Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column by Switchboard Public Relations highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Victoria’s MazumaGo. The story of just about every company begins with someone casually asking a question. For the fintech startup MazumaGo, the question was simple and to the point: Why is it […]
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SOTW 011: Omnisearch
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Omnisearch. A pain point can spark the best ideas. That was the case for Omnisearch. This company arose out of its co-founder’s frustration with the time-consuming nit-picking task of searching for an exact minute within […]
Connecting The Dots: May 2021
Each month, Kathleen Reid (Founder + Managing Director at Switchboard Public Relations) connects the dots between the trends, headlines and narratives that are informing the BC tech sector. This month, she sheds light on how Launch Academy, entrepreneurship@UBC and Vancouver Startup Week made May a month to remember for the province’s next generation of innovators. […]
Vancouver Startup Week Tackles The State Of The BC Tech Sector
If you’re going to tune into only one event at this week’s Vancouver Startup Week, I suggest you check out this Friday’s State of the BC Tech Sector session featuring some of the biggest names in the local tech sector. Positioned as a ‘State of the Union’ address, the discussion will focus on the current […]
SOTW 010: ThyForLife
Welcome to Startup of the Week, a column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s ThyForLife. With World Thyroid Day coming up on May 25th, it’s the perfect time to highlight ThyForLife—an award winning mobile thyroid health tracking app. Over 400 million people around the world have thyroid conditions but […]
SOTW 008: Faber
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Faber Technologies. Construction work isn’t just business, it’s personal. The team that created Faber Connect knew that to be true. They talked and, more to the point, they listened to construction workers and contractors. They […]
SOTW 008: MeaningfulWork
Welcome to Startup of the Week, a column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s MeaningfulWork. It can be difficult for socially responsible companies to find purposeful and impactful volunteer opportunities that their employees feel passionate about. MeaningfulWork created a platform to help companies and nonprofits navigate their relationships to find […]
SOTW 007: Snack
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Snack. If anyone knows the online dating world, it’s Kimberly Kaplan, CEO of Snack. Before starting Snack, she was the Vice President of Product Management, Revenue Optimization & Marketing at Plenty of Fish, a Vancouver-based […]
SOTW 006: Numinus
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Numinus. Over 970 million people worldwide suffer from a mental disorder. On top of that, many experts have proposed that society’s drug-based approach to treating these disorders is fundamentally flawed. There is an imminent need […]
SOTW 005: Nava Ventures
Welcome to Startup of the Week. A column highlighting BC’s most innovative and exciting tech startups. Today, we’re featuring Vancouver’s Nava Ventures. After being awarded first place in Startup Canada’s Sustainable Development Goals Pitch Competition and winning the finance category of the BoomStartup pitch competition—the socially responsible fintech company is looking to change the banking […]