These days, video marketing is huge—but video isn’t always simple or affordable to produce. Enter Lumen5, which converts blog posts into social videos. Lumen5 uses artificial intelligence to create high quality videos for content marketing at scale. The Vancouver startup’s AI platform already boasts more than 300,000 users. “The goal of the platform is to […]
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Vancouver Dominates Q3 VC Activity Across Cascadia
Q3 is in the books and according to Crosscadia venture capital invested in the Pacific Northwest region was up $600 million from the previous quarter. Notable contributions from Vancouver helped boost the region’s numbers, while the Seattle-area remained the most active market. There were 29 venture capital financing deals in B.C. in Q3 with a […]
City’s Engineering Hackathon Returns and Aims to Decode Congestion
Following up on the success of last year’s VANquish Collisions Hackathon, the City of Vancouver is hosting a second hackathon and inviting residents to develop solutions that will Decode Congestion to improve the flow of people and goods throughout the city. Event organizers are calling on strategists, designers, technologists, transportation professionals, and engaged residents to […]
Freshly Funded Clio on Hunt for Talent
Clio is raising “the bar” in more ways than one. Following a whopping US$250 million Series D funding round, the Burnaby-based company is rapidly modernizing law firms with technology—and hiring locals to help achieve this tremendous task. “To become global leaders, BC’s tech companies must scale,” wrote Jill Tipping, president and CEO of the BC […]
Blockchain Music Startup Beatdapp Raises $3.2 Million and Adds Stephen Harper to Board
Vancouver’s Beatdapp Software has completed a $3.2 million financing round led by Panache Ventures. Beatdapp Software provides a real-time audited play count for song usage across streaming platforms. This allows music labels to accurately collect music royalties due. According to Betakit, the $3.2 million combines both pre-seed and seed rounds, which included non-dilutive funding the […]
Galvanize Hunting for Talent at Upcoming Vancouver Job Fair
Founders Harald and Hart Will launched Galvanize back in 1987—a time when floppy disks were the height of technology, gas was 89 cents per gallon, and President Reagan famously demanded “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Originally known as ACL, Galvanize has evolved from an analytics firm into an analyst-recognized risk management, compliance, and audit […]
Two Vancouver Startups Named Among Canada’s Most Innovative Tech Companies
Breather, Clearbanc, Clio, Drop, Rubikloud, Vidyard, and Wealthsimple have collectively raised $1.2 billion since being founded. What do those seven companies have in common? The were all named to the Canadian Innovation Exchange’s Top 20 program. The CIX Top 20 program is Canada’s largest national showcase of the hottest and most innovative tech companies. Hundreds […]
B.C. Startup Gets $5 Million from JAY-Z for Compostable Phone Case
Kelowna’s Pela, maker of world’s first compostable phone case, has closed a $5 million funding round of funding. Marcy Venture Partners (MVP), the consumer focused VC fund co-founded by JAY-Z, Jay Brown, and Larry Marcus led the round with Toronto-based Kensington Capital. Pela was founded in 2011 by environmental consultant, Jeremy Lang after a family […]
Growth on Grammarly’s Mind as it Raises $90 Million
On the heels of their announcement of opening of a new office in Vancouver, Grammarly, the company behind the AI-powered digital writing assistant used by more than 20 million people daily, today announced it has received $90 million in its latest round of funding. CEO Brad Hoover said the fresh capital, which brings Grammarly’s total […]
Bench Balances Function, Aesthetic, Nature in Stunning Office Design
Bench Accounting, a financial technology startup based in Vancouver, has seen steady growth since launching in 2012. Bench offers accounting services, which at first may sound boring and conventional. The company is anything but—its bread and butter is subscription access to cloud-based software in combination with in-house bookkeepers, a hybrid approach that serves clients well, […]