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Mayday Labs Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in designing and developing wellness and productivity software solutions. Founded in 2018, the company focuses on creating an AI-assisted scheduling tool that helps users organize and optimize their time effectively. This tool analyzes how time is allocated across various activities and offers calendar management features, including automatic travel time scheduling. By providing personalized assistance and recommendations for daily time management, Mayday Labs aims to enhance productivity and adapt to changing schedules, enabling users to manage their time more efficiently.

Spare is a mobility management software company that enhances public transit services through on-demand and shared transportation solutions. The platform integrates various modes of transport, enabling efficient and accessible mobility for all users. Their platform uses advanced algorithms and data analytics to optimize routes, reduce wait times, and improve overall efficiency for transportation services. By optimizing transportation services and promoting shared rides, Spare Labs reduces traffic congestion and emissions, supporting more sustainable urban mobility.

Eli is a women's health company on a mission to improve lifelong health by continuously monitoring hormones in saliva. Hormones impact overall health every day and at all stages of life. Yet, traditional testing methods and send-out tests only provide infrequent snapshots. In three simple steps, Eli's at-home technology provides personalized hormone profiles continuously to transform how women manage their hormonal health in key areas like menopause, fertility, contraception, and endocrine conditions.

Planetary Hydrogen is focused on producing clean hydrogen while also addressing climate change through innovative carbon removal technology that enhances ocean alkalinity. The company develops systems that purify alkaline rock waste generated by mining, extracting alkalinity from this material and introducing it into the ocean. This process not only accelerates the natural carbon cycle but also helps rebalance ocean chemistry. Planetary Hydrogen has set an ambitious goal to remove one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035, contributing to global efforts to combat climate change.

Membio's single-use 0.2-10 L benchtop bioreactor system uses a proprietary design to provide a constant environment for cells at all scales. One technique will provide the same outcomes at all scales, whether at 0.2 L, 10 L, or anywhere in between. Fully automated single-use bioreactors designed by the business to enable cost-effective and scalable manufacture.

Ada is a computer software company that features a chatbot-based platform that helps enterprise businesses to automate customer experience. Its platform operates through both web and mobile machine learning engine that reduces support volume and empowers customers to find answers on their own. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto in Canada.

Lobo Genetics is a healthcare technology company with the goal of helping you better understand your response to cannabis through genetics.

Mayday Labs Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in designing and developing wellness and productivity software solutions. Founded in 2018, the company focuses on creating an AI-assisted scheduling tool that helps users organize and optimize their time effectively. This tool analyzes how time is allocated across various activities and offers calendar management features, including automatic travel time scheduling. By providing personalized assistance and recommendations for daily time management, Mayday Labs aims to enhance productivity and adapt to changing schedules, enabling users to manage their time more efficiently.

ClaimCompass is a legal services company that helps airline passengers receive their deserved compensation for delayed, canceled, or overbooked flights.

Lilia is a fertility support company that offers comprehensive services to women, focusing on egg freezing and family planning. Founded in 2019, Lilia provides a home-based diagnostic test for fertility hormone assessment and operates a resource hub that connects prospective parents with fertility specialists. The company's concierge service assists individuals in navigating their fertility options, providing well-researched data related to egg count, menopause timing, and age to inform decisions. By offering low-cost fertility management services, Lilia aims to empower busy individuals who wish to preserve their options for parenthood later in life. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Lilia serves clients primarily in San Francisco, California.

Nanology Labs has designed and is developing Manganescan®, a novel theranostic agent (MRI contrast agent/Radio-sensitizer) that allows detection of brain tumors at early stages using MRI. Simultaneously, it sensitizes cancer cells which improves radiation therapy outcomes. The agent is 3x more sensitive than current Gadolinium contrast agents (GBCAs), can cross the blood brain barrier and enables early and precise detection and targeting of brain cancer.

Vital Bio is focused on transforming lab testing to make healthcare more accessible and personalized. The company develops advanced diagnostic technologies that connect diagnosis and treatment through a comprehensive ecosystem of devices, software, and services. By empowering patients to monitor their health and manage diseases, Vital Bio aims to enhance the overall healthcare experience. Their approach seeks to reduce disparities in healthcare outcomes and redistribute control to patients while equipping healthcare providers with the tools necessary to achieve better results.

Bright Breaks offers a workplace wellness solution to boost employee wellness, connection, and productivity with 7-minute live micro-breaks. Bright Breaks' wellness platform is designed to provide users with maximum benefits while requiring the least amount of effort. It only takes a few minutes per day to reduce stress and improve well-being.

Kora is a pan-African payment infrastructure company headquartered in Canada, with additional offices in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. The company specializes in facilitating pay-ins and payouts for local and global businesses across various payment channels in Africa. Kora's platform utilizes blockchain technology to provide an efficient cross-border payments solution, which aims to reduce the costs associated with remittances. By enabling individuals and businesses to receive payments from anywhere in the world, Kora contributes to enhancing the accessibility and affordability of financial transactions across the continent.

ProteinQure is a biotech company focused on the design of novel exotic peptides with broad therapeutic applications. Powered by atomic-level simulations and artificial intelligence, we design dynamic peptides that take drugs straight to their target – outperforming other treatment delivery systems. By daring to deliver therapeutics in a novel way we are changing the game for drug development and bringing hope to patients with previously untreatable diseases. At ProteinQure, we pride ourselves on our unique, diverse and cross-disciplinary team that brings together experts from experimental & computational biology, machine learning and software engineering.

Phenomic AI Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing artificial intelligence solutions to enhance drug discovery and the creation of therapies for cancer. Its innovative platform utilizes AI, computer vision, and high-content screening to analyze phenotypes in complex disease models, such as high-content co-culture and three-dimensional assays. By focusing on the tumor stroma, Phenomic AI aims to optimize the discovery and development of new medicines, streamlining the process for pharmaceutical companies to identify potential drug candidates more effectively.

Avro Life Science is developing skin patches for generic drug delivery, focusing on therapeutics for children and the elderly. The core of our technology is a novel biopolymer which is used as a platform for passive transdermal drug delivery of small molecules and drugs.

Welbi improves the quality of life of older adults like our parents and grandparents by transforming the way senior living communities provide care to them every day. We do this by streamlining their processes so staff can spend more time keeping residents active and engaged. This allows them to build deeper connections with residents and stay ahead of their changing needs so that no resident is socially isolated.

Patient care is becoming increasingly complex, requiring coordination and collaboration between multiple providers across different departments and specialties. However, hospitals and other healthcare settings have yet to catch up with these demands. The primary method of reaching providers is still through switchboards and pagers in hospitals. This ineffective modality leads to delays in patient care and poor patient outcomes. To take matters into their own hands, clinicians have resorted to non-secure smartphone apps such as WhatsApp and iMessage. However, this puts patient personal health information at risk, and creates enormous medico-legal liability for providers and hospitals.

Spartan Bioscience Inc. designs and manufactures rapid sample-to-result DNA testing systems. Spartan’s technology fully integrates DNA collection, extraction and analysis, with an intuitive interface that is easy to operate. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.