Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Vancouver.
Practicing orthopedic hand surgeon. Investor in several small companies.
SPACELORD!!1! @adobe-systems formerly @nitobi-software mostly working on @phonegap-2 aka the @apache-software-foundation project Cordova
Founder of @presentate. Frmly UI+UX at @apple, Product Designer at @apture (acq. by @google), creator of Modernizr (used on 800k+ sites globally).
http://farukat.es/
Co-Founder of @mightyhive, @SupporterWall, and others. First startup in 2000. @yahoo alum. Early-stage advisor. Developer. Husband. Makes impossible possible.
http://tumble.jeremyhubert.com
Chief of Staff at @pch-international
Founder @markup4u • Worked at @unbounce, @playhaven • Studied at @national-kharkiv-university
http://dybskiy.com
CEO & Co-Founder at @rewardloop. Co-Founded @eqo-communications. Signed up 2MM+ mobile users before app stores existed. MIT Tech Review TR35.
WordPress.com engineer, open source developer, and bogey golfer.
Founder @invesd, investor, developer
GM Europe PlayFab. Opened offices for @unity & @ubisoft. Ran multimillion user online projects. Entrepreneur, award-winning developer with 15 years of experience.
Vancouver. SSJSer.
Software Engineer at @khan-academy
https://plus.google.com/110287455381476170305/posts
Technology leadership. Strong software engineering & research b/g. Builder of teams. Formal b/g in computer science & math. Created 1st company in University.
http://datascholars.com/
Technology Entrepreneur with 8 years of professional experience in FinTech
Founder Pathful • Worked at @sophos, @silkstart-technology
Founder at @caliper-io; Director of Product at @joyent ; Founder @layerboom (now part of Joyent)
http://trevoro.net
iOS Developer
http://robsandhu.com
http://github.com/hsandhu
http://robsandhu.tumblr.com
currently @caarbon , built @axiom-zen , @zenhub • worked at @wanelo , @etsy , @threadsy • Studied at @louisiana-tech-university
http://bits.constantx.com
Co-Founder of @retsly. Full Stack Hacker from Vancouver Canada. Software is a symptom of entrepreneurial spirit.
Co-founder/CTO @nitobi-software (acq'd by @adobe). Worked on @phonegap-1 and @robotreplay (acq'd by @foresee-results). PhD, investor, father, and lover of beer.
Founded @emotely (Acquired by @brass-monkey Inc.). Senior Game Engine Architect turned HTML5 Developer & Evangelist.
http://francoislaberge.com/
Co-Founder + iOS Developer @theplayapp. Formerly on BI Team @hootsuite. Love to see creativity in action.
Software Engineer and Growth Hacker
http://jbueza.blogspot.ca
CEO/Co-founder of @trippeo. Previously founded Geotoko (acquired by @hootsuite)
Co-founder of @sunnytrail, worked at @google and @bitdefender
Product Designer @crew • Studied Engineering at @mcgill-university
CTO @ecquire . Interested in social and environmental justice, nature, birding, farming, web development, javascript, open source. Resilience in everything.
Worked at @trulioo • Studied at @british-columbia-institute-of-technology-1
CTO of Eruptive Games; Software at Sitemasher, acquired by salesforce.com. Software guy at Motivus, aquired by Citrix Systems.
Co-Founder and CTO - @7geese.com
21-year-old web entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of HelpHub.
Founder and CTO @hiretheworld-com • Worked at @pwgsc • Studied at @simon-fraser-university. Full stack developer with management and executive skills.
Founder and CEO of Loupe / @shape-collage. PhD Comp. Eng. Univ. Toronto in Machine Learning and Computer Vision. Worked at Google and Microsoft Research.
Technophile with big systems experience applied to brand new start-ups and established enterprises. Loves making a difference in sales, delivery and strategy.
Passionate about startups and code. Coding professionally since junior year of high school. Globetrotter; very amateur photographer; fluent in French & English.
