Accelerator Centre

Located in Waterloo, Ontario within the David Johnston Research+Technology Park, and at the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus in Stratford, Ontario, the Accelerator Centre (AC) is a world-renowned, award-winning network of facilities dedicated to developing and commercializing technology startups. The AC provides an essential combination of in-house mentorship, educational programming, facilities, networking, and access to funding and facility services, with a goal of building successful companies. Our in-depth programming, unique accountability model, and long-term view (up to three years) distinguishes us from other accelerators and incubators within the Canadian commercialization landscape. We help entrepreneurs move from start-up to scale-up, accelerate their time to market, and help them attract customers, investment and revenue.

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APrivacy Ltd.

Seed Round in 2013
APrivacy provides the banking and finance industry with an information security and tracking service anywhere, any time and on any device. APrivacy’s enabling technology allows banks to drive new revenues, reduce risk and support compliance efforts. APrivacy’s patented solution empowers bankers to communicate and share information with their clients using the devices they prefer (iPhone, Android, etc.) via the channels they prefer (Gmail, Outlook, Dropbox, etc. ) and the medium they prefer (Email, PDF, PPT, Word, Excel, etc. ). With APrivacy financial institutions achieve a level of control on their information they previously did not have, such as retrieving emails or documents even after they have been sent and/or downloaded onto a client’s device. Additional controls include blocking a recipient from forwarding, printing, saving information and geo-fencing protection . Everything is supported by strong data analytics and audit trails. APrivacy’s patented solution satisfies the banking industry’s most strict security and compliance requirements whilst enabling seamless and enjoyable client communications.

BigRoad Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
BigRoad understands how trucking fleets operate and the challenges facing drivers on the road. The company's smartphone app was created with the goal of making life on the road easier and more profitable for drivers, while lowering the administration and cost burden for fleet owners and operators. BigRoad's app includes such features as electronic logging, in app messaging, document/photo send and receive, real time navigation and traffic information. Deep analytics captured from day-to-day usage provide fleet managers with critical information to be more productive and in tune with their drivers' needs.

Blue Lion Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Blue Lion Labs is based out of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and is made up of a dedicated team of experienced experts in Artificial Intelligence and Water Quality. Jason Deglint (left) is the driving force of the team, with extensive industrial experience at some of the top companies in the world. Dr. Alexander Wong (middle) is a Canada Research Chair at the University of Waterloo who has won numerous research awards and is considered a leading expert in Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Chao Jin (right) is a Research Professor at the University of Waterloo who is an expert in water technologies.

Chillwall AI

Pre Seed Round in 2017
MEET BETTY - PERSONAL AI CONCIERGE Powered By Emotions | Better Insight Chillwall`s core licensing technology sits on top of a business partner’s network pushing personalized experiences that helps turn a curiosity into a desire to experience. Chillwall AI focuses on real human interactions and desires. Our Deep Learning algorithm aggregates a user’s experience across a multi-touch digital platform pushing personal recommendations based on the user’s location, interests and interactions. Oh yeah, we do AI powered data insight mining if you need it. To learn more contact us at hello@chillwal.ai .

Trending.Info

Seed Round in 2015
Trending.Info allows you to follow everything that is going on right now in a community that interests you. View this real time information in one place using a computer, tablet or smartphone. Start exploring your community, and see what you are missing.

Ryna

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Ryna is the next generation rental provider for modern women & inclusive minded allies. Powered by technology, Ryna delivers a seamless rental experience and a sense of community/belonging designed to meet the ever changing lifestyle needs in major cities.

Quantum Benchmark

Seed Round in 2018
Quantum Benchmark is the leading provider of software solutions that enable error characterization, error mitigation, error correction and performance validation for quantum computing hardware. Their company is led by a team of the world’s top research scientists and engineers in quantum computing with the mission of enabling quantum computers to solve real-world problems. They are venture-backed with headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada.

