| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.04.2025 | New Brunswick Agtech Targets Fertilizer Emissions in New Ontario Pilot | Foresight Canada and the Ontario Soil Network (OSN) have named Picketa Systems, a New Brunswick agtech company, as the winners of the Next-Gen Nitrogen Challenge. Picketa Systems’ proprietary LENS technology delivers real-time, data-driven ... |
| 07.11.2024 | Canada’s 50 Most Investible Cleantech Companies Have Been Announced | Foresight Canada has announced Canada's top 50 cleantech ventures from coast to coast.
Foresight Canada unveils the names of Canada's top cleantech ventures of 2024. VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA, November 7, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Foresight Ca... |
| 24.09.2024 | Investing in CleanTech Innovation: NBIF’s Climate Impact Fund | Innovation Partnerships Manager
The global climate crisis, while a pressing challenge, also presents a unique opportunity for innovation. As the world seeks sustainable solutions, there’s a growing demand for groundbreaking clean technologi... |
| 18.09.2024 | $1 Million Award for Carbon Reduction Solutions in Mining Operations | VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mining is an essential driver of our society, with the raw materials it provides embedded into almost every aspect of modern life. From mined materials used in applications ran... |
| 25.07.2024 | Aurora Hydrogen: Over $4 Million Raised From Natural Resources Canada And NGIF Accelerator | Aurora Hydrogen, an Edmonton-based hydrogen technology company, was awarded $3 million in funding from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and $1+ million from the NGIF Accelerator to scale its production of low-carbon / low-cost hydrogen and ... |
| 12.12.2023 | Moment Energy Partners with Hydro Ottawa to Revolutionize Grid Management | Vancouver’s Moment Energy has announced its first ever end-to-end integration involving Hydro Ottawa and BluWave-ai to bring intelligent distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) capability to the distribution grid.
This marks a... |
| 16.03.2023 | Moment Energy and Invest Vancouver among 50 BC Cleantech Award nominees for 2023 | The nominees for the 4th annual BC Cleantech Awards have been released. The 50 finalists span categories such as startups, ecosystem pioneers, corporate partners and funders.
Chosen from over 200 submissions, they are innovators, industry l... |
| 16.02.2023 | 🏙️ Midweek Memo: the creator economy, male allies, and tech socials | Welcome to the Midweek Memo: a weekly digest of the city’s top tech events, personnel moves, job openings, and industry opportunities. In this issue, read about big changes at Thinkific, our March #vtjtalks event, and eight other opportunit... |
| 08.02.2023 | 🏙️ Midweek Memo: Speed dating, exec changes at Svante, and a trade mission | Welcome to the Midweek Memo, a weekly digest of the city’s top tech events, moves, job openings, and industry opportunities. In this issue, read about #vtjtalks: The Future of the Creator Economy, job opportunities at some of Vancouver’s ho... |
| 18.12.2022 | 🏙️ Vancouver tech's not done yet | Hands up if you’re still hard at work!
The "let's circle back after the holidays" season might have officially begun, but the Vancouver tech sector missed the memo. It’s been a huge week in news, from the announcement of InBC’s fi... |
| 15.12.2022 | C-Green’s wins CMPC Pulp Mill Sludge Efficiency Challenge! | C-Green’s wins CMPC Pulp Mill Sludge Efficiency Challenge!
