British Columbia Innovation Council

Congratulations to CapTherm Systems for progressing to the 3^rd round of this year's BCIC-New Ventures Competition.

Coquitlam's CapTherm Systems has developed a revolutionary cooling application that they believe could be the successor of liquid cooling. It is a next generation heat and mass transfer solution that passively wicks a coolant in hot electronics, and is capable of removing up to 10 times the heat produced by today's high-end semiconductors. This will solve a multitude of thermal challenges in high-power electronic devices, and has multiple military and space applications, but will have the biggest impact in the development of electric vehicles.

CapTherm's current focus is on datacenter cooling. Thirty per cent of the power cost in the average datacenter is cooling, and about $12.9 billion is spent annually to cool the worldwide server base. CapTherm's solution can offer up to a 30 per cent increase in energy efficiency and their plan is to eventually replace a majority of the traditional liquid/water cooling applications with this newly emerging technology.

The top ten companies advancing to the fourth and final round of the competition will be announced August 31, 2011. The finalists, each vying for a piece of the $375,000 in prize packages, will be awarded September 22, 2011 in Vancouver.

Learn more about the BCIC-New Ventures Competition and the 2^nd annual regional competition launching this fall at www.newventuresbc.com or on Twitter.  The five-month, three-round BCIC-New Ventures Competition: Regional is open to any BC resident located outside metro Vancouver who has not yet secured significant financing from outside investors

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