COLW510 Class visited SFU's Venture Labs to learn top level work collaboration

TeamFit

I led the COLW510 grad students to SFU's Venture Labs to experience collaborative work environments in action. The entrepreneurship incubator in Venture Labs has great examples of successful collaboration between product specialists, venture capitalists, serial entrepreneurs, professional advisors and expert mentors. The Venture Labs is a world class business accelerator, set up a couple of years ago to provide the space and opportunity to promote the growth of clean tech industry in Canada in general and British Columbia in particular. Some of the partners in the program are the National Research Council of Canada, BC Innovation Council, Ryerson University, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, University of Victoria, Emily Carr University and BC Institute of Technology.

VentureLabs

The were about twenty start up companies within the space and facilities provided by Venture Labs when we visited. And the grad students were given introduction to two of the incubator companies that were involved in the business accelerator program, in particularly TeamFit and Instant. This was a suitable learning experience for them to experience top level collaborative working environments. Thus, providing them with two different samples for in-class discussion. TeamFit is a solution provider for skills and programs within organizations through their innovative platform. Whereas, Instant is a provider of a smarter payroll system with clients between both sides of the border.