Squamish’s Carbon Engineering (CE) has launched a new carbon dioxide removal service that allows customers to purchase the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using CE’s large-scale DAC technology. Canadian e-commerce darling Shopify has signed on as the first customer for the service, reserving 10,000 tonnes of permanent carbon removal capacity from a large-scale […]
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Carbon Engineering Wins Cleantech North American Company of the Year Award
Squamish-based Carbon Engineering (CE) has been named on the prestigious Global Cleantech 100 list by Cleantech Group for the second year in a row. CE was also awarded the 2021 North American Company of the Year Award – an honour bestowed upon the highest-ranked company on the list from the region. CE‘s groundbreaking Direct Air […]
Shopify Founder Tobi Lütke Invests In General Fusion
Burnaby’s General Fusion announced today the closing of financing from new investor Thistledown Capital. The investment will support the development of the company’s Fusion Demonstration Plant, which will showcase Magnetized Target Fusion technology at power-plant relevant scale. Thistledown was established by Shopify founder Tobias Lütke and his wife Fiona McKean to advance technological solutions for […]
Shopify To Double Engineering Team In 2021 By Hiring 2,021 New Technical Roles
Shopify has tapped industry veteran Cathy Polinsky as the company’s new vice president of engineering as it plans to double the size of its engineering team this year. As the newest senior leader on Shopify’s engineering team, Polinsky will lead Shopify’s efforts to build its e-commerce infrastructure and will lead the company’s efforts to double […]
Techcouver’s Most Read Stories of 2020
It’s fair to say 2020 will not be remembered fondly. The COVID-19 pandemic dominated tech – like all else – with many of us spending more time than ever in front of screens. Techcouver had a banner year with site traffic growing every month during 2020. As we look forward to a much better 2021, […]
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 […]
Shopify Dreams Fuel New Round of E-Commerce Companies on TSXV
On this date five years ago you could have purchased a share in Canadian e-commerce darling Shopify for CAD $35. Today Shopify (TSX:SHOP) trades at CAD $1,350 per share. If you had purchased $10,000 worth of Shopify for your Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA) that year it would be worth over $385,000 today. Tax free. […]
Spocket Adds Wix and BigCommerce Integrations To Dropshipping Platform
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drive traditionally offline economic activity online, Canadian businesses are taking advantage of the unprecedented rise in e-commerce. One of those companies is Vancouver’s Spocket, a dropshipping platform and online merchant marketplace. Since March Spocket has doubled its merchant base, bringing its total users over 60,000. Dropshipping is a fulfillment method […]
Three Vancouver Companies Recognized At 2020 MarTech Breakthrough Awards
Not one, not two, but three Vancouver marketing platforms were recognized at this year’s MarTech Breakthrough Awards. The awards recognize the best companies, technologies, products and services in the field of marketing, ad and sales technology and are conducted by MarTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization. This year’s program attracted more than 2,750 nominations […]
Shopify First To Tap Carbon Engineering’s CO2 Capture Technology
Today Shopify announced a planned commitment for carbon dioxide to be permanently removed from the atmosphere on Shopify’s behalf using technology from Squamish, B.C. Carbon Engineering‘s groundbreaking Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology can be used to create large-scale carbon removal from the atmosphere. Shopify is the first organization to plan to purchase permanent carbon dioxide removal […]