| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.08.2024 | B.C. farmers getting more support to grow food using tech | CANADA, August 20 - B.C. farmers are getting help with adopting new labour-saving technologies that will enhance their profitability, productivity and efficiency, while helping to improve food security in the province.
Farmers can apply now... |
| 15.02.2024 | B.C.’s Integrated Marketplace supports partners for safer, greener airport | CANADA, February 15 - A new battery energy-storage system (BESS), developed by Coquitlam-based Moment Energy, will soon provide reliable, high-speed charging capacity for the public and fleet vehicles at the Vancouver International Airport ... |
| 10.01.2024 | 13 BC Companies Receive $2M Through IRAP & Innovate BC | Through provincial funding agencies such as Innovate BC and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP), 13 British Columbia cleantech companies received a combined $2M in Research & Develop... |
| 24.11.2023 | Canada, B.C. supporting B.C. farmers with access to technology | CANADA, November 24 - B.C. farmers looking to grow their businesses in the face of rising costs are getting support for accessing new technologies from items such as robotic and automated equipment, farm-management software and digital sens... |
| 18.07.2023 | New strategy to support B.C. businesses, protect ideas | CANADA, July 17 - Entrepreneurs and companies will soon have access to new resources to help them grow and protect their ideas and products with the launch of B.C.’s Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy.
As a key action in the StrongerBC Eco... |
| 01.05.2023 | Innovate BC is Igniting Innovation with $300,000 R&D Grant | VANCOUVER, B.C., May 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applications are now open for Innovate BC's Ignite program, which awards up to $300,000 to fund B.C.-based research and development projects that are creating game-changing innovations in th... |
| 01.05.2023 | Innovate BC is Igniting Innovation with $300,000 R&D Grant | - |
| 27.03.2023 | pH7 Technologies raises $16M USD Series A co-led by Pangaea Ventures | Photo: Unsplash
pH7 Technologies, a Burnaby-based cleantech startup, announced a USD $16 million Series A co-led by Vancouver firm Pangaea Ventures alongside Japanese corporate investor TDK Ventures. The company has designed closed-loop rec... |
| 22.01.2023 | 🏙️ It's not all doom and gloom, right? | If you’re wondering why you’ve been seeing our fantastic founder William Johnson in your inbox since the New Year, it’s because I’ve been on a boat in Antarctica. (Yes, seriously.) As well as being an indescribably beautiful location, it’s ... |
| 12.01.2023 | 🏙️ Midweek Memo: Victoria luncheon, Calgary capital, and a Vancouver party | 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 special upcoming events including a look into investment opportunities in Calgary, a can’... |
| 06.12.2022 | B.C. government commits $11.5M toward cleantech adoption | From left to right: Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery, and Innovation Ravi Kahlon; CPO and co-founder of cleantech company Moment Energy Gurmesh Sidhu; Vancouver Airport Authority president and CEO Tamara Vrooman; and Parliamentary Secret... |
| 30.09.2022 | Innovate BC Awards $2.3M to B.C. R&D Projects | Vancouver, B.C., Sept. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tonight at an awards ceremony in Vancouver, Innovate BC awarded $2,325,000 to eight B.C. research and development projects that are creating game-changing innovations that are improving li... |
| 02.05.2022 | Innovate BC now accepting applications for $300,000 R&D grant | Applications are open for the Innovate BC Ignite program for up to $300,000 to fund B.C.-based innovation projects that could help benefit people in the areas of natural resources, engineering and applied science.
