Vancouver’s FISPAN has been working with some of the largest banks in North America to simplify the business banking experience in order to better support their commercial clients. FISPAN enables banks to easily connect their legacy systems to their business banking clients’ accounting systems in order to offer integrated digital banking, trade, and payment solutions. […]
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Brave To Address Overdose Crisis And Accelerate 9-1-1 Response Times
Each year, over 250 million calls are made to 9-1-1 in the United States, relying primarily on the limited context of a phone call. This can result in delays in dispatch and under-informed first responders. Vancouver’s Brave Technology Coop and RapidSOS have announced a partnership that will not only improve encounters between first responders and […]
BBTV Launches New Service Offerings to Instagram and TikTok Influencers
YouTube monetization pioneer BBTV has announced the launch of new offerings at scale to influencers across all genres of content on Instagram and TikTok. While BBTV’s bread and butter remains YouTube where over 2 billion people log-in each month, Instagram and TikTok are fast approaching YouTube’s reach with Instagram hitting one billion monthly users in […]
Canadian Program to Deploy Cancer Testing During COVID-19 Reaches Key Milestones
COVID-19 has delayed at least 100,000 surgeries in Canada, including up to 30 percent of cancer-related surgeries such as tissue biopsies. Currently, surgery backlogs are estimated to be 1-2 years across the country. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) testing has been found to be an effective alternative to some surgical tissue biopsies to guide cancer targeted […]
Jill Tipping’s 2021 Predictions for BC’s Tech Community
Predictions, eh? Asked to write about what I expect in 2021 I found myself wondering just how badly wrong I’d got it wrong for 2020! Turns out not so bad after all. I was definitely right with prediction #1: 2020 was indeed a year of change vs. more of the same and prediction #3: 2020 […]
Behind Every Moon Shot Is A Supply Chain
Advancing technology to tackle ambitious goals is one thing, but what underpins those bleeding-edge innovations? There are plenty of dynamic startups out there that capture the hearts and imaginations of wishful space tourists and prospective robot dog owners. From life-changing scientific breakthroughs to revolutionary applications of artificial intelligence – being in-the-know about these buzzword-filled innovations […]
Insurtech APOLLO Closes $13.5 Million Series A Round
Vancouver’s APOLLO Insurance has closed an oversubscribed $13.5 million Series A financing round. Launched in April 2019, APOLLO is redefining the distribution of insurance and now offers the largest selection of online insurance in Canada through thousands of digitally enhanced agents and embedded finance partnerships. APOLLO’s proprietary technology platform, the APOLLO Exchange, transacts insurance business in […]
Hootsuite Acquires Digital Customer Engagement Platform Sparkcentral
Vancouver-headquartered Hootsuite has acquired Sparkcentral, a customer service SaaS platform that enables 1:1 conversational messaging through Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, WhatsApp, WeChat, SMS, and Chat. The acquisition is Hootsuite’s thirteenth since being founded in 2008 and is its first since 2017. Based in Belgium and with an office in New York, Sparkcentral is a social […]
AbCellera Plans To Hire Hundreds In Vancouver
Vancouver’s AbCellera emerged last year as a leading early stage company in the race to bring COVID-19 treatments to market when their Pandemic Prevention Platform team brought the first COVID-19 antibody to clinical trials in under 90 days. Their herculean efforts were acknowledged when the pharmaceutical upstart was named the winner of Fast Company’s Innovative Team […]
Shopify To Double Engineering Team In 2021 By Hiring 2,021 New Technical Roles
Shopify has tapped industry veteran Cathy Polinsky as the company’s new vice president of engineering as it plans to double the size of its engineering team this year. As the newest senior leader on Shopify’s engineering team, Polinsky will lead Shopify’s efforts to build its e-commerce infrastructure and will lead the company’s efforts to double […]