Full-stack developer / team lead
Co-Founder @wantering. UX designer and frontend architect that has built interfaces for HTML5 mobile, natural language search, and high-traffic syndication.
http://blog.niccai.com/
Co-Founder of @caliper-io; Co-Founder @gofreerange; Led development on products for Thomson Reuters, GE, @telefonica & @twitterfeed. BSc Computer Science.
Self-taught, full-stack engineer, who loves what he does. Currently CTO @strutta.
I build technology to enable people to make better decisions. PhD (Machine Learning & Optimization)
http://carchrae.net
Co-founder of @sunnytrail. Worked at @google & @nokia.
Tech Lead @mybesthelper , Co-Founder of Pomocni.pl (@niania-pl) Strong IT background, T-Shaped, Studied @warsaw-university-of-technology
A Rails developer passionate in technology trends, literature, paint, arts... And lately, a clojure padawan.
http://www.rafael-chacon.com
Worked at @grantoo, Blitzoo, Coole-Immersive, EventIQ, Chrome, @radical-entertainment • Degree from University of Lethbridge
UBC Software Systems Grad, exploring ways to improve software quality delivered t
Leader, veteran strategist, full stack developer, entrepreneur & communications expert
http://ericbrooke.wordpress.com/
Ordering bytes and pixels for positive impact
Founder @bluebat-games • Worked at @electronic-arts, @criterion-software
Founder @caliper-io • @open-source-1 Contributor • Worked at @ibm, @microsoft, @paystack • Did @computer-science & @cognitive-science at @simon-fraser-university
Worked at @electronic-arts, @dell, @venuespot • Studied at @university-of-british-columbia, CS / Psychology. Geek, organizer & presenter at meetups.
http://www.tommytcchan.com
Co-founded @bex.io, @Spawngrid, @railsware. Open Source developer. Public speaker. Multidisciplinarian. Cryptocurrencies aficionado
Studied at @university-of-waterloo
CTO of Loupe, PhD in computer science; HCI researcher, worked in tech industry and research labs across US and Canada
Android Developer @grantoo. 6 years experience in end-to-end Mobile Application development. Currently specializing on the Android platform.
Technophile, recent SFU eMBA grad, strong background in delivery and strategy. Recently launched 2 cloud apps on python, built twilio prototype end to end, scaled out engineering teams, worked at EA, blastradius
Node.JS Developer at NodeFly/StrongLoop, previously at a YC company called Opzi. Interested in machine learning, WebRTC, PaaS architecture and startups!
http://stephenbelanger.com
@massachusetts-institute-of-technology & MIT-Sloan Alum, MS Engineering & Management, Researcher at CSAIL.
Software Engineer @axiom-zen, Founder @zenhub and @limezy, master in CS from @utbm
Full-stack dev. I love making APIs, AngularJS apps and coffee. Lots of coffee.
Founder of @routific • Full-stack dev @axiom-zen • MSc in Operations Research • Equity Trader at @ubs-investment-bank, @capgemini-consulting
http://@kuomarc
Software engineer @humanapi . Built security systems used by the Department of Homeland Security. Hardware hacker.
I build stuff and ride bicycles.
Technical Director
Rubyist. Engineer. Thinker.
Senior Software Developer at @payrollhero.com. Ruby on Rails hacker and javascript pro. Lean and agile enthusiast. Social animal.
A programmer who has launched multiple well-received iOS and Facebook applications. Also an accomplished graphic artist that understands layout and proper UX.
Biosignal Analyst at @om-signal. Worked at @canassist • Studied at @university-of-victoria. Patents in EEG and Gait analysis. Facial - EMG based HCI.
Founder @bidwars • Working at @retsly.
"If you don't work you don't eat, you don't grind you don't shine" - M. Jones
lead front-end dev @bugbuster , mobile dev, freelance teacher and sencha touch author
http://www.florentlamoureux.fr/blog
Founder @crowdsway, Filmmaker, Engineer and Marketer. 4th Place Winner of Startup Weekend and Patent Pending.