The funding is awarded to ... |
| 02.05.2022 | Innovate BC Now Accepting Applications for $300,000 R&D Grant | Vancouver, British Columbia, May 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applications are open for the Innovate BC Ignite program for up to $300,000 to fund B.C.-based innovation projects that could help benefit people in the areas of natural resource... |
| 13.03.2022 | 🇩🇪 From East Berlin to B.C. | Good morning everyone. It’s Erin Gee here. I co-host the Bad + Bitchy Podcast where we discuss current events and pop culture through the lens of intersectional feminism, and I'm also one of VTJ’s special guest editors this month. Over the ... |
| 16.02.2022 | Cleantech, Indigenous communities prioritized with $2 million in B.C. government funding | Matt and Heather Clarke, Poseideon Ocean Systems founders
When it comes to startup building, a common phrase is that “ideas are worthless and execution is everything.” It speaks to the reality that the best entrepreneurs can’t just talk, th... |
| 05.12.2021 | 🦄 Meet BC's newest crypto unicorn | Good morning everyone. Welcome to the hundreds of new readers with us this Sunday. You’re invited to join me, the CEO of Visualping and the CTO of Opendoor at the final TechVancouver event of the year. It’s this Wednesday in Yaletown at 6pm... |
| 28.09.2021 | Switchboard recruits relish opportunity to help tell world-changing tech stories | Sponsored content: The Vancouver Tech Journal Bulletin Board provides our founding and supporting partners an avenue to share stories and updates with the BC innovation community.
As two of Switchboard Public Relations’ newest team members,... |
| 27.09.2021 | $29M earmarked for BC tech sector diversity, skills training programs | The BC government is expanding the Innovator Skills Initiative (IS), a program that provides funding for businesses to hire students or youth for tech-related roles.
The expansion will see the province partner with Innovate BC, which admini... |
| 19.08.2021 | 🎧 The state of Vancouver's tech scene | How did Vancouver Tech Journal get its start? What makes Vancouver a great place to build a startup? Why do we need to give research institutions more credit for BC-developed innovation? These are just a sample of the topics I get into on t... |
| 11.08.2021 | Fast Five: Is InBC, the $500 million taxpayer-funded investment fund, a startup? | In the Fall of 2021, the province teased details of InBC, a $500 million Strategic Investment Fund with a mandate “to help promising companies grow, while generating returns that benefit all British Columbians.” Then in April of this year, ... |
| 05.08.2021 | Feds invest $20M into Klue, FORM and 8 more BC innovators | Local MP Terry Beech announced that 10 BC companies will receive funding through Western Economic Diversification’s Business Scale-up and Productivity (BSP) program to grow emerging sectors. Together, the companies will receive a combined t... |
| 20.06.2021 | Canadian Forces fires funding into BC innovators | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this Sunday. Make sure to stay engaged all week by connecting with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the 1,300-member Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse app. If you’... |
| 17.06.2021 | Innovate BC fuels local R&D with $1M investment into 4 innovation projects | Dr. Katherine Elvira from the University of Victoria
Crown agency Innovate BC announced $1,075,000 awarded to four BC research and development projects. The funding, through its Ignite program, is accelerating the commercialization of the f... |
| 10.06.2021 | With $15M skills initiative, BC hopes to increase tech sector diversity | The BC government is investing $15 million in the Innovator Skills Initiative (ISI) to prioritize under-represented people in the technology sector.
The ISI offers $5,000 for up to 3,000 paid placements at businesses in BC that are hiring f... |
| 06.06.2021 | These innovators are stepping up to combat COVID and climate change | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this Sunday. Make sure to stay engaged all week by connecting with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the 1,100+ member Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse iOS/Android... |
| 13.04.2021 | Province invests $45 million into skills training programs | The Province announced that it’s investing almost $45 million into a series of programs that will provide 5,000 B.C. youth with access to skills training and job opportunities as part of a StrongerBC Future Leaders Program.
Why it matters: ... |
| 28.03.2021 | Just how big is Microsoft's investment in Vancouver talent? | The Sunday Briefing | Good afternoon and welcome to our new subscribers. Stay engaged all week by connecting with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse app.
If you’re not already on Clubhouse but want to be, please get in touch for... |
| 27.03.2021 | Microsoft Vancouver is adding the equivalent of 10 large B.C. tech companies | Microsoft Vancouver / Facebook
Microsoft announced that it’s adding more than 500 jobs to its Vancouver operations, bringing the company’s presence in the city to a whopping 1,700 employees spread across multiple offices. The roles will foc... |
| 24.11.2020 | Nanaimo's aDolus Technology wins the 2020 New Ventures BC Competition, takes home $135,000 in cash and prizes | aDolus Technology has been crowned the winner of the 2020 New Ventures BC Competition, presented by Innovate BC. The Nanaimo-headquartered cybersecurity startup took home more than $135,000 in cash and prizes, including the $115,000 Innovat... |
| 20.09.2020 | Sunday Briefing | #114 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
BCBusiness spotlights BarrelWise Technologies, a company that sits in the... |
| 17.09.2020 | Federal government, Innovate BC investing $2 million into BC tech pilot projects | The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) and Innovate BC have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to invest more than $2 million into 22 pilot projects being led by tech companies base... |
| 23.08.2020 | Sunday Briefing | #112 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
“Even in the COVID environment, B.C.’s tech companies continue to create ... |
| 29.07.2020 | BC RDA invests nearly $3 million in Innovate BC to help tech entrepreneurs recover from COVID-19 | The Government of Canada has invested $2.95 million CAD in Innovate BC for two programs to help British Columbia (BC) tech startups cope with the economic fallout of COVID-19.
