[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-startup-ecosystem-bc-2026":3,"related-startup-ecosystem-bc-2026":294},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"canonical":279,"city":280,"date":281,"description":282,"extension":283,"faq":280,"image":284,"meta":285,"navigation":286,"path":287,"seo":288,"slug":289,"stem":290,"tag":291,"updated":292,"__hash__":293},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fstartup-ecosystem-bc-2026.md","The Startup Ecosystem BC in 2026: A Founder's Field Guide","Founder Feast",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":266},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,25,28,31,40,43,47,50,53,61,69,73,76,83,89,95,102,106,109,112,120,128,131,135,138,146,159,174,178,181,184,187,190,193,197,203,209,220,230,234,242,246],[11,12,13],"p",{},"British Columbia raised more venture capital per capita than any Canadian province in 2025. It also produced two of the year's four Canadian unicorns (Clio's follow-on round at $4B and a quieter climate-tech exit out of Victoria). And yet most founders outside BC still think of it as \"the place with Hootsuite and a lot of yoga.\"",[11,15,16],{},"That mental model is five years out of date. The startup ecosystem BC has quietly restructured itself around four hubs, three sector strengths, and a capital stack that no longer routes exclusively through Sand Hill Road. If you're picking a province to build in for the next decade, you need the real map.",[11,18,19],{},"Here's the 2026 field guide. What's actually here, who's writing cheques, and where Ontario still wins.",[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"the-four-hubs-you-should-know","The four hubs you should know",[11,26,27],{},"Vancouver is still the gravity well. Roughly 70% of BC's venture-backed companies are headquartered in Metro Vancouver, with dense clusters in Gastown, Mount Pleasant, and increasingly the Broadway corridor now that the SkyTrain extension opened. If you're in SaaS, fintech, or consumer, this is default.",[11,29,30],{},"Victoria punches well above its weight. The University of Victoria's engineering and ocean-tech programs feed a real cluster: Redlen (acquired by Canon), Codename Entertainment, and a growing bench of climate and marine-tech companies. Rent is 40% cheaper than Vancouver and the talent pool is smaller but stickier.",[11,32,33,34,39],{},"Kelowna is the surprise. The Okanagan tech ecosystem crossed $2B in aggregate revenue in 2024, anchored by Disco (Vidyard's sibling), Bananatag's alumni network, and a wave of remote-friendly SaaS. Accelerate Okanagan runs one of the more effective regional accelerators in the country. If you want to read the full breakdown, we covered it in the ",[35,36,38],"a",{"href":37},"\u002Fblog\u002Fkelowna-startup-ecosystem-2026","Kelowna startup ecosystem 2026 guide",".",[11,41,42],{},"Whistler is not a hub. It's a founder retreat that keeps trying to become one. Real talk: a handful of remote CEOs live there, the Whistler Chamber runs occasional events, but you cannot hire an engineering team out of Whistler. Treat it as a place to think, not to build.",[21,44,46],{"id":45},"the-capital-stack-in-2026","The capital stack in 2026",[11,48,49],{},"The BC funding landscape has three layers now, and knowing which one to approach when will save you six months.",[11,51,52],{},"Pre-seed and seed is dominated by Version One (Boris Wertz), Pender Ventures, Yaletown Partners at the early stage, and a growing angel base coordinated through the E-Fund and Rhino Ventures. Cheque sizes run $250K to $2M. Most of these funds will lead in BC because they have to; deal flow is their moat.",[11,54,55,56,60],{},"Series A is where it gets thin. BC has maybe four funds that will lead a $5M-$15M A: Version One (occasionally), BDC Capital, Vistara Growth (later stage really), and Georgian if you're in AI-adjacent SaaS. Most Series As in BC are led by Ontario funds (Inovia, Georgian, Real) or US funds. Plan for it. We wrote a full playbook on ",[35,57,59],{"href":58},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcanadian-founders-us-investors","Canadian founders raising from US investors"," that's worth reading before you start.",[11,62,63,64,68],{},"Growth stage is almost entirely cross-border. If you're raising above $20M, you're pitching in San Francisco, New York, or occasionally Toronto. The ",[35,65,67],{"href":66},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdelaware-flip-canadian-founders","Delaware flip question"," becomes real at this stage, and BC founders face it earlier than most.",[21,70,72],{"id":71},"sector-strengths-where-bc-actually-wins","Sector strengths: where BC actually wins",[11,74,75],{},"Three sectors where BC has genuine, defensible density:",[11,77,78,82],{},[79,80,81],"strong",{},"Climate and clean tech."," Carbon Engineering (acquired by Oxy for $1.1B), Svante, Moment Energy, and a wave of ocean-carbon startups clustered around Victoria. Foresight Canada, headquartered in Vancouver, runs the largest cleantech accelerator in the country. If you're in this space, BC beats every other Canadian province and most US cities outside the Bay Area.",[11,84,85,88],{},[79,86,87],{},"Gaming and interactive."," EA, Relic, Blackbird, Kabam, A Thinking Ape. UBC and Emily Carr feed one of the deepest gaming talent pools in North America. If you're building game infrastructure, tools, or studios, you cannot beat Vancouver's cost-to-talent ratio.",[11,90,91,94],{},[79,92,93],{},"Health tech and life sciences."," AbCellera's $10B IPO in 2020 reshaped the ecosystem. Chinook Therapeutics ($3.2B Novartis acquisition in 2023), Zymeworks, and the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre form a real cluster. VGH and BC Cancer partnerships are underrated.",[11,96,97,98,39],{},"Where BC does not win: enterprise fintech (Toronto crushes it), Bay Street-adjacent B2B (obvious), and pure AI research (Toronto, Montreal, and Edmonton have deeper academic benches). If you're building a bank-facing fintech, Toronto is the correct answer. We laid out the geography debate in ",[35,99,101],{"href":100},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-province-canadian-founders","best province for Canadian founders",[21,103,105],{"id":104},"bc-vs-ontario-the-honest-comparison","BC vs Ontario: the honest comparison",[11,107,108],{},"Ontario has roughly 3x the venture capital by absolute volume, 2x the engineering talent by headcount, and a