Vancouver’s GameOn Entertainment Technologies has partnered with NFT platform Blockparty to launch a first-of-its-kind NFT Predictor product. GameOn, a Victory Square Technologies portfolio company, provides broadcasters, TV networks, OTT platforms, leagues, tournaments and sportsbooks with interactive, social experiences around sports, TV and live events. The NFT Predictor, spearheaded by Santiago Jaramillo, former Head of Sports […]
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Ionomr Selected For Amazon’s Inaugural AWS Clean Energy Accelerator
Vancouver’s Ionomr Innovations is on a roll. Last month the World Economic Forum named Ionomr to its list of the 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2021 and now the startup has been selected as one of the 10 participants in the inaugural AWS Clean Energy Accelerator program. Ionomr manufactures ion-exchange membranes and polymers for clean energy […]
SOTW 017: Foraged
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Foraged. It happens that a startup can change the way we look at the world. That’s what Foraged is doing. It is proving that fungi are not just for eating, but instead have extraordinary and […]
B.C. Centre For Innovation And Clean Energy To Launch This Fall
The B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy is launching this fall with $70 million in combined funding from the provincial government and Shell Canada. The provincial government first announced its intention to create the centre, which will focus on commercializing B.C.’s clean technology, in September 2020 as part of its economic-recovery plan. “Climate change […]
GetintheLoop Partners With BenefitHub To Expand Into The United States
Canada’s largest shop local platform has partnered with BenefitHub to fuel their expansion into the United States. Kelowna’s GetintheLoop has partnered with BenefitHub, the world’s largest employee lifestyle benefits company with 17 million global members. Soon restaurants, retailers, and service and hospitality businesses throughout the U.S. will be able to access GetintheLoop’s suite of local business marketing […]
TraceSafe Provides Wearable Tech For The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth
Vancouver’s Tracesafe will be making the rodeo events at the Calgary Stampede a little bit safer as the exclusive provider of wearable health and safety technology for the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth. TraceSafe’s wearable technology, in the form of ultra-light battery-powered wristbands, will be used by all competition athletes, rodeo staff, and international travellers. […]
“Far Cry” Comes To Zero Latency Vancouver As VR Hub Returns Post-pandemic
Buoyed and energized by the relaxation of pandemic protocols that severely limited its operations for much of the past 15 months, Zero Latency Vancouver is back. The relaunch coincides with the exclusive B.C. virtual reality release of the global AAA video game Far Cry by Ubisoft. Zero Latency VR, the global leading provider of free-roaming […]
Sparkgeo Expands Geospatial Analysis Practice Into UK
You can’t see them, but they’re there: an astonishing number of satellites in the earth’s orbit at any given time. Add half the globe’s population capturing GPS location data from smartphones every second, and together, all of this geolocated data creates a digital map in real time, ready to be harnessed and applied, resulting in […]
PAI Health Partners With Zurich Insurance For Brazil Pilot
Vancouver’s PAI Health has announced the launch of a 12-month pilot program with global insurer, Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich). Regional subsidiary Zurich Brazil will pilot PAI Health technology with 1500 employees to inform a broader rollout strategy of the technology to Zurich’s wider customer base. The goal is to help employees stay active and healthy […]
Alpha Insights Awarded Contract from the Canadian Space Agency to Develop SAR Technology
Vancouver’s Alpha Insights has been awarded a contract by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) valued at over $1.7 million, for the development of high-speed onboard processing enabled by the company’s patented SAR-XL processing technology. Alpha Insights is a developer of ground-breaking high-resolution, dual-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology. As a part of the twenty-month contract, […]