INNOVATEā„¢ Vancouver Vol.2

Innovations of the World

INNOVATEā„¢ Vancouver Vol.2

Following on the recent success of INNOVATEā„¢ Vancouver Volume 1, we are pleased to announce the launch of the second volume.

There are amazing entrepreneurs in Vancouver and INNOVATEā„¢ Vancouver Volume 1 showcases some of the best of the best in a beautiful, digitally-enabled 300-page premium Coffee Table Book and virtual awards ceremony. Individuals and Companies selected to be featured will join a clan of extraordinary entrepreneurs in the Vancouver Innovation Ecosystem driving Innovation in all of its forms: creativity, future-centricity, boldness, sustainability ā€“ we could go on, or you can see for yourself in INNOVATEā„¢Ā Vancouver Volume 1Ā pages.

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Featured Thought Leaders

Featured Thought Leaders

Featured Innovators

Featured Innovators

RENAISSANCE

UNITING SUPERFANS GLOBALLY

Renaissance is a social audio app for superfans. Weā€™ve combined the best features from gaming with music to create a new fan experience. Leaderboards, achievements, daily adventures, and exclusive giveaways create an environment where music fans come together and share their love of music. For music labels and artists, Renaissance...

CHARITABLE IMPACT

WORKING FOR DONORS, REGARDLESS OF WHAT CAUSES THEY SUPPORT

CHARITABLE IMPACT-WORKING FOR DONORS, REGARDLESS OF WHAT CAUSES THEY SUPPORT: HOW CHARITABLE IMPACT IS TRANSFORMING THE EXPERIENCE OF GIVING TO CHARITY The charitable sector in Canada is facing significant challenges due to a decrease in the number of people donating to charity and the amount they give as a percentage...

GlĆ¼xkind

A Vancouver-based tech startup, is disrupting the baby gear market

GlĆ¼xkind- A Vancouver-based tech startup, is disrupting the baby gear market with the worldā€™s smartest parent assist baby stroller. Powered by AI, GlĆ¼xkind is leading the charge,making gear for todayā€™s families safer,more inclusive and convenient for all. Anyone who has had to push a conventional baby stroller while attending to...

The Frontier Collective

Building the future of Vancouverā€™s innovation movement on the local & global stage

Frontier technologies are thriving in Vancouver. The region is a talent engine and hub for VR/AR, AI, Cleantech, Web3, Robotics, Biotech/Healthtech, and so many more industries. Vancouver has an immense opportunity to lead the world in frontier tech, ushering in a new wave of transformation, economic prosperity and high-paying jobs, but...

Thrive Health

Thrive Health-Making Healthcare Work Better for Everyone

Making Healthcare Work Better for Everyone

Thrive Health is a digital healthcare platform company, founded in 2016 with a mission to make healthcare work better for everyone. The company provides an interactive patient engagement solution that enables healthcare providers to build custom clinical workflows, and offers patients enhanced access to their health data. Thrive Healthā€™s innovative...

pH7 TECHNOLOGIES

At the forefront of sustainable resource extraction

Specialized cleantech solutions.pH7 Technologies Inc. delivers specialized cleantech solutions for the extraction of critical metals necessary for the transition to renewable energies. We have pioneered a proprietary process that provides a near-net-zero environmental impact in the extraction of key metals and minerals. This sustainable closed-loop process makes it an ideal...

Beacon HR

MAINTAINING PEACE OF MIND FOR FOUNDERS WITH FLEXIBLE TALENT SOLUTIONS

Beacon HR is in the business of transforming companies to help them become stronger, more modern, and more resilient. Change seems to be the only constant in this era of the Great Resignation, followed by a recessionary environment. Scrambling to come up with short-term actions and pivots to stay competitive...

bioLyticalā€™s

CHANGING THE HEALTHCARE LANDSCAPE ā€“ ONE DROP AT A TIME

bioLyticalā€™s story starts with an idea to create equitable access to a safe, affordable, and accurate HIV rapid test that helps connect more people to care. We noticed that access to tests and the waiting period to know your results took far too long and increased patient anxiety. We wanted...

Hubly

Unlocking the Human Side of Fintech

Hubly allows financial advisors and their teams to deliver a high-tough, stress-free customer experience at scale. Millions of people trust a financial advisor with their life savings. But as advisory firms scale, their operations, services, processes, and regulatory requirements become more complex. Soon, financial advisors are spending more time on...

THE FIRST NATIONS TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL

CONNECTING INDIGENOUS LEARNERS TO A DIGITAL FUTURE

The First Nations Technology Council (The Technology Council) is an Indigenous-led organization that serves all 204 First Nations communities across the Province of British Columbia. Established in 2002, they are mandated by BC First Nations Leadership to provide digital skills training to Indigenous learners, realize digital equity, and ensure Indigenous...

VISUAL CAPITALIST

MAKING THE WORLDā€™S INFORMATION MORE ACCESSIBLE WITH THE POWER OF DATA STORYTELLING

Every two years, there is more new data being created than throughout all of previous human history. As a result of this growing information overload, itā€™s becoming harder and harder to understand the root causes leading to the future trends shaping our world. Visual Capitalist is an independent media company...

Reliance Foundry has deep roots as a maker, designer, and supplier of architectural site furnishings, metal castings, and industrial wheelsā€”but just because they are an old company doesnā€™t mean theyā€™re laggards behind a changing world. Founded in 1925 in Vancouver, BC, Reliance grew to become the areaā€™s largest working foundry,...

