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Victoria’s Tiny Acquires New York’s HappyFunCorp for $30 Million
Victoria-headquartered Tiny has acquired New York’s HappyFunCorp for USD $30 million in cash and stock. Founded in 2009 by Ben Schippers and Will Schenk, HappyFunCorp is a software engineering firm focused on designing products and experiences for the connected world. Co-CEO Schippers, along with Co-CEO Holly Zappa and COO Robb Chen-Ware, will continue to lead the […]
Mastercard Goes Beyond The Card To The Blockchain
Mastercard has helped create trusted global standards in traditional card-based payments that have stood the test of time and today support billions of transactions per year. The global tech leader continued to put its payments mastery on display at their new tech hub in New York City for its North America Innovation Day last month. […]
LlamaZOO at Forefront of Digital Twin Tech with Launch of Apple Vision Pro Software
Digital twinning is an increasingly popular technology being applied to improve airports, transit lines, and much more. For example, in 2021 YVR launched an Innovation Hub that spurred a strategic collaboration with Unity, platform for creating interactive, real-time 3D content, to produce a twin to capture and present data which “has never been available before.” […]
TIMIA Capital to Deploy USD $100 Million with New Joint Venture Fund
Vancouver’s Montfort Capital is deploying $100 million of funding through a new joint venture with Arena Investors, a USD $3.5 billion institutional investment manager. Arena is a global investment firm that provides creative and flexible capital solutions for special situations. The joint venture combines Arena’s extensive capital base and history of growth-oriented specialty finance with […]
Tackling Insurance Industry, Quandri Raises More Funding to Bolster AI Bots
Jackson Fregeau, who studied Finance at the University of Calgary, launched Quandri alongside his brother Jamieson, an electrical engineering graduate from the University of Victoria, at the start of 2021. The company was founded on the concept of deploying digital workers to run companies’ high-volume, repetitive tasks. Software bots, tailored to customers’ unique processes, can operate error-free […]
Evolving Regulatory Landscape Around Digital Transformation Spurs Growth at Trulioo
As businesses continue to navigate a transforming digital landscape, the need for dependable identity verification has never been clearer. Recognizing this need, global identity verification platform Trulioo has stepped up its game, with the Vancouver company reporting a 586% increase in the adoption of its Know Your Business verification services since 2020. A primary driver […]
Quorum Acquires Automotive Marketplace Startup VINN
Calgary-based Quorum Information Technologies, a provider of software services to automotive dealerships and Original Equipment Manufacturers, this week announced that it has successfully acquired VINN Automotive, an automotive marketplace headquartered in Victoria. This acquisition, Quorum’s fifth in six years, comes as the company seeks to expand its reach in offering comprehensive services to automotive dealerships. […]
Canada Line Digital Twin Sees AI Boost Rapid Transit in Vancouver
In an era where technology and innovation are at the heart of progress, Metro Vancouver’s 14-year-old Canada Line is getting a digital overhaul en route to the future of railway infrastructure. The Canada Line, a testament to modern urban transportation, has been a game-changer for Vancouver since its construction for the 2010 Olympics. It has […]
Canadians’ Lack of Understanding of the Tech Sector Threatens its Future
As Toronto opens its doors this week to the international tech community for the Collision Conference, Canada takes centre stage in a global conversation on the future of technology. Big societal topics and trends, including AI, sustainability, and life sciences are being pushed to the forefront by renowned speakers like Geoffrey Hinton, known as the […]