VANTEC Open Network 2020

VANTEC OPEN NETWORK

Featuring short 90-second pitches from local entrepreneurs – some of whose promising ventures are backed by local accelerators and incubators.

A G E N D A 

NETWORKING (3.30pm to 4.00pm)

We will have random breakout rooms to connect with investors and founders and a dedicated breakout room for new and aspiring angel investors to learn more about the VANTEC Network and its affiliated angel funds.

COMMUNITY  ANNOUNCEMENTS (4.00pm to 4.20pm)

Women's Enterprise Centre  is a non-profit organization devoted to helping BC women start, lead and grow their own business.

Contact: Melanie Rupp | melanie@womensenterprise.ca | 250-868-3454 or 800-643-7014

Startup Boost (a partner of Techstars & GAN) is a 6 weeks pre-acceleration program that helps early stage startups in Vancouver/BC prepare for accelerators, seed investors and revenue by providing pitch coaching and mentorship and connections to accelerators and VCs after the program.

Contact: Kenneth Ip | kennethip@startupboost.org

INTERFACE Health is an integrated virtual multi-platform connecting the digital health community through an innovation network, an annual global competition, a COVID-19 digital showcase, an annual digital health international summit and specialized services for SMEs.

Contact: Michael Bidu | michael@interfacehealth.com | 604-805-8088

Easly provides affordable, non-dilutive financing to companies participating in the (SR&ED) Tax Incentive Program. Every quarter, we advance 75% of your accrued SR&ED refund, supplying you with working capital over a year earlier than the CRA refund is issued. There’s no cost to apply and all principal, interest and fees are recouped from the CRA refund so the program is always cash-flow positive.

Contact: Joanna Zhou | joanna@fundeasly.com | 604-966-3895

New Ventures BC As a non-profit, New Ventures BC runs the annual New Ventures BC Competition, a Distance Venture Acceleration Program, and the ISI grant program. In 20 years, their Competition has helped over 2736 BC tech startups, who have created 5,465 jobs and raised $807 million in financing.

Contact: Angie Schick | angie@newventuresbc.com | 604-725-5740 

Volition Pitch Nights Improving the odds of attracting investors and mentors 

Contact: Paul Brassard | paul@volitionadvisors.com | 778-322-4864

Tandem Innovation: We provide a network of Contract CFO’s, Accounting and Bookkeeping Professionals with co-founder mindsets to collaborate with visionary entrepreneurs to innovate and grow businesses from startup to exit. 

Contact: Tania Lo | tania@tandemig.com | 604-241-8400

Vancouver Entrepreneurs Forum  An online and offline platform for technology entrepreneurs to cultivate connections and create conversations designed to stimulate ideas. 

Contact: Paul Koros | paulkoros@gmail.com | 778 686-7285

Angel Forum connects promising early stage ventures with accredited angel capital and we look forward to telling you more on how we plan to do that the remainder of 2020!

Contact: Irene Dorsman | irene@angelforum.org | 604-671-0632 

Global Affairs Canada helps Canadian businesses grow with confidence by connecting them with international opportunities, funding and support programs, and our network of Trade Commissioners in over 160 cities worldwide.

Currently recruiting companies for several Canadian Technology Acceleration programs globally, providing VC mapping services to companies raising capital and accepting submissions for companies to be included in the Dealbook that will be produced and shared with venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, across the U.S, and the rest of the world.

Contact: Ramneet Sran | ramneet.sran@international.gc.ca | 604-363-4548

VANTEC Start Up Visa (SUV) Pitch Perfect program will ensure alignment of the SUV candidate with investor and IRCC requirements.

Contact: James Rutherford | inwestventures@gmail.com | 604-559-4964

Entrepreneurship@UBC Immersion Week is a week long event for our UBC's ecosystem of students, staff, faculty, alumni and entrepreneurship@UBC ventures, along with member of BC's innovation community to come together with the purpose of demystifying entrepreneurship in the innovation economy. The event is designed to educate, build and inspire entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial leaders. This event is free and takes place September 28 - October 2, online of course! Register here and see you at the event!

