The seven-year-old scaleup targets small businesses, which can earn loyalty points on payments including rent, suppliers, utilities and taxes, paid by credit card or bank transfer.
Founded in 2019 by Damien Waller, Edward Alder and Grant Austin – the former...
The claim that the planet cannot be saved without moving beyond capitalism is one of the more consequential arguments in climate politics, and it is contested by serious people on more than one side. It is worth setting out...
Is there a version of you whose brain can’t actually tell the difference between a breakup and a burn?
In 2011, a research team put that question to forty people who had just been through one — an unwanted breakup,...
The race to be crowned British Columbia’s top early-stage tech startup is down to 10 companies.
After seven months of pitches, coaching, and judging rounds, New Ventures BC has named the finalists in its 2026 competition.
The cohort spans health sciences,...
A job offer can be generous on paper and still ask for something the salary does not replace.
That tension sits at the centre of a 2025 study connecting three parts of experience that are usually measured separately: self-reported happiness,...
A crowded room can become socially empty before anyone has said a word.
Not because the people in it are necessarily unfriendly. The problem can begin one step earlier, when each person is privately willing to listen, help or talk...
A University of British Columbia astronomer who has identified thousands of possible worlds beyond our solar system is the featured guest on the latest episode of Innovation UBC’s Beaker Banter podcast.
Dr. Michelle Kunimoto joins host Dr. Marissa Lithopoulos for...
Ritchie Bros. is putting more of its global heavy-equipment marketplace into buyers’ pockets with the launch of a redesigned mobile app.
The Vancouver-born company, now part of RB Global, says the update transforms its app from a browsing companion into...
A video call freezes for less than a second. The candidate’s smile stalls while the voice continues. A doctor’s mouth jumps forward to catch up with the sound. A financial adviser’s face briefly dissolves into blocks.
Everyone knows the person...
Galileo Ventures — a firm boasting offices in Melbourne, Sydney, and San Francisco — has closed its second major fund ‘Expansion’ with Innovation Victoria signing up as a flagship local investor.
Fund II is expanding — hence the name —...
