Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Omnisearch. A pain point can spark the best ideas. That was the case for Omnisearch. This company arose out of its co-founder’s frustration with the time-consuming nit-picking task of searching for an exact minute within […]
Startup of the Week
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups.
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SOTW 010: ThyForLife
Welcome to Startup of the Week, a column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s ThyForLife. With World Thyroid Day coming up on May 25th, it’s the perfect time to highlight ThyForLife—an award winning mobile thyroid health tracking app. Over 400 million people around the world have thyroid conditions but […]
SOTW 008: Faber
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Faber Technologies. Construction work isn’t just business, it’s personal. The team that created Faber Connect knew that to be true. They talked and, more to the point, they listened to construction workers and contractors. They […]
SOTW 008: MeaningfulWork
Welcome to Startup of the Week, a column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s MeaningfulWork. It can be difficult for socially responsible companies to find purposeful and impactful volunteer opportunities that their employees feel passionate about. MeaningfulWork created a platform to help companies and nonprofits navigate their relationships to find […]
SOTW 007: Snack
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Snack. If anyone knows the online dating world, it’s Kimberly Kaplan, CEO of Snack. Before starting Snack, she was the Vice President of Product Management, Revenue Optimization & Marketing at Plenty of Fish, a Vancouver-based […]
SOTW 005: Nava Ventures
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Nava Ventures. After being awarded first place in Startup Canada’s Sustainable Development Goals Pitch Competition and winning the finance category of the BoomStartup pitch competition—the socially responsible fintech company is looking to change the banking […]
SOTW 004: ABOzymes Biomedical
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s ABOzymes Biomedical. Did you know that someone needs a blood transfusion every two seconds in the US and Canada? ABOzymes Biomedical’s proprietary technology aims to make matching blood donors to recipients seamless as their tech […]
SOTW 003: Castofly
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Castofly Technologies (Castofly). Increasingly, educators are asked to use technology to create digital content for their students — a trend that was exacerbated by the events of the past year. Not everyone is a natural […]
SOTW 002: Matidor
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. This week, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Matidor. We spoke to Sean Huang, Co-Founder and Head of Business Development at Matidor, a dynamic geospatial field services collaboration tool. Matidor is solving the problem of complex and outdated field services solutions. Their […]
Rootd Helps Users Manage Their Anxiety And Panic Attacks On Their Terms, As They Happen
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Victoria’s Rootd. If you’ve ever endured a panic attack, you know how debilitating they can be. Rootd, the Canadian made and female founded wellness app, wants to change that. The app helps users to manage their […]