How to decide when it's time to raise

Plus, four new tech events to fill your calendar in September.

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Emily Edwards
September 11, 2024

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

VTJ EVENTS

🗓️ Wednesday, September 18 | 🎟️ Register

  • ​Presenting partner: B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy

  • ​​From forest fires to rising sea levels, B.C is on the front lines of climate change. It’s the most pressing issue of the present, and it can be overwhelming to think of where to begin.

  • ​​​Thankfully, our local leaders in climatetech are helping us not only adapt to a changing climate, but mitigate it, too. 

  • Among those are a number of trailblazing women who use their expertise, creativity, and passion to develop solutions that will shape the future of our planet. Join us at this month’s #VTJTalks to meet them and hear about their innovation:

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🗓️ Thursday, September 19 | 🎟️ Register

  • ​Presenting partner: Bank of Canada

  • ​​​In November 2024, payment service providers (PSPs) offering services to the Canadian market must register with the Bank of Canada under the Retail Payment Activities Act (RPAA). Join this exclusive event and find out what PSPs need to know to prepare for registration, and the Bank’s supervisory expectations.

  • Following this update, engage with Bank experts at information stations to ask questions. This will be a great opportunity to connect with the Bank and network with industry peers gearing up for retail payments supervision.

Achieving results for climatetech companies

In the Canadian climatetech industry, 2024 will mark a pivotal moment. Fasken has successfully completed over C$400M in venture financings for climatetech companies in the last 12 months. Leveraging our extensive legal expertise in this sector, we are able to navigate the current challenging fundraising environment to structure and close deals. Learn more at Climate Tech | Fasken.

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS

🗓️ Thursday, September 12 | 🎟️ Register

  • ​This event is a part of Vancouver Tech Week — a week of events that celebrate builders and hackers within Vancouver’s tech industry.

  • ​Whether you're an established, funded business, or just starting up, finance is important every step of the way. Get the answers to your most pressing questions, like:

    • What are your costs?

    • What's your best revenue stream? (It's not always what you think)

    • What's your cashflow, and what should it be?

    • Are you ripe to raise? 

🗓️ Thursday, September 12 | 🎟️ Register

  • ​Connect with local entrepreneurs and investors at Startup TNT's weekly Vancouver happy hour.

  • This event is hosted by William Johnson with special guest Zack Storms, co-founder of Startup TNT.

SPONSORED BY THE HIGH TECHNOLOGIES FACILITIES GROUP

Vancouver's tech office experts

Connect with The High Technology Facilities Group at CBRE Ltd. – leaders in sourcing office space for B.C.’s startup and unicorn companies. The HTFG excels at helping clients find unique workspaces that drive productivity, reflect values, attract top talent, and fuel workplace culture.

Check out how The HTFG can help, or reach out to Alain, Blair, Kevin or Andre from The HTFG.

🗓️ Tuesday, September 17 | 🎟️ Register

  • Amazon Web Services started the AWS Community Day initiative that runs in many cities worldwide every year. This will be the first year it is held in Canada.

  • ​Join an afternoon of talks, workshops, demos, and networking with other community professionals both using and enhancing AWS-hosted solutions.

SPONSORED BY FORESIGHT CANADA

Unlocking Canada’s carbon tech potential

Canada is a global leader in carbon capture, utilization, and storage. Foresight’s latest report outlines our expertise, gaps, and opportunities in the carbon tech sector.

🗓️ Wednesday, September 18 | 🎟️ Register

  • Introducing the new series of ECOMsquare Flash Talks — an opportunity to hear and connect with e-commerce leaders in Vancouver.

  • The event provides a space to share any insights and resources that could be helpful for other fellow e-commerce founders or owners, service providers, professionals, and students interested in the field.

🗓️ Saturday, September 21 | 🎟️ Register

  • ​This unconference is focused on bringing hardware products into reality, like wearables, industrial sensors, machinery, and more. From industrial design to firmware, project management, or legal, if it's key to shipping hardware, it's a good fit here!

  • Share your hard-won lessons, your weird new way of doing something, and your dives down rabbit holes to learn from the best in Vancouver's hardware development community.

🗓️ September 24-25 | 🎟️ Register

  • This year’s event aims to explore the dynamic role of universities in fostering innovation and driving societal progress. Last year, entrepreneurship@UBC welcomed over 500 participants who joined for 25 compelling and actionable sessions.

  • Attendees will:

    • Learn about the cutting-edge research happening at the University of British Columbia.

    • Connect with early stage innovators translating their research into impact through entrepreneurial pathways, including social entrepreneurship.

    • Gain actionable insights from industry leaders and funders on how to start and grow your impact globally.

🗓️ October 22-24 | 🎟️ Request to attend

  • The summit will bring together visionary leaders and founders, creators, disrupters, pioneering investors, compassionate philanthropists, groundbreaking and innovative thinkers and doers, and social-impact leaders.

  • Each moment is crafted to foster genuine connections and life-changing conversations, blending inspiring speakers, wellness experts, culinary delights, and adventures in nature.

🤝 VANCOUVER TECH JOBS

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