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2022 recap: top funding news of the year

Wecasa brings a vacation home within reach

🏙️ To Infinitii and beyond!

2022 recap: The stories that mattered

🏙️ The My First Million Podcast — IRL in Vancouver

🏙️ $90M for startups' intellectual property

2022 recap: Diversity in tech

🏙️ Give the gift of Vancouver Tech Journal

"Everyone here shows genuine appreciation of those around us." — How (and why) to get a job at Pixieset

Supporting healthcare providers through Ginger Desk

🏙️ Vancouver tech's not done yet

Svante raises $318 million Series E for carbon capture technology

🏙️ I have a confession to make

Radar: The state of Vancouver’s economy at the close of 2022

Dyne raises $1.5M with investment from Vancouver-based Weave VC

🏙️ Alpha-9 Theranostics announces oversubscribed $75M Series B

🏙️Today is your chance

"I very rarely feel even close to being the smartest person in the room." — How (and why) to get a job at Aspect Biosystems

Seven guiding principles for effective digital transformation

🏙️What Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy means for Vancouver tech

InBC announces first investments from $500 million fund

$10 million to support an Indigenous clean energy initiative

What it takes to build and scale in a recession-proof industry

New B.C. minister reveals her vision for the tech sector

B.C. government overhaul will transform tech

Vancouver ventures head south: $72 million for Minesense and Elastic Path

How will Vancouver decarbonize the shipping industry?

"I wish everyone could have a work experience like this." — How (and why) to get a job at Klue

Meet Vancouver's two most promising digital health companies

Not over yet

Brenda Bailey is the new Minister of Jobs, Economic Development, and Innovation

$250K up for grabs for Western Canadian startups at OKGN Angel Summit

Radar: Why Vancouver tech companies are trading downtown for the suburbs

Ex-Thinkific VP joins mining tech company

Apple launches free, in-person coding sessions for kids in Vancouver

Fintech firm Fintel Connect raises $4.8M seed round

Expeto announces $12M Series B round

Eight days of Vancouver tech myths

Silicon Valley ecosystem-builder Plug and Play hosts first event in Vancouver

B.C. government commits $11.5M toward cleantech adoption

The forecast calls for more tech news

Vancouver Web3 is here to stay

Meet the former Red Bull and Spotify marketer who was pulled into Vancouver Web3

Foresight announces Canada’s 50 most investable cleantech companies

Forbes is fond of these B.C. founders

Calgary tech is calling

Nailing your pitch: how to adapt to the tight tech market

Spring’s investor challenges have dished out $170K over the last week

Vancouver's on a venture capital rollercoaster

SaaS startup Produce8 raises $6M

Boast reveals the winners of its pitch competition for Canada’s most innovative startup

Is Vancouver ready for a million more people?

You're in our draw to win a free flight!

Rivian Automotive begins vehicle deliveries in British Columbia

Good news, and a giveaway

Is Vancouver prepared for a recession?

Viridis Research lands $300K from Mitacs

Staying up to speed with Spring

🎉 The last hurrah!

Axis Communications opens Vancouver office and experience centre

Who has the fastest internet of them all?

When it comes to giving back, time can be much more rewarding than money

This tech is not science fiction

The good the bad and the indifferent: my adventures repping Vancouver at Web Summit

It's beginning to look a lot like...

Three reasons to work with BCIT Computing students

Mushrooms for mental health

Side Door: the tech platform helping artists make a living

A massive B.C. fund extends its footprint

Get out your red pen

19 B.C. companies recognized by Deloitte for lightning-fast growth

A local supercomputer gets an upgrade

State of the Nation: three key takeaways from the BC Tech report

Don’t you love a multi-year overnight success story?

How SX Network continues to win in a bear market

Exclusive: Five things you didn’t know about Vancouver tech unicorns

Trendi launches BioTrim: the startup’s first product to tackle food waste

Cheatsheet: Nine accelerator and incubator programs B.C. unicorns say supported their success

Cheatsheet: The non-dilutive funding sources B.C. unicorns used most

Cheatsheet: $0 to $1M to $5M in revenue – here’s how long it took B.C. unicorns

Tech trends to keep an eye on

For a week, I was a citizen living in the "City of Web Summit"

"More pain coming": Canadian crypto leaders comment on the FTX meltdown

See you at CBRE?

