Venture Directory

401 Labs

401 Labs is an innovative technology company dedicated to the development and deployment of cutting-edge AI solutions for safety critical systems.

42 Technologies

42 Technologies makes retail data simple, intuitive, and powerful. The 42 dash is a predictive analytics platform that personalizes in-store retail. They use big data technologies to process point-of-sale data and find growth opportunities for retailers, making it intuitive to identify key growth trends and overall purchase patterns.

4FiveLabs

A Smart Reply tool that boosts audience engagement so you can focus on creating content. Categorize comments based on intent and generate authentic and unique smart replies to appreciations and greetings.

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ChargeLab

ChargeLab provides a full-stack solution for EV charging, giving building managers, installers, and EV charger manufacturers all of the tools they need to deploy smart EV infrastructure.

Able Innovations Inc.

At Able Innovations our automated patient transfer technology makes transfers effortless, safe and dignified. Today, we are developing technology to conduct transfers in hospitals, tomorrow our technology will assist in helping individuals age at home.

AccessNow

AccessNow uses crowdsourcing to pin-point the accessibility status of locations around the world on an interactive map. Their platform allows users to search for specific places or browse to see what is nearby with the accessibility features they need.

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Ace

Ace is a personalized interview preparation platform that creates confidence in interviewing. We provide users the tools and research-backed mock interview questions that will help prepare effective answers and develop strong communication skills.

Ad Auris

Ad Auris is a machine text-to-speech tool for self-publishers. With our services publishers can unlock further value from their written content, and increase both distribution capabilities and value proposition to prospective subscribers.

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Ada

AI chatbot software that exceeds customer expectations. Automated customer chat platform built for humans.

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Adaptis

Adaptis is a decision-support software solution for optimal decarbonization planning of existing buildings, as part of renovations, retrofits, and adaptive reuse, to improve quality and lower planning costs for building owners and consultants. Our platform first analyzes existing building conditions, then generates automated adaptation feasibility design options, and material recovery and deconstruction scenarios. Lastly, the platform optimizes generated options for environmental and economic performance.

Aerialytic

Aerialytic uses AI-enabled software to automate the solar quoting process in order to help solar sales and installation companies directly tackle the challenge of rising customer acquisition costs.

AgrilogicAI

AgriLogicAI Inc. is an agri-fin-tech venture that develops geospatial intelligence platforms for enhancing farm productivity, profitability, and sustainability.

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AI VALI

A.I. VALI uses proprietary Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) techniques to analyze the data collected from medical images, such as endoscopy video images and tissue biopsies.

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AiHello

AiHello is a smart platform built specially for online sellers to allow them to automate and expand their business.

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alder

alder apparel is an e-commerce, direct to consumer line of outdoor apparel designed for women. alder’s core differentiators are inclusive sizing (XS - 4X, double the size range of typical outdoor and athletic apparel brands) and female focused design, sustainable and ethical production and a playful brand that starkly contrasts the performance-driven, hard-core athletic brands that currently dominate the outdoor space.

Allset

Allset's mission is to help users find the best insurance according to their real needs, in complete transparency. Their platform achieves this thanks to partners of choice with recognized institutions in the insurance world and, most importantly, to their smart technology that manages thousands of different algorithms to get users personalized options in less than 4 minutes.

ALT TEX

ALT TEX creates B2B sustainable textile solutions for environmentally-conscious fashion designers and brands, through re-engineered post-industrial waste. By chemically converting landfill-destined paper waste, food waste and agricultural by-products, ALT TEX creates natural and semi-synthetic textiles, that are carbon-neutral, and biodegradable.

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Altius Analytics Labs Inc.

Amelia

Amelia is building a dedicated and holistic DEI solution to help companies attract and retain top women talent.

Amina Health

Amina Health (formerly Vitameter) makes a device that measures your vitamin levels from a single drop of blood, combining home-diagnostics with personalized nutrition. Whether vitamins are being taken for health or performance, efficient nutrition is important.

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Animo

Animo uses AI to quantify and predict psychological well-being to facilitate human flourishing. Their Meta feature enables startups to better understand how their employees are feeling, and how sustainable their stress is on an aggregate level – all while preserving individual anonymity.

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Apprentx

Apprentx's B12 application offers customized training and reinforcement programs designed to avoid the forgetting curve and get learners to apply their new knowledge. B12 leverages cognitive science, AI and advanced analytics to enhance memorization and develop skills while providing administrators with a view into employees’ level of confidence and performance.

Aquantix

Aquantix leverages AI, satellite and geographic data to predict water, climate change, and other material corporate risks and their financial impacts to allow institutional investors to make more responsible and secure investments.

Aquova

Aquova provides adaptive AI-based sensors and power controllers that unlock the potential of data in reducing the operating expenditure of the electrochemical processes.

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Argentum Electronics

We are building an intelligent DC (direct current) power distribution system that saves buildings up to 40% on their energy bills, using patented technology. Our power distribution system comes complete with a wireless multi-sensor network, power factor correction, and machine learning based building automation software.

Arkangel Ai

We detect malaria in 3 seconds with Ai for pharmaceutical companies in LATAM. Unlike other companies, our system detects the stage of infection, the type of malaria and it doesn’t require any hardware.

Arthur Intelligence

Arthur applies machine learning algorithms to help clinic managers, doctors and their teams save management time, take better business decisions, and grow their revenues.

Assister.ai

Assister is a platform for creating AI empowered software assistance within already existing applications. These applications can range from a simple mobile banking app, to more complicated enterprise software systems used by professionals.

Athena

Athena Integrated Systems develops tools that heavy industry needs to support sustainable resource management. Their mission is to provide insight and enable decision making through robotics and smart data solutions.

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Atomwise

Atomwise patented the first deep learning technology for structure-based small molecule drug discovery. This AI technology harnesses millions of data points and thousands of protein structures to solve problems that a human chemist would take many lifetimes to solve.

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AttentiveVision

AttentiveVision aims to create a world class viewing experience for sporting events. Using machine learning and AI, their end-to-end systems take raw camera footage, and process them into broadcast quality video designed to give a viewer the best experience possible.

Augmentr

We are augmenting the future of your remote, hybrid, and distributed work starting with communication. We’ve built a B2B communication tool to have highly contextual and collaborative discussions through screen and video recordings. Our vision is to re-design the entire work experience in a post-pandemic world, starting with how we communicate. With the ability to save questions and discussions, we can derive insights to improve employee training, onboarding programs, roadmap planning, and the performance review process. We are just getting started. We plan to operate with a B2B SaaS model with tiered pricing based on additional feature sets. Our target user is anyone who in a remote, hybrid, or distributed environment who frequently has highly-contextual and collaborative discussions. We'll be testing with 3 potential beachhead markets in North America: consulting engineers, tech workers, and university students in STEM fields. Worldwide, knowledge workers and higher-education students make up 1.3 billion people.

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Avail

Avail is a holistic well-being solution for organizations and their employees. Avail's proactive, mobile-first, anytime platform uses clinical and behavioural data-driven insights to provide employees with personalized well-being profiles that are increasingly refined to reflect changes in well-being as circumstances change.

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Aview International

Aview is an international multimedia language translation company designed to help content creators and entertainers expand their fan base through major social media platforms. Aview focuses on content creators who have developed a loyal fan base in their local market and seeking international expansion. Aview manages posts and generates an additional revenue stream through internationally branded social media accounts. Aview offers their customers two primary services: video dubbing and video translations.

Awake Labs

Awake Labs' partners with organizations who serve the needs of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Their technology helps people understand anxiety and improve quality of life.

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AXIS LABS

AXIS creates devices to motorize existing installed window shades and automate them to improve comfort and energy efficiency. Once installed, users can control and schedule their shades via a mobile app, on-the-device, or integrate with leading home and building automation platforms.

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Aya Payments Inc.

Aya builds incredible financial products with a focus on healthcare and employee benefits.

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BeBlended

BeBlended is an online marketplace that connects black women with freelance hairstylists and tailored hair products. BeBlended’s SaaS platform provides scheduling and appointment management for hairstylists while facilitating hair product delivery.

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Benchwork

Data driven sourcing for faster, smarter supply chains

Betterbooks

Betterbooks helps you gamify your reading habit, improve your comprehension, and find the best books.

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BioBenchAI

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Muhammad Sohail

Biome Renewables

Biome Renewables is an industrial design firm that employs the power of nature to create a sustainable future. Their biomimetic design process applies innovative thinking to continually improve their products, and our world.

