Ontario Centres of Excellence

The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) is a not-for-profit organization established in 1987, focusing on enhancing the Ontario economy by fostering innovation through research and development. OCE invests in various initiatives, including industry-academic collaborative research, the commercialization of academic findings through licensing and the creation of spin-off companies, and early-stage seed financing for startups. Additionally, the organization emphasizes skills development to cultivate a highly skilled workforce. OCE primarily targets sectors such as energy and environment, advanced manufacturing, advanced health technologies, and information and communications technologies. Its core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, ensuring a continuous commitment to advancing Ontario's innovation landscape.

Trish Barrow

Program Director

Sunny Kumar

Investment Manager

Sharon Sukhdeo

Investment Professional

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Dymaxia

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Dymaxia is developing clinically validated algorithm to relate heart rate to anxiety states in children with autism using wearable wristbands.

Pinch VR

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Indiegogo is a way for people all over the world to join forces to make ideas happen. Since 2008, millions of contributors have empowered hundreds of thousands of inventors, musicians, do-gooders, filmmakers—and other game-changers—to bring big dreams to life.

Noibu

Seed Round in 2019
Noibu Technologies Inc. develops a platform which provides data of online shoppers for visual merchandise planning, product placement, and marketing purposes for retail industry. Its products include basic Noibu, which consist a virtual storefront; Noibu, which provides a virtual storefront with data analytics; and Noibu plus, which provides a virtual storefront with advanced data analytics. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Studeo.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2015
STUDEOHQ.com transforms ordinary media into high impact interactive stories. We're changing how real estate and other verticals strategically creates emotive content to actively convert leads into new customers.

Top Hat

Seed Round in 2010
As a student engagement and interactive teaching platform, Top Hat’s software helps college professors activate classrooms. In a world of digital distractions, countless academic studies have reinforced the reality that students better understand the day’s lesson if they’re asked to engage with peers, interact with complex material and participate in class. By requiring students to use their personal devices to answer quizzes, reply to polls, and tackle difficult simulations, Top Hat transforms the passive lecture hall into an engaging learning environment. As an advocate for traditional, on-campus education, Top Hat not only modernizes established teaching methods but also facilitates new approaches including the ‘flipped classroom,’ ‘group learning,’ and other creative solutions. Top Hat is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, hosts 120 full-time employees, and has been operating since its 2009 launch behind $22M in venture funding.

Brüha

Seed Round in 2016
Brüha is an online event marketplace. We provide event organizers various tools and services to help them manage their events and sell tickets. Event organizers list and sell event tickets directly through the Brüha platform. They have an opportunity to hire Promoters on Brüha, who are vetted individuals and groups that sell tickets for a commission on the sale.

NURO

Seed Round in 2019
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.

SSIMWAVE

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.

Source My Garment

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Source My Garment Consulting Inc provides garment manufacturing services. The company provides its services to fashion brands. Source My Garment Consulting Inc was founded in 2009 and is based in Pickering, Canada.

AdvanceWorx

Seed Round in 2017
AdvanceWorx Inc. develops mobile thermal imaging hardware and software solutions. The company is headquartered in Sudbury, Canada.

GridCure

Seed Round in 2015
GRIDCURE INC. provides advanced metering infrastructure solutions. Its solutions enable users to monitor bulk and individual power usage at finer granularity, allowing for analysis on large (grid health, energy balancing, load distribution, and peak load detection) and small (individual health detection and outage detection) scale of power data. The company specializes in grid health analysis, consumption signal processing, fraud detection, and automated communication and alert system. Its solutions also used for automated billing purposes. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

GameStrat

Seed Round in 2017
GameStrat is a sports software company that specializes in sideline instant replay and real-time analytics. They currently provide solutions for a number of different sports such as football, basketball and volleyball, and have plans to branch out to other sports in the future.

