Gener8 takes a 48% interest in Vancouver-based Reelhouse Media, plans to add ‘premium’ revenue models
Vancouver’s Gener8, a company that specializes in converting 2D movies into 3D experiences, has announced that they’ve…
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Vancouver’s UrtheCast Installs Space Station Cameras in Prep To Stream the World
Yesterday marked another giant step for mankind as two imaging cameras were successfully installed on the Russian side of…
Vancouver’s BuildDirect Raises $30 Million Series B Round
In a home-building market worth $492 billion, Vancouver’s BuildDirect has taken a major step forward. The online supplier…
Vancouver’s ResponseTek Raises $6 Million, Expanding to Middle East and Asia
Vancouver-based startup ResponseTek has raised $6 million in funding from Beedie Capital Partners (BCP), a Vancouver-based…
Vancouver Startup Headhunts Talent and Gives Back
For four years Chad MacRae bounced around the Middle East, living and working in Dubai, Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates…
Vancouver’s ClearlyContacts Is Now Accepting Bitcoin as Payment
More and more businesses are buying into Bitcoin. Every few months it seems that another Canadian startup is beginning to embrace…
iQmetrix Acquires Vancouver Startup Web Werkz for its eCommerce Offerings
In a deal involving two relatively unknown Vancouver companies, iQmetrix, a provider of retail management software for independent…
Vancouver Parking Payment Technology DPT Gets Acquired
Burnaby-based parking payment technology firm Digital Payment Technologies (DPT) has been acquired by Indianapolis-based T2…
A Canadian Success Story, Vancouver’s ShoeMe is Showing that Rural Canada is Waking up to eCommerce
It’s stories like Vancouver’s ShoeMe.ca that get me excited about startups in Canada, and more specifically, the…
Vancouver’s Harp.io Makes Web Publishing Open and Easy
From cave paintings and papyrus, Gutenberg to Edison, and from smoke signals to the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, communicating is…
Vancouver’s Brands for the People Takes Branding Really, Really Seriously
A logo is not a brand: a great brand is really a great story. Too many startups confuse the two. Often the confusion turns…
Rosetta Stone Language Learning Platform Acquires Vancouver Creator of Fit Brains
Rosetta Stone Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire Vivity Labs Inc., creator of the successful Fit Brains product…
Vancouver’s Beanworks is Ready for Business
Since graduating from Communitech’s Hyperdrive accelerator program eight months ago, Vancouver-based “accounts…
Vancouver’s FundRazr to Help Americans Crowdfund Healthcare Costs
Vancouver-based crowdfunding site FundRazr is partnering up with San Francisco-based startup Healthline to allow visitors to…
Vancouver’s Medeo Thinks the Future of Healthcare is Right in Front of Us
I’ve seen the future of healthcare: it’s my doctor’s presence on the screen in front of me. From the comfort of my home,…