BC Business magazine revealed the 2013 edition of its 20 Most Innovative Companies in BC list and two BCIC-New Ventures alumni were recognized.
“The true mark of innovation isn’t just a good idea; it’s one that can be scaled and replicated,” writes BCBusiness. “Innovation isn’t something you do just once.” Read more
2012 BCIC New Ventures competitor Spruik, an online software-as-a-service referral platform, announced last week that they had raised “more than $200,000″ in private investment.
The funding was secured from the owner of SplitMango Media, a web development firm also based in Vancouver, who will partner with the startup. Read more
Late last week 2012 Top 10 competitor SemiosBIO was featured in the Vancouver Sun in an article titled Wireless connections open new era for pest control.
SemiosBIO CEO Michael Gilbert (pictured) is using wireless communication to change the way the world grows fruit and nuts. Read more
The 2012 BCIC-New Ventures Competition first prize winner MediaCore Technologies is at it again.
The cloud-based, online video learning platform has been named to Fast Company Magazine’s list of top ten most innovative in digital video. And its quite the honor as they are listed alongside Hulu, Vimeo, and YouTube. Read more
Last week 2012 BCIC New Ventures competitor iTendr had their restaurant reservation iPhone app approved by Apple.
iTendt was co-founded by Patrick Malone, Andrew van Wensen and Amos Pudsey. Read more
Vancouver’s Twothirds Water Inc. was awarded the $15,000 Vancity Social Venture prize in the 2012 BCIC-New Ventures Competition.
Now the for-profit social enterprise has launched a campaign on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to offer Tapp™ for pre-sale to online customers. Tapp is an extremely simple and versatile water filter designed for some of the most difficult circumstances in the world.
Six months of competition came to an end last night as the winners of the 12th annual BCIC-New Ventures Competition were announced in Vancouver.
From this year’s 146 applicants, top prizes were awarded to an online learning platform, a dental implant technology provider and an online child caregiver search tool.
“Each year our jury is extremely impressed with the quality of companies that enter the competition, and this year was no exception,” said Bob de Wit, Executive Director of the New Ventures BC Society. Read more
The BCIC-New Ventures Competition started with 146 companies and today have narrowed the field to ten finalist start-up technology companies that will pitch for $235,000 in cash and prizes.
This year’s top ten includes companies from Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island featuring new technologies in the IT, life sciences, and cleantech sectors.
The 2012 BCIC-New Ventures Competition Top Ten Finalists are:
(in alphabetical order)
EVT Power Inc., Vancouver
Kairama Inc., Richmond
MediaCore Technologies Inc., Victoria
MyBestHelper, Vancouver
NaviDent Technologies Inc., North Vancouver
Pixton Comics Inc., Parksville
semiosBIO Technologies Inc., Vancouver
Twothirds Water, Vancouver
Warranty Life, Burnaby
ZellChip Technologies Inc., Burnaby
The ten finalist companies have completed three jury rounds, attended education seminars, and met with business mentors to reach this point. All companies will now pitch in-person to a private jury. The jury will choose the winning companies, which will be announced at the 12th annual BCIC-New Ventures Competition Awards Ceremony on September 26th.
Join us on September 26th to find out who the winners are!
BCIC-New Ventures’ 25 round-three competitors have been hard at work on their Round 3 business overviews which were submitted on August 8th.
Competition judges will announce the 10 finalists on September 4th but in the meantime let’s have a closer look at the Top 25.
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