Each month, the Switchboard PR team connects the dots between the trends, headlines and narratives informing the BC tech sector. For December’s Connecting The Dots, Founder and Chief Communications Officer Kathleen Reid looks back on Klue’s dynamic talent search, more milestones for AbCellera, and the tech community’s inspiring flood-relief generosity in the midst of an […]
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Techcouver’s Most Read Stories of 2021
It’s fair to say 2021 was an improvement on 2020. The pandemic recovery dominated tech – like all else – with many of us spending more time than ever in front of screens. Not surprisingly, Techcouver had a banner year with site traffic growing every month during 2021. As we look forward to a much […]
Ryan Holmes’ LOI Venture Invests In Employee Engagement Platform WFHomie
Ryan Holmes’ new venture fund has made its first investment. LOI Venture, a collaboration between Holmes and New Avenue Capital’s Manny Padda, has led a USD $1.5 million seed round in WFHomie, an employee engagement and distributed team culture platform. LOI Venture invests solely in early-stage startups who enrol in League of Innovators programs. Both […]
Ryan Holmes Teams Up With Manny Padda To Launch Venture Fund
In 2017, Hootsuite co-founder Ryan Holmes launched League of Innovators because there was a shortage of mentorship for young entrepreneurs. Today, Holmes is teaming up with fellow Vancouver angel Manny Padda to announce a $20 million venture fund called LOI Venture to address the shortage of capital for founders under 30. There was a shortage […]
Connecting The Dots: November 2021
Bruce Claggett (Managing Director at Switchboard Public Relations) connects the dots between the trends, headlines and narratives that are informing the B.C. tech sector. This month, Bruce hones in on the players that are creating positive change in B.C. There is a sense of optimism in the industry that we want to shine a light […]
Thinkific Appoints First Chief Marketing Officer and New Chief Technology Officer
Vancouver’s Thinkific today announced two strategic appointments to its executive team. Henk Campher joins Thinkific as Chief Marketing Officer and Chris McGuire as Chief Technology Officer. The new executive appointments come on the heels of the company’s recent announcement on the first-of-its-kind Fiverr Store launch which matches Course Creators with skilled digital freelancers. Earlier in the […]
Meet The B.C. Startups That Participated In Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day
This week’s Y Combinator (YC) Summer 2021 Demo Day is in the books. The Silicon Valley accelerator’s 33rd Demo Day ever included sixteen Canadian tech startups and according to BetaKit it is the most Canadian companies the accelerator has ever had present at a Demo Day. Of the sixteen Canadian startups, 3.5 call B.C. home. […]
Cybersecurity Startup Cmd Acquired By Elastic
Vancouver cybersecurity startup Cmd has been acquired by Amsterdam-headquartered Elastic. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Cmd’s technology provides runtime security for cloud infrastructure, helping organizations gain better visibility into processes that are running. The acquisition comes just days after Elastic announced the acquisition of build.security. With Cmd on board Elastic will […]
Victory Square Doubles Down On Top 10 Ranked Influencer Platform
Victory Square Technologies (VST) is investing a further $1 million into portfolio company Creator.co. The funds from the follow-on investment will be used to grow the existing platform and to complete the development of an add-on feature which will allow creators to launch their own digital currency powered by the blockchain. Launched in 2018, Creator.co […]
Connecting The Dots: July 2021
Each month, Kathleen Reid (Founder + Managing Director at Switchboard Public Relations) connects the dots between the trends, headlines and narratives that are informing the BC tech sector. Following a two-month hiatus, she resumes CTD’s regular monthly schedule by shedding light on BC Tech’s New Economy Report, recent acquisitions by BC’s biggest tech companies, and […]