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B.C. government invests $7.8 million in local life sciences
🎟️ Member discount: Sahil Bloom and Andrew Wilkinson live in Vancouver
Thriving in the digital era: Invest Vancouver's strategies for success
Lime thinks there’s juice in Vancouver’s mobility squeeze
🏙️ Vancouver's top-growing companies of 2023
🏙️ Playing to your strengths at #vtjtalks
New Ventures BC 2023: Meet the winners of $250K in cash and prizes
Biotech wins big at the Technology Impact Awards 2023
You're invited: Sahil Bloom live in Vancouver
New frontiers in urban innovation
Frontier Collective to run two summits to help spur investment and opportunity in Vancouver
🏙️ Vancouver Economic Commission shuttered by City officials
Confessions of a serial entrepreneur: Nicky Senyard
🏙️ We won't forget last Thursday night
An unfathomable leap forward in computing
🏙️ 40 years of World Trade Centre Vancouver
$33M for new BCIT Trades and Technology Complex
Thousands of jobs lost due to Vancouver industrial land shortage: report
🏙️ Opportunity to lead cleantech investment
The Index: Five companies repping Sea to Sky country
🏙️ How to grow your business in a shrinking market
🏙️ A surprise guest for #VTJLive
Spring acquires Future Capital in impact-driven link-up
Adauris chosen for Morgan Stanley’s Inclusive Ventures Labs
🏙️ LayerZero Labs sued for $21M by FTX
Nine notes: Vancouver Economic Commission’s summer report
🎟️ Member discount: Jason Fried live in Vancouver
🏙️ AI startup snags six figures
AI startup Circleback raises $125K
🏙️ Midweek Memo: In office with an angel
Industry insights: How AI will revolutionize mining
🏙️ Longreads for the long weekend
New Ventures BC 2023: Meet the top 10
🏙️ Midweek Memo: A founders-only event
Stylish shoe brand Casca Footwear acquired by Unity Brands
VANTEC is modernizing investing in Vancouver
Watchlist: 8 companies of scale to watch grow
🏙️ Trulioo has an update for you
🏙️ Midweek Memo: VTJ Live in one month
Blanka raises $2M seed round to grow its beauty and wellness platform
UVX embarks on $2.8M project in Nova Scotia
How good was Vancouver’s VC funding in the first half of 2023?
🏙️ Heads up if you're working in AI...
You're invited: Jason Fried live in Vancouver
How Vancouver tech is supporting the City of Nanaimo
🏙️ $1.1 billion for Squamish company
Browse AI raises $3.8M to scrape data from websites
🏙️ You're invited: Vancouver Tech Journal Live with 37signals' Jason Fried
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Join us for Office Hours
Government of Canada releases Powering Canada Forward
Inside Eventmobi’s Run The World acquisition with co-founder Bijan Vaez
🏙️ Tech investment bank opens in Vancouver
Cheatsheet: How do Vancouver investors approach climatetech?
🏙️ $20M for Burnaby businesses
Three Vancouver AI startups that raised capital in 2023
General Fusion reactor will be built in Richmond
🏙️ Science World sparkles again
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Cleantech mixer next week
How Vancouver could lose the global hydrogen race
Merchant Growth’s Tabit partners with Jifiti
🏙️ Why you're not seeing local news anymore
CleanBC Go Electric ARC program invests $5M in clean transportation
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Tech celebrates Pride
You can no longer read news on Facebook and Instagram in Canada
Vancouver company fined for not disclosing paid promotional social media posts
🏙️ Last quarter's funding trends in B.C.
Nine notes: report lists Vancouver in top spot for tech growth
🏙️ A Vancouver pump and dump? | Sunday Briefing
Watching sports illegally just got harder
🏙️ YVR to YOW | Morning Report
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Your next events
Figuring out the carbon market with Danny Takhar
Tradable Bits and MLSE Digital Labs to launch sports arcade games
🏙️ Local tech responds to a national strike | Morning Report
Cheatsheet: BC Tech’s inaugural Hall of Fame inductees
🏙️ VTJ events beyond downtown Vancouver?
