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Rad Power Bikes Raises $25 Million to Grow Direct-to-Consumer eBike Business

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Seattle’s Rad Power Bikes has closed $25 million in funding led by Vulcan Capital. Rad Power Bikes is the largest direct-to-consumer electric bike brand in North America with more than 100,000 owners across 30 countries and a full lineup of ebikes for both personal and commercial use. Founded in 2007, the company has 200 employees spread […]

Evo Adds To Fleet To Fill Car-Sharing Void Left By Car2Go

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BCAA’s Evo Car Share has announced that they’re adding 250 cars to their fleet this spring with the potential for further expansion. No doubt this news is a result of popular car-sharing service Share Now, formerly known as Car2Go, shutting down across North America. The joint venture between Daimler and BMW recently announced that the […]

Vancouver’s Olive Selected for Techstars Seattle Class of 2020

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Making decisions on enterprise technology can be stressful and complicated. Fitting a new solution into your business is even more complex. The risk of choosing the wrong solution necessitates deep analysis, both of the available options AND of your business. This is what Olive is purpose built to solve. The Vancouver startup provides you with […]

entrepreneurship@UBC Collaborates With Spring To Deliver Social Venture Program

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entrepreneurship@UBC is collaborating with Global Impact Accelerator Spring to deliver their 2020 Social Venture Incubator program. The Social Venture Incubator program backs UBC founders with solutions to some of the world’s most prolific social, environmental and economic problems. The program cultivates social ventures from ideation to market, providing a unique opportunity for startups to create […]

Eleven Vancouver Companies Included on Narwhal List

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The Narwhal Project identifies a set of young Canadian companies that have the potential to become successful on the world stage. The Narwhal List sheds light on the ability of firms to scale up and reach world-class status. 2019 was a remarkable year for Vancouver’s technology sector as there are eleven companies that made the cut. […]

Dauntless Developer Phoenix Labs Acquired by Singaporean Game Company Garena

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Sea Limited’s digital entertainment arm, Garena, has acquired Vancouver’s Phoenix Labs, the studio behind the popular cross-platform co-op action RPG, Dauntless. Phoenix Labs was founded in Vancouver in 2014 and now has a team of more than 100 developers across its offices in Vancouver, Canada, San Francisco, and Seattle. The studio launched its debut title Dauntless […]

GeekWire 200 Index Update Reveals B.C. Is On The Rise

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Our favorite tech publication south of the border has updated their monthly GeekWire 200 rankings and B.C. is on the rise. The GeekWire 200 is derived from the Seattle publication’s database of Pacific Northwest tech startups, including Washington, Oregon and Idaho, and British Columbia. The rankings are generated from publicly available data, including social media […]

Vancouver’s Clearly Puts a Fitting Room in Your Phone

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Clearly is well-established as a direct-to-consumer brand in the optical space. But the Vancouver-born company is clearly more than just a retailer, as their latest technological development shows. Ordering glasses online, even from an award-winning site like Clearly’s, presents certain risks. That’s because for some reason, even when glasses look cool, it rarely translates to them looking […]

Why This Flourishing Startup is Staying—and Hiring—in Vancouver

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You don’t have a clue how your competitor is doing so well. With Klue, you just might. Since emerging from stealth two years ago, Klue employs what it calls “competitive enablement” to help enterprises boost sales—by finding out what is and isn’t working for your competitors. If the capitalist market is competitive—and who could argue […]