HealthIM

Grant in 2015
HealthIM is a Provider of a mental health reporting platform intended to help police peacefully resolve crisis situations. The company's mental health reporting platform integrates directly into existing police hardware and networks and standardizes the admissions process of mentally ill persons under police care, thereby providing them with an intelligence driven system, enabling them to prevent crisis and reduce risk when supporting persons with mental illness in the community.

Tyltgo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Tyltgo renders courier, logistics, supply chain management, and delivery services for small businesses and enterprises.

Maieutic Enterprises Incorporated

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Maieutic is a startup comprised of engineers who are developing a revolutionary die and surface casting technology called a programmable surface. Manufacturers use die extrusions to flatten polymers into flat sheets. However through repetitive use deformations as well as wear tear occur on the die's surface. Manufacturers often use screws to re-adjust the surface and compensate for these solutions. Our patent pending solution is known as the "programmable surface", a surface comprised of an array of pins whose individual heights can be adjusted via lorrentz force. By varying the individual heights of each pin, we can emulate various surface topographies and compensate for surface deformities that arise in the manufacturing process.

intelliCulture

Grant in 2018
Bringing the future of fleet connectivity to the agricultural industry.

SSIMWave Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
SSIMWAVE is a cutting-edge video software company that provides perceptual quality measurement and optimization solutions to some of the largest broadcast and streaming operators in Canada and the United States.

A-Line Orthopaedics

Seed Round in 2020
A-Line Orthopaedics is developing implants for safer, faster surgeries.

intelliCulture

Grant in 2018
Bringing the future of fleet connectivity to the agricultural industry.

Instant Autographs

Seed Round in 2020
Instant Autographs is a digital asset platform for celebrities & fans to engage. 1% of the world can afford authentic celebrity autographed merchandise—we enable the other 99%. Utilizing proprietary Geotagging & Blockchain technology, purchase affordable & authentic autographed images & products.

Emergency Response Africa

Seed Round in 2020
Emergency Response Africa provides emergency medical care services. It offers individuals, families, business and communities, and insurer packages. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria with an additional location in Kitchener, Canada.

NGTronix Industries

Seed Round in 2015
Located in Guelph, Ontario, Canada and through leveraging the skills of those in the Tri-city area, NGTronix strives to be THE company which researches, develops and manufactures novel electronic devices for industries that historically have had little electronic solutions applied to their problems. They also provide consulting and contracting services for the creation on electronic equipment or infrastructure. They current have divisions researching and developing human body pressure sensing technologies and various marine technologies. Their consultation contracts currently reside in wiring logistics of large scale L.E.D Chandeliers.

BigRoad Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
BigRoad understands how trucking fleets operate and the challenges facing drivers on the road. The company's smartphone app was created with the goal of making life on the road easier and more profitable for drivers, while lowering the administration and cost burden for fleet owners and operators. BigRoad's app includes such features as electronic logging, in app messaging, document/photo send and receive, real time navigation and traffic information. Deep analytics captured from day-to-day usage provide fleet managers with critical information to be more productive and in tune with their drivers' needs.

Glove Systems

Seed Round in 2018
Glove Systems develops manufacturing software tools to the fabrication and construction industries. The company also provides consultation, procure hardware, installation, and training services. It serves petrochemical, shipbuilding, oil and gas, and nuclear industries. The company is based in Beaumont, Texas with an additional office in Kitchener, Canada.

Brisk Synergies

Seed Round in 2015
At Brisk Synergies, they deliver end-to-end solutions and services that monitor and analyze traffic flow. Through their technologies, urban planners achieve sustainable urban mobility for their cities by delivering better traffic infrastructures and transportation solutions.

Elocity

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Elocity, a cleantech company, offers an intelligent and connected platform for smart electric vehicle (EV) charging by using the power of AI and IoT enabled technologies. The company offers HIEV, a digital platform product that enables utilities to manage EV-charging demand, as well as balances and integrates electromobility charging into existing electricity grid infrastructure and customer business processes. Its clients include power utilities, LDCs, smart municipalities, and EV charging network operators in North America and overseas. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Toronto, Canada with sales offices in Cypress, Texas; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Noida, India. It has an engineering location in Bengaluru, India.