direct 50-minute flight to every US investor who matters. Toronto's ecosystem density is real and it compounds.",[11,110,111],{},"BC's advantages are structural and lifestyle. Lower burn (engineering salaries run 10-15% below Toronto for equivalent seniority in 2026), Pacific timezone overlap with the Bay Area (you can do 4pm meetings with Sequoia without a red-eye), and a talent-retention story that's quantifiably better. Ex-Amazon and ex-Microsoft engineers in Vancouver churn out of tech at half the rate of Toronto's ex-bank engineers.",[11,113,114,115,119],{},"The other underrated factor: BC's Provincial Nominee Program tech stream is faster than Ontario's OINP for skilled immigrants right now. If you're building an international team, this matters. Combined with the ",[35,116,118],{"href":117},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcanada-startup-visa-2026","Canada Startup Visa",", BC is arguably the easiest province to build a globally-sourced team.",[11,121,122,123,127],{},"Ontario wins on: capital density, sales talent, financial services access, US flight connectivity. Read ",[35,124,126],{"href":125},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbuilding-a-startup-in-toronto","building a startup in Toronto"," for the counter-case.",[11,129,130],{},"BC wins on: cost-to-talent ratio, sector density in climate\u002Fgaming\u002Fhealth, timezone, retention, and lifestyle-driven recruiting. If you're going to lose a Series A candidate to Instacart in the Bay Area, you're more likely to win them back to Vancouver than Toronto.",[21,132,134],{"id":133},"the-infrastructure-layer-accelerators-hubs-and-support","The infrastructure layer: accelerators, hubs, and support",[11,136,137],{},"The accelerators worth applying to in 2026: Creative Destruction Lab (Vancouver stream, run out of UBC Sauder), Foresight Cleantech Accelerator (Vancouver), Accelerate Okanagan (Kelowna), Alacrity Canada (Victoria), and Spring Activator for impact-focused companies.",[11,139,140,141,145],{},"The coworking and community layer has consolidated. Launch Academy on Water Street, Volition in Yaletown, and The Profile in Mount Pleasant are the three serious spots in Vancouver. We ranked them in ",[35,142,144],{"href":143},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-coworking-vancouver-founders-2026","best coworking Vancouver founders 2026",". In Victoria, Fort Tectoria is the default. In Kelowna, the Innovation Centre downtown.",[11,147,148,149,153,154,158],{},"For services: BC has a mature bench of startup-focused lawyers (see ",[35,150,152],{"href":151},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-startup-lawyers-canada-2026","best startup lawyers Canada 2026",") and the ",[35,155,157],{"href":156},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffounder-friendly-banks-canada-2026","founder-friendly banks"," landscape has improved significantly with RBCx and CIBC Innovation Banking both maintaining Vancouver teams.",[11,160,161,162,167,168,173],{},"The community layer is where BC differs most from Ontario. Toronto's founder scene runs on 400-person events. BC's runs on small dinners, weekend hikes, and repeat interactions. It's slower to break in but stickier once you're in. That's part of why we built ",[35,163,6],{"href":164,"rel":165},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002F",[166],"nofollow"," around small dinners in ",[35,169,172],{"href":170,"rel":171},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fvancouver",[166],"Vancouver",": the format matches how BC founders actually connect.",[21,175,177],{"id":176},"what-to-do-this-quarter","What to do this quarter",[11,179,180],{},"If you're deciding whether to build in BC, three concrete moves:",[11,182,183],{},"First, spend a week in Vancouver and a week in Victoria or Kelowna. Not conference visits, actual work weeks. Book coworking day passes, take five founder coffees per week, and see whether the density feels sufficient for your stage.",[11,185,186],{},"Second, map your Series A path before you take pre-seed money. If your sector requires US leads at A, know which BC pre-seed funds have strong US downstream relationships. Version One and Pender both do. Others don't.",[11,188,189],{},"Third, get into two rooms. One tactical (an accelerator cohort, a founder Slack, an operator group) and one relational (small-format dinners, hiking groups, whatever). BC ecosystems reward founders who show up repeatedly to the same rooms.",[11,191,192],{},"The startup ecosystem BC in 2026 is not the Bay Area North it tried to be in 2018. It's something better: a smaller, more compounding network with real sector density and lower burn. If that fits your company, this is the right coast.",[21,194,196],{"id":195},"common-questions","Common questions",[11,198,199,202],{},[79,200,201],{},"Is BC actually cheaper than Ontario for early-stage startups?","\nYes on salaries (roughly 10-15% lower for engineers as of 2026), no on rent if you're in Vancouver proper. Kelowna and Victoria are meaningfully cheaper on both.",[11,204,205,208],{},[79,206,207],{},"Can you raise a full Series A in BC without pitching in the US?","\nRarely, and only in specific sectors (climate tech and some deep tech). Most BC Series As are led by Ontario or US funds. Plan accordingly.",[11,210,211,214,215,219],{},[79,212,213],{},"Which BC city has the best talent pool for engineering hires?","\nVancouver by volume. Victoria for specialized ocean-tech, marine, and hardware. Kelowna for remote-friendly SaaS and product roles. See our ",[35,216,218],{"href":217},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhiring-engineers-toronto-2026","Vancouver hiring notes"," for cross-comparison with Toronto.",[11,221,222,225,226,39],{},[79,223,224],{},"Should I incorporate federally or provincially in BC?","\nFederal in most cases. We covered this in ",[35,227,229],{"href":228},"\u002Fblog\u002Fincorporate-canadian-startup-2026","incorporate Canadian startup 2026",[21,231,233],{"id":232},"the-table-you-actually-want-to-be-at","The table you actually want to be at",[11,235,236,237,39],{},"Reading a field guide gets you oriented. Sitting across from four other founders who are three months ahead of you gets you decisions. Founder Feast runs Thursday dinners in Vancouver for exactly this reason: a small table, one restaurant, no pitching, real conversation. If you're building in BC and want to short-circuit the \"who do I actually need to