“Companies don't grow if people don't grow.”
🏙️ Join your members-only Slack channel
Fuel Vancouver's Tech Ecosystem
Diraj Goel, the downturn whisperer
🏙️ Vancouver's newest data centre | Morning Report
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Your invite to join
Reworkd AI secures $1.65M in funding in a very Vancouver story
Working with BCIT Computing students: three cool examples from local organizations
Vivian Liu is Making Auto Easy
🏙️ Updates to your VTJ membership | Morning Report
Dapper Labs lays off 51 in third major cut since November
🏙️ Introducing your online VTJ community
Canadian tech's next challenge is public perception and general awareness
What Canada's new immigration updates mean for you
🏙️ 30 years of Stemcell Technologies
🏙️ Midweek Memo: End of the AI hype?
🏙️ It’s Moment Energy’s moment
Arca removes carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, one mine at a time
🏙️ A familiar face at a national organization
A second life for chopsticks at Chopvalue
Unveiling Metro Vancouver's Global Competitiveness: Insights from Invest Vancouver's Journeys
🏙️ Toronto tech is coming for Vancouver
Bosch plans acquisition of Vancouver-founded Paladin
🏙️ Rivian's new showroom is where in Vancouver?
Vancouver’s quantum computing industry is on the rise
🏙️ Midweek Memo: The year in tech so far
🏙️ Motivated by #MotivateVancouver
PacifiCan puts nearly $13M into local businesses
Launch of BC’s net-zero strategy sees role for Vancouver cleantech
🏙️ No more staying up until 2:00 a.m.
📸 Your personal photoshoot is scheduled
The biggest stories of 2023 so far
🏙️ Is Vancouver competitive among its global peers?
Zafin winner of Microsoft partner award
Tell us what you want from your Vancouver Tech Journal membership
Provincial innovation builders launch the BC Technology Ecosystems Network
🏙️ Google goes gaga for OneCup AI
New Ventures BC 2023: Meet the top 25
🏙️ An online group for the Vancouver tech community?
Where you’ll find us next week: Collision conference
Minutebook raises $3.5 million from multiple Vancouver-based investors
Yacht party a reflection of Calgary’s startup spirit
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Five free tickets
“Zebras build what unicorns break”: How a tech co-op saves lives
🏙️ Halfway through 2023: how are tech companies feeling?
13 thoughts on the intersection of tech and fatherhood
Josh Nilson has a lot on his mind
Meet the 2023 Technology Impact Award nominees
🏙️ Guess where Vancouver tech ranked globally
Burnaby highschooler wins Apple’s Swift Student Challenge
Vancouver is the 30th-best startup ecosystem in the world
'We need to invite capitalism to the table': How agtech can take on climate change
🏙️ Midweek Memo: The year in Vancouver tech so far
GameOn scores $1.7 million investment for new Web3 gaming platform
🏙️ Is Microsoft relocating top AI workers from China to Vancouver?
Meet the Vancouver innovators on the Misties Awards shortlist
🏙️ City of Vancouver hiring Chief AI Officer
Mayor Ken Sim to hire Chief AI Officer for the City of Vancouver
How BC-ers can celebrate Clean Transportation Month
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Your post-layoff finances
TELUS investing $129 million in Vancouver through 2027
Platformatic raises $3.5M for its backend development platform
Industry insights: how AI will revolutionize healthcare
🏙️ Your ticket to the Olympics of Tech
New Ventures BC announces competitors advancing to the next rounds
🏙️ Who's moved where in Vancouver?
Vancouver’s voluntary carbon market innovators
🏙️ B.C. businesses shouldering $6.5 billion in government cost increases, says report
Vancouver’s tech industry is key to Canada’s relationship with Indo-Pacific
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Get ready to see these faces.
How B.C.-based startup, VodaSafe, overcame a cash crunch caused by COVID
🏙️ Innovate West conference announced amid buzz over large-scale events
VRIFY raises $6 million Series A
🏙️ Non-dilutive funding is out there
Where we’ll be: Vancouver Startup Week
🏙️ AI agent Cognosys raises $2 million seed round led by Google Ventures
How OneComply and GeoComply became one
🏙️ Fintech startup Hiive makes its homecoming
🏙️ Midweek Memo: We've got more AI for you.
