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Innovate BC Awards $1.2 Million In Funding Through its Ignite Program

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Innovate BC has awarded $1.2 million to four B.C. based research projects through its Ignite Program – the most ever awarded through the Ignite Program. Since the Ignite Program launched in 2016, Innovate BC has awarded $6.5 million to 28 projects. When including matching funds from industry and government sources, total investment into these projects […]

Double Accolades For Trulioo From CNBC & World Economic Forum

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Vancouver’s Trulioo has been named to not one but two impressive lists today. The identity verification company was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers” and its GlobalGateway platform was named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 List. The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers are growth-stage companies that are involved in the design, […]

Turo Officially Launches Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing App in Vancouver

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Popular peer-to-peer car sharing platform Turo launched in B.C. today with over 65,000 users and 200 cars listed in the province. With a mission to put Canada’s 23 million cars to better use, Turo connects local car owners with a bustling community of users looking for the perfect vehicle for their next adventure. Through the […]

Clio Takes Clio Cloud Conference Virtual for the First Time

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Burnaby’s Clio is taking its eighth annual Clio Cloud Conference virtual this October. Clio decided to take the conference virtual in an effort to protect the safety and health of attendees, speakers, partners, and employees. Earlier this year, Clio announced that New York Times bestselling author, marketing innovator, and business leader, Seth Godin will join […]

Food-X Technologies Implements 3D Robotic Supply Chain With Attabotics

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Vancouver’s Food-X Technologies today announced a three year strategic alliance with robotic warehouse and fulfillment system provider Attabotics. Food-X is a scalable end-to-end software solution for profitable online grocery fulfillment and this new alliance will implement Attabotics technology to leverage common synergies and streamline technology and operations at their fulfillment centers. Calgary’s Attabotics sells, designs, […]

Victory Square Acquires 15 Minute Covid-19 Antibody Test

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Vancouver’s Victory Square Health has acquired Brazilian Covid19 test developers, Safetest. The portfolio company of Victory Square Technologies acquired Safetest Comércio de Diagnósticos’s assets and intellectual property in an all-stock transaction valued at $4 million. Safetest was founded in 2016 to bring high quality rapid tests to the market and has developed antibody-based tests and […]

Terramera Leads Collaborative Effort to Predict New COVID-19 Virus Strains

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Few would expect the science behind stopping the next wave of COVID-19 to come from an AgTech company on a mission to reduce global pesticide loads but Terramera’s computational chemistry, machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) innovations are being called upon for just that purpose. Today, Vancouver’s Terramera announced its participation in a collaborative project […]

Unbounce Releases 2020 Conversion Benchmark Report

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Whatever companies are selling, fair warning… they better not tell customers to trust them. And e-commerce retailers might get better results by evoking… disgust. These and other counterintuitive findings are in the new 2020 Unbounce Conversion Benchmark Report, out now. Just in time for companies looking to get past the COVID-19 slump and take advantage […]

WeCommerce Acquires Shoppable Instagram & UGC Content Platform Foursixty

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Victoria’s WeCommerce has acquired Toronto’s Foursixty, a leading partner in the Shopify and Instagram ecosystem. Foursixty has been a pioneer and leader in the social commerce space since 2014, and helps thousands of the world’s most popular direct-to-consumer brands such as Fashion Nova, Pura Vida Bracelets, Knix, MVMT Watches, Mejuri, and Skims monetize their Instagram […]