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Energy conservation was the theme of the night at New Ventures BC Award Ceremony at the SFU Segal School of Business, and the excitement of the competition was captured by fundfindr.tv.  This video captures the competitor experience, gratitude to their mentors and build drama for the awards where the winners of the 2008 competition were announced.  All three top awards went to entrepreneurial ideas focused on energy conservation.

All three top prize winners are located in the Lower Mainland region and were awarded for their innovative and ground-breaking technological ideas.

“It’s always interesting to see which companies our panel awards the top prizes,” says Ernie Love, Chair of BC Ventures Society. “I think the fact that all three winners work within the energy conservation field really speaks to BC’s place on the international map as a leader in sustainability and our entrepreneurs are clearly making a large contribution to that reputation.”

Local Vancouver company Saltworks Technologies took home two prizes – the coveted BC Hydro first place of $60,000 as well as the BC Hydro sustainability award of $20,000. The Enbridge second place award went to West Vancouver’s Small Energy Group while third place went to Squamish-located Echoflex Solutions. All three also received BC Innovation Council Proof-of-Concept awards - dollar amounts below.

For more information on the awards, see New Venture BC’s full post here and for more fundfindr.tv coverage of the Competition click here.

Contact fundfindr Media Services at info@fundfindr.com or 604.250.9666 to cover your event in video and like the competitors here, we’ll make you a video rockstar.  Congratulations to all the finalists and winners!

Busy week with September ramping business up again.  Monday was Small Business BC funding your small business presentation and Thursday and Friday we are covering two hot events both coming soon to fundfindr.tv!  Got an upcoming hot event, let us know at news@fundfindr.tv.

The Internet Marketing Conference is being held Thursday and Friday at the Coast Plaza Hotel and fundfindr is pleased to be a Bronze sponsor.  I think there are still some tickets available if you act fast.   Nice job by IIMA president John Hossack and team helping bring an event of this calibre to Vancouver as it has previously been offered in Helsinki, Barcelona and Stockholm.   Should be a great line-up of experts including keynote Eric. T. Peterson on Web Analytics, Yahoo’s Bob Page (I trust this is the right Bob Page not this one, Social Media Marketing Success Stories with Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo, and our favourite Victoria Secret’s Jonghee Jo on Making Testing Sexy! Look for upcoming webcasts of the conference and maybe a few tweets during (follow fundfindr on Twitter) at fundfindr.tv!

Simultaneously, our fundfindr Media Services team is covering the excitement of the Start Up Rock Stars - Top 10 finalists competing in the Oral presentation of the New Ventures BC (NVBC) competition.  The finalists include Echoflex Solutions, Pure Lignin, Sound of Motion Technologies (way to go Vlad) and GR Building Materials who we videotaped at VANTEC (congrats to Geoff).   Video profiles of the Top 10 are coming to fundfindr.tv so stay tuned.  For more info, check ou the NVBC blog.