Exclusive: Cleantech smart-shower builder Rainstick raises $3M

$250k for founders

Beyond buzzwords

Vancouver is building the next generation of climatetech leaders

“It’s not just about work.” – How (and why) to get a job at AbCellera

Watchlist: Five B.C. women in biotech and life sciences, part two

Get the lowdown on local climatetech

Agree or disagree

Arthur Chen is climate-proofing agriculture

Dapper Labs lays off nearly a quarter of its staff

Squamish’s Carbon Engineering begins work on a second carbon-capture facility in Texas

Come hang with us twice on Tuesday

More local layoffs

Clirio is the “metaverse for the real world”

Hootsuite lays off another five percent of employees

Your latest member perks have arrived

INNOVATE ™ Vancouver Volume 2 coming in hot

British Columbia commits to a climate-friendly future through hydrogen energy

What do Science World, Microsoft's president, and satellites have in common?

Join us for coffee in someone else's home

Vancouver is ready to foster the next generation of biotech companies

Watchlist: B.C. women leaders in biotech and life sciences

The latest Dapper Labs x NBA crossover is driven by you

Tomorrow's happy hour plans settled

"We trust our people to do good work." — How (and why) to get a job at BCLC

A new chapter for Canada's crypto consolidation king

5 ways your organization will benefit from connecting with BCIT Computing

Microsoft President Brad Smith is leading the vision of a connected Cascadia

Visier scoops up assets of Paris-based Boostrs, a "skills-mapping engine"

EarthDaily Analytics isn’t just here to capture pretty pictures of our planet

Science World secures $10M in federal funding, will launch Creative Technology Gallery next year

Sim, sleeves, and food service

British Columbia builds an electric highway

Jessie Adcock, former City of Vancouver CTO, now CEO of Canadian Digital Service

Your boss will lease your next office in these neighbourhoods

Cheatsheet: Six under-the-radar B.C. firms from Canada’s 430 top-growing companies list

Vancouver Startup Week is back next June

Craver offers small businesses a solution to survive the pandemic

Tomorrow, join us for our next #vtjtalks event

Meet new Medimap boss Thomas Jankowski

“We are a ‘roll up your sleeves and get it done’ kind of organization.” – How (and why) to get a job at Launchpad

Bryan Buggey to join Invest Vancouver as executive vice president

How the Vancouver business landscape will change under Ken Sim

“The drop was predictable”: Four B.C. investors share insights on 2022’s venture trends so far

Sim City: What the new mayor means for Vancouver tech

Unilogik Systems welcomes staff to Granville Island

Why become a member?

6 summer seed rounds you overlooked

Vancouver passengers can get through airport security faster using YVR’s new app

Solving Vancouver's tech talent and housing conundrum

Vancouver entrepreneurs to headline SAAS NORTH in Ottawa next month

From Burnaby to the metaverse

"You can grow your ideas here." — How (and why) to get a job at GeoComply

Five Victoria tech stories you need to know

Exclusive: What each mayoral candidate has promised for Vancouver tech

Here's who won B.C. Tech's awards week

Dapper Labs, GeoComply among the dozen Technology Impact Award winners for 2022

Canada Drives secures $10M to accelerate growth

Meet Shawn Wilson, BuildDirect's new CEO

🏗️ Building your women in tech recruitment strategy

Bill Tam stepping away from Digital Supercluster

Meet the speakers for our next #vtjtalks events

SDTC invests $8.1M into B.C. cleantech firms

10 notes on InBC’s investment policy statement

With $5.5M in seed funding, Spexi moves its aerial imagery business to the blockchain

And the NVBC winner is...

New Ventures BC 2022: Meet the winners of $250k in cash and prizes

Innovate BC invests $2.3M into projects spanning cleantech, mining and forestry

Here is the quartet up for the Company of the Year - Anchor Technology Impact Award

👀 The most ambitious companies in BC?

These companies have their eye on the Spirit of BC Tech – Ambition award

Women are changing Canada's angel investing game

Trust us

With a $1.1 million pre-seed raise, RELICSxyz goes independent

The Overstory family has a new member

The Great Resignation has intensified Canadian tech’s war for talent: report

Your pizza order will now be delivered by an autonomous robot

Turtle Island NFT's treasure hunt offers new ways to engage with Web3

"Every second can literally save a life"

Exclusive: Dieter Shirley, NFT pioneer, talks about his creation’s past and future

Money briefing: Lynk, Monos, GameOn Entertainment, and BDC.

Kari LaMotte has work to do

Covalent launches program to train Web3 data analysts

Here's the innovation commissioner's to do list

Feeling social?

