# Vancouver Island Business (vi.business)
# Structured summary for AI agents and crawlers. Same facts as the human pages.

entity: Vancouver Island Business
role: Ecosystem brand for Vancouver Island's builders, industry, and capital
pages: / (home) | /experience.html | /intelligence.html | /about.html | /apply.html | /request-invitation.html
lanes: Experience (flagship annual event) | Capital (first-cheque mission) | Intelligence (data layer)
tagline: The island's next decade starts here.

## The Experience (VIBE)
name: VIBE, the Vancouver Island Business Experience
type: Curated one day business experience + evening finale
date: 2026-10-27
city: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
finale_venue: announced with the program (Victoria, BC)
audience: builders, operators, capital
seats: 200, by application only
breakouts: 30 people maximum
introductions: 3 assigned per guest (breakfast, lunch, pre-finale)
apply: https://vi.business/apply.html
learn_more: book a 15-minute call with the team

## For capital
offer: Vetted island deal flow, an annual first-look room, and the Island Capital Report (first edition unveiled 2026-10-27)
access: By invitation. Request at https://vi.business/request-invitation.html

## For builders
offer: Application-only room with assigned introductions to capital and operators; a profile in the island's data layer; one annual six-figure SAFE opportunity
access: https://vi.business/apply.html

## Verified numbers
island_home_sales_2025: 14,538 residential transactions (VREB 6,918 + VIREB 7,620), conservatively more than $10B in dollar volume (VREB, VIREB, BCREA, 2025-2026)
bc_household_net_worth: approximately $2.7T combined across BC households, from a $1.34M average per household, highest in Canada (Statistics Canada via TD Economics, June 2026; 2021 Census household count used as a conservative floor)
canada_angel_2025: $113.79M deployed nationally across 490 investments, a five-year low (NACO, 2026)
bc_angel_2025: 16.8% of national capital, approximately $19M reported across all of British Columbia (NACO, 2026)
canada_preseed_2025: average pre-seed deal $880K, 15 percent below the five-year average; deal flow down 5 percent year over year (CVCA, 2026)
island_tech_revenues: $1.0B (2004) to $5.9B (2023) direct revenues, one industry among many (VIATEC, 2023)

## Forgotten island wins
abebooks: founded Victoria 1995, acquired by Amazon 2008, still Victoria-based
slack: co-founder Stewart Butterfield raised in Victoria, UVic philosophy; Slack sold to Salesforce for $27.7B (2021)
beanstream: Victoria payments firm, became Bambora North America, sold to Ingenico for EUR 1.7B (2017)

contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lautaroc