With the largest trade and travel bilateral relationship in the world, Canada and the United States have a long history of innovation. At its height, two-way trade reached $800 billion per year and more than 300,000 people crossed the border daily. Unfortunately the Canada-United States border has been closed for non-essential travel for over one […]
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World’s First Tesla Electric Logging Trucks Coming To Vancouver Island
If you’re driving on Vancouver Island, look out for Tesla’s futuristic semi-trucks hauling B.C. timber. Nanaimo’s Mosaic Forest Management has partnered with EcoWest Driven to introduce several Tesla semi-trucks into log hauling. Heavy vehicle operators like Mosaic are eager to replace their existing diesel fleet with electric but there have been no commercially available electric […]
SOTW 005: Nava Ventures
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Nava Ventures. After being awarded first place in Startup Canada’s Sustainable Development Goals Pitch Competition and winning the finance category of the BoomStartup pitch competition—the socially responsible fintech company is looking to change the banking […]
Online Vegan Marketplace Vejii Launches in Canada
August 16, 2021 update – ShopVejii.com now offers same-day delivery across the Lower Mainland in B.C. Vancouver’s Vejii has launched an online marketplace for vegan and plant-based products for Canada’s estimated 2.3 million vegetarians and 850,000 vegans. Vejii operates a multi-vendor platform and makes it possible for startup brands to gain national exposure and established […]
Burnaby Companies To Innovate, Advance Cleantech Sector
Two Burnaby-based companies, Advanced Intelligent Systems and Nano One, are developing projects to advance B.C.’s clean technology sector while supporting a low-carbon future with support from the Innovative Clean Energy (ICE) Fund. “Through CleanBC, we are supporting made-in-B.C. innovations that will help grow our world-leading clean tech sector and create good jobs,” said Bruce Ralston, Minister […]
NEXE Launches Xoma Superfoods eCommerce Store
NEXE Innovations has launched its highly anticipated Xoma Superfoods eCommerce store. Xoma Superfoods is NEXE’s in-house coffee and superfoods brand, launching with a line of high-quality coffees packaged exclusively in single serve, fully compostable, plant-based NEXE pods. XOMA capsules work in Keurig single-serve brewing systems and are now available in 12-count. NEXE pods are fully […]
Technology Capital Markets Veteran Joins CubicFarms
Technology Capital Markets veteran Tom Liston has joined Vancouver’s CubicFarm Systems as Vice President (VP) of Corporate Development. CubicFarms has developed fully automated technology that empowers farmers to provide independent local food access, maximize crop yields, and reduce environmental costs. Liston is a technology investor, advisor, and a Chartered Financial Analyst with over 20 years […]
With Fortune 500 Clients, Revenue Growth, Tasktop Raises $126 Million
Vancouver’s Tasktop has raised a USD $100 million strategic investment round led by San Francisco’s Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP) to accelerate growth and expand market leadership. Tasktop’s solutions enable some of the largest and most successful digital transformations in recent years for customers including BMW, CGI, E*Trade and T-Mobile. Already deployed across half of the […]
TraceSafe to Provide Contact Tracing at the 2021 Women’s World Hockey Championship
Vancouver’s TraceSafe will be the exclusive and official contact tracing partner of the Women’s World Hockey Championship in Halifax and Truro, Nova Scotia from May 6-16, 2021. TraceSafe is a full suite of real-time location management services and contact tracing solutions enabled through advanced low power Bluetooth beacons and enterprise cloud management. Powered by the […]
Take Back Control Of Your Workday With Holopod
When the COVID-19 Pandemic hit, every technology company moved to a distributed or hybrid model — and there’s no going back. The problem is that most teams haphazardly adopted practices that are toxic to top performers. Whether it be the dozens of recurring meetings that add up to days full of Zoom, the incessant notifications, or the […]