VC-backed Spring Loaded wins BDC's young entrepreneur award
Halifax-based Spring Loaded Technology has won the 2015 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award, which provides a $100,000 grand prize to innovative Canadian entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 35. Of the ten finalists selected to compete, Spring Loaded co-founders Chris Cowper-Smith and Bob Garrish won as a result of their bionic knee-brace technology, which was developed to improve mobility, rehabilitation, strength and performance. The company, which was seeded by Innovacorp and angel investors in 2014, said it will use the prize money to help bring its technology to market this fall. The contest runner-up was Real Food Market's Melissa Butler.
22 June 2015•4 mins read