KTS Global

Seed Round in 2015
KTS Global Incorporated is a front runner in mobile device management education. We provide on-site and off-site Instructor Led Training, Virtual Instructor Led Training, and Professional Services to assist organizations in deploying and managing a secure Enterprise Mobile Management solution. We are proud to be a global BlackBerry Authorized Training Partner!

intelliCulture

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Bringing the future of fleet connectivity to the agricultural industry.

VIV Life Group Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
VIV Life is a smartphone application that enables individuals to discover and enjoy restaurants and bars in their localities. Its users can share invites to these places with their loved ones, get connected to maps, and find Ubers. VIV Life was launched by Anthony Rinella, Adrian Kostic, and Tim Finlayson in August 2014 and is based in Waterloo, Ontario.

Acorn Cryotech

Grant in 2016
Cryopreserving people's healthy young cells for use with future medical technologies.

AgeRate

Seed Round in 2020
The AgeRate team is a diverse mix of medical doctors, engineers, and designers with a mission of redefining health to inspire improvement.

Voltera

Seed Round in 2015
Voltera's printer enables circuit boards to be prototyped within minutes, eliminating the frustrations with traditional fabrication processes and drastically reducing hardware development time. Hardware development is an iterative process. With every revision of a circuit layout, organizations waste hundreds of dollars on outsourcing circuit board fabrication and more importantly, weeks of engineers' time waiting for these boards to be delivered. With Voltera, the development cycle can be cut from months to days, allowing companies to get a new product to market faster than ever before.

Ryna

Seed Round in 2020
Ryna is the next generation rental provider for modern women & inclusive minded allies. Powered by technology, Ryna delivers a seamless rental experience and a sense of community/belonging designed to meet the ever changing lifestyle needs in major cities.

Suncayr

Grant in 2015
Suncayr has developed a colour changing sticker that tells you when your sunscreen is no longer protecting you. The sticker, "SPOT", is is put directly on the skin, and then sunscreen is applied to your whole body. When your sunscreen is protecting your skin from UV, the sticker is clear, but when your skin becomes exposed to UV, the sticker changes to purple. This will give you and your family the confidence to safely enjoy the sun!
AMPERe has designed, built and is now optimizing the world’s first single-stroke (SS) internal-combustion engine. This ICE design can be configured for fuelling utilizing gasoline, diesel, natural gas or even hydrogen and the engine package is both compact and structural.

Ryna

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Ryna is the next generation rental provider for modern women & inclusive minded allies. Powered by technology, Ryna delivers a seamless rental experience and a sense of community/belonging designed to meet the ever changing lifestyle needs in major cities.

Contractcomplete

Seed Round in 2017
ContractComplete offers web-based and mobile software solutions to the land development industry. You bring land developers, consultants and contractors together in the same product to help all parties better manage their projects and save time on paperwork.

LayerCI

Grant in 2020
Traditional CI approaches need you to mix Dockerfiles with a big YAML file to define pipelines. Layer turns this pattern on its head - we've extended the Dockerfile to make it specifically for testing: - It's only one file, so you can write CI configurations without looking at docs - Our runners are fully featured VMs, and we take memory snapshots instead of just the filesystem so you can restore a configured Redis instance from a previous pipeline. ## Benefits - Get a unique link to share the frontend changes for every commit - we'll spin up the environment whenever it's requested, so you don't have to pay to keep them up - CI runs significantly faster because you can set up your environment (e.g., `docker-compose up -d`) once, and rewind to that snapshot for every following pipeline. - It's easier to onboard team members because they just have to read the single Layerfile to understand the whole CI process (incl. how to install everything) - Debugging is easier because you can enter a web console into the last snapshot up to a week after a test passed or failed.

NanoQuan Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
NanoQuan Inc. develops nano-composite materials and processing technologies for electronic devices, automotive components, aerospace components, and other industries. The company is based in Kitchener, Canada.

POET Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
POET offers a customer engagement platform empowers retailers to increase sales, gain insights and improve their in-store experience.

