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Braze Mobility provides an affordable navigation solution for wheelchair users. Its blind spot sensors enable clients to avoid the embarrassment, damage, or injury that can occur when they are moving around. The solution automatically detects obstacles and provides intuitive audio, visual, and vibration alerts to the wheelchair driver, so that they understand the location of an object and how close it is, while staying fully in control.

Trexo Robotics focuses on developing innovative mobility solutions aimed at enhancing the walking ability of individuals with physical impairments, particularly children with disabilities. The company creates an affordable robotic mobility device that allows users to engage in repetitive motion therapy through robotic gait. Designed for home use, this device facilitates physical rehabilitation and helps improve walking mobility without the need for constant individual support. Trexo Robotics is committed to making enabling technologies accessible to all, ensuring that users can benefit from their products in a comfortable and familiar environment.

Axtion Independence Mobility creates tools to let people age carefreely.

Cheelcare is an engineering and manufacturing company focused on enhancing the quality of life for individuals with disabilities through innovative assistive mobility devices. The company designs and produces a range of mobility aids and accessories that integrate advanced engineering, artificial intelligence, and real-time connectivity features. These innovations aim to increase users' independence, comfort, and affordability, allowing them to surpass traditional limitations associated with mobility challenges. By prioritizing user needs and leveraging cutting-edge technology, Cheelcare is dedicated to improving the overall experience and quality of life for its customers.

Additive Manufacturing (AM) refers to the entire process chain involved in selectively adding material and generating three-dimensional shapes. Because of this, AM is frequently referred to as 3D printing.

Invisu (a new digital product) was created to aid in the advancement of innovation in industries such as manufacturing, engineering, chemical, and logistics.

Scintam Engineering specializes in developing innovative engineering equipment and tooling platforms aimed at enhancing the efficiency and safety of maintenance processes. The company's offerings focus on reducing damage rates during disassembly compared to traditional methods, utilizing technology that minimizes harm to surrounding materials, including threads and coatings. Scintam's multi-purpose tool heads are designed to accommodate a variety of standard fastener types, allowing for quick setup and improved reliability in maintenance tasks across various industry sectors. By prioritizing safety and efficiency, Scintam Engineering supports industries in maintaining optimal performance.

Carbogenics Ltd is a company based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, specializing in the development and production of sustainable fertilizers and bio-additives. Established in 2016, Carbogenics has created an innovative process that transforms disposable coffee cups and other non-recyclable paper waste into a carbon-rich material, known as CreChar. This product serves as a carbon additive that enhances biogas production in anaerobic digestion and improves plant growth, ultimately benefiting farmers by increasing crop yields and profitability. In addition to its product offerings, Carbogenics also provides consultancy and analytical services to operators in the anaerobic digestion and wastewater treatment sectors, addressing customer inquiries through various communication channels.

Loop Technology specializes in industrial automation solutions and robotics, focusing on enhancing output and ensuring consistent product quality. The company offers a diverse array of services, including labeling, machining, bespoke solutions, assembly, and laser cleaning. Additionally, Loop Technology supports industries such as aerospace, automotive, and renewable energy by providing high-value manufacturing automation technology. Their offerings also include a loop leasing program, vision systems, and software development, catering to the increasing demand for composite materials in manufacturing processes. Loop Technology aims to streamline production and improve efficiency across various sectors.

Spiderwort is a company focused on developing innovative biomaterials for regenerative medicine, aiming to repair and regenerate human tissues. Founded in 2015 and based in Ottawa, Ontario, the company utilizes plant-derived cellulose to create various scaffold architectures, including powders, gels, membranes, and pastes. Currently in the pre-clinical stage, Spiderwort's novel biomaterials have shown promising results in terms of biocompatibility and their ability to induce angiogenesis, the generation of new blood vessels within the scaffolds. This approach seeks to advance applications in the healthcare industry, particularly for spinal cord injury repair and soft tissue regeneration, by utilizing plant-based materials rather than traditional synthetic substances.

SocialBus is an intelligent digital platform for managing shuttle buses and vans. It empowers the modern employee’s commute by providing useful data and analytics. SocialBus provides an app-based solution to transportation-management and a fully fledged system with telemetry, maintenance, dispatch, asset tracking, driver behaviour profiling, and machine learning capabilities. Our goal is to maximise passengers comfort and minimise providers hassles. Hence, SocialBus’ comprehensive managing tools dramatically improve and enhance the operation’s reliability and quality of service resulting in cost reduction, frictionless management, and user satisfaction.

