Our portfolio companies

Genesis Technical

Genesis has created a telecom system which provides 400 Mb/s over EXISTING copper infrastructure. In other words, fiber speeds over existing phone lines. The Calgary company has five patents pending and is in Lab trials with two European incumbent telco providers. Genesis expects large revenues from customers to begin in 2012.

Chairman: Garry Kelman

Founder: Stephen Cooke

Investment Capital: 4.5m

VentureAlberta Investment: $250,000 (includes VA contacts)

Is the company still raising capital: Yes

NetSecure Technologies Ltd.

NetSecure Technologies Ltd. is a technology company focused on developing breakthrough security solutions for online transaction security.  The Company’s products are designed to prevent interception of information at the most vulnerable point in the transaction: the point of origin.   NetSecure is the creator of SmartSwipe™, a personal credit card reader for secure online shopping, and Kudos™, the world’s first payment system tailored specifically to the needs of small business.

Chairman: Mark Kornak

Founder: Daniel McCann

Investment Capital: 4.0m

VentureAlberta Investment: $1,150,000 (includes VA contacts)

Is the company still raising capital: Yes

Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Inc.

Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Inc. is a Calgary based company that develops analytical software for the cardiac imaging community. Circle's product suite, c⁴², is engineered for use in cardiac imaging. c⁴²combines an intuitive user interface and analysis tool set, and has been designed specifically to facilitate efficient quantitative evaluation of cardiac imaging studies.

Circle has revenue-generating installs throughout North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.  Circle will continue to expand in each of the geographic territories as the demand for advanced cardiac imaging increases.

Chairman: Ken Stephenson

CEO: Greg Ogrodnick

Investment Capital: 4.0m

VentureAlberta Investment: $25,000

Is the company still raising capital: Yes

SideKarr Energy Limited Partnership

Sidekarr is a single-purpose drilling fund which owns interests in six sections of highly-prospective land in the heart of the emerging Falher C resource play (deep basin of Alberta).  Production rates from nearby wells have been excellent with very high natural gas liquids content.  The partnership will conduct a three well development program and return net cash flow to investors on a monthly basis.

Chairman: Derrick Hunter           

President: Kevin Bibault

Investment Capital: 3.6m

VentureAlberta Investment: $250,000 (includes VA contacts)

Is the company still raising capital: no

Hunter Exploration Ltd.

Hunter is a private oil and gas firm that has participated in the drilling of three wells in Alberta to date and will be participating in at least two more wells in the spring of 2011.

President: Douglas Street

Founder:  Ralph Burgess and Douglas Street

Investment Capital: $395,000.00

VentureAlberta Investment: $60,000 (includes VA contacts)

Is the company still raising capital: No

Email: dastreet@shaw.ca

Telephone:  403-830-4084

Paladin Resources Ltd.

Paladin is a private oil and gas firm that puts together projects for exploration drilling for both it’s own account and that of outside investors. Paladin is associated with geologists and geophysicists who technically evaluate all of the projects and both Paladin and the technical experts participate for a working interest and are paid only through the success of the project.

President: Douglas Street

Founder:  Douglas Street

Investment Capital: $600,000.00

VentureAlberta Investment: $125,000 (includes VA contacts)

Is the company still raising capital: Yes

Email: dastreet@shaw.ca

Telephone:  403-830-4084