HITCH Tech Inc

Grant in 2019
HITCH is a locally-relevant platform for African schools that catalyzes potential by intelligently curating the best educational videos, automatically aligning them with local curricula and textbooks, and storing them on battery-powered video hotspots for convenient student and teacher access offline, via WiFi or local networks. HITCH goes beyond traditional educational resources, technology literacy barriers, and local power and internet infrastructure, to find and deliver world-class educational resources for the vanguard of Africa's knowledge revolution.

LayerCI

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Traditional CI approaches need you to mix Dockerfiles with a big YAML file to define pipelines. Layer turns this pattern on its head - we've extended the Dockerfile to make it specifically for testing: - It's only one file, so you can write CI configurations without looking at docs - Our runners are fully featured VMs, and we take memory snapshots instead of just the filesystem so you can restore a configured Redis instance from a previous pipeline. ## Benefits - Get a unique link to share the frontend changes for every commit - we'll spin up the environment whenever it's requested, so you don't have to pay to keep them up - CI runs significantly faster because you can set up your environment (e.g., `docker-compose up -d`) once, and rewind to that snapshot for every following pipeline. - It's easier to onboard team members because they just have to read the single Layerfile to understand the whole CI process (incl. how to install everything) - Debugging is easier because you can enter a web console into the last snapshot up to a week after a test passed or failed.

ApplyBoard

Pre Seed Round in 2016
ApplyBoard is the world's largest online platform that empowers students around the world to access the best education by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and academic institutions on its platform. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Kitchener, ON Canada, with over 500 staff members spanning 20 countries. ApplyBoard has built partnerships with over 1,200 primary, secondary, and post-secondary institutions, and works with 4,000+ Recruitment Partners, to drive highly qualified applicants and diversity to campuses across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. To date, the company has assisted more than 120,000 students with their educational journey.

The OWL Solutions

Seed Round in 2020
A data analytics and visualization platform that seamless integrates with your existing data sources, such as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, processes your data and recommends the best practice metrics you must utilize for slicing and dicing every aspect of your supply chain, automating calculation and visualization in only a few clicks. Its world-class ease of use allows companies to get actionable insights in minutes.

TuneVU

Seed Round in 2019
Tunevu creates greater discovery and unique second screen opportunities on mobile devices to enhance experiences between audiences and their favorite shows as they watch or listen to digital media online, on TV, or on a smart speaker.

Tyltgo

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Tyltgo renders courier, logistics, supply chain management, and delivery services for small businesses and enterprises.

Alert Labs Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Alert Labs protects our customers'​ basements by gathering and analyzing real-time data with attractive, reliable, and easy-to-install hardware and software. Deployed sensor networks are on the alert for water leaks, floods, power issues, and more

iKlyk

Seed Round in 2015
An innovative Cloud-based Practice Management Solution for Dentists. Sign up today to discover the power of simplicity!
Beijing Easy Transfer Commercial Service Co., Ltd. operates an online platform for students studying abroad to pay their tuition. It serves students, parents, non-profit organizations, communities, banks, platforms, accounts, and systems. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Beijing, China.

GainX

Seed Round in 2017
Unprecedented insights. Accelerated transformation. GainX uses Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Organizational Design Theory and Social Network Analytics to deliver deep, accurate and unprecedented insights for our customers. Whether your transformation strategy is to implement new technology, restructure, focus on your customers, or to become more agile - the GainX platform helps you eradicate the barriers hindering your change programs. GainX is designed to be light and fast. Our platform can deliver data driven metrics, predictions and insights, in just days – regardless of company size. ​ Across 100,000 employees, 1000 programs or a single project, our customers benefit from real-time dashboards tailored to their specific roles and needs. GainX customers achieve millions in savings and dramatically accelerate change programs.

Draft Canada

Seed Round in 2020
Draft Canada is an editorial platform dedicated to covering the expansion of disruptive innovation all around us. They are a publisher for entrepreneurs and rebel innovators, serving them with the content, storytelling, strategy and support they need to make their voices heard.

