by Ania Wysocka | Jul 12, 2017 | Innovation, Portfolio Company, Technology
More than 200 raging wildfires have been spreading across the British Columbia interior this week, forcing over 14,000 people out of their homes by evacuation orders. Vancouver Island location-based search software company Echosec (portfolio company to Alacrity...
by Ania Wysocka | Apr 13, 2017 | Hospitality & Travel, Innovation, SaaS, Technology, Trends
Customer service is changing as traditional capabilities aren’t always responding to new customer needs and demands Data from a recent study by Forrester shows that 72% of businesses believe improving their customer (and in particular Millennial customer)...
by Chris Massot | Jul 25, 2016 | Global Partners, Innovation, Technology
With recent events of an attempted coup filling the news cycle relating to Turkey, we thought it opportune to shine a light on the largely overlooked economic engine that Istanbul represents. Istanbul – an Emerging Global Tech Hub Straddling the Bosphorus Strait with...
by Chris Massot | Jun 17, 2016 | Innovation, Technology
Canada is well situated to develop and export disruptive technology in many different industries, but especially in the natural resources sector. Canadian businesses have leading global roles in the mining, oil and gas, and forestry domains and Canada has a political...
by Chris Massot | Jun 17, 2016 | Entrepreneur, Financing, Innovation, Investment, Technology
Alacrity’s Global Accelerator is proud to be recognized by GUST as one the Top 10 most active seed accelerator programs in 2015! The Victoria BC based unit of The Alacrity Foundation was the only Canadian Accelerator named to the list. Other, global accelerator...
by Chris Massot | Jun 1, 2016 | Entrepreneur, Innovation, Trends
In the first part of this article on Social Initiatives, we highlighted how people usually don’t think or recognize disabilities until they see them, and people usually don’t get involved with those who face these challenges, until they face them for themselves....
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