Vancouver startup Mosa is celebrating an impressive milestone on its one year anniversary. Since the brand’s launch in December 2022, the entrepreneurship@UBC alumni has successfully upcycled over 10,000 glass bottles, diverting them from landfills and reducing carbon emissions. From the outset, Mosa’s mission has remained steadfast: to establish resource efficiency as the new norm, one […]
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Trulioo Identity Verification Tech Helps Power Public’s UK Launch
Trulioo today unveiled a partnership with Public, a US-based fintech platform for stocks, crypto, and other alternative assets that recently expanded its offerings to U.K. investors. Public chose Trulioo’s identity verification tech to meet Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer compliance requirements for its U.K. launch, according to a statement from the Vancouver company. “We […]
Vancouver’s Derm-Biome and Massachusetts General Hospital Join Forces for Skin Cancer Study
Vancouver’s Derm-Biome Pharmaceuticals has announced a collaboration with Dr. Anna Mandinova from the Department of Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital in a skin cancer study. Derm-Biome is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving skin health. They have topical lead compounds for inflammatory skin diseases (acne and atopic dermatitis) and precancerous skin conditions/non-melanoma skin cancers […]
ThoughtExchange Raises $13.5M for Innovation in Engagement Tech and Inclusive Problem-Solving
Rossland, B.C. born ThoughtExchange has raised $13.5 million in equity financing from InBC Investment Corp. along with existing investors Information Venture Partners, Yaletown Partners, Voyager Capital, HarbourVest and First Generation Capital. ThoughtExchange is an innovator in engagement technology and problem-solving, bridging the gap between quantitative sentiment and actionable solutions by combining deep AI capabilities with […]
Spring Impact Capital Commits $20 Million to Drive Health Innovation in Canada
Spring Impact Capital unveiled today a $20 million impact fund targeting high-potential Canadian innovation in the fields of health and climate. “Many structural tailwinds are creating dynamic impact investment opportunities in climate and health,” the company states. “We aim to fill the gap of pre-seed and seed funding for these companies in Canada.” Founded in […]
Vancouverite Named to 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 List for Social Impact
Vancouver’s Esteban Sanchez has been named to the 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Social Impact category, which recognizes those who are “leveraging business smarts to save the world.” Esteban is the co-founder of Commutifi, a startup building a unique data-driven platform to quantify commuting and empower smarter, faster decisions. Esteban currently serves […]
SFU Adopts Reusables.com’s Tap to Reuse Tech, Revolutionizing Campus Sustainability
New technology to eliminate single-use packaging waste launched this fall at Simon Fraser University following a successful pilot last year that saw 125 kgs of single-use packaging waste reduced and more than 500 kgs of carbon emissions avoided in six months. Vancouver circular economy leader Reusables.com announced today its partnership with Compass Group Canada through their […]
Aspect Biosystems Named to Fast Company’s 2023 List of the Next Big Things in Tech
UBC spinout Aspect Biosystems has been named to Fast Company’s third annual Next Big Things in Tech list, honoring technological breakthroughs that promise to shape the future of industries — from healthcare and security to artificial intelligence and data. Aspect Biosystems is applying its full-stack tissue therapeutic platform to develop a novel class of cell-based tissue […]
East Side Games Recognized Among Most Admired Corporate Cultures
Years of turbulence have challenged—and defined—East Side Games. The chief executive officer of ESG confessed in January that 2022 was a tough year for the mobile games industry, with his Deloitte Fast 500 firm still flying forward in the face of headwind. Entering 2023 with momentum, the resilient studio has forged several partnerships this year, […]
Active Impact Ramps Ups Eco-Ambition with Third Climate-Tech Fundraise
In 2021, Active Impact Investments closed an oversubscribed fund at $54 million. It was the Vancouver-based Certified B Corp’s second fund, and like the first carried a mission to support environmental sustainability through profitable investment. In 2023, Active Impact is making solid progress toward its third fund. Already Canada’s largest climate-tech seed fund, Active this […]