RIVVI

Seed Round in 2019
Rivvi is a fintech with an autonomous payroll platform that enables businesses to automate their payroll processes so they can pay their employees faster. By improving operational throughput, businesses can directly impact their bottom line while simultaneously helping employees improve their financial health.

Bykart Software

Seed Round in 2015
CHARM is an oncology Patient Information Manager that optimizes a cancer clinic's capacity to treat more patients with existing resources. It does this by automating processes to more quickly and efficiently facilitate approvals of chemotherapy between the chemotherapy unit, pharmacy and clinicians, and by improving scheduling and communication among care providers.

AceAge

Seed Round in 2017
AceAge is a healthcare technology company, creating intuitive products to ease the aging process and improve health outcomes. AceAge is the company behind the next innovation in healthcare technology. Its upcoming product is a home health appliance designed to help people take their medication properly. Karie is a personal health companion that organizes, schedules, and dispenses pills with easy one-button control. The CEO of AceAge, Spencer Waugh, created Karie to increase the health and safety of medical patients, and as a way to minimize the negative consequences of missed medications or general failure to adhere to medication directions. The success of medicine is dependent on the patient’s compliance with the medical directions that accompany it, making it an integral part of healthcare. The total direct and indirect costs of nonadherence in the US annually is $290 billion. By making daily medicine routines completely automated, Karie removes the chance of human error. Karie uses common multi-dose pouch packaging that can be pre-set by pharmacists. Doses are scheduled, delivered and monitored for the user. Karie is easy to use, enables greater patient autonomy and ensures better healthcare through a highly coordinated program.

Konectera

Seed Round in 2015
Konectera Inc. seeks to become an undisputed industry in leader machine to machine communication by relentlessly delivering the best cloud-based sensor management platform and unique technology advancements that become essential to the way their work and live. Konectera Inc. is a high-tech start-up based out of the Accelerator Centre, Waterloo, Ontario. Its employees' expertise in medical sensory technology and data analytics is translating into developing innovative solutions for lifestyle management suitable for several differing industries.

Lokii Wear

Seed Round in 2020
LOKii is a lifestyle brand that focuses on developing consumer-centric innovations to stagnant products. It is the easiest way to customize eyewear. Swap lenses, temples, and frames for the best way to own a premium eyewear collection. The first step in LOKii’s goal of creating meaningful change to the lives of those who support it is by revolutionizing the traditional eyewear industry. Founded in 2019, LOKii Wear is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario.

Junip

Seed Round in 2020
Junip takes the pain out of customer reviews. Beautifully built for entrepreneurs at every stage.

Meal In A Jar

Seed Round in 2015
Meal in a Jar is a fast food industry local start-up that offers customers with ready-made meals in jars. The company was nominated for the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Award in 2013. Meal in a Jar was founded in 2013 by Irene Divaris and is based in Ontario, Canada.

ToeFX

Seed Round in 2019
The ToeFx Light Therapy device is designed to be a safe and cost-effective solution for the treatment of toenail fungus.

Maple Precision

Seed Round in 2018
Maple Precision supplies affordable GNSS positioning solutions. Their aim is to provide farmers with data that will increase confidence when it comes to making big decisions on the field. They have redefined what is possible for farmers, surveyors, explorers, and artists by providing a low-cost solution. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario.

SiteVue Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
SiteVue Inc. provides a real-time site management platform that allows project managers to monitor construction progress by storing the data securely in the cloud and make it accessible to the entire project staff. Its platform provides services, such as automated photo mapping, deficiency tracking, and custom report generation. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.
Emerging Star Investment Group is focused on investment research and publishing based on specific Canadian and emerging market investments. The company was founded in March 2011 and is based in Cambridge, Ontario.

Extra Dimension Games

Seed Round in 2020
Veteran developers making a new breed of mobile games

Wherego

Grant in 2017
Wherego helps Chinese travelers discover and enjoy Canada as a Chinese-friendly destination. Over 750k Chinese tourists are projected to visit Canada in 2017, growing at 23% growth rate. Traditionally they traveled in groups, travel by bus and takes a lot of pictures in landmarks. However, with the rise of middle- and upper- class in China, they are more willing to spend money on a memorable and unique experience in Canada. The company offers a mobile platform for Chinese tourists to discover, plan and purchase their itineraries. Supported by AI technology, Wherego recommends the best options for the itineraries.

