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60+ stories. $4.1 billion. Top funding news of 2021

Closing the gender gap: How Girls & STEAM are stepping up

Hubly raises $1.3M seed round for its financial services SaaS product

🚗 From $50k to $5 million, real quick

Set to IPO, here’s how Article navigated the biggest months in its history

The startup that 100x'd growth in five months | The Morning Report

Playbook: How auto sales marketplace Autozen 100x’d GMV in less than 5 months

The startup accelerating software 2.0 | The Morning Report

21 must-read tech stories from 2021

"Vancouver is a goldmine” for engineering talent - SceneBox exits stealth and enters software 2.0

Opinion: BC tech sector will roar even louder in 2022

Sports recruitment platform Streamline Athletes acquires The Stride Report

A startup's seed round and "wild" VC dealings | The Morning Report

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Insider stories from Codex’s NFX-led $5.5M seed round

Inside Karl Pringle's plan to disrupt the centuries-old approach to drug therapy — and save thousands of lives in the process

A new $20M fund for youth | The Morning Report

Ryan Holmes and Manny Padda launch new $20M fund for young founders, LOI Venture

đŸ€‘ $7.7M for this Burrata

Burrata raises $7.7M seed round to bring Web2 data to Web3

For Dr. Macarena Cataldo-Hernandez, co-founder of Viridis Research, the journey from ValparaĂ­so to Vancouver was winding

💰 $3.8M for 38 cleantech firms | The Morning Report

Uber Canada gives away more than $3M in donations and grants: Report

8 BC cleantech firms secure seed funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada

Motoring ahead with $38M more | The Morning Report

Damon Motors raises $38M to fuel aggressive growth plans

The entrepreneur joining the UN to work on China's social development

Vancouver social enterprise Give + Share chosen for United Nations innovation project

League of Innovators' new leader | The Morning Report

League of Innovators appoints Melissa Allen as its new executive director

🩄 Meet BC's newest crypto unicorn

LayerZero Labs is Vancouver’s newest crypto unicorn: Report

Who's doing what in the city's Web3 economy | The Morning Report

Like it or not, Web3 is coming, and Vancouver is at the centre of it

InBC appoints Jill Earthy as first CEO

Meet the Spring Activator $100k Impact Challenge winner | The Morning Report

Viridis Research wins $100K in Spring Activator’s Fall 2021 Impact Investor Challenge

“People want to invest in companies that can improve the world.” - Andrew Haughian is Pangaea Ventures’ bellringer

Klue raises a $79M Series B round from Tiger Global and Salesforce Ventures

The Victoria startup that will do $80M in revenue this year | The Morning Report

Playbook: How Tobyn Sowden grew Redbrick into one of BC’s fastest-growing companies

Spare raises $18M to innovate the global transportation and mobility space

A gaming platform built for women and allies | The Morning Report

Jelly Academy increasing Indigenous representation in tech-enabled sectors

Meet Paidia, the company making gaming inclusive

đŸ‘©â€đŸ’ŒThe woman who engineered a $1B exit

This is BC's most underrated sector | The Morning Report

Boris Wertz is bullish on BC climate tech

BC biotech to watch | The Morning Report

Radar: Local exec shares 4 BC life sciences startups to watch from LSBC’s Invest in BC event

💰 A new $120M Vancouver VC fund | The Morning Report

18 BC companies featured in Foresight 50

After a year in business, $100M TELUS Pollinator Fund has invested $20M into 10 companies

📅 Five more upcoming tech events to attend

Hootsuite to open office, hire 60 in Atlanta, Georgia

Rhino Ventures, ‘the funders we wished we had as founders,’ launch $120M Fund III

Meet the architect behind the $1B Galvanize exit | The Morning Report

Laurie Schultz paints her Picasso

Innovation and inspiration

Meet the 2021 Technology Impact Award winners | The Morning Report

Uber Canada and The Forum partner to launch new free programming to support self-identified women entrepreneurs

BC's innovation ecosystem celebrated at the 2021 Technology Impact Awards

Moment Energy seize their moment | The Morning Report

Victory tastes sweet for Pineapple in Launch VC's 2021 Pitch Competition

BC-based cleantech startup Moment Energy’s $3.5M seed round caps off a huge year for co-founder and COO Sumreen Rattan

Sportstech startup PlayWize has a new partner | The Morning Report

Province promotes pure power sources | The Morning Report

Meet BC's slice of the $30B global VR/AR industry

34 startups to watch | The Morning Report

Opinion: Time to pivot on climate change

North Vancouver's EonLabs: From 0 to $20M in digital assets

Uber Canada and Greenlots launch pilot project to drive EV adoption in Vancouver

34 startups to be showcased at UBC's 2021 Venture Showcase

The people growing Vancouver's metaverse | The Morning Report

While they build digital worlds, Vancouver’s VR/AR leaders reflect on the world around them

Europe's Dialectica to open Vancouver office and create 100 jobs

Clio doubles the size of exec team | The Morning Report

Top 6 finalists announced for Launch VC's 2021 Pitch Competition

Mining tech firm Motion Metrics to be acquired by Weir Group for $150M

Clio, executing ‘audacious’ growth plan, adds quartet to C-suite through mix of new and old faces

📰 The $800M SaaS company hiring a new media team

BCIT launches first of its kind Industrial Network Cybersecurity Lab

Dyne dynamic in pitch competition. Plus, a serial Seattle entrepreneur looks north up the Cascadia Corridor—and likes what he sees.