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BitAccess

From startups to Fortune 500 companies, Bitaccess provides software services to power fintech businesses in over 15 countries. Their customers rely on Bitaccess software and services to power their core infrastructure, compliance, security and support services.

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Blaise

Blaise is an AI-based software platform that allows transit operators to run on-demand bus services using their existing vehicles.

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Blue City Technology

Blue City Technology facilitates the improvement of safety and efficiency in road networks by providing data through innovative sensing technologies.

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Asad Lesani
Ian Boyd

Blue J Legal

Blue J Legal uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to bring absolute clarity to the law, everywhere and on-demand.

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Blue Lion Labs

We believe everyone deserves to know what is in their water. We are developing an AI system to rapidly identify miroorganisms in water helping managers to better safeguard water resources.

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Jason Deglint

Bounce

Located at the center of your social graph, Bounce is a one-stop-shop event (in-person & virtual) platform that helps you collect payments, interact with guests using event upgrades, and receive in-kind sponsorship from corporate partners.

Boxit

Boxit provides portable plastic storage boxes and delivery services, so you can declutter your space without leaving home.

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Bridgit

Bridgit is a construction software company which makes construction less complicated with their workforce management, punch list and inspection management tools.

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Brizi

Brizi is the first and only technology of its kind that lets groups capture and share live experiences from otherwise impossible vantage points.

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Calixa

Calixa Technologies enables the delivery of personalized experiences in physical stores through real-time visual detection and recognition of the apparel products that shoppers interact with as well as the delivery of context-aware recommendations aimed at optimizing sales conversion and customer delight.

CapIntel

CapIntel is an investment sales platform used by hundreds of financial advisors and asset management sales teams. CapIntel’s platform combines investment analytics with online collaboration tools to make it easier for asset managers to work with advisors, and advisors to work with retail clients.

Cardio Square

Cardio Square offers universal access to high quality ultrasound exams anywhere, anytime.

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Cerebian

Cerebian is building a neural interface based operating system that entirely redefines the way humans interact with computers.

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CFO2

CFO2 is business intelligence software for multi-unit restaurants. They help transform restaurant data into a visual picture to see trends and outliers resulting in actionable insights. From five to five-hundred locations, people everywhere use CFO2 to see and understand their data.

Chalk.com

Chalk is a K-12 education software company that utilizes data to help schools. Chalk connects the curriculum, instruction, and assessment process and provides real-time insights for educators to improve academics. From small, independent schools to large, national school networks, Chalk is behind the academic strategies influencing millions of students.

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Chinova Bioworks

Chinova Bioworks has developed a natural preservative extracted from white button mushrooms for use in food and beverage products.

Chisel

Chisel’s purpose-built AI solution for commercial insurance reads unstructured insurance data 400 times faster than a human with greater accuracy. Their solution automatically recognizes over 500 insurance-specific data points including limits, premiums, deductibles, coverages, exclusions, and more.

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Civalgo

Civalgo helps improve construction field productivity and collaboration on job sites. Users can learn from every execution, empower their teams, and deliver results on-budget and on-time.

CleanSlate UV

CleanSlate UV allows healthcare and food processing facilities to quickly sanitize mobile devices. The solution takes just 20 seconds to sanitize devices, without the use of harmful chemicals. The easy-to-use design allows for use by staff and visitors alike with no training.

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Closing Folders

Closing Folders is a leading provider of legal transaction management software. Since 2013, Closing Folders has helped lawyers close thousands of deals, saving them countless hours creating signing packages and closing books.

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Coastal Carbon

Coastal Carbon is the world's first and only marketplace that focuses on verification services in ocean carbon credits. Our mission is to help organizations combat climate change, while restoring earth's largest ecosystem. We work with some of the best blue carbon projects to verify their credits and bring them to the right markets.

Coastline Market

Coastline is the future platform for B2B food distribution. Their automated supply chain and connected marketplace allow them to scale efficiently into multiple markets without warehousing, manual operations or overhead.

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CoHealth

CoHealth allows healthcare consumers to access the resources they need to manage care while giving health-related organizations a platform to make these resources available.

Comfable

Comfable's product, QSun, is the key to avoiding sunburn and skin cancer, which affects millions of adults worldwide. The must-have AI-powered wearable sun tracker syncs with the free companion app to give even more sun safety features.

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Compass

Compass is a B2B SaaS company tackling the mental health crisis, starting with higher education. The platform benefits both students and administration at an institution. Compass provides anonymous data insights to institutions to optimize resource allocation, and for students they receive a personalized assessment and are recommended resources based on their unique needs, wants and identity through our assessment tool. With the massive opportunity to scale beyond institutions, we are building a universal wellness ecosystem by harmonizing human and tech enabled treatment to build predictive models so that we can prevent acute, severe and chronic mental health illnesses.

Connie

Connie.ai helps commercial kitchens plan and publish menus using the same integrated tool. No more copy-pasting from Excel.

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conversationHEALTH

conversationHEALTH is a digital health company that delivers highly-personalized AI-driven conversations to HCPs, patients and consumers, through text, voice and digital humans channels.

Conversify

Conversify’s chat technology allows sales teams to automate conversations on LinkedIn. This helps them save time and book more sales meetings.

Credib.AI

Credib.AI automatically detects and extracts predictions from online and local sources and evaluate their credibility to improve decision making.

Crescendo

Crescendo helps employees understand, communicate with, and interact with people who are different from them. It connects them with digital resources inside of Slack, personalized to fit their learning needs and workplace context.

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Crowdbabble

Crowdbabble helps businesses improve social media engagement with their audience through powerful social media analytics and reports.

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Crowdsourced Testing

Crowdsourced Testing connects web and software developers with an international crowd of professional software testers who can quickly and effectively help test interactive products on a large number of devices to ensure that they are bug-free and ready for launch.

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CryptoNumerics

HIPAA, GDPR and Data Residency requirements restrict your ability to conduct data science. CryptoNumerics removes these restrictions. CryptoNumerics enables you to create privacy protected datasets with quantifiable privacy risk. In addition, you can build statistical and machine learning models that protect people’s privacy.

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CSTS Health Care

CSTS Health Care is deploying AI techniques and new ways of thinking about 'omics data, to help clinicians, researchers and other stakeholders make sense of, and better apply genomic, proteomic, metabolomic, pharmacokinetic and other information to create true, personalized therapies.

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Cultovo

Cultovo is bringing transparency to the South American agriculture supply chain with their remote sensing analytics that power crop insurance adjustments.

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Cultura

Cultura is a software platform designed to assess an organization's culture to mitigate risk and improve productivity.

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CulturExpo

CulturExpo is an online marketplace for unique handmade products around the world. Low quality and fake products are becoming an increasingly alarming global issue. At CulturExpo, we fight this problem with our complex verification processes, ensuring all our products are unique and authentic. Our primary channel is corporate gifting. Expat workers are at a higher risk of facing loneliness or homesickness. At CulturExpo, we created unique gift boxes full of handmade products so that employers across North America can give their workers a piece of their culture while reducing the risk of mental health problems international workers face in their workspaces.

Curiato

Curiato is a clinical-stage data science company that has developed a smart bedsheet to power a platform of valuable applications to predict, prevent and protect against costly and expensive hospital-acquired conditions.

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Curv Health

Curv is an athlete development platform that is leveraging recent advances in computer vision and machine learning to instantly generate 3D models of human movement simply by using 2D video. Their technology allows health providers and fitness professionals to accurately and quickly calculate measurements within human movement, all from a mobile device.

CybernetIQ

Cybersecurity visualization and engagement platform. Enabling customers to understand and interact with their cybersecurity investments

DataSpine

Dataspine enables machine learning engineers, data scientists and dev/ops teams to accelerate the end-to-end lifecycle for AI/ML through powerful, composable and self-serve tools. Their enterprise-grade solution runs on any cloud, hybrid or on-premise environment - and users keep full control over your data, models, and stack.

DawaSwift

DawaSwift Inc. is a transport and logistics company with a mission to transform the medical product retail market in Africa, India, Latin America and other emerging markets by eliminating the barriers of affordability, accessibility and availability of health services globally.

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Deaf AI

Deaf AI is a social venture making society more inclusive, and the digital world more accessible to Deaf people by creating AI-based accessibility features and digital humans as sign language interpreters. Deaf AI is an example of AI4 Social Good to specify how AI serves human beings, especially people with hard of hearing and hearing loss.

