New Ventures BC has announced the Top 10 companies of this year’s startup competition and now they need your help. While the judges will decide who wins the top prizes, New Ventures BC is asking the tech community to have your say on the $10,000 Innovate BC People’s Choice Award. Note that the prize purse […]
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WELL Health Raises $23 Million And Goes Shopping In Silicon Valley
WELL Health Technologies has invested $18.2 million in Circle Medical, giving them majority control of the Silicon Valley healthcare startup. In tandem to this Circle Medical announcement, WELL announced that it has received an additional $23 million investment from Li ka-Shing, a previous WELL investor and major investor in Zoom, Spotify, and Impossible Foods. With […]
Supercluster Projects Target Better Canadian Healthcare During Pandemic
The Digital Technology Supercluster has announced two new projects focused on strengthening Canada’s healthcare system and delivering long-term improvements in Canadian health care. Spanning the Supercluster’s three Technology Leadership Programs – Precision Health, Data Commons and Digital Twins – the new projects represent a total investment of nearly $8.4 million, with nearly $3.2 million provided […]
Instant Financial and Trulioo Named To List of Fastest-Growing Fintechs
Vancouver’s Instant Financial and Trulioo have been named to CB Insights third annual Fintech 250, a list of emerging private companies working on groundbreaking financial technology. “We’re proud to, once again, recognize the 250 best private fintech companies globally. This year’s Fintech 250 represents 25 countries and spans 19 categories — reimagining everything from retail […]
Terramera Calls On CubicFarms For Control Rooms
Two Vancouver-based agtech leaders are now working together with Terramera recently purchasing three control room systems from CubicFarms. Terramera is on a mission to reduce global synthetic pesticide use 80 percent by 2030 with its revolutionary Actigate™ technology platform. CubicFarms is a provider of automated controlled-environment growing systems that produce commercial-scale quantities of fresh produce […]
Vancouver Startup Fable Home To Participate In Techstars Demo Day
Techstars Toronto is Techstars’ first Canadian accelerator program and is a joint partnership with Real Ventures, the most active seed fund in Canada. On September 3rd the accelerator will be showcasing their 2020 cohort of rising startups with a a Virtual Demo Day. The event will feature their most diverse class of founders to date, […]
Vancouver’s Design Connection To Elon Musk’s Neuralink
Vancouver-based industrial design firm Woke Studio was centre-stage last week when Elon Musk provided a progress update on Neuralink, a company he co-founded in 2016. Neuralink aims to implant wireless brain-computer interfaces that include thousands of electrodes in the brain to help cure neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s, dementia and spinal cord injuries and ultimately fuse […]
Tech Effect: Exploring Technology’s Role In The Modern-day Workplace
1984, the year the cell phone became mainstream. 1991, the year the world wide web went live. 1996, the year the two merged on the Nokia 9000. Considering how recent these dates are, it’s hard to believe how much our worlds – both personal and professional – have become dependent on the two technologies. And […]
Over 900 New Green Internship Opportunities Available For Students
Today at Terramera’s office in Vancouver, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson announced that the Government of Canada is partnering with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) employers across Canada to create 900 internship opportunities for students through the Science Horizons Youth Internship Program. The Minister was joined by Ajay Patel, President and CEO of Vancouver Community […]
New Ventures BC Announces Top 10 for 2020 Competition
New Ventures BC has announced the Top 10 companies of this year’s startup competition. The New Ventures BC Competition started in 2000 under the direction of Wal van Lierop, to encourage innovation in BC’s tech sector. Since then, the organization has supported 2,360 startups, who have created 3,720+ jobs and have raised $302 million in […]