$100K for VoxCell’s Karolina Valente

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Welcome to this week’s Sunday Digest, brought to you by Switchboard PR. In this issue, meet the local winner of a country-wide innovation challenge, and dive into a quintet of local Victoria Tech Community Awards finalists.

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Victoria’s VoxCell BioInnovation has had quite the year

The biotech firm VoxCell BioInnovation might be chief among us in hoping the calendar clings to 2022 a little while longer. The company has already landed funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada and secured a podium finish in the New Ventures BC 2022 competition. Now, its founder and CEO has landed a six-figure cheque.

Karolina Valente won the Women-led Impact Investor Challenge presented by the TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good. This initiative empowers emerging impact investors and women-led ventures to make and seek impactful investments. Over the course of the program, VoxCell worked with an investor and venture cohort to learn the ins and outs of impact investing and fundraising.

Valente took the crown and the $100,000 top prize. The Victoria-based biotech company could, for lack of a better term, be defined as “cancertech.” VoxCell aims to provide a new platform for oncology drug screening by crafting 3D-printed, human-like tissues for drug testing.

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🔦 Victoria Tech Community Spotlight

The Victoria Tech Community Awards showcase the community of 1,000 companies and 17,000 workers who push innovation forward, and drive the city’s $4 billion tech economy. Our Victoria Tech Journal spotlight series highlights award finalists and winners, so you can get to know them a little bit better. Read about other community members here.

⌨️ Frontly, a Startup of the Year award finalist. Get to know Frontly.

👩‍💻 Humaira Ahmed, who is an Emerging Leader of the Year award finalist. Get to know Humaira.

🛥️ Barnacle Systems, which has its eyes on the Product of the Year award. Get to know Barnacle Systems.

⚡ Go Power, a finalist for the Innovative Excellence (Hardware) award. Get to know Go Power.

🧬 Axolotl Biosciences, a biotech firm also up for Innovative Excellence (Hardware). Get to know Axolotl Biosciences. 

🕴️ Tech jobs of the week

Find your next career at STN Video. The online video platform is hiring for multiple roles including:

• Business Development Manager - Content

• ETL Engineer

• Senior Technical Support Manager

• Director, Programmatic Direct Partnerships

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