Vancouver startup SoleSavy has raised a USD $12.5 million in Series A funding round, led by Bedrock Capital and joined by notable investors including Jason Calacanis’ LAUNCH, Panache Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Turner Novak’s Banana Capital, Dapper Labs’ Roham Gharegozlou, Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein and Thomas Wesley “Diplo” Pentz. Founded by Dejan Pralica and Justin Dusanj in […]
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Innovate BC Awards Over $1 Million to Four B.C. R&D Projects
Innovate BC has awarded $1,075,000 to four B.C. based research projects through its Ignite Program. Since the Ignite Program launched in 2016, Innovate BC has awarded $8.5 million to 34 projects. When including matching funds from industry and government sources, total investment into these projects jumps to more than $24.8 million. The Ignite Awards is […]
CloudAdvisors Launches Employee Benefits Marketplace
Vancouver’s CloudAdvisors is transforming the long-established employee benefits industry by launching Canada’s Employee Benefits Marketplace. The fully digital platform provides revolutionary access to benchmarking data from over 10,000 employers, A.I. automated recommendations, and a Solution Marketplace which uniquely matches Employers with Benefits they can purchase. CloudAdvisor’s co-founder Matt Lister began his journey as tech savvy […]
Wishpond Appointments Launches Giving Merchants Better Growth Potential
Vancouver’s Wishpond has launched Wishpond Appointments enabling businesses to provide their customers with automated online booking, all integrated and managed within Wishpond’s digital marketing platform. The new product represents the first feature integration of EverGenius software into Wishpond’s platform which comes from the company’s acquisition of Invigo Media and continues the marketing suite’s flywheel momentum […]
Semios’ Strategy To Consolidate Crop Management Apps Continues
Vancouver AgTech company Semios has acquired Centricity, developers of a suite of field data collection applications including ApRecs, a market-leading solution for agri-businesses. ApRecs allows growers to make better process decisions through industry compliance and operational workflow so they can focus on growing. Today’s announcement comes on the heels of Semios’ acquisition of Altrac to offer […]
Tribe and APOLLO Partner To Digitize Insurance For Condo Owners, Renters, and Landlords
Of the approximately 4.5 million Canadian households that rent, nearly half do not have the protection of a tenant insurance policy. That leaves those individuals, their families, and the landlords they rent from, vulnerable to risks such as fire and water damage — even if they themselves are not responsible for the damage. Two Vancouver […]
BC Tech Unveils Finalists For 2021 Technology Impact Awards
The BC Tech Association has announced the finalists for the 2021 Technology Impact Awards (TIAs). “Throughout the COVID-19 crisis the province’s tech sector pulled together to support our communities, help small business to adopt technology, provide reskilling programs and put workers displaced by Covid into new jobs in the tech sector,” said Jill Tipping, BC […]
Two B.C. Startups Selected For Inaugural Google Cloud Accelerator
The past year of the pandemic has demonstrated the importance of cloud technologies for businesses, governments, nonprofits and consumers, so this program comes at a critical time. In April Google put out a call to Canadian startups for the inaugural Google Cloud Accelerator Canada program. Not one, but two, B.C. based startups have been selected […]
Loop Energy to Fuel 8-Meter Minibus in Slovakia
Burnaby’s Loop Energy is going to Europe. The developer and manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cell-based solutions has sold a S300 fuel cell module to Slovakia-based company, Mobility & Innovation (M&I) to fuel the electric powertrain of their new 8-meter transit bus. This order is the first under the commercial agreement signed between the parties, which anticipates […]
Vancouver Film School named Top Canadian and Top International Animation Training Program
Vancouver Film School (VFS) has been named both the Top Canadian Animation Training Program and Top International Animation Training Program by publication Animation Career Review, making it the fifth consecutive year that VFS has appeared at the top of the Canadian list and the third consecutive year at the top of the International list. Other […]