SCALE AI this week announced a combined $50 million being invested across 12 projects in Canada, including multiple in BC. The investment and innovation hub, which accelerates adoption and integration of artificial intelligence, is designed to contribute to the development of a world-class AI ecosystem right here in Canada. Based in Montreal, the federally and […]
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Federal Government Invests $20 Million Into 10 B.C. Companies To Scale Up
Western Economic Diversification (WD) has announced that 10 B.C. companies will receive support through their Business Scale-up and Productivity (BSP) program to grow these emerging sectors. Spread across clean technology, digital economy, health sciences, and value-added agriculture, local MP Terry Beech announced that the companies will receive almost $21 million. Supporting innovative firms in a […]
Axiom Zen Spin Off ZenHub Raises $5.9 Million
Vancouver’s ZenHub has raised a $5.9 million round led by BDC Capital and Ripple Ventures. Founded in 2014 and spun out of innovation studio Axiom Zen, ZenHub is a leading team collaboration and project management suite in GitHub, empowering teams of 2 to over 20,000 to work together. Over the past six years thousands of […]
Routific Launches Shop Local To Support Vancouver Small Business
Vancouver’s Routific makes software for local delivery businesses and is powering over 4 million deliveries per month. Routific’s route optimization and delivery management platform is built especially for local delivery businesses. There’s been a growing movement to buy from local businesses rather than Amazon and Walmart, and this movement has been heightened during the COVID-19 […]
5 Vancouver Startups That Got Their Start At Techstars
Founded in 2006 in Boulder, Colorado, Techstars is a seed accelerator with a founder-first philosophy that fuels startups across a range of verticals, linking them to a network of successful mentors, partners, and investors. Getting accepted into one of Techstars’ 3-month accelerator programs is not easy. Fewer than 1% of startups that apply for Techstars […]
Routific Sees Unprecedented Growth Amid Pandemic-Driven Demand Surges
Driven by changing consumer habits amid the pandemic, Vancouver’s Routific announced is experiencing unprecedented growth in 2020. Today the route planning and delivery management platform announced that they’ve experienced 240% growth this year. Routific empowers small businesses to deliver more goods with fewer vehicles in less time, helping them stay afloat as Amazon and big […]
Supercluster Delivers For Food-X’s eGrocery Management Solution
The Digital Technology Supercluster is providing Food-X Technologies with an additional $2.6 million to enhance its eGrocery Management Solution (eGMS) for retailers to scale safe food delivery. This new funding is ten times the initial amount raised for a feasibility study announced in April, allowing Food-X to continue leading the collaboration of prominent companies, including […]