know\" question, ",[35,238,241],{"href":239,"rel":240},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fapply",[166],"apply here",[21,243,245],{"id":244},"related-reading","Related reading",[247,248,249,256,261],"ul",{},[250,251,252],"li",{},[35,253,255],{"href":254},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbc-startup-ecosystem","BC startup ecosystem",[250,257,258],{},[35,259,260],{"href":37},"Kelowna startup ecosystem 2026",[250,262,263],{},[35,264,265],{"href":100},"Best province for Canadian founders",{"title":267,"searchDepth":268,"depth":268,"links":269},"",2,[270,271,272,273,274,275,276,277,278],{"id":23,"depth":268,"text":24},{"id":45,"depth":268,"text":46},{"id":71,"depth":268,"text":72},{"id":104,"depth":268,"text":105},{"id":133,"depth":268,"text":134},{"id":176,"depth":268,"text":177},{"id":195,"depth":268,"text":196},{"id":232,"depth":268,"text":233},{"id":244,"depth":268,"text":245},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fblog\u002Fstartup-ecosystem-bc-2026",null,"2026-08-05","A 2026 field guide to the BC startup ecosystem: accelerators, VCs, hubs beyond Vancouver, sector strengths, and how it stacks up against Ontario.","md","auto",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fstartup-ecosystem-bc-2026",{"title":5,"description":282},"startup-ecosystem-bc-2026","blog\u002Fstartup-ecosystem-bc-2026","Ecosystem","2026-09-05","ejWirfQqhR1ZPQ4_K0zI-RCjdy7PmEcuIvW17oYg_oU",[295,547,877],{"id":296,"title":297,"author":6,"body":298,"canonical":538,"city":280,"date":539,"description":540,"extension":283,"faq":280,"image":284,"meta":541,"navigation":286,"path":542,"seo":543,"slug":544,"stem":545,"tag":291,"updated":292,"__hash__":546},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fcanadian-deep-tech-startups-2026.md","Canadian Deep Tech Startups Worth Watching in 2026",{"type":8,"value":299,"toc":527},[300,303,306,309,313,316,319,326,332,336,339,342,349,353,356,359,362,365,369,372,375,378,386,390,393,416,419,427,431,434,437,440,448,450,456,462,472,478,482,485,507,509],[11,301,302],{},"Canada raised roughly $2.1B in deep tech venture funding in 2025, and about 60% of it landed in four verticals: quantum, synthetic biology, climate hardware, and semiconductors. That's a smaller pie than the US, but the concentration matters. When capital clusters, so do talent, exits, and follow-on rounds.",[11,304,305],{},"The interesting part isn't the headline number. It's that Canadian deep tech startups are no longer a Toronto-Waterloo story. Vancouver quietly became the country's quantum capital. Montreal owns AI hardware. Calgary is turning oil-and-gas engineers into carbon capture founders. Halifax is doing ocean tech that nobody in Silicon Valley knows exists yet.",[11,307,308],{},"Here's a grounded look at who's building, where the money is going, and which subsectors are actually producing venture-scale outcomes in 2026.",[21,310,312],{"id":311},"quantum-vancouver-is-the-unlikely-capital","Quantum: Vancouver is the unlikely capital",[11,314,315],{},"D-Wave has been in Burnaby since 1999, but the last three years turned the Lower Mainland into a legitimate quantum cluster. Photonic Inc. raised $140M in 2023 from BCI and Microsoft for silicon spin qubits. 1QBit is quietly profitable doing quantum software for banks. Xanadu, technically Toronto-based, does most of its hardware work with UBC and SFU collaborators.",[11,317,318],{},"The talent pipeline is real. UBC's Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute and TRIUMF pump out physics PhDs who would otherwise end up at IBM Yorktown or Google Santa Barbara. Instead, they're staying. Rent still matters, and a postdoc can afford Mount Pleasant in a way they can't afford Palo Alto.",[11,320,321,322,325],{},"The catch: quantum companies burn cash for a decade before revenue. Photonic has runway through 2027. D-Wave is public and trading at a fraction of its 2021 SPAC price. If you're a founder in this space, you need investors who understand 10-year timelines, which usually means strategics (Microsoft, Nvidia, DARPA-adjacent US agencies) rather than traditional Canadian VC. This is one reason many quantum founders end up doing a ",[35,323,324],{"href":66},"Delaware flip"," before Series B.",[11,327,328,329,331],{},"If you're building here, the ",[35,330,255],{"href":254}," has more density in quantum and photonics than anywhere else in the country.",[21,333,335],{"id":334},"synthetic-biology-and-biotech-toronto-and-montreal-split-the-pie","Synthetic biology and biotech: Toronto and Montreal split the pie",[11,337,338],{},"Deep Genomics raised $180M across its life. Ranomics, BenchSci, and Cyclica were all built in Toronto's MaRS orbit. The University of Toronto's Donnelly Centre is the single most productive biotech feeder in Canada, and the AbCellera exit in Vancouver (IPO'd at a $10B market cap, now trading lower but still a real company) proved you can build a billion-dollar biology company in Canada without moving to Boston.",[11,340,341],{},"Montreal has a different flavor. Valence Discovery (acquired by Recursion in 2023 for $47.5M) came out of Mila. Repare Therapeutics went public at $2B. The AI-plus-biology overlap is where Montreal punches above its weight, largely because Yoshua Bengio's shadow reaches into every drug discovery lab in the city.",[11,343,344,345,348],{},"Biotech in Canada has one persistent problem: capital efficiency looks great until you hit Phase II trials, and then you need $200M rounds that Canadian funds can't lead. Almost every biotech founder ends up raising from Boston, SF, or NYC. That's fine, but it means you need to know US investors early. If you haven't started building those relationships, ",[35,346,347],{"href":58},"this piece on Canadian founders and US investors"," is worth reading before your seed round closes.",[21,350,352],{"id":351},"climate-hardware-calgarys-second-act","Climate hardware: Calgary's second act",[11,354,355],{},"The most surprising cluster of 2025-2026 is Calgary. Ten years ago the city's talent pool was 90% oil and gas. Today, that same pool of chemical engineers, geophysicists, and drilling specialists is building carbon capture, geothermal, and hydrogen companies.",[11,357,358],{},"Carbon Upcycling raised $34M to turn CO2 into concrete additives. Eavor is doing closed-loop geothermal with $200M+ in strategic capital from BP and Chevron. Summit Nanotech pulled $50M for direct lithium extraction. These aren't consumer climate plays