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 Chris Massot | Jun 30, 2017 | Analysis, Technology, Trends
The proliferation of web-enabled devices we experience today enables us to be online all the time via multiple touch-points. Users no longer use a single device to complete a task, but shift from one screen to another throughout the process. Forbes found that 87% of...
by Chris Massot | Jun 20, 2017 | Analysis, Technology, Trends
In 2016 the global tech sector saw no shortage of internet security threas and data breaches. There were DoS attacks on Twitter and Netflix, ‘Peace’ attacks on MySpace, LinkedIn and Tumblr, and what would be known as the biggest data breach in history for over 1...
by Chris Massot | Jun 8, 2017 | Conference, Entrepreneur, Technology, Trends
Building a brand and product that people love, picking the right marketing & distribution channels, driving traffic to your site, converting visitors to recurring users & paying customers, building and scaling growth teams, gaining millions of users with zero...
by Ania Wysocka | May 31, 2017 | Analysis, Entrepreneur, Investment, Investor, Technology, Venture Capital
The Great White North. Navy-green arctic glaciers, fresh pine-scented chinooks, freezing clear water, ice-capped lakes, roads, and double doubles. Such are the conditions in which a Canadian narwhal is born. At least according to the stereotypes generated South of the...
by Ania Wysocka | May 3, 2017 | Global Partners, Technology, Venture Capital
Early last week Alacrity Canada welcomed 8 guests from the Alacrity China incubator partner WeGeek, as well as a few key investors from the Shanghai tech ecosystem. Our visitors enjoyed a ten day trip in Canada. Four of those days were spent in the capital of BC,...
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