Forbes ranks Bit Stew on the Top 100 Internet of Things Startups List for 2015

Making the Forbes list of Top 100 Internet of Things Startups worldwide validates Bit Stew’s growing market traction and contribution to the IoT sector. According the Bernard Marr, Big Data and Enterprise Analytics Contributor at Forbes, the majority of people (87%) have not heard… Read More

Betakit counts Showbie among its 11 Tech Companies to Watch for 2016

The Canadian Startup News & Tech Innovation blog, Betakit, announce its 11 Canadian Tech Companies Watch List for 2016. Among them, Yaletown portfolio company Showbie ranked for their innovation in EdTech. Here’s an excerpt… Showbie Alberta is quickly becoming a place to watch for exciting Canadian startups, with companies like… Read More

Tasktop Strengthens Management Team With Sarah Elkins, Adrian Jones, John Kapral and Betty Zakheim

Tasktop, the leader in Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tool, today announced newly hired Sarah Elkins and Adrian Jones as vice president of Demand Generation and vice president of Sales, EMEA, respectively. In addition, it tapped internal… Read More

Yaletown Newsletter – Wantering Exit and Elastic Path Financing

In the last quarter, Yaletown announced the exit of Wantering, led a growth-funding round for Elastic Path and saw the Alberta Government support tech innovation with a contribution of $50M to Alberta Enterprise Corporation – a longtime investment partner with Yaletown. Read the web version of… Read More

Clique Media Acquires Shopping Startup Wantering, A Yaletown Portfolio Company

Clique Media Group, the company behind shoppable fashion site Who What Wear, has acquired Canadian startup [and Yaletown portfolio company] Wantering. Clique’s properties (which also include lifestyle site MyDomaine and beauty site Byrdie) already combine editorial content with… Read More

PHEMI Named One of Canada’s Companies-to-Watch in the 2015 Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ Awards

Vancouver, BC – PHEMI, the company delivering privacy, security, governance and enterprise-grade management for big data, today announced it has received a 2015 Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ Award in the “Companies-to-Watch” category. Launched over 15 years ago, the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ celebrates leadership, innovation and excellence in the Canadian… Read More

Enterprise e-commerce leader Elastic Path raises $10M in growth funding

Vancouver, B.C.– Elastic Path Software Inc., an enterprise commerce company helping the world’s biggest brands generate higher revenue through innovative omnichannel experiences, announced it has secured CDN$10 million funding led by Yaletown Venture Partners and the BDC Venture Capital IT Fund. The funds will be used to grow the company’s… Read More

Bit Stew teams with GE Oil & Gas on pilot

Bit Stew has kicked off a pilot program that will see the integration of its MIx Core platform, which performs data analysis in complex environments, with a GE Oil & Gas solution. The pilot is an opportunity for Bit Stew to demonstrate how the value it delivers to the utility sector… Read More

Bit Stew Systems Expands Into Australia and Europe alongside Global Growth Expert Radius

(BRISTOL, U.K.) — Bit Stew Systems is expanding beyond its roots in the utility industry, and as it aggressively pushes into new geographies it is partnering with global growth expert Radius. Applications for Bit Stew’s software-defined operations systems are numerous in the “industrial internet of things (IIoT),” and the company… Read More

Vancouver company Phemi’s software promises to keep private data secure

There aren’t many teams that have had repeated success building up and selling valuable tech companies in Canada together. So when John Seminerio, Paul Terry and Adam Lorant embarked on their latest venture, Vancouver-based data security company PHEMI, they had little trouble lining up financial backers. “Hands-down, our investment was… Read More