Innovate BC announced today that Janet Bannister, the newly appointed Managing Partner of Real Ventures, is the first keynote speaker for the 2020 #BCTECHSummit. Bannister is one of the most high-profile and successful venture capitalists in Canada. A leading thinker on innovation, Bannister has seen and managed stunning shifts in business and tech. She was […]
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10 Homegrown B.C. Startups to Watch in 2020
2019 is in the books and it was a great one for Vancouver tech community and the province as a whole. Burnaby’s Clio announced a funding round that makes them Canada’s newest Unicorn, seven Vancouver companies were among Canada’s best workplaces in technology, and to top it off, we found out that our software developers now […]
#WhatWorks Getting Started with Negotiations 101
This fall BC Tech is delivering #WhatWorks Series on Women in Tech. British Columbia’s technology industry is a national leader in many ways that matter — as a startup hub, “unicorn” breeding ground and sub-sector hotspot — it falls short in one key area: the participation of women. Recent data released by CBRE reveals that […]
Freshly Funded Clio on Hunt for Talent
Clio is raising “the bar” in more ways than one. Following a whopping US$250 million Series D funding round, the Burnaby-based company is rapidly modernizing law firms with technology—and hiring locals to help achieve this tremendous task. “To become global leaders, BC’s tech companies must scale,” wrote Jill Tipping, president and CEO of the BC […]
Cascadia Champion Voyager Capital Raises $100 Million in Fifth Fund
Voyager Capital has raised $100 million to fuel innovation in the Cascadia market. The fund, Voyager’s fifth, will power first-round investments in B2B startups across cloud infrastructure, software as a service (SaaS), and vertical markets such as FinTech, MediaTech, and AgTech. The firm has already closed five new investments. The West Coast venture capital firm […]
Terminal Raises $17 Million to Solve Tech Talent Shortage
Terminal, the remote teams company helping future unicorns work around the talent shortage and hire top tech talent across the globe, has announced a $17 million Series B funding round that includes notable investors Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Headquartered in San Francisco, Terminal is trying to solve the hiring crisis in tech. With […]
Clio Offers Blueprint For Tech Success
As a developer of cloud-based solutions for the legal industry, Clio is raising the bar in more ways than one. By helping law firms, aka “the bar,” increase productivity and make their services more accessible, the Burnaby-based company is propelling the not-quite-oldest profession into the 21st century. At the same time, with US$250 million in […]
What’s your Business Type: Clio or Hootsuite?
In your business, are you building a pyramid or riding a wave? Yesterday, Clio announced a CAD $333.5 million investment in their company by US firms TCV and JMI Equity, making it the largest venture capital investment in Canada since 2000. This may come as a surprise to many in BC since the legal tech […]
Clio Raises $333 Million in Largest Growth-Stage Transaction in Canadian History
Burnaby’s Clio announced today that they have raised USD $250 million in the largest growth-stage transaction in Canada’s history. The Series D round, led by US growth-equity firms TCV and JMI Equity illustrates their confidence that Clio will lead the legal tech market and that the legal tech industry is the next industry to watch. […]
Vancouver Founder Fund Rebrands As Rhino Ventures
Four years ago, Fraser Hall and Dan Eisenhardt started Vancouver Founder Fund (VFF) with one goal: to be the funders they wished they had had as founders. The Vancouver Founder Fund name came from Hall and Eisenhardt wanting to pay homage to the city in which they built their previous company, Recon Instruments. They set […]