Following the launch of its real-time speech recognition engine that can run offline anywhere, Vancouver AI startup Picovoice has announced a new platform that lets you easily create and train your own voice models. Picovoice’s new web console supports training universal wake words and domain-specific natural language understanding (NLU) skills that run entirely offline—even on […]
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Crowdsourcing Intelligence Platform Thoughtexchange Closes $20 Million Round
Thoughtexchange announced today it has secured a $20 million Series B financing round led by Information Venture Partners with participation from existing investor Yaletown Partners and new investor Voyager Capital. Thoughtexchange’s cloud-based SaaS platform allows leaders to crowdsource answers to open-ended questions in real-time. It is used by leaders at hundreds of companies such as […]
Chrysalix Announces Second Close For RoboValley Fund
Chrysalix Venture Capital has announced the second close of its Chrysalix RoboValley Fund. The Chrysalix RoboValley Fund invests in Industry 4.0 applications that improve industrial processes, resource efficiency and environmental sustainability in industries such as energy, mining, mobility, construction, chemicals and materials, and manufacturing. New investors Caterpillar Inc., J-POWER, and South32 are joining existing investors […]
Quora To Open An Engineering Office In Vancouver
Quora’s CEO Adam D’Angelo blogged yesterday that Mountain View’s Quora is opening their first international engineering office in Vancouver in early 2020. We looked at many possible locations for this office, and decided on Vancouver for three reasons: First, our success as a company depends on our ability to hire the best engineers from around the […]
Victoria’s Shift Closes $1 Million Seed Round and Appoints a CEO
Victoria’s Shift today announced the close of a $1 million seed round and the appointment of former General Manager, Nadia Tatlow, to the role of CEO. The financing round was led by Panache Ventures and includes $500,000 in debt financing from Shift’s parent company Redbrick. Shift is a productivity platform that enables a beautiful and […]
Amazon Rolls Out Quantum-Computing Service With D-Wave Systems
Burnaby’s D-Wave Systems has announced the expansion of the Leap™ API into Amazon Braket, a new, fully managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) solution that allows scientists, researchers, and developers to begin experimenting with computers from quantum hardware providers in a single place. The service, announced this week at AWS re:Invent 2019, will give global Amazon Web […]
Damon Motorcycles Announces Revolutionary Electric Motorcycle, the Hypersport Pro
It’s official, Vancouver-based mobility startup Damon Motorcycles has entered the electric vehicle arena with a preview of its first e-moto, the Hypersport Pro. Damon announced today that the #futureofmotorcycling will be unveiled on January 7th at CES 2020. “We are for the first time being black and white about the fact that we are a […]
Vision Critical Appoints New CEO and President of Products
Vision Critical announced today that it has appointed Ross Wainwright as their new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Riaz Raihan as President of Products. CEO Scott Miller has stepped down and remains on the Vision Critical Board of Directors where Wainwright will also take a seat. Since Vision Critical’s capital restructuring in 2017, Miller successfully […]
Vancouver’s APOLLO wins 2019 Digital Innovator of the Year
Vancouver-born insurtech APOLLO Exchange took home the trophy for Digital Innovator of the Year at the 4th annual Insurance Business Canada Awards last week, beating out eleven other contenders for the top prize. The Digital Innovator of the Year was given to the organization that had best harnessed technology and digital solutions to improve their […]
Carl Data Solutions Lands Fresh Water Data Project with Supercluster
Vancouver’s Carl Data Solutions has signed an agreement with Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster valued at $2.3 million. As part of the $4.65 million Fresh Water Data Commons Project, Carl Data’s subsidiary Astra Smart Systems and i4C Innovation will expand on existing IP by building a hardware and software platform for collecting, storing, analyzing, and sharing […]