| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.05.2025 | Veritree: A Green Revolution in Nature Restoration | In a world grappling with climate change, Veritree emerges as a beacon of hope. This Vancouver-based platform has pledged to plant 100 million trees, a monumental commitment that speaks volumes about its vision for a greener planet. Recentl... |
| 20.05.2025 | veritree: $6.5 Million Series A Raised And 100 Million Trees Pledged | veritree, a platform focused on verified nature restoration, announced it has reached a landmark milestone of 100 million trees pledged across its global projects, from Kenya to the U.S. to Canada. The news comes along with a $6.5 million S... |
| 14.05.2025 | veritree Closes $6.5M Series A Financing | veritree, a Vancouver, Canada-based provider of a platform improving verified nature restoration, raised $6.5M in funding.
The round was led by Pender Ventures, with participation from Garage Capital, Northside Ventures, and Diagram.
The co... |
| 26.03.2025 | Catio's $3M Funding: A New Dawn for Tech Architecture | In the fast-paced world of technology, decision-making can feel like navigating a labyrinth. Enter Catio, a Palo Alto-based startup that just secured $3 million in funding to revolutionize tech architecture. This isn’t just another funding ... |
| 25.03.2025 | Catio Secures $3M to Revolutionize Tech Decision Making with AI-Powered Intelligence | The first AI Copilot for tech architecture is transforming how CTOs, architects, and developers at enterprises and scale-ups plan and optimize world-class tech stacks.
Catio, the first AI-powered Copilot for tech architecture, has secured $... |
| 19.01.2025 | Alberta's Tech Investment Surge: A New Era for Startups | Alberta is on the rise. The province is becoming a beacon for technology startups, thanks to strategic investments from the Alberta Enterprise Corporation (AEC). Recently, AEC has made significant moves, pouring millions into venture capita... |
| 16.01.2025 | Alberta Enterprise Corporation invests $5 million into Pender Ventures Fund II | AEC expands investment options for Alberta’s B2B enterprise technology startups with $5M investment into Pender Ventures’ second fund.
EDMONTON, January 16, 2024 – Alberta Enterprise Corporation (AEC) announced today that it has invested CA... |
| 16.11.2023 | Pender Ventures secures $10 million investment from InBC to support B2B software and healthtech start-up ecosystem | - |
| 26.03.2023 | 🏙️ Your Vancouver job hunt solved | Last week, I asked how many of you are hunting for a job. Turns out there’s more than you’d think. More than 60 percent of you who voted are looking for something new, while only four percent wouldn’t consider a change. (For the record, 22 ... |
| 24.01.2023 | Traction on Demand’s spinout Traction Complete secures USD $5M | Traction Complete CEO David Nelson (photo supplied).
Traction Complete, a Port Moody-based spinout of Traction on Demand, announced the closing of its first substantial funding: USD $5 million in growth financing led by Vancouver's Pender V... |
| 08.01.2023 | 🏙️ 'Maybe even a unicorn?' | As we kick off 2023, we’re not just revisiting some of the top tech news in Vancouver; we’re also tipping our cap to the growing communities that border both sides of our city. There’s a $5 billion innovation economy in Victoria, as well as... |
| 21.09.2022 | Feeling social? | We hope you’re joining us tonight for our SaaS-focused #vtjtalks event. But, if you’re not, good news: the next one is right around the corner. On September 29, you’ll hear from The New York Times’ tech reporter Tripp Mickle. Grab your tick... |
| 14.09.2022 | 🎟️ #vtjtalks: You're invited | It’s not easy to predict the future. I do it to moderate success in my weekly fantasy football pick ‘em pool. Yet today, I’ll try to predict which tech community event you’re most interested in. If it happens to be all of them, I may be an ... |
| 11.09.2022 | New funding is available for early-stage Vancouver companies | Is it just me, or do short weeks somehow feel longer than those with the full five working days? Anyway. Fall is right around the corner, which means that although the weather is cooling down, tech news is going to be heating up.
Get a head... |
| 10.08.2022 | The women writing checks: A list of female venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest | Back in 2018, GeekWire published a list of women investors based in the Pacific Northwest who were writing checks to help startups grow.
