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 […]
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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 […]
Thinkific Crosses 100 Million Online Courses Taken on its Platform
Vancouver’s Thinkific announced today that it has had over 100 million courses taken through it’s platform with over 63 million courses taken in 2020 alone. The latest milestone comes at the end of an exceptional growth year for the online course platform that included a $22 million growth financing round led by Rhino Ventures. Thinkific […]
Venture Capital Deal Activity Robust In B.C. During Q3 2020
Hockeystick has released their BC Tech Report for Q3 2020 that summarizes venture capital deal activity in Q3. COVID-19 has not slowed down deal activity in the region, but its impact can be seen in the types of companies raising funds, exemplified by Thinkific’s $22 million raise to address remote learning demand attributed to COVID-19 changes […]
AbCellera, Cymax, Klue, Thinkific, and Unbounce Hiring Virtually Next Week
It’s a great time to be looking for a new gig in Vancouver’s tech ecosystem and Tech Talent Canada is making it easier than ever with their upcoming virtual job fair. Tech Talent Canada’s job fairs have been a huge success with 1,500+ educated, experienced, and diverse candidates at each of their events since they […]