You don’t have to be a concert junkie or hustling networker to have heard of Eventbrite—the global ticketing and event technology platform provides creators of events with tools and resources to plan, promote, and produce live experiences. Their app is probably already on your phone from a past event. In the summer of 2018, the San […]
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Following Meteoric Rise, Brex Looks North for Talent
Henrique Dubugras, 24, and Pedro Franceschi, 23, founded a startup in 2018 after dropping out of Stanford University. Today, Brex is valued at more than $2 billion. The Silicon Valley superstar’s primary offering is what it describes as “the smartest corporate card in the room”—a credit card built by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, in essence. The […]
Vancouver Musician Launches Startup with Side Door to SXSW Campaign
Dan Mangan is a Vancouver-based singer-songwriter with two Juno Awards to his name and he’s in the process of adding a startup as well. Mangan’s rise in the music ranks was not overnight. It was slow and hard and he’s no stranger to the tiny venues that struggling musicians are resigned to play until they […]
Stanford University Rates Local Tech Camps Top-Notch
The future is written in code. More than 75 percent of all jobs will require some expertise in STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics—within the next decade. The problem? Only 10 percent of teachers feel confident in teaching high-level technology skills. Educators need STEM curriculum that is proven to work for the young students who will […]
New Fund to Capitalize on Plant-based Food Industry
The first of its kind in Canada, Eat Beyond aims to provide retail investors with access to the most promising opportunities in the future of food. The Eat Beyond Global Investment Fund was created to provide investors with the opportunity to participate in the growth of the alternative food sector. The company plans to list […]
Vancouver’s AbCellera Is Racing To Fight Coronavirus
One month after 2019-nCoV coronavirus was first reported from Wuhan, China the world seems to be bracing itself for what could be the next great pandemic. There are plenty of misconceptions about coronavirus, including how quickly it spreads, and how lethal it is. Whether this coronavirus turns out to be a one-time killer like the […]
Rhino Ventures Doubles Down On Fatigue Science
Vancouver’s Fatigue Science has closed a Series A financing round. The financing amount was undisclosed but made up of a syndicate of new and existing investors including Vancouver’s Rhino Ventures, the company’s first venture capital investor. Fatigue Science is a leader in providing predictive human performance data around sleep in elite sports, military and heavy […]
Acuva Raises $5.4 Million For UV-LED Drinking Water Systems
Acuva Technologies has closed a $5.4 million growth financing round with a syndicate of existing and new investors to deliver the company’s innovative drinking water purification systems to global consumers. “Securing this round of financing is further validation of Acuva’s vision to enable clean drinking water globally and is a testament to the market’s appetite […]
Precision OS Uses VR To Train More Than 300 Sales Reps In 30 Minutes
Precision OS Technology has carried out the first-ever and largest virtual reality training event of its kind for medical device sales reps. Held last month, the event brought together more than 300 medical device representatives who simultaneously accessed the training module on a complex surgical procedure. The Precision OS training uses the mobile Oculus Quest […]
TELUS Ranked #1 Major Internet Service Provider for Gaming
TELUS has earned the title of Best Gaming ISP in Canada. The Vancouver-headquartered telecom outflanked the competition in the 2020 PCMag Gaming Quality Index to take home the honors. The magazine scored TELUS the lowest on combined latency – the amount of time it takes for data to travel to a server and back, and […]