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Deep Biologics Inc.

Deep Biologics specializes in AI enhanced discovery of biologics to fast track therapeutic and diagnostic product development in areas of unmet need. We provide end to end solutions, not only part of the solution, with the thoroughness and speed that can be empowered only by AI.

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Delphia

Delphia is a revolutionary investment platform where anyone can turn their data into investment capital. By telling Delphia about yourself and sharing your opinions about the world around you, you're able to transform personal data into personal wealth, secure in the knowledge that whatever you share will only be used to improve your investment returns.

Denti.AI

Denti.AI is building powerful artificial intelligence technology for dentists around the world. Their first product is a software-only automatic caries predictor that works on bitewing x-rays. Denti.AI works with all the major dental imaging applications and can be easily integrated with the existing workflows of a dental clinic.

Depth Technology

Depth Technology provides critical environmental monitoring and management services to the deep-sea mining industry. Through a comprehensive and autonomous service, we ensure mining operations are compliant with international environmental regulations.

Dessa

Dessa helps the world’s largest organizations reinvent what’s possible with machine learning. Founded in 2016, the company has excelled at applying cutting-edge ML techniques to generate significant value in industries ranging from finance to telecommunications.

Destin AI

Destin AI is an artificially intelligent platform and chatbot solution for immigrants. Their mission is to create a pleasant experience for everyone on their journey to Canada.

Diversifai

Diversifai is a social media based beauty platform made for people of diversity. You can scan your facial features into your profile, and their AI technology will classify and match you to other people with similar features so you can get relevant content tailored for your specific needs.

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Doorr

Doorr is the first broker management platform to give you complete power and ownership over your data. Doorr is leading the digital transformation of mortgages with a fully customizable platform managing every aspect of your workflow from applications to client engagement.

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DOT

DOT is the future of wearable technology that helps you improve your mental health and unlock your true potential.

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Dovetale

Dovetale is a leading marketing and relationship management software for businesses to manage and track results with creative partners on social media. Perfect for influencer marketing, content marketing, media and competitor tracking.

Dundas Life

Dundas Life makes getting life insurance easy and affordable by providing the coverage you need without the paperwork. Try our free online insurance calculator. It takes 5 minutes to find out how much you can save by comparing insurance rates online.

EAIGLE

Computer vision and AI solution for data-driven facility operations through real-time occupancy monitoring. EAIGLE utilized its AI platform to measure body temperature non-intrusively to mitigate the spread of COVID19.

EarthSuds

We offer single-use dissolvable tablets of shampoo, conditioner, and body wash to replace the millions of plastic toiletry bottles sent to landfills every year. Beyond environmental benefits, our tablets are convenient to take with you on-the-go and they're made from top quality ingredients that moisturize your hair and skin.

EcoPackers

Ecopackers uses the power of plants to help existing plastic manufacturers create single use plastics in a 100% eco-friendly and non-toxic way.

Eduro AI

Eduro bridges the gap between people, process and technology to reduce costs and increase the speed of manufacturing. They leverage AI and IoT to generate production plans at a machine level to meet the daily, weekly or bi-weekly orders, putting manufacturing and supply chain on auto-pilot.

Elev

Elev is a platform that gives students the best living experience by matching them with the right Home and streamlining the entire renting experience. Elev helps Hosts find great student-tenants and earn more guaranteed rental income.

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Emaww

Emaww provides touchscreen emotion analytics for apps and websites. Their machine learning algorithms sense users emotions and empower them and researchers with emotional insight.

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Empirical Automation

Empirical Automation creates artificial intelligence solutions for business automation.

Empty Cubicle

Empty Cubicle empowers organizations to verify resume data and make informed hiring decisions in a fraction of the time. When you post a job opening using Empty Cubicle, all resumes received will be comparatively analyzed by their proprietary SaaS system, resulting in a ranked list of the best verified candidates to interview.

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Encircled

Many women are frustrated by having to sacrifice what they really want when shopping for clothes — whether that’s swapping style for comfort or sustainability for convenience. Encircled is a direct-to-consumer brand that gives customers a wardrobe that does it all. You’ll feel confident in clothing that is stylish, sustainable, comfortable and ethical — you won’t have to sacrifice anymore. Proudly a certified B Corporation and 100% Made in Canada.

Enhanced Medical Nutrition

EMN supports patients' journeys through surgery with clinical nutrition to help patients prepare better and recover faster. EMN's initial offerings include three evidence-based enteral formulas (drinks/tube feeds) to support muscle metabolism, immune function and accelerate recovery.

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Enkidoo Technologies

Enkidoo AI provides cloud-based business applications that also integrate with a wide array of ERP, CRM, E-Commerce and other business applications.

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EnvAI Solutions

EnvAI helps businesses meet their climate mandates and understand their climate risks. Using our AI engine, we are able to ingest corporate sustainability documents, extract key information, standardize the data, and output plug & play metrics and insights. By providing Geoscience-as-a-Service (GaaS), we place climate data on an equal footing with traditional financial data and enabling next generation environmental analytics.

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Epilog

Epilog builds digital products to simplify the death of loved ones through online funeral planning and estate management. Their products include a marketplace for families to purchase everything they need to plan a funeral and close accounts.

Eve Medical

Eve Medical's Eve Kit is a simple, convenient way for women to stay on top of their sexual health, right from home. The Eve Kit Service facilitates the screening of chlamydia/gonorrhea/HPV at a certified lab, overseen by a healthcare professional.

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ezSec

ezSec is a company with a mission to making cyber security easy, effective, and scalable. Its flagship product Cypienta is a suite of AI models that correlate siloed signals and uncovers stealthy cyber attack campaigns that breach the most secured organizations.

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FeedmÏ

We believe that food has and will always be at the center of social experiences, whether you are going out for lunch with your friends or having a dinner date at home, however, there is currently no food app that focuses on the social aspects of food. FeedmÏ, the food app for the “young and hungry” focuses on creating the best social experiences around food via social group ordering, messaging, seamless bill-splitting and easy coordination

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FentaGone

FentaGone’s mission is to reduce the amount of fentanyl-related overdoses occurring on the street level. The basis of our product lies in a fentanyl detecting technology embedded in a syringe to test for the presence of fentanyl contamination within substances in order to prevent accidental overdoses on the street-level.

Feroot

Feroot is a behavior-based intrusion and threat detection platform. It provides organizations threat intelligence for web applications and websites to identify user-side malicious activities performed by exploited 1st and 3rd party code.

Fetch Biosciences

Fetch is applying machine learning to dramatically improve traditional protein engineering techniques. Fetch is a protein engineering platform that can be used to engineer a variety of protein structures with improved or entirely new features, all in a fraction of the time typically required.

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Fibra

We are on a mission to create a healthier and happier society by empowering women to take control over their reproductive health and their own reproductive system. At Fibra, we believe that the world is made better by women and that women are made better when they have full agency over their lives. By combining fashion and technology into a smart undergarment that monitors 7 different parameters such as temperature and heart rate, we provide a singular, non-invasive, non-hormonal, and personalized tool to assist women with their reproductive health. These women are 18 to 48 years old who are proactive about their health and understand that being at one with their body empowers them to live the life they want. By leveraging technology we entitle women, like myself, to know their bodies beyond their intuition.

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Flare Systems

Flare Systems helps financial institutions understand and prevent cyber attacks by alerting them when threats are identified to save money and protect their reputation.

Flashfood

Flashfood partners with grocery chains to allow them to sell surplus food through the Flashfood app at significant discounts for its users while reducing store-level food waste.

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FleetOps

FleetOps is an on-demand freight marketplace that instantly matches freight from shippers to carriers with available capacity. The system does this by leveraging driver ELD data and combining it with an AI algorithm to improve on existing systems and increase efficiency in trucking.

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FLIK

FLIK is a community hub where young, ambitious women can discover phenomenal females working towards social impact and explore opportunities to help support their own initiatives and ideas.

Foodage

Foodage is the easiest way for restaurants to reduce waste and lower their prime costs by predicting daily demand.

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Forcen

Forcen created the ForceFilm System, a first-in-the-world force sensing film. Initially, this technology was created for use with surgical robotics. The company has since expanded its reach into aerospace, defence, manufacturing, and industrial robotics, providing predictive maintenance data, HMIs, and accurate force sensing solutions.

