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 […]
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Rocket Builders Announces 2021 Ready to Rocket Lists
Rocket Builders has released its 19th annual “Ready to Rocket” lists. The “Ready to Rocket” lists are the only predictive lists of its kind in North America, requiring many months of sector and company analysis. These lists profile the B.C. technology companies that are best positioned to capitalize on the technology sector trends that will […]
Victoria’s Certn Raised $43 Million in 2020 For Background Checks
Victoria startup Certn has secured a $9.5 million Series A+ funding round. Adding this round to previous funding, Certn has secured a total of $43 million in seed, Series A and Series A+ funding throughout 2020. Certn was named to Techcouver’s 10 Homegrown B.C. Startups to Watch in 2020 list in January 2020 and have […]
Eleven B.C. Tech Companies Named Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Winners
Deloitte Canada has announced this year’s winners of the Technology Fast 50, Companies-to-Watch, and Enterprise Fast 15 awards, recognizing the world-class achievements of the best in tech companies across Canada for the 23rd year. 2020 saw its own unique challenges that shaped today’s tech companies. The list unveiled today highlights those who have shown true resilience, […]
Rocket Builders Announces 2020 Ready to Rocket Lists
Rocket Builders has released its 18th annual “Ready to Rocket” lists. The “Ready to Rocket” lists are the only predictive lists of its kind in North America, requiring many months of sector and company analysis. These lists profile the B.C. technology companies that are best positioned to capitalize on the technology sector trends that will […]
New Ventures BC Competition Celebrates 20 Years
The 2020 New Ventures Competition, presented by Innovate BC, is officially underway. Applications are open for early-stage tech ventures from across the province who are looking to establish themselves as one of B.C.’s fastest growing startups. 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the province’s largest and longest running startup competition. Over the last two decades, […]
Certn Checks Out With Investors and Raises $4.5 Million Seed Round
Victoria startup Certn has closed a USD $4.5 million seed round led by San Francisco’s Tribe Capital. Named one of Techcouver’s 10 Homegrown B.C. Startups to Watch in 2020, Certn enables its clients to make key decisions with people data. Certn has over 1,000 clients and provides fast, compliant, affordable background checks to employers, contractors, property […]
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 […]
Tech Vancouver Tackles The Founder-VC Relationship
Tech Vancouver helps the city’s technologists expand their knowledge and network in the community. Every month a set of highly curated leaders & innovators come together to share their expertise & experiences through panels and presentations. This month Tech Vancouver tackles the The Founder-VC Relationship with a panel that includes Patrick Lor, Managing Partner at Panache […]