Emmetros

Seed Round in 2016
Emmetros is an information technology company.

AgNition

Seed Round in 2012
Developer of a farm management software designed to mobilize information for farmers and the industry and to leverage technology to grow stronger businesses. The company's farm management software specializes in the field of crop and livestock mobile data collection, in-field diagnosis and recommendations, grain and livestock pricing and decision tools and others; enabling agriculture and agri-food business to simplify business processes and capture opportunities.

Empiricast Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Socialpeeks helps you find real people who have engaged communities with similar interest(s) to your brand. We use unique searches across Twitter and Instagram to identify social brand ambassadors using hashtags, topics, interests, and location queries. We’re not just an influencer marketing platform, we help you build real relationships with real people. We’ll help you: analyze each candidate to ensure they are perfect for your business manage the recruitment and activation process track the impact each influencer is having on your business

Predict Vision

Seed Round in 2019
Predict Vision is a CADX support platform that assists in the generation of reports, diagnostics, can predict diseases, complications and indicate personalized treatments. In many Latin American countries there is a shortage of specialized doctors , lack of proper training and the radiologists are overloaded which can lead to diagnose errors , but the main problem we have identified is the individual bias, i.e, when the patient life rely on the individual knowledge , skills and experience of the doctor. We have developed an easy-to-use deep learning cloud based platform for medical imaging that improves efficiency and eliminates individual bias, by helping doctors make more reliable decisions, enhance the confidence and exchange knowledge and connecting with their peers, thus ensuring that patients have the correct diagnose. Our deep learning models are developed in partnership with doctors and health institutions in partnership as we found out that we do need to build the product with customers and not to the customers only as they need to be sure we are working in high ethical standards and to provide and explain to them the concepts of our technology and how build it to reach the diagnose as doctors are evidence based and they need to understand how the machine reach that diagnose.

APrivacy Ltd.

Pre Seed Round in 2012
APrivacy provides the banking and finance industry with an information security and tracking service anywhere, any time and on any device. APrivacy’s enabling technology allows banks to drive new revenues, reduce risk and support compliance efforts. APrivacy’s patented solution empowers bankers to communicate and share information with their clients using the devices they prefer (iPhone, Android, etc.) via the channels they prefer (Gmail, Outlook, Dropbox, etc. ) and the medium they prefer (Email, PDF, PPT, Word, Excel, etc. ). With APrivacy financial institutions achieve a level of control on their information they previously did not have, such as retrieving emails or documents even after they have been sent and/or downloaded onto a client’s device. Additional controls include blocking a recipient from forwarding, printing, saving information and geo-fencing protection . Everything is supported by strong data analytics and audit trails. APrivacy’s patented solution satisfies the banking industry’s most strict security and compliance requirements whilst enabling seamless and enjoyable client communications.

OcuBlink

Seed Round in 2018
OcuBlink Inc. develops and offers in vitro eye models to test vision and ophthalmic products. It provides various eye models for ophthalmic product testing that ranges from determining tear deposition on contact lenses and wear-and-tear of devices on the eye to complex studies, such as measuring tear-break up time and pharmacokinetic drug profiles. The company serves research centers, pharmaceutical companies, and ophthalmic companies. OcuBlink Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Waterloo, Canada.

SmartAd

Seed Round in 2015
Smart AD provides addressed advertising solutions on the Internet. We really understand digital media, but it’s our professional expertise, combined with our state-of-the-art technology, that makes us unique.

Nicoya Lifesciences Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Nicoya Lifesciences Inc. develops sensor products to get affinity, kinetics, and specificity for proteins, antibodies, DNA, RNA, enzymes, polymers, and small molecules. The company offers surface plasmon resonance (SPR) instruments, spectrophotometers, sensor chips, SPR reagents and kits, and SPR accessories; and OpenSPR, a personal label-free biomolecular analysis instrument. It also provides software solutions, such as TraceDrawer, a real-time kinetic analysis software; OpenSPR software that allows the control of the OpenSPR instrument and real time data acquisition; and OpenSpec, a software program for real time optical peak tracking. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.

