How to shore up balance sheets

👋 Welcome back to VTJ’s Midweek Memo: your weekly digest of the city’s top tech events, personnel moves, job openings, and industry opportunities.

UPCOMING EVENTS

#VTJTalks: Non-Dilutive Capital-Secure a Strong Balance Sheet in Uncertain Times

🗓️ Wednesday, August 14 | 🎟️ Registration

• As global uncertainty impacts the public and private markets, entrepreneurs are being forced to navigate a new, new normal. Many questions remain about the impact of changing global economic trends on companies and what CEOs can do to position their companies for success.

• ​Non-dilutive capital is one-way leaders can choose to shore up their balance sheets, as it enables founders to retain control of their business and instead focus on long-term growth rather than a fast ROI.

• Join this event to learn about the different types of non-dilutive capital and to hear first-hand experiences of local companies that leverage this type of financing to scale their business.

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WeWork Series 2

🗓️ Wednesday, August 21 | 🎟️ Registration

• At this event, you can expect:

  • ​Food and drinks, compliments of WeWork

  • Networking with executives and community members

• Panelists to be announced.

SPONSORED BY FORESIGHT CANADA

Application Open for 2024 Foresight 50

Applications are open for the fourth annual Foresight 50 showcase! This event will celebrate and amplify Canada’s 50 most investible cleantech ventures, connecting them with Foresight’s vast network of international investors. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to accelerate your impact and secure the backing your innovation deserves. 

Apply now

LOCALHOST Vancouver

🗓️ July 21-28 | 🎟️ Registration

• The DWebYVR community is organizing a week of events while the IETF is in town. Tech, media, and other explorations of how to create things we can own together.

• So many of our digital participations are on platforms and software that we don't own, and can't easily affect. The cloud makes us think that everything is far away, and diffuse.

• But we can build, run, modify, and create software, hardware, art, media, and tech of our own!

SPONSORED BY DEVENGINE

We Build Superb Engineering Teams

DevEngine connects North American innovation companies with Latin American tech talent, crafting superb and cost-effective software, data and cloud engineering teams. They also provide individual contributors to existing tech squads.

Operating throughout Latin America, their main base is in Vancouver, renowned for its dynamic tech community and entrepreneurial mindset. Download DevEngine's Salary Guide for more details.

🤝 VANCOUVER TECH JOBS

Whether you're looking for a dream role or a dream employee, Vancouver Tech Jobs has you covered, with open jobs including:

• Stripe is hiring a Marketing Strategy and Operations, Product Marketing 

• Simon Fraser University is hiring an Associate Director, Recruitment and Marketing

• Dropbox is hiring a Director, People Technology

• Microsoft is hiring a Product Manager II

• Grammarly is hiring an Operations Program Manager

Growing your team? Post a job with us »

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