Less than a year after launching their hassle-free car selling experience, Autozen announced today that it has closed an oversubscribed seed round of funding of over $5 million led by Vanedge Capital. Autozen offers a truly unique experience in the auto industry. Car sellers benefit from hundreds of pre-vetted professional buyers that compete to give […]
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Internet Archive Canada Opens Gathering Space for Vancouver Tech Community
The Internet Archive boasts a new Canadian headquarters. The new space, on West Pender Street in Vancouver, is actually pretty old: from 1907, in fact. The building formerly housed the B.C. Permanent Loan Company and more recently has been used event venue for weddings and movies. The headquarters will be as much a communal “gathering place” […]
Dapper Labs’ Roham Gharogozlou Takes On Bill Gates On Collision Centre Stage
Vancouver’s own Roham Gharogozlou took centre stage on opening night of the Collision Conference in Toronto last night. The Dapper Labs CEO spoke with the Cut’s Lindsay Peoples about the future of NFTs. Their fireside chat included a response to Bill Gates’ view of NFTs – in which he claimed that they are a sham, […]
Six BC Companies on Track to Reach Billion-Dollar Revenue Milestone
Communitech this month unveiled the first ever Team True North. The Kitchener-based hub for entrepreneurship created the list to spotlight “the best of Canadian tech”—which by their measure is defined as high-performing tech firms “tracking to $1 billion in annual revenue with growth rates that match the top 1% of companies in the world.” “Why did […]
Metaspectral Secures Capital from Canadian Space Agency to Detect Gas Emissions on Earth
Metaspectral has received funding from the Canadian Space Agency. The Vancouver startup, software company delivering the next generation of computer vision, secured the capital through smartEarth, a funding initiative related to Earth observation applications development. Metaspectral says it will use the funding to build a method to systematically and methodically quantify carbon dioxide levels present at […]
APOLLO Insurance to Integrate with Yardi Voyager Software for ‘Effortless Digital Experience’
Vancouver’s Apollo Insurance has partnered with Yardi Systems. Established in 1984, Yardi provides software solutions to the real estate industry. Now the California company will bring Apollo’s digital insurance fulfillment to its clients to allow tenants and landlords “an effortless digital insurance experience.” “Apollo is excited to partner with such an innovative real estate software […]
TAP Network Celebrates 30 Years of Impact in Canada’s Tech Sector
Tech & People Network (TAP Network) is celebrating its 30th anniversary. In 1992, a small group of senior HR practitioners working at local tech companies came together to better navigate the complexities of BC’s rapidly growing tech sector. What started as a handful of monthly meetings quickly grew along with the tech sector and the […]
BC Edtech Startup Bringing Place-based Online Education to Schools Across the Province
Kids across British Columbia will soon have a new open-source of learning and inspiration that will help them grow up to become the future stewards of our communities and lands. With the participation of the Government of Canada and the Ministry of Education of British Columbia, a new agreement between Nelson-based Live It Earth and […]
Two Vancouver Startups to PITCH at Collision Competition
The Collision Conference is returning to its first in-person event in two years, marking Toronto’s Enercare Centre June 20 through 23. The tech event will be the largest international gathering of its kind in Canada since prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, with 35,000 attendees expected to convene in our nation’s fintech hotspot. “While we’ve successfully hosted Collision online […]
Flush with Capital and Tech, Sanctuary AI Positions Self as Robotics Leader
Sanctuary AI believes it has created the world’s smartest robot. There is reason to be cocky: the Vancouver-based robotics and artificial intelligence startup is experiencing a bout of momentum. In March, the BC tech company raised a whopping $75 million in capital from an oversubscribed Series A round, which included strong interest from Bell, Export […]