Vancouver Island Business Vancouver Island Business

The island's
next decade
starts here.

The island builds real companies, then exports them before local capital ever meets them. VIBE brings the two into one room.

01 · For capital

See what the island
is building before
anyone else does.

Vetted deal flow and the island's private-market intelligence layer. By invitation.

Investment opportunity

The strongest company in the room, backed on stage October 27.

Deal sourcing

Vetted island startups, application-only.

Due diligence

The Island Capital Report, unveiled October 27.

Service partners

The island's best service firms. Contracts, not just cheques.

Who

Angels, family offices, and funds with island appetite.

Process

Request, we review fit, and invited capital receives a seat.

Cost

By invitation. Not ticket sales.

Request an invitation Curated, not sold
02 · For builders

Stay on the island. Build for the world.

Where island builders meet the capital and operators who can back them. 200 seats, one annual shot at a six-figure SAFE.

Fundraising

Assigned introductions to the capital in the room.

Community

Warm intros across the island's founder and operator network.

Network

One team: island-first, global ambition.

Visibility

A profile in the island's data layer.

Who

Island founders with traction, from software to trades and manufacturing.

Process

Apply, every application is read, and selected builders take one of 200 seats.

Cost

Free to apply. The room closes at 200.

Apply for a seat By application only
03 · The ecosystem

One brand. Three lanes.

04 · The gap

The island already works. The cheques do not.

$19MReported angel capital deployed across ALL of BC in 2025. Organized island activity rounds to zero.

The capital to back them is already here: angels, family offices, and funds with island appetite. What the island has never had is a curated place where founders and funders actually meet, so the cheques that could land here get written elsewhere instead. VIBE exists to close that gap.

What the island has already built

$27.7BSlack's sale to Salesforce. Its co-founder was raised in Victoria and studied philosophy at UVic.
€1.5BIngenico's 2017 purchase of Bambora, the payments group that had absorbed Victoria's Beanstream.
$341MCanon's 2021 acquisition of Redlen, the Saanichton firm whose photon-counting chips reinvented CT imaging.
$86MCarmanah, Victoria's solar-LED pioneer, taken private in 2019 after two decades on the TSX.
$50MCertn's 2022 Series B, one of the island's largest venture rounds, for AI-powered background checks.
TSXTiny, Andrew Wilkinson's Victoria holding company, went public in 2023.
1995AbeBooks founded in Victoria. Amazon bought it in 2008. It still runs from Victoria.
1,400+Organizations run the mapping software Victoria's Latitude Geographics built, now global as VertiGIS.
2006MetaLab founded in Victoria. The studio that designed Slack's interface, bootstrapped by Andrew Wilkinson.