Burnaby’s General Fusion announced today the closing of financing from new investor Thistledown Capital. The investment will support the development of the company’s Fusion Demonstration Plant, which will showcase Magnetized Target Fusion technology at power-plant relevant scale. Thistledown was established by Shopify founder Tobias Lütke and his wife Fiona McKean to advance technological solutions for […]
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BarrelWise Launches Wine Barrel Management In Napa Valley
BarrelWise has launched its novel wine barrel management system in California, starting with the Napa and Sonoma winemaking regions. The first of a kind BarrelWise Barrel Management System enables wine barrel sampling, topping, and the sulfite additions to be done without removing the bung, which can save over 50% of time currently spent on routine […]
Remote Work Champion Deel Officially Launches in Canada
There is no doubt that COVID-19 accelerated the remote work revolution by removing the last barriers to remote work adoption. This significant shift can not only improve employees’ quality of life, but also help companies access a larger pool of talent, while curbing operational costs. International payroll and compliance company Deel is a champion of remote […]
Trend Micro Partners With SFU To Train Next Generation On Cloud Security
Trend Micro announced today that they have partnered with Simon Fraser University to help train future cybersecurity professionals. At a time in which specialized skills in cloud security is desperately needed, the new partnership will prep Canadian students with industry insights and networking opportunities while they are still in school. “As we know, the skills […]
Vancouver’s FISPAN To Double Staff As Banks Accelerate Into Digital
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. […]
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 […]