The Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize celebrates innovative ideas and entrepreneurial pursuits from the Simon Fraser University community. Open to early-stage business ventures founded by SFU students from undergraduate, graduate and professional programs, as well as by staff, faculty, and recent alumni, competitors are judged by a panel of industry experts on the quality of […]
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SOTW 007: Snack
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Snack. If anyone knows the online dating world, it’s Kimberly Kaplan, CEO of Snack. Before starting Snack, she was the Vice President of Product Management, Revenue Optimization & Marketing at Plenty of Fish, a Vancouver-based […]
UBC Spin-Off Acquired By Bill Gates-backed Bioremediation Company
Vancouver’s Metabolik Technologies has been acquired by the Boston-based, Bill Gates-backed waste remediation firm Allonnia. The acquisition of the UBC spin-off is part of a $20 million strategic investment in Allonnia by Evok Innovations, a leading cleantech fund of which Metabolik is a portfolio company. Metabolik was co-founded by Vikramaditya Yadav, a professor of chemical and biological engineering […]
FARM-TRACE Selected For First Cohort of Google Climate Change Accelerator
Vancouver’s FARM-TRACE has been chosen to participate in the first cohort of Google’s climate change accelerator, which is aimed at supporting companies developing technologies that support the global fight against the climate crisis. FARM-TRACE automates impact reporting across farms, aiming to help users receive transparency into monitoring metrics including deforestation or carbon stored. The agtech […]
San Francisco’s Productboard To Grow Vancouver Team After Raising USD $72 Million
San Francisco-headquartered project management startup Productboard has raised $72 million in Series C funding led by Tiger Global. Founded in 2014, Productboard provides a cloud-based platform that enables companies to plan what new product features to develop based on requests from their customers. Productboard has grown rapidly in the last year and now supports over 4,000 […]
Grab Your Ticket For Vancouver Startup Week
Vancouver Startup Week (VSW) is back for its 8th consecutive year and will be taking place virtually from May 21–28th. While Vancouver Startup Week involves many tech companies, it’s an event for companies from all industries that are at the startup level. Attendees will be able to attend exciting events like fireside chats, hackathons and […]
Kelowna’s Lomi Is Tackling Food Waste With A Home Composting Machine
After chopping fruits and vegetables, what do you do with the waste? For many, the process is a complete mess with various plastic bins and misplaced foods. Enter Lomi, the world’s first kitchen appliance that will turn food scraps, boxes, cloth and bioplastics into dirt within 24 hours. Lomi is manufactured by Kelowna’s Pela, best […]
Neptune Digital Raises $40 Million To Accelerate Growth
Vancouver’s Neptune Digital Assets has raised $40 million from institutional investors and earmarked the funds to accelerate growth. Founded during the 2017 cryptocurrency boom, Neptune is one of the first and longest-running cryptocurrency companies on a Canadian stock exchange (TSXV:NDA). Neptune’s portfolio of investments and cryptocurrency operations across the digital asset ecosystem include staking cryptocurrency, […]
The Responsible Producer – The Simple Answer To Save The World For Our Grandchildren
It is not responsible to pass on the responsibility. According to many studies, Canadians want a single-use plastics ban, however, this can mean many things; less plastics, different plastics, more recycling, and the list goes on – making regulation difficult to create. The notion of a single-use plastics ban has consumers, manufacturers, restaurants, and retailers […]
East Side Games Partners With Australia’s Mighty Kingdom Games
Another day, another publishing partnership for Vancouver’s East Side Games (ESG). The LEAF Mobile subsidiary has inked a partnership with Australia’s Mighty Kingdom Games for the global release of a mobile game on iOS and Android. Established in 2010, Mighty Kingdom has released more than 50 games, with more than 50 million downloads, and has […]