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Forvera Health

Forvera Health is a managed marketplace that connects licensed optometrists with corporations, working with optometrists utilizing mobile optometry equipment to perform comprehensive on-site eye exams for patients.

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Furnishr

Furnishr is a turn-key home furnishing platform that manages the entire end to end process for you. We design, source, deliver and setup your home within a day.

FutureFit

FutureFit Ai is the ‘GPS’ for work and education pathways – re-imagining the future of workforce transformation, career guidance, skilling, and layoffs for the age of AI.

FutureSight

FutureSight builds and funds SaaS companies solving the critical challenges of mid-market businesses.

FYT

FYT Technologies Inc. develops software that allows fitness influencers to stream live-classes to their audience with the goal of making fitness entertaining, approachable, effective, and convenient.

GestureLogic

GestureLogic develops wearable fitness technology that directly monitors muscle activation, motion, and hydration.

GiveMagic

GiveMagic is creating the next generation of online giving tools for inspiring nonprofits and institutions.

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Grain Data Solutions

Using machine learning, foodage combines historical sales data with external inputs such as weather, trends, and events nearby to help restaurants to staff and stock accurately.

Gray Oncology Solutions

Gray ensures that oncology departments are running smoothly and at maximal efficiency - from competency requirements on treatment units to contractual restrictions on shifts worked and staff preferences.

GridCure

GridCure provides modular smart grid SaaS solutions that empower utilities to optimize their operations and customer service. GridCure securely aggregates data from disparate systems, completes multi-layered analytics, and recommends real-time actionable insights. GridCure offers simple and customizable solutions to help utilities make sense of their data and implement data-driven change.

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Griffinix

GriffiniX has a team of experts with many years of experience in the area of information security in various industries. The available team of experts will enable you to solve any challenge in the area of information security, no matter if it is a technical, organizational or administrative problem.

Grobo

Grobo is a personalized, app-controlled in-home gardening system that lets anyone grow a successful garden at any time of the year, regardless of their experience level.

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Health Bridge

Health Bridge is eliminating the language barriers in healthcare. They strive to improve patient-flow, reduce wait times, and increase patient outcomes while allowing clinicians and specialists to obtain more accurate information for each of their patients, thus saving time and resources.

Hedgehog Umbrella

The Hedgehog Umbrella is the go-to choice for the urban lifestyle. The umbrella features automotive inspired technology and unparalleled build quality to transform the traditional disposable umbrella into a durable and long lasting product.

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HelpWear

HelpWear is striving to better at-home healthcare by developing affordable and accessible products for patients all around the world. HelpWear is currently developing its first product, the HeartWatch, allowing for 24/7 at home heart monitoring with an embedded emergency contact system for furthered prevention and bettered treatment of heart related illness.

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HeroHub Inc.

HeroHub is a charitable ecosystem that connects individuals with charities, non-profits, and their opportunities! Our online platform makes giving easy, convenient, and beneficial for everyone.

HiredHippo

HiredHippo utilizes AI to match top talent with organizations based on culture and skill fit, so employers can bring on not just a high performer, but someone who actually meshes with their team.

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Holo

Building the world's first virtual workspace through AR glasses. At Holo, we're looking to transform the remote working experience for the software industry.

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Homewise

Homewise automates the mortgage process online, enabling clients to apply in minutes to get the best mortgage from over 30 banks and lenders. Homewise’s data intelligence technologies power a tailored experience that is a faster, easier and more transparent process to help Canadians save time and money when securing their home financing.

HonestEmpathy

Honest Empathy is a mental health support platform fixated on removing the isolation and stigma surrounding mental healthcare. The platform uses machine learning to provide on-demand support group sessions and immersive cognitive behavioural therapy. Honest Empathy houses a team of 15 individuals with backgrounds in medicine, psychology and engineering. They are currently partnered with the University of British Columbia, the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Government of Yukon.

HookMotion

Hop In Technologies

Hop In Technologies is revolutionizing the way employees get to work by improving accessibility to workplaces. Through their shuttle solutions, Hop In empowers corporations to be the driving force behind an improved quality of life for their employees.

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HUEX: The Human Experience Company

At HUEX we are building AiDA, the Automated Intelligent Digital Assistant. AiDA is a voice enabled digital assistant that helps businesses handle customer conversations in live industry environments to assist in tasks such as order taking, inquiries or requests all in a human-like manner to create an unparalleled guest experience.

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HYGN Energy

HYGN hydrogen technology is decentralized and infrastructure free, making hydrogen available to everyone. Our first product is a hydrogen hybrid conversion kit for gas and diesel engines. Commercial fleet vehicles are seeing up to 15% in fuel savings while reducing tail pipe emissions up to 50%. Future products include hydrogen fuel station and power generation infrastructure.

Hyon Software Inc

There are two types of people in this world - You'll either do the work to sell your used items OR you can't be bothered. Hyon is connecting these two groups.

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Iconic Brewing Co.

Iconic Brewing Co. thrives in the fast paced beverage alcohol industry and has become one of the leading “trend-setting” beverage companies in Canada. Their portfolio of brands includes products such as Crazy Beard Wild Apple, Crazy Beard Hard Ginger Ale and Dusty Boots Hard Root Beer - Canada's first alcoholic root beer.

inkbox

Inkbox is a direct-to-consumer tattoo brand that empowers customers with the ultimate tool for self-expression. Their ink develops in your skin to create a tattoo that lasts 1-2 weeks, fading as your skin naturally regenerates.

InspiRED Robotics

InspiRED Robotics is a deep neural network based embedded machine vision solution that helps drones, toys, service robots and other consumer electronics products to interact with human more efficiently and autonomously.

InstinctX

InstinctX is a social media firm that focuses enabling and increasing the capacity for human relationships by leveraging existing and emerging technologies.

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IntelliCulture

IntelliCulture helps farms manage their equipment fleet with data analytics captured through IoT data loggers, enabling them to grow their farm into a sustainable and scalable business.

Interaptix

Interaptix is an augmented reality company working at the intersection of mixed reality, HCI, machine learning, and computer vision to fundamentally revolutionize how people interact with the world and one another. They are focused on building core technologies to solve the industry's biggest challenges to AR's mass adoption.

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Intuitive

Intuitive is creating technology to empower a zero waste world. Their product, Oscar, eliminates contamination by identifying the object in your hand at the point of disposal and visually educates you on how to sort your trash.

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JAUNTIN'

JAUNTIN’ enables insurers to distribute scalable on-demand micro-insurance to their policyholders, either directly, or through brokers or platforms.

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Jitto

Jitto is a just-in-time ordering platform for retailers. We focus on filling in the supply chain gaps that are created by inaccurate forecasting, poor quality and labour shortages to keep our retailers’ shelves full. Our mission is to digitize the wholesale produce sector that is archaic and paper-bound by leveraging technology and our on-demand distribution network to deliver when it matters the most.

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Jobby

At Jobby, we’re building the jobs app for Gen Z. The problem: job descriptions and career pages are really boring, and they don’t offer job seekers a way to know what it’s actually like to work at a company. The solution: Jobby is like TikTok, but for jobs. Video is a much better way of demonstrating what it’s really like to work at a company, from the culture to the job itself. Plus, it’s way more engaging for Gen Z.

Juniper

Juniper is a premium, end-to-end product creation service that manages design, manufacturing, fulfillment, e-commerce, customer service, and digital marketing for the world's largest social media influencers.

Just Vertical

At Just Vertical we build furniture that feeds you. Our indoor gardens allow you to grow your own food, right at home, 365 days per year, while using 95% less water, and no pesticides. This means you can grow your own unique, fresh flavours (like wasabi arugula or black basil!) while helping the planet. We've got over 1000 active gardeners and are fortunate to have strong backers of the company like Arlene Dickinson, Export Development Canada, and F100 firms. We also help you save money on your groceries as every garden purchased comes with everything you need to grow its value back right in the box. We've also taken our backend technology and put it into several different commercial installations where we grow food on a larger scale.

Kabo Fresh Dog Food

Kabo delivers human-grade, gently cooked fresh dog food right to your doorstep every month.

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Kaizena

Kaizena is creating the platform of choice for feedback on digital content, allowing educators to track and identify student abilities beyond final grades and test scores.

Kira Talent

Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. Kira works with over 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.