With $4M in seed capital, Lynk launches payment platform for marketplaces

The beginning of NFTs

VodaSafe’s AquaEye offers a lifeline against drowning

$46M for Indigenous businesses

Money briefing: Doodles, Daily Hive, Ballard, and more.

Meet the quartet gunning for Startup of the Year

A refreshed Angel Forum for a resurgent ecosystem

Raven Indigenous Capital Partners launches $46M Fund II

With $2.5M seed raise, Cognitive3D plans to double headcount

Province and industry investing $35M into cleantech projects

🎟️ #vtjtalks: You're invited

AbCellera breaks ground on Phase II of Vancouver HQ

What InBC will, and will not, invest in

Eight women investors in Vancouver

Ideon Technologies closes $16M Series A round

Inside the B.C. agritech link up saving the province’s blueberry crop

New funding is available for early-stage Vancouver companies

$1.5M from national defence to fund 5G research

🇺🇦 22 Ukrainian developers hired and counting

Two B.C. firms chosen for the Canadian Technology Accelerator digital health cohort

Panache Ventures announces $100M Fund II to double down on early-stage founders

Vancouver’s Vida Carbon named title partner of Lewis Hamilton's Extreme E team

Your must-attend events primer

A Vancouver unicorn CEO's new job

Health social network Curatio merges with Australia’s RxMx to form patient experience giant

The last companies standing in B.C.'s hottest competition

Money briefing: SaNOtize, AltFee, Fineqia, and more

#vtjtalks: Trillion-dollar-tech stories, with The New York Times’ Tripp Mickle

Medtech giant Masimo hiring 170 people for its new Vancouver innovation facility

New Ventures BC 2022: Meet the top 11

Five quantum cybersecurity facts every CTO needs to know

Slide into this Vancouver VC's DMs

Airble offers a new way to book aircraft

Mayo, pickle juice, ketchup, and SaaS

🎟️ Sneak peek: Our next events

Dapper Labs' football lead in London

The fund looking to weave together Western Canada’s investment ecosystem

The event-tech industry strikes back

Money briefing: GameOn, Wishpond, Mitacs, and more

Debt in a downturn: How to use non-dilutive funding to buy time and hit milestones

$50M invested in AI projects with D-Wave, Routific, and other B.C. firms

BarrelWise raises $3.1 million seed round led by Conexus Venture Capital

How Eventbase’s big bet paid off

Is the Global Talent Stream visa program ready for change?

Article: How Invoke and 5X Festival mastered the hybrid event

How Invoke and 5X Festival mastered the hybrid event

🚨 The Monthly Tech Industry Social is tomorrow

B.C.'s metaverse inventor is at it again

Key takeaways from the Frontier Summit

“Flex your skills, grow your skills, try something new.” – How (and why) to get a job at Terramera

Vancouver’s Quantum Gravity Society is one step closer to solving the biggest mystery of the universe

💸 58 deals and $807M, so far

Halo-maker SkyBox Labs to launch three new B.C. game-development studios

Uber will be a zero-emission platform by 2040

B.C.’s billion-dollar investment drop

“Working with your friends makes your day-to-day job much more fun.” — How (and why) to get a job at UrbanLogiq

Thinkific CMO departs after 11 months

Worth the wait(list)

How NFTs are transforming Indigenous economics

Bringing made-in-Vancouver tech to a U.K. market worth $15B

Vancouver’s Loop Energy expands into the U.K. to tap $15B market

MintList secures a Canadian first

MintList are newly minted Stevie Award winners

👀 Looking for something new? Get hired.

Float modernizes expense management for Canadian businesses

$1.6M for Canadian tech startups

Our online tech talent information marketplace

Vancouver tech layoffs, talent, and hiring companies

You're invited: Boris Wertz on VC's past, present and future

With Field of Dreams game, Mantis XR’s founder comes full circle

From 'wind in their sails' to 'headwinds'

5 tech hiring tips from Nicholas Simon, CTO at Rival Technologies

Hootsuite to lay off 30% of its workforce

Water tech: the flourishing Vancouver industry you’ve never heard of

A Rwandan entrepreneur's journey to Vancouver

Article: Charles Kishi is building the travel site you’ll book your next trip through