with marketing budgets. They're heavy-industry startups selling to utilities, cement companies, and mining majors.",[11,360,361],{},"Vancouver has its own climate hardware scene. Svante does carbon capture with $318M raised, including from Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy. General Fusion has spent 20 years on magnetized target fusion and finally has a demonstration plant coming online. Moment Energy repurposes EV batteries for grid storage.",[11,363,364],{},"Climate hardware is capital-intensive, slow, and often the most rewarding for founders who understand physics and manufacturing. It's also the sector where Canadian federal funding (SIF, SDTC, NRC IRAP) actually moves the needle. A $10M SIF grant in climate hardware is the difference between building your pilot plant in Alberta or in Texas.",[21,366,368],{"id":367},"semiconductors-and-hardware-quietly-ottawa-and-montreal","Semiconductors and hardware: quietly, Ottawa and Montreal",[11,370,371],{},"Nobody talks about Canadian semiconductors, but the country has a real chip design community concentrated in Ottawa (Ranovus, Ciena's spinouts, the old Nortel diaspora) and Montreal (Untether AI raised $125M for inference chips before hitting turbulence in 2025).",[11,373,374],{},"Tenstorrent, run by Jim Keller, is technically Toronto-based and now valued at $2.6B after its 2024 round. It's the closest thing Canada has to a hyperscale chip company, and it's hiring aggressively across Toronto and Austin. If Tenstorrent hits, it's the biggest Canadian hardware exit since RIM.",[11,376,377],{},"The subsector that nobody's noticed: photonics and optical networking. Vancouver-based EFFECT Photonics, Ottawa's Ranovus, and Toronto's POET Technologies are all building components that the AI datacenter buildout desperately needs. As GPU clusters scale past 100,000 chips, the bottleneck moves from compute to interconnect. Optical is where that gets solved.",[11,379,380,381,385],{},"For deeper context on how AI infrastructure and hardware intersect, ",[35,382,384],{"href":383},"\u002Fblog\u002Fai-startups-canada-2026","the state of Canadian AI startups in 2026"," covers the software side of the same story.",[21,387,389],{"id":388},"where-the-exits-are-actually-happening","Where the exits are actually happening",[11,391,392],{},"Venture-scale outcomes in Canadian deep tech from 2020-2026, ranked by exit or last-round valuation:",[247,394,395,398,401,404,407,410,413],{},[250,396,397],{},"AbCellera (Vancouver, biotech): IPO'd at $10B, now $1.5B",[250,399,400],{},"Tenstorrent (Toronto, semiconductors): $2.6B private",[250,402,403],{},"Xanadu (Toronto, quantum): $1B private",[250,405,406],{},"Photonic Inc. (Vancouver, quantum): estimated $500M+",[250,408,409],{},"Repare Therapeutics (Montreal, biotech): $2B IPO, now smaller",[250,411,412],{},"Eavor (Calgary, geothermal): $500M+ private",[250,414,415],{},"Svante (Vancouver, carbon capture): $1B+ private",[11,417,418],{},"The pattern: biotech produces the biggest exits, semiconductors have the most upside per dollar invested, quantum is the longest-duration bet, and climate is where the strategic capital shows up early. If you're picking a subsector to build in, ask yourself which of those timelines matches your appetite.",[11,420,421,422,426],{},"Notice something else: outside of AbCellera, most of these companies eventually took majority US or international capital. Deep tech in Canada gets started here, but the follow-on rounds almost always require crossing the border. This is why ",[35,423,425],{"href":424},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcanadian-founder-c-corp-us-investors","the C-corp question"," matters so much for hardware and biotech founders specifically.",[21,428,430],{"id":429},"what-canadian-deep-tech-founders-are-getting-wrong","What Canadian deep tech founders are getting wrong",[11,432,433],{},"Three patterns come up repeatedly in conversations with technical founders across Vancouver, Toronto, and Kelowna.",[11,435,436],{},"First, they under-invest in commercial hiring. A quantum PhD founder will spend 18 months perfecting their tech stack and then hire their first salesperson six months before Series A. That's backwards. Your first commercial hire should happen the day you have a working prototype, not the day you need to close revenue.",[11,438,439],{},"Second, they treat government funding as the goal instead of the fuel. SIF, SDTC, and IRAP grants are useful, but they're not a business model. Every deep tech founder I talk to who's raised more than $50M in dilutive capital treats grants as a way to extend runway between VC rounds, not as their primary funding strategy.",[11,441,442,443,447],{},"Third, they wait too long to meet other technical founders. Deep tech is lonely. Your investors don't understand your tech, your friends don't understand your timelines, and your team is too small to have peers at your level. Founders who make it to Series B almost always have three or four other founder-friends they text at midnight when the reactor breaks. If you haven't built that bench, start now. ",[35,444,446],{"href":445},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffounder-loneliness-canadian-startups","Founder loneliness"," is real and it's worse in deep tech than anywhere else.",[21,449,196],{"id":195},[11,451,452,455],{},[79,453,454],{},"Is Canadian deep tech actually competitive with the US?","\nIn specific subsectors, yes. Quantum (Vancouver), AI hardware (Toronto), and carbon capture (Calgary\u002FVancouver) are globally competitive. In general-purpose semiconductors and biotech Phase II+, no. Capital depth still matters and the US wins on Series B and later.",[11,457,458,461],{},[79,459,460],{},"Do I need to move to be taken seriously?","\nNo, but you need to travel. Most successful Canadian deep tech founders spend 30-40% of their time in the Bay Area, Boston, or DC building investor and customer relationships. You can keep your team and IP in Canada while doing that.",[11,463,464,467,468,471],{},[79,465,466],{},"What's the best Canadian city to start a deep tech company?","\nIt depends on the subsector. Quantum and climate: Vancouver. AI and semiconductors: Toronto or Montreal. Biotech: Toronto or Vancouver. Energy: Calgary. The ",[35,469,470],{"href":100},"best-province question"," has a longer answer, but for deep tech specifically, proximity to a research university with your specific specialty matters more than tax