$3.5 million in BC crypto losses | The Morning Report

Opinion: How tech companies can make the most of the media spotlight 

BBTV taps Ehab Samy as VP of product and engineering

The Vancouver startup combating $80B in insurance fraud | The Morning Report

Owl.co secures $37M, plans to increase staff by 20% in Canada and US

21-Day Coding Challenge from Lighthouse Labs returns

High tech and high comfort | The Morning Report

“[Neurotherapy] is not a new methodology by any stretch, but we are using technology to unleash it.” - Paola Telfer wants you to master your brain

Tribe Property Technologies partners with Fresh Prep to bring meal kits to its communities

Business and media hookup | The Morning Report

"It's kind of content marketing in its purest form." — What Cameron Uganec meant when he said he’s starting a new media company

PeakBirch Logic acquires Greenlite's crowfunding platform to augment commerce business

How the first Bitcoin ATM came to Vancouver

8th anniversary of the first Bitcoin ATM in Vancouver | The Morning Report

8 years ago the world’s first Bitcoin ATM launched in a downtown Vancouver coffee shop. Here’s the inside story of how it happened.

In work and life, Ilya Brotzky follows opportunity — wherever it takes him

Three fast-growing startups launch new products | The Morning Report

#Shipped: New products from Clio, SoleSavy and ChopValue

Meet the motorbikes of the future | The Morning Report

Clio launches equity investment portfolio Clio Ventures

New national digital directory launches to support Black-Owned Businesses

“With motorbikes, if you just make them safer, and it happens to be electric, that's sold." - Jay Giraud rides the entrepreneurial highway

For this Winnipeg native, nearly 3 years of entrepreneurship | The Morning Report

Entrepreneurship runs in the family for Andrew Reid. But, he’s carving his own path

An $80B business in BC's backyard

Agtech AMPLIFIED: CubicFarms launches 'local chain ag-tech'

$1M Pocketed in seed funds | The Morning Report

Pocketed secures $1M for its founder-funding marketplace

A new HQ in town | The Morning Report

Fraction raises $20M to expand its home equity platform

Province invests $10M into 43 projects to drive innovation in BC manufacturing, supply chain sector

SkyHive raises $40M for its workforce analytics platform

Hydra Energy unveils first hydrogen-converted, heavy-duty vehicle

General Fusion to open 60,000 sq ft HQ near YVR

A $155M pot for creators | The Morning Report

The office in Yaletown creating tech to take on Tesla | The Morning Report

Exclusive: Meet Rivian, the $80B EV maker with offices in Yaletown

North Vancouver will be the first to do this

Vancouver Esports doesn’t play around

A bitcoin breakthrough on the North Shore | The Morning Report

Five upcoming tech events to attend

Burnaby's MintGreen to make North Vancouver world’s first city heated by bitcoin

With $8M in hand, Pani aims to scale up AI solutions for water treatment facilities

BC firm nets fourth round of funding | The Morning Report

Vancouver-born Alida raises $20M to accelerate global growth

Susan Sarandon collectible launches local NFT platform

Two technical co-founders in a startup pod | The Morning Report

Meet BC's 12th $1B+ business in 10 months

NFTs of Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko pair digital with physical

Omnisearch raises $562,000 to go after the $10B enterprise search market

The local investor who played hockey in Sweden | The Morning Report

19 BC cleantech leaders to know

A professional hockey career took Kenndal McArdle from Vancouver to VÀsterÄs. Venture capital brought him back.

BC's fintech leaders | The Morning Report

The final cheque for a $60M climate tech fund | The Morning Report

Scoop: Active Impact Investments secures $5.88M from EDC, caps $60M climate tech fund

The Techies: New Ventures BC Competition’s 21st year, the pros and cons of hybrid events and the celebration of an ecosystem

The woman transforming how creators share their work | The Morning Report

New Ventures BC Competition reveals winners of $250k in cash and prizes

“When we started, there wasn't even a term like [creator economy.]” — Phoebe Jiang is transforming how creators share their work

🩄 Another week, another unicorn

After 21 years, Angie Schick is ready for her close-up

Wishpond's cash on hand | The Morning Report

Another $100M+ mega-round | The Morning Report

“It’s now ours to lose and we don’t intend on losing.” — Semios, now $100M richer, has gone from greenhouse to powerhouse to unicorn