INVESTOR EVENTS
Keiretsu Forum Vancouver Chapter Meeting Tuesday, September 8 Online
Myths about U.S. VC Participation in Canadian Deals Wednesday, September 16 Online
Keiretsu Forum Vancouver Chapter Meeting Tuesday, September 22 Online
VANTEC Meeting Wednesday, October 7 Online
Nutrition Capital Network - NPC Investor Meeting Wednesday-Thursday, October 14-15 Online
LifeSciences BC Investor Summit 2020 Monday-Tuesday, November 2-3 Online
VANTEC Meeting: Investing in Agtech, Foodtech & Biotech Wednesday, November 4 Online

COMMUNITY EVENTS
Fireside Chat with Joshua Siegel Wednesday, September 16 Online
Battle of the Pitch Decks Thursday, September 17 Online
Angel Forum Okanagan September 17 and 18 Online
Vancouver Startup Week Friday-Thursday, September 25-October 1 Online
entrepreneurship@UBC Immersion Week Monday-Friday, September 28-October 2 Online
Geting Investor Ready - A program for Startups Raising Capital Applications until September 30
Social Venture Institute's 25th Anniversary Tuesday-Friday, October 13-16 Online
Interface Health Summit Monday-Tuesday, October 19-20 Online
Term Sheet Workshop Thursday, October 22 Online

INDEPENDENT UPDATES & PREVIEWS (4.20pm to 4.50pm)  

If you wish to make a Presentation, please complete and submit the  Application form.

UPDATES

Qase | Legal | Gust | SaaS-enabled managed marketplace that helps people find and work with lawyers entirely online to solve everyday legal problems.

PREVIEWS

BeaverWealth Finance Technology | Financial Services | Gust | Online platform providing high-value intelligence and analysis reports on the Canadian stock market in Chinese.

Dot Apply | Education | Gust | Online platform that helps students through the application process by connecting them to education agents.

ProMaintain | Construction | Gust | Cloud-based application that uses real-time generated data from sensors and actuators to assess and monitor equipment and provide ongoing preventative maintenance.

Uni Express Inc. | Transportation | Gust | Canada’s Preeminent Crowdsourced Delivery Platform.

E-Pharma Clinic | Software | Gust | IoT based system which uses an automated medicine dispenser for patients, backed by using a cloud-based storage system.

PetLink | Business Products | Gust | IoT user-powered Pets Anti-lost Community.

Redegg Edutainment | Education | Gust | Motivating children to learn Chinese and connect with their cultural roots through games, storytelling and real-time interaction.

Kontech | Consulting | Gust | Online subscription-based UX research platform.

Re-Hub Therapy Corp. | Electronics / Instrumentation | Gust | Break-through innovative technology for therapeutic recovery using Virtual Reality.

Springboard Athletic Connections Corp. | Consumer Services | Gust | Springboard is a unique digital platform, engineered to help kids & their parents prepare for professional sports recruiters,university and college scholarships.

SensoPlus+ | Biotechnology | Gust | User-friendly self-examination smart ultrasensitive biosensor for cancer screening integrated with smart applications. 

Tires2U Express | Consumer Services | Gust | One-stop innovative solution that combines an easy to use mobile application with bonded mobile technicians to provide onsite services for our customers.

Relish Health Services | Healthcare Services | Gust | Relish is a tele-health weight loss service that tackles the root causes of obesity so people can lose weight and, finally, keep it off.

Parkaid Ventures Ltd. | Mobile | Gust | Building Car Parking Solutions for Smart Cities in Canada.

Daycare Now | Internet / Web Services | Gust | A new online platform built to take the stress out of finding short-term daycare options.

Shipsos | Maritime/Shipping | Gust | Online shipping marketplace that provides competitive quotes from 100s of carriers.

Souture - Custom Fashion | Fashion | Gust | Online platform that allows you to summon in person fine tailoring anytime, anywhere.

Solar Earth Technologies | Clean Technology | Gust | We manufacture the world's leading solar road technology. Smart, connected solar surfaces that provide scale-up for renewable energy production.

ACCELERATOR SPONSORED PREVIEWS (4.50pm to 5.20pm)  

adMare BioInnovations is Canada’s Global Life Sciences Venture, building the Canadian life sciences industry from sea to sea.

