Business Development Bank of Canada

Spark CRM is an online platform specifically designed to power the entire process of selling and marketing real estate. Using technology to help turn leads into buyers, inventory into contracts, and information into usable metrics. Spark is a safe, secure and cost-effective solution for selling and marketing real estate. They are all about creating the perfect sales management software and helping real estate professionals sell more homes. Spark CRM aims to advance real estate software through intuitive design and forward-thinking technology; creating a solution built around the end-user, but designed for the business.

Roomvu operates a video marketing platform specifically designed for real estate agents, many of whom work independently and struggle to close deals. The platform automates customer acquisition and marketing efforts that are typically accessible only to larger real estate firms. By producing realtor-branded social media videos, enriched with up-to-date market data, Roomvu helps agents convert their audience into leads. The service includes hyper-local content, which enhances social media marketing, email marketing, CRM, and digital advertising. This comprehensive approach allows real estate professionals to create effective landing pages and better promote themselves, ultimately improving their chances of success in an increasingly competitive market. Roomvu has successfully attracted 6,500 customers across 300 cities in North America and has experienced significant revenue growth.

Intelligent City Inc., founded in 2008 and based in Vancouver, Canada, specializes in the design and construction of urban housing. The company has developed a technology-enabled building system aimed at providing high-quality multi-family residences that tackle critical urban challenges, including affordability and sustainability. This innovative system integrates the various stages of construction—design, architecture, engineering, and fabrication—into a single platform. By employing the principles of mass customization, Intelligent City combines the benefits of personalized, custom-made products with the cost efficiencies typically associated with mass production, effectively addressing the diverse needs of urban residents.

Charli AI, incorporated in 2019 and based in Vancouver, Canada, offers an AI-powered mobile application designed to streamline workflow for businesses, start-ups, and knowledge workers. The platform addresses common productivity challenges such as scheduling, invoicing, and customer communications, aiming to reduce the time spent on administrative tasks. By leveraging intelligent automation, Charli helps users manage their workflows more effectively, allowing them to focus on essential work and personal pursuits. Additionally, the application enhances collaboration across teams by organizing and analyzing business content, ultimately improving efficiency and productivity. Through its innovative approach, Charli AI seeks to alleviate stress and empower users to maximize their professional contributions.

Zymeworks Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Vancouver, Canada, that specializes in the discovery, development, and commercialization of biotherapeutics, primarily for cancer treatment. The company’s leading candidates include ZW25, a bispecific antibody currently undergoing Phase I and II clinical trials targeting various cancers, and ZW49, a bispecific antibody-drug conjugate in Phase I trials for advanced HER2-expressing cancers. Zymeworks employs advanced computational biotechnology techniques, utilizing proprietary molecular modeling and high-performance computing to optimize therapeutic antibodies and other protein-based therapeutics. The company has established strategic partnerships and collaborations with several major pharmaceutical firms, including Merck, Eli Lilly, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, among others, to enhance its research and development efforts. Founded in 2003, Zymeworks continues to focus on developing innovative solutions for cancer and other serious diseases.

FI.SPAN Services Inc. develops connecting application programming interface (API's) for the banking and financial industry. It offers Client Connectivity Suite, which helps banks to build and maintain live connections to their clients' enterprise resource planning (ERP), accounting, and treasury management systems; API Enablement Suite, which allows banks to put an API gateway for legacy payment capability, data enablement, reports and models, and fintech testing; Fintegration Suite, which helps to manage the secure exchange of data and services between banks and fintech companies; FI.CORE, which is a core platform includes a set of extension adapters, which are designed to quickly implement custom connectivity with a banks’ own infrastructure, clients business applications and external FinTech firms. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Procurify is a cloud-based procurement software solution designed to enhance control and visibility over company spending. The platform enables businesses to manage both direct and indirect expenditures, offering centralized purchasing management, custom approval processes, and budget controls. By streamlining the procure-to-pay process, Procurify helps organizations optimize spending, improve accountability, and generate cost savings. Its focus on providing insights into financial activities supports informed decision-making, ultimately facilitating business growth.

Procurify is a cloud-based procurement software solution designed to enhance control and visibility over company spending. The platform enables businesses to manage both direct and indirect expenditures, offering centralized purchasing management, custom approval processes, and budget controls. By streamlining the procure-to-pay process, Procurify helps organizations optimize spending, improve accountability, and generate cost savings. Its focus on providing insights into financial activities supports informed decision-making, ultimately facilitating business growth.

LoginRadius Inc. develops and operates a cloud-based customer identity and access management platform for mid-to-large sized companies worldwide. Its platform helps companies deliver a connected customer experience, build an integrated marketing ecosystem, and centralize customer data to define a unified profile and better manage their customer identities. The company’s platform includes customer registration services, social login, profile management, integration with third party marketing applications, user management, and customer insights. LoginRadius Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Vancouver, Canada with additional offices in Jaipur and Bengaluru, India; and San Francisco, California.

Axine Water Technologies is a Vancouver-based developer of wastewater treatment technologies and solutions established by founder and Chief Engineer, Colleen Legzdins. They’re specifically focused on overcoming the complex, expensive, and often ineffective nature of today’s incumbent wastewater systems by developing low-cost, energy-efficient solutions for treating dissolved organic pollutants such as phenols, aromatics, acids, dyes, PHPs, dioxins, and pharmaceuticals that enable industrial and municipal customers to reduce costs and improve performance of their wastewater treatment. Their solutions are based on a proprietary electrolytic oxidation technology that treats high concentrations (up to 5000 mg/L COD) of toxic organics, biodegradable organics, ammonia, pathogens, and some inorganics in a single step without chemicals and without producing sludge.

Nexterra develops, manufactures and delivers advanced gasification systems that enable customers to self-generate clean, low cost heat and power at industrial and institutional facilities using waste fuels. In an era of higher energy prices, this means dramatically lower costs, higher operating margins and less reliance on fossil fuels and grid-purchased electricity. Furthermore, by using renewable biomass fuels such as wood waste, customers can dramatically reduce their carbon footprint.

Enterprise-strength email management and document management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Colligo Networks is the leader in email and document management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. Enterprises that use SharePoint rely on Colligo's award-winning solution suite to improve collaboration, increase productivity, and mitigate corporate risk. Featuring seamless integration with Microsoft Outlook and Windows Explorer, Colligo drives SharePoint adoption by making it easy to tag, find, store, and share SharePoint content in familiar ways, regardless of device, connectivity, or SharePoint location. Colligo's email and document management solutions for SharePoint are used by over 4800 organizations in 55 countries, with Global 500 customers including Microsoft, Kraft Foods, General Motors, and Siemens. Colligo Networks is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

Interomex Biopharmaceuticals Inc. is dedicated to the identification of novel biological targets in key cellular processes with the aim of discovering lead compounds for the treatment of disease. The company’s proprietary Repressed Trans-activator (RTATM) technology can be used to detect protein-protein interactions between a host and an infectious agent, as well as within cells in normal and diseased states. A particular advantage of RTATM is its ability to detect the interactions of transcription transactivator proteins, which are key control points in viral infections and cell activation.

Neuromed Pharmaceuticals is focused on the development, production, and marketing of pain therapies in Canada and the United States. Neuromed Pharmaceuticals was acquired by Zalicus in December 2009. Neuromed Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1998 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.