Conexiom raises $165M to automate sales and invoicing processes

Switchboard recruits relish opportunity to help tell world-changing tech stories

Subsidize your tech hire with $10k | The Morning Report

New program launched to accelerate angel investments into BC climate tech startups

$29M earmarked for BC tech sector diversity, skills training programs

How Bench hired 3 senior software developers from VanHack in 3 weeks

Strike one, strike two—then this startup was in

Cheatsheet: 69 BC firms make Globe and Mail’s top growing companies list

Meet Mark on the other side of the coin

Bulletin: Pitch your AI startup to investors for a chance to win $200,000 in prizes

Mark Mitchell, principal of Red Thread Ventures, is no stranger to investing. But with his new venture, the Intangible Properties Exchange (IPEX), he finds himself on the other side of the coin.

A secret weapon for SMBs | The Morning Report

How Unbounce is helping SMBs compete against Walmart and Amazon

Dapper Labs raises $320M led by Coatue, seals La Liga NFT deal

Hootsuite goes tweet, tweet | The Morning Report

Hootsuite amongst 7 companies joining Twitter's partner program

Canada's innovation-focused politicians re-elected | The Morning Report

Inside story: How Vancouver startup Matidor got into Y Combinator

After 20 years, guess who’s coming home | The Sunday Briefing

Kaseya and 19 other firms making office moves | The Morning Report

9 noteworthy Vancouver tech office moves from the last quarter

Meet the woman in charge of Vancouver's economic growth | The Morning Report

Vancouver's Train Fitness launches on App Store

Eleena Marley named permanent CEO of Vancouver’s economic development agency

These 4 BC startups are headed south | The Morning Report

SaaS startups from Vancouver, Nanaimo and Saanich chosen for Washington tech accelerator

Nelson’s SMRT1 Technologies raises $484,000 from crowdfunding website

Canada's next billion-dollar venture fund | The Morning Report

Camera-ready: Pixieset announces growth investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity

Panache Ventures acquires SF-based Commonwealth, adds Vancouver partner, and launches Fund II to build Canada’s next billion-dollar venture fund

BC’s Tesla of buildings is worth over a billion | The Sunday Briefing

TIMIA Capital to acquire Pivot Financial for $6M to expand lending business

Jack Newton's monster year | The Morning Report

Saanichton’s Redlen Technologies acquired by Canon in $424M deal

Everything’s coming up Jack

10 $1B+ businesses in 10 months | The Morning Report

Following the sun, Traction on Demand acquires New Zealand-based Trineo

Meet the sole BC-based founder in Google’s female founder accelerator | The Morning Report

After sixth round of funding, Nexii joins BC's unicorn club, valued at $1.55B

Google accelerator the latest chapter in Ingrid T. Polini’s intercontinental journey

Our top 12 stories of summer

And then there were 10...

The founder who swapped real estate for film reels | The Morning Report

Lisa Sun’s journey from real estate mogul to Mogul Productions

SFU’s Quantum Algorithms Institute looks to turn excitement into action

Audette raises $1M in seed funding led by Active Impact Investments

BC tech giants launch new startup support program | The Morning Report

Bulletin: BC Tech, Amazon, SAP Canada and fellow anchors launch BCTech4Startups

Bulletin: IT services firm PLATO Testing offering an Indigenous Software Tester Training course

NVBC finalists announced | The Morning Report

NVBC 2021: The 10 most promising BC tech startups

D3Security raises $19M in financing led by Vistara Growth

Pause and Effect and how to bring change to tech | The Morning Report

Marketing platform Wishpond acquires New York's Brax for $2.5M

“To me, average, or normal is just code for privilege.” — Sabrina Meherally wants to diversify your tech

Welcome to Unicorn County. Population: 9 | The Sunday Briefing

The lure of a booming tech sector | The Morning Report

A New York buyer for Buyer | The Morning Report

Cybersecurity startup Cmd to be acquired by California-based Elastic

Victoria’s Buyer acquired by New York unicorn Ramp

Another billion-dollar business born and bred in BC | The Morning Report

Richmond’s IRDI System Inc. receives $72K from BC government

AR swim goggles startup FORM launches guided immersive workouts

Semios acquires Aussie agtech company, Agworld

Safety tech firm LifeBooster secures investment from W. L. Gore

BC has produced 9 tech businesses worth $1B+ in 9 months

Victoria-based Blockstream raises $266M, valued at $4B

VFX in Vancouver | The Morning Report

VFX giant DNEG growing Vancouver presence with new animation studio

👀 6 startups to watch | The Sunday Briefing

Named after a last-ditch effort, Heal Mary is anything but | The Morning Report

Cultural experiences combine with workplace culture for Rival COO Niamh Cunningham