Charles Kishi is building the travel site you’ll book your next trip through

263 jobs gone, 263 people for hire

More layoffs hit Vancouver tech

Updated: Article is laying off 200+ people amid tech sector turmoil

The latest local layoffs

🍻 The Tech Industry Social is tomorrow

Unbounce lays off 20% of its employees amidst economic uncertainty

Trendi receives $85K from Canadian Food Innovation Network

B.C. tech firm lands new U.S. owners

Canalyst acquired by Chicago-based Tegus

👀 Why Softbank, Snap and Mitsubishi are coming to town

A new org investing in women-led Web3 startups

F3 Ventures wants to welcome more women into the Web3 revolution

Fable raises $8.4M to grow its eco-conscious tableware brand

Why global leaders and investors are coming to Vancouver

🚨 Date change for Monthly Tech Industry Social

Frontier Summit to bring high-profile investors from Softbank and more to Vancouver

The startup replacing “dull, dirty, and dangerous” work

Sarcomere Dynamics’ robotic hands are within touching distance

What we learned from Clio's Natalie Archibald

Turn uncertainty into opportunity: Hiring remote global tech talent during the economic slowdown

"We have to make a promise to our people that matches the promise they made to join us." — How (and why) to get a job at Clio

💰 How will you exit your company?

All women of colour lineup to headline Thinkific’s Think in Color 2022 summit

Vancouver’s Ethos Lab teaches teens inclusivity alongside technology

A Web3 approach to HR tech | The Morning Report

Running a decentralized organization just got easier

Morning Report: “We knew it was unlocked but we didn’t know how to open it.”

Article: Curtis Wong and Trendi want you to stop wasting so much food

Four upcoming events to attend

10 Vancouver Web3 leaders you can meet in person next week

Curtis Wong and Trendi want you to stop wasting so much food

Morning Report: Advice on endgames

Future Capital and BDC Capital partner on angel investing program for 150 Canadian women

How to build a company with an exit in mind

Meet the world’s fastest-growing companies at this upcoming conference | The Morning Report

SafeDigit raises $1.2M in pre-seed funding

Traction Conference to feature founders and leaders from Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing companies

For Nexii, $1B + $45M = $2B

From Victoria to Europe and beyond | Morning Report

From $1B to $2B and beyond | Morning Report

Are you ready for your close up?

10 local innovators named EY Entrepreneur of The Year 2022 Pacific winners

New brand, 'Hoot' dis | Morning Report

Nexii is worth $2B-plus after raising $45M

Inside Hootsuite’s rebrand and refocus

Life Sciences BC's great eight | The Morning Report

B.C.’s top 8 life sciences innovators for 2022

From Toronto (and Zurich) with love | The Sunday Briefing

Local startup snags $1.5M from SDTC | The Morning Report

Vancouver-based Panevo among cleantech firms to receive $26.7M in federal funding

Managing spend in today’s economic climate

The Swiss tech scene welcomes a Burnaby tech business | The Morning Report

📸 Is it time for a #newprofilepic?

Four highlights from the Swiss Tech Experience

Victoria software studio snapped up by EY | The Morning Report

Our Collision Conference recap | The Morning Report

Vancouver Tech Journal reflects on four wild days at Collision Conference

😳 $40M in fuel

Victoria's ocean-conscious techno-whiz | The Morning Report

Genome BC taps Suzanne Gill as president and CEO

Savage Love in the metaverse | The Morning Report

Vancouver’s TerraZero teams up with singer Jason Derulo to “slidin” to the metaverse

📨You're invited: Fireside chat with Float CEO Rob Khazzam

W Venture's 2022 cohort | The Morning Report

An entrepreneurship program for women-led tech companies is back

Are these B.C.'s top 25 startups? | The Morning Report

Here are the New Ventures BC top 25 ventures

Vehicle e-tailer Canada Drives secures $40M to accelerate expansion

👩‍💻 Meet the woman driving DEI at EA Games

Unlock 5G for all Canadians

Let's try that again | The Morning Report

Predicting blockchain's potential | The Morning Report

🖥️ Experts from Manifold, Signalytic and UBC on blockchain's potential to change the world

Life Sciences British Columbia and Acetech announce partnership

The world is flat for global talent

‘Gaming is a vehicle for delivering beautiful art’ | The Morning Report

🍺 The next tech industry social is on Friday

Vancouver’s Marija Radulovic-Nastic is leading EA Games’ push for diversity in its characters

$5.1M for this auto sales marketplace | The Morning Report

PerformanceTech startup Impro closes $2.25M seed round

Autozen raises CAD $5.1M, expands across Canada and into Seattle

Identity theft is not a joke, Jim | The Morning Report

Mastercard’s new Vancouver tech hub will help stop you from getting hacked

📜 Did you make BC Tech's shortlist of top companies?

