British Columbia Innovation Council

Congratulations to the top 10 finalists in the BCIC-New Ventures Competition and the five companies now competing for the Agritech prize announced today. BCIC is proud to be the lead partner in this annual technology business-idea competition providing BC entrepreneurs and inventors with the skills, networking, mentoring and prize monies they need to successfully commercialize their business ideas.

In alphabetical order by company name, the top 10 finalists are:

(click on the link to read more about them)

• Awesense Wireless Inc.
• CapTherm Systems Inc.
• FundRazr
• MineSense Technologies Ltd.
• Polymer Research Technologies Ltd.
• Precision NanoSystems Inc.
• RewardLoop
• Secodix Corporation
• semiosBIO Technologies Inc.
• Wifarer Inc.

In alphabetical order by company name the top five Agritech companies for 2011 are:

• BlueION Water Technologies Inc.
• Diacarbon Energy Inc.
• GreenScene AgriTek Inc.
• KOK Technologies
• semiosBIO Technologies Inc.

Congratulations to all 14 companies!

Get your ticket to the 11th annual BCIC-New Ventures Competition Awards Ceremony taking place on Thursday, September 22nd at 5:30pm to celebrate the winners of the nine prizes valued at $365,000!

Registration closes at 2:30pm on September 22nd.

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