PocketPills has announced a strategic partnership with myHSA, an employee benefits platform distributed through advisors, MGAs, TPAs, and insurance providers. The partnership will bring online access to medication to myHSA’s 10,000+ Canadian employer and advisor clients. Headquartered in Surrey, PocketPills is Canada’s first full-service digital pharmacy that allows patients to fill their prescriptions online, with […]
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Rocket Builders Announces 2020 Ready to Rocket Lists
Rocket Builders has released its 18th annual “Ready to Rocket” lists. The “Ready to Rocket” lists are the only predictive lists of its kind in North America, requiring many months of sector and company analysis. These lists profile the B.C. technology companies that are best positioned to capitalize on the technology sector trends that will […]
Proxxi Launches A COVID-19 Workplace Distance And Contact Tracker
Vancouver’s Proxxi was born out of the need for better electrical safety in industrial settings. Founded in 2015, Proxxi is dedicated to making electricity safe. Originally designed for utilities, Proxxi is now being used in construction, mining, manufacturing, and more. In today’s world, workers have more than just electricity to worry about. A single untracked […]
As Working From Home Skyrockets, Internet Speeds Slow in B.C.
COVID-19 has changed everything. Overnight the entire country had to move their work, schooling, and social calendar online. New survey data from the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) offers insight into how technology and internet use has changed in Canada since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Widespread school closures, social distancing, and work from home has significantly […]
1QBit’s Chest Radiography AI Tool Gets Expedited Health Canada Approval
1QBit has announced the launch of 1QBit xrAI, a chest radiography AI tool that significantly improves the accuracy and timeliness of diagnosing lung abnormalities. The company’s first healthcare product received expedited Health Canada approval in just one week following its recently completed extensive clinical trials. 1QBit employs physicians, biomedical experts, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, […]
3D Printing Startup Delivers Vital Healthcare Equipment During Pandemic
Vancouver’s 3DQue Systems is changing the way 3D printing is performed by delivering complex plastic parts at scale with speed, cost and quality not achievable with traditional 3D printing techniques. Now the entrepreneurship@UBC incubated startup will broaden their operations to address disruptions in global supply chains by providing critical components and supplies otherwise near impossible […]
Cybersecurity Startup MergeBase Raises $500K For Software Security
Will cybercrime cause $1 trillion in damage to an already-vulnerable economy by 2021? Not if MergeBase Software has anything to do with it. The Vancouver startup just raised a $500,000 funding round for its cybersecurity product and plans to use the funds to ramp up sales and distribution. MergeBase protects the security of software supply […]
When Government Programs Won’t Save Your Business, These Money Moves Might
Recent weeks have felt eerily similar to the market crash of 2008. I remind myself and many of the entrepreneurs I work with that while the last financial crisis left our personal and business finances beaten, we came out of it with massive growth in the years that followed. This also led to innovation – […]
Victoria’s StarFish Medical To Develop Open-source Ventilator Design
On March 20, 2020, the Government of Canada sent a call to action to Canadian businesses and manufacturers to help deliver critical health supplies that will help Canada fight the COVID‑19 pandemic. Since then, the government has been working with almost 3,000 companies who have stepped up to offer their expertise and capacity. One of […]
The State of Vancouver and BC’s VR/AR Ecosystem
In today’s COVID-19 world, both human connection and personal distance are essential day-to-day requirements to keep our economies alive and populations safe. There’s very little we can say for certain, but the way we connect and communicate has likely changed forever. Real-time collaboration through virtual meetings, classes and events have become the norm as people […]