto and was launching a crowdfunding platform called EventTilt. Crowdsourcing was all the rage at the time and their new platform was guaranteeing successful events by completely […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Eventbrite, Picatic

Employers Could Be Doing More To Support Working From Home

April 20, 2020 by Techcouver Newsdesk

With the world on lockdown, Vancouver-based startup Procurify recently conducted a survey of 600 people who are currently working from home to assess how COVID-19 is impacting their life. The results of the Work From Home Survey paint a mixed picture – with employees enjoying newfound flexibility and contending with newfound stresses. The most obvious impact […]

Filed Under: Bulletin Board Tagged With: Procurify

Shopify Capital Launches In Canada And Issues First Loan in 34 Minutes

April 20, 2020 by Robert Lewis

Shopify is on fire. Their stock price skyrocketed again today, putting it in a tight race with TD Bank to become the country’s second-most valuable company on the TSX behind RBC. The e-commerce company’s shares were up 7 per cent, pushing its market value over $100 billion. Investors rushed to buy Shopify shares last week […]

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Amazon To Hire Across Operations Network To Meet Unprecedented Demand

April 20, 2020 by Techcouver Newsdesk

On March 16th, Amazon announced they would make 100,000 full- and part-time hires across their operations network to keep as many people as possible working during the coronavirus pandemic. They also announced that the company would invest over $350 million globally to increase pay for their teams during the crisis. A month later the e-commerce […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Amazon

With Walk-in Medical Clinic Traffic Down, Medimap Launches Telemedicine

April 20, 2020 by Techcouver Newsdesk

Medimap is Canada’s largest online and mobile real-time resource for same-day access to care. Across Canada, 70 per cent of all walk-in medical clinics are registered with Medimap and millions of patients rely on their service to look up wait times at walk-in medical clinics. But as concerns regarding the COVID-19 health pandemic continue to […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Medimap, Tiny Capital

Canadian Businesses Need a Rent Subsidy

April 17, 2020 by David Gens

I’ve had a front row seat in watching disruption in the small business industry for the past 11 years. From the effect of the crash in oil prices on Alberta’s small businesses to the steady growth of e-commerce to the detriment of brick and mortar retail, nothing prepared us for this. COVID-19 has brought an […]

Filed Under: Thought Leaders Tagged With: Merchant Growth

Record Number Of Startups Apply For New Ventures BC Competition

April 17, 2020 by Techcouver Newsdesk

New Ventures B.C. Competition Awards

The 20th New Ventures BC Competition presented by Innovate BC has officially begun. Despite the current uncertain circumstances, this year’s annual competition broke records with over 240 applications from B.C.’s early stage tech startups and this week they announced the 214 startups that are moving onto Round 2. What’s next for the competitors? The ventures […]

Filed Under: Bulletin Board Tagged With: Innovate BC, New Ventures BC

Luggage Brand Monos Launches Hand-held Sanitization Device 

April 16, 2020 by Robert Lewis

With the spread of COVID-19 and subsequent travel bans, the travel industry has taken a significant hit world-wide. With this in mind, Vancouver-based travel accessories company Monos has developed a new product to help consumers now and for future travel. Monos has announced the launch of The CleanPod, a hand-held rechargeable sanitizer that uses ultraviolet […]

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