KitchCo

A low cost solution for chefs looking to commercialize their skills by helping them start their virtual restaurant.

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Klir

Klir's integrated water regulatory compliance platform helps the world's water utilities make water safer. The Klir platform gathers, monitors and analyses regulatory compliance data, all in one easy-to-use web-based application.

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KoStudio

KoStudio is re-imagining the traditional and stern world of boxing with playful, stylish and highly functional gear! We are the largest women’s boxing brand globally and the fastest growing provider for female fight equipment. The brand redesigns gear to fit female needs and proportions, focusing on injury reduction while being the most stylish on the market. With a growing community of over 150k women, we are the first to create such a space in this industry and our mission is to empower female fighters both in and out of the ring!

LabsCubed

LabsCubed automates polymer testing for R&D and quality labs. Through the integration of automated testing systems and intelligent software they are able to provide customers with more consistent and faster testing.

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Leaders Fund

Leaders Fund invests in fast-growing enterprise software companies run by tenacious entrepreneurs.

Learnify

Learnify is an ed-tech company on a mission to create tailored learning experiences that recreate how students learn and interact in the classroom, thereby improving their performance, organization, and engagement with their course curriculum and peers. By cross-examining a student's course materials with their current comprehension and personal preferences, we use machine learning and natural language processing to create dynamic study content, such as flashcards, practice quizzes, note summaries, and other productivity- and interactive tools to guide a student towards academic mastery. After months of testing and collecting feedback through a private beta, we are gearing up for our public launch in time for the upcoming school year in September. We seek to grow by offering a three-tiered freemium model, selling direct to students - until we have enough traction - at which point we will gradually transition over to a B2B model, partnering with universities, high schools, and other academics institutions.

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LevelJump

LevelJump helps enablement leaders onboard new reps faster and make existing reps better at scale by executing programs, automating sales milestone achievement, and attributing enablement programs to revenue from within Salesforce.

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LifeLuxe

Pre-pandemic, we originally focussed on improving social well-being in retirement homes, encouraging seniors to spend less time in their rooms. We are now pivoting to explore how to connect seniors socially from their rooms and are also exploring how to enhance distance social connections for professional working communities.

Lilia

Lilia is your egg securing concierge, saving you money and handling all the annoying parts of getting fertility info about your body and options.

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Linkett

LINKETT is the leading analytics platform for digital out-of-home advertising.

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LUCID

LUCID is an AI-Music Therapy company building products that increase access to effective and safe methods for improving mental health and wellness. Our first product VIBE is for young adults suffering from moderate to severe stress and anxiety who want a fun and personalized alternative for maintaining their mental health.

Lumen5

Lumen5 converts your blog posts into social videos. They use artificial intelligence to create high quality videos for your content marketing at scale.

Lumotune

Lumotune has leveraged nanotechnology to pioneer transparent digital displays that look just like glass. Their displays allow storefront messaging to be unobtrusive and visible in daylight, all the while being digital and easy to keep up-to-date.

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Lunavoy Inc.

Lunavoy Inc. is disrupting the tourism space with its artificial intelligence powered online marketplace that personalizes touristic activities to each traveler’s profile and travelers among themselves. Essentially, we are a one-stop shop for millennial and gen z travelers to experience unique local travel activities in a group with other like-minded travelers at a discounted price.

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MAIC

MAIC applies expertise in reinforcement learning, neural networks, classical machine learning methods and data engineering capabilities horizontally across any vertical. They build production-ready data pipelines.

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MakerKids

MakerKids runs award-winning camps, programs and parties for kids on coding, robotics and Minecraft. They inspire kids to build confidence, social skills, resilience and a positive relationship with technology – and to see their futures as inventors, entrepreneurs, and innovators.

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Makeup For Melanin Girls

MFMG Cosmetics is a beauty brand that leverages online communities to develop products and a personalized shopping experience for multiethnic beauty customers. Their mission is to bring diverse beauty to the forefront through highly pigmented beauty products.

Manzil

What Manzil offers are fully compliant financial products including mortgages and investment opportunities that are locally structured and available to Muslim Canadian’s who are looking to build wealth and assets. At a time when financial health is at the forefront of Canadian’s minds, the Manzil team is ensuring that financial advice and opportunity is ethically available for all.

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Marion Surgical

Marion Surgical is building the world’s first virtual reality surgical simulator that combines real patient case examples, best in class haptic feedback, a realistic immersive VR operating room, and advanced sensor technology.

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MATR

MATR is developing a medical device to enable patients to do physiotherapy at home.

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Maxen

MAXEN facilitates the energy transition of buildings by revealing the full value of your data. Their AI solutions allow the optimization of HVAC management systems and of energy, facilitate decision-making, increase the value of your real estate asset and contribute to saving our planet.

MedMe Health

MedMe is an on-demand health advisor that lets you digitally access pharmacists, treatments, and medications in the comfort of your home.

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Mely.ai

MetaVRse

MetaVRse is a universal development engine that allows creators to quickly build and deploy interactive 3D & XR experiences on the web.

Mindle.ai

Mindle provides AI-enabled capital market signals for hedge funds. Hedge funds license Mindle capital market signals to improve performance by reducing return volatility, drawdown, and correlation with common factor return streams.

Mindset

Mindset is the solution to the modern work environment. State of the art audio and active noise cancelling create the perfect environment for doing your best work. In addition, Mindset’s EEG coaches you to better recognize distractions by sending an audio cue whenever you get distracted. Over time, this feedback conditions your subconscious to tune out distractions inherently.

MinervaAI

MinervaAI predicts who poses money laundering and terrorist financing risk to banks. We provide automated, accurate and audit-proof AML investigations at a fraction of the cost of compliance.

Mistplay

Mistplay is the first loyalty platform for mobile gamers. Players use Mistplay daily to play games, earn rewards and connect with friends. With already over 3 million members around the world in under 2-years, Mistplay is one of the fastest growing companies in North America.

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Mogile Technologies

Mogile Technologies' flagship product, ChargeHub, helps drivers discover all public charging stations in North America through their app and website. As a central contact point for hundreds of thousands of EV drivers and with extensive charging datasets, ChargeHub also proposes novel solutions for the automotive and energy industries.

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Moment

Moment is replacing diesel generators for remote communities by repurposing electric vehicle batteries into sustainable energy storage

Momentify

Momentify is a platform that allows entrepreneurs to find others to work next to anywhere and anytime. Their community of entrepreneurs co-work with each other to stay motivated, share ideas, offer feedback and network productively.

Monogram

Monogram’s second generation hardware, Creative Console, is a modular, freeform control surface designed to enable hands-on and dynamic interaction with creative software. It's the only tool powerful and versatile enough to increase productivity and creativity in post-production and other creative digital workflows.

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Monolog

Monolog is a service that allows users to create and edit websites with their voice. The user simply describes the next desired change in natural language and Monolog applies it, providing instant feedback.

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MycoRemedy

MycoRemedy remediates contaminated environmental sites the natural way – no chemicals or energy-intensive inputs necessary. Their technology is the most efficient and cost-effective on the market.

Myelin

Myelin uses AI to answer everyday questions about the mental health of caregivers, caregivers and affected people, with their first prototype focusing on those on the autism spectrum.

Nest.Bio

Nest.Bio Ventures, works closely with pioneering founders to help develop, fund, and commercialize their ground-breaking technologies. Nest.Bio Labs supports emerging biotech startups with the infrastructure and community needed to get their companies to the next level.

neuralIR

NeuralIR is applying AI to scientific information retrieval (IR).

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noderu

Noderu is an employee discovery and management tool that helps enhance the work experience through effective relationship management. It works by matching employees based on their professional and personal interests and then provides a personal CRM for them to help remain connected.

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NoLeak Defence

We apply video analytics intelligence to identify, predict and prevent criminal behaviours. Our leading gait recognition technology can identify any person by their body movement without requiring a visible face.

Nomz

Nomz is a healthy snack company based in Toronto, Canada. Their energy bites are made with simple, natural ingredients and come in four delicious flavours: pistachio, almond, hazelnut and coconut.

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North

North is building a future where technology is human-centric, discreetly built into fundamental parts of our lives that already exist. Their smart glasses product, Focals, is the next step in defining the future of eyewear with a design that is lighter and features a sharp, more vibrant display.

nud fud

nud fud is a healthy snack company that produces snacks that are organic, raw, vegan, paleo, tree nut-free, sugar-free, non-GMO, grain-free, and gluten-free.