🎧 The state of Vancouver's tech scene

Dylan Jones is the new head of PacifiCan, BC's regional development agency

Cassandra Hui is building the Netflix of clinical trials

💯 million dollars | The Morning Report

Canada Drives raises $100M to accelerate online auto sales across Canada

HTC-backed Highstreet raises $5M for its commerce-centred metaverse

Digital avatar tech firm Tafi to open Vancouver office

Back from the brink: BuildDirect is now trading on the TSX Venture Exchange

An audio crash course in BC tech | The Morning Report

Now playing: 25 podcast episodes with insights from BC tech leaders

Vancouver startups poised to make a global impact | The Morning Report

Radar: Banking exec shares 6 Vancouver tech companies to watch

đŸ„‡đŸ“š Someone call Guinness | The Sunday Briefing

BC government invests nearly $25M to support innovation at the post-secondary level

Meet the company building a smarter shower | The Morning Report

RainStick raises $1M to further quest for smarter showers

BC's $500M startup | The Morning Report

Medimap raises $3.5M seed round led by Tiny

Fast Five: Is InBC, the $500 million taxpayer-funded investment fund, a startup?

The mini-Metaverse in this AR company's sights | The Morning Report

Nextech AR acquires UK-based ARway for $1.25M

BC tech firms, FNTC make moves to advance reconciliation | The Morning Report

Tech firms and First Nations Tech Council join forces to advance reconciliation

Here are your 2021 Life Sciences BC Award winners

Federal funding at the forefront | The Sunday Briefing

PlayWize inks deal with Premier Rugby Sevens

Feds fire funding into FORM, 9 more innovators | The Morning Report

$553.1M BC-focused Regional Development Agency, Pacific Economic Development Canada, launches

Feds invest $20M into Klue, FORM and 8 more BC innovators

Mickey Mouse's new Vancouver digs | The Morning Report

Disney is opening a Vancouver animation studio

Cleantech, IOT-focused VC firm Yaletown Partners closes $130M

Rumours of the office's demise are greatly exaggerated | The Morning Report

Fast Five: The office is dead narrative is finally dead

Nearly 💯 new ⚡ 🚗 🔋 stations | The Morning Report

Hootsuite acquires Montreal’s Heyday for $60M to harness its conversational AI tech

38 stories you may have missed | Your Sunday Briefing

Show you the money | The Morning Report

15 Vancouver tech funding stories from July

Igniting innovation in real estate | The Morning Report

NRC-IRAP taps BC innovation leaders for advisory board

Spark RE Technologies raises $6.2M from Pender Ventures, BDC Capital

Cheatsheet: Significant digits from the Digital Technology Supercluster's latest Investment Report

20 million reasons to feel better | The Morning Report

Bulletin: General Fusion partnering with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to advance fusion energy technology

Burnaby’s Teradici to be acquired by HP Inc.

Digital Supercluster, lululemon partner on $20M Wellbeing.ai project

Lumira Ventures’ largest fund to date | The Morning Report

Hootsuite taps Maggie Lower as CMO

Lumira Ventures closes $276 million fund IV to back health care companies

A cold front? In this climate? | The Sunday Briefing

WELL, it looks like there's a new investor in town | The Morning Report

New classmates: Wize acquires Ottawa-based startup EssayJack

WELL Ventures launches, announces investment in Bright

Badhouse Ventures makes three investments | The Morning Report

The cold front of entrepreneurship | The Morning Report

Marketing management platform Allocadia to be acquired by Germany- and Atlanta-based BrandMaker

ScalePad raises equity investment from Integrity Growth Partners

How Joseph Nakhla built a foundation for growth

Closing credits for Vancouver's film czar | The Morning Report

Bulletin: Merchant Growth acquires Victoria’s Company Capital

Keith Ippel on the impact of impact investing. Plus, Sumreen Rattan on the moment she knew she wanted to build Moment Energy

David Shepheard has left his role as Vancouver Film Commissioner and joined Martini Film Studios as vice president

This startup 4X'd its VC funding in 4 months | The Sunday Briefing

Bulletin: With up to $105M in funding, BC's Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy will launch this fall

Bulletin: Tech titans dominate pacific Entrepreneur Of The Year awards

Visualping raises $6M to build AI-driven improvements into its website tracking service

Recharging excitement for EVs | The Morning Report

Vancouver’s 7 Generation Capital gets $20M injection from Spring Lane Capital to finance commercial EV projects

Like a rocketship, this Vancouver space tech startup is off to a hot start | The Morning Report

Alpha's SAR tech takes off with $1.7M Canadian Space Agency award

Is this resurgent tech ‘staggeringly dumb’—or essential? | The Morning Report

In-Depth: Next-gen BC hydrogen tech blazing trail to net zero

The intersection of frontier tech and football | The Morning Report

BBTV, Dapper Labs invest in social NFT platform Nifty's, Inc.