Full Stack Django @tindie
http://marcsibson.com
Worked at @invisible-gmbh, @simplificator-gmbh • Studied at @university-of-washington, @cornish-college-of-the-arts
Mobile Lead at Invoke Labs. Founder of Orange Pco. BSc in Computer Science from the University of Victoria (Emphasis in Software Engineering)
Designer | Developer | Doer
Extensive experience developing test-driven, maintainable, readable code – concentrating on large-scale web applications, web services and distributed systems.
http://arthur.gonigberg.com
Keep showing up to the party
Hackerpreneur, co-founder of @anahita ™ social networking platform and PurpleRat Tribe. We are specialized in mobile apps and social networking technologies
http://blog.anahitapolis.com
JavaScript, JavaScript, JavaScript. Employee #1 at Retsly.
http://luke.vivier.ca/
Mobile Developer at Grantoo. Cofounder and Lead Developer at AppSocial. BSc Cmpt Sci.
Maxime Parmentier, Front-end Development Director at 7geese.com
I'm coding everyday with Javascript, Backbone.js, CSS3 and many HTML5 technologies. Know NodeJS, Python and PHP. Studied web development and marketing.
I write code.
Lead dev at @contractually, worked at @indochino • B.Ap.Sc. Engineering Physics from @university-of-british-columbia
Founder and CTO of Sky Motion Research. Founding Member Discreet Logic (IPO, subsequently acquired by Autodesk). Director of Technology at Ubisoft.
Lead developer @bluebat-games. Currently working on developing Facebook apps and games and exploring different social channels it has to offer.
Developer & Digital Strategist. Technical Lead at Brightkit
Lead developer at @spacelist. Been writing code since before it was cool.
Software Engineer @wantering
Interaction research engineer working on Chrome. Previously at Apple.
Vice-President @codecore-bootcamp-2
Support Engineer at @lemonstand • Studied at @university-of-british-columbia
UBC B.Sc Mathematics, UWindsor M.Sc Statistics. Statistician who knows Ruby on Rails, Javascript and other web dev tools. Competitive online gamer.
Cofounded Petromedia Ltd in 2001, leading website for the global marine fuel market, Bunkerworld.com. Ben holds a Masters degree in Advanced Computer Science.
Mobile entrepreneur & tech anthropologist. CEO @jiber, founding team @Blueslice, Harvard/H150, race bikes for @lgevolution, adventure skier, guitar slayer
http://northgeek.com
Product development specialist with 15 years of experience in high pressure, start-up environments. Firm believer in the power of great process.
CS, social sciences student at UofT, graduating June 2014. Interned as full-stack developer in summer 2013.
Founder & Sole Developer/Designer @placeunit • Worked at @the-walt-disney-company • Studied at @tel-aviv-university University
CTO @pixelmatic, technical director, TCP/IP ninja, cross-platform game developer, and entrepreneur. BSc & MSc specialized in Distributed Multimedia Systems.
Backend generalist; Problem solver & executor. Detail-oriented, driven, passionate, chill • Worked at @indochino, @blast-radius • MSc at UBC, BSc at Dalhousie
Front-end developer at @axiom-zen; proficient in puck handling and stick skills
First employee at @Top Hat Monocle, now working with @sokanu to help people discover their passions. Passionate in using tech for good, as well as good techno.
Hackerpreneur, Co-Founder of @anahita, @purplerat, @rmdstudio, @tinyrecipe
http://blog.anahitapolis.com
Previously, Director of Development at Tingle.com
Previously, developer at Relic Entertainment & Slant Six Games (Company of Heroes, SOCOM)
http://parveenkaler.com
Engineering @playyon-inc, CTO @suite101, SW Lead Darelle, co-founder CollabVillage, Eng: Tantalus, ActiveTelco(acq), Touchwave(acq) | @university-of-manitoba
Founder | CEO - FlightOffice.com, Former senior aviation manager, 20 years as a commercial pilot, Software engineer, Founder Institute grad.
Co-Founder at Mini Checkout
Full-stack web and app developer, ex-management consultant (KPMG), entrepreneur with current and past startup experience (FlyShortcut.com, TimeAuction.org).
