Vancouver’s Looking Glass Labs announced this week that its flagship studio House of Kibaa recently conducted the successful sale of a class of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) known as GenZeroes. GenZeroes is a new multi-media franchise and is being developed in collaboration with several artists with work experience that includes projects for both the StarWars and […]
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Vancouver Startup NiceJob Acquired by Paystone
London, Ontario’s Paystone has acquired Vancouver startup NiceJob, an award-winning reputation marketing platform for service businesses. Founded in 2017, NiceJob has quickly grown to become the North American market leader for small and medium-sized businesses looking to engage in reputation marketing. NiceJob automates the collection of online customer reviews and referrals and distributes them to […]
Lucid Motors To Open Vancouver Showroom This Weekend
Sales of zero-emission cars accounted for almost 10 per cent of all car sales in B.C. in 2020 — the highest electric vehicle uptake in North America. So it should come as no surprise that the recently public electric car brand Lucid Motors will open its first showroom in Canada in Vancouver. The new showroom […]
Epic Selected For Canada’s Only Hardware & Semiconductor-Focused Incubator
Canada’s only hardware and semiconductor-focused lab has announced its third cohort of participating companies and one of B.C.’s own is in the mix. ventureLAB’s Hardware Catalyst Initiative has selected Vancouver’s Epic Semiconductors as one one of eight emerging tech companies from across Canada that the initiative will support as they aspire to join the $7 trillion […]
Alida Lands $20 Million Equity Investment from Round13 Growth Fund
Vancouver- born Alida has raised a new $20 million Series D funding round by Toronto’s Round13 Growth Fund. The leader in customer experience management (CXM) rebranded to Alida from Vision Critical one year ago. The funding round will accelerate Alida’s global growth trajectory and build on the company’s product roadmap to deliver transformative SaaS solutions […]
Fresh Off New Ventures BC Award, Train Fitness Looks to Perfect Product
Many flirt with fitness on and off. They will attend the gym religiously—for a month, perhaps two—before vanishing into the ether. This may occur perennially. The friction that stops people from maintaining long-term consistency with regards to working out is often minimal. Yet it becomes the difference between developing the gym into a desired habit […]
B.C. Government Invests To Expand The Canadian Tech Talent Accelerator
In an effort to upskill thousands of Canadians, the Government of British Columbia is partnering with the Digital Technology Supercluster, NPower Canada, Microsoft Canada and Blueprint to collectively invest over $15 million to expand the Canadian Tech Talent Accelerator program in B.C. This investment will create equitable economic opportunity for up to 2,000 B.C. residents, between the ages […]
Vancouver’s Omnisearch Secures Seed Round For Search Tool
Vancouver startup Omnisearch has secured a USD $450,000 pre-seed round from Menlo Park’s GoAhead Ventures. Founded earlier this year, Omnisearch was started with the mission of making audio and video content searchable. This company arose out of its co-founder’s frustration with the time-consuming nit-picking task of searching for an exact minute within an audio or […]
Lighthouse Labs Takes Coding Bootcamps To Australia
Vancouver-born Lighthouse Labs is going down under. The coding bootcamp is partnering with a leading Australian TAFE (technical and further education) institution to establish an Asia Pacific base in the country’s leading tech city, Melbourne. Victoria Minister for Economic Development Tim Pallas announced this week that Lighthouse Labs in partnership with Holmesglen TAFE will offer […]
ElectraMeccanica Begins First Customer Deliveries of Flagship SOLO EV
Vancouver’s ElectraMeccanica has begun the first commercial deliveries of its flagship single-seat SOLO electric vehicle (EV) as part of an invite-only unveiling event held in Los Angeles. The event was hosted by the ElectraMeccanica senior management team at the Universal Hilton Hotel, adjacent to the iconic Universal Studios and a brief drive from the Los […]