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 & […]
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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 […]
ezCater Acquires Vancouver’s Monkey Group
ezCater, the world’s largest online catering marketplace, today announced it has acquired Vancouver-headquartered Monkey Group, an enterprise software, training, and insights company, and developers of MONKEY, the cloud platform for takeout, delivery, and catering. The acquisition marries the world’s largest online catering marketplace with the world’s most popular catering management software. Catering, the largest growth […]
Rocket Builders Announces 2019’s Ready to Rocket List
Rocket Builders has released its 17th annual “Ready to Rocket” lists featuring over 200 companies in British Columbia. The Ready to Rocket lists profile B.C.’s technology companies that are best positioned to capitalize on the technology sector trends that will lead them to faster growth than their peers. As is typical with this list, companies […]
Cisco Invests $15 Million in Its Growing Western Canada Presence
Rola Dagher, President of Cisco Canada, joined with the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development to announce Cisco’s $15 million CAD investment in Western Canada’s secure digital transformation. The funding will support three main initiatives in Western Canada, focusing on job creation and skills development. Cisco is further growing its […]
Look Who’s Hiring at the #BCTECH Summit
The upcoming #BCTECHSummit is a great opportunity to connect with entrepreneurs, startups, tech leaders, and investors. Beyond networking opportunities, it also serves as a catalyst for new business ideas, technologies, and collaborations. And for attendees exploring career opportunities, it might just result in a new job and career path. Taking place on day two of […]
Vancouver Visual Effects Team Takes Home Oscar for First Man
“And a big shout-out to Michelle Eisenreich, Rupert Porter and my people at DNEG Vancouver.” Those were the words of Paul Lambert, the VFX Supervisor on First Man as he accepted his team’s Oscar for Best Visual Effects on Sunday night. Eisenreich is a Vancouver-based executive producer at Double Negative. Digital effects supervisor Tristan Myles […]