East Valley Ventures

Byos is an endpoint micro-segmentation company focused on protecting organizations from the risks associated with remote, guest, and IoT network connectivity. The company's innovative Byos µGateway, which can be implemented as a portable device or embedded circuitry, creates secure micro-segments that enforce hardware protection for devices on potentially unsafe networks. This allows users—employees, contractors, and devices—to connect securely to any network while maintaining zero-trust access to corporate resources. The Byos Management Console facilitates centralized policy management and reporting across multiple µGateways. Byos serves various critical infrastructure sectors, including defense, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, and financial services, ensuring asset invisibility and secure communication without data leakage. Headquartered in Halifax, Canada, Byos sources and manufactures all components in North America, enabling remote workforces to connect safely and work freely.

Jaza Energy Inc. specializes in developing integrated solar energy solutions for off-grid communities. Founded in 2015 and based in Halifax, Canada, the company designs and constructs central solar energy hubs that offer affordable and reliable electricity access to hundreds of households. These hubs charge portable battery packs, which residents use to power essential devices such as lights and phones. Additionally, the energy hubs provide electricity to anchored loads, including water systems, shops, schools, and other community infrastructure. By eliminating the need for kerosene and reducing travel for charging devices, Jaza Energy aims to enhance the quality of life in underserved areas by creating a sustainable network of renewable energy resources.

Eyeread, now known as Squiggle Park, is a company focused on developing engaging, bite-sized games designed to teach foundational reading skills to pre-kindergarten and early elementary students. Established in 2014 and based in Halifax, Canada, with additional offices in the United States, Squiggle Park utilizes a blend of music, poetry, and adaptive technology to create an interactive learning experience that does not require prior knowledge of English. The platform is widely used by teachers globally, facilitating independent or group play among young learners, which enhances classroom management and allows educators to concentrate on personalized instruction. In August 2016, the company rebranded from Eyeread Inc. to Squiggle Park and currently operates as a subsidiary of Norex.

Trip Ninja Inc. is a travel management company based in Halifax, Canada, that specializes in optimizing multi-destination trip planning. Founded in 2015, the company offers a platform that allows users to search for and compare trip routes, helping them find the most cost-effective travel options. Trip Ninja serves both consumers directly through its website and travel agencies via an API, positioning itself as a valuable tool for the travel industry. The platform employs advanced algorithms to calculate and suggest optimal travel plans, enabling users to make informed decisions about their itineraries while enjoying competitive pricing.

The Rounds is a collaboration network platform aimed at enhancing physician communication and improving healthcare outcomes in Canada and beyond. The platform provides a secure and engaging space for physicians to connect and collaborate on clinical cases in real-time, facilitating tens of thousands of unique interactions each month. By enabling instant consultations among medical professionals, The Rounds ensures that physicians can seek multiple opinions and access vital information and expertise, ultimately leading to better patient care. The platform is compliant with privacy regulations, ensuring that member interactions remain confidential. Through its innovative approach, The Rounds is transforming the way healthcare professionals communicate and share knowledge.

The Rounds is a collaboration network platform aimed at enhancing physician communication and improving healthcare outcomes in Canada and beyond. The platform provides a secure and engaging space for physicians to connect and collaborate on clinical cases in real-time, facilitating tens of thousands of unique interactions each month. By enabling instant consultations among medical professionals, The Rounds ensures that physicians can seek multiple opinions and access vital information and expertise, ultimately leading to better patient care. The platform is compliant with privacy regulations, ensuring that member interactions remain confidential. Through its innovative approach, The Rounds is transforming the way healthcare professionals communicate and share knowledge.

LeadSift Inc. is a company that specializes in intent data mining, providing sales intelligence solutions primarily for B2B marketers. Founded in 2012 and based in Halifax, Canada, LeadSift analyzes publicly available information from social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to identify when potential customers exhibit relevant buying signals. By utilizing proprietary artificial intelligence and data mining technologies, the company transforms vast amounts of data into targeted local leads, enabling businesses to create tailored messaging for outreach and follow-up. LeadSift's platform assists clients in understanding market trends and customer intent, ultimately driving significant results for fast-growing software companies by uncovering valuable insights and opportunities for engagement.

InNetwork Inc. is a Canadian company that offers a platform designed for marketers to effectively create and manage social media influencer outreach campaigns. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Halifax, with an additional office in Toronto, InNetwork provides tools that enable brands to identify and engage trusted social media influencers who can effectively convey their messages to targeted audiences. The platform simplifies the influencer outreach process by integrating detailed audience segmentation data and tracking influencer activities and outcomes, which helps marketers streamline their efforts and improve campaign results. InNetwork primarily serves agencies and brand managers, facilitating connections with a vetted network of influencers while ensuring that outreach strategies are executed efficiently and effectively. As of 2016, InNetwork operates as a subsidiary of gShift Labs Inc.