The federal funding, distributed by Western Economic Diversifica... |
| 22.06.2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #107 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Vistara Capital's head of marketing shares three practical job hu... |
| 01.12.2019 | The Sunday Briefing | #84 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is the Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Amazon is leasing 1.1 million square feet of space—an entire city block with two office towers—wh... |
| 24.11.2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #83 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is the Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Fresh off of a $70m raise, Trulioo tapped Zac Cohen as COO. Cohen was formerly GM. “Under his lea... |
| 02.10.2019 | Accelerate Okanagan receives $213,000 to support its OKGN Angel Summit | Kelowna, BC-based tech startup accelerator, Accelerate Okanagan, is receiving $213,000 from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP).
“We have no doubt that this funding will have a signifi... |
| 17.07.2019 | Jetti Resources raises $642,000 for cleantech mining project | Jetti Resources, a natural resources tech startup based in Vancouver, has raised $642,000 in public funds, including a $492,500 investment from the federal government and $150,000 from Innovate BC for a mineral extraction research and devel... |
| 16.06.2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #66 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing: Etihad Airways taps a Vancouver startup for an AI-crowdsourcing solution; UBC launched Canada’s first-ever blockchain training path; a new venture fund to improve Indigenous outcomes; Lululemon’s extraordinar... |
| 26.05.2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #64 | In this week's Sunday Briefing, learn about UBC and Huawei's precarious position, Shahrzad Rafati's new job, why B.C.'s ridesharing debate continues to rage on, and where $2.5B in early-stage company financing could come from.
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| - | 🏙️ Midweek Memo: Four opportunities to transform your business | 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 our upcoming events with WeWork – a series of six business talks and socials — all ... |
| - | 🦸♀️ She had 24 jobs before she was 27 years old | Good morning! Somehow it’s March. How did that happen? We have no clue, but we’d like to find out. And you know what else we’d like to know? More about you, our reader. To that end, you’re invited to complete a short reader survey and help ... |
| - | Bulletin: Innovate BC invests $900k into research focused on bioplastics, mining and cancer treatments | Innovate BC announced $900,000 awarded for three BC research projects. The funding, through Innovate BC’s Ignite program, accelerates the commercialization of the following three cleantech, mining and biotech projects. All three projects re... |
| - | Innovate BC rekindles Ignite | Photo: Innovate BC.
Innovate BC is rekindling Ignite. Applications are now open for the program, which awards up to $300,000 to fund B.C.-based research and development projects that can transform the fields of natural resources, engineerin... |
| - | 🏙️ CEO Raghwa Gopal has unexpectedly left Innovate BC | Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the Morning Report. If someone else sent you this, you can subscribe right here, right now:
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Tech industry stalwart Raghwa Gopal, president and CEO of Crown corporation Innovate BC, is retiring early.
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| - | CEO Raghwa Gopal to leave Innovate BC | Photo: LinkedIn
Tech industry stalwart Raghwa Gopal has announced that he will retire from his position of CEO and President of Innovate BC in the fall. He has held the post since his appointment in February 2019, where he succeeded the org... |
| - | Bulletin: Poseidon Ocean Systems, ThisFish and Industrial Plankton split $325K in funding | Three BC aquaculture innovations were awarded a combined $325,000 in funding in Innovate BC’s inaugural Aquaculture Innovation Awards.
Who won what? Poseidon Ocean Systems and ThisFish both took home $150,000, and Industrial Plankton receiv... |