Bulletin: Vancouver-based Foodee acquired by Sodexo

Vancouver-based Imagine AR brings Brazilian soccer stars to their fans

Inside BC's barrage of burgeoning blockchain-based businesses | The Sunday Briefing

The newest addition to the Canucks front office | The Morning Report

Vancouver Canucks look to become NHL leaders in NFTs

#Shipped: New products from Later, Apollo and BlocPal

Bulletin: TGS launches the Collegiate Champions Series, a $32,000 esports development program

The BC cleantech startup that's attracted $240 million since 2007 | The Morning Report

Bulletin: Svante receives $25M from the federal government's Strategic Innovation Fund for carbon capture technology

Inside Cryptocouver | The Morning Report

ReadyMode, formerly XenCALL, secures $4M

TrendiTech Inc. raises $2.25M seed round for its Biotrim tech

Active Impact Investments closes $54M climate tech fund

An adventure through blockchain’s cultural resonance in Vancouver

What Boris Wertz, David Tedman and Arlene Dickinson have in common | The Morning Report

B.C.’s top 14 angel investors—according to HardBacon's 2021 ranking

Meet Vancouver's 8th billion-dollar-plus business in 8 months | The Sunday Briefing

Vancouver's unicorn club welcomes a new member | The Morning Report

Bulletin: Plantiga raises $1.48M to launch individual movement health monitoring

Workforce analytics company Visier raises $154M from Goldman Sachs to become Vancouver's latest tech unicorn

11 ventures make it to round 3 of Canada's largest entrepreneur competition | The Morning Report

Creative BC, Arts Council invest $607,500 into 12 BC companies

The Top 26 startups announced for 2021 New Ventures BC Competition

This BC biotech facility will be the first of its kind in Canada | The Sunday Briefing

Two seeds in a tech financing pod | The Morning Report

Immersive training platform Motive.io raises seed round from N49P

The Italian-US professor hired to supercharge BC's economic growth | The Morning Report

Semantic Health raises $3.3M seed round to harness AI for health systems

'We are competing with the world': — Minister Kahlon explains why Mariana Mazzucato was hired to advise on BC's economic plan

The BC company building the country's biotech space, literally | The Morning Report

#Shipped: New products from Hootsuite, Wishpond and CloudAdvisors

With a first-of-its-kind GMP facility, AbCellera Biologics is building the future of Canadian biotech, right here in BC

The Vancouver startup pacing after the $30B global sneaker market | The Morning Report

Actioning growth plan, Semios acquires Centricity

Sneaker startup SoleSavy raises $15.5M in Series A funding from Shopify's president, Dapper Labs' CEO and Diplo

Experts share biggest cybersecurity threats ahead of cyber trends event

Canadian Forces fires funding into BC innovators | The Sunday Briefing

44 businesses impacting BC tech | The Morning Report

Innovate BC fuels local R&D with $1M investment into 4 innovation projects

44 finalists unveiled for Technology Impact Awards

8 BC organizations were awarded Competitive Canadian Defence Contracts that will provide funding and insights to refine their innovations

Bulletin: Google Cloud Accelerator selects BC startups Audette and Goose Insurance

General Fusion to build $400M facility outside Oxford, UK

Bulletin: Nextech AR joins exclusive Ericsson Startup 5G program

An executive enters the Shopify ecosystem, and one exits | The Morning Report

Pixel Union Apps taps entrepreneur Danny Halarewich as new CEO

Battle brewing to shepherd billions in Canadian tech growth | The Morning Report

Bulletin: Vancouver tech firms SkyHive and Ionomr Innovations make World Economic Forum's list of top 100 Technology Pioneers

Building tech for BC's low carbon future | The Morning Report

RBCx enters the battle to fuel Canadian tech and innovation

Building innovation: Province invests $8M into 21 construction tech projects

🌊 The BC ocean tech sector is 1,000 companies strong | The Sunday Briefing

BC wants to give everyone a chance to ride tech's tidal wave | The Morning Report

With $15M skills initiative, BC hopes to increase tech sector diversity

Tech dominates entrepreneur of the year awards finalists | The Morning Report

22 pacific business leaders thriving in the age of uncertainty

Bulletin: Amazon announces plans to hire 1,800 new employees at its Canadian offices

Dooly announces four new executive hires to enhance people, product and revenue teams

Commit raises $6M seed round to connect engineers and startups

The BC-based innovators who are transfixed by our oceans—every day of the year | The Morning Report

UBC, NRC Canada launch clean energy collaboration centre

Agtech company Semios acquires Altrac, a California-based farm automation platform

