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Techcouver provides real-time reporting and analysis of emerging technology news in Vancouver and throughout British Columbia. The Techcouver Team is led by Founder and Editor-in-Chief Rob Lewis, who is known across the country for supporting Canadian tech companies and startups by reporting on emerging tech news. Previously of Techvibes (now Digital), Rob is now focusing his extensive digital media experience and entrepreneurial spirit on his hometown, Vancouver. If you have news you would like to share on Techcouver, or if you’re interested in authoring a Thought Leadership piece, please reach out. Banner advertising, newsletter sponsorship, and content marketing opportunities are also available. Source
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Search ArticlesUBC Accelerator Targets Defence Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing
UBC engineers are developing technologies to strengthen Canada’s defence capabilities while helping industry adopt advanced manufacturing, backed by an $8.76 million PacifiCan investment. The Asymmetry Last Line (ALL) research accelerator focuses on affordable, domestically produced technologies suited to extreme cold and remote environments. Its priorities include power systems, aerospace materials, marine technologies, and sensors.
Your Startup’s First Impression Is Now a Machine’s Summary
For most of the last decade, a startup’s discoverability problem was a ranking problem: get the page to the top, get the click. That problem hasn’t gone away, but a second one has landed on top of it. Increasingly, the first description of your product that a customer, an investor or a journalist encounters is not written by you. It is a summary assembled by a model out of whatever it could find. That changes what being findable means. You are no longer competing only for a position.
A Back Injury Led Semios Founder Michael Gilbert to Build BaroShift
Michael Gilbert built a company that helped farmers understand what was happening in their orchards. His latest startup grew out of a struggle to understand what was happening in his own body. The Semios founder is now building BaroShift, a Vancouver-based startup whose forearm wearable guides personalized breathing sessions designed to train the body’s stress-recovery response.
UBC Welcomes 26 Startups to Fall Venture Founder Cohort
From cancer diagnostics to financial planning for newcomers, 26 new ventures have joined Innovation UBC’s fall 2026 Venture Founder cohort. The 16-week program helps UBC students, faculty and staff turn research and business ideas into viable companies through venture validation, business model development and leadership training. Participants receive guidance from a network of more than 50 mentors. This fall’s cohort represents eight faculties across UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.
Vancouver Upstart Ready to Scale Model for Online Vehicle Purchasing
A Vancouver-based company that specializes in automotive financing this month unveiled a milestone. OCAL Financial announced this week that it has funded more than 1,250 vehicle deals across British Columbia and Alberta. The Canadian fintech firm, which trades on the TSXV as OCAL, says the milestone confirms that the business model works at scale.
From Byproduct to Platform: How Tydra Labs Is Protecting Its Biomaterials Breakthrough
When the founders of Vancouver’s Tydra Labs began exploring how waste streams could become valuable new materials, chitin was not the original plan. The team initially intended to extract proteins from waste and turn them into fibres for textiles and apparel. But customer interviews and economic modelling pointed to a more promising opportunity hiding within the process.
Spare Expands AI Platform Across Transit Agencies
Vancouver-based Spare is expanding beyond transit operations with an AI platform designed to connect the data, institutional knowledge and workflows used across transit agencies and cities. Spare AI brings together information from operational systems, financial platforms, policies, contracts and board records. The platform aims to help employees find answers and complete work without needing to know which system holds the information.
Kamloops Startup Garners Funding, AI Innovation Award for ‘Forest Guardian’
During Small Business Month, Telus is shining a light on the hard work and optimism of local entrepreneurs who put everything on the line to create a better future. Each year, Telus supports a slew of regional businesses with funding, technology, and exposure. Through its annual #StandWithOwners program, Telus has invested a total of $7 million since 2020.
Moment Energy Wants Retired EV Batteries to Power the AI Boom
The millions of electric vehicle batteries already travelling North American roads could eventually help power another rapidly growing technology sector: artificial intelligence. That was the message from Moment Energy Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer Gurmesh Sidhu at Energy Disruptors: UNITE 2026 in Calgary, where nearly 3,000 industry leaders gathered to examine the collision of energy, AI, infrastructure and geopolitics.
Juno Industries Unveils Guardian and Logan Defence Systems
Vancouver-based Juno Industries has unveiled two defence technology systems designed to help military and government personnel detect threats and make decisions in remote and challenging environments. Announced this week, Guardian combines sensors, local computing hardware, and Juno’s Logan software to collect, process, and display information from the field.