The average price of a used car in Canada has jumped nearly 50 per cent as brick-and-mortar dealerships struggle to maintain inventories due to the global chip shortage. This has opened it up for a new direct-to-consumer class of dealerships to stake their claim–online car dealerships. This week Canada Drives increased its lead as Canada’s […]
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Vancouver To Be Home To Metaverse Innovation Centre
Vancouver’s Departure Lounge has entered into a lease and education collaboration agreement with the Centre for Digital Media to develop a Metaverse Innovation Centre. Departure Lounge will house its range of Metaverse-related technology solutions, including its recently announced state-of-the-art Metastage volumetric capture stage, on campus at the CDM. The facility is expected to be used as […]
Lime Launching E-Scooters in Richmond with First Ride Academy Safety Training
Lime Scooters are coming to British Columbia. Not Vancouver, but close. Lime is launching its micromobility service in Richmond tomorrow with 75 e-scooters and plans to scale up to a fleet of 200 in the coming days. To celebrate the launch of Richmond’s e-scooter sharing program Lime will host a First Ride Academy safety training […]
TELUS Contributes $90 Million To Build Stronger And Healthier Communities Globally
Today, TELUS has announced that in 2021, and for the second year, it’s donated $90 million in cash, in-kind contributions, time and programs, to more than 4,000 charitable and community organizations, and has volunteered over 1.3 million hours in the year alone. This donation amounts to approximately 5% of its pre-tax profits and the 1.3 million […]
How Fast Growing Fintech Float is Fixing Corporate Spend Management
There’s a traditional model of employee expenses, and it looks something like this: employees are asked to spend money on their personal or corporate cards, file expense reports, and then wait for reimbursement. Rob Khazzam knew there must be a better way. That’s why he, along with Griffin Keglevich and Ruslan Nikolaev, founded Float Financial […]
Victory Square Partners To Host Fintech Pitch Battle
Vancouver venture studio Victory Square Technologies is co-hosting a fintech pitch battle with The Holt Xchange on May 17th. The live pitch event will consist of five early-stage fintechs who will present their company to an audience of investors and advisors. The audience will be able to engage in live voting and provide their feedback, in addition to the […]
Vancouver’s LQwD joins Visa’s Fintech Fast Track Program
Vancouver startup LQwD Fintech (TSXV: LQWD) has joined Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program. LQwD is the first publicly traded, pure play, purpose-built bitcoin company that’s focused on solutions that power the growth of the bitcoin Lightning Network. Their goal is to deliver scalable, off-chain, instantaneous, and cheap payments, that will make bitcoin, as a digital cryptocurrency, more […]
Vancouver To Be Home To World’s Tallest Passive House Building
Canadian developer Brivia Group has selected downtown Vancouver as the location of its newest and most sustainable project yet. CURV, a 60-storey residential development between Burrard and Thurlow Streets, will be the world’s tallest passive house building – a modern, low carbon and energy efficient building that contributes to a healthier planet, mirroring the environmental ethos of […]
Pocketed Wins Odlum Brown Forum Pitch Finale and $25,000 Prize
Brianna Blaney and Aria Hahn, co-founders of Pocketed, were this year’s winners of The Odlum Brown Forum Pitch Finale and prize of $25,000 to support their business vision and growth. The rapidly growing Vancouver startup has created an intelligent matching platform and marketplace to connect businesses to billions of dollars in grants and tax credits. Late last […]
Daz 3D Joins Coinbase NFT as Launch Partner
Vancouver’s Daz 3D, a market leader in NFT creation using their advanced 3D modeling and avatar technology, today announced the company will be a launch partner of Coinbase NFT. Coinbase NFT, a web3 social marketplace, recently entered Beta. Daz 3D will include their debut NFT collection, Non-Fungible People, on the platform. Daz 3D is also working on a […]