rates.",[11,473,474,477],{},[79,475,476],{},"How much do I need to raise for a deep tech seed round in Canada?","\n$3-8M is now standard for Canadian deep tech seeds in 2026. That's up from $1.5-3M five years ago. Hardware and biotech skew higher, software-heavy deep tech (quantum algorithms, bio-informatics) can still get away with $2M.",[21,479,481],{"id":480},"where-founders-actually-meet-each-other","Where founders actually meet each other",[11,483,484],{},"Deep tech founders don't get much out of general startup events. The conversations that matter happen when you're sitting next to two other technical founders who are one round ahead or one round behind you, and neither of you has to explain what a qubit or a lipid nanoparticle is.",[11,486,487,488,491,492,497,498,503,504,39],{},"That's what we built Founder Feast for. Five founders, one restaurant, no pitching, Thursday evenings at 7pm in ",[35,489,172],{"href":170,"rel":490},[166],", ",[35,493,496],{"href":494,"rel":495},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fsan-francisco",[166],"San Francisco"," and ",[35,499,502],{"href":500,"rel":501},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Flos-angeles",[166],"Los Angeles",". If you're building a Canadian deep tech startup and you want to spend an evening with four other people who actually understand what you're working on, ",[35,505,241],{"href":239,"rel":506},[166],[21,508,245],{"id":244},[247,510,511,516,522],{},[250,512,513],{},[35,514,515],{"href":383},"The state of Canadian AI startups in 2026",[250,517,518],{},[35,519,521],{"href":520},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbuilt-in-vancouver-startups-2026","Built in Vancouver: startups to watch in 2026",[250,523,524],{},[35,525,526],{"href":125},"Building a startup in Toronto",{"title":267,"searchDepth":268,"depth":268,"links":528},[529,530,531,532,533,534,535,536,537],{"id":311,"depth":268,"text":312},{"id":334,"depth":268,"text":335},{"id":351,"depth":268,"text":352},{"id":367,"depth":268,"text":368},{"id":388,"depth":268,"text":389},{"id":429,"depth":268,"text":430},{"id":195,"depth":268,"text":196},{"id":480,"depth":268,"text":481},{"id":244,"depth":268,"text":245},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fblog\u002Fcanadian-deep-tech-startups-2026","2026-09-04","A grounded look at Canadian deep tech startups across quantum, biotech, climate, and hardware. Who's funded, where they're based, and what's working.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcanadian-deep-tech-startups-2026",{"title":297,"description":540},"canadian-deep-tech-startups-2026","blog\u002Fcanadian-deep-tech-startups-2026","-LtDdo6Dnpm_CJ2sRDZerHL5o-ZT_JQBeINTxhAFLa0",{"id":548,"title":549,"author":550,"body":551,"canonical":856,"city":280,"date":857,"description":858,"extension":283,"faq":859,"image":284,"meta":872,"navigation":286,"path":520,"seo":873,"slug":874,"stem":875,"tag":291,"updated":280,"__hash__":876},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fbuilt-in-vancouver-startups-2026.md","Built in Vancouver: 21 Homegrown Startups Defining the City in 2026","Loic Bachellerie",{"type":8,"value":552,"toc":844},[553,562,568,572,598,611,624,628,634,640,646,650,656,662,668,674,678,684,690,694,700,706,712,718,724,728,734,740,744,750,756,762,768,774,778,781,792,798,810,814,830,834,837],[11,554,555,556,561],{},"Vancouver is now the #43 startup ecosystem globally and #2 in Canada, according to ",[35,557,560],{"href":558,"rel":559},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.startupblink.com\u002Ftop-startups\u002Fvancouver-ca",[166],"StartupBlink's 2026 index",", with six unicorns and a top three that has collectively raised more than USD $13.6B. If you want a fast, useful snapshot of what is actually being built here, this is the list: 21 homegrown Vancouver startups, who founded them, what stage they are at, and what they do.",[11,563,564,565,39],{},"We picked companies headquartered or substantially founded in Metro Vancouver, weighted toward those raising, hiring, or shipping in 2025 and 2026. For deeper context on the broader province, see our ",[35,566,567],{"href":254},"BC startup ecosystem breakdown",[21,569,571],{"id":570},"why-vancouver-and-why-now","Why Vancouver, and why now",[11,573,574,575,580,581,586,587,591,592,597],{},"A few numbers to set the table. British Columbia pulled in ",[35,576,579],{"href":577,"rel":578},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ellty.com\u002Finvestors\u002Fbritish-columbia-investors",[166],"$938 million in venture capital in Q3 2025 alone",". The metro's tech workforce sits at ",[35,582,585],{"href":583,"rel":584},"https:\u002F\u002Fgrowthlist.co\u002Fvancouver-startups\u002F",[166],"nearly 150,000",", the third-largest in Canada. In 2024, Vancouver startups attracted ",[35,588,590],{"href":583,"rel":589},[166],"over $1.4 billion in VC, up 35% year over year",", and by mid-2025 ",[35,593,596],{"href":594,"rel":595},"https:\u002F\u002Fvantechjournal.com\u002Fp\u002Fyour-exclusive-guide-to-vancouver-s-tech-scene-in-2026",[166],"more than 50 funding rounds"," had already closed.",[11,599,600,601,605,606,610],{},"The operating cost gap is still real. Vancouver runs ",[35,602,604],{"href":583,"rel":603},[166],"30 to 40% cheaper than Seattle or San Francisco"," on engineering-heavy teams. Median Series A valuations have climbed from ",[35,607,609],{"href":583,"rel":608},[166],"$15M in 2023 to about $22M in 2025",", signalling that better companies, not just cheap ones, are coming out of the city.",[11,612,613,614,619,620,39],{},"Core sectors: ",[35,615,618],{"href":616,"rel":617},"https:\u002F\u002Ffundraiseinsider.com\u002Fblog\u002Fvancouver-startups\u002F",[166],"CleanTech, BioTech, gaming, FinTech, Web3, and B2B software",". Legacy proof points that Vancouver companies scale globally include ",[35,621,623],{"href":583,"rel":622},[166],"Slack (originally Tiny Speck), Hootsuite, Absolute Software, and Lululemon's digital division",[21,625,627],{"id":626},"deep-tech-and-quantum","Deep tech and quantum",[11,629,630,633],{},[79,631,632],{},"1. Photonic."," Quantum computing. Founded by Dr. Stephanie Simmons, Photonic is building silicon-based photonic qubits and is one of the anchor deep-tech bets in the region.",[11,635,636,639],{},[79,637,638],{},"2. General Fusion."," Fusion energy. Burnaby-based, working on magnetized target fusion, one of the longest-running deep-tech companies in the province.",[11,641,642,645],{},[79,643,644],{},"3. D-Wave."," Quantum