Women with a business idea can now sign up for an online course from Liftwomen, covering the steps from testing customer demand to planning a launch.
The course, Zero to Hero: Start Your Business in 7 Days, is available through...
Vancouver-based Glüxkind has been named to TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026 for Rosa, its smart stroller designed to make everyday parenting a little easier.
The Parenting category selection recognizes a stroller that combines motor-assisted movement with features such as automatic...
It confirmed the worst suspicions of embittered Australian startup founders and small business owners.
We are an afterthought. We are not in consideration for serious Government funding, but if we’re lucky, someone at the top might throw down a...
The proposal deserves greater scrutiny because it treats health funding and innovation investment as competing priorities, when Victoria’s future healthcare capacity depends partly on the companies, technologies and jobs that patient capital helps create.
To a voter stuck on a...
NorthX’s Converge 2026 is expected to bring together more than 300 founders, investors, policymakers, researchers and industry partners in Vancouver on November 25 to explore what it takes to build and scale climate hard tech companies in Canada.
The gathering...
Shift Browser has launched an ad-blocking tool.
The Victoria-based startup, which unveiled its specialty Browser in 2025, says that the configurable Shift Blocker does not require an extension but rather is built in to the app.
“Our users come to Shift...
Artificial intelligence technology is being actively advanced by a slew of high-tech firms, who are constantly competing to remain ahead of an ever-steepening curve.
For everyday users, the pace of change can be disorienting, and differences between models can quickly...
B.C.’s Moment Energy is earning international recognition for giving electric vehicle batteries a second life.
The company’s Megafactory 1 in Surrey has been named to TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026. The recognition highlights a manufacturing model that turns retired EV...
The UNSW Founders 10x Accelerator just invested $1.6 million into 16 of the highest potential startups we met this year. Each of them receives $100,000 to help increase momentum, and three women founders from this group also each received an...
The 2026 Fintech Annual Census, a collaboration between RSM and FinTech Australia, recently surveyed 135 fintech businesses. Nearly half (47%) were profitable, while 66% generated more than $1 million in annual revenue.
Two-third (67%) were primarily selling to other businesses...