Contact:  Frédéric Lemaître Auger | flemaitreauger@admarebio.com | 514-445-7603

* Variational AI Inc. | AI/machine learning & pharmaceuticals | Founded in August 2019 by ex-D-Wave Systems machine learning scientists (MIT, Caltech, ETHZurich) using generative AI to discover novel, efficacious, safe, and synthesizable small molecule drugs in months versus years saving hundreds of millions of dollars in drug development with partnered projects pursuing targets in oncology, central nervous system (CNS), and antirvirals (COVID-19) seeking $1M in seed funding. (Speaker: Handol Kim, handol@variational.ai )

Praxis Spinal Cord Institute focus on accelerating innovations including medical devices and diagnostics that can improve the lives of people living with spinal cord injury.  Praxis is launching SCI Incubate - a program for early stage ventures with an application to SCI, and is also opening calls for SCI Accelerate - its world-class acceleration program for post-prototype companies.

Contact: Arushi Raina | araina@praxisinstitute.org | 778-929-0891

Founder Institute is the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator

Contact: Todd Embley | todd.embley@fichapter.com | 778-363-8475

* Perk Eco Inc. | Environmental Services | We recycle coffee shop waste. (Speaker: Jennifer Henry, jen@perk.eco )

* Protome Technologies Inc. | Healthcare | We make software to streamline analysis in brain health and neurological disorders. (Speaker: Nicholas Peatfield, nick@proto-me.com  )

* ActivScout | App designed to grow the popularity of racquet sports while providing economic benefit to the entire value chain. (Speaker: Robert Eberhard, rob@activscout.com )

Launch Academy is Vancouver’s leading entrepreneurship facility that has incubated more than 3500 entrepreneurs of which 300 have grown their startups to Seed and Series A stage and raised over $300 Million in funding. 

Contact:  Alana Paton | alana@launchacademy.ca | 604-652-3230

* VDO.AI | Digital Advertising | We connect top publishers with leading advertisers inside a high-value video ecosystem. (Speaker: Amitt, amitt@vdo.ai )

entrepreneurship@UBC propels UBC innovations into the world through venture creation.

Contact:  Chang Han | chang.han@ubc.ca

* ABOzyme | Healthcare Services | Overcoming the barriers posed by blood groups (Speaker: Geoff Houlton, Ghoulton@gmail.com )

* Bioform Solutions | Clean Technology | Committed to providing economical solutions to single use plastics (Speaker: Jordan Mackenzie, jordan.mackenzie@ubc.ca ) 

* Sonus Microsystems | Electronics/Instrumentation | Creator of the Polymer-Based Ultrasound TransducerTechnology (Speaker: Gabe Kalmar, gabe.kalmar@ubc.ca )

Foresight Accelerator | Western Canada’s core technology innovation centre. Where cleantech comes together.

Contact:  Stephen Wilson | swilson@foresightcac.com | (604) 245-0042 

* Summit Nanotech | Mining and Metals | Gust | Summit Nanotech is a cleantech company developing a process to extract lithium from solution using nanotechnology to produce green lithium. (Speaker: Amanda Hall, amanda@summitnanotech.com)

* Audette | Property and Clean Tech | Audette is a digital platform for large commercial property groups to track energy, identify conservation potential, and access services to accelerate their path towards low carbon, low cost buildings. (Speaker: Christopher Naismith, christopher@audette.io)

* ZILA Works | Green Chemistry | One-line company description: Creating Industrial Bio-Plastics from Hemp for the Low Carbon Economy (Speaker: Jason Puracal, jason@zilaworks.com)

SFU VentureLabs® is a world-class accelerator helping science and technology ventures commercialize their innovations and scale up their businesses. VentureLabs delivers unparalleled programs and services that tackle the unique challenges of growing profitable tech businesses in Canada. Through deep expertise and mentorship, educational content, and empowering events, VentureLabs leads a vibrant and growing entrepreneurship ecosystem in British Columbia.

Contact:  Lesley Duncan | lesley@venturelabs.ca | 604-729-4747

NETWORKING (5.30pm to 6.30pm)

Time for conversations with entrepreneurs, fellow investors and accelerators.   

NOTE: In our effort to share the pitches and presentations beyond our venue for a bigger impact we will record some of our events and make them available online.

By attending this event, you consent to the use of photography/video/audio in all forms of media, for any and all promotional purposes including advertising, display, audiovisual, exhibition or editorial use by VANTEC Angel Network without payment or other compensation.