Canada's Top 10 selected in Technology, Cleantech, and Life Sciences

Canada’s Top 10 is Canada's premier investment oriented competition focused on selecting the best potential investments in Canada for investors and providing high value added services to companies to increase their chances of success, both as they source investment and as they grow and compete in the global environment. Since its inception, competition alumni have secured more than $600M in venture capital financing.

Today organizers announced that the 2010 winners of the annual Canada’s Top 10 Competition have been selected across three categories: Technology, Cleantech, and Life Sciences.

Technology          

• Aeryon Labs Inc. (Ontario)
• AFORE Solutions Inc. (Ontario)
• Benbria (Ontario)
• CellWand Communications (Ontario)
• DataGardens Inc. (Alberta)
• Jostle Corporation (British Columbia)
• Optessa Inc. (Alberta)
• Teldio Corporation (Ontario)
• Telepin Software Corp (Ontario)
• YOUiLabs Inc. (Ontario)

Cleantech    

• Calisolar (Ontario)
• ENBALA Power Networks (Ontario)
• exro technologies (British Columbia)
• Morgan Solar Inc. (Ontario)
• Nexterra Systems Corp (British Columbia)
• Plasco Energy Group (Ontario)
• REGEN Energy (Ontario)
• Sixtron Advanced Materials (Quebec)
• Skymeter Corp (Ontario)
• Vive Nano Inc. (Ontario)

 Life Science

• Biolithic Corporation (Alberta)                        
• CogniSens Inc. (Quebec)                                     
• iCo Therapeutics Inc. (British Columbia)                         
• Kane Biotech Inc. (Manitoba)
• Mitomics Inc. (Ontario)
• NeurAxon Inc. (Ontario)                            
• Origin BioMed Inc. (Nova Scotia)
• PlantForm Corporation (Ontario)
• Spartan Bioscience Inc. (Ontario)
• Targeted Biotherapeutics (Ontario)

Competition winners participate in a series of investment forums in select cities across the United States.

Developed together with key sponsors, partners and the Canadian consulates in each city, The forums expose the Top 10 companies to an exclusive opportunity to present to top tier U.S. and Canadian venture capitalists, licensing executives and potential strategic partners in a series of invitation only events.