THIS WEEK IN TECTORIA

A community blog celebrating Victoria's booming tech sector

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Got a cool story about technology and creativity in Victoria? Email stories, tips, pictures, links and anything of interest to Tessa Bousfield at: tectoria@viatec.ca

SportstoNews

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: SportstoNews!

Local tech company, SendtoNews (STN), just launched SportstoNews.com, a full service sports page hosting service, giving publishers a rich and engaging golf news site, entirely automated, curated and monetized by STN.

SportstoNews.com provides publishers with a dedicated golf vertical site that is customized to their own site’s look and feel and is constantly updated with the latest content from STN’s video library as well as editorial articles. The page is made available free of charge to the publisher with their domain placed in the URL. STN monetizes the sites with a share going to the linking publisher.

This is an incredible addition to STN’s already impressive portfolio and we congratulate them on this accomplishment! Click here to read the full press release.

2016 VIATEC Food Bank Challenge participants!

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Our Tectorians of the Week are our challenge participants! (so far):
GlobalWide Media, RevenueWire, GenoLogics, Beanstream, RingPartner, Victoria Flying Club, Tourism Victoria, Carmanah Technologies Corp., Smart Dolphins IT Solutions, Victoria Airport Authority, HP Advanced Solutions, SendtoNews, CUBE Global Storage, FTS (Forest Technology Systems), StarFish Medical, AXYS Technologies and Flytographer!

These confident companies are the first to step up to the VIATEC Food Bank Challenge which runs from Nov 7th to Dec 2nd. There was no hesitation in signing up, and they’re all ready to come out on top with their cash and food donations for the Mustard Seed Food Bank!

There’s still time to sign up and be included in this list of amazing Victoria-based companies, boost your team morale and help us achieve our $100,000 goal!

Click here for all the details and contact engage@viatec.ca to accept the challenge.

#VIATECFoodBankChallenge

RevenueWire

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: RevenueWire!

RevenueWire recently sponsored the UVic Co-op & Career Fair Oct 4-5 that had swarms of students and grads filling the Student Union Building.

A few days later they announced that CEO Bobbi Leach is finalist in the Female Executive of the Year in Canada category for the annual Stevie Awards! She will be named a gold, silver or bronze winner at the awards gala in New York on November 18, 2016. This is the second nomination for Leach, who won silver in the category in 2015. For the full news release, click here.

RevenueWire is a giant supporter of our tech community with constant presence, community outreach and hiring talent from every VIATEC event!

Keep up the great work RevenueWire, and good luck to Bobbi!

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Tectoria

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: All of Tectoria!

Tectoria was on display at its finest from September 15-17 as 37 investors flew in from all over North America, and even Norway! Investors, public and media heard the latest news from local tech companies at the Launch & Learn and saw their products in action at Demo Camp. Investors even got one-on-one time with local entrepreneurs and dove into details during a private “Pitch ‘N Putt the Harbour” event.

In addition to this, over 200 people gathered at Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club for the largest FuckUp Night gathering yet, and there was unlimited networking on rooftops, on the water, in the sky and even at the Rifflandia Music Festival.

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A huge thanks to the following local tech companies that participated:

And another huge thanks to our Local Hosts and of course, the following Sponsors & Supporters:

MetaLab

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: MetaLab!

MetaLab helps the world’s top companies build amazing apps, products, and services. Over the past 9 years, they’ve helped everyone from tiny web startups to Fortune 50 companies build products that are simple, beautiful, and easy to use. Have you heard of the web’s most popular corporate chat client, Slack? Ya, they built that 🙂

They were recently featured on the “Inside Design” blog on InvisionApp.com. The author gave a great interview and allowed us to learn even more about this amazing Victoria-based company!

Have a read right here.

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Eve Olynyk

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: Eve Olynyk!

Eve has been VIATEC’s Engagement Concierge as a part of her UVic BCom co-op for the past 4 months.

In this short amount of time, she has made VIATEC’s Accelerator Programs run incredibly smooth by giving the Executive in Residences (EiRs) and the Program Director very helpful insight, and gotten to know our local tech stars who help make tech the #1 sector in Victoria.

In addition to mastering the Accelerator Program, Eve has helped VIATEC with monthly networking events and the 2016 VIATEC Technology Awards.

Finally, in her “spare time” she even built a new site for the Accelerator Program!

To really grasp a “week-in-the-life-of”, give Eve’s blog a read. VIATEC sure kept her on her toes!

Eve is on her way to Portugal for a 6 month exchange and we wish her all the best. Who knows what talents she’ll come back with as she has already:

Come bid her farewell at tonight’s Member Appreciation Night and meet the three co-op students auditioning to take her spot!

Oh, and ask her about this photo…

Eve, the Silicon Valley Code Goddess

Eve, the Silicon Valley Code Goddess

SendtoNews

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: SendtoNews!

Victoria-based SendtoNews announced this week a new syndication partnership with McClatchy, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the United States! The agreement will see the rollout of SendtoNews’ sports video content across McClatchy’s digital publishing operations, which reach vibrant communities ranging from Sacramento to Fort Worth to Miami.

SendtoNews is North America’s leading Sports Video Ad Platform serving an expanding publisher network of more than 1500 news properties. SendtoNews generates over 200 million monthly video views through the distribution of exclusive and semi-exclusive content from 75+ sports leagues, including the NBA, MLB, NFL, NASCAR, PGA Tour, NCAA and Premier League Soccer.

A HUGE congratulations to the SendtoNews team on this great achievement.

To read the full press release, click here.

Echosec

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: Echosec!

Have you heard of location-based searching? Have you seen something like this below?

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Echosec puts social media on the map so you can discover a new view of your world. The made-in-Victoria technology hunts for media that has been geo-tagged and is offered by open web servers, going beyond commonly used search tools to enable anyone to capture, curate, manage, process and visualize data in an entirely new way. This is especially useful during the Summer Olympics!

In a nutshell, Echosec combines geo-tagged location data with social media feeds to learn just about anything about anyone online: where you live, where you work, what time you go to work, and possibly even what you were doing at work if you happened to be logged in to any number of popular social networks.

Echosec aggregates all this information in a single search.

Try the Echosec public app here.

And a BIG congrats to Echosec for winning a Stevie International Business Award!

Foundry Spatial

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: Foundry Spatial!

Local, award-winning environmental science and consulting firm, Foundry Spatial, unveiled a free new tool on Wednesday. It allows government, First Nations, industry and members of the public to access detailed information on water supply in the Cariboo region of the province. Impressive!

The Cariboo Water Tool presents monitoring information from 1,500 stream flow, groundwater, water quality and weather measurement stations in the central portion of the Fraser River watershed. It also uses innovative technology to estimate mean annual and monthly discharge for user-defined watersheds at over 180,000 locations, and provides an overview of watershed characteristics (including vegetation and topography), along with an overview of current climate and projected climatic conditions.

Read the full news release right here.

DoubleJump

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: DoubleJump!

DoubleJump is an independent gaming studio based in Victoria and on July 21st they announced the release of their brand new game, Slash Mobs, the studio’s fourth mobile game release to date!

Slash Mobs is a fast paced tap centric game that takes your character on an adventure through hundreds of levels filled with monsters and bosses trying to hold you back along the way. Collect valuable coins to build a team of heroes that will assist you on your quest to beat the toughest monsters and bosses even when you’re away from your device.

Maybe you can put the Pokemon Go down just for a little bit and try out a locally made game! Slash Mobs will be available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

To read the full announcement, click here.