Meet the people making waves in BC’s aquatech space

How Plastic Bank went from 0 to 1B bottles recovered

ThisFish is digitizing your seafood

Poseidon Ocean Systems wants fish to breathe better

Come hurricane or high water

Version One Ventures closes $120M in two new funds

Can you ID Vancouver's latest multibillion-dollar business? | The Morning Report

Defi Ventures closes $17.7M in financing, rebrands to WonderFi 

42 promising BC startups to watch

Bulletin: BioMark receives $825K grant for its cancer detection technology

Vancouver has produced 7 unicorn companies in the past 7 months

WELL Health Tech announces $206M acquisition of MyHealth Partners Inc, its 26th acquisition since the beginning of 2020

Trulioo raises $476M, valued at $2.1B

These innovators are stepping up to combat COVID and climate change | The Sunday Briefing

The newest addition to Shopify's deep Bench of portfolio companies | The Morning Report

Digital Technology Supercluster supports $11.2M precision healthcare research project for autism

“The future of real estate” arrives via LNG Studios

Bench raises $72.5M and relaunches product offering

An acquisition for the ages | The Morning Report

With new US ownership, it's full steam ahead for BC life sciences company Precision NanoSystems Inc.

An entrepreneur's mission to make things better | The Morning Report

“First-to-market” wearables company Stoko receives $1.2M from Genome BC

Clir Renewables secures $27M in Series B funding

"I've been obsessed with improving healthcare since day one of being in it." — Dr. Sam Gharbi on riding the healthtech rollercoaster from med school to Arya Health

A BC cleantech startup's 'mission to mars' | The Morning Report

Bill Gates-backed Carbon Engineering captures 'Climate Impact Challenge' birth

Former Ericsson executive Manish Kamra joins Hootsuite as SVP of Software Development to build out the company's long-term technology development strategy

The Techies: Vancouver Startup Week’s past and present, BC Place looks dashing in teal and coral and the PNP Tech Pilot lifts off

When capital, talent and ideas collide | The Sunday Briefing

Mike Rowe was on the front page of news sites around the world for standing off against Microsoft. Now he's building 'the front page of decentralized finance'

Industry applauds BC decision to make tech immigration program permanent

Hydra's hydrogen-fueled future | The Morning Report

Agtech firm CubicFarms raises $22M to plow into R&D

The Vancouver startup making it possible to pay rent using bitcoin

Hydra Energy raises $15M to scale green hydrogen fueling infrastructure

SDTC invests $17.2M into BC's Axine Water Technologies, Ecoation and Terramera

A 50-year overnight success story | The Morning Report

Inside Vancouver's great tech evolution

Launch Academy announces $120,000 to expand LaunchPad program

Maybe NFT doesn't mean what you think it means | The Morning Report

Bulletin: With $300k from CleanBC, Metaspectral plans to build AI tech to recycle plastics

Telus collaborating with Apple to launch emergency response wearables service

BC's Whistle Buoy Brewing releases "Canada’s first crypto beer"

With $2.7B invested, Q1 is top quarter ever for Canadian VC investment

POF founder's collection of "eclectic" investments | The Morning Report

For this company, raising money is as easy as Seed-A-B | The Sunday Briefing

StoryTap Technologies secures $2.3M seed round

Dooly's third round of funding in under a year | The Morning Report

BC privacy commissioner urging transparency for BC's $500M fund, InBC

Jessie Adcock to join Finning as VP of digital

Kris Hartvigsen's Dooly raises $96.5M Series B round

An AI-bot may have written this subject line | The Morning Report

Unbounce acquires Snazzy AI, an AI-powered copywriting tool

In a first, PrecisionOS launches surgical robotics education platform in VR

Felix Böck's ChopValue raises $3M to expand global network

How to build a digital community during a pandemic | The Morning Report

COVID era digital engagement: 8 tips from Jelly Marketing, Traction on Demand and Rogers

Launch Academy announces $100,000 'Launch Your Startup' program

An idea to grow tech's talent pool | The Morning Report

Opinion: Childcare is infrastructure

Which Vancouver firm grew Q1 revenue 40x? | The Sunday Briefing

8 Vancouver digital health leaders to watch

The crypto cows are coming | The Morning Report

Boast.ai’s growing team is certainly something to boast about

What the influx of IPOs ultimately mean for Canadian entrepreneurs | The Morning Report

Opinion: Canadian tech IPOs—Public market recognition gives start-up companies accelerated growth options

Thinkific has a monster Q1 | The Morning Report

Vancouver startup Snack introduces snack-sized investment opportunities | The Morning Report

Bulletin: Stoko raises $6 million to build 'supportive apparel' industry

“It makes so much sense for Vancouver.” - Vancouver City Councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung on Formula E bid

Snack opens the door to Gen Z investors as part of a $2 million round

Please allow us to reintroduce ourselves | The Sunday Briefing

“Our goal is to be around 150 years from now." | The Morning Report

Bulletin: Poseidon Ocean Systems, ThisFish and Industrial Plankton split $325K in funding