annealing. Public, but still Burnaby-headquartered and still a magnet for local quantum talent.",[21,647,649],{"id":648},"ai-and-developer-tools","AI and developer tools",[11,651,652,655],{},[79,653,654],{},"4. LayerZero Labs."," Omnichain interoperability protocol. One of the highest-valued crypto infrastructure companies with Vancouver roots.",[11,657,658,661],{},[79,659,660],{},"5. Dooly."," Sales workflow and AI note-taking for revenue teams. A durable Vancouver SaaS story.",[11,663,664,667],{},[79,665,666],{},"6. Klue."," Competitive intelligence platform for enterprise sales and product marketing teams.",[11,669,670,673],{},[79,671,672],{},"7. Jane Software."," Practice management SaaS for health and wellness clinics. Bootstrapped for years, quietly one of the most-used vertical SaaS tools in North America.",[21,675,677],{"id":676},"fintech-and-payments","Fintech and payments",[11,679,680,683],{},[79,681,682],{},"8. Mogo."," Personal finance and crypto. Public, still shipping.",[11,685,686,689],{},[79,687,688],{},"9. Grow (Grow Technologies)."," Fintech tooling for credit unions and banks.",[21,691,693],{"id":692},"climate-energy-and-mobility","Climate, energy, and mobility",[11,695,696,699],{},[79,697,698],{},"10. Svante."," Carbon capture. Filter-based CO2 capture systems for heavy industry.",[11,701,702,705],{},[79,703,704],{},"11. Moment Energy."," Second-life EV battery storage. Coquitlam-based, taking used EV packs and building commercial energy storage.",[11,707,708,711],{},[79,709,710],{},"12. Damon Motors."," Electric motorcycles. High-performance EV two-wheelers.",[11,713,714,717],{},[79,715,716],{},"13. Ionomr Innovations."," Ion-exchange membranes for green hydrogen and fuel cells.",[11,719,720,723],{},[79,721,722],{},"14. E-One Moli Energy."," Advanced lithium-ion cell manufacturing, one of the few North American cell makers.",[21,725,727],{"id":726},"health-bio-and-life-sciences","Health, bio, and life sciences",[11,729,730,733],{},[79,731,732],{},"15. AbCellera."," Antibody discovery. Public and still one of the anchor biotech employers in the city.",[11,735,736,739],{},[79,737,738],{},"16. Aspect Biosystems."," 3D bioprinting for tissue therapeutics, with a high-profile partnership pipeline.",[21,741,743],{"id":742},"consumer-creator-and-commerce","Consumer, creator, and commerce",[11,745,746,749],{},[79,747,748],{},"17. Thinkific."," Course creation platform for creators and educators. Public, headquartered in Vancouver.",[11,751,752,755],{},[79,753,754],{},"18. Article."," Direct-to-consumer furniture. Digital-first, category-defining brand.",[11,757,758,761],{},[79,759,760],{},"19. Later."," Social media scheduling and creator marketing. Merged with Mavrck, still a core Vancouver software employer.",[11,763,764,767],{},[79,765,766],{},"20. Copperleaf."," Asset investment planning software for utilities and infrastructure operators.",[11,769,770,773],{},[79,771,772],{},"21. Trulioo."," Global identity verification. One of the reliable late-stage private companies in the ecosystem.",[21,775,777],{"id":776},"what-this-list-tells-you-as-a-founder","What this list tells you as a founder",[11,779,780],{},"Three patterns to notice.",[11,782,783,784,787,788,791],{},"First, deep tech is real here. Photonic, General Fusion, D-Wave, Svante, Ionomr, and AbCellera are not weekend projects. They rely on UBC and SFU research pipelines and on patient capital that is comfortable underwriting long timelines. If you are a technical founder considering ",[35,785,786],{"href":125},"Vancouver versus Toronto"," or ",[35,789,790],{"href":100},"choosing a province",", the deep-tech density is a real reason to pick BC.",[11,793,794,795,797],{},"Second, vertical SaaS keeps winning. Jane, Klue, Dooly, Thinkific, Copperleaf, and Later all built durable revenue by owning a narrow workflow. None of them needed a Bay Area zip code to do it, though many of their customers and later-stage investors are American. If that describes your path, our guide on ",[35,796,59],{"href":58}," is worth a read.",[11,799,800,801,805,806,39],{},"Third, capital is here but selective. ",[35,802,804],{"href":594,"rel":803},[166],"50-plus rounds by mid-2025"," is a healthy pace, but the median Series A now sits around $22M, which means the bar on traction has moved up. Pre-seed and seed founders should plan runway accordingly. We cover the current bar in ",[35,807,809],{"href":808},"\u002Fblog\u002Fraising-pre-seed-canada-2026","raising pre-seed in Canada 2026",[21,811,813],{"id":812},"the-physical-scene-is-expanding-too","The physical scene is expanding too",[11,815,816,817,821,822,497,825,829],{},"New spaces like ",[35,818,820],{"href":594,"rel":819},[166],"Althra, North House, and COAST Hub in Victoria are opening",", and projects such as Game On (led by Chris Neumann) and The Syndicate are actively trying to \"bend gravity toward Vancouver.\" If you are picking a workspace or a neighbourhood, our ",[35,823,824],{"href":143},"best coworking spaces for Vancouver founders",[35,826,828],{"href":827},"\u002Fblog\u002Fgastown-founders-guide","Gastown founders guide"," go deeper.",[21,831,833],{"id":832},"meet-the-founders-behind-these-companies","Meet the founders behind these companies",[11,835,836],{},"Reading a list is one thing. Sitting across from a founder who is one round ahead of you is another. Founder Feast runs curated dinners in Vancouver with vetted founders across exactly the sectors above: deep tech, vertical SaaS, fintech, climate, and health. Small tables, no pitching, real conversations.",[11,838,839,840,39],{},"If you are building in Vancouver and want to meet the people actually shipping the companies on this list, ",[35,841,843],{"href":842},"\u002Fapply","apply to join a Founder Feast dinner",{"title":267,"searchDepth":268,"depth":268,"links":845},[846,847,848,849,850,851,852,853,854,855],{"id":570,"depth":268,"text":571},{"id":626,"depth":268,"text":627},{"id":648,"depth":268,"text":649},{"id":676,"depth":268,"text":677},{"id":692,"depth":268,"text":693},{"id":726,"depth":268,"text":727},{"id":742,"depth":268,"text":743},{"id":776,"depth":268,"text":777},{"id":812,"depth":268,"text":813},{"id":832,"depth":268,"text":833},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fblog\u002Fbuilt-in-vancouver-startups-2026","2026-08-31","A founder's guide to 21 Vancouver-built startups in 2026, with stage, founders, and what they do, plus the ecosystem context