Slack celebrates second birthday with 2.3 million daily active users
Almost a year ago today, Slack celebrated its first birthday with 500,000 daily active users and more than 60,000 teams using…
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ModernAdvisor wants to disrupt investment management with robots
Robots are set to eventually take over almost every industry, and for one pitching company on The Disruptors, the future is…
Travis Kalanick speaks out: Uber’s CEO on risk, regulation, and women in tech
In downtown Vancouver’s Launch Academy hub for a ‘fireside chat’ moderated by SheTalks’ Barinder Rasode and Launch…
Lessons learned from pitching tech on Dragons’ Den
Auditions for CBC’s Dragons’ Den TV show have begun again – and for tech startups from coast to coast, this can be a…
FinTech firm Voleo accelerates its vision in Accenture’s London lab
Canadian investment platform startup Voleo was recently selected as the sole Canadian representative in Accenture’s world-renowned…
CanCon Podcast Episode 3: What’s the deal with food tech?
All politics are local. To some degree, so is tech. This week’s episode of the CanCon podcast tackles how tech…
EA’s customer strategy takes its cue from entertainment world
Electronic Arts is a big player in the gaming world. At the recent BC Tech Summit in Vancouver, the company revealed the secret…
INSTANT Financial raises $1.2 million seed round
Vancouver-based INSTANT Financial, which allows employees to gain instant access to payments instantly after a shift, raised…
Innovation City: Is Vancouver’s tech scene poised to make a quantum leap?
Just the other day, the CEO of one of Vancouver’s most recognized tech startup-turned-unicorns was blasting the city’s…
Foodee raises $6 million Series A for U.S. expansion
Food concierge company Foodee, which facilitates meal delivery from local restaurants to workplaces, announced a $6 million…
Your next flight booking could be Trippeo
Trippeo recently launched its end-to-end flight booking portal, aiming to make travel bookings for business faster and easier…
A view from the Valley on BC’s new source of tech funding
Vancouver’s tech ecosystem has a supportive community. Until recently, it didn’t match that with access to capital.…
Mogo becomes latest company to join the MaRS FinTech cluster
Mogo, a Vancouver-based FinTech startup targeting millennials with its full-spectrum credit options and focus on social responsibility,…
Ray Kurzweil shares strategies to create the future
Technological Singularity author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil might have predicted his talk would be well received…
Shoes.com wants to raise at least $25 million for acquisitions
It seems that Shoes.com’s acquisition of LA-based Richer Poorer last year was just the beginning of many acquisitions…