entrepreneurship@UBC has launched a Climate Venture Studio stream to support UBC researchers and innovators building breakthrough solutions to the climate emergency. Leveraging entrepreneurship@UBC’s venture building experience and its network of business mentors and advisors, the Climate Venture Studio will work hands-on to identify climate-driven market opportunities, nurture high-potential climate solutions emerging from UBC research and […]
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Vancouver-born Vision Critical Rebrands As Alida
Vancouver-born Vision Critical is now Alida. The Customer Experience Management (CXM) and insights platform’s new brand name and visual identity showcases its ongoing dedication to helping brands create meaningful customer relationships. Alida has Latin origins and means verity, truth, reality and actuality, which is the ultimate goal forbrands tapping into the real source of truth: […]
Vancouver’s V2 Games Acquires Techstars 2019 Alumni GameOn
Victory Square Technologies portfolio company V2 Games has acquired Techstars 2019 Alumnus GameOn in an all-stock transaction. GameOn provides consumers, broadcasters, sportsbooks, venues and brand partners with interactive, social experiences around sports, television and live events. GameOn has entered into a distribution partnership with Comcast to deliver the GameOn-branded sports prediction experience to homes and […]
Aspect Biosystems Offers Novel Solution For Treating Type 1 Diabetes
Vancouver’s Aspect Biosystems is working on a novel technological and genomics-based approach to Type 1 Diabetes that promises to circumvent the shortcomings of current treatments. Aspect is producing a bioprinted therapeutic of pancreatic cells surrounded by a protective layer that can be implanted in Type 1 Diabetes patients. Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), once known as […]
New Climate Action Awareness Fund to Support Research Across Canada
Climate change has been a growing issue for years, and it’s only going to continue being so unless we put a lid on our emissions. This is why 197 countries, including Canada, signed the Paris Agreement back in 2016. Its aim is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030, eventually pursuing efforts to keep […]
Intrigued by Toronto Tech? Check Out This Virtual Event
Techcouver’s sister organization Tech Talent Canada is hosting its inaugural virtual job fair this week, so if you’re exploring your career options and willing to relocate to Toronto, be sure to check it out. Unlike their previous in-person job fairs that had to limit attendance based on physical space, Tech Talent Canada’s virtual events have […]
Vancouver’s Mimik Selected By 5G Open Innovation Lab
The 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab), a startup program funded by T-Mobile, Intel, and NASA, revealed its second cohort of companies last week and Vancouver’s Mimik Technology was selected. Based in Bellevue, WA, the 5G OI Lab is a global ecosystem of developers, startups, enterprises, academia, and government institutions, focused on helping start-ups utilize […]
UBC and VCC Join Microsoft To Bolster Cloud Skills Of Students
Microsoft Canada and 12 post-secondary institutions including the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Vancouver Community College (VCC) have announced the Canada Skills Program. Launching this fall, the program will bolster the data & AI skills and employability of more than 4,500 students in diploma, degree and continuing education programs. The Canada Skills program provides opportunities […]
Get Immersed In Entrepreneurship At UBC’s Immersion Week
entrepreneurship@UBC is hosting Immersion Week starting on September 28th. Immersion Week is a five day online event for UBC students, staff, faculty, alumni and BC’s innovation ecosystem to come together with the purpose of demystifying entrepreneurship in the innovation economy. From September 28th to October 2nd, entrepreneurship@UBC will present a line-up of expert speakers, engaging conversations and […]
NRC IRAP And Innovate BC Invest $2 Million Through B.C. Fast Pilot Program
The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) and Innovate BC, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to invest more than $2 million in research and development funding for 22 new projects through the B.C. Fast Pilot Program. The B.C. Fast Pilot program provides up to $200,000 for regional SMEs to design, build […]