Tech & Science
Last month, we told you about three very different companies competing to win the OKGN Angel Summit Finale. It almost sounded like the set up to a (very) belaboured joke: a smart vending machine startup, a metal monitoring platform, a...
Bringing up artificial intelligence is always a great way to divide the room. While some people love its transformative capabilities in terms of efficiency, decision making and opportunities for growth, others are spooked by its risks to jobs, privacy, security...
It seems like every time you turn around, there's another construction site popping up on UBC’s Vancouver campus. No doubt current (and former) students would agree that it’s hard to picture the university grounds without any cranes or bulldozers. But hey, it's all...
In spinoff terms, Zenhub is a lot more Frasier than Joey. The Vancouver-based company was spun out of local innovation studio Axiom Zen in 2014 to help developers with collaboration and project management in the internet hosting service GitHub. At first...
Prior to today, if you asked me the difference between traditional and dairy-free cheese, I’d say two things: 1) Dairy-free cheese doesn’t hurt cows and 2) Dairy-free cheese tastes worse. Like, a lot worse. Even the CEO of Burnaby-based Daiya, one of...
Inside the Vancouver Convention Centre on two windy afternoons in October, the fates of over 80 companies and their founders hang in the balance. In the coming months and years, some of the endeavours being pitched here will almost certainly...
What do a smart vending machine startup, a metal monitoring platform, a bed cooling system, a zero-waste grocery store, an app that connects motorcyclists and a business management toolkit for salons and stylists have in common? Well, as you can...
"As consumers, we don’t ever see the food that’s wasted at the farm level,” says Carissa Campeotto, co-founder and CMO at Burnaby-based robotics company Trendi Tech. A year after incorporating her business of upcycling misfit fruits and vegetables into shelf-stable...
On Family Day, I walked into Lobe Studio for a guided sound journey that promised to take me and 30 other visitors To the Moon. Lobe is a spatial sound studio on 713 East Hastings Street with an integrated 4DSound system—a technology...
Last year, tech coalition Frontier Collective announced plans to position Vancouver as Canada’s tech capital by 2030. Specializing in subjects like Web3, the metaverse, VR/AR, AI and animation, it seems to be following through on its ambition, as the group is...