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🏙️ Are you our next staff writer?
Join our VTJ team. Plus, discover InBC's second batch of local investments.
Kate Wilson
November 19, 2023
We’re hiring a new full-time staff writer! As Vancouver Tech Journal grows, we’re looking to expand our team along with it. Are you a fantastic storyteller with an eye for detail and a strong opinion about Oxford commas? Do you like to learn about new technologies and innovations, and know how to weave a narrative about them? Do you have any examples of your previous writing you’d like to show off? If this sounds like you, shoot me an email at [email protected]. My inbox is ready for you!
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Now onto today’s briefing. It’s 963 words: a four-minute read.
-Kate (@KateWilsonSays)
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🗞️ VTJ Stories
Three reasons to ditch traditional expense reports (and a better alternative)
Expense reports have long been a staple of corporate financial management, but their drawbacks are increasingly hard to ignore. Here are three reasons why your company should consider ditching them:
Time-Consuming: Preparing & reviewing expense reports is a time-intensive process. Employees spend valuable hours documenting expenses and managers must painstakingly review each submission.
Error-Prone: Manual entry often leads to errors, from miscalculated amounts to missing receipts. These mistakes can result in inaccurate financial records and potential compliance issues.
Lack of Real-Time Visibility: Expense reports provide a retrospective view of spending, making it challenging to track expenses in real time. This delay can hinder proactive cost control.
Float offers a better alternative - one that both finance teams and employees prefer. To learn more visit the website.
🤝 Funding and deals:
B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE) is investing $2.6 million to advance solutions that reduce emissions or create new clean energy feedstocks, while also addressing the pressing challenge of sustainably managing wood waste and increasing wildfire resiliency.
The Vancouver International Airport will improve its main terminal's building performance and reduce its overall emissions, thanks to a combined investment of more than $3.5 million from the governments of Canada and British Columbia.
For all the local funding and deals stories, become a member now »
Say goodbye to the corporate status quo
Toast is a membership-based collective that’s flipping the hiring dynamic for women in tech. We connect women to roles we believe in, at companies we trust. We set up our members so they’re getting exactly what they deserve: more money, more flexibility, less bullsh*t. Learn more.
🗞️ In other news:
Dapper Labs, the Web3 giant, announced a partnership with Disney for digital pin collecting and trading on the blockchain.
BBTV, a publicly-traded media tech company about to be taken private due to slumping stock prices, announced its Q3 financial results.
Digital (formerly Digital Technology Supercluster) is sharing inspiring healthcare technologies as part of its Digital Health Week.
Car-buying platform MintList has been honored with the international Gold Stevie Award for "Startup of the Year" in the software category.
For 10 more stories, become a member now »
Celebrating Tech Talent in Surrey, B.C.
Canada’s most exciting future-ready city for growing your business is Surrey, British Columbia. Over the past decade, Surrey has doubled its population, completely modernized its infrastructure, attracted dozens of clean tech, agritech, healthtech and advanced manufacturing companies, and is fostering world-class talent in its internationally ranked post-secondary institutions. Learn more.
💡 Ideas and insights:
Nina Bader, manager of B.C. ecosystems at Foresight Canada, wrote on LinkedIn about the link between creativity and solving climate change.
Hiroki Kudo, CEO of Easy Proposal, released his latest YouTube video documenting his company’s growth with the goal of creating a unicorn.
Chris Hobbs, founder of TTT Studios, wrote on LinkedIn about a security warning those working with GPTs should be aware of.
💼 Take your career to the next level
There are hundreds of Vancouver tech businesses searching for talent, including Ntirety, Overstory Media Group, Lexselect, Ethos Lab, New Ventures BC, and the BC Public Service.
Check out who else is hiring on our Vancouver Tech Job Board »
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👋 Before you go…
If you’ve made it all the way to the end of this newsletter, you must be really into tech news. Us too! In fact, we love it so much that we’re growing the Tech Journal family. We’re launching a new publication, Canadian Tech Journal, which will uncover and amplify the most compelling tech stories and insights from across the country. Want to be the first to get in on the action? Join the waitlist to subscribe now.
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