Fuckup Nights reveal the honest side of entrepreneurship
How do you move on when your startup has blown through $1 million, with nothing to show for it? How do you pull the plug on…
Vancouver Startup Week panel explores what it really means to be an innovative startup
“Innovation has become a buzzword that has lost its meaning.” At least, that’s how the written program started out for…
Microdermics takes top prize in BCIC-New Ventures BC competition
Vancouver Startup Week kicked off with a bang, with New Ventures BC and the BC Innovation Council (BCIC) announcing their top…
Tech salaries are rising faster in BC than in rest of Canada
British Columbia’s tech leaders may be the first to complain about the dire need to attract local tech talent. Now it seems…
An inside look at Slack’s renovated Vancouver office
Working at Slack today is going to be like working for Microsoft or Facebook in their early days, says Slack co-founder and…
Finn.ai (formerly Payso) partners with ATB Financial to build banking chatbot
Vancouver-based FinTech startup Finn.ai announced this week that it is partnering with Alberta-based ATB Financial on the…
Biko wants to help Vancouver reach its goal of being world’s greenest city by 2020
Biko launched in Vancouver in the last days of summer, bringing its cyclist rewards app to one of the most bike-friendly cities…
DDB expands brand accelerator program across Canada
Tech startups looking to effectively connect customers with their brand have a new option. On Monday, the DDB Canada agency…
Here’s what Riipen COO Dave Savory learned after a year of scaling
Riipen is a Vancouver-based startup with a web platform that connects employers with top talent coming out of our post-secondary…
HitchPlanet drives past one million kilometre milestone, announces expansion
HitchPlanet, western Canada’s largest ridesharing startup, just celebrated a major milestone: one million kilometres shared…
BETTY bot wins first-ever Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Hackathon
At the first-ever Canadian Breast Cancer Hackathon, the BETTY Bot stood out like a bikini on an icy winter day. About 100 aspiring…
NetCents launches merchant payment solution aimed at fighting fraud with blockchain technology
Vancouver-based NetCents, which offers a bitcoin wallet to buy, sell, and transact bitcoin, has launched beta testing of its…
#TechVAN: Annalea Krebs on getting past bad startup days
As an entrepreneur, what was your worst day in a tech startup and how did you get past it? When do you pivot, and how do you…
Pokémon Go takes us back to the future of augmented reality
“Without the fun, none of us would go on.” That sentiment certainly describes the motivation behind countless blundering,…
BC’s most promising new healthtech companies kick off Hypergrowth program
HeadCheck Health, Navigate Surgical Technologies (NST), and ViewsIQ have been selected by Genome British Columbia and the BC…