The Finalists
Below are the VIATEC Award Finalists and Recipients for 2019. Click any logo or image to read the full profile interviews to learn more about the incredible talent right here in Greater Victoria. If you are researching on behalf of media and would like more info, contact tectoria@viatec.ca.
AOT Technologies
Finalist for: Team of the Year
AOT Technologies’ expert team of software engineers specialize in solving impossible application integration and IoT product engineering problems for government, enterprise, and startup clients - breathing life into custom mobile and web applications.
ASAsoft (Canada)
Finalist for: Scale-Up of the Year
ASAsoft develops Lightweight Insulators with cutting-edge technology delivering highest safety and performance and low carbon foot print at half the cost., our BHAG is to be on every hot wire that powers your home, office and factory.
Anita Pawluk
RECIPIENT of: Leader of the Year
Anita's leadership style - Follow your intuition, support your pack and never stop learning.
Atomic Crayon
Finalist for: Team of the Year
Everything we do at Atomic Crayon - every step of the process, every business decision we make - is done with the ultimate goal of creating something new, something exciting, something innovative.
Bambora
Finalist for: Technology Company of the Year (30+ employees), Leader of the Year (Lauren Welgush)
If you look up online payment processing in the history books, you’ll find the name Bambora, which is somewhere between the age of dinosaurs and the dawn of e-commerce.
Benevity
RECIPIENT of: Technology Company of the Year (30+ employees), Finalist for: Employer of the Year
Benevity, Inc. is a certified B Corporation that helps hundreds of the world’s most iconic companies bring their corporate purpose to life. Their leading technology enables companies to engage their employees, customers and communities in “Goodness,” including online giving, matching, volunteering, positive actions and community investment.
Barnacle Systems
Finalist for: Innovative Excellence (Hardware), Emerging Leader of the Year (Brandon Wright)
BRNKL is for boaters who need to check on their vessel remotely from their smartphone, tablet or computer. It's like a home security system for your boat.
Brandon Wright
Finalist for: Emerging Leader of the Year
Bored of protecting kings and countries (seriously), Brandon decided to take on fear itself - specifically for boaters, with his company Barnacle Systems.
Covault
Finalist for: Innovative Excellence (Software or Service)
The Covault platform bridges the gap between brand and reseller to capture the $35 billion in untapped co-op funding for localized, high performance marketing campaigns.
Crowd Content
Finalist for: Scale-Up of the Year
Crowd Content helps businesses create high-quality content at any scale by leveraging its powerful content creation platform and its network of over 6,000 professional writers.
Cuboh
RECIPIENT of: Start-Up of the Year
Cuboh helps your favourite restaurants be on multiple online ordering services at a time by funnelling them all to its platform and integrating them with restaurant technology like Point Of Sale Services.
DreamCraft Attractions
RECIPIENT of Innovative Excellence (Software or Service), Finalist for Technology Company of the Year (30+ Employees)
DreamCraft is a close-knit family of theme park attraction originators, spatial computing tech futurists including Hololens technology development and video game pioneers. Our unmatched expertise around location-based entertainment allows us to build truly immersive AR and VR story experiences never seen before.
Encepta
RECIPIENT of: Team of the Year
Encepta is an engineering services and technology innovation firm founded on a culture of embracing and making use of technology to change the way work is done.
Erin Athene
RECIPIENT of: Collin Lennox Award for Tech Champion
An Engineering Approach to Marketing.
Ergonomyx
Finalist for: Innovative Excellence (Hardware)
Ergonomyx makes desks that keep you moving at the office when coffee can't.
FamilySparks
Finalist for: Start-Up of the Year, Emerging Leader of the Year (Dr. Jillian Roberts)
Disrupting the mental health space by providing digitally-driven, clinically-based solutions that meaningfully change lives.
FreshWorks Studio
RECIPIENT of Employer of the Year, Finalist for: Scale-Up of the Year
FreshWorks is a mobile app design and development studio delivering elegant mobile apps (iOS & Android), product strategies, responsive web applications, and delightful user experiences.
FriesenPress
Finalist for: Team of the Year
10 years, 5000 titles, and one amazing team: FriesenPress helps writers self-publish their books and find success.
Humaira Ahmed
Finalist for: Emerging Leader of the Year
Humaira is the founder of Locelle - a global platform for women to connect locally. She is inspiring women across the world and leading her venture and team with passion and empathy.
Dr. Jillian Roberts
Finalist for: Emerging Leader of the Year
Psychologist, professor, author and CEO fighting to improve the mental health landscape.
