By optimizing America’s provider and payer marketplace, new healthtech is already healing a fragmented and overpriced system. When a technology platform is working to solve a problem as enormous and unwieldy as American healthcare spending, having a similarly oversized impact needs to be the ultimate goal. As tempting as it is to take a business-as-usual […]
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Opting-in > Leaning-in: the Key for Cultivating Empowered Employees
Attaining buy-in: each employee needs to opt-in to feel empowered The challenges facing Vancouver’s tech sector are many and amplified by the additional hurdles of working while raising healthy families when the home is the office and vice versa. There are silver linings, companies that are rising up to these challenges with agility, innovation and […]
Who Are BC’s Top Employers In Tech?
The pandemic has made employees more aware of that their most precious resource is time – and employers in British Columbia are responding with innovative programs and workplace models that help employees make the most of their time. The best of these initiatives were recognized today as this year’s BC’s Top Employers was announced by […]
Game Studio Acquisitions Propel Vancouver To New Heights
November was a huge month in for the Vancouver Tech ecosystem and our site traffic reflected that. Not one, not two, but three acquisitions in the gaming space surprised everyone with $250+ million dollars flooding into the market as global players continue to add independent studios to their IP portfolios. Vancouver was also named the […]
MacroHealth Raises $54 Million Series A, Looks To Hire 30+ In Vancouver
Vancouver-headquartered health data platform MacroHealth has raised a $54 million Series A funding round and plans on hiring for 30+ technical roles in Vancouver in 2020. MacroHealth’s platform helps large healthcare payer organizations find the best provider networks for their members. “MacroHealth is disrupting the US commercial healthcare industry, a $3.5 trillion marketplace.” says Toufic Boubez, […]