Former NVBC Top Ten Company BuiltIT has launched a video describing their services for construction scheduling. Check it out….

BuiltIT Video

Former NVBC winner Augurex Life Sciences Corp was recently featured in the December 2008 issue of Healthcare World Magazine (go to page 80).

Former NVBC Sustainability Prize Winner recently announced a partnership with Comverge and their PowerTab technology will also be included in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralymic Village. Great news!

Energy Aware Technology and Comverge Form Partnership to Provide ZigBee In-Home Display

October 22nd, 2008 – Energy Aware Technology, a Canadian developer of demand side management products, announced today that it has licensed the technology for its innovative PowerTab to Comverge, Inc, a leading provider of clean energy through demand response. The PowerTab is an In Home Display (IHD) designed for ZigBee® that provides homeowners with real-time information on power consumption, electricity rates and messages from their utility service provider.

Under the terms of the agreement, Comverge will have exclusive distribution rights to the PowerTab in North America. Comverge will distribute the PowerTab under the brand PowerPortal®. Commenting on the arrangement, Janice Cheam, Energy Aware President, said, “We’re excited to be working with Comverge. They are an industry leader in this field and bring to the table significant expertise and partnership opportunities.”

Energy Aware’s aim in developing the PowerTab was to create a product that would raise energy awareness and reduce energy waste without requiring significant lifestyle changes. The PowerTab has a sleek design and simple user interface that encourage ongoing interaction by the end user.

Energy Aware is a Participant member of the ZigBee Alliance and chose to use the  ZigBee Smart Energy profile because it offers utilities and utility customers a reliable open smart energy standard for implementing secure, easy-to-use wireless communications for managing energy.

About Energy Aware Technology
Energy Aware Technology is a Vancouver based company providing innovative demand management solutions for today’s changing electrical grid.  Energy Aware’s home energy monitoring products will also be included in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Village.  For more information, visit www.energy-aware.com.

About Comverge
Comverge is a leading provider of clean energy solutions that improve grid reliability and supply electric capacity on a more cost effective basis than conventional alternatives by reducing base load and peak load energy consumption. For more information, visit www.comverge.com.  PowerPortal is a registered trademark of Comverge, Inc.

About the ZigBee Alliance

Zigbee is the global wireless language connecting dramatically different devices to work together and enhance everyday life. The ZigBee Alliance is a non-profit association of more than 280 member companies driving development of ZigBee wireless technology. The Alliance promotes world-wide adoption of ZigBee as the leading wirelessly networked, sensing and control standard for use in energy, home, commercial and industrial areas. For more information, visit: www.ZigBee.org

For additional information contact:
Colin McKerracher
Business Development Manager
Energy Aware Technology
778-858-8650
Colin.mckerracher@energy-aware.com

This Thursday Launch Party Vancouver 5 (LPV5) will include a cool start-up contest co-sponsored by Bootup Labs and Fasken Martineau. While the video contest is only open to the seven companies demoing at the Launch Party event, two 2008 New Ventures BC contestants have made the cut and could win the Grand Prize of $1,000 for being the “Most Likely to Succeed”.

All it takes is an entrepreneur + Macbook/webcam, clearly communicating what their start-up does and how far they will go to make their company succeed in a 90 second or less video clip. The videos will be judged, not for their production value or the quality of their pitch but on whether or not the panel of experts believes the idea has the legs to go the long haul.

Round 2 qualifier Clarity Accounting and round 3 qualifier PeerFX will both be on the ballot, so drop by the LPV5 contest site to view the videos on Thursday morning and to cast your vote.

Via Fundfindr, video of PeerFX, a 2008 NVBC competitor, on the CBC VC/Business Plan show Dragon’s Den. Florence Leung and Robert Dunlop appear on the show and offer $200k for 25%. The Dragons show reluctance and counter-offered 51%, which PeerFX accept, though my understanding is that they ended up not accepting it afterwards.

I’d personally never watched Dragon’s Den, but after seeing this, perhaps I should give it a chance. Do VCs always meet in dark, grimey warehouses? You can watch Season 2 on CBC’s site, and Season 3 premieres September 29.