EY has acquired Victoria’s FreshWorks Studio, an award-winning design and development consulting firm that specializes in driving innovation, transformation and growth. The move will expand the depth and breadth of EY Design Studio digital strategy, design and development capabilities. FreshWorks was the winner of BC Tech’s Company of the Year – Growth Success award in […]
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Victoria Ecommerce Startup Offers Custom Socks, Caps for Canadians
A Victoria startup is aiming to change the sock game. In an industry dominated by t-shirts, Custom Labs wants to carve out a niche of custom socks with a turnaround time of three weeks. The e-commerce fledgling uses Outway performance socks, which it claims are inexpensive, customizable, and “guaranteed to delight any user.” Custom Labs says […]
Victoria’s Certn Raises USD $50 Million to Change the Future of Background Checks
Victoria’s Certn, leader in background screening solutions, today announced that it has secured USD $50 million in Series B funding, led by B Capital. This comes on the heels of last year’s USD $34.1 million funding raise. With this latest round, Certn will further advance its mission of building trust in people – and invest in new […]
Victoria’s Assembly Digital Acquired by St. Joseph Communications
Victoria’s Assembly Digital has been acquired by St. Joseph Communications, Canada’s largest privately-owned print, media, and content marketing company. Through its acquisition of Assembly, St. Joseph is furthering its investment in the digital publishing space. Launched in 2015 by Redbrick, Assembly is a digital publishing company that currently reaches over 25 million visitors, monthly across the brands […]
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 […]
Victoria’s Kixeye Studios Acquires Mobile Strategy Game Rise of Firstborn
Victoria’s Kixeye Studios has acquired the popular mobile turn-based strategy game Rise of Firstborn developed and published by Netmarble Corporation. Rise of Firstborn, which was released globally in May 2018 as Iron Throne: The Firstborn, is a mobile strategy game that combines hero role-playing-game (RPG) elements with real-time player-versus-player (PVP). In September 2021, the game […]
Victoria’s Redbrick Acquires Email and Marketing Automation Leader
Victoria’s Redbrick has acquired Delivra, a provider of advanced email marketing automation that helps businesses engage in meaningful conversations with customers through email and SMS marketing strategies. The announcement marks Redbrick’s second major acquisition in the past two years, with Delivra becoming the fifth company within the Redbrick portfolio. Redbrick has acquired Minnesota’s Leadpages in 2020. Leadpages is […]
Victoria’s Plurilock Wins 2021 Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award
Victoria’s Plurilock Security has been named “Authentication Solution of the Year” as a winner of the 2021 Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards, for its cutting-edge DEFEND continuous authentication product. Plurilock is an identity-centric cybersecurity solutions provider for workforces. Plurilock’s proprietary DEFEND solution uses micro-expressions, based on a user’s keyboard and mouse movements, to create a unique behavioral biometric […]
Victoria Startup Certn Wins KPMG’s Inaugural Canadian Tech Innovator Competition
Certn has been named the Canadian Tech Innovator of 2021 in the inaugural KPMG Private Enterprise Tech Innovator in Canada competition. Founded in 2016, the Victoria-based startup provides real-time background checks for employers and landlords. Certn was up against 14 other tech startups from across Canada in a closely contested competition based on six equally […]
Victoria’s Blockstream Joins Crypto Unicorns With USD $3.2 Billion Valuation
Victoria-based Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream has raised USD $210 million as part of our Series B financing and has hit unicorn status with its latest valuation at USD $3.2 billion. The new capital will go towards accelerating their Bitcoin mining efforts and the acquisition of Spondoolies to launch an enterprise-grade miner, continuing to scale the […]