Frontier Collective

Seeing is believing. We've toured Vancouver's mayor @KenSimCity over the years through the world's top innovation hubs, because you can't support what you haven't seen. Our vision to build an innovation engine, a center of gravity👇

Where does our grit and ecosystem come from? For our founder & CEO, @dburgar, it was an immigrant mom, a hard childhood, and a friendship that taught him what community really means. Here’s his story, a Q & A and how it built Frontier Collective 👇 frontiercollective1.substack.com/p/founder-q-an…

The Canadian men’s World Cup journey ends after a Round of 16 defeat to Morocco It’s been a riveting, uniting, game-changing historic run for this team. Remarkable scenes across the country for weeks. Families, friends, strangers coming together.

Unapologetically Canadian. Proud of getting to represent my country on numerous occasions, proud where I’m from, and proud of where we’re headed. I'll never not promote and push Canada forward. Happy Canada Day🇨🇦 🍁

We don’t just build ecosystems. We build interconnected ones. Innovation Missions are a core pillar of our platform — connecting founders and funders, collaborating across borders, building real community across the globe, not just within it. We’re amping this up. Where next?

Big congrats to Vancouver’s own @GeneralFusion — named the #1 GreenTech Company in the world by TIME Magazine. 🏆 CEO Greg Twinney is one of our advisors & brings exactly the kind of vision this ecosystem needs. Fusion isn’t science fiction anymore. 🔥

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NYC meets Vancouver. Global ecosystem builder Randolph Wiggins came to Frontier Summit and left with connections, collaborations, and later that year we signed an MOU to bridge two ecosystems. This is what we do @FrontierBC Oct 6-8, Vancouver → Frontier Summit

I wrote an op-ed in The @VancouverSun today. Slack was born in Vancouver. Sold for $27.7B from SF. Almost none came home. Two thirds of Canadian founders raising $1M+ now do it outside Canada. A decade ago it was under a third. Full article here: vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/…

Honoured to have Deputy Mayor of Vancouver @sarahkirby_yung and Parliamentary Secretary of AI and Innovation for Government of Canada. @Taleeb Noormohamed on stage at Vancity Innovation House last week. Elected leaders who actually get it. 🙌 #Vancouver #Innovation

Last week at Vancity Innovation House 2026 was absolutely incredible. 🏛️🔥 1500+ global leaders, investors, founders, policymakers, and builders. One building. One day. The most curated gathering of Web Summit Vancouver week. Thanks to all who were part of it!

What an end of the day and kick off to the evening portion, the Vancity Innovation House Rooftop VIP Happy Hour event was a great way to bring everyone together for drinks and conversation. Thanks to our co-hosts Vistera and @Vancity

Congrats to Insporos for taking home $20,000 at our Vancity Innovation House startup pitch competition🏆 They’re building seed intelligence, AgTech meets AI and honestly, the room felt it. One of those pitches where you just know. Huge thank you the judges & the other finalists

Yesterday's panel by @Vancity/@FrontierBC on "The AI Question: What do we actually want from it and who gets to decide?" -- moderated by Gurpreet Jhaj, with @GaryMarcus, @MadisonMills22 (@axios), and @arunbahl (@AloeInc) -- cut right to the heart of the question of how humans will exert or hand over our agency in this technological transition. Closing remark couldn't have put a finer point on it: Gurpreet: "What is one thing you want the founders and investors in this room to do differently when it comes to AI starting today?" Arun: "You still have a lot of choice. The other machine that directs our behavior is the economy. Yet humans can exercise their decision making, and build things in line with their own values. So do that."

10 frontier tech startups. One stage. $20,000 on the line. May 12th. Vancity Innovation House. During Web Summit week. The companies pitching aren’t just building products — they’re solving problems that actually matter. thefrontiercollective.com/vancity-innova…

One week. Almost sold out. Vancity Innovation House. May 12th. Vancouver. 🆕 Gary Marcus just joined the lineup, one of the world’s most honest voices on AI. He joins Microsoft, Khosla, A16Z, General Fusion, TED, Slack, and many more on stage. thefrontiercollective.com/vancity-innova…

A look back at our SXSW Frontiers of Innovation VIP dinner in Austin

Vancity Innovation House is back. May 12th. Vancouver. One day. The most curated room of Web Summit week. $20,000 Pitch Competition for Canadian startups — applications close tomorrow at noon. thefrontiercollective.com/vancity-innova… See you there.

It’s back!! Vancity Innovation House. May 12th. Web Summit week. 2,700+ attendees last year called it the standout event of the week. This year we’re going bigger. Sign up: thefrontiercollective.com/vancity-innova…

Some rooms you don’t forget. This was one of them. The Frontier Summit after movie is live. Go watch it.