48 finalists unveiled for Technology Impact Awards

A decade investing for Boris Wertz

A change of leadership | The Morning Report

Regional innovation agency Invest Vancouver taps Jacquie Griffiths as new president

Not your average morning coffee

From dark days to profitability | The Morning Report

Float makes business spending easier to manage

Actenum wins 2022 Greg Smith Award, honouring investor who ‘helped keep the lights on’ during company’s dark days

A breath of fresh hydrogen | The Morning Report

New consortium aims to spark B.C.’s low-carbon hydrogen economy

$30T by 2030

A startup's mission to clear the air

Scoop: Former LifeSciences BC chief Dr. Lesley Esford has joined SFU VentureLabs as executive director

Burnaby-based TrendiTech raises $6.2 million in seed funding for its BioTrim technology

UVX wins $165K to further quest for air purification

B.C.’s burgeoning bluetech businesses

Do you have a ticket yet?

The Swiss Army knife of personal tracking | The Morning Report

Y Combinator invests in Vancouver’s Metriport as part of Summer ‘22 cohort

B.C.'s top startups this year, so far | The Morning Report

42 B.C. startups to watch, according to New Ventures BC

$11.1M investment? Burnaby is booming

Bringing the circus to the metaverse | The Morning Report

A mixed-reality circus performs in Vancouver this Saturday, courtesy of LiveSwitch and Shocap

Growth equity firm PSG backs B.C. sales startup | The Morning Report

Meet the real estate team behind B.C.’s tech unicorns

The secrets to securing (non-dilutive) capital for your company

Big Whale Labs raises $3.8M for its Web3 pseudonymity protocol

Penny AI raises $27M Series B

Funding for food innovation | The Morning Report

Four Burnaby tech firms secure $11.1M investment from federal agency

Canada’s Online News Act must be transparent, fair, and include news innovators

Canadian Pacifico Seaweeds receives $93K from Canadian Food Innovation Network

Twitter picks the Victoria tech companies to watch | The Morning Report

Vancouver’s Frontier Collective to throw “night summit” at Collision conference

🚜 The future of your food

Fast 50 phenoms | The Morning Report

Notable Deloitte Technology Fast 50 winners over the years

👁️ ❤️ NFTs | The Morning Report

Well-known Vancouver street artist iHeart releases his first NFT project

👀 Almost here: Tech industry social on Friday

Unbounce appoints three new executives from Indochino, RBC Ventures, and Hootsuite

Terramera project highlights latest Agricultural Clean Technology Program funding

Securing a more resilient food system in Vancouver | The Morning Report

Uber Canada teams up with Wallbox to help drivers switch to EVs

Key takeaways from Invest Vancouver’s agtech report

📈 From $500 to 60 employees and $10 million in annual revenue

A Texan exit | The Morning Report

A year after $126M raise, Tasktop to be acquired by Texas firm

200k for Indigenous Scholarship fund

Vancouver-based Network Media Group inks NFT partnership with Hockey Hall of Fame

🤯 20+ upcoming events to attend

Vancouver Film School launches $200,000 Indigenous Scholarship in Video Games fund

How Canalyst marries tech and biz | The Morning Report

Vancouver-based Spare partners with ridesharing giant Lyft to deliver on-demand transit services

‘We’re all adults.’ – How (and why) to get a job at Canalyst

Growing from 3 to 8 figures in revenues | The Morning Report

Playbook: How Launchpad Technologies’ Bruce Qi bootstrapped $500 into $10 million

🥽 How the first metaverse was built (and sold) in B.C.

Construction begins on cutting-edge LED film studio in Burnaby

The social NFT platform

Orderinbox makes NFTs social

The story of the first metaverse | The Morning Report

👀 7 upcoming events to attend

Club Penguin founder and Dragons’ Den star Lane Merrifield’s journey to the metaverse and back

South Island success | The Morning Report

Applications for the 2022 Technology Impact Awards extended to May 13

The entrepreneur taking a bite out of baby food

Victoria’s Certn raises $65M to fund global expansion of its background check solution

