British Columbia’s tech sector continues to surge, with 23 local companies earning spots on Deloitte’s 2025 Technology Fast 500 list — one of North America’s most respected rankings of rapidly growing tech-driven businesses. Now in its 31st year, the Fast 500 highlights the fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies across […]
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B.C. Companies Shine in Deloitte’s 2025 Technology Fast 50 Rankings
B.C. tech companies once again dominated Deloitte Canada’s annual Technology Fast 50 list, underscoring the province’s strength as a national innovation hub. Now in its 28th year, the program recognizes Canada’s fastest-growing technology firms based on three-year revenue growth, celebrating entrepreneurship, resilience, and innovation across the country. Vancouver-based UniUni led the province’s showing, placing #5 […]
Ideon Technologies Strikes Landmark Partnership with Rio Tinto
Vancouver-based Ideon Technologies has signed a five-year enterprise agreement with Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining companies, marking a major milestone in its mission to solve one of mining’s toughest challenges: geological uncertainty — not knowing exactly what lies beneath the surface. The enterprise partnership represents the first large-scale adoption of Ideon’s REVEAL™ […]
Two Vancouver Startups Named World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers for 2025
The World Economic Forum has unveiled its list of the 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2025—early to growth-stage companies that are driving innovation across sectors ranging from healthcare to retail. This year’s cohort includes companies from 28 countries, reflecting a growing diversification of global tech leadership beyond traditional hubs like Silicon Valley. Among the […]
BC’s Tech Adoption Gap: Traditional Industries Lag Behind
At a recent event BC Tech asked our members who sell products, solutions and services into non-tech businesses which industry is most advanced in its adoption of technology. Unsurprisingly, Finance, Insurance & Real Estate led the way, but it was good to see Manufacturing, Construction & Transportation as fast followers. This aligns with what we […]
Ideon, Lucid Vision Labs Garner Capital from Government to Advance Their Tech
The federal government this month announced financial support for two companies based in British Columbia. A total of $4.7 million in interest-free capital from the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada is going to two firms out of Richmond. Ideon Technologies is slated to receive $2.7 million in funding to commercialize their subsurface intelligence system, […]
22 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, Clean Technology and Enterprise Fast 15 awards, recognizing the world-class achievements of the best in tech companies across Canada for the 26th year. The Technology Fast 50 program recognizes the world-class achievements of Canada’s leading technology companies—highlighting their commitment to innovation, strong leadership, […]
Connecting The Dots: May 2023
Each month, the team at Switchboard (an Earnscliffe Strategies company) connects the dots between the trends, headlines and narratives informing the B.C. tech sector. For May’s Connecting The Dots, the Switchboard team discusses recent announcement from Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s visit to B.C., breaks down the recent Conversations Live with Stuart McNish panel on the topic […]
BC Attracts Third-Most Investment in Q3 as Seed-Stage Startups See Most Deals
$900 million of venture capital dollars were invested across 144 deals in the third quarter of 2022, bringing the year-to-date total above $7 billion invested across more than 500 deals as investment “continues to normalize to pre-pandemic levels,” according to the latest quarterly report from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. “Canada’s VC […]
Connecting The Dots: September 2022
Each month, the team at Switchboard Public Relations connects the dots between the trends, headlines and narratives informing the B.C. tech sector. For September’s Connecting The Dots, the team breaks down recent funding announcements and multimillion-dollar M&A action, shines a spotlight on BC Tech’s first-ever Dragon’s Den Pitch Night, and explores new partnerships. Funding flows […]