Burnaby’s PerfectMind has been acquired by TSG for an undisclosed sum. PerfectMind’s cloud-based Parks & Recreation Management Software helps university campuses, sports centers, and recreation organizations of all sizes to grow their communities. Worldwide, PerfectMind serves more than 500,000 users in 21 countries in the Health & Fitness market. TSG has deep domain expertise serving […]
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Trudeau Announces 75% Rent Relief Program For Small, Medium-Sized Businesses
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced significant rent relief for businesses that can’t afford to pay their landlords at a time when their operations are shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program will provide forgivable loans to qualifying commercial property owners to cover 50 per cent of three […]
Direct-to-Consumer Vessi Triples Sales While Doing Good During Crisis
While the retail sector has had its share of challenges over the past few years, they pale in comparison to what it’s facing now. “Never have we experienced a threat as acute as what we’re experiencing today, living with COVID-19,” RBC Capital Markets’ Nurit Altman shared this week online. “The virus and corresponding shutdown are […]
Canadian Tech Can Support Digital Signatures, So Why Doesn’t The Law
COVID-19 has drastically changed the way Canadians work and live, and it’s caused an even greater shift towards e-commerce spending and adoption of digital products and processes. Canadians are either social distancing or quarantining, and don’t have the desire or ability to make in-person appointments or shop in-store – and that shift to digital has […]
TELUS Expands Digital Home Health Monitoring For COVID-19 Recovery
TELUS Health has announced the expansion of its Home Health Monitoring (HHM) solution so that healthcare providers in B.C. can digitally monitor more patients remotely while they recover from COVID-19. Launched in partnership with the B.C. Ministry of Health, this digital health dashboard allows healthcare providers to track the symptoms and provide medical help for […]
Supercluster Commits $60 Million for Technologies to Fight Covid Crisis
The Digital Technology Supercluster is supporting Canadians in the fight against COVID-19 with $60 million committed to the biggest health and safety problems created by the crisis. Four weeks ago, the Digital Technology Supercluster invited its network of over 500 organizations to submit ideas and proposals for the funding and Canadian companies responded with over […]
Discovery Parks Announces Winners of Generator Challenge Competition
While the future of shared office space may be in question, Discovery Parks has announced the winners of their Generator Challenge 10.0 Competition. The annual competition awards turn-key workspace for 12 months to early-stage tech companies that demonstrate a high likelihood of success. The Generator program is based on the concept that free-flowing ideas, minimal […]
Vancouver Startup Helps Recruiters Connect With Essential Workers During COVID-19 Crisis
Vancouver’s Rectxt announced this week that they are giving away their text recruiting platform for free to recruiters who are hiring essential workers during the COVID-19 crisis. The bootstrapped HR Tech startup has created a Chrome extension that allows recruiters to instantly send text messages and launch text campaigns from any website, customer relationship management […]
FORM Raises $12 Million Series A Round For Augmented Reality Swim Goggles
FORM has raised a $12 million Series A round led by large family offices in the UK and Denmark with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. Vancouver’s FORM is the direct-to-consumer sports technology company behind the world’s first augmented reality swim goggles. The investment comes after the successful launch of the FORM Smart Swim Goggles in […]
Leading From Beginning to End, Jay Parmar Wraps Up Eventbrite in Vancouver
In September of 2012 I wrote about an event ticketing startup called Picatic for the first time on Techvibes. The company had landed itself with Extreme Startups in Toronto and was launching a crowdfunding platform called EventTilt. Crowdsourcing was all the rage at the time and their new platform was guaranteeing successful events by completely […]