According to a report in the Vancouver Sun today, fans entering Rogers Arena could be early test subjects for one company’s bid to screen sports fans upon entry. Vancouver-headquarted Liberty Defense Technologies (TSX: SCAN) will use advanced radar, 3D imaging and AI to unobtrusively screen sports fans as part of a Memorandum of Understanding it […]
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Tiny Acquires Top Shopify Partner Pixel Union From Teligence Capital
Victoria’s Tiny Capital has re-acquired a majority stake in Pixel Union, a leading partner in the Shopify ecosystem. Tiny Capital sold a majority stake in Pixel Union to Teligence Capital in 2014. So, this week’s announcement is a bit of a homecoming. Pixel Union started out building themes for Tumblr in 2008, but after witnessing the growth […]
3 Vancouver Startups Win at Fundica Roadshow
The 2019 Fundica Roadshow hit the city on April 4th for their first regional event in Vancouver. Sixteen startups, representing industries ranging from femtech to greentech, pitched to a panel of investors from iNovia, Panache Ventures, BCF Ventures, VFF VC, Framework VC, Vanedge Capital, Active Impact Investments, and R&D Capital. At the end of the […]
HeadCheck Partners with Trek Factory Racing to Improve Concussion Care for Riders
The Trek Factory Racing (TFR) off-road program has announced that they will be using Vancouver’s HeadCheck Health to identify, assess and manage concussions.
TELUS Ventures Invests in Precision Medicine Company GenXys
TELUS Ventures announced today that it has completed investments in three of Canada’s leading precision medicine and diagnostics-focused startups: Acorn Biolabs, GenXys Health Systems and Vital Biosciences.
Mailchimp Wants to Make Lemonade with Vancouver Acquisition
In early March Shopify announced a series of changes to its partnership program and API access that had implications for its partners and merchants. At that time it was also announced that Mailchimp is leaving Shopify’s marketplace. MailChimp said it asked Shopify to remove its MailChimp for Shopify integration from the e-commerce platform’s app store […]
Carbon Engineering Raises US $68 Million Round Led by Bill Gates
Squamish-based Carbon Engineering has announced the completion of an equity financing round of US $68 million, marking the largest private investment made into a Direct Air Capture (DAC) company to date. This $68M financing will allow CE to commercialize and enter mainstream markets with its fully demonstrated DAC technology that is able to capture and […]
ezCater Acquires Vancouver’s Monkey Group
ezCater, the world’s largest online catering marketplace, today announced it has acquired Vancouver-headquartered Monkey Group, an enterprise software, training, and insights company, and developers of MONKEY, the cloud platform for takeout, delivery, and catering. The acquisition marries the world’s largest online catering marketplace with the world’s most popular catering management software. Catering, the largest growth […]
Vancouver Visual Effects Team Takes Home Oscar for First Man
“And a big shout-out to Michelle Eisenreich, Rupert Porter and my people at DNEG Vancouver.” Those were the words of Paul Lambert, the VFX Supervisor on First Man as he accepted his team’s Oscar for Best Visual Effects on Sunday night. Eisenreich is a Vancouver-based executive producer at Double Negative. Digital effects supervisor Tristan Myles […]
Cybersecurity Startup Cmd Raises US $15 Million from Google Ventures
Vancouver cybersecurity startup Cmd announced today the close of a US$15-million Series B funding round led by GV. Formerly known as Google Ventures, GV is the venture capital arm of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. The funding round also included participation from Amplify Partners and Expa. Cmd allows organizations to proactively secure their Linux environment by providing […]