Each spring entrepreneurship@UBC brings together UBC’s venture and investor community to create connections and build networks at their Investor Showcase. Designed to feature the later-stage ventures from their community that are fundraising, the Investor Showcase highlights ventures leading their industries, demonstrating the progress being made through research and innovation and the potential for early-stage ventures […]
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Maninder Dhaliwal on Building a Fundable Startup with New Ventures BC
BC’s largest and longest-running tech competition is now in its 23rd year and searching for BC’s best new tech startups. This year New Ventures BC (NVBC) is giving away over $250,000 in non-dilutive cash and prizes to the most promising tech ventures across the province. The NVBC competition combines five critical resources—Education, Mentorship, Networking, Feedback, and […]
10 Homegrown B.C. Startups to Watch in 2023
2022 is in the books and despite what we’ve all been through, it was a pretty good year for the Vancouver tech community and the provincial scene as a whole. Tech companies specializing in everything from capturing carbon dioxide to social investing, and from background screening to non-fungible people have been leading an unprecedented tech […]
Impact Challenge Awards Voxcell BioInnovation with Investment Toward Anti-Cancer Tech
VoxCell BioInnovation is creating vascularized, human-like cancer tissue models by combining a custom high-resolution 3D bioprinter, advanced software, and proprietary bio-inks. The New Ventures BC Competition finalist aims to accelerate the development of life-saving anti-cancer drugs by providing tissue models that can identify viable candidates earlier in the drug-development pipeline. Toward this tremendous goal will go […]
Fully Managed Team Raises $6 Million For Workforce Analytics App Produce8
Vancouver SaaS startup Produce8 has raised a $6 million funding round to accelerate growth of their workforce analytics application that helps remote and digital-first teams work better together. Co-founded and backed by Chris Day — the co-founder of IT Glue, Fully Managed and ScalePad — along with Mark Scott, and Joel Abramson both from Fully […]
Plug and Play Hosts First Major Event In Vancouver
Silicon Valley-born Plug and Play is expanding across Canada and have British Columbia in their scope. To kick off their plans in Vancouver, the global innovation platform is hosting their first event in the city bringing together industry leading startups, major corporations looking to innovate, the government, and investors to build collaboration within the local […]
Seeking to Improve ‘Alignment with Goals,’ Kabam Games Reduces Workforce by 7%
Vancouver-based Kabam Games has laid off about three dozen employees, according to a new report. At the start of the year, Kabam boasted more than 500 employees, including over 300 in the Vancouver region alone. These figures may run slightly smaller for now, however. “We made the decision to adjust our resourcing structure in alignment […]
Vancouver’s Coding Pals Acknowledged For Making Meaningful Impact
This past August, TELUS launched its Friendly Future Maker Awards program, a nation-wide search for young Canadians creating positive and long-lasting change in their communities. After receiving hundreds of heartfelt nominations across the country, seven Friendly Future Makers have been selected by a panel of TELUS judges. Vancouver’s own Austin Ma was named one of the seven Friendly […]
Repair, Recycle & Upcycle: Join The Movement To Reduce Electronic Waste
The majority of Canadians, 69 per cent, say their mobile phone is their most expensive personal item, however less than half of the population has actually repaired their phone and only 12 per cent of Canadians have ever purchased a used device. To help address this problem, TELUS is encouraging Canadians to repair, recycle or […]
Indigenous-focused Raven Venture Fund Launches Fund II with Triple the Target Size
North America’s only Indigenous-led and owned venture capital intermediary launched its second fund today. Vancouver-based Raven Indigenous Capital Partners announced this week that Raven Fund II has launched with an initial close of $46 million and a target size of $75 million. The fund “invests in innovative, scalable Indigenous enterprises at the forefront of advancing the well-being […]