GUNKII

REDESIGNING AFFORDABLE LUXURY ORAL CARE

It is possible to have fresher breath and a healthier mouth with a tongue cleaner. gunkii brings affordable luxury oral care to the market. Founded in May 2020, gunkii is the brainchild of husband-and-wife duo Jayesh and Nicole Parmar, who had the vision to offer a tongue scraper to help...

INFORMA FINANCIAL

THE IMPORTANCE OF A WELL-ROUNDED TOTAL BENEFITS EXPERIENCE IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW

INFORMA FINANCIAL – THE IMPORTANCE OF A WELL-ROUNDED TOTAL BENEFITS EXPERIENCE IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN. Informaā€™s founder, Cliff Pipke, began this business out of a desire to help service the insurance needs of families, as well as those of the small business owner. As Informaā€™s...

LUCENT BIOSCIENCES

GROUNDBREAKING INNOVATION IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

In the upcoming decades, global food systems will profoundly change as we adapt to more sustainable food production and distribution approaches. Farmers are currently being challenged to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Backed by years of research...

adMare BioInnovations

adMare BioInnovations-Un moteur dā€™innovation en sciences de la vie qui

Drives Life Sciences Innovation by Building Companies, Ecosystems, and Talent

Drawing its name from Canadaā€™s national motto, A Mari Usque Ad Mare (From Sea to Sea), adMare is a pan-Canadian organization created in 2019, answering the need to align and optimize the Canadian life sciences commercialization landscape. Since its creation, adMare has firmly established itself as a national leader that...

LEARN BY LOCI

UNLOCKING THE SUPERCOMPUTER IN OUR HEADS TO MAKE US ALL SAFER

Picture this:Youā€™re standing in the lobby of an office building waiting for the elevator. The only thing in view is an evacuation map posted on the wall so you take it in. Several minutes later, youā€™re sitting comfortably in a waiting room when the fire alarm goes off. Can you...

ProShop ERP

Delivers powerful manufacturing software by deeply understanding our clientā€™s challenges in order to meaningfully improve their businesses and in turn, their communities

We are the industryā€™s only shop management software specifically dedicated to, and built for an aerospace contract manufacturer in the Pacific Northwest. We are fanatical about managing every detail of machine shops in a paperless and web-based environment, including the enterprise resource management (ERP) functions necessary to run offices, the...

Iridia Medical

Whom do first responders call for medical emergencies? Iridia Medical is a physician-founded company that exists to Enable Peace of Mind for people called upon to respond to medical emergencies

Within a span of five months in 1997, a local pulp and papermill experienced the collapse and death of two employees on-site. It was determined that both employees suffered from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). The prospect of future deaths at the site was palpable, and preventative solutions were non-existent. This...

FLOORSPACE

TRANSFORMING THE COMMERCIAL BROKERAGE - FLOORSPACEā€™S EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH

Floorspace originated from Matt Carlsonā€™s experience in the industry, while working as Executive Vice President at a prominent commercial real estate brokerage. During his tenure, Matt observed the challenges faced by both seasoned brokers and young professionals aspiring to enter the commercial real estate industry. Certain hurdles like limited and...

BEATDAPP

THE BUGGLES TOLD THE WORLD THAT VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR. RELEASED IN 1980, THEIR HIT SONG, ā€œVIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR,ā€ MAY NOT BE ACCURATE TODAY. MORE THAN 10% OF ALL STREAMED MUSIC IS FRAUDULENTLY STREAMED, WIPING OUT BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT WOULD HAVE OTHERWISE BEEN PAID TO ARTISTS AND LABELS

Beatdapp is a streaming fraud detection company. It helps music labels and artists track their songs to collect royalties. Think of it as a PWC for music play count. The company has a set of machine learning and predictive algorithms to detect streaming manipulation and has over 30 patents across...

PowerPlay Young Entrepreneurs

EMPOWERING YOUTH WITH AN ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET

BC entrepreneurs Bill Roche and Charles Chang have a vision to make Canada more competitive by nurturing an entrepreneurial spirit in young people. In 2017, they co-founded Young Entrepreneurs of Canada Association, a registered Canadian charity that operates under the name PowerPlay Young Entrepreneurs. ā€œOur mandate is to help school-aged...

EMERGE BUILDING SOLUTIONS

A FULLY INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTION COMPANY THAT FOCUSES ON THE RESIDENTIAL MULTI-UNIT MARKET

With over 27 years of experience delivering high-quality construction projects. Emerge starts construction by building components of the project in a manufacturing plant for the above-ground portion of a multi-story building at the time of groundbreaking. While the underground foundation and parking structure is being constructed, concrete and steel precast...

Matidor.com

Matidor.com- ā€œMatidor.com is the All-In-One Project Management Platform On a Live Mapā€

ā€œMatidor.com is the All-In-One Project Management Platform On a Live Mapā€

How Matidor.com StartedVincent and Sean are Vancouver-based serial entrepreneurs who come from very different backgrounds but share one vision. Vincentā€™s previous experience at Google Earth and as a product manager at Dassault SystĆØmes revealed a gap in how people in the field managed projects. When Sean moved back to town...

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The Publisher

Ruby K. Sandhu

Born and raised in Vancouver, B.C, Rubyā€™s zest for life began at a young age, always inquisitive about the world she began a journey to self-discovery and seeking out a deeper knowledge eventually leading her to pursue a passion for Spiritual Psychology and Sociology. Her eagerness to understand the human social psyche set forth a... click to read more

The Publisher

Ruby K. Sandhu

Born and raised in Vancouver, B.C, Rubyā€™s zest for life began at a young age, always inquisitive about the world she began a journey to self-discovery and seeking out a deeper knowledge eventually leading her to pursue a passion for Spiritual Psychology and Sociology. Her eagerness to understand the human social psyche set forth a... click to read more

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