Spheres and Project Tango is Giving the International Space Station a New Set of Eyes
There’s life events where you never forget where you were, or what you were doing. I was almost 7 years old when Neil Armstrong…
Vancouver
Vancouver Home Owner-Contractor Marketplace Servicegems Raises $1.4 Million
Vancouver and Phoenix-based home owner and contractor marketplace ServiceGEMS has raised $1.4 million in angel funding. The…
Vancouver eBook Startup Bitlit Raises Seed Round from Former Kobo CEO
Vancouver startup BitLit has raised a round of funding from Kobo’s founder and former CEO, Michael Serbinis and Three…
PrintToPeer’s Software is Driving 3D Printing Innovation for the Masses
Talk about serendipity. Two guys who don’t know each other move into the same Calgary coworking space discover they’ve…
Vancouver’s nTrust Is About To Allow Users to Make Contactless, Proximity-Based Mobile Payments
Vancouver-based mobile payments platform nTrust has partnered up with New York City-based startup Estimote to make its iPhone…
Vancouver’s Earth Camera Makers UrtheCast Spent $3.9 million in Q1 2014
If you’ve ever wondered just how much it costs to build one of Canadian technology’s most anticipated innovations…
This Guy’s No Slacker: In Conversation with Slack’s Stewart Butterfield
Having recently raised $42.5 million in new funding Vancouver’s Slack is proving to be anything but a bunch of coffee-sipping…
Both Failure and Success Define Entrepreneurs Like Snip.ly’s Michael Cheng
I’ll admit it in all its biased glory: I’m a big fan of Michael Cheng. He’s the 24-year-old founder of Snip.ly but…
Vancouver’s Payfirma Partners with Cloud Ecommerce Enablers LemonStand
Vancouver-based multichannel payments company Payfirma has partnered up with LemonStand, a cloud-based ecommerce platform…
Vancouver Set to Welcome First Ever Hacked: Festival This Summer
The inaugural Hacked: Festival has launched its calls for participation, with the first round of early bird passes currently…
Vancouver’s Medeo Joins Forces with AnxietyBC for Better Treatment
Vancouver-based startup Medeo, the video chat platform that helps doctors visit their patients virtually, has partnered up…
GROW Conference Reveals Initial List of Speakers
GROW Conference is fast approaching, and as we all know this year the annual startup bash in British Columbia is happening…
Your Call to Action Isn’t Working, Says Unbounce’s Oli Gardner
According to Unbounce cofounder Oli Gardner “The research I’ve done, and number that I use is that 98 percent of landing…
Tickit Health Creates a Healthier Dialogue to Promote Healthier Children
Kids these days are sophisticated “technology natives.” Tickit Health (formerly known as Shift Health) knows…
Take Your Bookshelf Anywhere: BitLit Gives Readers an eBook Version of a Book They Already Own
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway Just hauling around your favourite books, or even worse,…