Businesses need to be held accountable for their employees’ mental health and not simply be passive advocates. This goes well beyond a “tick-box” mentality of providing Employee Assistance Programs and Health Spending Accounts. These are table stakes. We need to be thinking about business as a force for good, to borrow the tagline from the […]
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Terramera’s Karn Manhas Joins Qu Biologics Board of Directors
Qu Biologics has added Karn Manhas, Founder and CEO of Terramera, to its Board of Directors. Qu Biologics is a biopharmaceutical company developing Site Specific Immunomodulators (SSIs), a novel platform of immunotherapies designed to restore innate immune function. Manhas brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in government, business development and as a clean technology […]
Chinook Therapeutics Raises USD $106 Million In Advance of Merger
Vancouver’s Chinook Therapeutics has raised a USD $106 million in a private placement financing that included top-tier healthcare investors. As part of the financing, Chinook’s existing investors, Versant Ventures, Apple Tree Partners and Samsara BioCapital, will purchase $25 million in Chinook common stock on the same terms as the new investors in lieu of their prior […]
UBC’s Dr. Santa Ono Joins Terramera’s Strategic Advisory Board
UBC President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Santa Ono has joined Terramera’s Strategic Advisory Board. As part of Terramera‘s Strategic Advisory Board, Ono will advise on short and long-term business strategies alongside Greg D’Avignon, Stewart Beck and Nancy Roman. Together, the Board provides a wealth of perspectives to help scale Terramera’s technology globally. Ono is an internationally […]
Bare Advertising Launches Jambaree Web Development Shop
Due to COVID-19 businesses are shifting more of their customer experience online, so in today’s world, websites need to be fast, secure and engaging. Vancouver’s Bare Advertising saw that as an opportunity to double-down and launched a new subsidiary dedicated to Gatsby/JAMstack web development, creatively tagged Jambaree. Over the past several years, Bare has built […]
NexTech AR Scaling E-Commerce Business With Major Brands
Vancouver’s NexTech AR Solutions has begun a major expansion of it’s AR e-commerce business and it is getting some great traction with well known consumer brands. In the past 60 days the company has signed new distributor deals with major brands including Dyson, VitaMix, Breville, and Cuisinart. The new distribution deals position the company to […]
Drinkfill Stations To Bring Zero-Waste Living to the Masses
In a time when many businesses are closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vancouver entrepreneur Andy Chou is forging ahead with his bold mission. Chou’s dream is to make zero-waste living convenient and accessible to millions of people around the globe, and reduce consumption of single-use containers. How? With a network of zero-waste refill stations. […]
Darwin Labs Releases Clear360 to Increase Safety for Back-to-School
B.C.’s education ministry announced its plan this week for a gradual return to class for students in the fall to “allow extra time to orient students and staff on the new health and safety measures in place.” Vancouver-based Darwin Labs would like to aid in this restart by diverting efforts from its under-development Enterprise Health […]
Rise People Launches Advisor Engagement Platform With Sun Life
Rise People has launched Canada’s first advisor engagement platform to modernize the group insurance sales and administration process from end-to-end. The platform empowers advisors with tools that streamline back-end processes while delivering a seamless and paperless front-end experience for Sun Life Group Benefits clients. Sun Life and Rise People became strategic partners in 2018 when […]
Roger Hardy Returns To Eyewear Industry With KITS
Vancouver-born, direct-to-consumer eyewear brand KITS officially launched today and is ready to disrupt an industry dominated by a few. Led by a team of industry veterans including Roger Hardy, KITS is backed by over 70 years of combined experience culminating in an eyewear brand that has quietly grown to over one million customers, while remaining […]