Founder @cartching • Studied at @bachelor-of-information-technology-comp-sci-software-dev-majors-griffith-university
http://conradpk.com
Founder @allberta-com, Customerge • Worked at @intercell, @venturesource • Studied at @university-of-victoria
Entrepreneur, co-founded Pandoo TEK, founded localhost Ltd., executive in various companies and security expert, contributor @ EU and global projects.
http://rev-eng.blogspot.ca/
Interactive Designer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Machine learning engineer at Intel. CEO at @fixational
Co-Founder @truth, @foro • CS at @university-of-british-columbia
CTO and Co-Founder of @tago. Strong software engendering background. 1st startup turned to be profitable.
Worked at @r-ga with @nike, @mastercard and @nokia making things happen.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nike+-running/id387771637?mt=8
Designer, UI Engineer, UX Advocate, Digital Illustrator, Sketchnoter.
http://www.calvin-c.com
Waterloo CS, full stack polyglot, worked at Microsoft and Amazon; now loving the startup space!
Bram Whillock
http://www.bramski.org
UBC CS. Full Stack Web Developer. UI/UX Designer. Founded and sold NPO Crowdfunding company in 24 months
I helped make that thing you like on the Internet. Google, Upcoming.org, Flickr, Wikipedia.
http://neilk.net/
Indie front-end/UX developer. Principal at @taunt-media, founder of @protagonize, organizer of @VancouverCX, new dad. Community, webdev, standards & hockey.
http://www.tauntmedia.com
I've made Flash & HTML5 games gaining millions of plays and revenue in the tens of thousands. Not bad for someone who skipped past high school.
Founder @goodnights-1 . Full stack & business. Spearfisher. SCUBA Instructor
Developer with MBA, solid coding experience in Objective-C, Java, and PHP.
Worked at @ogilvy, @avioc-studios-indonesia-http-www-avioc-com • Studied at @georgia-state-university
https://medium.com/@whuxleyvan
Worked at @contractually, @blitzoo
http://rockieweb.com/jhorton
Software engineer with a background in social media policy. Pursuing user-focused front-end engineering opportunities in Vancouver, BC.
Software Developer at @allur-group, Architect of @spark-crm, Wizard of all things code.
http://chronicle.ryanilg.com
Worked at @electronic-arts, @the-walt-disney-company • Studied at @heriot-watt-university
MBA at @university-of-british-columbia
Bachelor of Computing at @university-of-guelph
Full-stack (django/JS/HTML/CSS) product guy with deep analytics and strategy background. I enjoy leading teams to build beautiful, usable, and useful products.
CTO at Tangoo. U of Waterloo CS Grad 2008. Worked at a number of start-ups as well as Business Objects (now SAP), IBM Deutschland, and CIBC.
Software Development Professional
http://mattpayne.ca
Drupal mechanic with @chapter-three. Really into baseball.
McGill CS student, UI/UX Front-End Design & Full Stack Developer
Founder Lost Elefant Technologies Inc. • Worked at @western-union-business-solutions • Studied at @rostov-state-university, @university-of-bremen
Software Engineer, localized an existing game, converted one to iPad and launched a new SKU
Founder, CEO of @isohunt-inc for the past 11 years.
http://garyfung.ca/
Graduate school at MIT. Worked at the CBC. Runs successful consulting business.
Full-Stack Engineer with 15 years experience. Ruby, Rails, Javascript and a keen eye for UX and design
CTO & Co-founder @dudepins, @discovle | 8+ years technology leader & solutions architect. Previously at, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry
Co-Founder @funl • Worked at @verafin, @alcatel-lucent, @logitech • Studied at @memorial-university-of-newfoundland. Outgoing, outspoken and Outdoorsy.
http://shawno.ca/resume.html
CPO & Co-Founder @sharedesk 8+ years Front-end/ Back-end engineering. Collaborative Consumption Enthusiast.
Full stack generalist, knows of many ways to get shit done - picks the most appropriate tools for the job at hand.
Founder @beamm • Worked at @microsoft, @razorfish • Studied at @clemson-university, @illinois-state-university
Junior developer at Spark CRM. Co-Founder at Fetch.
@iqmetrix / ex-MSFT / Castle Project founder / perfectionist by trade / INTJ / musician / Buddhism reader
http://hammett.castleproject.org/