Nudnik

Nudnik transforms textile waste into unisex apparel for kids and adults.

Nugget.ai

nugget.ai is a people analytics platform that connects talent to opportunity through real company challenges.

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NuPort Robotics

NuPort Robotics is building Canada's first autonomous trucking company focused on middle mile automation for company supply chain operations. NuPort’s mission is to automate global supply chains using self-driving trucks increasing sustainability through the adoption of clean transportation solutions, reduce the cost of operations for clients and establish Canada as the leading country for Autonomous Vehicles in the world.

NXT Farm

NXT Farm provides industry-first algorithms for processing satellite imagery which help a farmer optimize their inputs and maximize their yields.

Nymi

Nymi is leading the way on workplace wearables. Their leading edge enterprise authentication delivers data integrity and security, allowing highly regulated industries to achieve compliance and productivity.

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Ohanna

Ohanna’s mission is to support our fellow blue-collar workers that have been left behind when it comes to human resources management. We offer a platform designed to reduce blue-collar employee turnover. We started with a core focus on recognition & rewards, and we’re expanding to cover other use cases. Everyone knows that “People don’t leave their jobs, they leave their managers.” With Ohanna, we’re giving managers the tools to better understand and engage with their employees and ultimately reduce turnover.

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Oncoustics

Oncoustics mines ultrasound for surveillance and disease characterization. They turn low-cost, point-of-care ultrasound systems into powerful and portable surveillance, diagnostic and monitoring systems for preventive care and early intervention.

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Operant.ai

Operant.AI is working with leading banks and accounts receivable groups to revolutionize the collections process. By integrating the rich data associated with every account, they use machine learning to personalize the collections approach in order to improve customer experience, increase repayment rates and maximize retention.

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Optimity

Optimity is a SaaS loyalty program for insurance carriers offering digital wellness rewards apps that brings together communities.

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Orbityl Labs

Orbityl is developing technology that allows users to communicate with computers using just their thoughts.

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Origami XR

Origami XR is a cloud computing tool that makes it easy to create and share volumetric augmented and virtual reality experiences. As the first truly scalable spatial computing workflow, we enable the future of remote work for 3D professionals.

Ossicles

Ossicles Technologies Inc. develops the state-of-art solutions based on artificial intelligence for the safety and the performance of the horses in equestrian sports.

OTI Lumionics

OTI Lumionics develops production-ready advanced materials for OLED displays. Their disruptive and scalable solutions are enabling best-in-class OLED displays in consumer electronics.

OutLaunch

Outlaunch is a B2B marketplace that connects businesses with the talent needed to successfully bring a physical product to market. Our solution offers metrics and guidelines to help find the ideal contractor, as well as the tools needed to work with talent remotely.

Outshinery

Outshinery empowers CPG brands to be (and stay!) relevant across sales channels in a hyper-competitive world. We generate visual product content guaranteed on brand, at scale, and fast. Unlike traditional photography, our production is 100% virtual, flexible and future-proof. Simply brilliant.

#paid

#paid is a technology company that builds tools for the creator economy. Businesses of every size—from DTC brands to fortune 500 companies—use their software to collaborate with creators and grow their businesses.

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Paladin AI

Paladin AI creates data-driven tools for optimizing training delivery at aviation centres. They work with flight simulator OEMs, airlines, and training centres to help accelerate training, while reducing costs.

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ParseHub

ParseHub is a free and powerful web scraping tool. With their advanced web scraper, extracting data is as easy as clicking on the data you need.

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Penyo Pal

Penyo Pal creates amazing learning experiences by carefully adapting the latest advancements in pedagogy, cognitive science, and user-experience design. Their first series of language learning apps won multiple awards, a 5-star rating and resulted in over 10,000,000 hours of learning from students around the world.

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Peytec

Peytec offers new and innovative Industrial Internet of Things solutions to help clients enable the "business of the future"​. Peytec offers smart asset management, smart inventory management, and real-time quality control solutions.

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Piecemeal

Restaurant management involves many time intensive tasks on a daily basis, leading to shortcuts, errors and lack of control over the business. Piecemeal’s SaaS platform is helping restaurant operators leverage the power of artificial intelligence to put these tasks on autopilot, save time, prevent costly mistakes and become more profitable.

Pilot

Pilot helps people live happier lives through shared experiences. Our social travel planner helps you build itineraries for trips you want to take by yourself or with a group.

Pitstop

Pitstop is a cloud-based prognostic maintenance platform that enables enterprises to leverage the wealth of information available from their vehicle fleets.

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Platterz

Platterz is an office catering platform curating food from top local kitchens, customized to feed diverse teams. They hand pick your city’s favourite eats and use intuitive technology to align your team’s palette and dietary needs with your next office gathering.

Poche Posh

Poche Posh is an online women's clothing retailer. They provide women's clothing with pockets to carry your necessities while still looking stylish.

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Portl Media

Portl is a network of content, advertising and commerce-enabled tablets in rideshare vehicles (Uber + Lyft) that tap into the power of geo-location and historic ride data that the rideshare companies provide via API.

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Private AI

Private AI simplifies privacy regulation compliance through on-device text, image, and video anonymization. Making it easy to maintain customer trust through seamless private data storage and cloud processing.

Pro Angler

Open Ocean Apps Inc. was founded in 2011 with the purpose to revolutionize how recreational anglers fish around the world. They are the makers of the Pro Angler series of Fishing Apps & Websites, and the US App Store’s #1 Ranked Fishing App / Top 10 Sports Apps 2012-2018.

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Prolego.ai

Prolego.ai leverages the power of predictive modelling to automate underwriting. Their AI solution for life insurers reduces customer acquisition costs, expedites underwriting, boosts customer satisfaction, and increases sales without increasing risk exposure.

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Propel

Propel is a marketplace platform that connects service providers with clients through required facilities. Starting with swim instruction, Propel provides qualified instructors with access to pools, insurance, and tools to start, grow, and manage their own private swimming lessons.

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Prosperea

Our mission at Prosperea is to help the world design better cities, faster. By providing mapping visualization and the auto-generation of architecturally sound buildings, we enable developers and architects to validate their land development opportunities in minutes - instead of days.

QEYnet

QEYnet is creating a quantum key distribution network using microsatellites. Their mission is to build a global Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) network using microsatellites to enable low-cost global utilization of this technology, thereby facilitating a new era of ultra-secure communication.

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Qoherent

Qoherent is a software company that will change how new wireless technologies are made. We are building a platform for communications engineers to rapidly design, prototype, and deploy solutions for RF communications problems with the power of machine learning and quantum computing.

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Qoints

Qoints is a software platform and data marketplace that leverages industry benchmarks to improve digital marketing results. Access to this data allows brand marketers to compare their results against the rest of their market category or industry, which is highly beneficial for effectively planning, executing and measuring digital campaigns.

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Ralux

Ralux is developing the next generation of prescription eyewear offering on-demand lens tint. Unlike our competitors, our unique coatings allow for this to be achieved with no added bulk, maintaining an elegant design without compromise.

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Refinery Labs

Refinery Labs provides an analytics platform with 5+ million data points on over 38,000 municipalities with a mission to create better economic futures for people and places.

Resili

Resili is a digital therapeutic startup who's revolutionizing mental healthcare through a best-in-class eDBT app, targeting the largest, unaddressed niche market - family caregivers.

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RetiSpec

RetiSpec is a medical imaging company developing a tool for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in the eye. Their goal is to enable widespread early detection of Alzheimer’s disease with accessible and scalable screening.

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Ribbit

Ribbit is building software to replace commercial pilots and creating the world's first pilot less airline.

Rithmik Solutions

Rithmik Solutions builds advanced analytics for predictive maintenance on mining equipment.

Robot Playtime

Robot Playtime builds products that empower younger generation to create, and learn computer science and robotics through play. Pixel, their platform, makes learning the basics of programming, logic and robot building fun and easy.

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Rockmass Technologies

Rockmass builds surveying hardware for mining operations. Their mission is to enable mines to operate safer and more efficiently through streamlined and digital data collection.

Rockwell Razors

Rockwell makes eco-friendly, innovative shaving and grooming products.

Roshi

Roshi is an online tool that lets language educators create lesson material with a single click. Using AI to generate readings, exercises, or assessments, it does instantly what normally takes them hours. Roshi is being used by hundreds of people in schools and government organizations, and we’re growing quickly on our mission to make language education easier and more accessible to people around the world.

