RBC is growing its presence in British Columbia with an expansion of its Vancouver banking and innovation hub. The downtown hub, which opened last November, currently has 350 employees and is expected to grow to 600 employees by the end of this year. By 2029, RBC’s goal is to have 1,000 quality jobs supporting the […]
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Campertunity Uses AI To Grow Host Network
Vancouver startup Campertunity is using artificial intelligence to accelerate its own marketplace growth, deploying an internal system called Cara to help expand its network of campground and outdoor hospitality hosts. Built to support Campertunity’s host acquisition and onboarding efforts, Cara researches potential hosts online to better understand their campgrounds, businesses, and offerings before beginning outreach. […]
Insporos Wins Frontier Collective $20K Pitch Prize
Vancouver agtech startup Insporos has won Frontier Collective’s $20,000 Pitch Competition, taking home non-dilutive funding from Vancity after pitching at Vancity Innovation House 2026. The company, led by founder and CEO Mallory Flynn, was selected from a lineup of 10 startups competing across AI, climate tech, health innovation, clean energy, and other frontier technology sectors. […]
Roomvu Upgrades Autonomous Marketing Toolkit for Real Estate
Roomvu is expanding its marketing platform for real estate agents with new enhancements powered by artificial intelligence technology. The Vancouver-based real estate marketing innovator says its updated Autonomous Visibility System helps professionals close a key gap when it comes to generating video content. “Every agent knows they should be marketing consistently; the problem is they […]
Jointly Wins $10K Pitch Competition At Web Summit Vancouver
Jointly has been named the winner of the BC Founder Faceoff: The $10K Pitch Competition, taking home the $10,000 grand prize on stage at Web Summit Vancouver. Delivered as part of Innovate BC’s Road to Web Summit Vancouver initiative, the live pitch competition showcased a dozen high-growth startups from across British Columbia in front of a […]
Nutanix Opens Vancouver Engineering Hub
San Jose-based enterprise cloud company Nutanix is expanding its global engineering footprint with a permanent product engineering hub in Vancouver. The new hub will support development of the next generation of the Nutanix Cloud Platform, with local teams focused on software-defined networking, cloud management and Nutanix Agentic AI, the company’s full-stack platform for building and […]
UniUni Plots Last-Mile Logistics Toward Possible Launch on Public Markets
Earlier this year, Richmond-based last-mile delivery company UniUni raised US$85 million to accelerate automation and expansion across North America. Founded in 2019, UniUni’s mission is to make “the last mile the best mile” by leveraging scalable technology such as AI-driven routing, predictive analytics, and robotic sorting systems to deliver speed and reliability at scale. The […]
Clio Reveals Revenue Milestone Amid ‘Unprecedented’ Growth for Legaltech
Clio this week revealed a major financial milestone. The Vancouver-based legal technology pioneer has officially surpassed US$500 million in annual recurring revenue—an achievement which places the Vancouver-based legaltech titan “among a rare class” of global platforms using artificial intelligence to transform the sector, according to a statement from the firm. “The most consequential technology decisions […]
Quantum Innovator Photonic Now Valued at $2.7B Following Investment
Coquitlam’s Photonic has closed a sizeable round of financing at a company valuation of nearly $3 billion. Announced today at Web Summit Vancouver, the quantum computing company closed its funding round, which started in January, at over US$200M. The round, led by UK-based Planet First Partners, brings total capital raised by Photonic to nearly $500M, […]
Veritree to Help Track World-Record Planting Project in Mangrove Forest
In 2019, Justin Trudeau pledged to plant two billion trees nationwide during his time as Prime Minister. However, despite more than $3B in funding for the project, just 200M trees were ultimately planted by the Canadian government by the time the initiative shuttered in 2025, resulting in a completion rate of just 11%. In a […]