Engineering students and alumni to compete in UBC entrepreneurship competition

Location: Room 222, West Mall Swing Space, 2175 West Mall, UBC

Date: Thursday October 20th, 2011

Time: 5:30 – 7:30pm

Engineering students and alumni affiliated with Aeos Biomedical, Dynamic Monitoring Technology Corporation and RentGeek will compete this Thursday October 20 in UBC’s entrepreneurship@UBC Seed Accelerator Competition. They are among the five new ventures from the UBC community that have made it to the final round and will be pitching to become the first recipients of investments between $25k and $100k from the entrepreneurship@UBC Seed Accelerator fund. The competitors will include Amir Rasuli (PhD Candidate in ECE), Cameron Johnson (fourth-year ECE) and Danny Lum (BASc ’07, ECE).

UBC Seed Accelerator is a venture fund owned and operated by UBC for the purpose of investing in the next generation of student entrepreneurs. It seeks out very early stage business opportunities founded by UBC students, faculty, staff or alumni who have graduated within the last three years Please join us for this exciting event! For more details, please visit Applied Science News.