Camille Hunt is taking a bite out of baby food

Meet the B.C. startup co-founded by a Grammy winner

NFT brand Doodles hires Billboard exec Julian Holguin as CEO

The CEO who rocks wit Ashanti | The Morning Report

Vancouver-founded Boast taps Alok Tyagi as new CEO

Mantis XR brings St. Louis Blues fans to the metaverse

Meet the B.C. woman looking to create equity in the music industry

B.C.-based business battle | The Morning Report

Fintech startup pitch battle coming to Vancouver

How to hire and relocate tech talent

Meet our new managing editor | The Morning Report

Vancouver-based BWZ makes $3.6M acquisition of London’s Crozdesk

An NFT party in B.C. | The Morning Report

📷 Snapshots: The faces of NFT BC

Innovate BC now accepting applications for $300,000 R&D grant

The newest member of the three comma club

Charitable Impact’s John Bromley on the ‘Yelp of charity’ and hitting $1 billion in donations

Pocketed wins $25K top prize at The Forum Pitch finale

This startup Pocketed $25K | The Morning Report

Elder-led mobile health program brings healing to Downtown Eastside

🤝 See you later, Later | The Morning Report

📅 Where you'll find us

Later and Boston-based Mavrck link up

How to build an inclusive work environment | The Morning Report

Women in Engineering Leadership: Steps for Building Inclusive and Gender Balanced Work Environments

Opinion: Above all else, virtual meetings should endure in the new normal

Meaningful meetings with multinationals | The Morning Report

3 tips for startups wanting to work with multinationals

Meet top Web3 and tech leaders at Countdown to Collision Vancouver this week

Can a company from PoCo change the world?

A SHARC in the water | The Morning Report

SHARC Energy Systems isn’t just blowing hot air

'Build the relationships now' | The Morning Report

4 lessons we learned from TechExit.io

Meet Daanaa Resolution Inc: Acetech member spotlight

👀 12 upcoming events to attend

0 to 1M real quick | The Morning Report

Where do gamers go when they’re in a slump? Insights.gg

🏔️ Funding for innovators in the Switzerland of Canada

Fortinet inks partnership with PGA Tour Canada

Kaslo receives $971K for building inhabited by Kootenay Lake Innovation Centre

'Context is everything' | The Morning Report

‘We need to disassociate the tech from the people’: guest editor Anthonia Ogundele

What tech employees can learn from Severance | The Morning Report

5 lessons every tech employee can learn from the TV show Severance

Meet the 2 new Vancouver C100 Fellows | The Morning Report

Natalia Williams joins Hootsuite as chief product officer

Vancouver-based Spare and Rockmass Technologies chosen as 2022 C100 Fellows

It's big time for the Littles NFT project

Ad Auris selected for Google’s Cloud Accelerator Canada program

Thinkific CEO Greg Smith reflects on layoffs, the year ahead in BC Tech call

The local NFT collection that's racked up $40 million in sales | The Morning Report

Segev LLP elevates 3 lawyers to bolster tech, securities and corporate finance services

Vancouver-based ‍‍MeetAmi Innovations closes $29M seed round

Science World to expand tech literacy training for youth with new funding

Playbook: How Wilson Lee and Cass Chan turned an interest in NFTs into an empire

A $122k win for this local startup | The Morning Report

📅 See you soon

Miranda Alldritt joins Bioform as chief business officer

Circular Rubber Technologies completes the circuit

🧪 Good chemistry and company | The Morning Report

Be ambitious: Applications for the 2022 Technology Impact Awards are now open

Good Chemistry Company lands seed funding from Green Sands Equity

Oscar-winning VFX firm slaps name on new Vancouver studio | The Morning Report

Digital effects giant Wētā FX opens Vancouver office, welcomes expressions of interest

💯 Thinkers for hire

Tech community rallies to help out laid off Thinkific employees

Dave Dinesen's obsessions | The Morning Report

4 tips for attracting and hiring women in tech

Branson, Pink Floyd and Apollo 13: 10 books, movies and songs I love with Dave Dinesen

“You can actually get sh*t done.” | The Morning Report

LayerZero Labs raises $135M, valued at $1B

🤫 Bootstrapping startups and secrets

Uber Canada and FLO join forces to accelerate EV adoption

Yvette Wu is on the other side of the coin

💯—but not a good one | The Morning Report

The B.C. startups who pitched at Y Combinator's Winter 2022 Demo Day

Michelle Kwok sold a company in her early 20s. What comes next?

$1.1M in Cognito's bank account | The Morning Report

Victoria-based Cognito Health closes a $1.1M pre-seed round led by Garage Capital

Vancouver-based Zoomd acquires AI-firm Albert, kickstarts M&A strategy

🏆 Icons, builders and rising stars

Meet this year's cleantech award winners | The Morning Report

Terramera, Translink among winners of 2022 BC Cleantech Awards

At Cronometer, ski boots meet bootstrapping

'Rethink what a leader’s supposed to look like' | The Morning Report

Who will win the special effects Oscar this weekend?

