Vancouver fintech Hiive has rebranded as Clarity, reflecting its evolution from a marketplace for secondary transactions into a broader financial services platform for private companies and investors. The new brand arrives alongside an expanded platform designed to address the fragmented and opaque nature of private markets, where pricing information can be limited and liquidity difficult […]
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Innovation UBC Invites Venture Community to Fall Social
Innovation UBC is bringing together researchers, entrepreneurs and ecosystem partners for a fall social at the University of British Columbia next month. The Innovation UBC Community Fall Social will take place on Thursday, October 8, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Technology Enterprise Facility III on the UBC campus. Designed as a casual drop-in […]
Lumicent Launches AI Platform to Turn Industrial Risk Into Action
Vancouver-based Lumicent has launched a decision intelligence platform designed to help industrial organizations identify emerging asset risks, understand their potential consequences and determine where action is needed most. Formerly known as CoGo, the company says its new name reflects an expanded focus beyond monitoring the condition of industrial assets. Lumicent now aims to connect condition […]
Dream Photonics Wins 2026 New Ventures BC Competition
Vancouver-based Dream Photonics has been crowned the winner of the 2026 New Ventures BC Competition, taking home the $110,000 Innovate BC First Place Prize. The UBC spinout is developing a platform that uses 3D-printed micro-lenses to automate the assembly of advanced microchips. Its technology connects optical components automatically, replacing the slow and costly manual processes […]
Après Equipment Puts Your Winter Gear on Beautiful Display with Air Dock
In Canada’s realm of seasonal extremes, wildfire season becomes to ski season faster than you can say “Pumpkin Spice Latte.” The country’s winter-obsessed have a new toy to test out this year: the Air Dock. No, it’s not from Apple. The Air Dock, a slickly engineered piece of hardware for skiers, hails from Après Equipment. […]
CENGN Expands Living Lab Services with IP Support from Key B.C. Orgs
Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks has added two organizations based in British Columbia as its latest members. New Ventures BC and Innovate BC have joined CENGN, immediately adding benefits to the Centre’s Living Lab Initiative. Designed to help Canadian startups and scaleups bring their solutions to market, CENGN’s Living Lab Initiative provides […]
$1M Tech Project Targets Power for Emergency Response Aircraft in BC
Two companies based in British Columbia are receiving provincial support to deploy technology aimed at strengthening backup power reliability for general aviation aircraft in the region. Up to $1 million through B.C.’s Integrated Marketplace is earmarked for Abbotsford-based Fast Air to deploy a mobile battery and solar power system developed by Richmond-based Holinova at the […]
Demanding Accountability, Province Sues OpenAI Over Tumbler Ridge Tragedy
On February 10, a mass shooting rocked the remote northern region of Tumbler Ridge. It has since been suggested that the events of that horrific day—which left several dead and dozens injured in a rural B.C. community of just over 2,000—may have been inspired by the utilization of a rapidly emerging technology: artificial intelligence. In […]
Vancouver Startup Advances a Cleaner Way to Access Critical Minerals
Vancouver’s Green Manganese announced recently that it has successfully completed initial metallurgical test work. The startup’s closed-loop, water-based process recovers manganese and other minerals from low-grade ores and legacy and industrial tailings that conventional smelting cannot treat economically. The test demonstrated that the Canadian cleantech startup’s proprietary hydro-metallurgical process can recover multiple critical metals from poly-metallic […]
Three B.C. Cleantech Startups to Pitch Live at 2026 TIAs Gala
Three British Columbia startups will compete live for the Company of the Year – Startup Award at the 2026 Technology Impact Awards Gala. BC Tech selected Lite-1 Bio, Tersa Critical Minerals and Viridis following its annual Dragons’ Den Pitch Night, where seven startups presented to a panel of industry experts at Global Relay’s Gastown office. […]