City Highlights
Ranked 3rd in the world for its quality of living (Mercer Quality of Living Survey 2019) Vancouverʼs location on the West Coast offers the shortest distances to Asia from any major North American city, and its close proximity to San Francisco and Los Angeles make it a desirable West Coast destination.
Entertainment Technologies - Vancouver, British Columbia, has a fast-emerging virtual reality sector that benefits from a longstanding legacy in the film, video game and tech industries. The city has the largest cluster of top VFX and animation studios in the world, including Sony Pictures Imageworks, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), MPC, Double Negative, DHX Media, Animal Logic and Bardel Entertainment.
Clean Energy - 25% of Canada’s cleantech companies are based in Vancouver, which is also home the ‘BC Cleantech CEO Alliance’, the province’s industry association connecting a community of cleantech CEOs. There are examples of CleanTech companies are working in all sectors of the economy: Loop Energy in alternate transportation fuels, Saltworks in industrial wastewater treatment, Awesense in smart grids and energy analytics, and Teramerra in bio-pesticides and AgriTech.
Vancouver’s startup ecosystem is incredibly robust and filled with innovators such as Sensible Build Science for advanced building control system, Nano-lit for smart, human-centric lighting systems, and Portable Electric for portable renewable energy systems.
