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At Best Startup Canada we track over 100,000 Canadian startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top British Columbia based CEO’ operating in the Developer APIs space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.ca.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Hamed Arbabi
CEO & Founder of VoPay
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About VoPay: VoPay is a leader in payment innovation, digitizing online bank account payments with speed and transparency.
Devan Koshal
Founder, CEO, & Head of Product of Commerce.js
Born in New Zealand, Grew up in England, based out of Vancouver/SF. Founder, CEO, & Head of Product @ Commerce.js (Chec)
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About Commerce.js, Swipe: Commerce.js is a developer of a modular eCommerce platform for developers and designers.
Conan Reis
Founder/CEO and Chief Mad Computer Scientist of Agog Labs
SkookumScript creator Conan Reis is a 22-year video game industry veteran (including United Front Games, EA Blackbox, LucasArts, Electronic Arts Canada), a world leader in the design and implementation of video game programming languages, and a noted professional mad computer scientist. He specializes in the gameplay and artificial intelligence aspects of game development, and creates 3D world editors, the guts of game engines and other development tools. His programming languages include the distributed language “Ergo” (developed in 1995, funded in part by a $105K grant from the BC Innovation Council) and “ChewieScript” (developed in 2001 as the successor to the LucasArts’ legendary SCUMM scripting language). Conan founded Agog Labs in 2004 to create SkookumScript—after initial development, United Front Games licensed SkookumScript to serve as the backbone of their award-winning open-world games Sleeping Dogs (2012) and Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition (2014), and the massively multiplayer Triad Wars (2015). Conan has shipped products for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 & Xbox One, Sony PlayStation 2, 3 & 4, Nintendo Wii & GameCube, and Sega Genesis. When the credits roll at the end of movies about science running amok, Conan’s friends often point an accusing finger at him and predict that one of his creations will someday destroy the world… or save it?
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About Agog Labs: The proud purveyors of SkookumScript, the superpowered real-time scripting language and tool suite that was made for video games.
Nolan Tait
Co-Founder & CEO of Internuncio Technologies Inc.
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About Internuncio Technologies Inc.: A Crowdsourcing Control Center, Built for Developers
Ali Dahesh
Founder, CEO of Dynamikode Software Ltd.
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About Dynamikode Software Ltd.: Dynamikode was established in 2012 as a software developer company in British Columbia. Bidween is our first experience in mobile ecosystem.
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