3 Web3 stories you may have missed

BC and AB tech leaders reunite after two years to celebrate Acetech's 30th anniversary in Whistler, BC

Guest editor Rumneek Johal: Rethink what a leader’s supposed to look like

An upgrade to UpperStage capital | The Morning Report

Former Google, Meta executive joins Trulioo to lead compliance

UpperStage Capital hires Kookai Chaimahawong as ESG Partner

Vancouver-born tech entrepreneur leads $14.5M donation to BC Parks Foundation

Part 2 of Kevin Sandhu's entrepreneurial story | The Morning Report

Kevin Sandhu’s mission to democratize freelancing

What entrepreneurs can learn from Shawshank

'The world is not neutral' | The Morning Report

What’s next for The Gaming Stadium?

CertiCraft is certified champion of OKGN Angel Summit Finale

Guest editor Erin Gee: The world is not neutral

What Katy Perry and Encanto have in common | The Morning Report

1 chance. 2 actions. 3 lists. 4 events

Katy Perry, Shawshank and Encanto: 10 books, movies and songs that I love with Humaira Ahmed

Pressboard absorbed by (and on) Impact | The Morning Report

Vancouver-based Pressboard acquired by Impact.com

Merchant Growth pulls off a Canadian first | The Morning Report

So now we know what Merchant Growth did with all that money

🇩🇪 From East Berlin to B.C.

Chip Wilson announces new venture philanthropic organization Solve FSHD

From $400k to $5M in revenue | The Morning Report

Vancouver’s Makeship has found a plush market

Tech to help you make the biggest purchase of your life | The Morning Report

Are you B.C.’s top new startup?

The latest move from Ontario to Vancouver? HouseSigma.

Meet our #IWD22 special guest editors | The Morning Report

Meet our #IWD22 special guest editors: Anthonia Ogundele, Erin Gee and Rumneek Johal

"If other people want to overlook that value, then their loss is our gain." — Backbone Angels look to increase their impact in 2022

This product is a breath of fresh air | The Morning Report

Terramera’s Annett Rozek has seen the impossible, and now she’s doing it

Opinion: ‘Mompreneur’ and ‘she-EO’ must go if we’re going to #BreakTheBias

Susan Blanchet comes clean

🦸‍♀️ She had 24 jobs before she was 27 years old

Software developers want total compensation: What does that mean and how do you get it?

The many lives of Kirsten Sutton | The Morning Report

Angel Pui to launch DiamondHandBag Club, a luxury NFT collection

Found in Translation: The many lives of Vancity’s Kirsten Sutton

Salesforce's 12-year affair with B.C. | The Morning Report

👀 9 local tech events to attend

Get Ukrainian tech talent hired: VanHack waives placement fees

Sanctuary AI closes CAD $75.5M Series A round to accelerate its human-like robots

Timeline: The Salesforce-Vancouver love affair is 12 years in the making

The B.C.-born entrepreneur building fintech in the Caymans | The Morning Report

Stephen Colbert shouts out Vancouver-based company on The Late Show

Michelle Morgan joked with her Advanced Alternative Investment Systems co-founder that they should start their own company. 15 years later, it’s anything but a joke.

Meet the CIO of InBC | The Morning Report

Why startups need to double down on their strengths if they want to take home gold

InBC appoints Leah Nguyen as chief investment officer

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Traction on Demand signs agreement to be acquired by Salesforce

Vancouver restaurant Alimentaria Mexicana brings the old world online

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Meet the man changing the face of startup funding

Slurpees in February only scratch the surface of 7-Eleven’s presence in Vancouver

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The tech winners (and one loser) of the 2022 BC Budget

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Operto raises $15M in funding to help property owners ride wave of tech automation

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A new frontier | The Morning Report

4 takeaways for the tech sector from B.C.’s new economic plan

Frontier Collective launches to advance Vancouver’s bleeding-edge industries

The B.C. entrepreneur building a smart pillbox | The Morning Report

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Opinion: I love how tech supports me. Now, it’s time to talk about how to give back.

