Companies selected for 25th Angel Forum on Tuesday May 26, 2009
 


Once a company applies, we review their Company Profile, Investor PowerPoint Presentation, Executive Summary and short Video, in comparison to our selection criteria.

 


We are focused on ensuring that the pre-money valuations will attract investors. Five attractive pre-revenue companies but with valuations ranging from $10 to $25 million have been turned away from our last two meetings.

 


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Investor Choice Awards (as chosen by the Investors) 
- winners - consider a news release - please mention Angel Forum
- all companies are invited to send company info to Tech Vibes for more exposure at angelforum@techvibes.com

TSX Venture Exchange award for Best Presentation:
1 - Envia Solarmotion
2 - Urban Dispatch
3 - Enroute Systems
4 - Light-Based Technology
5 - CloudBench

BDC Venture Capital award for Best Company to be Acquired:
1 - Light-Based Technology
2 - Tagga Media
3 - Urban Dispatch
4 - Enroute

PricewaterhouseCoopers award for Best Pre-Revenue Company:
1 - Light Integra
2 - Tagga Media
3 - Habitat Enterprises
4 - InvenTys Thermal

Fasken Martineau award for Best Revenue Company:
1 - CloudBench
2 - dPoint Technologies
3 - GuardRFID
4 - Light-Based Technologies
5 - RhinoKore Composites

TSX Venture Exchange award for Most Promising Company to go Public
1 - Urban Dispatch
2 - Tagga Media
3 - Under the Roof
4 - Light Integra

Our congratulations to the winners and all of the presenting companies



Names below are in stealth mode for confidentiality reasons and give first invest
opportunity to "Registered Investors"

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Rhino's composite based product is lighter, stronger, greener in a billion dollar industry. Proprietary technology and patent pending processes, they have $12 million in orders and expect to triple within 2 years - very experienced team.

Erupt's Business Application Engine is the new world of database application development. A paradigm shift for an industry. It is MS access for the web. - Sales of $250k - experienced team - $1 million valuation

Viro's green solution uses a proprietary gaseous technology for preventing the spread of infectious diseases . Full product ready in beta tests in US and Canada  - experienced management team - $2.6 million valuation.

A Pharma is working to prevent pain, suffering and death in human and companion animal patients undergoing abdominal and gynecological surgeries. Sales over $250k - experienced management team - exit planned within 3 years.

Friendly is "Evite meets Craigslist" - a request tool for your personal network to find better help and offer help in these challenging times. Some sales - very experienced management team - $1.9 million valuation

Enrout delivers a business analytics and global transportation management SaaS solution to businesses that ship over 1,000 packages/month - experienced management team - some sales - $1.9 million valuation.

IPower is focused on providing energy efficient radio solutions to help wireless operators lower power consumption and operating network costs.  Starting sales - very experienced team - $750k valuation

Versa produces some of the fastest and most efficient electro-optic components in the world. These are used in communications, defence, instrumentation. - sales approaching $500k - experienced team - $3 million valuation. 

MoneyMind delivers training to the financial industry & clients with a values-based system where day-to-day transactions are tools to increase personal wealth - Sales of ~ $100k - experienced team - $350k valuation

Green is ready to commence manufacturing and marketing high quality "GREEN" roofing materials (99% composed of recycled plastic and limestone) - Product Ready - experienced team - $1.8 million valuation

Projex offers integrated, web-based practice management software for the 250,000 small-to-medium-sized professional service firms. Some sales - experienced management team - $1.5 million valuation .

Spark provides software that allows independently developed electronic systems to exchange information without requiring reengineering - existing sales to 5+ departments of US Dept of Defense - experienced management team.

Habit is pioneering a way to remove inefficiencies in creating carbon credits, the currency used in the worlds next biggest market. - management team with carbon market experience - sales under negotiation - $1.5 million valuation.

Tycrid's super computing solutions greatly accelerate application speeds, reduce power consumption, are cost effective and take up a fraction of the space - starting sales - experienced management team - $2 million valuation. 
 

