Ideon Technologies has raised a $21 million Series A round led by Playground Global. Ideon leverages the natural energy generated by supernova explosions in space – in the form of subatomic particles called cosmic-ray muons – to provide x-ray-like visibility up to 1 km (0.6 miles) beneath the Earth’s surface. Ideon maps the intensity of […]
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Cognitive3D Raises $2.5 Million For Spatial Analytics Platform for 3D Apps
Vancouver’s Cognitive3D has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by Konvoy, with participation from Space Capital and Boost VC. Cognitive3D is a spatial analytics platform that collates and measures how users behave within immersive 3D environments. As users move from content consumption through 2D web and mobile platforms, towards a more interactive content participation in 3D apps, Cognitive3D provides […]
PayByPhone Partners with TransLink Park and Ride Lots Across Vancouver
PayByPhone has partnered with TransLink to offer its mobile parking payment app at 5,500 parking spaces across all nine TransLink Park and Ride lots. Commuters in the Metro Vancouver area using the designated lots along the TransLink line servicing buses, the SkyTrain, and the West Coast Express can now pay for their parked vehicles with […]
B.C. Startup Named To Canada’s Most Innovative Tech Companies
CIX Canadian Innovation Exchange has announced the Top 10 Growth Stage Companies and the Top 20 Early Stage Companies for their 2022 program. While the Top 10 Growth Stage company list did not include any B.C.-based companies, the list of CIX Top 20 Early Stage companies included Victoria’s Solaires. This year’s selections is in contrast […]
Vancouver Fintech ForwardAI Partners with Swoop Funding to Streamline Loan Access
A Vancouver-based fintech startup providing aggregated access to accounting and business data recently announced a partnership with New York’s Swoop Funding, a business platform to discover funding solutions across loans, equity, and grants. ForwardAI says that, through the partnership, Swoop Funding will be augmenting its current data collection process and leverage ForwardAI’s API for access to […]
Vancouver’s Vida Carbon Partners With F1’s Lewis Hamilton
Vancouver’s Vida Carbon has landed a new title partnership with seven-Time Formula 1 World Champion Sir Lewis Hamilton’s Extreme E team, X44. Vida Carbon is a carbon credit investment firm that aims to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. This partnership brings together Vida Carbon and X44 in their shared ambition of […]
CloudAdvisors Upgrades Platform to Take on New Customers, Bigger Challenges
CloudAdvisors has unveiled “Version 3” of its platform. The Vancouver-based insurtech startup recently announced a slew of updates to its platform which result in “a complete overhaul of [the] core user experience,” according to a statement from the company. “With Version 3, we’ve taken a bigger step forward with both our user experience and technical […]
Curatio Merges With Medtech Startup From Down Under To Tackle Urgent Healthcare Gaps
Vancouver digital health startup Curatio has merged with Sydney, Australia’s RxMx to form RxPx. Backed by Australian private equity firm Pemba Capital Partners, the two innovators join to support overburdened doctors and isolated patients with award-winning patient-first, digital-first technology. The name RxPx combines Rx for prescription medication and Px for patient experience. With a mission […]
Vancouver’s APOLLO Insurance Impresses Judges at Tech Innovator Competition
One thing technology does great is turn our dirty, complicated tasks into clean, efficient processes. Take for example the business of insurance: in an era of paper stacks and calculators, one can imagine a nightmarish field. However, companies like Apollo modernize the insurance process thoroughly, leaving nary a hint of the ways of old. “Our […]
Icicle Technologies Earns ‘Software of the Year’ at AgTech Breakthrough Awards
Icicle Technologies recently claimed the title of ERP Software of the Year at the 2022 AgTech Breakthrough Awards, an annual event which honours excellence in agricultural and food technologies and products across the globe. The Richmond-based company utilizes technology to “elevate growing food manufacturing companies.” Icicle aims to simplify complex food production data management to reach higher levels […]