The 2019 Fundica Roadshow hit the city on April 4th for their first regional event in Vancouver. Sixteen startups, representing industries ranging from femtech to greentech, pitched to a panel of investors from iNovia, Panache Ventures, BCF Ventures, VFF VC, Framework VC, Vanedge Capital, Active Impact Investments, and R&D Capital. At the end of the […]
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HeadCheck Partners with Trek Factory Racing to Improve Concussion Care for Riders
The Trek Factory Racing (TFR) off-road program has announced that they will be using Vancouver’s HeadCheck Health to identify, assess and manage concussions.
Free Solo’s Alex Honnold to Keynote TractionForce 2019 in Vancouver
Vancouver’s Traction on Demand has released its speaker lineup for TractionForce 2019 featuring world-renowned rock climber and lead in the Oscar-winning documentary, Free Solo, Alex Honnold. “We’re introducing a lot of firsts to this year’s TractionForce including a new venue, a ticketed format, and Oscar talent,” said Greg Malpass, Founder and CEO at Traction on […]
TELUS Ventures Invests in Precision Medicine Company GenXys
TELUS Ventures announced today that it has completed investments in three of Canada’s leading precision medicine and diagnostics-focused startups: Acorn Biolabs, GenXys Health Systems and Vital Biosciences.
Mailchimp Wants to Make Lemonade with Vancouver Acquisition
In early March Shopify announced a series of changes to its partnership program and API access that had implications for its partners and merchants. At that time it was also announced that Mailchimp is leaving Shopify’s marketplace. MailChimp said it asked Shopify to remove its MailChimp for Shopify integration from the e-commerce platform’s app store […]
Attend the Vancouver Digital Entertainment Career Fair
Super charge your career at the 2019 Vancouver Digital Entertainment Career Fair. Presented by the Vancouver Economic Commission this fair is North America’s largest professional recruiting event for the digital entertainment and interactive industry. The event features employers from the visual effects (VFX), animation, games development, virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) and film & […]
What Would It Be Like To Be Acquired by Apple Or PayPal?
TechVancouver is back for an April edition with two huge acquisition stories from our hometown. In a session titled “The truth about startup exits”, Dennis Pilarinos and Lisa Shields shed light on what it is like to be acquired by Apple and PayPal respectively. Pilarinos is the co-founder of buddybuild and Shields founded Hyperwallet. Buddybuild […]
The New Ventures BC Competition is Back
The New Ventures BC Competition, presented by Innovate BC is back and searching for BC’s best new tech startups. For the 19th year, New Ventures BC is giving away over $250,000 in cash and prizes to the most promising tech ventures across the province. Why enter the 2019 New Ventures BC Competition? It’s more than […]
Cascadia Corridor to be Home to World’s First All-Electric Airline
Redmond’s magniX and Vancouver’s Harbour Air today announced a partnership to transform Harbour Air seaplanes into an all-electric commercial fleet powered by the magni500, a 750 horsepower (HP) all-electric motor. Operating 12 routes between hubs like Seattle and Vancouver and across the pristine natural wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, Harbour Air welcomes more than 500,000 […]
Carbon Engineering Raises US $68 Million Round Led by Bill Gates
Squamish-based Carbon Engineering has announced the completion of an equity financing round of US $68 million, marking the largest private investment made into a Direct Air Capture (DAC) company to date. This $68M financing will allow CE to commercialize and enter mainstream markets with its fully demonstrated DAC technology that is able to capture and […]