Tiny Summit is an opportunity for a select group of entrepreneurial University of Victoria Gustavson School of Business alumni to compete for up to $24,000 in funding prize money. Sponsored by Victoria’s Tiny, the summit’s competition is for startups five years and younger that are looking to scale their business and reach their next milestone. […]
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Connecting the Dots: January 2023
Each month, the team at Switchboard connects the dots between the trends, headlines and narratives informing the B.C. tech sector. Before we get started, some VERY exciting news: Switchboard has officially joined forces with Earnscliffe Strategies! The acquisition will combine the world-class experience, expertise and resources of Earnscliffe, a national leader in strategic communications, government […]
Victoria’s Tiny Capital To Go Public On TSXV Through Reverse Merger
Publicly traded WeCommerce has entered into an agreement with Victoria’s Tiny Capital and a WeCommerce subsidiary to combine their businesses in an all-share transaction. While the arrangement looks like a merger, in reality it is a reverse merger as Tiny Capital will own 75% of the company and Tiny’s co-founders will become CEOs of the […]
No-code Platform Frontly Raises Round From West Coast Investors
Victoria’s Frontly has raised a $350,000 round to grow their custom internal admin tooling platform in the burgeoning no-code market space. No-code is an approach to designing and using applications that doesn’t require any coding or knowledge of programming languages. This type of software is part of the self-service movement that empowers business users to create, […]
Endur Apparel Rebrands to Outway Socks After $3.2 Million Investment
One of North America’s leading performance sock brands, Victoria’s Endur Apparel has just announced a refreshed brand identity with Outway as its new name. The company’s new brand positioning will be fuelled by a $3.2 million investment led by Andrew Wilkinson of Tiny. Other investors include Shane Parrish, Jason Warner, Jonathan Becker, Rasool Rayani, Ben Moore, Tobyn Sowden, Janene Scordo, Tina Swinton, Rajiv Khaneja, and Carla Matheson. Outway was […]
VINN To Revolutionize The Automotive Retail Model
The automotive sales and distribution model has largely been the same since the 1980s, with little change taking place despite technology revolutionizing other industries. The automotive industry as a whole has not adapted to the shift to online as quickly as many had predicted. Although consumers have moved online, veteran automotive OEMs still sell the […]
Medimap Raises $3.5 Million To Expand Into New Healthcare Verticals
Medimap is Canada’s largest online and mobile real-time resource for same-day access to care. Across Canada, 70 per cent of all walk-in medical clinics are registered with Medimap and millions of patients rely on their service to look up wait times at walk-in medical clinics. Over 1,200 medical clinics across Canada use Medimap’s platform to publish their wait […]
Tiny Capital Takes The Plunge With AeroPress Investment
Victoria’s Tiny Capital has invested in Palo Alto’s AeroPress, makers of the AeroPress® coffee maker, which was created by inventor and engineer Alan Adler. Adler will continue to be involved and retains a minority ownership stake in the business. The AeroPress coffee maker has enjoyed rave reviews and a passionate following from coffee lovers globally […]
Victoria’s Defined Raises $2.5 Million Round From Version One & Tiny Capital
Victoria’s Defined has closed a $2.5 million seed round from a group of investors that includes B.C.’s Version One Ventures, Tiny Capital, and angel Rasool Rayani. Also participating in the round were Compound, Capital6 Eagle, Kamunting Street Capital, Mark Cuban, Inflection Ventures, Portico Ventures, and Balaji Srinivasan. Defined is a data platform for the open […]
Former Daily Hive Editor-in-Chief Farhan Mohamed Launches Community News Network
Canada’s online media landscape is about to get interesting. Daily Hive’s former Editor-in-Chief Farhan Mohamed has teamed up with tech entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson to launch Overstory Media Group (OMG), a new media company that wants to breathe life into the media industry and it’s targeting local communities. Wilkinson is the Co-founder of Tiny, a Victoria-based […]