Category: BLOG

To help retailers navigate the new reality, we sat down with startups like BRIKA, Foko Retail, and Ampli by RBC Ventures. Here’s an additional perspective from Business Council of Canada.

With physical stores closed to the public and consumers confined to their homes, COVID-19 is reshaping retail. As part of our series on retail innovation we reached out to Jen Lee Koss, CEO of BRIKA to talk about the future of retail.

This week, we released our Crisis Manifesto: How retail will change post-Coronavirus report to help retailers navigate their new reality. As part of our series on retail innovation we sat down with Mark Gingras, CEO of Foko Retail to talk about integrated commerce, impact on culture, and more.

COVID-19 is reshaping retail. As part of our series on retail innovation we sat down with Darby Sieben, Head of Ampli and RBC Ventures’ Business to Consumer Experiences to talk about how to survive this shifting market and why improving the e-commerce experience could be the answer.

We engaged one of our corporate partners to help evaluate the opportunity we saw in the market. And after months of research and validation, alongside our team, Moselle was born. Today, Moselle is live offering trade businesses easy-to-use trade financing and currency exchange services.

The future of cars is electric. Perhaps the future of all mobility is electric. We’re excited about the future of EVs and believe in ChargeLab’s potential to become a key platform player in this space, driving charger installations and user growth in the market.

The future of a fully remote workforce is already here, as thousands of businesses have moved to remote. We witnessed Zoom becoming a social network overnight. We too use Slack more than before, and double-down on Asana. Now is the time to do what every innovator does best: adapt.

COVID-19 is infiltrating every aspect of life. So what’s it like to start in a new role in the time of global pandemic? We sat down with Benjamin Prigent, our new Senior Product Designer at Highline Beta to talk about this unique experience we know others may share right now, as employers and employees.

At this point, we all realize that the situation we’re facing is serious. Having been through the dot-com bust, the financial crisis and now going through this, we know for certain that things will be tough, but it’s entirely possible to come out the other side and be in a better position than before. Here’s how.

Mike Finnerty of CBC’s Daybreak Montreal sat down with Marcus Daniels, CEO & Founding Partner of Highline Beta to discuss their latest exciting venture – a new Montreal office. Montreal’s economy is doing well, the artificial intelligence sector is booming alongside gaming, higher education and innovation. And so Highline Beta has opened a new Montreal location to add to its offices in Vancouver and New York.