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WELL Health Raises $23 Million And Goes Shopping In Silicon Valley

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WELL Health Technologies has invested $18.2 million in Circle Medical, giving them majority control of the Silicon Valley healthcare startup. In tandem to this Circle Medical announcement, WELL announced that it has received an additional $23 million investment from Li ka-Shing, a previous WELL investor and major investor in Zoom, Spotify, and Impossible Foods. With […]

Supercluster Projects Target Better Canadian Healthcare During Pandemic

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The Digital Technology Supercluster has announced two new projects focused on strengthening Canada’s healthcare system and delivering long-term improvements in Canadian health care. Spanning the Supercluster’s three Technology Leadership Programs – Precision Health, Data Commons and Digital Twins – the new projects represent a total investment of nearly $8.4 million, with nearly $3.2 million provided […]

Instant Financial and Trulioo Named To List of Fastest-Growing Fintechs

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Vancouver’s Instant Financial and Trulioo have been named to CB Insights third annual Fintech 250, a list of emerging private companies working on groundbreaking financial technology. “We’re proud to, once again, recognize the 250 best private fintech companies globally. This year’s Fintech 250 represents 25 countries and spans 19 categories — reimagining everything from retail […]

Terramera Calls On CubicFarms For Control Rooms

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Two Vancouver-based agtech leaders are now working together with Terramera recently purchasing three control room systems from CubicFarms. Terramera is on a mission to reduce global synthetic pesticide use 80 percent by 2030 with its revolutionary Actigate™ technology platform. CubicFarms is a provider of automated controlled-environment growing systems that produce commercial-scale quantities of fresh produce […]

Vancouver Startup Fable Home To Participate In Techstars Demo Day

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Techstars Toronto is Techstars’ first Canadian accelerator program and is a joint partnership with Real Ventures, the most active seed fund in Canada. On September 3rd the accelerator will be showcasing their 2020 cohort of rising startups with a a Virtual Demo Day. The event will feature their most diverse class of founders to date, […]

Vancouver’s Design Connection To Elon Musk’s Neuralink

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Vancouver-based industrial design firm Woke Studio was centre-stage last week when Elon Musk provided a progress update on Neuralink, a company he co-founded in 2016. Neuralink aims to implant wireless brain-computer interfaces that include thousands of electrodes in the brain to help cure neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s, dementia and spinal cord injuries and ultimately fuse […]

New Ventures BC Announces Top 10 for 2020 Competition

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New Ventures BC has announced the Top 10 companies of this year’s startup competition. The New Ventures BC Competition started in 2000 under the direction of Wal van Lierop, to encourage innovation in BC’s tech sector. Since then, the organization has supported 2,360 startups, who have created 3,720+ jobs and have raised $302 million in […]

Precision OS Makes Major Breakthrough in Arthroscopy Education

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Precision OS Technology has created the first-of-its-kind arthroscopy simulator available on a mobile, wireless device (Oculus Quest) which will also be used by CONMED International for surgeon education. The Vancouver company calls this development a major breakthrough in basic and advanced fundamentals of arthroscopy training. The Precision OS method of VR simulation has proven superior […]

Five Investments In BC Technology You Can Make Today

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Angel investors make small investments in startups to help their business get off the ground and carry the company through its difficult early stages. Angel investments can be a great opportunity for some serious financial upside—or downside—which is why these investments are reserved for high net worth individuals that can afford to make a few […]