Victoria’s Frontly has raised a $350,000 round to grow their custom internal admin tooling platform in the burgeoning no-code market space. No-code is an approach to designing and using applications that doesn’t require any coding or knowledge of programming languages. This type of software is part of the self-service movement that empowers business users to create, […]
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Victoria’s Cognito Health Raises $1.1 Million For Better Mental Healthcare
Victoria’s Cognito Health has closed a $1.1 million pre-seed round led by Garage Capital. Investors also included in the funding round were Rasool Rayani, Andrew Wilkinson (Tiny), Jason Warner (Former CTO Git-Hub & Heroku), Scott Lake (co-founder Shopify), Tobyn Sowden (CEO and founder, Redbrick), and Rob Fraser (CEO and founder, endūr). Co-founded by Jason Cridge, […]
VINN To Revolutionize The Automotive Retail Model
The automotive sales and distribution model has largely been the same since the 1980s, with little change taking place despite technology revolutionizing other industries. The automotive industry as a whole has not adapted to the shift to online as quickly as many had predicted. Although consumers have moved online, veteran automotive OEMs still sell the […]
Medimap Raises $3.5 Million To Expand Into New Healthcare Verticals
Medimap is Canada’s largest online and mobile real-time resource for same-day access to care. Across Canada, 70 per cent of all walk-in medical clinics are registered with Medimap and millions of patients rely on their service to look up wait times at walk-in medical clinics. Over 1,200 medical clinics across Canada use Medimap’s platform to publish their wait […]
Tiny Capital Takes The Plunge With AeroPress Investment
Victoria’s Tiny Capital has invested in Palo Alto’s AeroPress, makers of the AeroPress® coffee maker, which was created by inventor and engineer Alan Adler. Adler will continue to be involved and retains a minority ownership stake in the business. The AeroPress coffee maker has enjoyed rave reviews and a passionate following from coffee lovers globally […]
Victoria’s Defined Raises $2.5 Million Round From Version One & Tiny Capital
Victoria’s Defined has closed a $2.5 million seed round from a group of investors that includes B.C.’s Version One Ventures, Tiny Capital, and angel Rasool Rayani. Also participating in the round were Compound, Capital6 Eagle, Kamunting Street Capital, Mark Cuban, Inflection Ventures, Portico Ventures, and Balaji Srinivasan. Defined is a data platform for the open […]
Former Daily Hive Editor-in-Chief Farhan Mohamed Launches Community News Network
Canada’s online media landscape is about to get interesting. Daily Hive’s former Editor-in-Chief Farhan Mohamed has teamed up with tech entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson to launch Overstory Media Group (OMG), a new media company that wants to breathe life into the media industry and it’s targeting local communities. Wilkinson is the Co-founder of Tiny, a Victoria-based […]
Tiny Capital Is Taking WeCommerce Public
Victoria’s WeCommerce is going public. The holding company controlled by Tiny Capital‘s Andrew Wilkinson announced today that they have closed a qualifying transaction that will result in a reverse takeover of Brachium Capital Corp. Upon completion of the transaction, the company’s incumbent board of directors will resign and a new board will be formed consisting […]
Tiny Capital Invests In Victoria-Based Startup Button
According to BetaKit, Tiny Capital has invested and acquired a majority stake in government software startup Button. The companies did not disclose the size of the investment in Button but confirmed that Tiny Capital now holds a 60 percent stake in the company. The deal closed in May, with Button noting to BetaKit it was […]
WeCommerce Acquires Shoppable Instagram & UGC Content Platform Foursixty
Victoria’s WeCommerce has acquired Toronto’s Foursixty, a leading partner in the Shopify and Instagram ecosystem. Foursixty has been a pioneer and leader in the social commerce space since 2014, and helps thousands of the world’s most popular direct-to-consumer brands such as Fashion Nova, Pura Vida Bracelets, Knix, MVMT Watches, Mejuri, and Skims monetize their Instagram […]