It is a Tuesday in late autumn, and a couple in their sixties are eating pasta at a kitchen table they have shared for twenty-eight years. He refills her water without being asked. She slides the parmesan toward him...
For many hardware, deeptech, and science-based startups, building the first prototype is only half the battle. The harder question often comes next: where do you actually make the thing?
SFU VentureLabs and Manterra Technologies are hoping to make that answer...
The next time a kid in your neighbourhood sells lemonade, you may be able to tap your phone instead of digging for change.
That is the idea behind Lemonade Lab, a free BC-built platform founded by Dean Horsfield that helps...
The cursor blinks. The research is open in nine tabs, the coffee has gone lukewarm, and I have read enough to write a competent summary of the thing. What I do not have, yet, is the angle. That is...
A budget backlash has prompted Labor to announce new carve-outs for innovative firms from the capital gains tax, as well as a backdown on a minimum tax on testamentary trusts.
The existing 50% capital gains tax discount would be dropped...
The Australia Venture & Startup Report 2026 by Sydney VC Side Stage Ventures with Dealroom, Vercel, AWS and the Australian Investment Council looked at the past decade of the local VC-backed ecosystem. It’s now grown 13.7 times faster than...
In 2025, a nationally representative survey of 1,060 US teens found that 72% had tried an AI companion at least once and 52% used one regularly. Buried inside those headline numbers is the detail that unsettled the researchers: a...
You finish work, you close the laptop, and you tell yourself the evening is yours. Then it’s one in the morning and you are still scrolling, still half-thinking about the thing you didn’t finish, and the day somehow ended...
Most of us think we judge people piece by piece. Her work is one thing, her warmth another, his honesty a third, and we weigh each separately like a careful juror.
It is a flattering picture of how the mind...
Fast Company released its 2026 list of world-changing ideas, and a clean energy innovator based out of British Columbia stands among them.
Vancouver’s Svante Technologies is an integrated carbon management company founded in 2007 whose nano-engineered solid sorbent filter technology—which enables...
