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It’s been an extremely exciting kick-off to the summer here at Victory Square Technologies. With the release of our latest corporate report, additions to our advisory board, and many of our portfolio companies hitting new milestones, things are heating up. Read on to find out what VST and our portfolio family has been up to.
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We released our latest corporate update earlier this month, you can read it here.
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Victory Square welcomed three new members to its advisory board including Vancouver business veterans Darin Recchi, Carey Dillen, and Tasi Gottschlag. Read more about these new additions here
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We launched our first in a series of Facebook live interviews with the VST portfolio family. Our first guest was Barinder Rasode of Grow Tech Labs, you can watch the full chat .
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Victory Square CEO Shafin Diamond Tejani talked about Canada’s Cannabis Industry and what it needs to do to stay on top in this article for Quartz
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Victory Square COO Vahid Shababi was a participant in Holt Accelerator’s Selection Days in Montreal this month.
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Grow Tech Labs CEO Barinder Rasode was a featured guest on Global News talking about the price gap between the legal and illegal cannabis markets. Watch the full interview is here.
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GTL cohort the BC Small Cannabis Producers Co-op continued their series of community meetings across British Columbia this month. You can find out more about what went down here.
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Grow Tech Labs held a very successful Pitch Day at Kwantlen University in Surrey that featured a number of entrepreneurs from across the Cannabis sector. Check out photos from the event up on our Facebook page.
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Barinder also made an appearance on the Bloomberg News Network to discuss the legalization of craft cannabis producers. You can watch the full interview here.
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Copilot Advisor CTO Jesse Chen spoke with the BC Tech Association about their nomination for Company Of The Year at the 2019 BC TIA’s. You can watch the full piece here.
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Copilot also announced that they have earned a 41 NPS, and a G2 High Performer 5 out of 5 rating.
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The team at Multapplied continue to drop knowledge bombs about the magic of SDWAN. Keep up to date with what they’ve got going on via their blog.
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Covalent has launched Defistats, a tool for visually exploring the emerging use-cases of decentralized finance on the blockchain. See it in use here.
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Shape Immersive CEO Alex Chuang is the latest member of our portfolio companies to sit down with us as part of the In Conversation series. You can read the full interview here.
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The team at Compression.Ai were featured by Nvidia in their latest blog. Read the article here.