Vancouver Startup Week (VSW) is back this fall and kicking off a week-long virtual celebration on Friday, September 25th. Over seven jam-packed days, VSW promises to connect entrepreneurs, investors, community leaders, and friends to build momentum and opportunity around Vancouver’s unique entrepreneurial identity. RELATED: Vote For Your Favourite Startup To Win $10K For the first […]
News
Zennea Among Google’s Inaugural Women Founders Accelerator Cohort
Five Canadian startups are among the 12 chosen to participate in Google for Startups Accelerator for Women Founders inaugural cohort. The Women Founders accelerator is open to tech startups in the seed to Series A stages, with headquarters in Canada or the U.S. The program is designed for companies with women founders, or members of […]
Forget The New Normal, What Will Office Spaces Look Like Post-pandemic?
As COVID19 appeared to completely disrupt our everyday lives, we were forced to revisit how we work and where we work. We’ve seen leading companies like Twitter welcome a whole new chapter by allowing employees the option to work remotely, part-time or even permanently. Other firms have gradually returned to their physical office but with […]
Vote For Your Favourite BC Tech Startup To Win $10,000
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 […]
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 […]