A lot has changed in four years. We’ve put together a new compilation below, highlighting more than 60 ... |
| 08.05.2022 | Meet the B.C. startup co-founded by a Grammy winner | Good morning! Did you hear our exciting news? This week, Vancouver Tech Journal welcomed Kate Wilson as our new managing editor—and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Kate is an exceptional journalist and editor whose work has been featured in p... |
| 28.02.2022 | Why startups need to double down on their strengths if they want to take home gold | Kenndal McArdle
Every two years, the Olympic Games offer us a glimpse into the world of elite athletes competing at the very top of their respective sports. As an investor and former professional hockey player, I’m intrigued by the many ove... |
| 31.10.2021 | How the first Bitcoin ATM came to Vancouver | Good morning everyone. Welcome to the hundreds of new readers with us this week. As the holiday season approaches and the news cycle slows (hopefully), I invite you to join me and my friends at Switchboard PR for a special Twitter Spaces on... |
| 11.10.2021 | Meet BC's 12th $1B+ business in 10 months | Good morning everyone. Hurry. Make sure you read this email right away. Don’t leave it until later. Trust me. Once you’ve finished your second family-or-Friendsgiving meal of the weekend and the food-coma starts to hit, you will not — I rep... |
| 15.08.2021 | 🥇📚 Someone call Guinness | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new subscribers reading this Sunday. I invite you to stay connected with us all week on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. Better yet, join us for coffee (in person) to chat all things Vancouver tech this Tuesd... |
| 28.07.2021 | Spark RE Technologies raises $6.2M from Pender Ventures, BDC Capital | Spark CEO and Co-founder Simeon Garratt
Vancouver’s Spark RE Technologies has closed a $6.2 million Series A round led by BDC Capital and Pender Ventures. GroundBreak Ventures also participated in the round.
“This is a huge step for both Sp... |
| 12.05.2021 | Opinion: Canadian tech IPOs—Public market recognition gives start-up companies accelerated growth options | Barely a day goes by without a report of yet another Canadian tech company filing papers for an initial public offering (IPO). The recent rush of tech IPOs has been so swift that its development has been variously referred to as a surge, a ... |
| 09.05.2021 | Please allow us to reintroduce ourselves | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this Sunday. Make sure to stay engaged all week by connecting with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse iOS app. If you’re not al... |
| 25.04.2021 | Where is the love for BC's tech sector? | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the hundreds of new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this Sunday. Make sure to stay engaged all week by connecting with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse iOS app. If y... |
| 07.04.2021 | Cheatsheet: CVCA spotlights 12 Vancouver VC firms with $2.2 billion in assets | Despite a pandemic, VC investment in 2020 was the second-highest ever, according to the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA), with $4.4 billion CAD invested across 509 deals in Canada, second only to 2019.
“The s... |
| 07.02.2021 | Sunday Briefing | #124 | Good afternoon and hello to our new subscribers. This week, explore the Vancouver biotech firm set to produce 240 million doses of vaccine every year; the company helping people track healthcare websites to secure their vaccine shots; the c... |
| 31.01.2021 | Sunday Briefing | #123 | In a recent op/ed, Pender Ventures managing partner Maria Pacella asks, “What happens when the industry with the greatest potential for innovation doesn’t reflect the world it’s innovating for?”Welcome to the Vancouver Tech Journal’s Sunday... |
| 16.11.2020 | Tech Moves: Microsoft’s M12 creates advisory board; former Integris CEO joins VC firm; and more | Clockwise from top left: Matthias Troyer, Saurabh Tiwary, Jocelyn Moore, Ann Johnson and Jason Warner. (M12 Photos)
— M12, Microsoft’s venture capital arm, announced a formal advisory board drawing from industry experts and past mentors. Th... |
| 13.11.2020 | PenderFund Capital Launches Pender Ventures | PenderFund Capital Management Ltd., a BC, Canada-based independent, diversified asset manager, has launched Pender Ventures.
Pender Ventures is a new group and brand, created to accelerate its private investments into technology companies a... |
| - | 🏙️ How to advance your career | On Tuesday at our weekly coffee meetup, I was asked what topics we cover in our daily newsletter for paid Vancouver Tech Journal members. I found it hard to answer.
This week alone, we’ve written about what India’s population rise means for... |