Meet the Angels for Climate Solutions Startup Cohort’s top 10

Cleantech, Indigenous communities prioritized with $2 million in B.C. government funding

'There was a problem I had that I couldn't find a product to solve.' — Kate Bouchard is filling a healthtech gap

Tech HQs in Strathcona | The Morning Report

Vancouver-based ‘social network for retail investors’ raises pre-seed round

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Vancouver’s Train Fitness secures pre-seed funding to transform workout tracking

Maya Adly wondered why there wasn’t an OpenTable equivalent for personal services like barbers or nail salons. So she built it.

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Uber Canada and Plug’N Drive team up to help drivers make the switch to EVs

Vancouver's Women in Web3 | The Morning Report

The Calgary NPO making tech more inclusive | The Morning Report

The Vancouver women making a dent in the city’s Web3 space

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More Vancouver unicorns | The Morning Report

The CEO of $1.7B-valued Productboard on the company’s Vancouver office origin story and tech’s talent crunch

Trulioo acquires Denmark’s HelloFlow to build winner-takes-all identity platform

The story of McMillan's 18-year support of Acetech

The auto marketplace that just raised $2.76M | The Morning Report

4 B.C. firms among recipients of $52.3M in federal cleantech funding

MintList steers the auto industry kicking and screaming into the future

Stock down. Exec-odus. No worries for Shahrzad Rafati

Despite an 80% stock drop, this CEO is unfazed | The Morning Report

🥫 The Secret Sauce to Hiring Tech Talent — Virtual Hiring Fairs

Why BBTV’s stock spiral doesn’t tell the whole story

A local VC puts his prediction cap on | The Morning Report

$70M invested into emission reduction projects from CleanBC Industry Fund

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Entrepreneurship in full Blume | The Morning Report

Paidia raised $5.57M in seed capital to grow its inclusive gaming platform

Vancouver-based Blume among first 5 startups backed by LOI Venture

‘The boundaries now really don’t exist’: How Deloitte’s $150M venture fund will impact startups in B.C.

The startup building a better business card | The Morning Report

Gastown-based Ovou gives the business card game a long-needed update

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Dapper Labs' co-founder comes out of the shadows | The Morning Report

Sam Gharegozlou's unlikely and inevitable journey into politics starts now

Telus's former 2IC's new venture | The Morning Reports

The Index: Vancouver's smartest 22 business and tech podcasts in 2022

Has Josh Blair found his calling with Impro.AI?

Grandpa has entered the chat | The Morning Report

‘You can be a global company and be based on Vancouver Island’: With acquisition of U.K.’s Credence, Victoria-based Certn is now a 270-person global operation

How 3 Vancouver tech companies are supporting caregivers

Grandpa has entered the chat: Telus is getting more seniors online

Boast unveils new brand and record growth one year after its $123M round

The future of tech real estate in Vancouver | The Morning Report

Vancouver is 16th in Startup Genome’s global cleantech ecosystem ranking

Unity Technologies acquires Ziva Dynamics for its character creation tech

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NPower to the people | The Morning Report

NPower Canada’s BC expansion gets underserved youth into tech careers

Opinion: Record immigration to Canada presents a win-win opportunity for talent-seeking tech companies

Another Series eh | The Morning Report

13 thoughts on innovation, people and the future of work

Ionomr raises $15M Series A funding round led by Shell Ventures and Finindus

As Ideon Technologies goes underground, its profile has never been higher

A look at Vancouver's wearable tech | The Morning Report

How Customer.io hired 5 senior software developers from VanHack’s virtual hiring fairs

With $70M investment, Canalyst plans to double its headcount

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A seed round for BC's startup of the year | The Morning Report

Scoop: Project collaboration platform Matidor raises $1.85M seed round

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27 Indigenous communities received over $3.8M for clean-energy projects in 2021

Dapper Labs co-founders and Clearco’s Michele Romanow among first LPs in LOI Venture Fund I

LA business meets BC culture | The Morning Report

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Unbounce acquires LeadsRx to help companies measure marketing performance

SHAPE up: How Apply Digital’s culture made it ripe for investment

Vancouver startups named among top companies to watch in 2022 | The Morning Report

6,500 startups applied. 7 got in and $125k

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The BC leader who doesn't believe in losers | The Morning Report

Why the Discovery Foundation partners with Acetech

Cymax CEO Rizwan Somji leaves it all on the table

A local proptech's $15M foundation for growth | The Morning Report

Updated: Tribe Property Technologies is raising $15M to fuel acquisitions

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A former BBTV exec finds his footing | The Morning Report

Former BBTV executive Ali Adab joins SoleSavy as chief content officer

It's 2022 | The Morning Report