Digital bookkeeping and tax advisory platform Bench recently announced a partnership with Wealth Factory, a provider of personal financial education and implementation programs for entrepreneurs and small business owners. The Vancouver-based fintech, named last year to Team True North, says the partnership provides real-time financial insights to a network of 25,000 entrepreneurs. “Wealth Factory customers […]
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Let BCIT’s Computing Students Tackle Your Tech Challenges
Have an IT challenge? Put Computing students to work for you in April & May. BCIT’s School of Computing and Academic Studies has a long-standing reputation for producing graduates with job-ready skills for the IT industry. The BCIT Industry Sponsored Student Projects program (ISSP) provides students with real-life experience by working on IT or software development projects […]
When NFTs Cross the Line from ‘Baseball Card’ to ‘Investment Contract’
There has been much talk in the last year of so-called non-fungible tokens in Canada—what are they, what can they do, what will they become? The answer, it seems, is still unraveling itself. Bitcoin launched over a decade ago as a simple, decentralized alternative to fiat currency. Eventually, companies decided to compete in some sense […]
Vancouver Studio Earns Accolades from Snapchat for King Tut AR Lens
We all went through that phase as kids where we wished we could transport ourselves to another place in another time—a chance to walk among dinosaurs, perhaps. Partners Farhad and Faraz Shababi relived this moment as adults when visiting an exhibition about King Tut of Egypt in 2022 conducted by National Geography. Only it dawned […]
Dapper Labs Adjusts Company to New Crypto Reality
Dapper Labs spun out of startup studio Axoim Zen in 2017 and was named to Techcouver’s 10 Homegrown B.C. Startups to Watch in 2021. Soon after, the startup raised a USD $250 million funding round which valued the digital collectibles startup at over $7 billion and set them up for a busy 2022. Last year Dapper Labs cracked the […]
ShareWares Selected for the 2023 Google for Startups Accelerator
Vancouver’s ShareWares has been selected to participate in the 2023 Google for Startups Accelerator Canada program. ShareWares will be joining eleven other Canadian startups in the 10-week, equity-free program, designed to bring the best of Google’s programs, products, people and technology to Canadian startups – at a time when AI continues to advance. ShareWares developed a platform that pairs […]
Faceprint, Please: Air Canada Launches AI Technology Project at YVR
Advancing artificial intelligence continues to penetrate a broad swath of sectors in Canada, such as financial technology. British Columbia is aiming to be a world-class AI hub, with many startups and scale-ups operating and growing in the space. Air Canada is furthering this mission to have Vancouver at the forefront of AI innovation and usage […]
Later Launches Integrated AI-powered Caption Writer for Instagram
Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues its explosive growth in 2023 and another Vancouver tech company is tapping into the technology. Social media marketing platform Later has unveiled a new AI-driven feature to assist users with relevant captions for their Instagram Posts. Powered by the GPT-3 API, the Caption Writer will learn to match a brand’s tone […]
Vancouver Startup Week Returns In June 2023
After taking 2022 off, Vancouver Startup Week (VSW) is back in 2023. Event organizers are planning an in-person Vancouver Startup Week running from June 2nd to 9th and super early-bird tickets are now available for purchase. In 2021 VSW consisted of more than 50 virtual events including panels, hackathons and workshops are planned over the seven days. […]
Life Sciences BC Hosts 8th Annual Access to Innovation Conference
With $1.3 billion of capital raised in 2021, B.C.’s life sciences sector has never been more robust. In fact, B.C. is Canada’s fastest-growing life sciences sector, employing roughly 20,000 people at over 2,000 companies. And according to BioTalent Canada’s 2021 National Report, the sector will likely require 65,000 additional workers by 2029. The BC life […]