Dragon’s Den for techies coming to Kelowna

By John McDonald
March 31 2016 06:30 PM

KELOWNA – It’s a bit like Dragon’s Den for techies and it’s coming to the Okanagan for the first time ever.

Fundica Roadshow Okanagan touches down in Kelowna next week. Up to 20 local technology companies can apply to pitch the Fundica panel.

Top pitches are eligible for prizes including three months free office space in San Francisco and airfare for a trip to pitch Silicon Valley investors.

Companies must be registered in Canada, have a technological focus, at the “seed or funding stage” and expect less than 50 per cent revenue growth next year.

Fundica’s Peter Elkins will host a day-long seminar looking at how companies can best secure developmental funding from both the public and private sectors.

Fundica Roadshow Okanagan will be held on Friday, April 8 at the Kelowna Yacht Club.

To contact the reporter for this story, email John McDonald at jmcdonald@infonews.ca or call 250-808-0143. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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John McDonald

John began life as a journalist through the Other Press, the independent student newspaper for Douglas College in New Westminster. The fluid nature of student journalism meant he was soon running the place, learning on the fly how to publish a newspaper.

It wasn’t until he moved to Kelowna he broke into the mainstream media, working for Okanagan Sunday, then the Kelowna Daily Courier and Okanagan Saturday doing news graphics and page layout. He carried on with the Kelowna Capital News, covering health and education while also working on special projects, including the design and launch of a mass market daily newspaper. After 12 years there, John rejoined the Kelowna Daily Courier as editor of the Westside Weekly, directing news coverage as the Westside became West Kelowna.

But digital media beckoned and John joined Kelowna.com as assistant editor and reporter, riding the start-up as it at first soared then went down in flames. Now John is turning dirt as city hall reporter for iNFOnews.ca where he brings his long experience to bear on the civic issues of the day.

If you have a story you think people should know about, email John at jmcdonald@infonews.ca