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SAMETRICA

SAMETRICA is a software company that helps governments and enterprises measure, manage and demonstrate the value of social investments, using state-of-the-art SROI and outcome reporting.

Sampler

Sampler is the leading self-serve digital product sampling solution for brand and agency marketers. Sampler helps brands of all sizes and categories deliver physical samples to digitally targeted consumers.

SeamlessMD

SeamlessMD enables hospitals to implement and optimize Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways faster and more effectively. They provide the leading technology solution to optimize patient health preoperatively, accelerate post-operative recovery and monitor at-risk patients post-discharge.

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SeekShift

SeekShift uses deep-learning algorithms to detect facial expression from a single image or a series of images, to detect action units, and to interpolate between key facial expressions.

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Senso

Senso is a cloud-based AI platform which enables financial service providers to manage and grow their consumer credit portfolios.

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Sensoreal

At Sensoreal, we have developed a microfluidic device that was successfully commissioned at the International Space Station. We made Canada the first country to do rapid POC blood tests in space, and now, we are building the next generation diagnostics here on earth!

Sesame.io

Sesame helps teachers and students tell the stories that report cards can't.

Shaddari

Shaddari leverages data with their artificial intelligence based APIs to build decision support tools in healthcare. Their platform provides clinical decision support for hospitals, target gene mediated vaccine selection decision support, and condition based maintenance decision support.

Shakepay

Shakepay is the easiest way for Canadians to buy and sell bitcoin.

ShipEarly.com

ShipEarly developed a user friendly yet highly sophisticated SaaS-based software platform making it easier for consumers to buy and dealers to sell.

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Shomigo

Shomigo is a social shopping platform that aggregates upcoming and established brands, keeps users up to date with the latest fashion trends and your friend’s activity, and allows users to interact with the Shomigo community.

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SingleKey

SingleKey takes the stress out of renting. We offer a Rent Guarantee program to secure rental income, even when tenants are unable to pay; and a Tenant Credit & Background Check to help landlords find the right tenant.

Sinitic

Sinitic transforms multilingual contact centers with AI customer experience. The Sinitic product suite is powered by the HermesAI™ natural language processing engine, with high-accuracy for Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Indonesian, Thai, Tagalog and more.

Skullscan

Skullscan uses its own proprietary, AI-driven technology to reconstruct 3D models of humans from a single photograph of their head.

Skylight

Skylight is using technology to radically improve the home renovation process. They are a digital renovation service provider, helping homeowners with everything required for a successful renovation from design through construction, including a guarantee that the project will be on budget.

SkyWatch Space Applications

SkyWatch is on a mission to make Earth-observation data accessible to the world. SkyWatch EarthCache™ provides developers with the tools they need to cost-effectively add Earth observation data into their applications and workflows.

smartARM

smartARM is democratizing bionic hands for upper limb amputees by using current advances in artificial intelligence and 3D printing to create an affordable and fully articulated prosthetic hand at less than 10x the cost of any competitor. smartARM uses cameras embedded in the palm to detect any object an amputee wishes to interact with and automatically determines the most appropriate grip pattern based on the object’s geometry.

SmartHalo

SmartHalo is enhancing urban mobility by providing the best cyling experience to cyclists. Their network-connected bike accessory features a GPS navigator, night light, alarm system, fitness tracking, and more.

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SmartPay

SmartPay is a payment processor which easily plugs-in to e-commerce check-out pages. It allows shoppers to connect to their online banking portal and make direct payments from their preferred account.

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SnapTravel

Get the cheapest travel deals over message

SnapWrite AI

Save hundreds of hours by simply uploading your product image and let the AI do the rest. SnapWrite AI identifies the object, assigns categories and keywords (already SEO optimized) and writes a product description that's in the tone of voice of your brand. We have built a technology that can label thousands of images, structure the data optimized for eCommerce websites like Shopify, Etsy, Amazon and generate descriptions in a few minutes. This helps eCommerce businesses save hours and capital that goes towards manually inputting and maintaining large volumes of data. We are currently working with Apparel and Furniture Stores and Online Grocery Platforms. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g8UWw5V3

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Sobie Systems

Sobie Systems makes smart IoT devices that monitor the performance of the HVAC systems in real-time.

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Socialab

Socialab is a self-development application that helps users train essential social skills such emotional intelligence, charisma, and nonverbal communication. Personalized training pathways are created using research-backed methods from industry experts, allowing users to develop their skills effectively in a comfortable environment.

SortSpoke

SortSpoke helps you turn your documents ​into data. With SortSpoke your team can focus on higher value work and spend less time on manual data entry.

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Sparkbay Technologies

Sports IQ Analytics

Sports IQ uses advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to provide cutting edge software solutions for the online sports gambling industry.

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Spotdox

Spotdox is the ultimate Dropbox companion application. By pairing Spotdox with Dropbox you will be able to view any file, on any of your computers, from anywhere.

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spotted

There are 50M+ renters in North America per year. On average, it takes 1-6 months to find an apartment and renters pay on average of $400 to view apartments outside their city in travel, accommodation expenses viewing only 3-4 apartments during their visit. spotted is an app that connects renters to local spotters to help out-of-city renters view apartments at a distance. By pairing renters with trustworthy spotters, we ensure that no renter will be unhappy with their new homes. Hiring a spotter will offer detailed summary of apartment home features without the out-of-pocket expenses of transportation and accommodations. We make apartment viewing fun, timely and affordable.

Spring Loaded Technology

Spring Loaded manufactures and distributes the world’s first “bionic” knee bracing technologies in order to enhance the strength and power of the leg muscles. Their goal is to improve the prevention and treatment of life-changing knee joint injuries while simultaneously creating new possibilities in human performance.

Staffy Canada

Staffy’s platform is a modern solution to staffing challenges within the hospitality sector. For employers, Staffy facilitates quick and efficient connections with skilled contractors, addressing immediate, short-term or long-term staffing needs. And for contractors, Staffy provides the opportunity to instantly pick up shifts tailored to their skills, experience, and schedule.

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Stathletes

Stathletes provides relevant data and statistics on athletic performance in order to solve the issues related to the subjective evaluations that plague professional franchises. The combination of the business’ unique database and customizable data communication web-based portal aids decision makers regarding player development, team acquisitions, and scouting.

Steadiwear inc.

Steadiwear has developed the world's first smart glove to stabilize tremors in Essential tremor and Parkinson's disease.

Stockholm Syndrome.AI

SucSeed

As Canada's only socially-driven hyrdoponics company, SucSeed's at-home hydroponic growing kits let anyone, anywhere, fill their plates with fresh, affordable produce.

Summatti

Summatti makes EVERY customer interaction count by analyzing 100% of customer interactions and giving you unique consumer insights while saving time and money.

Suppli

Suppli has built a solution that allows food vendors to swap in high-quality reusable packaging for their single-use containers. We're the only reusables company with an end-to-end platform that seamlessly captures order data, and uses this to power circular inventory management and logistics, facilitating scalability.

Swept

Swept makes simple software designed specifically for the janitorial industry. Swept helps cleaning managers communicate with their staff about issues on site, provide cleaning instructions, track supply requests, and inspection results - regardless of language differences among the team.

Switchboard

Switchboard provides technology for managers and dispatchers to manage transportation operations. Switchboard optimizes operations and reduces your time and money spent on administrative tasks. You can efficiently manage your growing fleet by using Switchboard for all your trucking needs.

TakuLabs Ltd.

We move retail chain stores to the cloud. TAKU is the only retail platform that allows multi-location merchants to sell offline and online seamlessly with a single view of data across their entire business.

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Greenlid

Greenlid is the world's first fully biodegradable kitchen food waste bin. Just fill it up and compost the entire Greenlid. It's made from 100% end-of-life recycled cardboard and has a proprietary formulation that prevents leaks and smells.

The Knowledge Society

The Knowledge Society (TKS) is a 10-month accelerator program for curious and ambitious teens. Through project-based learning and real-world skill building, TKS trains young people to solve the world's biggest problems using emerging technologies.

ThriveHire

ThriveHire is the career platform for the global health community. By featuring organizations, jobs, volunteer positions and more, ThriveHire is a one-stop-shop for launching and developing your global health career.

