While impacts of the pandemic to businesses have varied wildly across sectors, it has been particularly painful for small operators. For many service based entrepreneurs; coaches and instructors, beauticians, stylists, and personal trainers, ‘business as usual’ literally shuttered overnight. Those running small online businesses selling physical goods, themselves struggled with cratering supply chains, disrupted shipping […]
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Dooly Raises USD $80 Million Series B Two Months After Series A Round
Just two months after raising a Series A round, Vancouver’s Dooly is back at it with a Series B. Today the CRM automation software startup announced it has raised a USD $80 million funding round led by Spark Capital with new participation from Greenspring, Tiger Global, and Lachy Groom, and continued participation from boldstart ventures, […]
Creative Destruction Lab Establishes CDL-Seattle At University of Washington
Canada’s Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) will launch its third U.S.-based location in Seattle this fall. CDL is a nonprofit organization for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies, with ten locations including CDL-Vancouver at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. Based at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, CDL-Seattle will […]
Celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day and How Far Bitcoin Has Come
In May 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz, a developer from Florida, made the first known purchase of a good with bitcoin. He was mining tens of thousands of bitcoin from his home. Even though he had large amounts, he had nowhere to spend his bitcoin. Fortunately, he was part of a Bitcoin Talk Forum started by Satoshi […]
BC Research Funders Create Partnership For Nine New COVID-19 Projects
Genome BC, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and the BCCDC Foundation for Public Health have partnered for the first time to fund rapid response research initiatives that will have a direct impact – in a matter of months – on people in British Columbia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Valued at approximately $1.3 million, […]
ChopValue Secures $3 Million Round That Includes Former Shopify CMO
Vancouver’s ChopValue has raised $3.15 million in new funding from existing shareholders Fulmer & Company and Active Impact, with participation from BDC Capital, Export Development Canada, and others including Craig Miller. Miller is the former Chief Marketing and Chief Product Officer of e-commerce darling Shopify. ChopValue is the brainchild of Felix Böck, a former UBC […]
Unbounce Acquires Snazzy AI to Help Take the Struggle out of Writing Copy
Vancouver’s Unbounce has acquired Snazzy AI, a freemium AI powered copywriting tool running. Within minutes and with minimal human input, Snazzy AI generates copy for ads, emails, landing pages, pitches, TikTok video ideas and more. With this newest acquisition, Unbounce is poised to move beyond landing pages, advance the conversion intelligence space and continue to […]
PrecisionOS Launches First Fully Interactive Robotics Platform in VR
Vancouver’s PrecisionOS, the creators of the medical-grade virtual reality (VR) learning platform, has unveiled the world’s first fully interactive robotics platform in VR. Typical surgical education involves flying surgeons, residents, and sales reps to a facility with a robot, which is not only costly, but occurs weeks to months prior to the first case, rendering […]
Launch Academy Giving Away $100K In Scholarships To Aspiring Entrepreneurs
The past year have been difficult for a lot of people, but in particular for the younger workforce. Launch Academy is stepping up to help out. Ray Walia & Launch Academy are giving away $100,000 worth of scholarships for their online Launch Your Startup program for up to 300 aspiring entrepreneurs who have found themselves […]
Awesense Launches Marketplace to Empower Development of Clean Energy Solutions
Vancouver’s Awesense has launched the only energy-focused repository of solutions built to drive the decarbonization of the energy system. The Awesense Marketplace is unlike a traditional repository by providing a common framework for companies to collaborate towards the future of clean energy and digital transformation. The platform brings cutting-edge applications, solutions and algorithms together to […]