Vancouver’s Trulioo is adding U.S. Student Records to the its GlobalGateway marketplace of identity services supporting compliance, know your customer (KYC), and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions. With this addition, Trulioo customers can now verify the identities of 18.3 million (97%) of American students. This dramatically increases the ability for organizations to verify the identities of these […]
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Damon Motors Is Heading To Europe With HyperSport Motorcycle
Vancouver’s Damon Motors is heading to Europe. The mobility startup announced today that it is expanding to Europe to bring its multi-award-winning HyperSport motorcycles across the continent. Targeted countries will include Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. With $46 million in HyperSport orders to date, an increasing number of Damon customers originate from Europe. […]
Leaf Mobile Announces Name Change to East Side Games Group
Vancouver’s LEAF Mobile is becoming East Side Games Group. Canada’s leading free-to-play mobile game group will also change its TSX trading symbol from LEAF to EAGR. “We’ve been working on this change for some time, and it represents a change in our trade name; not our purpose, our vision, our structure, or how we operate […]
GameOn Partners With Polygon Studios To Bring NFT Games To The Masses
Vancouver’s GameOn Entertainment Technologies has struck a strategic partnership with Polygon & Polygon Studios to build NFT-Based games on their Ethereum-based scaling platform. GameOn provides consumers, broadcasters, sportsbooks, venues and brand partners with interactive, social experiences around sports, television and live events. Victory Square Technologies portfolio company V2 Games has acquired the Techstars 2019 Alumnus in […]
EV Battery Tech Launches the IONiX Pro Smart Station
Last summer the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris announced their support for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (BIF) which included the largest investment in electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure in history with a goal to build 500,000 EV charging stations across the United States. We are beginning to see governments […]
Looking Glass Labs To Create Metaverse-Ready 3D Assets for Popular NFT Collections
Vancouver’s Looking Glass Labs‘ and their flagship studio House of Kibaa (HoK) will soon be creating metaverse-ready 3D assets in collaboration with the well known NFT collections of Gutter Cat Gang and Bored Ape Yacht Club. Looking Glass Labs is a digital agency specializing in non-fungible token (NFT) architecture, immersive extended reality (XR) metaverse design, […]
General Fusion Raises USD $130 Million Series D Round
Vancouver’s General Fusion has raised a USD $130 million Series E round from investors including billionaire Jeff Bezos to help develop a commercial reactor. Backed by the Canadian, U.K., and U.S. governments, General Fusion is globally recognized for its practical and economical approach to creating fusion energy. Fusion is the only zero-carbon firm power solution that […]
Klue Raises USD $62 Million Series B Round From Tiger Global & Salesforce
The hits keep coming for Vancouver’s Klue. Hot on the heels of growth accolades and culture awards, the AI-powered competitive enablement platform has raised a USD $62 million Series B round led by Tiger Global with participation by Salesforce Ventures. The new round takes Klue’s total funding to date to USD $81 million. Klue helps companies […]
FDA Authorizes PrecisionOS to Market VR Surgical Planning Tool
Vancouver’s PrecisionOS has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its InVisionOS™ virtual reality surgical planning tool. The patented software, to be available in early 2022, lets surgeons use an Oculus Quest 2 device to do preoperative planning. Currently surgeons view a simulated 3D image of the patient on a computer […]
Spare Raises $18 Million To Build The World’s First Mobility Operating System
Vancouver’s Spare has raised a $18 million Series A round led by Inovia Capital for its mobility software for collective transportation. Spare will use the investment to further develop its mobility operating system, an all-in-one solution that allows transportation providers to efficiently manage their on-demand operations, including fleets, drivers and bookings. Lead investor Inovia Capital […]