If you missed the awards ceremony last week, New Ventures BC unveiled the winners of the 2012 competition! Congratulations to this year's winning companies:
$100,000 BCIC first-prize – MediaCore Technologies Inc MediaCore is a cloud-based, online video learning platform optimized for K-12, universities and corporations that provide education or training to students online.
$55,000 BCIC second-prize – NaviDent Technologies Inc NaviDent Technologies offers disruptive leading edge technological advances to provide dentists a simpler, safer and significantly more accurate procedure to place dental implants.
$35,000 BCIC third-prize – MyBestHelper Solutions Inc MyBestHelper offers an innovative online solution to finding childcare: families can find, book and pay trustworthy child caregivers for a flat fee.
$20,000 BC Bioenergy Network prize – Mazza Innovation Ltd Mazza Innovation are developers of pressurized low polarity water (PLPW) extraction technology, used to extract high-value phytochemicals from plants which can be incorporated into products such as foods, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.
$15,000 Vancity Social Venture prize – Twothirds Water Inc Twothirds Water is a group of engineers and entrepreneurs who develop and market innovative water treatment products in developing countries. Learn more about our awards ceremony here.