How tech will influence marketing in the next year
🏙️ Relic Entertainment lays off 121 employees
Sanctuary AI is one step closer to building human-like robots
Redefining the future of AI at a groundbreaking Vancouver conference
🏙️ Local AI to take us further, faster
🏙️ Credit card fees are going down for Vancouver's small businesses
Frontier Collective to rally Vancouver delegation in Toronto for Collision conference
🏙️ This electric truck is coming to a road near you
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Super early access to #vtjtalks
Making Auto Easy wins Vancouver pitch competition on Startup Canada Tour
🏙️ B.C. underwear maker Saxx literally links up
🏙️ CEO Raghwa Gopal has unexpectedly left Innovate BC
Withe announces USD $1.1M pre-seed raise
Second-hand marketplace with smart contract payments launches in beta
The index: Musings from 13 entrepreneurial mothers
🏙️ Absolute Software to be acquired by private equity firm for $870 million
Meet the 16 startups featured at entrepreneurship@UBC’s Investor Showcase
🏙️ Vancouver tech needs industrial land
Zero-waste packaging through Reusables.com and ShareWares
🏙️ Midweek Memo: How to plan an exit strategy
🏙️ Inside Asset Market’s Angels for Climate Solutions win
🏙️ The B.C. investment trend you need to know
Cheatsheet: Vancouver’s role in B.C.’s carbon management
GeoComply acquires fellow Vancouver-based company, OneComply
🏙️ What does India's rise mean for Vancouver tech?
The many titles of Anna Sainsbury
🏙️ How to advance tech with First Nations
Investing in Vancouver’s early-stage cleantech and climatetech
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Your next hire will be at Vancouver Startup Week
🏙️ Vancouver’s Quickpass rebrands to CyberQP, raises $12M
VodaSafe takes home the top prize at The Odlum Brown Forum Pitch Finale
🏙️ Healthcare startup? There's support for that.
🏙️ Building with AI? There's funding for that
Creative Destruction Lab’s alumni raise Series A and B capital
CEO Raghwa Gopal to leave Innovate BC
🏙️ The B.C. government is on a spending spree
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Four opportunities to transform your business
Asset Market takes Angels for Climate Solutions crown
🏙️ Province and Prince Rupert promote pure port
🏙️ A good time to raise seed money
Nine notes: Vancouver as life sciences hub
🏙️ What happens when AI writes the news?
🏙️ $142 million for biotech venture Abdera Therapeutics
CoPilot AI builds amidst economic turbulence
Why VTJ is Sweatin’ for Science
🏙️ Hootsuite has entered the AI conversation
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Deloitte Canada launches the 2023 Technology Fast 50
🏙️ A 30-year overnight success story
Surrey’s clean technology sector is bigger than you think
Yield Exchange announces $700K pre-seed raise
🏙️ $10 million investment into a thriving Vancouver industry
Confessions of a serial entrepreneur: Rob Bakshi
🏙️ A giveaway you won't want to miss
🏙️ The best tech predictions you'll read for Vancouver in 2023
Nearing its 30th birthday, Safe Software rebrands
🏙️ Is enough funding going into local agtech?
Repurposing EV batteries with Moment Energy
Threats of a TikTok ban are a wake-up call for creators. Here's how they can prepare.
🏙️ Midweek Memo: five free tickets for VTJ members
Optimism for Vancouver’s VR and AR community
🏙️ Meet the latest local Y Combinator startups
Watchlist: Six AI companies you need to see in Vancouver
🏙️ Has the crypto winter thawed in Vancouver?
Meet the Web3 founder making blockchain mainstream
🏙️ What happens when the city's technology fails?
How Vancouver-based language app LingQ evolves in a changing market
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Events szn in full bloom
🏙️ LayerZero’s value zaps up to $3B
Vancouver women proudly take up space in Web3
🏙️ Landmark deal merges three Canadian crypto platforms
Watchlist: Seven Vancouver-based startups here to help parents
ChopValue announces $7.7M in growth financing
🏙️ Local tech awards season begins: who won big?
