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Winners of the Banff Venture
Forum 2009
Best Presenting Company Awards:
Information Technology: Tynt Multimedia Inc.
Energy Technology: SWITCH Materials Inc.
Life Sciences Technology: enGene Inc.
Winners of the Banff Venture Forum 2008
Best Presenting Company Awards:
Information Technology: Akoha
Energy Technology: ASAT Solutions
Life Sciences Technology: TheraCarb
Banff Venture Forum alumni companies among Canada's Top
10TM 2009 competition winners!
Banff Venture Forum 2008 presenter Quadra Solar, and 2007
presenters Sempa Power
Systems Ltd. and Data Gardens were
recently awarded the honours in CleanTech and IT
categories.
Theracarb Inc., 2008
presenting company, receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations
Grant for Innovative Global Health Research from the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation (
see press release).
5 Banff Venture Forum 2007
companies received investment from AVAC Ltd. in 2008.
AVAC Ltd. announces 2008 investments.
IT Alumni
Redwood Technologies presented at Banff in
2007, and were voted "Best Presenting Company" in the IT
Stream. As part of CBC's event coverage Redwood was
interviewed for CBC Radio. At the time of the Forum,
Redwood had an open round of funding, which was successfully closed
2 months later, including a six-figure investment from one angel
investor that attended Redwood's presentation at the Banff Venture
Forum! Redwood went on to be shortlisted globally as True
Mobile Start-Up by the GSM Association at their annual awards in
February 2008. As a result of these recognitions, Redwood has
experienced a lot of publicity including magazine and newspaper
articles and most recently a national interview and feature on CBC
Television. Since the Banff Venture Forum Redwood has
used the funds raised to commercialize its products and services,
to build out the core team, and most importantly to secure traction
with some of the world's biggest wireless carriers and handset
manufacturers, in preparation for the launch in Q2 of 2008 of
"momentem" , mobile telecom expense management and call
tagging. For more details on Redwood Technologies, visit
their website at www.redwoodtechnologies.com
Mixpo won audience favourite at Banff
Venture Forum 2005 (Mixpo was named How2Share at the time).
Initially angel financed, the company secured USD $6.5M in its
first venture capital financing in mid 2006, backed by Yaletown
Venture Partners, Growthworks, and Madrona Ventures
(Seattle). The popularity of online video advertising is
driving most of the growth in local online ad spending and Mixpo is
a pioneer in online video advertizing. Mixpo's video
advertising platform enables interactive agencies, ad networks,
publishers, directories, and marketplaces to easily and affordably
create, deploy, and optimize online video ads that drive measurable
results and fuel more effective marketing campaigns for their
clients. Mixpo has been recognized by Red Herring as one of
"'s 10 Hottest Start-ups". For more information on Mixpo visit
their website at www.mixpo.com
Energy
Alumni
6N Silicon won the award for Best Presenting
Company in the Energy Technology Stream at Banff Venture Forum
2006. 6N Silicon secured $6M million in its initial round of
venture capital financing from Yaletown Venture Partners and
Ventures West in early 2007 and an additional $20M in a second
round of venture financing with those investors and Good Energies
in 2008. In addition to strong venture backing from a global
syndicate of cleantech investors, 6N has received multi-million
dollar investments from EnCana, Sustainable Development
Technologies Canada, and the 6N is a developer of true solar grade
silicon for the photovoltaic (PV) industry. The global market for
solar grade silicon is projected to grow to $10.4 billion by 2010
from approximately $2.3 billion in 2006. For more information
on 6N Silicon, visit their website at www.6nsilicon.com
Life Sciences
Alumni
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Banff alumni companies are "HOT" in the
USA. In the cover story "Hot in Canada", Red
Herring's New York City-based correspondent identifies 10 Canadian
start-ups that kept coming up in conversations with investors and
entrepreneurs during his research - two of them are past are both
featured in the September 2007 issue of Red Herring magazine as two
of the 10 Hottest Start-ups to watch in . Check the
magazine cover story, and top 10 story, both focused on Canada,
here:
http://mag1.olivesoftware.com/am/welcome/RDH/RedHerring_0827_2007.asp