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Jonathon Narvey

Jonathon Narvey is a content marketing strategist and BetaKit Senior Editor. Living and working in the heart of downtown Vancouver, he's watched this city's tech hub grow and start to compete on a world-class level. He has learned most of what he knows about tech startups and entrepreneurial spirit by interviewing some of the most innovative thought leaders here and abroad. He's always up for learning something new about the startups, leaders and technologies that are changing our world.

Fuckup Nights Vancouver
October 7, 2016

Fuckup Nights reveal the honest side of entrepreneurship

How do you move on when your startup has blown through $1 million, with nothing to show for it? How do you pull the plug on…

Startup Week. What innovation looks like
October 5, 2016

Vancouver Startup Week panel explores what it really means to be an innovative startup

“Innovation has become a buzzword that has lost its meaning.” At least, that’s how the written program started out for…

Microderm wins BCIC-New Ventures competition
September 29, 2016

Microdermics takes top prize in BCIC-New Ventures BC competition

Vancouver Startup Week kicked off with a bang, with New Ventures BC and the BC Innovation Council (BCIC) announcing their top…

Tech salaries see big rise in BC
September 27, 2016

Tech salaries are rising faster in BC than in rest of Canada

British Columbia’s tech leaders may be the first to complain about the dire need to attract local tech talent. Now it seems…

Slack office tour in Vancouver
September 23, 2016

An inside look at Slack’s renovated Vancouver office

Working at Slack today is going to be like working for Microsoft or Facebook in their early days, says Slack co-founder and…

Jake Tyler Payso
September 20, 2016

Finn.ai (formerly Payso) partners with ATB Financial to build banking chatbot

Vancouver-based FinTech startup Finn.ai announced this week that it is partnering with Alberta-based ATB Financial on the…

Biko rides into Vancouver
September 7, 2016

Biko wants to help Vancouver reach its goal of being world’s greenest city by 2020

Biko launched in Vancouver in the last days of summer, bringing its cyclist rewards app to one of the most bike-friendly cities…

DDB Ignite launches across Canada
August 30, 2016

DDB expands brand accelerator program across Canada

Tech startups looking to effectively connect customers with their brand have a new option. On Monday, the DDB Canada agency…

August 30, 2016

Here’s what Riipen COO Dave Savory learned after a year of scaling

Riipen is a Vancouver-based startup with a web platform that connects employers with top talent coming out of our post-secondary…

HitchPlanet drives past 1 million km milestone
August 29, 2016

HitchPlanet drives past one million kilometre milestone, announces expansion

HitchPlanet, western Canada’s largest ridesharing startup, just celebrated a major milestone: one million kilometres shared…

A hackathon for breast cancer research in Vancouver
August 5, 2016

BETTY bot wins first-ever Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Hackathon

At the first-ever Canadian Breast Cancer Hackathon, the BETTY Bot stood out like a bikini on an icy winter day. About 100 aspiring…

August 2, 2016

NetCents launches merchant payment solution aimed at fighting fraud with blockchain technology

Vancouver-based NetCents, which offers a bitcoin wallet to buy, sell, and transact bitcoin, has launched beta testing of its…

#TechVan Annalea Krebs
July 28, 2016

#TechVAN: Annalea Krebs on getting past bad startup days

As an entrepreneur, what was your worst day in a tech startup and how did you get past it? When do you pivot, and how do you…

July 20, 2016

Pokémon Go takes us back to the future of augmented reality

“Without the fun, none of us would go on.” That sentiment certainly describes the motivation behind countless blundering,…

July 18, 2016

BC’s most promising new healthtech companies kick off Hypergrowth program

HeadCheck Health, Navigate Surgical Technologies (NST), and ViewsIQ have been selected by Genome British Columbia and the BC…

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