Vancity CEO Christine Bergeron to chair InBC's 9-member board of directors

Thinkific's big week gets even bigger | The Morning Report

An entrepreneur's journey to space and back | The Morning Report

“You're trying to pick up enough data to predict the future.” — A few words with Alpha Insights CEO Scott Larson

"It's rocket fuel for our mission" | The Morning Report

Maybe Vancouver should retire the term unicorn? | The Sunday Briefing

The long and winding road Clio took to Unicorn Country | The Morning Report

“Two hammers looking for a nail” secure $2 billion, a timeline of Clio

Back to the future for this Vancouver securities marketplace | The Morning Report

DH Kim's journey back to the future

Thinkific joins the $1B+ club | The Morning Report

Bulletin: Legal tech leader Clio valued at $2B with announcement of $137M Series E funding

BC’s $500M fund: Province shares mandate, roadmap for InBC

Battle of the Blockchainsℱ | The Morning Report

Blockchain battle brewing in Vancouver’s NFT space?

Where is the love for BC's tech sector? | The Sunday Briefing

The Techies: The best from a busy budget week

Sports NFT startup gets investment from Dapper Labs CEO | The Morning Report

15 Vancouver cleantech stories you may have missed this year

"The status quo is destroying our planet." | The Morning Report

Opinion: Earth Day platitudes are a threat to our planet

Blink and you'll miss BC's new tech and innovation investments | The Morning Report

BC budget's tech spending touches on clean energy and skills development

How the federal budget impacts the tech world | The Morning Report

Cheatsheet: Top 30 highlights for innovators in #Budget2021

BC Tech Association, local municipalities announce $400,000 program

Meet the Vancouver investor who bet on Coinbase—and scored a 25 times return | The Sunday Briefing

Bulletin: Dapper Labs raising new round at $7.5 billion valuation

UBC's 5G drone dreams | The Morning Report

⚟ With Topps in the mix, it's game on in the sports NFT world | The Morning Report

Coinbase bet bears fruit for Vancouver investor Version One

Trading Card OG’s now challenging NBA Top Shot

CCI's new woman in B.C. | The Morning Report

Province invests $45 million into skills training programs

Light AI trial a culmination of many passions for Peter Whitehead

Thinkific thinks it's worth $750 million | The Morning Report

Cheatsheet: 5 things in the Throne Speech about B.C. tech and innovation

Tech that gives everyone a chance to invest in real estate? | The Sunday Briefing

NexTech AR closes $14 million | The Morning Report

Bulletin: Tasktop raises $126 million from Sumeru Equity Partners

Which Vancouver VC has the most $AUM? | The Morning Report

Bulletin: Advanced Intelligent Systems and Nano One split $4 million from B.C.'s Innovative Clean Energy Fund

Cheatsheet: CVCA spotlights 12 Vancouver VC firms with $2.2 billion in assets

NEXE raises $8 million for plant-based compostable tech | The Morning Report

Your next hire from the Vancouver Tech Journal job board

Canada's top early investor? | The Morning Report

Vancouver's top seed investor wrote an early cheque to Robinhood, a $40 billion unicorn

How a tech HR leader keeps teams motivated through crises | The Sunday Briefing

Hermina Khara models the behaviour she wants to see

What Faber, Snack and Penny have in common | The Morning Report

These are the 3 B.C. tech companies chosen for the C100 2021 Fellows Cohort

A $2.6 billion juggernaut | The Morning Report

Bulletin: Dapper Labs raised $305 million from Will Smith, Michael Jordan and 40+ others

Staffbase (Bananatag 2.0) raised $145 million | The Morning Report

Bulletin: Despite domestic snubbing, AbCellera made nearly $200 million off of its COVID-19 treatment

Just how big is Microsoft's investment in Vancouver talent? | The Sunday Briefing

Mark your calendar to match ours.

Microsoft Vancouver is adding the equivalent of 10 large B.C. tech companies

The Morning Report: Ryan Reynolds, tech leader?

Here's what you need to know about this year's Vancouver Startup Week

The Morning Report: Microsoft to hire 500 in Vancouver

The Morning Report: Vancouver's new unicorn

Just released: 2021 Ready to Rocket lists highlight B.C. firms with greatest revenue potential

Cheatsheet: Significant digits inside Thinkific’s preliminary prospectus for IPO

The Morning Report: Beanworks' $100M+ exit

Bulletin: SaaS firm Beanworks to be acquired by Quadient for $104.5 million

Throwing Out The VC Rule Book | The Sunday Briefing

In rare move, VC firm Rhino Ventures makes fund performance public

The Morning Report: Wishpond is winning

Bulletin: Vancouver's Launchtrip raises $4.7M seed investment

The Morning Report: Visualping tracks $2 million to the bank

Bulletin: New Ventures BC Competition applications are now open

Visualping, which tracks website changes (like open vaccination spots), raises $2 million

The Morning Report: “We have antibody therapies for COVID-19; they save lives, now use them.”

