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As 2021 comes to an end, we would like to highlight some of the tremendous successes within the province’s tech and research sectors, fueled by innovative entrepreneurs within a collaborative and supportive community. From reaching a record-breaking $201M in venture capital deployed (up to the third quarter) led by local tech giants Vendasta and 7shifts, launching the agtech venture capital…

Founder of SkillShark, engineer, and sports coach, Neil Anderson, is taking athlete evaluations to the next level. Over six years ago, Anderson saw the difficulties that kids and youth sports league coaches, including himself, experience when manually evaluating (a.k.a. using pen & paper) their players. It was extremely time-consuming and frequently caused inaccuracies in scoring and ranking.…

HYON, founded by Kristy Ehman in 2019, is creating a significant impact on the way used goods are handled by individuals and organizations. Previously developed as software to streamline large sales events by managing processes such as “tagging items, coordinating volunteers, and managing payouts,” HYON has now pivoted to a broader goal – that is to allow people to get rid of…