Tia Health

Tia gives employees unlimited appointments, free prescription delivery, family appointments, and much more. Employees can see a doctor from their desk, home, or even while on the road, allowing them to get better, faster. With a vast network of doctors, Tia can effectively connect your employees to the best doctor available based on their specific symptoms and medical history.

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Time Auction

Time Auction is a charity that connects anyone with inspiring leaders while encouraging volunteerism. By volunteering to any charity, one can join remarkable experiences — from power dinners with CEOs to cooking with Michelin-starred chefs.

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TimeSaved

TimeSaved builds apps for staffing agencies that accelerate growth, increase engagement and create better experiences for your recruiters, clients and candidates.

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Tiptappay

TipTap is a mobile, wireless device enabling contactless acceptance of any digital payment source in preset denominations. TipTap functions as a standalone point-of-sale device without cumbersome equipment or complicated backend technology, providing a simple, affordable solution for small denomination transactions, anywhere, anytime.

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Tooly.ai

Tote

Traction House

Traction House helps Series A startups solve distribution using LinkedIn. Their product, Find+Seek, drives qualified leads to your fund using social media networks. They then track, score, and rank their online engagement with your brand so you can focus on the best quality prospects at the right time.

Tribe Technologies

Tribe is a cloud-based customer-to-customer community platform, empowering the new generation of online branded communities. It enables customers to discuss and connect under a customer community.

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Triplet.ai

Triplet is developing an AI-powered virtual analyst that provides business insights when asked in everyday language.

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TritonWear

TritonWear develops wearable technology for performance athletics to make better coaches, resulting in superior athletes. TritonWear's flagship product, the Triton, is a wearable for competitive swimmers.

TRYON Technologies

TRYON Technology is an AI-enabled startup specialized in designing and producing augmented reality software for jewelry e-commerce and retail stores.

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Tuuli

Tuuli is the first integrated platform for building material data discovery and management. We cut the time it takes to select sustainable materials by 80%, empowering developers, architects, and governments to fuel the green building market of the future.

UCIC

UCIC is dedicated to bringing natural interaction to technology. The company primarily focuses on adding voice interaction to consumer electronic product and Internet of Things devices. UCIC's clients include top consumer brands and chipmakers.

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Upscale Technology

Upscale's mission is to help amateur and emergent bands to get the highest sound quality possible from their talent during live shows. They are currently designing the Uptune, a device which acts like the human ear to analyze the sound from your band in real-time, giving you directions for equalizing your instruments sound level.

Uride

Over a billion people living in small towns don't have access to reliable transportation. No Uber, no lyft, and people often waiting over an hour for taxis. We've created a new transportation model that is working in low density areas, and it's working. In my hometown Thunder Bay, people now get picked up in under 10 mintues instead of 1-2 hours. We grew 3x last year. We currently operate in 11 cities, and just passed 1 million safe ride.

Validere Technologies

Validere empowers oil and gas organizations to know true product quality through real-time IoT data and optimize logistics and trading with predictive AI insights.

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Valsys

Valsys provides professionals with the tools they need to make data-driven decisions in private company valuation and estimation processes.

Vaundry

Vaundry is a technology platform for garment care. They build the tools and processes that enable customers to have their dry cleaning and laundry picked up, cleaned and delivered right from their doorstep.

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Verto

The Verto Platform leverages smart integrations, virtualizes care, and activates patients and caregivers to drive powerful automation and personalization

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Babbly

Babbly is an artificial intelligence powered mobile app designed to track your baby’s speech development.

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VitalTracer Ltd

VivaVax

VivaVax creates technologies that protect sensitive medicines during transport, and formulations that enhance drug delivery into the body.

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Voiceflow

Voiceflow empowers users to collaboratively design, prototype and build Alexa Skills and Google Actions - all without any knowledge of coding.

VoiceHero

VoiceHero is a voice analytics platform that helps businesses increase engagement and make data-driven decisions. They create a suite of easy to use tools for voice app makers to launch and market their apps.

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Voltera

Voltera has developed the V-One, a desktop 3D printer that enables circuit boards to be prototyped within minutes. Eliminating the frustrations associated with traditional circuit board fabrication processes and drastically reducing hardware development time.

VOLTFUSE

VOLTFUSE is a specialty headwear and apparel brand, based out of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Vox Pop Labs

Vox Pop Labs builds innovative technologies that foster democratic participation, using data science to create online applications that organize information in ways which are at once easily accessible, empirically rigorous, and profoundly personalized.

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Wanda

Wanda is Canada’s first ever delivery only grocery store. They leverage technology to make Wanda the most convenient and affordable way to purchase your groceries.

Watergeeks

Watergeeks helps users manage their water operations with efficiency and rapidity, as well as respond to equipment failure and reduce operation downtime.

WeavAir

WeavAir sensor modules make use of advanced sensor array technology to measure metrics core to HVAC system performance and indoor air quality. The devices are powered in part by renewable energy sources. Real time analytics and predictive algorithms improve device accuracy and provide preventative alerts and actionable insights.

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Weave Travels

Weave is a hub for the world's travel content. They are a platform to help travel companies create beautiful, interactive and data driven content, instead of relying on brochures and paragraphs of text.

WellnessWorld

WellnessWorld is a B2B SaaS venture creating digital wellness solutions for educational institutions. We are developing an online one-stop-wellness-shop that will support students in better navigating resources and services, while providing actionable data to institutions so they can optimize their existing mental health and wellness systems.

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Wellow

Wellow is the world's most sustainable deodorant. It comes in a revolutionary paper-based tube that is 100% recyclable and compostable. Made from 95% FSC-certified recycled paper, the deodorant’s packaging fully biodegrades in as little as 3 months after disposal, leaving no trace. Every detail has been carefully considered, down to the plant-based ink, water-soluble adhesive, and all-natural ingredients.

WhatRunsWhere

WhatRunsWhere is the premiere media intelligence platform for desktop, mobile, and native display advertising. They enable users to put data behind decision making for smarter display advertising strategies and maximum ROI.

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whoelse.ai

We develop vendor agnostic standards for natural language processing and conversational AI. In pilots/POC we work with telcos and OEMs (e.g. automotive industry, fintech) to set-up ISO standards for AI interoperability.

WHOOSH!

WHOOSH! is defining the next generation of clean. Leveraging the latest advancements in formula development, WHOOSH! creates innovative, powerful and safer solutions to clean life’s dirty moments.

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Wiivv

Wiivv is a technology company transforming footwear and wellness for every human body. Wiivv Insoles and Sandals are created uniquely for you, engineered for your individual feet and 3D printed using measurements taken from the award-winning Wiivv app.

Wilder Harrier

Wilder Harrier's mission is to prepare the healthiest foods for our pets and for the planet using only wholesome, human-grade, and tasty ingredients in a fully responsible way. Their first product is a hypoallergenic and healthy dog treat made with cricket flour - a sustainable superfood.

Win-Win HomeSharing

By pairing students with senior citizens, Win-Win Homesharing reduces the cost of living for students while offering a helping hand and companionship to seniors living alone. In exchange for half-priced rent, students complete chores for seniors, allowing them to stay in their homes for longer and enjoy an additional income.

Wishplay

Wishplay uses virtual reality so patients of all ages can experience the world beyond their illness or circumstance. Wishplay provides an escape beyond the four walls of their room, reduces their pain, and in many cases grants final wishes so loved ones can experience something truly special.

YPC Technologies

YPC Technologies is pioneering a new field of kitchen automation by building the world’s first robotic kitchen that can cook thousands of recipes, at restaurant quality, using fresh ingredients.

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ZEITDICE INC.

ZEITDICE's mission is to capture time so we can learn from it, preserve it, and enjoy it. To achieve, ZEITDICE has invented a time-lapse camera that does not run out of battery or memory.

zeroone.ai inc.

Zeroone.ai makes AI-driven financial products on the decentralized ecosystem.

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ZipLunch

In a hybrid working environment companies are offering lunch as a perk to incentivize their teams to return to the office. However restaurants are actively shutting down their delivery tablets during peak hours and up to 50% are leaving other delivery platforms. This is where ZipLunch comes in. We at ZipLunch help restaurants turn their downtime into primetime with group orders from office managers and their teams. and at the same time we make it dead simple for teams of any size to place group orders in minutes instead of hours!

Zynq

Zynq ensures all your meetings have a clear goal and a reason for why you're invited so you can decide whether it's worth your time, and let your team know when it's not. Why? Because you deserve better meetings.

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