 
Shared-Books is a speed publishing engine that has become in 8 months the largest publisher of new children books in Canada. Some revenue - experienced management team 
 
 
Guard develops active RFID technology that is used in Healthcare facilities, and for Industrial Materials Tracking and Location applications. 2008 sales were $659k - experienced management team 
 
 
Progressive is raising $450K to refine and launch two revolutionary new products targeted at the billion dollar athletic training and rehab markets. Pre-production sales to well known sports teams - experienced management team 
 
 
MineS seeks to reduce energy consumption and lower costs in the mining industry through the use of innovative mineral sensing technologies - UBC spin-off with patented operating prototype in discussions with major international mining cos.
 
 
 

LightInteg develops products and devices that improve the blood transfusion success rates to save the lives of cancer and bleeding patients - major problem - major market - experienced founder - $2 million valuation.
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Light Technologies develops, protects and distributes disruptive control technologies for the solid-state lighting (SSL) industry. Some sales - very experienced management and advisory team - $3 million valuation  
 
 

Roof: We design and sell innovative, practical, high quality and commercially successful patented consumer products. All products are unique and solve a problem! 2008 sales $1.7 million - $6 million valuation

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Rapid Electric is a Vancouver company converting Ford vehicles into lithium battery powered electric vehicles for fleets. Experienced management team - some sales - $3.6 million valuation

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Invent has invented and protected a CO2 gas separation process that will enable economical reductions in GHG emissions worldwide. Very experienced management / advisor team - sales expected in 2009 - $3.5 million valuation

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Active puts B2B marketing on Auto-Pilot. We automatically generate leads, manage prospects, and help convert leads to sales. Experienced management team - 2008 sales of $600k - $2.75 million valuation

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Basic: for cost conscious local governments, a reliable, web based software managing key business tasks in planning and development depts. Sold to 30 cities - experienced management / advisor team - $1.4 to $2 million valuation.

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DigABand is a software platform for Independent Musicians. DigABand allows them to manage their brand, connect to fans, and get gigs. - experienced management team - large market - within 6 months of revenue.
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Synod: Aerial detection and monitoring of GHG emissions (CH4) to minimize corp. liability, enviro. footprint, regulatory compliance costs & max. revenue - In beta with major companies - experienced management team.
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Crowd builds better online resumes by providing ability literacy to help people discover and apply what they can do to take charge of their potential - experienced management team - prototype ready - $700,000 valuation.
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My Wedding - The ultimate wedding marketplace - The ebay or amazon for weddings. - full management and IT team - 60,000 subscribers - website in development - $1 million valuation
 

 

 

 

These names are in stealth mode for confidentiality reasons and give first invest option to "Registered Investors"
  

 

  

 

Last Angel Forum:  70+ angel and VC investors from Seattle, California, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Kelowna, Victoria and Vancouver attended. 

Province of BC, Investment Capital award for Best Exhibitor:
1 - Vineyard
2 - PeerFX, IsoCaps, General Energy, Investment Pitch - all equal

TSX Venture Exchange award for Best Presentation:
1 - Onrax
2 - Pho3nix New Media
3 - Tatango
4 - VeriCorder
5 - Bumpercheck

BDC Venture Capital award for Best Company to be Acquired:
1 - Pho3nix New Media
2 - Wolf Medical
3 - Coredova
4 - Rayne Longboards

PricewaterhouseCoopers award for Best Pre-Revenue Company:
1 - Pho3nix New Media
2 - VeriCorder = Coredova
3 - Sound of Montion, Investment Pitch, Projjex, Dark Matter

TSX Venture Exchange award for Best Company to go Public:
1 - General Bio Energy by a landslide
2 - Paradigm - Investment Pitch
3 - i to i Logistics = Pho3nix New Media = Business Infusions



 

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Names above are in stealth mode to allow "Registered Investors" first opportunity to invest

 


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