While the future of shared office space may be in question, Discovery Parks has announced the winners of their Generator Challenge 10.0 Competition. The annual competition awards turn-key workspace for 12 months to early-stage tech companies that demonstrate a high likelihood of success. The Generator program is based on the concept that free-flowing ideas, minimal […]
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Vancouver Startup Helps Recruiters Connect With Essential Workers During COVID-19 Crisis
Vancouver’s Rectxt announced this week that they are giving away their text recruiting platform for free to recruiters who are hiring essential workers during the COVID-19 crisis. The bootstrapped HR Tech startup has created a Chrome extension that allows recruiters to instantly send text messages and launch text campaigns from any website, customer relationship management […]
FORM Raises $12 Million Series A Round For Augmented Reality Swim Goggles
FORM has raised a $12 million Series A round led by large family offices in the UK and Denmark with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. Vancouver’s FORM is the direct-to-consumer sports technology company behind the world’s first augmented reality swim goggles. The investment comes after the successful launch of the FORM Smart Swim Goggles in […]
Leading From Beginning to End, Jay Parmar Wraps Up Eventbrite in Vancouver
In September of 2012 I wrote about an event ticketing startup called Picatic for the first time on Techvibes. The company had landed itself with Extreme Startups in Toronto and was launching a crowdfunding platform called EventTilt. Crowdsourcing was all the rage at the time and their new platform was guaranteeing successful events by completely […]
Shopify Capital Launches In Canada And Issues First Loan in 34 Minutes
Shopify is on fire. Their stock price skyrocketed again today, putting it in a tight race with TD Bank to become the country’s second-most valuable company on the TSX behind RBC. The e-commerce company’s shares were up 7 per cent, pushing its market value over $100 billion. Investors rushed to buy Shopify shares last week […]
Amazon To Hire Across Operations Network To Meet Unprecedented Demand
On March 16th, Amazon announced they would make 100,000 full- and part-time hires across their operations network to keep as many people as possible working during the coronavirus pandemic. They also announced that the company would invest over $350 million globally to increase pay for their teams during the crisis. A month later the e-commerce […]
With Walk-in Medical Clinic Traffic Down, Medimap Launches Telemedicine
Medimap is Canada’s largest online and mobile real-time resource for same-day access to care. Across Canada, 70 per cent of all walk-in medical clinics are registered with Medimap and millions of patients rely on their service to look up wait times at walk-in medical clinics. But as concerns regarding the COVID-19 health pandemic continue to […]
Luggage Brand Monos Launches Hand-held Sanitization Device
With the spread of COVID-19 and subsequent travel bans, the travel industry has taken a significant hit world-wide. With this in mind, Vancouver-based travel accessories company Monos has developed a new product to help consumers now and for future travel. Monos has announced the launch of The CleanPod, a hand-held rechargeable sanitizer that uses ultraviolet […]
From Winemaking To Life Saving, BarrelWise To Produce Mask Decontamination Oven
Vancouver’s BarrelWise develops and manufactures a barrel management system that helps winemakers protect and enhance the quality of their wines by mitigating the risks of contamination in the barrel-aging process. Today they announced that they have received funding from Genome BC’s Rapid Response Funding for COVID-19 research and innovation projects. But not because winemaking is an […]
PocketPills Partners With MyHSA To Give Members Online Access To Medication
PocketPills has announced a strategic partnership with myHSA, an employee benefits platform distributed through advisors, MGAs, TPAs, and insurance providers. The partnership will bring online access to medication to myHSA’s 10,000+ Canadian employer and advisor clients. Headquartered in Surrey, PocketPills is Canada’s first full-service digital pharmacy that allows patients to fill their prescriptions online, with […]