Vancouver’s Tracesafe is now part of TELUS’ Procurement Ecosystem. As part of the Enterprise Safe Return to Work Solution on the TELUS IoT ecosystem, TraceSafe products offer contactless entry, location intelligence, and proximity alerts. With high-capacity BLE beacons and year-long battery lives, TraceSafe devices are cost-effective and can significantly reduce enterprise costs. “TELUS has access […]
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Vancouver City Council Approves Formula E Race Starting In 2022
Last week we asked if Formula E racing could be coming to Vancouver in 2022. In a 9-1 vote tonight, Vancouver City Council approved a partnership with Canadian promoter of the Formula E World Championship to bring the all-electric, open wheel vehicle race event to the city at no cost to the municipal government. The […]
Dapper Labs Reveals Plans For Their Next NFT Marketplace – Celebrities
Vancouver’s Dapper Labs is partnering with the celebrity-driven avatar tech company Genies to build a new marketplace on Dapper Labs’ Flow blockchain. Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences in the real world. Getting their start with collecting and breeding digital at CryptoKitties—the world’s most successful blockchain game—the Vancouver studio also lets basketball […]
East Side Games Announces Partnership With Vancouver’s TinyRex Games
Vancouver’s East Side Games (ESG) has announced their 5th partnership, adding three new titles to their 2022 roster. The LEAF Mobile subsidiary has inked a partnership with Vancouver’s TinyRex Games for the global release of three mobile games on iOS and Android. TinyRex Games is a mobile games studio founded by Kenny Huang, Haig Sakouyan, Tim […]
Vancouver-born Thinkific Opens TSX With $1 Billion Valuation
Vancouver’s Thinkific virtually rang the opening bell at the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) today to celebrate the company’s first day of public trading. Listed under the ticker symbol “THNC”, Thinkific shares opened at $13.50 and have risen as high as $15.37 today giving Thinkific a market capitalization of $1.18 billion and making it the second […]
Unicorn Clio Valued At $2 Billion After New Funding Round
Eighteen months after raising USD $250 Million in the largest growth-stage transaction in Canadian history, Burnaby’s Clio is at it again. This morning Clio announced a new valuation of $2 billion after raising USD $110 million in its Series E. The funding round was led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, […]
Amazon Launches IP Accelerator to Help Small Businesses Protect Their Brands
To mark World Intellectual Property Day, Amazon has launched an IP Accelerator in Canada and a Vancouver law firm, Palmer IP, is among the 8 firms participating in the project. The IP Accelerator connects small and medium-sized businesses that sell in Amazon’s store with a network of trusted Canadian Intellectual Property (IP) law firms charging […]
SFU Entrepreneurs Crowned With Coast Capital Savings Venture Prizes
The Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize celebrates innovative ideas and entrepreneurial pursuits from the Simon Fraser University community. Open to early-stage business ventures founded by SFU students from undergraduate, graduate and professional programs, as well as by staff, faculty, and recent alumni, competitors are judged by a panel of industry experts on the quality of […]
UBC Spin-Off Acquired By Bill Gates-backed Bioremediation Company
Vancouver’s Metabolik Technologies has been acquired by the Boston-based, Bill Gates-backed waste remediation firm Allonnia. The acquisition of the UBC spin-off is part of a $20 million strategic investment in Allonnia by Evok Innovations, a leading cleantech fund of which Metabolik is a portfolio company. Metabolik was co-founded by Vikramaditya Yadav, a professor of chemical and biological engineering […]
FARM-TRACE Selected For First Cohort of Google Climate Change Accelerator
Vancouver’s FARM-TRACE has been chosen to participate in the first cohort of Google’s climate change accelerator, which is aimed at supporting companies developing technologies that support the global fight against the climate crisis. FARM-TRACE automates impact reporting across farms, aiming to help users receive transparency into monitoring metrics including deforestation or carbon stored. The agtech […]