Following substantial growth despite a challenging global supply chain environment, Vancouver’s Cymax Group Technologies continues to bolster its ranks with the addition of Manu Sarna to its board of directors. Cymax Group is a trusted partner to hundreds of leading furnishing brands. The multi-channel e-commerce provider added Sarna to help the company sharpen its focus on […]
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Blackbird Interactive To Implement Four-day Work Week
Vancouver’s Blackbird Interactive (BBI), creators of the award-winning Hardspace: Shipbreaker and developer of the upcoming Homeworld 3 and Crossfire: Legion, are implementing a studio-wide four-day work week beginning in April of 2022. “Without our crew we are nothing. They are the most important asset to our studio and their mental health is the most important […]
Sparkgeo Launches Prescient To Go After $33 Billion Geospatial Analytics Market
A report by Mordor Intelligence valued the geospatial analytics market at USD $22 billion in 2020, expecting it to reach a value of USD $33 billion by 2026. Vancouver’s Sparkgeo wants their share of that market and has launched Prescient this week to go after it. Prescient harnesses unparalleled amounts of satellite, remote sensor and third-party […]
Canexia Health Merges With Imagia Cybernetics To Supercharge Oncology
Vancouver’s Canexia Health is merging with Montréal’s Imagia Cybernetics, an AI-healthcare company that accelerates oncology solutions generated from real world data. Canexia is an oncology innovator that streamlines complex cancer genomic information which allows oncologists to identify optimal treatment selection and patient monitoring. The merger includes a $20 million funding round that included BDC Capital’s […]
Canada’s First Coworking Facility Built for Ecommerce Brands Opens in Vancouver
Vancouver’s much anticipated purpose-built coworking space for ecommerce brands is open for business. Launched by the ecommerce experts at JIBE, ECOMsquare is a bi-level, 7,000-square-foot facility and the new home of a collective that features ecommerce creators, operators, and owners who are dedicated to growing the eCommerce industry in British Columbia. Located at 1758 West […]
UBC Grad Siavash Alamouti Awarded Prestigious 2022 Marconi Prize
Granted annually by the Marconi Society, the Marconi Prize is often referred to as the Nobel Prize for Communications and recognizes the contributions and impact of innovators in the communications industry. This year Siavash Alamouti has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Marconi Prize in recognition of his contribution to global wireless device accessibility. He joins other technology luminaries […]
Company Led By UBC Professor Raises USD $40 Million To Advance Drug Discovery
Vancouver’s Gandeeva Therapeutics has raised USD $40 million in Series A funding to advance the development of new drug treatments. Led by UBC Faculty of Medicine professor Dr. Sriram Subramaniam and founded in 2021, Gandeeva is accelerating the development of new precision medicines by integrating cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and artificial intelligence (AI). Cryo-EM is a […]
Burnaby’s D-Wave Systems Going Public In SPAC Deal
Burnaby’s D-Wave Systems is going public by merging DPCM Capital, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, in a deal that values the company at nearly USD $1.6 billion. D-Wave expects to raise up to USD $340 million in gross proceeds from the deal, including a USD $40 million private placement in public equity from […]
Daz 3D’s Non-Fungible People NFT Collection Celebrates Uniqueness & Inclusivity
Last month Daz 3D, a leader in 3D humanoid and avatar tech, sold out its first NFT collection, Non-Fungible People (NFP). The groundbreaking collection features 8,888 unique female and non-binary profile picture (PFP) avatars, artistically rendered in a hyper-real style. Each avatar in the collection was created algorithmically from a pool of over 30,000 different characteristics, […]
Trulioo Acquires HelloFlow to Accelerate Digital Onboarding
Vancouver’s Trulioo has acquired Copenhagen’s HelloFlow, a no-code, drag-and-drop builder of client onboarding, monitoring and digital workflow solutions. With the digital economy rapidly growing, companies want to optimize their onboarding workflows to make the user experience seamless, while continuing to meet Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering and other regulatory and fraud prevention requirements. The acquisition […]