Glacierclean Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Provider of a easy-to-use e.coli test kit intended to prevent potential outbreaks of waterborne diseases. The company's easy-to-use e.coli test kit Mobile Water Kit (MWK) helps to detect Escherichia coli bacteria in the water and provide an early warning signal, enabling the user to map the location data with the help of a custom built smart phone application m-Water and detect E. coli in the portable water.

NERv Technology Inc.

Grant in 2015
NERv Technology Inc. develops an implantable biochip with biosensors to detect post-operative complications, such as internal bleeding, leakage of bodily fluids, and infection within the abdominal cavity. The biosensor collects data and identifies the complications as it develops and informs both patient and physician in real-time. It also detects changes in the levels of biomarker. The company serves physicians, surgeons, hospitals, and patients. NERv Technology Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.

Aalo

Seed Round in 2017
AALO BD LTD provides digital advertising and promotion services for businesses, government organizations, and individuals. The company provides advertising, creative planning, monitors display on buses, media planning, public relations, selling platform and representation services. It also develops an application for digital advertising tools. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Dhanmondi, Bangladesh.

NURO CORP.

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Nuro Corp develops neurologically-powered communication software for doctors and patients. It enables instant communication and computing for incapacitated patients in post-surgeries, ICUs, nursing homes, and rehabilitation by using brain signals. The company’s products include NUOS ALS; a neurologically-controlled communication platform for ALS patients, NUOS TRAUMA; it is a neurologically-controlled communication platform for tetraplegia patients, NUOS STROKE; is neurologically-controlled communication platform for stroke victims, and NUOS AI; provides instant access to insights from neurological and behavioral data. Nuro Corp was founded in 2017 and is based in Waterloo, Canada.

EPOCH

Grant in 2018
EPOCH automates social impact programs for HR teams, empowering employees to be happier and more productive. We partner exclusively with top community organizations, personally curates relevant opportunities to employees, and handles logistics end-to-end to put together an event for the workplace. This reduces a 10+ hour process to 0 hours for HR teams. Our vision is to eliminate the hassle of event planning at the workplace for any activity and every employee.

Syngli

Seed Round in 2015
Syngli Inc. (formerly known as NeuRecall Inc.) is an educational technology start-up, with offices in Kitchener-Waterloo (Canada) and Berkeley (US). We are developing an online platform for increasing teaching and learning efficiency, with applications ranging from language learning to standardized test preparation within medicine and other professions. Our system includes software inspired by cognitive neuroscience and machine learning, and a uniquely-structured knowledge base grown online by users. The platform tracks each learner’s level of understanding, and uses such data to extract relevant information from the knowledge base and then generate novel questions.

ExVivo Labs

Grant in 2015
Kenota Health develops next-generation rapid point-of-care system intended to be used for allergy testing in humans. Kenota's diagnostic tools are safe, simple, and offer a cheaper alternative to allergy testing using a thorough non-invasive technology, enabling physicians to improve patient outcomes.

Water Refined

Seed Round in 2020
Water Refined is a Pure bottled water sales and delivery company

Alaunus

Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2011, Alaunus provides mobile IT solutions for the ever-changing Canadian healthcare landscape. By working with practitioners and case managers directly, they have learned much about what needs improvement in the healthcare industry. As a technology provider, they’re excited to enter an age where outdated, inefficient processes no longer have to be a reality. Their mission is to provide the best possible tools for success to healthcare organizations of all sizes and specialities.

CartSmart

Seed Round in 2015
Add SmartDeals, sale items, and other things you need in your list. You can have multiple lists if you're a super-planner, or just one if you like to keep it simple. The SmartList keeps you organized and on-track in the store. While you shop, CartSmart finds even more deals for you on items in your list. Take a photo of your receipt as proof of purchase. Your trip earnings will show up in your SmartAccount.