The New Ventures BC Competition, presented by Innovate BC is down to our final ventures.
Usually we're announcing our final 10 companies, but the Competition was so close this year, we have a Top 11!
Congratulations to all our finalists in the running for $250,000 in cash and prizes.
EY presents the 2022 New Ventures BC Top 11 Finalists
In alphabetical order
- Acel Power, Vancouver
- Asset Market, Nanaimo
- Autonopia Technologies, Vancouver
- Beam Commerce, West Vancouver
- Immfinity Biotechnologies, Vancouver
- OVOU, Vancouver
- Silver Homes Technology, Vancouver
- UVX Inc, Vancouver
- VoxCell BioInnovation, Victoria West
- WiiBid.com, Vancouver
- Yield Exchange, Burnaby
What happens next? In the fourth and final round, each team will pitch to a judging panel of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and investors.
Want to see who wins $250,000 in cash and prizes? Stay tuned for next week's announcement about this year's Awards Ceremony in October.
This year's judges:
- Alexandra Greenhill, Founder, CEO, and Chief Medical Officer, Careteam Technologies
- Andy Edelmeier, President, Braemar West Capital
- Bill Tam, COO, Digital Supercluster
- David Shore, NVBC Jury Chair, Co-founder Moj.io and CodeZero Technologies
- Julien Sellgren, Founder, Breakout Analytics, and past NVBC Competition Winner (Metalogix, 2002)
- Maria Pacella, Senior VP, Private Investments, PenderFund Capital Management
- Rasool Rayani, Angel Investor and past NVBC Competition Winner (Metalogix, 2002)
- Rochelle Grayson, Program Advisor/ Industry Chair: Digital Leadership Program, UBC
- Thealzel Lee, Founder, Director, and President, E-Fund (VANTEC)
- Zach Jonasson, Managing Partner, Phoenix Venture Partners
Prizes
- $110,000 Innovate BC First Place Prize Package
- $60,000 Innovate BC Second Place Prize Package
- $35,000 Innovate BC Third Place Prize Package
- $10,000 Innovate BC Regional Start-up Prize
- $10,000 Innovate BC Women-Led Venture Prize
- $10,000 Innovate BC Sustainability Prize
- NVBC Luminaries “Diamond-in-the-Rough" Prize
More information about the prizes can be found here.
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