It’s official. The companies advancing to Round 2 of the 2009 New Ventures Competition has been shortlisted, and it’s a pretty long list. Not for long though as the Round 2 submission deadline is May 27th and the following list will be cut down to 30.
The submissions broke down by type of business as follows:
- BioEnergy: 3.4%
- CleanTech: 17.0%
- Life Sciences: 6.3%
- IT: 20.5%
- New Media / Internet: 39.2%
- Other: 13.6%
And while there was definitely a concentration of submissions from Metro Vancouver, the rest of the province is well represented:
- Metro Vancouver: 67.0%
- Kootenays : 4.0%
- Thompson/Okanagan: 13.1%
- Vancouver Island + Sunshine Coast: 13.6%
- North : 2.3%
The companies advancing to Round 2 are:
- 2-i n-1 Hockey Stick
- 9KVentures
- A New Way of Automatic Memory Management
- Aboriginal Cogeneration Corporation
- AdvancedAIS Back Office Systems
- Adventure Engine
- Aerogeonautics Inc
- AESS – Adverse Environments Sleep Systems
- Allocadia Software
- Anaerobic Digestion attached to a Greenhouse
- Annualized Geo-Solar Greenhouses
- Answermob
- Apricado Music
- AQUARANCH
- Athletic Attractors
- Awesense Wireless
- BC BioAnalytics
- best choice green
- Bet Smart Media
- Bluekey Energy
- Blue-O Technology INC
- Bored Dialogue
- Bosko Water Technologies
- Buddy Browsing
- Canadian Agrichar Inc.
- clickTributes
- Clinical Media Ltd.
- Clio
- coanda water intakes
- cohedit
- Collingwood Carbon Solutions, Inc.
- Connected Display Media Network
- Convertix
- Coredova
- Critikatt
- Critter Guard Lock Systems Inc.
- Crowd Ready Applications Inc.
- CrowdFanatic
- D2D Metro Transport Solutions
- Dark Matter Labs – Enterprise Data-Encryption Appliances
- DEQQ
- Desktop Energy Monitor Software
- DetectiveAdventure Online Game
- Digital Receipts
- Dynamic Leap Technology Inc.
- EasyPlug
- eFoods
- Electric Hubcap
- eMangue Media tee.
- Employee Scheduling Software
- Enginelock
- EnviroSpeak.tv
- Ethico
- Etalim Inc.
- Eversun Software Corp
- EvolutionaryInk
- Fast Seismic Data Processing
- FundRazr
- G.R. Green Building Products Inc.
- Gaby Internet Server
- Global Hitch Enterprises Ltd.
- Golf Ball Retriever
- Gree nCharge Technologies
- GreenSky
- GroupThink+
- Gym Technik – Mobile Fitness Tracking
- Habitat Information Collection System
- High Volume Surgical suction apparatus
- Hornet ‘S’ Series Portable Safety Signaling Device
- HuStream Technologies Inc.
- IMU Studios
- Indel Therapeutics Inc.
- Integrated resource management and activity scheduling system
- Journey for Answers
- JumpStartWeb
- Keun ho Lee
- Kickspike
- Kok Technologies
- Kootenay Alternative Fuels
- KP Advanced Technologies & DH Assistive Device
- Layerboom Systems
- LightIntegra Technology Inc.
- Liquid Ring Vacuum Energy Recovery System
- LQ
- Magnetic Shield Clothing
- Main Street Energy Company
- MasteryGuides.com
- MedVoxel Systems, Inc
- Milti Positioning Joint
- Mirametrix Researc h
- Mobify
- Mobile interne t equipment for take-out restaurants
- Modopost
- MosaStore
- MUG Solutions
- Multidomaining
- Multimedia Entertainment Network
- Muutu
- Mynheer ‘Bugg-e’
- Nanocap Water Purification Breakthrough Technology
- Nanocritical Corp.
- NeurOptimalâ„¢
- NovoTech Software
- Nuna Energy Corporation
- Nuvo Power Systems
- Oistr.com
- Omicrun Technologies
- Online Trade Community
- Optemo
- PDFTron
- PerpetualP
- Personal Power Production
- Pharma 2.0 Inc.
- PopText Networks
- PortaLife Solutions, Inc./CarrotLines
- Postajob.ca
- Pro-Active Safety Systems Technologies inc.
- Projecho
- Projjex
- Proposal Pro
- Purelito Water Solutions
- Quatra Enterprises Ltd
- Quadrogen Power Systems, Inc.
- Rainforest Automation
- Real Estate Bid Management
- Reality Of Addiction
- REV – Rapid Electric Vehicles
- Rilli
- Roll Coupling Hitch
- Ronin Fuel Cell
- Second Nature Sustainable Agritech
- Seek Events
- SewerVUE
- Sharing-Books
- SkiPage
- Softserv Innovation
- SoftSlang
- Spendit.com
- Splrg
- Stakeholder Relationship Management Software
- Stiklist Intelligent product matching engine
- Summit Data Systems
- Super Rehab Chair
- Synergy Enterprises
- Tailmaster
- TeamMap
- TechYou Media
- The Care Tools
- The Immobilizer
- The Shower Well
- Time Anew
- timinganddelivery.com
- Transparent Business Intelligence
- Transvascular Nerve Stimulation
- Trove Hangers
- Ultimate Visual Enhancement Ltd.
- Una Technologies Crop.
- UQ Events
- Valhalla Technologies Inc
- varz
- VeloComputer
- Veridae Systems
- Veritas Hydrophobic Polymers
- Video Employment Platform
- Vineyard Networks
- Vossworks
- Warfighter Situational Awareness System
- Warranty T racking System
- WaterWorking Wholesale Ltd.
- Wireless advertising network
- Xericrete
- Zedmo
- Zeeling