Now in their 28th year, the Technology Impact Awards (TIAs) have never had more reasons to celebrate than they did last night at Science World. The sold-out TIAs Gala returned to an in-person format while also broadcasting the event live to the tech community. “It was wonderful to come together as a community and experience […]
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18 B.C. Tech Companies Named Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Winners
Deloitte Canada has announced this year’s winners of the Technology Fast 50, Companies-to-Watch, and Enterprise Fast 15 awards, recognizing the world-class achievements of the best in tech companies across Canada for the 24th year. 2021 saw its own unique challenges that shaped today’s tech companies. The list unveiled today highlights those who have shown true […]
Thinkific Appoints First Chief Marketing Officer and New Chief Technology Officer
Vancouver’s Thinkific today announced two strategic appointments to its executive team. Henk Campher joins Thinkific as Chief Marketing Officer and Chris McGuire as Chief Technology Officer. The new executive appointments come on the heels of the company’s recent announcement on the first-of-its-kind Fiverr Store launch which matches Course Creators with skilled digital freelancers. Earlier in the […]
Thinkific Hosts Third Annual Summit To Inspire Underrepresented Entrepreneurs
This week new crowned hometown unicorn Thinkific is hosting its third annual Think in Color Summit. Thinkific’s annual speaker and workshop series is aimed at driving forward diversity and inclusion in business and entrepreneurship by featuring traditionally underrepresented entrepreneurs and giving them a platform to share their expertise. This year’s event features a lineup of […]
BC Tech Unveils Finalists For 2021 Technology Impact Awards
The BC Tech Association has announced the finalists for the 2021 Technology Impact Awards (TIAs). “Throughout the COVID-19 crisis the province’s tech sector pulled together to support our communities, help small business to adopt technology, provide reskilling programs and put workers displaced by Covid into new jobs in the tech sector,” said Jill Tipping, BC […]
Shopify & Thinkific Collaboration Helps Entrepreneurs Sell Products And Skills In One Basket
While impacts of the pandemic to businesses have varied wildly across sectors, it has been particularly painful for small operators. For many service based entrepreneurs; coaches and instructors, beauticians, stylists, and personal trainers, ‘business as usual’ literally shuttered overnight. Those running small online businesses selling physical goods, themselves struggled with cratering supply chains, disrupted shipping […]
Thinkific Launches the App Store For Online Course Creators
Newly publicly traded Thinkific Labs announced the official launch of the Thinkific App Store today. Thinkific’s App Store is the first marketplace of its kind to address the surging online course industry, and an ambitious new component of Thinkific’s growing commerce ecosystem. The Vancouver-headquartered company virtually rang the opening bell at the Toronto Stock Exchange […]
Vancouver-born Thinkific Opens TSX With $1 Billion Valuation
Vancouver’s Thinkific virtually rang the opening bell at the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) today to celebrate the company’s first day of public trading. Listed under the ticker symbol “THNC”, Thinkific shares opened at $13.50 and have risen as high as $15.37 today giving Thinkific a market capitalization of $1.18 billion and making it the second […]
11 B.C. Tech Companies Named To 2021 Narwhal List
The Narwhal Project identifies a set of young Canadian companies that have the potential to become successful on the world stage. The Narwhal List sheds light on the ability of firms to scale up and reach world-class status. 2020 was another remarkable year for Canadian Narwhals and eleven companies from B.C. made the cut. The […]
Thinkific Announces Launch of Amplify 2021 Virtual Summit
Last year 63 million courses were taken on the Thinkific and the Vancouver-born online course platform platform hit 100 million courses overall in December. To date, Thinkific’s course creators have earned an estimated $650 Million selling their knowledge. “2020 lit a fire in the world of online learning. This 100 million milestone reflects the soaring demand […]