BarrelWise has launched its novel wine barrel management system in California, starting with the Napa and Sonoma winemaking regions. The first of a kind BarrelWise Barrel Management System enables wine barrel sampling, topping, and the sulfite additions to be done without removing the bung, which can save over 50% of time currently spent on routine […]
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Remote Work Champion Deel Officially Launches in Canada
There is no doubt that COVID-19 accelerated the remote work revolution by removing the last barriers to remote work adoption. This significant shift can not only improve employees’ quality of life, but also help companies access a larger pool of talent, while curbing operational costs. International payroll and compliance company Deel is a champion of remote […]
Trend Micro Partners With SFU To Train Next Generation On Cloud Security
Trend Micro announced today that they have partnered with Simon Fraser University to help train future cybersecurity professionals. At a time in which specialized skills in cloud security is desperately needed, the new partnership will prep Canadian students with industry insights and networking opportunities while they are still in school. “As we know, the skills […]
Vancouver’s FISPAN To Double Staff As Banks Accelerate Into Digital
Vancouver’s FISPAN has been working with some of the largest banks in North America to simplify the business banking experience in order to better support their commercial clients. FISPAN enables banks to easily connect their legacy systems to their business banking clients’ accounting systems in order to offer integrated digital banking, trade, and payment solutions. […]
Brave To Address Overdose Crisis And Accelerate 9-1-1 Response Times
Each year, over 250 million calls are made to 9-1-1 in the United States, relying primarily on the limited context of a phone call. This can result in delays in dispatch and under-informed first responders. Vancouver’s Brave Technology Coop and RapidSOS have announced a partnership that will not only improve encounters between first responders and […]
BBTV Launches New Service Offerings to Instagram and TikTok Influencers
YouTube monetization pioneer BBTV has announced the launch of new offerings at scale to influencers across all genres of content on Instagram and TikTok. While BBTV’s bread and butter remains YouTube where over 2 billion people log-in each month, Instagram and TikTok are fast approaching YouTube’s reach with Instagram hitting one billion monthly users in […]
Canadian Program to Deploy Cancer Testing During COVID-19 Reaches Key Milestones
COVID-19 has delayed at least 100,000 surgeries in Canada, including up to 30 percent of cancer-related surgeries such as tissue biopsies. Currently, surgery backlogs are estimated to be 1-2 years across the country. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) testing has been found to be an effective alternative to some surgical tissue biopsies to guide cancer targeted […]
Insurtech APOLLO Closes $13.5 Million Series A Round
Vancouver’s APOLLO Insurance has closed an oversubscribed $13.5 million Series A financing round. Launched in April 2019, APOLLO is redefining the distribution of insurance and now offers the largest selection of online insurance in Canada through thousands of digitally enhanced agents and embedded finance partnerships. APOLLO’s proprietary technology platform, the APOLLO Exchange, transacts insurance business in […]
Hootsuite Acquires Digital Customer Engagement Platform Sparkcentral
Vancouver-headquartered Hootsuite has acquired Sparkcentral, a customer service SaaS platform that enables 1:1 conversational messaging through Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, WhatsApp, WeChat, SMS, and Chat. The acquisition is Hootsuite’s thirteenth since being founded in 2008 and is its first since 2017. Based in Belgium and with an office in New York, Sparkcentral is a social […]
AbCellera Plans To Hire Hundreds In Vancouver
Vancouver’s AbCellera emerged last year as a leading early stage company in the race to bring COVID-19 treatments to market when their Pandemic Prevention Platform team brought the first COVID-19 antibody to clinical trials in under 90 days. Their herculean efforts were acknowledged when the pharmaceutical upstart was named the winner of Fast Company’s Innovative Team […]