This startup Pocketed $25K | The Morning Report

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Vancouver’s Pocketed took home the $25,000 grand prize from last night’s The Forum Pitch event.

The startup has developed a marketplace for entrepreneurs to access funding for their businesses. » Full report to come later today. For now, read our story from October: Pocketed secures $1M for its founder-funding marketplace.

Funding and deals:

• Investment firm All Blue Capital has offered to buy Vancouver’s Zymeworks, a publicly-traded biotech company. » Geekwire.

In other news:

• Victory Square Technologies is partnering with Canadian-based VC fund The Holt Xchange to co-host a fintech pitch battle. » Continue.

• Ghosts of the Machine, an immersive multimedia exhibit that opens soon at The Polygon Gallery, explores the relationships between humans, technology, and ecology. » Daily Hive.

• Twitter argues it’s ‘not a publisher’ in response to B.C. billionaire Frank Giustra’s defamation case. » Business in Vancouver.

• Fintech giant Square launched its loan offering in Canada, making the financing available to its Canadian merchants. » BetaKit.

• Sparkgeo harnesses the power of geospatial data to help tech companies move forward. » BCBusiness.

Ideas and insights:

• How will Elon Musk's Twitter purchase impact free speech on social media? B.C. expert weighs in. » CTV News.

• Greg Smith, CEO of Thinkific, writing in Entrepreneur: Work Is Changing, Again. Here’s How To Thrive In The Skills Economy

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