The Morning Report: ParcePal adds $1 million in financing

Unbounce's translator in chief

The Morning Report: D-Wave snags $40 million

Tamara Grominsky and the future of Unbounce

The Morning Report: Thinkific's IPO

The Morning Report: $2M for DeFI

The Morning Report: Vancouver tech trailblazers

The Index: 23 Vancouver tech and business power players to know

'We don’t want to just write cheques': Shopify executives launch investing collective Backbone Angels

Seed and 'Series Eh' | The Sunday Briefing

The Morning Report: RIP Bananatag

'Your body isn't wired to deal with that': Inside Kris Hartvigsen's Rollercoaster Year

Bulletin: B.C.'s Bananatag merged with Germany's Staffbase to create internal comms giant

The Morning Report: Is Dooly the next Hootsuite?

Bulletin: PocketPills announces a $30 million Series B round

Bulletin: Dooly.ai raises $26 million to scale its sales platform

The Morning Report: GenXys raises $3 million

Edoardo De Martin, former GM of Microsoft Vancouver, is joining CubicFarms as CTO

The Morning Report: Eupraxia's TSX-only listing

Bulletin: BC Chamber of Commerce appoints Fiona Famulak as president and CEO

Three comma club

The Morning Report: Zinc8 raises $15 million

The Morning Report: A billion dollar B.C. exit

Bulletin: Innovate BC invests $900k into research focused on bioplastics, mining and cancer treatments

Bulletin: Vancouver's Galvanize acquired by Diligent in $1 billion deal

The Morning Report: ZenHub's CAD $5.9 million seed round

The Morning Report: B.C.'s agtech potential

Former POF exec launches dating app Snack with $3.5 million in funding

$100M To Boast About | The Sunday Briefing

The Morning Report: Cleantech royalty recognized

B.C.'s cleantech elite: Elicia Maine, Julie Angus and Carol Wu among innovators recognized at awards ceremony

The Morning Report: Animation studio Mainframe is hiring 150 people

Bulletin: Boast.ai raises $100M from Brevet Capital

The Morning Report: Only $281 million left to spend

💬 13 thoughts... Shopify, Scotiabank, superclusters and speeches

Sunday Briefing | #125

What is NBA Top Shot, the Dapper Labs built marketplace that did $50 million in sales in 30 days?

The Morning Report: A new Netflix office, eh?

Bulletin: Burnaby’s Advanced Intelligent Systems one of 20 cleantech firms to split $55 million federal investment

The Morning Report: Biotech firm notches US$85 million in funding

Bulletin: Fraction Technologies raises $289 million

The Morning Report: TELUS is #1

Nejeed Kassam navigates his most important role yet: father

The Morning Report: Well Health Tech splashes $292.7 million on a neighbour

Bulletin: Vancouver Board of Trade to recognize businesses that have adapted and shown resiliency

Bulletin: Well Health Technologies has agreed to buy CRH Medical for US$292.7 million

Sunday Briefing | #124

The Morning Report: $5.3 million to track whales from space

The Morning Report: Four tips for startup exits

The Morning Report: Svante raises USD $75 million

Bulletin: Svante raises USD $75M for carbon capture technology

Bulletin: Precision Nanosystems nets $25M through federal Strategic Innovation Fund

The Morning Report: Vanrx Pharmasystems joins long list of exits

Bulletin: uGov? More than 900 people have enrolled in the B.C. government's digital marketing program

Sunday Briefing | #123

The Morning Report: How to love critical feedback at work

Bulletin: EdTech startup Wize raises US$3 million

Bulletin: Canadian Tech Talent Accelerator launched with $8.7M in funding from government and industry

The Morning Report: Electronic Arts launches third studio in Vancouver

The Morning Report: Nexii's $33M and new ties to Uber

The Morning Report: 3 Vancouver tech companies to watch in 2021

Bulletin: Kardium raises $115M in new financing

Sunday Briefing | #122

Bulletin: Digital skills academy BrainStation expands to Miami

Chinese tech giant Tencent buys majority stake in Yaletown-based Klei Entertainment

The Morning Report: Another Vancouver startup exits

The Morning Report: BBTV's 600 million fans

The Morning Report: Autozen's $4.2 million funding round

The smartest 20 business and tech podcasts in Vancouver

The Morning Report: It’s still not too late to buy bitcoin

The Morning Report: West Vancouver billionaire Frank Giustra is still suing Twitter

The Morning Report: Mogo poaches Square executive to lead marketing

The Morning Report: This startup will triple its 2020 revenue this year

The Morning Report: Vancouver firms named among the top 25 machine learning startups in Forbes

Sunday Briefing | #121

From Swift to Sparkcentral, a timeline of Hootsuite's acquisitions