Foresight Canada has unveiled its 5th annual Foresight 50, celebrating the nation’s most investible cleantech companies. This year’s list, the 2025 edition, underscores the continued strength of British Columbia’s innovation economy—19 of the 50 honourees hail from the province. With global climate urgency rising, B.C.’s ventures continue to set the standard for scalable, sustainable solutions. […]
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BC Tech Honours Province’s Innovators at 2025 Technology Impact Awards
The BC Tech Association celebrated the best of British Columbia’s innovation economy tonight at the 2025 Technology Impact Awards (TIAs), held at Parq Vancouver. The annual gala, now in its 31st year, recognized ten standout companies driving the province’s technology growth, culture, and global impact. Clio, the Burnaby-based legaltech unicorn, took home Gamechanger | Deal […]
BC Startups Join Google’s Global Fight for Nature
The natural world is in crisis — and the economic consequences are profound. Without immediate action, more than half of global GDP is at risk due to the accelerating decline of ecosystems worldwide. In response, Google is harnessing its technology and platforms to help monitor, protect, and restore the planet. Tools like Earth Engine for […]
SenseNet and iez! Telecom Partner to Revolutionize Wildfire Detection in Brazil
Vancouver’s SenseNet, a global leader in early wildfire detection and management, has partnered with iez! Telecom, a key supplier of telecommunications infrastructure in Brazil, to deploy an AI-powered solution for wildfire prevention across the country’s vast vegetation zones. This collaboration sets a global benchmark in wildfire management by combining SenseNet’s advanced detection technology with iez!’s […]
SkyScout Taps SenseNet to Empower Firefighting Drones with Advanced Tech
SenseNet is a Vancouver-based technology company providing a rapid wildfire detection solution. The upstart leverages fire detection technology integrating sensors, cameras, and artificial intelligence-powered analysis to provide accurate and early alerts to wildfire threats. SenseNet this week announced a partnership with neighbouring drone company SkyScout AI to combine the two B.C. companies’ technologies. “The integrated […]
SenseNet to Power Wildfire Detection Tech at Remote Hydro Facility in Alberta
A Vancouver-based company providing wildfire detection solutions is collaborating with a Calgary-based producer of wind, hydro, and solar power. Vancouver’s SenseNet leverages fire detection technology integrating sensors, cameras, and artificial intelligence-powered analysis to provide accurate and early alerts to wildfire threats. Calgary’s BluEarth Renewables is an independent power producer that acquires, develops, builds, owns and […]
SenseNet Partners with Rogers to Introduce Wildfire Detection Technology
Vancouver’s SenseNet, a global leader in early wildfire detection technology, announced today that they are partnering with Rogers to introduce wildfire detection to 10 communities as part of their commitment to keeping Canadians and first responders safe. The partnership will see SenseNet’s AI technology roll out in communities across the country, starting in Alberta and […]
Predator Ridge Enhances Wildfire Safety with SenseNet’s Advanced Detection Technology
In 2023, British Columbia experienced the most destructive wildfire season in the province’s recorded history, with more than 2.84 million hectares of forest and land burned and tens of thousands of people forced to evacuate. This summer doesn’t look much better with 86 active wildfires currently burning in BC. Wildfire detection solution SenseNet wants to […]
TiE Incubation Lab Alumni SenseNet Secures $1 Million To Combat Forest Fires With AI
TiE Vancouver’s TiE Incubation Lab announced today that its first successful startup graduate has secured USD $1 million in funding for its AI-powered wildfire detection platform. SenseNet seamlessly merges data from diverse sources such as sensors, cameras, satellites, historical data, weather stations, topography data, railways maps, campsites maps, city infrastructures maps to provide unparalleled insights and […]
Innovate BC and NRC IRAP Invest In B.C. Businesses Through BC Fast Pilot Program
Innovate BC and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) are providing a combined total of $2 million in research and development funding to help 14 companies pilot their technologies and create new jobs across B.C. The program helps small and medium sized businesses design, build, and operate a pilot plant […]