Kano
Finalist for: Employer of the Year
Proudly Canadian and fiercely independent; Kano builds meaningful connections through lasting social games and a values driven culture (You might say people and community are their thing).
Kirk Stinchcombe
Finalist for: Leader of the Year
Kirk’s mission is to sustain water systems and the communities that depend on them.
Lauren Welgush
Finalist for: Emerging Leader of the Year
The most #oddlyhuman person you’ll ever know, the passionate and charismatic leader, Lauren Welgush.
Live It
Finalist for: Innovative Excellence (Software or Service)
Livestreaming educational nature programs. Think Netflix, but live and interactive.
Locelle
Finalist for: Start-Up of the Year, Emerging Leader of the Year (Humaira Ahmed)
Locelle is a networking platform with a mission to empower women through connections, support and mentorship.
MarineLabs
Finalist for: Start-Up of the Year, Innovative Excellence (Hardware)
MarineLabs is optimizing how global society adapts to ocean change with real-time data from fleets of their compact sensors.
RaceRocks
RECIPIENT of: Leader of the Year (Anita Pawluk). Finalist for: Technology Company of the Year (11-29 employees), Team of the Year
Your trusted partner for traditional, e-learning, VR, AR, media, story and game based training development, and your agile wrangler of big data analytics for critical decision making. RaceRocks has a proven history in Aerospace and Defence, enabling OEM’s, defence primes and the Royal Canadian Navy.
RevenueWire
Finalist for: Product of the Year
RevenueWire has provided payment and performance marketing services for clients around the globe for 15 years. Now RevenueWire has launched a Visa registered ISO called PayMotion, which is sponsored by US financial services powerhouse, Wells Fargo.
RingPartner
RECIPIENT of: Technology Company of the Year (11-29 employees) & Community Champion. Finalist for: Employer of the Year
RingPartner's proprietary technology powers its Call Marketplace, connecting millions of consumers to brands and businesses each year.
RioT Technology Corp.
RECIPIENT of: Innovative Excellence (Hardware), Finalist for: Start-Up of the Year
Reach further, expand possibilities with RioT Wireless sensing.
Sang Kiet-Ly
RECIPIENT of: VIATEC Member of the Year
Stephanie Thiel
RECIPIENT of: Emerging Leader of the Year
Stephanie is full-time product manager at SaaSquatch, and part-time co-lead for the Victoria ProductTank chapter. She's never met a croissant she didn't like.
SendtoNews
Finalist for: Technology Company of the Year (11-29+ Employees), Product of the Year
SendtoNews owns and operates North America’s largest sports video distribution platform serving 650 million monthly video views on more than 1600 publishers with content from all of North America’s major sports leagues including MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, PGA Tour...
Shift
Finalist for: Scale-Up of the Year
Shift is the workstation for productive people. Manage your email accounts, apps and extensions in one beautiful place to get more done in less time.
Stocksy United
Finalist for: Innovative Excellence (Software or Service)
Stocksy United is an art-forward stock photo + video co-op run by relentless creatives and risk takers.
Telmediq
Finalist for: Innovative Excellence (Software or Service)
Telmediq uses technology and digitalization to simplify communications within the healthcare space, ensuring physicians get more time with patients, and patients get better specialized care.
Tutela
RECIPIENT of: Scale-Up of the Year
Propelled by the emergence of 5G networks, over the past year Tutela has grown revenues by over 400%, headcount by 133%, customers by 500%, expanded internationally, and has outgrown two offices.
VitaminLab
Finalist for: Scale-Up of the Year
VitaminLab creates an all-in-one personalized supplement based on actionable health data-- your health history, DNA or blood --and changes how you buy and associate vitamins.
VRX Simulators
Finalist for: Innovative Excellence (Hardware)
VRX has been building the world's best simulation and motion experiences for over 20 years and have become experts in designing comprehensive and immersive simulation solutions for a variety of applications.
Will Fraser
Finalist for: Leader of the Year
Will Fraser has been in-charge of "Not Dev" for almost a decade and is currently CEO at SaaSquatch.
Women's Equity Lab
RECIPIENT of: Angel of the Year
A group established to increase the number of women shareholders in early stage investing.
Workday
Finalist for: Technology Company of the Year (30+ Employees), Employer of the Year
At Workday, innovation is at the center of our business. We take great pride in providing our customers with enterprise applications that help them tackle some of today’s most complex business challenges.