New Ventures BC

A Conversation with 2022’s Top Startups
2023-04-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | BC
Tuesday, April 4 @ 12PM PST
Every fall, three B.C. startups take home the top prizes in North America’s largest startup competition: the New Ventures BC Competition, presented by Innovate BC.
In case you missed it, in 2022 the coveted first, second and third place spots were awarded to OVOU, Beam Commerce, and VoxCell Bioinnovation respectively.
Join us during your lunch break for an intimate discussion with the founders of these winning companies who will share what they did to be successful and what pitfalls to avoid.
+ get some tips on being successful in the competition (applications are open!)

Speakers:

Reza Varzidehkar, Founder, OVOU
Varun Lundra, Co-Founder, Beam Commerce
Dr. Karlina Valente, CEO/CSO/Founder, VoxCell BioInnovation
Angie Schick, Executive Director, New Ventures BC
Raghwa Gopal, President/CEO, Innovate BC

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Startup Seminar: Building a Fundable Startup & 2023 Kickoff Networking Event
2023-03-28 16:00 - 19:30
Join us for the 23rd annual Competition Kick off Seminar followed by an exciting evening of networking! Speak to industry leaders, meet your fellow competitors, and mingle with past participants. This event is free for all BC tech startups, students, and our NVBC Community.
Not sure if you want to join the Competition? This is a great way to meet our community and decide if the Competition makes sense for your startup.
Agenda:
3:30pm – Seminar registration
4:00-5:30pm – Seminar
5:30-7:30pm – Kickoff Networking reception

SEMINAR
Building a Fundable Startup: What Founders Need to Know
There are seven evergreen rules of building fundamentally fundable startups that all early-stage founders need to know. These rules allow ventures to raise at higher valuations, raise faster and raise from the top investors. In good capital markets, such as the last two years, they were ‘nice to have’ but in a market climate like today, these rules are a ‘must have’ for ventures to successfully raise seed capital.
Speaker:

Maninder Dhaliwal, Managing Partner, Startup Studio – Accelerator and Venture Fund. She is the founding chair of TiE Vancouver Angels, and serves on the global steering committee for TiE Global Angels – the largest angel investor network in the world.

NETWORKING RECEPTION
After Maninder’s presentation, join us for our 2023 New Ventures BC Competition Kickoff Networking Event
Speak to industry leaders, meet your fellow competitors, and mingle with past participants.
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2023 Competition Info Session
2023-03-20 13:00 - 14:00
Join us online as we review this year’s competition process.
2023 New Ventures BC Competition, presented by Innovate BC
Each year New Ventures BC runs the New Ventures BC Competition, the largest and longest-running tech competition in BC, offering education, coaching and awarding $250,000 and prizes to BC startups. Applications for the 23rd annual competition are now open until April 11th.

Speaker: Angie Schick, Executive Director, New Ventures BC Competition, presented by Innovate BC
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“What was really valuable to us as we were getting ready to raise for Pocketed, is how the Competition forced us to think through a business plan and gave us the opportunity to go to market strategy…You get the opportunity to work with unbelievable mentors that really helped us think through the parts of our business plan that weren’t strong or places we weren’t sure how to tackle.”- Brianna Blaney, CEO & Co-Founder of Pocketed, Top 10 Finalist #NVBC2021