At SabrTech, they are nature’s architect, designing the next generation of algae technology solutions for a variety of industries and applications using award-winning, sustainable processes. They partner with airlines to make flying green. They bring solutions to the oil industry. They work with NGOs on water recycling. Most of all, they partner with those interested in benefiting from algae’s unparalleled potential to build a better tomorrow. Their technology solutions are suitable for partners interested in algal derived energy – biofuels, biogas algal derived additives – biodiluents, lubricants algal derived feeds – livestock feed water detoxification and bioremediation.

Radian6 helps companies listen to what people are saying about them online and engage in those conversations across the social web. From blogs and comments to multimedia, boards, forums and communities like Twitter, Radian6 gathers the discussions happening online and gives businesses the ability to analyze, manage, track, and report on their social media monitoring and engagement efforts. Radian6 provides the social media monitoring platform for marketing, communications and customer support professionals. The company's flexible dashboard enables monitoring all forms of social media with results appearing in real-time, as discovered. Analysis widgets, streamlined reporting, integrated workflow capabilities and our Insights platform give users the ability to uncover influencers, track and measure engagement and determine which conversations are having an impact online. Integrated social media, CRM, and web analytics also help companies define their social media ROI. Product Attributes: * Data is captured in real-time as discovered and delivered to dashboard analysis widgets. * The UI is easy to use with text, pictures and video inside the dashboard. * The solution covers all forms of social media including blogs, top video and image sharing sites, forums, opinion sites, mainstream online media and emerging media like Twitter. * Automated sentiment analysis * Radian6 has now extended its platform to equip team members with deep social media listening and measurement capabilities within the tools they already use. With features developed on their platform API and Social Metrics Framework for integrating third-party data, Radian6 now supports the integration of social customer relationship management (CRM), web analytics, and other enterprise systems. * Conversational dynamics are constantly tallied to track the viral nature of each post. This allows for easy sorting by publish date, comment count, unique commenters and calculated engagement. * There is no limit to keywords when setting up topic profiles. Billing is tied to results, not the parameters used. * Multiple languages are supported including; English, French, Italian, German, Simple Chinese, Russian, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese. * Results can be filtered by country, by source and by media type. * Numerous analysis widgets can be set up to analyze within a date range or for pre-set days. * The most influential sites for a topic profile can be calculated based on user-weighted scoring. * Configurable email and instant messenger alerts for staying top of things while away from your desk * Design your own daily email reports including posts, graphs and charts * Team work flow abilities for tagging, classification and assignment of posts to team members including recording of internal notes, engagement responses and ticket status for on-demand reporting and graphs. The Radian6 Insights platform: * Radian6 Insights combines the coverage and depth of Radian6 with additional content from third party insights partners to offer a deeper understanding of who is participating and where conversations are being held. * Use Radian6 Insights to gain a deeper understanding of both what is being said on the social web as well as who is saying it. * Quickly gain access to valuable meaning behind your social traffic, such as demographics, influence, location information, sentiment, topic categorization, and more. * Use capabilities from different Insights partners together for unparalleled deep-dive analysis. * Moving beyond keyword based analysis, Insights help deliver key information that you may not be aware of. * Receive real time, ongoing social intelligence surrounding your brand, your industry or any area of interest. The Engagement Console: * Is a complete real-time social web client. * Helps you coordinate team social media engagement across the enterprise. * Shows Radian6 topic profiles right alongside your personal or corporate Twitter, Facebook and Chatter streams. * Lets you set one-click workflow for frequently used post routing, assignment, and classification. * Feeds data to your Radian6 dashboard for reporting and analysis. The Summary Dashboard: * Monitor the health of your brand on the social web in one convenient application with the Radian6 Summary Dashboard. * Understand your social conversation without the time or resources required for a full-time analyst, with real time, high-level summaries of your brand on the social web. * These summaries are available in real time, automatically update and can be easily accessed and shared. * At a glance, monitor volume, sentiment, demographics, influencers and more. Radian6 Mobile: * Since the social web doesn't stop when you're away from your desk, stay plugged into your brand on the go with Radian6 Mobile. * Focus the entire social web into one mobile application. * Interact with your community or route posts to the right people with workflow functions all while away from your desk. * Quickly monitor overall volume, sentiment and more with the Summary feature. * Coming soon to the iTunes store and the Apple iPhone. Additional mobile devices to follow. Coverage includes: * over 150M blogs * over 420 video and image sharing sites such as [YouTube](/organization/youtube), Google Video, [Flickr](/organization/flickr), [Metacafe](/organization/metacafe), [Revver](/organization/revver), Vech, [Daily Motion](/organization/dailymotion), [Bebo](/organization/bebo), Grouper, [BrightCove](/organization/brightcove) and many more. * over 25k online mainstream news sites * over 90 million Tweets on [Twitter](/organization/twitter) * hundreds of thousands of discussions boards * public spots on social networks including [Facebook](/organization/facebook) & [Linkedin](/organization/linkedin) Groups * comments appearing on social media posts We are the only provider who has invested significantly in a proprietary social media crawler that goes far beyond simple RSS feed tracking allowing for the broadest and fastest coverage of the social web in the market.