Good morning,
If you've been thinking about coming to Vancouver Tech Days Vol. 2 in October, don't wait. Vol. 1 sold out in five days and went over capacity — as of writing, we're already down to a limited number of tickets for round two.
Not sure if it's worth it? William wrote up five takeaways from Sarah Huggins' fireside chat at Vol. 1, where the Hiive co-founder made the case that Vancouver founders need to stop making self-defeating assumptions about building here.
The rest of the week's news is below.
—Emily
Events
From The Journal
Funding, Deals, and More
Vancouver's Beedie Capital has acquired a 50% stake in Vistara Growth and will anchor its upcoming US$500 million structured opportunities fund, deepening a partnership that traces back to the two founders meeting as UBC MBA classmates in the early 1990s. Read more →
Vancouver-based Intellistake Technologies has signed a $17 million acquisition agreement for NanoAi Technologies, a Dallas-based nanotechnology company that has developed portable standoff detection devices with applications in defence, healthcare and critical infrastructure. Read more →
In Other News
Council of Canadian Innovators B.C. director Kiersten Enemark argues that B.C.'s planned patent box should extend beyond life sciences to cover clean tech, AI and advanced manufacturing — and that the province needs an Innovation Box, not just a patent box. Read more →
Vancouver city council has postponed a public hearing on a proposed AI data centre in Mount Pleasant until after the October municipal election, following nearly 600 public submissions and sustained community opposition to the project. Read more →
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