Three startups working across business acquisitions, sports technology, and industrial decarbonization have been named finalists in Web Summit Vancouver’s PITCH Competition. The finalists are DealStack.ai, Vancouver’s own Drive Hockey Analytics, and Calgary-based CURA. DealStack.ai is building agentic infrastructure for buying and selling small businesses, targeting a market where transactions are often fragmented, manual, and difficult […]
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NorthX Invests in Three B.C. Firms Innovating ‘Cutting-Edge’ Clean Tech
NorthX recently revealed $3 million in non-dilutive investments in four companies developing clean technologies targeting high-emitting industrial sectors. The fresh round of funding is earmarked for locals ShiftX Technologies, Kinitics Automation, and Hydron Energy alongside Calgary’s CURA as they accelerating pilot deployments and advance pathways to commercial scale across energy, heavy industry, and resource-based systems. “Clean […]
UBC Spinout Partners with Local Concrete Maker to Innovate Cement
A Vancouver-born climate technology startup-to-watch is partnering with a B.C.-based precast concrete manufacturer. Calgary’s CURA Climate has signed an agreement with Grand Forks Concrete to deploy a pilot‑scale demonstration plant as well as a first‑of‑kind commercial facility to convert agricultural spent lime into low‑carbon cement and agricultural co‑products. “Agricultural spent lime has long been treated […]
NorthX Invests $2M in BC Climate Startups
NorthX Climate Tech used its Converge 2025 conference this week to announce $2 million in new funding aimed at speeding up the growth of British Columbia’s climate-tech sector. The announcement, delivered by CEO Sarah Goodman during opening remarks, includes $500,000 in seed capital for five BC university-linked ventures: Carbonyx, Cura Climate, Green Manganese, Narval Energy, […]
CURA Emerges from Stealth to Decarbonize Cement
A new Vancouver climatetech startup is tackling one of the world’s toughest carbon problems: cement production. CURA, a startup developing a transformative electrochemical process to produce low-carbon cement, has emerged from stealth with plans to build its first pilot plant in Canada. Cement manufacturing accounts for more than 8% of global CO₂ emissions—roughly equal to […]