Tech Vancouver is back on August 14th to discuss Vancouver’s growing fintech ecosystem. Vancouver is a hotbed in the fintech sector across wide diversity of sub-verticals including blockchain, capital markets, insurance, payments, and finance. Last week the Digital Finance Institute released its top 50 Fintech companies in Canada for 2019 and the list features Bench, […]
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CryptoKitties Founders Bring Blockchain Game to NBA Basketball Fans
Vancouver’s Dapper Labs and the NBA are teaming up to launch a digital platform for blockchain-based collectables called NBA Top Shot. Dapper Labs is the creator of uber-successful CryptoKitties. CryptoKitties is a blockchain game on Ethereum developed by venture studio Axiom Zen that allows players to purchase, collect, breed and sell virtual cats. NBA Top […]
How Technology is Transforming Healthcare
By increasing the accessibility, affordability, and quality of care, technology is transforming Canada’s healthcare industry. It is a driving force behind recent improvements and, when you consider that 29% of Canadians report difficulty accessing healthcare services, it is no wonder that the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is working to support the scalability of virtual care. Long wait times […]
Apple Plans to Open Office in Westbank’s Glitzy Vancouver Tower
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is planning to open an office in the futuristic tower going up at 400 West Georgia. Apple will join Deloitte and IWG’s co-working brand Spaces as key tenants in the new development from Westbank and Allied Properties, occupying two floors. 400 West Georgia is a 24-storey office […]
CFL Implements Digital Concussion Platform with Headcheck Health
The Canadian Football League (CFL) has announced a new partnership with Vancouver’s HeadCheck Health that will have the league’s nine teams using their digital concussion platform. HeadCheck’s mobile and web-based technology will equip team medical staff with the tools to more easily execute the CFL’s concussion protocol and enable the league to monitor the effectiveness […]
Creation Technologies Acquired by Lindsay Goldberg
Burnaby’s Creation Technologies has been acquired by private investment firm Lindsay Goldberg from Birch Hill Equity Partners and other equity holders. Founded in 1991, Creation employs approximately 3,000 people across the USA, Canada, Mexico and China. Creation provides its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers with product development and engineering, rapid prototyping, design for supply chain, […]
Vancouver Founder Fund Rebrands As Rhino Ventures
Four years ago, Fraser Hall and Dan Eisenhardt started Vancouver Founder Fund (VFF) with one goal: to be the funders they wished they had had as founders. The Vancouver Founder Fund name came from Hall and Eisenhardt wanting to pay homage to the city in which they built their previous company, Recon Instruments. They set […]
Snapchat and BBTV Partner to Bring New Creator Shows to Life
Vancouver’s BroadbandTV (BBTV) has a new partnership with Snapchat. The deal will see two of BBTV’s content owners, Chris Staples and Sheamus, take part in Snapchat’s new Creator Shows program, first-person, personality driven Shows in regularly published and consistent formats. Like all Shows on Snapchat, each episode will average three to five minutes in length […]
Andrew Reid at it Again as Rival Raises over $8.5 Million
Vancouver’s Rival Technologies announced today that it has raised over $8.5 million from Canadian investors. The new funding, which was double its venture-capital funding target, will be used to continue developing the company’s Chat Lab platform and expanding Reach3 Insights, Rival’s sister company under parent Reid Campbell Group. Rival Technologies and Reach3 Insights were founded […]
Vancouver Leaps in Rankings of Best Cities for Tech Jobs
Commercial real estate firm CBRE has released their 2019 Tech Talent Analyzer and it bodes well for Vancouver. The annual report includes a yearly ranking of the 50 best markets for tech talent based on factors such as labor costs and the percent of jobs in a city that are tech-related. While hotspots such as […]