Meet the winners of 2023’s B.C. Cleantech Awards
🏙️ Vancouver UX Awards opens the season of celebration
Startups set to compete for $250,000 in cash and prizes in the New Ventures BC Competition
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Apply to speak at our AI showcase
Inflation is putting pressure on Metro Vancouver businesses
Instant talent: Post your tech roles and instantly preview qualified candidates
🏙️ Maclean’s mulled these Metro Vancouver movers and shakers
Vancouver Startup Week is back in a big way
🏙️ Are robots coming for your job?
Cheatsheet: B.C.’s hydrogen production pathways
pH7 Technologies raises $16M USD Series A co-led by Pangaea Ventures
🏙️ Your Vancouver job hunt solved
🏙️ Get a piece of B.C.'s $500 million fund
🏙️ B.C. Securities Commission isn't doing enough, says UN report
16 influential women to headline next week’s WomenInWeb3 Summit on March 27-28
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Do you know the Entrepreneur of the Year?
The world is watching: Frontier Collective brings Vancouver to SXSW
Further funding for Vancouver’s Dyne
AI in Vancouver is transforming small-scale agriculture
🏙️ A warmer world is an opportunity for Vancouver tech
Aspect Biosystems, Klue amongst cohort receiving $25.7M from PacifiCan
Cheatsheet: Your Metro Vancouver climatetech ecosystem
Operto Guest Technologies raises USD $25 Million Series B
🏙️ Looking for a job in Vancouver tech? Let us know.
🏙️ Nominations are open for the B.C. Innovators Hall of Fame
Moment Energy and Invest Vancouver among 50 BC Cleantech Award nominees for 2023
Fantuan is Metro Vancouver’s multimillion dollar tech secret
🏙️ Federal AI regulation: what you need to know
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Karn Manhas steps down as CEO of Terramera
Exclusive: Cologix brings AWS Outposts to its Vancouver data centres
🏙️ Who’s moving where in Metro Vancouver?
Karn Manhas steps down as CEO of Terramera
🏙️ Turning disaster into opportunity
The Index: 12 creator economy leaders to know
Vancouver tech responds to Silicon Valley Bank collapse
🏙️ What the Silicon Valley Bank collapse means for Vancouver tech
WomenInWeb3 Summit to elevate local talent, startups
🏙️ How is Vancouver's economy faring?
Zenhub raises $10M Series A led by Yaletown Partners
🏙️ Are you B.C.'s best new venture?
🏙️ Midweek Memo: New Ventures BC applications, Canada Soccer, and #vtjtalks
Making space for more women in tech
🏙️ Musings from an imperfect ally
International Women’s Day 2023: Events around Vancouver
Exclusive: Wattch is creating a new revenue arm for streaming
🏙️ How to get provincial recognition for your company
#vtjtalks: Where innovators meet
Nine notes: Latest VC data crystallizes Vancouver tech’s threats and opportunities
SoleSavy’s new venture will empower creators to enter the sneaker market
🏙️ Meet the Vancouver leaders making local change
Innovation Plaza opens at SFU Surrey campus
🏙️ Vancouver welcomes one of Europe's largest AI labs
Businesses respond to the B.C. Budget 2023
🏙️ The B.C. TikTok ban, explained
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Morning Tech Coffee location, FounderFuel, and awards
Meet the Angels for Climate Solutions’ top 10 companies
🏙️ The clout continues for Vancouver’s Covalent
Vancouver’s Black tech leaders are creating local change
🏙️ Dapper Labs lays off another 20 percent of its workforce
Abbotsford Innovation Network launches with inaugural event
🏙️ Did I see you at an event this week?
🏙️ Want to get your startup on TV?
Covalent partners with Coinbase to launch blockchain network
🏙️ Dapper Labs could be in legal hot water
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Local jobs, pre-seed funding opportunities, and a tech social
No more boarding cards? YVR to start scanning your face
🏙️ Need funding? Just ask the government.
