Control raises $1.5 million from Vanedge and BDC Capital
Vancouver-based Control has announced the close of an oversubscribed $1.5 million seed round, led by Vanedge Capital and BDC…
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Hootsuite attains B Corporation status to further social impact focus
Last week, Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite, announced in a blog post that the company is now a B Corporation. Joining the ranks…
Come see the future of cloud computing with Adrian Cockcroft July 9th
The Vancouver-based Dun & Bradstreet Cloud Innovation Center has announced an event for tech aficionados looking for a…
Picatic launches new freemium payment model
Vancouver-based Picatic, the digital ticketing platform for event management, announced the launch of a new freemium payment…
Tinkerine wins Best 3D Printing Product at CES Asia
Vancouver-based Tinkerine Studios announced this week that its DittoPro printer won the Best 3D Printing Product award at the…
Vision Critical’s Andrew Reid wants a “Caring Economy”
You hear it all the time in startup pitches: “we’re the AirB&B of this” or “the TaskRabbit of that.”…
Koho closes $1 million seed round, moves one step closer to building 21st-century banking
Koho is a litmus-test startup. Ask anyone in the Canadian FinTech space for their thoughts on the company, and you’ll get…
Looking at quantum computing from the inside out
When BetaKit last took a look at innovative startup D-Wave, the company was raising a new round of $28.4 million (out of a…
H+Technology projects a vision of success at NextBC 2015
“Our biggest challenge? This is such a new technology, that just getting people to understand what we do can take a really…
Wantering introduces Concierge and exposes what Millennials really want
For the past two years, fashion search engine company, Wantering, has been tracking its users and their buying habits –…
Hootsuite CEO on its IPO plans: “timing is everything… but we are moving closer”
Coming off the stellar opening of Ottawa-based Shopify’s IPO yesterday — which closed at $25.68 USD and gained…
Tripdelta wants you to fly more to pay less
As a mathematician, Malte Bücken quickly realized that there was a pattern in how he was hacking cheap flights all over the…
Pressboard pitches its story marketplace on #TheDisruptors
BetaKit has written about the problems digital media publishers face before, but it has unlikely been uttered as succinctly…
Top 15 tech startups announced for upcoming metabridge technology event
There is something tangible to exclusivity. metabridge, an annual 1.5-day retreat founded in 2008 by Steve Wandler, is back…
Bit Stew Systems raises $17.2 million from GE, Cisco, Yaletown + BDC Capital
Burnaby-based Bit Stew Systems was started in 2005 by Kevin Collins and Alex Clark, and provides data integration and management…