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C-Green has been selected by CMPC, one of the world's largest pulp and paper companies, and Foresight Canada, Canada’s cleantech acce... |
| 14.12.2022 | 🏙️What Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy means for Vancouver tech | Happy Wednesday. Welcome to the Morning Report. If someone else sent you this, you can subscribe right here, right now:
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Canada may share a border with the world’s largest economy — just last week I wrote about how local founders f... |
| 02.12.2022 | FREDsense named one of Canada’s most investable cleantech ventures by Foresight Canada | Maker of field-ready water quality test kits named one of Canada’s most investable cleantech ventures for changing the way the world monitors water quality
The team at FREDsense is thrilled to be honored as one of Foresight’s 50 most invest... |
| 02.12.2022 | Foresight announces Canada’s 50 most investable cleantech companies | Last night, a packed house at the Shangri-La was host to Canada’s future cleantech leaders and investors. Nearly 50 ventures from across the country were selected as the country’s most investable cleantech companies for 2022, as chosen by a... |
| 01.12.2022 | FREDsense receives Top 50 cleantech award from Foresight SDG | Maker of field-ready water quality test kits named most investable cleantech venture for changing the way the world monitors water quality
The team at FREDsense is thrilled to be honored as one of Foresight’s top 50 Canadian cleantech ventu... |
| 18.09.2022 | $46M for Indigenous businesses | When I was a co-op student at Innovate BC, you could have told me the Technology Impact Awards were on par with The Emmys. It took me a few years, but when I attended my first TIAs last year, I got what all the fuss was about. Now you can s... |
| 01.08.2022 | 👀 Why Softbank, Snap and Mitsubishi are coming to town | Hey, it’s William. I hope you’re using this extra day to relax. I know I will be… mostly. I’ll be catching up on emails (probably from some of you) before watching a bunch of Netflix or TikTok videos later. Anyway, although the week ahead i... |
| 10.07.2022 | From Toronto (and Zurich) with love | The Sunday Briefing | You’d be forgiven for thinking the VTJ team are globetrotters. This morning, we have dispatches from Toronto and Zurich for you. Speaking for myself, Switzerland was delightful yet it feels great to be home. That exhale when the return flig... |
| 23.05.2022 | 📈 From $500 to 60 employees and $10 million in annual revenue | Good morning and Happy #May24. Let’s hope the weekend’s sun stays with us a bit longer because there is a lot happening over the next few days. Here’s a sample from our new events calendar:
Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 24: Vancouver Tech Morning ... |
| 25.03.2022 | Terramera, Translink among winners of 2022 BC Cleantech Awards | It was a big night for those in the province trying to advance clean energy initiatives. Moderated by some guy named William Johnson and his sweater vest, the 2022 BC Cleantech Awards, presented by the country’s cleantech accelerator Foresi... |
| 21.02.2022 | An ex-Apple and Adobe exec bet on this B.C. business | Good morning! We have a big week on our hands that’s all about money. Tomorrow, February 22, it’s B.C. Budget Day. Then on Wednesday, it’s budget debrief day, both figuratively and literally with the Council of Canadian Innovators. And then... |
| 06.02.2022 | Stock down. Exec-odus. No worries for Shahrzad Rafati | Good morning! I invite you to join me for a conversation with Jill Earthy, CEO of InBC, the province’s new $500 million strategic investment fund. It’s part of #VTJLive, a new series of talks with local tech leaders on Twitter Spaces, and i... |
| 11.01.2022 | Opendoor Technologies : $7.7M for this Burrata - Sunday Briefingg | Good morning everyone. You're all invited to join me and Codex at the Homekey co-working space this Wednesday night. The occasion: A retrogaming and tech social hangout so we can all forget about the weather, play some Super Smash, and inev... |
| 12.12.2021 | 🤑 $7.7M for this Burrata | Good morning everyone. You’re all invited to join me and Codex at the Homekey co-working space this Wednesday night. The occasion: A retrogaming and tech social hangout so we can all forget about the weather, play some Super Smash, and inev... |
| 09.12.2021 | 8 BC cleantech firms secure seed funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada | As part of its Seed Fund Program, Sustainable Development Technology Canada announced funding of $3.8M for 38 promising new cleantech companies across Canada. Eight of the companies are BC-based.
