This week the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, announced a combined $11 million in funding to four companies in British Columbia. Nearly half the investment will go to Kardium, which was 2021’s medical technology company of the year according Life Sciences […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Cybersecurity Startup Kobalt Raises $1 Million Round
Cybersecurity startup Kobalt has raised a CAD $1 million round led by its co-founders, Pankaj Agarwal and Michael Argast, and including Version One Ventures. Version One’s Boris Wertz is both a co-founder and an investor in Kobalt. The Vancouver-based company aims to bring the monitoring capabilities of enterprise-class security teams to smaller organizations. The company […]