behind the list.",[860,863,866,869],{"q":861,"a":862},"How many unicorns does Vancouver have in 2026?","According to StartupBlink's 2026 Global Startup Ecosystem Index, six Vancouver startups have exceeded USD $1 billion in valuation, and the top three have collectively raised more than USD $13.6 billion.",{"q":864,"a":865},"How much venture capital did BC startups raise recently?","British Columbia startups raised $938 million in venture capital in Q3 2025 alone, and Vancouver startups attracted over $1.4 billion across 2024, a 35% year-over-year increase.",{"q":867,"a":868},"Is it cheaper to build a startup in Vancouver than in Seattle or San Francisco?","Yes. Vancouver offers roughly 30 to 40% lower operating costs than Seattle or San Francisco while maintaining comparable engineering talent quality, which is a big reason US-headquartered companies open Canadian offices there.",{"q":870,"a":871},"What sectors is Vancouver strongest in?","The strongest sectors are CleanTech, BioTech, gaming, FinTech, Web3, and B2B software, with notable depth in quantum computing, carbon capture, and vertical SaaS.",{},{"title":549,"description":858},"built-in-vancouver-startups-2026","blog\u002Fbuilt-in-vancouver-startups-2026","Bv3zmI_K9aY9A---WQD-G3ca-6edLpQh4918id0zCWw",{"id":878,"title":879,"author":6,"body":880,"canonical":1060,"city":280,"date":1061,"description":1062,"extension":283,"faq":280,"image":1063,"meta":1064,"navigation":286,"path":254,"seo":1065,"slug":1066,"stem":1067,"tag":291,"updated":292,"__hash__":1068},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fbc-startup-ecosystem.md","BC Startup Ecosystem Guide (2026): Funding, Tax Credits, Talent",{"type":8,"value":881,"toc":1050},[882,885,888,891,895,898,901,904,907,911,914,917,923,926,930,933,936,947,951,954,957,962,966,969,975,981,991,995,998,1001,1004,1007,1011,1014,1017,1033,1035],[11,883,884],{},"British Columbia quietly became the largest venture market in Canada, and most founders outside the province still haven't caught up. In 2025, BC pulled in $2.4 billion CAD in venture capital across 71 deals, capturing roughly 31% of national VC while representing about 16% of deal volume. Translation: the companies being built here are getting bigger checks from more serious investors than anywhere else in the country.",[11,886,887],{},"With 9,400+ tech companies and over 200,000 tech workers, BC is no longer emerging. It's a mature ecosystem with real exits, real capital, and real gaps. If you're building here in 2026, the playbook has changed since Slack sold, and knowing the current version matters.",[11,889,890],{},"Here's what actually works in BC right now, from SR&ED at the new $4.5M ceiling to which accelerators still write checks that matter.",[21,892,894],{"id":893},"the-exits-that-built-the-credibility","The exits that built the credibility",[11,896,897],{},"Any honest conversation about BC starts with the exits, because that's what tells investors this geography produces fundable and acquirable companies.",[11,899,900],{},"Stewart Butterfield grew up in Lund, a fishing village on the Sunshine Coast. He built Flickr (Yahoo bought it for $25M in 2005), then Slack (Salesforce bought it for $28B in 2021). That single trajectory reshaped how Vancouver thinks about ambition.",[11,902,903],{},"Clio, founded by Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau in 2008, raised its $900M round in 2024 at a $3B valuation and is now tracking toward a public offering conversation in 2026. Hootsuite crossed $400M in revenue before its recapitalization. Thinkific went public on the TSX at $1.25B. Unbounce hit $50M+ in revenue bootstrapped from a Vancouver apartment. Dapper Labs, the team behind NBA Top Shot, still headquarters in Vancouver despite the crypto winter shakeout. STEMCELL Technologies now employs 2,700 people and clears $580M in revenue.",[11,905,906],{},"These aren't lucky one-offs. They're the compounding output of an ecosystem that's been quietly building for 20 years.",[21,908,910],{"id":909},"the-structural-edges-founders-keep-underestimating","The structural edges founders keep underestimating",[11,912,913],{},"The timezone argument matters more than founders admit. Pacific Time puts you in the same working hours as your Silicon Valley investors, customers, and design partners. If you've ever tried to run a Series A process from Toronto with a lead in Menlo Park, you already know what a three-hour delta does to deal velocity.",[11,915,916],{},"BC also sits on the Asia-Pacific corridor. Direct flights to Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, and Sydney open commercial opportunities that Eastern Canadian founders have to route through LAX to reach.",[11,918,919,920,922],{},"Then there's talent. UBC pulled in $972M in research funding for the 2025-26 cycle. SFU and UVic add another $400M+ combined. The BC PNP Tech pathway now runs weekly draws across 32 eligible occupations with a two-to-three month processing timeline, which is faster than Ontario's equivalent stream. Combined with the ",[35,921,118],{"href":117},", founders here have hiring tools most provinces can't match.",[11,924,925],{},"Compensation still runs 25-35% below Bay Area rates for senior engineers as of Q2 2026. A staff engineer in Vancouver costs around $210K CAD all-in versus $340K USD in San Francisco. That gap extends runway without dropping quality.",[21,927,929],{"id":928},"where-the-money-actually-comes-from","Where the money actually comes from",[11,931,932],{},"The $2.4B raised in 2025 came from a mix of local funds and cross-border capital. The established BC names still writing checks: Yaletown Partners (founded 2002), Vanedge Capital (2010), Rhino Ventures, Version One, and Pender Ventures. Kensington Capital Partners manages the $101M BC Tech Fund, a government-backed vehicle targeting the province.",[11,934,935],{},"At the earliest stages, the accelerators still matter. Launch Academy has supported 6,400+ founders whose companies have collectively raised $2.7B. New Ventures BC has run for 25 years and helped alumni raise over $900M. CDL-Vancouver operates deep tech, climate, and AI streams. For cleantech, Foresight remains Canada's largest accelerator with $2.4B deployed and 30,000+ industry connections. BC led the country in cleantech deal count again in 2025 with 18 transactions.",[11,937,938,939,942,943,946],{},"The gap? Series B and beyond. Most BC companies raising $30M+ rounds still bring in a US lead. If