Vancouver’s PDFTron Systems has landed a strategic growth investment from Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm focused on the software sector. PDFTron’s highly configurable software development kits (SDKs) help more than 2,000 customers improve productivity, accelerate application development lifecycles, and reduce time to market. Since its founding in 1998, PDFTron has developed the industry’s definitive […]
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Vancouver’s StoryTap Scales Up With USD $2.3 Million Seed Round
Vancouver’s StoryTap has raised a USD $2.3 million seed round led by Refinery Ventures and including StandUp Ventures. StoryTap’s patented video storytelling platform enables brands to engage and grow by harnessing the power of authentic social video stories. StoryTap was founded by CEO Bernadette Butler and CTO Sean Braacx (pictured) and has been bootstrapped for […]
Vancouver’s Metaspectral Selected For SCALE Aerospace Accelerator Program
Vancouver’s Metaspectral has been selected to join the SCALE Aerospace Accelerator Program. Run by the Starburst Aerospace Accelerator in collaboration with UCLA, SCALE is an early-stage, aerospace-focused accelerator that helps entrepreneurs launch and scale their businesses. Metaspectral’s unique technology derives real-time insights from artificial intelligence (AI) using ultra-high-resolution, visible-to-infrared (hyperspectral) images. This is enabled by its […]
Shopify & Thinkific Collaboration Helps Entrepreneurs Sell Products And Skills In One Basket
While impacts of the pandemic to businesses have varied wildly across sectors, it has been particularly painful for small operators. For many service based entrepreneurs; coaches and instructors, beauticians, stylists, and personal trainers, ‘business as usual’ literally shuttered overnight. Those running small online businesses selling physical goods, themselves struggled with cratering supply chains, disrupted shipping […]
Dooly Raises USD $80 Million Series B Two Months After Series A Round
Just two months after raising a Series A round, Vancouver’s Dooly is back at it with a Series B. Today the CRM automation software startup announced it has raised a USD $80 million funding round led by Spark Capital with new participation from Greenspring, Tiger Global, and Lachy Groom, and continued participation from boldstart ventures, […]
Creative Destruction Lab Establishes CDL-Seattle At University of Washington
Canada’s Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) will launch its third U.S.-based location in Seattle this fall. CDL is a nonprofit organization for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies, with ten locations including CDL-Vancouver at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. Based at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, CDL-Seattle will […]
BC Research Funders Create Partnership For Nine New COVID-19 Projects
Genome BC, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and the BCCDC Foundation for Public Health have partnered for the first time to fund rapid response research initiatives that will have a direct impact – in a matter of months – on people in British Columbia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Valued at approximately $1.3 million, […]
ChopValue Secures $3 Million Round That Includes Former Shopify CMO
Vancouver’s ChopValue has raised $3.15 million in new funding from existing shareholders Fulmer & Company and Active Impact, with participation from BDC Capital, Export Development Canada, and others including Craig Miller. Miller is the former Chief Marketing and Chief Product Officer of e-commerce darling Shopify. ChopValue is the brainchild of Felix Böck, a former UBC […]
Unbounce Acquires Snazzy AI to Help Take the Struggle out of Writing Copy
Vancouver’s Unbounce has acquired Snazzy AI, a freemium AI powered copywriting tool running. Within minutes and with minimal human input, Snazzy AI generates copy for ads, emails, landing pages, pitches, TikTok video ideas and more. With this newest acquisition, Unbounce is poised to move beyond landing pages, advance the conversion intelligence space and continue to […]
PrecisionOS Launches First Fully Interactive Robotics Platform in VR
Vancouver’s PrecisionOS, the creators of the medical-grade virtual reality (VR) learning platform, has unveiled the world’s first fully interactive robotics platform in VR. Typical surgical education involves flying surgeons, residents, and sales reps to a facility with a robot, which is not only costly, but occurs weeks to months prior to the first case, rendering […]