The solistra corporation is a Solar-driven chemical processes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing industrial processes. Solistra reduces greenhouse gas emissions from existing industrial operations though our solar-driven chemical process technologies. It is an early-stage cleantech start-up commercializing a solar-activated nanomaterial that is able to convert carbon dioxide and methane gas simultaneously into a suite of green chemicals and fuels. This revolutionary technology has the potential to revolutionize the way commodity chemicals are produced by making them low-impact, and carbon negative.

What If Machines is a technology and retail startup focused on enhancing the online shopping experience. The company utilizes artificial intelligence and big data to develop innovative services tailored for the online retail sector. By leveraging these advanced technologies, What If Machines aims to provide consumers with a unique platform for discovering and purchasing products, making the online shopping process more efficient and engaging.

Studio 1 Labs is a Canadian deep-tech company specializing in the development of advanced electronic systems and multi-dimensional sensor fabrics. These innovative fabrics are designed to enhance human-computer interaction by enabling technology to sense and respond to warmth, presence, and touch. Unlike conventional AI systems that focus solely on sensing, Studio 1 Labs' technology aims to create a more intuitive connection by allowing devices to "feel" the nuances of human touch. This approach not only enhances the functionality of electronic systems but also promotes increased accuracy and reduced energy consumption, contributing to a lower carbon footprint. The applications of these sensor fabrics span various sectors, including healthcare and rehabilitation, where they can significantly improve user experience and engagement.

MedView is a medical technologies startup company focused on commercializing our proprietary, near infrared (NIR), spatially resolved diffusive reflectance technology for clinical applications, pharmaceutical manufacturing process quality control, and scientific/industrial research & development. We have just completed the development of a non-clinical, generic device (DepthVision™-α) targeted for use in research & development applications by academia, scientific and industrial customers where three dimensional, ultra-high sensitive optical sensing is required inside turbid media. Furthermore, the same technology components in DepthVision™-α also serves as the prototype platform for a handheld, non-invasive clinical device for accurately locating the optimal vein inside biological tissues to assist medical practitioners with performing venipuncture procedures. This Class II medical device, named VeinVision™, is currently in the alpha-prototype developmental stage. MedView is also actively engaged in collaborative & partnership ventures with companies and higher education research institutions to discover more innovative applications for our IP technology.

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Treata Smart Solutions is a company based in Toronto, Ontario, that specializes in caregiving technology for memory-impaired adults. Founded in 2012, it offers three innovative products: The Smart Lost Item Finder, The Smart Wandering Assistant, and The Smart Reminder. These devices leverage existing smartphone technology, enhanced with patent-pending hardware and software, to assist caregivers in monitoring the well-being of elderly individuals. The company's solutions aim to improve safety by providing real-time location information and alerts, ensuring that caregivers are promptly informed if a loved one with memory difficulties becomes lost or encounters any issues.

TrendMD provides article recommendations for doctors. They partner with scientific publishers such Elsevier and Oxford University Press and have them add a line of their JavaScript code to their journal websites so that they can show 10 similar article links at the bottom of each page. Their mission is to accelerate the rate at which humanity's knowledge advances, by matching readers with the right articles. They serve 500 million recommendations to more than 60 million readers per month and are nearing profitability after recently graduating from Y Combinator -- the startup accelerator that incubated Reddit, Dropbox, and Airbnb.

OtoSim was developed by a renowned multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, educators, and engineers. Drs. Forte and Campisi recognized the deficiencies that exist in current-day otoscopic training, pioneered the OtoSim device to resolve the problem and proved its value through a scientific study. Enlisting commercialization support from MaRS Innovation and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the multi-disciplinary team engineered the device and developed the software to create OtoSim

OtoSim was developed by a renowned multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, educators, and engineers. Drs. Forte and Campisi recognized the deficiencies that exist in current-day otoscopic training, pioneered the OtoSim device to resolve the problem and proved its value through a scientific study. Enlisting commercialization support from MaRS Innovation and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the multi-disciplinary team engineered the device and developed the software to create OtoSim