you're planning a growth round, start building those relationships early. Our guide on ",[35,940,941],{"href":58},"Canadian founders and US investors"," walks through the mechanics, and if you're weighing structure changes, the ",[35,944,945],{"href":66},"Delaware flip breakdown"," covers what actually happens.",[21,948,950],{"id":949},"tax-credits-and-grants-that-move-real-dollars","Tax credits and grants that move real dollars",[11,952,953],{},"Canada's SR&ED program is the single most valuable government incentive available to BC startups, and most first-time founders leave money on the table. As of the 2025 federal budget implementation, the refundable credit rate stayed at 35% on qualifying R&D expenditures, but the expenditure ceiling rose to $4.5M for private CCPCs (up from $3M). That change is worth an extra $525K in refundable credits per year for R&D-heavy companies.",[11,955,956],{},"SR&ED stacks with IRAP grants (still writing $50K to $10M+ tickets in 2026) and Innovate BC programs, which relaunched the Ignite fund in early 2026 with $30M earmarked for natural resources and life sciences. A well-structured BC startup can layer these to get 40-60% of R&D costs subsidized in the pre-revenue phase.",[11,958,959,960,39],{},"On the talent side, the BC PNP Tech stream has been permanent since 2021 and processes weekly. If you're hiring internationally and planning around it, factor 10-14 weeks from job offer to work permit, not the six months you'd budget under federal Express Entry alone. For a broader comparison of provincial tradeoffs, see ",[35,961,101],{"href":100},[21,963,965],{"id":964},"sectors-where-bc-punches-above-its-weight","Sectors where BC punches above its weight",[11,967,968],{},"Three verticals are genuinely world-class here, not just regionally strong.",[11,970,971,974],{},[79,972,973],{},"Life sciences"," is anchored by UBC's research output and Vancouver's clustering around Great Northern Way. The province has 2,100+ life sciences companies employing 22,000 people. AbCellera's IPO in 2020, STEMCELL's continued growth, and the recent $180M Series C for Notch Therapeutics show the ceiling.",[11,976,977,980],{},[79,978,979],{},"Cleantech"," benefits from BC's clean energy grid (98% hydro), a regulatory environment that actually rewards emissions reduction, and Foresight's purpose-built scaling infrastructure. Svante, General Fusion, and Moment Energy all sit in the Lower Mainland.",[11,982,983,986,987,990],{},[79,984,985],{},"AI and enterprise software"," remain the largest category by deal count. Vancouver's AI cluster around the Vector Institute's western partners and companies like Ada, Later, and Jane has produced steady deal flow. If AI is your space, the ",[35,988,989],{"href":383},"2026 Canadian AI startup landscape"," is worth reading before you plan your raise.",[21,992,994],{"id":993},"what-the-ecosystem-still-lacks","What the ecosystem still lacks",[11,996,997],{},"No honest read on BC ignores the gaps.",[11,999,1000],{},"Late-stage capital is thin. The 71 deals that made up 2025's $2.4B were heavily skewed by five rounds over $100M each. Take those out and the median BC Series B looks a lot smaller than the Toronto equivalent. Companies raising growth rounds still fly to New York, Boston, or the Bay.",[11,1002,1003],{},"Housing remains brutal. Vancouver ranks in the top three least-affordable cities globally, which affects both founder quality of life and the ability to recruit senior talent from Toronto or the US. Kelowna and Victoria have absorbed real migration from founders wanting BC's ecosystem without the $2.4M starter home.",[11,1005,1006],{},"The repeat-founder density is still building. San Francisco has a compounding advantage from decades of exits producing angels who become mentors who become investors. BC has that layer now, but it's thinner. The Slack, Hootsuite, and Clio alumni are starting to write checks and take board seats, but the informal knowledge transfer that accelerates a first-time founder still happens slower here than in the Valley.",[21,1008,1010],{"id":1009},"how-founders-actually-break-in","How founders actually break in",[11,1012,1013],{},"The founders who build real networks in BC do it through consistent, deliberate relationship-building, not event attendance. The ecosystem is large enough to have depth but small enough that the same few hundred people show up repeatedly as co-investors, advisors, customers, and hires. Getting into that orbit matters more than any single pitch competition.",[11,1015,1016],{},"Felix Böck started ChopValue in 2016 with $200 and a chopstick recycling idea. He now runs a franchise operation on three continents. His public credit for the scale: Vancouver's willingness to back an unconventional bet. That openness to real differentiation, more than category familiarity, is what BC founder culture actually rewards.",[11,1018,1019,1020,1023,1024,1027,1028,1032],{},"If you're building here and want a seat at the table with founders working through the same problems, ",[35,1021,6],{"href":164,"rel":1022},[166]," runs Thursday dinners at 7pm across ",[35,1025,172],{"href":170,"rel":1026},[166],", Toronto, and Kelowna. Five founders, one restaurant, no pitching. Just the kind of conversation that compounds. ",[35,1029,1031],{"href":239,"rel":1030},[166],"Apply for your first dinner"," and we'll match you with four founders worth your Thursday.",[21,1034,245],{"id":244},[247,1036,1037,1041,1046],{},[250,1038,1039],{},[35,1040,265],{"href":100},[250,1042,1043],{},[35,1044,1045],{"href":143},"Best coworking spaces in Vancouver for founders",[250,1047,1048],{},[35,1049,828],{"href":827},{"title":267,"searchDepth":268,"depth":268,"links":1051},[1052,1053,1054,1055,1056,1057,1058,1059],{"id":893,"depth":268,"text":894},{"id":909,"depth":268,"text":910},{"id":928,"depth":268,"text":929},{"id":949,"depth":268,"text":950},{"id":964,"depth":268,"text":965},{"id":993,"depth":268,"text":994},{"id":1009,"depth":268,"text":1010},{"id":244,"depth":268,"text":245},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fblog\u002Fbc-startup-ecosystem","2026-08-28","BC captured 31% of Canadian VC in 2025 with 9,400+ tech companies. Where the funding, tax credits, and talent actually are, from Vancouver to Kelowna.","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fbc.jpg",{},{"title":879,"description":1062},"bc-startup-ecosystem","blog\u002Fbc-startup-ecosystem","yiu9f99whxDqniLx6Y6ejcYeYibRw1zSPvSsWlWb6KI"]