Nearly $400,000 in prizes awarded last night [video]
Friday, September 23rd, 2011Six months of competition came to an end last night as the winners of the 11th annual BCIC-New Ventures Competition were announced in Vancouver. From this year’s 178 applicants, top prizes were awarded to a polyurethane waste recycling system, a universal consumer loyalty network for the mobile age and a mineral sensing technology developed for the mining industry.
The 2011 BCIC-New Ventures Competition Winners are:
- $130,000 BCIC first-prize – Polymer Research Technologies
- $70,000 BCIC second-prize – RewardLoop
- $40,000 BCIC third-prize – MineSense Technologies Ltd
- $40,000 BC Hydro Sustainability prize – Awesense Wireless Inc.
- $20,000 B.C. Bioenergy Network prize – Diacarbon Energy Inc.
- $15,000 Vancity Social Venture prize – FundRazr
- $30,000 Shildroth Agritech Innovation first prize – GreenScene AgriTek Inc.
- $20,000 Shildroth Agritech Innovation second prize winners – Diacarbon Energy Inc and KOK Technologies (Due to a tie, each company will receive $10,000 each)
Congrats to all the finalists and winners. For those of you that missed last night’s Awards Ceremony, check out Giant Ant Media’s video montage on the finalists.

The BCIC-New Ventures Competition is excited to announce an additional prize for 2011. The top performing ICT (Information and communications technology) company will be awarded a spot in the Plug and Play Tech Center Accelerator Program in Sunnyvale, California – a $10,000 value.