B.C.’s Moment Energy is earning international recognition for giving electric vehicle batteries a second life. The company’s Megafactory 1 in Surrey has been named to TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026. The recognition highlights a manufacturing model that turns retired EV batteries into stationary energy storage. Founded by Simon Fraser University alumni Edward Chiang, Sumreen Rattan, […]
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B.C. Innovators Earn Spots on Global Cleantech 50 to Watch
Metro Vancouver companies Anodyne Chemistries and Voxelis AI are among the Canadian ventures named to Cleantech Group’s 2026 Cleantech 50 to Watch, joining fellow B.C. innovators FireSwarm Solutions and CRWN.AI. Released today, the annual list recognizes early-stage companies positioned to shape the next wave of cleantech innovation. This year’s honourees span 12 countries, with Canada […]
UBC Researchers Develop Lab-on-a-Chip for Portable Diagnostics
UBC researchers are developing a portable biosensing platform that could bring sophisticated diagnostic testing into clinics, homes, and the field. Led by professor Karen Cheung, the team is working to shrink laboratory analytical capabilities onto a silicon biophotonics chip, with potential applications ranging from hormone tracking to neurological injury research. The platform uses custom protein […]
UBC Accelerator Targets Defence Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing
UBC engineers are developing technologies to strengthen Canada’s defence capabilities while helping industry adopt advanced manufacturing, backed by an $8.76 million PacifiCan investment. The Asymmetry Last Line (ALL) research accelerator focuses on affordable, domestically produced technologies suited to extreme cold and remote environments. Its priorities include power systems, aerospace materials, marine technologies, and sensors. Professor […]
Your Startup’s First Impression Is Now a Machine’s Summary
For most of the last decade, a startup’s discoverability problem was a ranking problem: get the page to the top, get the click. That problem hasn’t gone away, but a second one has landed on top of it. Increasingly, the first description of your product that a customer, an investor or a journalist encounters is […]
A Back Injury Led Semios Founder Michael Gilbert to Build BaroShift
Michael Gilbert built a company that helped farmers understand what was happening in their orchards. His latest startup grew out of a struggle to understand what was happening in his own body. The Semios founder is now building BaroShift, a Vancouver-based startup whose forearm wearable guides personalized breathing sessions designed to train the body’s stress-recovery […]
UBC Welcomes 26 Startups to Fall Venture Founder Cohort
From cancer diagnostics to financial planning for newcomers, 26 new ventures have joined Innovation UBC’s fall 2026 Venture Founder cohort. The 16-week program helps UBC students, faculty and staff turn research and business ideas into viable companies through venture validation, business model development and leadership training. Participants receive guidance from a network of more than […]
Vancouver Upstart Ready to Scale Model for Online Vehicle Purchasing
A Vancouver-based company that specializes in automotive financing this month unveiled a milestone. OCAL Financial announced this week that it has funded more than 1,250 vehicle deals across British Columbia and Alberta. The Canadian fintech firm, which trades on the TSXV as OCAL, says the milestone confirms that the business model works at scale. “More […]
From Byproduct to Platform: How Tydra Labs Is Protecting Its Biomaterials Breakthrough
When the founders of Vancouver’s Tydra Labs began exploring how waste streams could become valuable new materials, chitin was not the original plan. The team initially intended to extract proteins from waste and turn them into fibres for textiles and apparel. But customer interviews and economic modelling pointed to a more promising opportunity hiding within […]
Spare Expands AI Platform Across Transit Agencies
Vancouver-based Spare is expanding beyond transit operations with an AI platform designed to connect the data, institutional knowledge and workflows used across transit agencies and cities. Spare AI brings together information from operational systems, financial platforms, policies, contracts and board records. The platform aims to help employees find answers and complete work without needing to […]