Customer Discovery and Re-discovery Webinar
Join us for an interactive webinar providing tips, best practices, and processes for customer discovery and re-discovery in an era of rapidly-changing markets. Guest speakers include Lesley Duncan, EIR & WEKH Co-ordinator at SFU VentureLabs, senior executives from Riipen and Intelligent Haptronic Solutions, and an introduction to the Customer Discovery Canvas by Adam Lorant from…
Top 5 Reasons To Enter the 2020 New Ventures BC Competition
Article originally published by New Ventures BC, March 3, 2020. Visit newventuresbc.com. BC’s largest and longest running tech competition is back. Applications for the 20th annual New Ventures BC Competition, presented by Innovate BC, are now open. Over the past 20 years, the New Ventures BC Competition has become a rite of passage for any…
Introducing the Women Entrepreneur Knowledge Hub at VentureLabs
What the heck is WEKH? Although it may be a bit of a mouthful, the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, otherwise known as WEKH, is a national program designed to understand address the needs of diverse women entrepreneurs across regions and across sectors. It is focused on co-creating knowledge to advance effective practices to support women…
Check out the video of SFU VentureLabs Demo Day 2019
Over 500 people attended SFU VentureLabs Demo Day – part of Vancouver Startup Week’s great series of events dedicated to highlighting the amazing entrepreneurial community in Vancouver. Attendees got to meet amazing companies who are part of SFU VentureLabs, RADIUS SFU, and Coast Capital Savings Venture Connection. Thirty companies shared their innovations on how they…
$16.1 Million in Funding for Women Entrepreneurs, the Launch of the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub in BC
With the support of the Government of Canada, WEKH will spread its expertise from coast to coast, enabling service providers, academics, government, and industry to enhance their support for women entrepreneurs. WEKH is spearheading a national network and accessible digital platform for sharing research, resources and best practices which will enhance the capacity of women entrepreneurs and the organizations who serve them across regions and sectors. There are nine regional hubs and a network of 75+ partners. SFU VentureLabs is proud to be the BC regional hub for WEKH.