Calgary Named Emerging Tech Ecosystem to Watch 🚀

Nov 07, 2022

📰 In The News

Absorb Software, Neo Financial, and Purpose Med on path to $1 Billion in annual revenue according to Communitech.
Goodlawyer, a legal tech startup, was named as Calgary’s Small Business of the Year.
More than 30 tech companies have signed a letter sent to Alberta’s Premier voicing their objection to the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientist of Alberta’s (APEGA) call to regulate software engineers.
Ownly, the ‘Shopify for Real Estate’, secures $2.55 million in seed funding led by Calgary’s Blue Sky Equity.
Avenue Calgary Magazine has announced their Top 40 under 40 including notable tech leaders such as Andrew Chau, Co-founder and CEO at Neo Financial, Brett Colvin, Co-founder and CEO at GoodLawyer, Mark Blackwell, General Partner at Builders VC, and Robert Price, Co-founder and CEO at Bode.
Calgary was named as a top emerging FinTech ecosystem to watch in Startup Genome’s ‘Global Startup Ecosystem’ Report. CBRE has also ranked Calgary third in their ‘Next 10 [Tech] Markets to Watch’ list.

Attabotics, a 3D robotics supply chain system, was selected by the United States Department of Defense to install an automated storage and retrieval technology as part of the KPMG LLP team’s 5G Smart Warehouse Experiment in Albany, Ga.
Walnut Insurance has partnered with Neo Financial to bring their insurance offerings to Neo’s customer base of over 1 million users.
Helcim partners with Xero to bring their payment integrations to Xero’s cloud accounting software clients.
Tetra Trust, Canada’s first trust company to be licensed to custody digital assets, has partnered with Coinsquare to provide their 500,000+ users with safe and secure custody services for their crypto assets.

Symend, a platform that uses behavioural science to empower customers to resolve overdue payments, forms a Chief Impact Officer role to ensure that purpose-driven behaviour and strategy is embedded throughout the organization. The role will be filled by Symend’s Co-founder Tiffany Kaminsky.
WestJet has announced that Calgary will become their home base and exclusive global connecting hub.
Sidetrade, a global AI firm, chooses Calgary as the site of their newest North American office. They plan to invest $24 million and bring 110 jobs to the city over the next three years.
Neo Financial launches bundles, a ‘pick-your-own-perks’ program on their credit card, that allows their customers to customize their rewards in categories like Travel, Everyday Essentials, and Food & Drink.

CFA Society Calgary is hosting a panel on ‘The Future of Fintech’ on November 8th. The panel includes Mark Le Dain (VP of Corporate Development at Neo Financial), Pamela Draper (President and CEO of Pateno Payments Inc. & Bitvo Inc.), Kevin Brent (VP Finance at Reach Ltd.), and will be moderated by Ari Panders (Associate Professor of Finance at the Haskayne School of Business). RSVP to the event here.
Innovation Week YYC is taking place between November 21st and 27th. The week will be jam-packed with events, panels, workshops and pitches. To view the schedule and learn more, visit the Innovation Week’s website.
Prairie Dev Con comes to Calgary on November 28th and 29th. The event brings together software professionals throughout Calgary. Get your tickets here.