The Seed Fund Program supports promising ear... |
| 01.12.2021 | A consortium of partners are preparing to launch the National Clean Technology « Scale-ups » Program | National Partners Prepare to Launch Canada’s Cleantech Scale-up Program
Training and Support to Create 25 Climate Ventures Valued at $1B by 2030
December 1st 2021. Four partners – Apexe Global (a Startup Genome initiative), Climate Ventur... |
| 28.11.2021 | 👩💼The woman who engineered a $1B exit | Good morning everyone. Welcome to the hundreds of new readers with us this Sunday. As we get closer to the end of the year, I keep telling myself that things will slow down. But I think I’m going to stop saying that now because, as this wee... |
| 23.11.2021 | 18 BC companies featured in Foresight 50 | Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre unveiled the Foresight 50, a list of Canada’s most investable cleantech companies. The ventures—hailing from a variety of sectors including, aquatech, carbon solutions, hydrogen and renewable energy—we... |
| 07.11.2021 | 📰 The $800M SaaS company hiring a new media team | Good morning everyone. Welcome to the hundreds of new readers with us this week. I invite you to join me and my friends at Switchboard PR for a special Twitter Spaces online show where we’ll share tips for tech companies to tell their story... |
| 05.09.2021 | And then there were 10... | Happy Long Weekend—AKA Billions is back weekend. What’s that? You’ve never seen it? You’ve never heard of the critically-acclaimed Showtime series? Well then, you’re welcome.
With that out of the way, I’d like to say hello to the new subscr... |
| 29.08.2021 | Welcome to Unicorn County. Population: 9 | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new subscribers reading this Sunday. I invite you to stay connected with us all week on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. Better yet, join us for coffee (in person) to chat all things Vancouver tech this Tuesd... |
| 19.07.2021 | Leading Experts Weigh In On Growing Canada's Cleantech Sector Post Covid-19 | TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA - 2018/05/21: Aerial view of Lakeshore Boulevard including the Toronto Wind ... [+] Turbine. WindShare's ExPlace wind turbine was erected on December 18, 2002. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Ima... |
| 18.07.2021 | This startup 4X'd its VC funding in 4 months | The Sunday Briefing | Hello and happy weekend. There will be no long introduction from me this morning because we have a ton of stories to get through and I don’t want this email to get clipped in your inbox. So let’s just get into it!
Welcome to the new subscri... |
| 21.04.2021 | Opinion: Earth Day platitudes are a threat to our planet | As April 22 approaches, Marketing teams around the world are planning their Earth Day campaigns. Let’s create a video with the CEO. Get a quote from our head of Sustainability. Plan a social media campaign. Wrap it all together with a catch... |
| 11.04.2021 | Tech that gives everyone a chance to invest in real estate? | The Sunday Briefing | Good afternoon everyone. Congratulations, you’ve officially made it 100 days in to 2021. Among many compelling stories this week, I’m particularly excited about three. There are 12 Vancouver venture capital firms that have well-over $2 bill... |
| 19.02.2021 | B.C.'s cleantech elite: Elicia Maine, Julie Angus and Carol Wu among innovators recognized at awards ceremony | Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre announced the winners of the 2021 BC Cleantech Awards at a virtual awards ceremony on Thursday (February 18). 12 individuals and organizations were recognized for their contribution to British Columbia... |
| 13.12.2020 | Sunday Briefing | #120 | Welcome to this edition of the Vancouver Tech Journal Sunday Briefing, your bi-weekly roundup of Vancouver innovation stories and insights.
Last week, reporters explored the steep drop in local venture financing; the Vancouver company provi... |
| 01.11.2020 | Sunday Briefing | #117 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. It is written by William Johnson, an independent writer, communications advisor, and consultant based in Vanc... |
| 10.05.2018 | Accelerators targeting cleantech companies | They include Cleantech Open National, Cascadia CleanTech Accelerator and Elemental Excelerator
For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competition... |
| - | 🏙️ Midweek Memo: Super early access to #vtjtalks | Welcome to the Midweek Memo: a weekly digest of the city’s top tech events, personnel moves, job openings, and industry opportunities. This week, read about six local tech jobs, six business opportunities, and two big people moves.
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