Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks has added two organizations based in British Columbia as its latest members.
New Ventures BC and Innovate BC have joined CENGN, immediately adding benefits to the Centre’s Living Lab Initiative.
Designed to help...
Two companies based in British Columbia are receiving provincial support to deploy technology aimed at strengthening backup power reliability for general aviation aircraft in the region.
Up to $1 million through B.C.’s Integrated Marketplace is earmarked for Abbotsford-based Fast Air...
Markus Villig was 19 in 2013, fresh out of high school in Tallinn, and frustrated with how hard it was to get a reliable taxi in his own city. He borrowed €5,000 from his family to build a first...
Estonia’s population stood at 1,360,745 at the start of 2026, according to Statistics Estonia. That is smaller than many single cities. Out of it has come ten companies that reached a billion-dollar valuation at some point in their history,...
Milda Mitkutė was changing apartments in Vilnius in 2008 and had more clothes than the new place could hold. Rather than throw them out, she wanted a way to pass them on to people she knew. A friend, the...
An hour disappears into the phone and the honest inventory afterwards runs to three items: a man cutting marble, somebody’s strong opinion about interest rates, a dog on a skateboard.
None of it is retained in any way worth having....
Vancouver’s Green Manganese announced recently that it has successfully completed initial metallurgical test work.
The startup’s closed-loop, water-based process recovers manganese and other minerals from low-grade ores and legacy and industrial tailings that conventional smelting cannot treat economically.
The test demonstrated that...
Three British Columbia startups will compete live for the Company of the Year – Startup Award at the 2026 Technology Impact Awards Gala.
BC Tech selected Lite-1 Bio, Tersa Critical Minerals and Viridis following its annual Dragons’ Den Pitch Night,...
Nobody opens a packet of crisps at 11pm after carefully weighing the options. It happens somewhere between the third bad email and the tenth refresh of a feed that never has anything good on it.
The standard explanation is willpower....
For a week from 21 September, thousands of founders, venture capitalists, policymakers and startup enthusiasts come together at over 100 sessions, right across Tech Central and NSW – with the aim of improving the dialogue between startups, government and...
