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 […]
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10 Homegrown B.C. Startups to Watch in 2021
2020 is in the books and despite what we’ve all been through, it was a pretty good one for the Vancouver tech community and the province as a whole. The COVID-19 pandemic forced companies to adapt quickly to change and redesign their products or services or even create new ones to respond to our new […]
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 […]
B.C. Startups Selected For 48 Hours In The Valley
The C100’s 48Hrs in the Valley is a two-day program that offers strategic networking and business development opportunities to Canada’s most promising entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The 19th edition of 48Hrs in the Valley was scheduled for May 2020 but due to the COVID-19 global pandemic the C100 is postponing the event until later this […]