New Ventures BC Competition – And then there were 30

In my post from yesterday, when I mentioned that the announcement for the New Ventures BC Competition was “coming soon”, I didn’t believe that this meant within 12 hours of the post being published they would publish the complete list of 30 BC startups that made it to the next round for the New Ventures BC Competition.

In any case, here is the complete list with the links from my “Who’s who” series:

First Name	Last Name	Name of business or idea
Alan	Cornford	TeraTek Inc.
Amber	Hayes	Adventure Engine: Powering Adventure Travel online: with excellent profit projections
Andrew	Fursman	CloudTel [ aka NothingNetworks ??... interesting looking technology, but all the Flash on the website makes search engines ignore you.]
Ben	Sparrow	Solar Desalination [There was a Ben Sparrow who used to work for BC Hydro... I wonder if it is the same guy...]
Bruce	Sharpe	Singular Software
Camilo	Rostoker	Scalable Analytics [UBC spinoff. This one looks interesting. "Follow the money" is always a good business model.]
Cynthia	Roney	PneuVation Medical Inc
David	Gratton	Project Opus Technologies
David	Vogt	Crowdtrust Technologies
Dawn	Bowles	DreamBank [I like this idea, and have met Dawn over the past couple of weeks. I will probably have a separate post about them later]
DeJon	Costello	“Rain Renewer” Storm Water Pollution Remover [RainRenewer.com is not and has not been registered. Grab it now DeJon!]
Derek	Dunfield	PLASMID AUTOMATED ROBOTICS [Once again, I can't confirm that it is the same guy, but there was a PHD student at UBC a couple of years ago who wrote "Crystallographic Analysis of Complex Multiphase Powder Systems: A Synthesis of Theory and Experiment". Sounds deep.]
Florence	Leung	PeerFX [Hey... These guys were on Dragon's Den and raised $200k. I wonder if it is a change in direction from their old plan found here]
Geoff	Wensel	GR Building Materials Limited [Geoff was listed as the COO of Pitt Meadows' RoofRoc. I'm not sure if it is a related venture or one in the same.]
Gordon	Thiessen	Heavy Tool Support Arm [As featured in the Vancouver Sun earlier in the month]
James	Sherrett	AdHack Media Inc. (AdHack)… Their exec summary was delivered to the VEF here
Jamie	Stephen	TorchLight Bioresources
Jeff	MacMillan	Charge It! Payment Solutions Inc. [I think this is the site. It looks like it is related to Richmond’s Aubretia Software, currently being rebranded as Boscana.
Matt	Ferguson	Progressive Health Innovations Inc.
Max	Fanderl	BookingCalendar.com
Philip	Caines	Rezgo – Internet Tour Booking
Saxon	Shuttleworth	ClicVue
Sean	Hodgins	QCDocs Systems Inc.
Shawn	Pedersen	Echoflex Solutions Inc.
Steven	Jones	Small Energy Group
Timothy	Webster	Genist Systems Inc.
Todd	Winship	Primisyn
Tom	Koftinoff	Portable Logging Trailer Attachment and Clean Energy Engine
Trong	Hoang	Innisoft – Intellegent Investment Software
Vladimir	Savchenko	SoundOfMotion
Lani	O’Flynn	Pure Lignin Environmental Technology Ltd.