General Fusion takes major step in quest for Canadian fusion reactors
The company hopes to commercialize energy from fusion in the next decade.
BC
Luge Capital, Pender Ventures hire in Alberta following investments from AEC
Luge adds investor Chelsea Gillett from The51, Pender adds associate Jacob Grainger from Plug and Play.
Aspect Biosystems lands $165-million CAD Series B to advance 3D-printed tissue therapies
Financing pushes Vancouver startup closer to clinical trials targeting diabetes, liver disease.
Applications open for Innovate BC’s Ignite program to fund local R&D projects
Grants of up to $300,000 are available to BC initiatives in cleantech, energy, mining, agriculture.
Innovate BC taps IP expert Peter Cowan as next president and CEO
Cowan most recently led Ontario’s intellectual property agency.
Eavor, Ionomr Innovations, Summit Nanotech among 13 Canadian companies named to 2024 Global Cleantech 100
Seven of the 13 Canadian cleantech companies hail from British Columbia.
InBC leads $13.5-million financing round for ThoughtExchange
The startup claims its revenues have grown fivefold in the last five years.
HS GovTech Solutions acquired by Banneker Partners
HS GovTech is the latest Canadian tech company delisting from public exchanges.
InBC invests $29 million into 4AG Robotics, Clarius Mobile Health, Pender, Amplitude Ventures
These startups, VC firms align with InBC’s “triple bottom line approach.”
FinTech startup Peloton Technologies announces acquisition of KIS Payments
The deal comes almost four months after Peloton received $1.5M from PacifiCan.
Meet the Y Combinator Summer 2023 cohort startups with Canadian connections
Participants include Decoda Health, Greenlite, LifestyleRX, Spine AI, Tempo Labs, Terminal, and VaultPay.
Carbon Engineering sold to US oil and gas company Occidental for $1.1 billion
Squamish cleantech startup latest to be attracted by US green tax credits, incentives.
Meet BC Tech’s first Innovators Hall of Fame inductees
Honourees include leaders from BC Tech Association, CIBC, D-Wave.
PacifiCan invests nearly $23 million in BC cleantech, zero-waste projects
Saltworks, MintList, and Novarc Technologies all receive funding for expansion and commercialization.
BC regulator suspends ex-Blok Technologies CEO, CFO from investment market for misrepresenting 2018 share sale
The suspensions come in response to how a past Blok private placement was publicly communicated.