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Cix Names the Top 20 Hottest Innovative Canadian Companies for 2014 - Five BC Tech Companies Included
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Vancouver, BC, October 21, 2014--(T-Net)--The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) announced today its list of “Top 20? Hottest Innovative Companies.
The 2014 CIX Top 20 is a showcase of the hottest, most innovative Canadian companies in ICT and Digital Media. Companies are chosen by a selection committee of professionals in the finance and technology industries.
Five BC technology companies (or 25%) were included in the 2014 annual list, including ViewsIQ Inc. (Richmond, BC), Cirius Messaging Inc. (Vancouver, BC), FusionPipe Software Solutions Inc. (Vancouver, BC), RosterBot, Inc. (Vancouver, BC) and VitalSines (Vancouver, BC).
To see the full list of all 20 companies (including 15 outside of BC), please click here.
To see descriptions of the 5 BC techniology companies included The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) list of “Top 20 Hottest Innovative Companies", please see below.
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ViewsIQ Inc. (Richmond, BC)
ViewsIQ digitizes patient samples microscopically to disrupt pathology and laboratory medicine, the last remaining medical field yet to have gone digital. With ViewsIQ's proprietary image processing technology, the laboratory clinician creates real-time "Google map-like" scans and videos at different magnifications and focuses. This way, a clinician can digitize the key diagnostic information from the slide in all its complexity. ViewsIQ's mission is to take the pathology practice to digital with minimal changes on their existing workflow and equipment, thus saving them cost, money, and effort more so than any other technologies.
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Cirius Messaging Inc. (Vancouver, BC)
Cirius Messaging Inc. is a fast-growing team of security professionals driven to make corporate secure messaging easier and more accessible for all companies. Cirius offers a cloud based secure email and file sharing solution designed to simplify security for SMB's and to complement any email solution, whether it be Exchange, O365, Gmail or Yahoo.
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FusionPipe Software Solutions Inc. (Vancouver, BC)
FusionPipe is an enterprise applications solutions company that specializes in Multi-Factor password-less authentication and data hyper-encryption for mobile data today (smartwatches, smartphones, tablets), with PCs, Laptops and Ultrabook solutions coming soon. FusionPipe's vision is to provide world-class, virtually unbreakable and secure mobile data security solutions for Enterprises, increasing the productivity of a mobile and PC-based workforce while completely securing sensitive and proprietary data. Our current data security & encryption solutions include: QuikSafe™ KeyVault™ for iOS and Android; QuikSafe™ Enterprise HE Container, an application that overcomes the ‘Bring Your Own Device' (BYOD) mobile and PC based data security problem.
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RosterBot, Inc. (Vancouver, BC)
Launched as an experimental prototype in 2007, RosterBot is the web's most advanced online sports team scheduling service. Today, RosterBot hosts teams in more than 350 different types of sports and activities in 60 countries worldwide. One dynamic that powers RosterBot's success is its viral coefficient: a single manager signing up for RosterBot ultimately leads to 70 players one year later. RosterBot's motto is simple: Take the work out of play.
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VitalSines (Vancouver, BC)
Vitalsines is a small Canadian bio tech start up. We have just recently launched our first of many health and wellness education products. We're looking for funding.
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About Canadian Innovation Exchange
The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) is a one-day forum where key leaders in the innovation economy gather to learn from one another, explore new relationships and accelerate the development of the ground-breaking technologies, products and services propelling the Canadian economy into the future. Besides providing inspirational keynotes, panels and unparalleled networking opportunities, we also conduct the CIX Top 20 showcase to reveal the hottest technology-based products, services and companies.