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…
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Pro Gaming Platform BattleFy Gets $1.3 Million from US Investors
Vancouver-based “eSports management platform” BattleFy has raised $1.3 million in venture capital money Deep…
Vancouver Parking Payment Technology DPT Gets Acquired
Burnaby-based parking payment technology firm Digital Payment Technologies (DPT) has been acquired by Indianapolis-based T2…
Jostle’s ‘People Engagement Platform’ Has a Formula for Scaling Leadership
Since there’s been the Internet, there’s been corporate intranets. According the Jostle’s CEO and co-founder Brad Palmer…
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…
BetaKit’s Most Interesting News Stories of 2013
It’s getting awfully close to 2014, so we decided to go through every article we’ve reported this year and create a list…
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…
Bitcoin Enablers Bex.io Raise $500,000 Seed Round
With some expecting the Bitcoin economy be valued at nearly $3 trillion in late 2016, the virtual currency’s appeal is…
Vancouver’s Beanworks is Ready for Business
Since graduating from Communitech’s Hyperdrive accelerator program eight months ago, Vancouver-based “accounts…
Women Are Starting the Most Crowdfunding Campaigns According to FundRazr’s 2013 Data
Women are creating the majority of the crowdfunding projects listed on FundRazr‘s crowdfunding platform, and the majority…
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,…
Vancouver’s Launch Academy Releases Startup Stats After 18 Months
Vancouver-based Launch Academy recently released an infographic detailing some of the stats revolving around the incubator-coworking…
Vancouver’s LX Ventures To Acquire Strutta Media
Vancouver’s seed-stage venture capital investment firm, LX Ventures, has signed a letter of intent to acquire Vancouver-based…