Vancouver’s Identity Verification Experts Trulioo Lands $6 Million
Vancouver-based startup Trulioo has raised $6 million in venture capital. The deal was announced yesterday and sees the identity…
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The Life of Brian: Kiip’s Founder is Always Looking on the Bright Side
Vancouver’s tech “child prodigy” and Kiip (Founder & CEO) Brian Wong swung through town on his way to SXSW, when Startup…
Vancouver’s GrowLab Freshens Up For Spring, Introduces Its Newest Cohort
For the next three weeks it might as well be called GoLab, because a van full of founders has hit the road. With new GrowLab…
Freelancer.com opens Vancouver Engineering Lab, plans to immediately hire 20 employees
Australian freelance services marketplace Freelancer.com announced today that they’ve expanded their Canadian presence…
Vancouver Accelerators and Incubators to Put on Cascadia Startup Fest
Several of Vancouver’s accelerator and incubator programs have joined forces to create the Cascadia Startup Fest. GrowLab,…
Collaboration is More Than Just Talk: Vancouver Enterprise Forum Brings Together Academia, Government and Innovation
Collaboration is about taking action, and so many important technologies exist because business, academia, and government find…
Be Social By Turning Off The Phone With Vancouver’s Unplug App
Social graces are going down the toilet in 2014 and we blame our devices. We blame social media and we blame ourselves. Should…
French Lens Giant Essilor Buys Vancouver’s ClearlyContacts for $430 Million
French optical-lens-manufacturing giant Essilor has agreed to purchase Vancouver’s Clearly Contacts Inc., the parent…
Investment Quebec Pitches Ryan Holmes and Hootsuite to Relocate
According to a new blog post by Hootsuite‘s Ryan Holmes, Investment Quebec tried luring the Vancouver-based social media…
Donde Helps You Find The Stuff You Want, Where You Want
Moving forward often involves pulling up well-established roots. Having taken flight from the Vancouver startup community,…
Nanotips Touchscreen Glove Solution Raises Seven Times its Goal on Kickstarter
Tony Yu and his Vancouver-based startup are in the clear. Nanotips produces and markets a liquid solution designed to make…
This Vancouver Startup Sends High-Quality Condoms Directly to Your Mailbox
The burning lake of fire awaits. At least that’s where some people will want to cast this entrepreneur. All Alex Chuang cares…
LGTmedical’s “Phone Oximeter” Could Prevent Deaths on a Global Scale
Death is inevitable, but preventable death is a tragedy. In the poorest regions of the world, tragedy happens everyday. The…
BuildDirect’s Jeff Booth is Always Learning
“Build it and they will come.” A great movie line, but also the mantra of how many tech companies rolled. Remember the…
Vancouver’s ePACT Network Secures $1 Million in Funding
North Vancouver’s ePACT Network has secured a funding round that’s believed to be in the $1 million area, from…