Alberta Deal Generator (North-Central Alberta) returns to the public spotlight with the Alberta Deal Generator Forum on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the TEC Edmonton Atrium on the fourth floor of Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Avenue in downtown Edmonton. Run in Northern Alberta by TEC Edmonton, Alberta Deal Generator (ADG) hosts forums that bring together angel and venture capital investors with promising, pre-screened and mentored start-up companies. Alberta Deal Generator offers quarterly “Boot Camps” to assess, educate and assist start-up entrepreneurs be as prepared as possible for investment decisions and presentations. Five companies, LoginRadius, Syngar, Prev Biotech, SolAeroMed and Verigo will make presentations at the June 19th event. Special guest Warren Bergen will provide an update on AVAC’s Accelerate Fund, designed to encourage investment in promising but still developing Alberta technology-based companies. Alberta Deal Generator also actively in ...

In partnership with TEC Edmonton, Fundica's Funding Roadshow came through Edmonton last week on Thursday, May 30. It was a full-day as 15 Edmonton entrepreneurs pitched the panel of investors on the idea of investing in their start-up companies. The event took place in TEC Edmonton's fourth-floor CanTech Hub in Enterprise Square.  Fundica is a Montreal-based companies that brings small and medium-sized business into contact with funders that include government-backed non-profit agencies, banks and private venture capital firms. No commitments were made at last Thursday's event. At best, investors and panelists would continue to meet after the presentations, with the view to facility earlly-stage investment. At the very least, presenters gained more experience in making presentations, with feedback from panelists who have seen it all. In Edmonton, the funders’ panel included representatives from The Business Link Business Service Centre, AVAC Ltd., Alberta Women Entrepreneurs, Albert ...

TEC Edmonton, as one of Alberta's leading business incubators, was honoured to be the venue for the Tuesday, May 28, 2013  unveiling of the provincial government's new Open Data Portal.   The Open Data Portal provides access to more provincial government data than ever before.   “The portal is the next step we are taking down the open government road as we continue to build Alberta,” said Manmeet S. Bhullar, Minister of Service Alberta. “This government is committed to a new way of doing business - one that values the proactive sharing of information - and this portal builds on that commitment.”   "TEC Edmonton exists to support local tech entrepreneurs for whom access to resources and knowledge is vital to making strategic decisions," said Chris Lumb, CEO of TEC Edmonton. "The Government of Alberta’s new Open Data portal will be a tremendous resource to researchers, innovators and the business community, empowering them to maximiz ...

The news of a $375,000 Knowledge Translation Strategic Initiative  grant from the Alberta Innovatives – Health Solutions program to University of Alberta spin-off company and TEC Edmonton client Metabolomic Technologies Inc. (MTI) is exciting enough unto itself. It allows MTI to continue validation tests for its promising, novel colonic polyp screening diagnostic test - PolypDx™ and to establish a clinical workflow for processing  PolypDx™ samples accurately, swiftly and inexpensively in a medical laboratory. But just as exciting is the evolution of an all-Alberta partnership or medical eco-system to bring made-in-Alberta medical innovation to the national and international marketplace. In the beginning, University of Alberta professor and medical doctor Richard Fedorak and his team discovered recurring patterns in urine analysis that could accurately indicate the presence of polyps in the colon. Polyps alert medical doctors to the possibility of colon cancer and when found are ...

The debate over commercialization of research in Alberta's post-secondary institutes continues.

The Edmonton Journal: Front page of print edition, Thursday, May 23, 2013. 
"Profit push worries campuses"  by staff writer Sheila Pratt
 

  Back about seven years ago, Shawn van Drecht and his former partners developed a measurement tool for oil wells,  a patented machine that accurately measured the length of rod heading down into an oil or natural gas well. It was a nice piece of machinery. Count-Rite currently leases the technology out to a 3rd party. But like all technologies, Count-Rite’s tool as it stood could be improved. “I needed to make Count-Rite’s G3 Wear Tool  more versatile,” says Shawn, who bought out his partners in the interim. “Continuous rod is inserted into a well through tubing. The rod is subject to wear and tear within the tubing as it spins. “When rig workers are removing the rod from a well, somebody has to hold a wrench along the rod as it passes. That’s the standard means at this point to measure the thickness of the rod when removed from a well.   If the rod is getting thinner, it reduces the amount of torque the rod can take. Eventually it wil ...

 

  (TEC Edmonton is passing on a reminder Re: 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. conference in Fort Saskatchewan on Friday, May 24, 2013: Full Circle - Advancing the Bio-Economic Opportunities in Alberta's Industrial Heartland.)   Just a reminder to register if you have not done so as yet.  We have over 100 registered to date.   Please feel free to forward to others that may benefit from this event.   FULL CIRCLE - ADVANCING THE BIO-ECONOMY OPPORTUNITIES in the HEARTLAND - Friday May 24, 2013, 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Down Centennial Centre, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.    Registration and Agenda                         Deadline date: May 20th    Join us as we learn: ·        What a bio-cluster is; ·        How to get started ...

The Funding Roadshow, a joint presentation of TEC Edmonton and Fundica, arrives in Edmonton on May 30, 2013, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at TEC Edmonton, fourth floor, Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton. The roadshow is an opportunity for up to 25 Canadian entrepreneurs with start up and small-to-medium companies to seek investment capital.  Those chosen will have five minutes to present their business pitch to a panel of private and public funders, followed by a 10 minute question and answer session. The day will conclude with networking at the nearby The Hat on Jasper pub. Accepted entrepreneurs will be notified of their time slots in advanace of the event.  To be eligible to present, the company must have a strong technology development component, be seeking strong revenue growth of 20% in the coming year.  The cost is $25 per entrepreneur team. Funders in attendance include  Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF), VA Angels, Enhanced Capital Recovery (SRE&a ...

The Centre for Drug Research and Development headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. has announced new partnerships with Quebec's Universite de Sherbrooke and Universite Laval. See press release:  CDRD Strengthens National Drug Development Bridge with New Quebec Partnerships.