Canada’s Sustainable Jobs Plan: what you need to know
🏙️ For you, we sold out the Vogue theatre
🏙️ Fintech venture Goose closes $4 million Series A
"The people here are incredible." — How (and why) to get a job at Moment Energy
🏙️ Chinese spy balloon versus Vancouver tech
🏙️ Midweek Memo: the creator economy, male allies, and tech socials
Maninder Dhaliwal is investing in scalable founders
🏙️ Who will be Canada’s next promising healthtech startup?
John de Jonge wants CubicFarms back on the “path to profitability”
🏙️ A $125 million love affair with B.C. innovation
The Index: 11 climatetech leaders shaping B.C. for the better
🏙️ More layoffs, but more investment
#MFMVancouver: My First Million, live in Vancouver
🏙️ Mayor Ken Sim pokes at the Big Four
Meet the Vancouver delegation taking frontier tech to the U.S.
Form lays off 18 as Vancouver tech cuts continue
🏙️ How Vancouver’s PDFTron became Apryse
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Speed dating, exec changes at Svante, and a trade mission
Vancouver dips its toes into the Web3 gaming scene
🏙️ (More) Vancouver investors for Vancouver companies
Moving away from fossil fuels: B.C. First Nations fight for clean energy technology
Why substance is eclipsing style in B.C.’s tech jobs market
🏙️ An international opportunity for Vancouver's female leaders
Watchlist: Vancouver’s hottest companies in 2023
🎁 Your VTJ member perks have arrived!
🏙️ Early stage VC is coming to B.C.
Hiive wants to bring transparency to the private equity secondary market
🏙️ How Vancouver’s Trulioo is constantly evolving
Federal and provincial governments invest $7.5 million in B.C. cleantech
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Made-in-B.C. cleantech, 7 promotions, $6M in funding
Fintech company Levr.ai raises $1M pre-seed
🏙️ An oversubscribed round for Vancouver venture capital
🏙️ Money for unemployed donkeys navigating the perils of a post-industrial society
Learn local leaders’ top three traits
Hot or Not for 2023? Investing predictions from an angel investor
"I’m definitely Visier-blooded." — How (and why) to get a job at Visier
🏙️ Vancouver investors for Vancouver companies
Mayor Ken Sim speaks: “Vancouver is open for business”
🏙️ Midweek Memo: The next must-attend IRL events, and funding for cleantech
Traction on Demand’s spinout Traction Complete secures USD $5M
🏙️ Here's which Vancouver industry will flourish in 2023
The Index: 14 all-stars ascending AI
Tiny is going public by merging with TSX-V traded WeCommerce
🏙️ It's not all doom and gloom, right?
🏙️ Calgary's tech scene: Competition or complementary?
Vancouver’s energy future looks cleaner, greener, and carbon-emission free
🏙️ 'Is Vancouver tech all hype?' Reddit responds
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Tech socials, founder drinks, climatetech, and more
Klue acquires DoubleCheck to advance win-loss analysis
🏙️ Lessons from Elon for local climatetech
Tech PR firm Switchboard acquired by Earnscliffe Strategies
CubicFarms-partnered project receives $1.2M from CFIN
🏙️ Six significant sustainability solvers
How Vancouver tech workers work
🏙️ Our writing as (moderately) summarized by AI for your ears
Terramera raises USD $6M in seed funding and grows executive team
🏙️ Through the looking glass(door)
🏙️ Midweek Memo: Victoria luncheon, Calgary capital, and a Vancouver party
Inside Tribe Property Technologies’ acquisitive 2022
It’s all about trust: How media reporting on tech differs between Canada and the United States
🏙️ Why traditional enterprises need to watch Vancouver Web3
Lunch with Shane Parrish, Ben Wilson, David Senra, and friends
Thinkific lays off 76 workers in latest round of cuts for the company
Alexander Dungate is changing the way we fish
🏙️ Ritchie Bros acquires transportation technology company VeriTread
Vancouver tech’s uncertain future
How the accomplishments and lessons of 2022 will shape B.C. tech in 2023
🏙️ Local tech trends to watch in 2023