Hopeful Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Hopeful Inc. is a company that helps nonprofits drive donations, reduce operating costs, and make better decisions using data. We do this through a machine learning driven analytics dashboard that enables nonprofits to analyze trends in their social media strategy, monitor their supporters' engagement, and proactively create programs to better drive donations through data-driven decision-making. We are a Canadian company based out of the Ryerson DMZ Tech Accelerator, and our currently in the process of working with nonprofits in Canada and the United States.

Proteocyte AI

Seed Round in 2014
Proteocyte AI develops Straticyte, a precancer laboratory service that objectively and accurately detects oral lesions at high risk of transforming to cancer and those that pose low risk. Its Straticyte assesses the risk of oral lesions becoming cancerous by applying proprietary protein biomarkers to biopsies of the lesions. The company offers its solution for the diagnosis and treatment of oral and head and neck cancers. The company was formerly known as Proteocyte Diagnostics Inc. and changed its name to Proteocyte AI in March, 2018. Proteocyte AI was founded in 2011 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

BlueDot

Grant in 2013
BlueDot Inc. offers data analytics solutions focusing on infectious diseases. It offer data, such as infectious disease breakouts, hospitals/healthcare facilities, local mobility, livestock populations, mosquitoes and ticks, animal infectious diseases, population demographics, global flight tickets sales, and real time climate. BlueDot Inc. was formerly known as BioDiaspora Inc. and changed its name to BlueDot Inc. in December 2014. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Datenight Babysitting

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Datenight Babysitting is a mobile- and web- app that connects parents with experienced, local babysitters. With hundreds of pre-interviewed babysitters in both Toronto and Ottawa, Datenight allows parents to register, see a list of great babysitters and schedule interviews with them quickly and easily. Datenight Babysitting's sky-high parent-approval rate makes makes it simple to connect with great babysitters that your family will love and makes booking and paying for babysitting a breeze.

Steadiwear

Seed Round in 2016
Steadiwear is the company behind the Steadi-One, the world's first battery-free glove that is designed to intelligently reduces tremors. The Steadi-One is a Class I medical device that has been registered with the FDA and has been available for pre-order the market as of August 2019. After delivering our first batch of units during December 2019, the team is ramping up towards a full scale launch in March 2020.

BORO

Seed Round in 2018
BORO has changed the way you access the things you need. This unique service is packed with amazing products from around the world - from tools you need to start a home project to drones that you can fly on your time off. Book private products from others around you or list your own. BORO is fun, fast and secure.

EntreLaunch

Seed Round in 2018
EntreLaunch is on a mission to launch the next generation of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. Business Description: EntreLaunch Inc. is developing a fully online global pre-accelerator program primarily for youth age 15-35 to offset global youth unemployment and underemployment and build resiliency in a rapidly changing job market. In addition, Impact Cup is a 48 hour experiential teen entrepreneurial challenge geared to give youth the soft skills they need to succeed in any career and the power to create their own future as an entrepreneur or intrapreneurs. EntreLaunch rounds out our offerings by providing a platform for microloans and our future microcredit program that will provide youth with the initial funds to test, validate and launch their idea. Company Background: EntreLaunch Inc. is a federally registered Canadian Corporation operating in Ontario and incorporated in 2015 by Rebecca Palmer, the sole director and shareholder. All IP, programs, licensing and branding are owned by EntreLaunch Inc. EntreLaunch Foundation is a federally incorporated not for profit registered in 2017 operating in Ontario. This is the first chapter for EntreLaunch Inc. and delivers all not for profit programming. Products/Services: EntreLaunch Inc. offers a youth free access to an online pre-accelerator (with premium advanced upgrade available), a microfunding program and the Launcher community. What sets us apart is our focus on social impact and on being able to deliver programming to rural and remote areas where access to entrepreneurial education is more difficult to reach. Our online courses will be available offline and in a variety of formats to allow easy access through mobile devices. Custom solutions will also be available for gender and age specific communities worldwide. The microfunding program allows youth to test ideas and validate businesses early on by providing small microfunds of up to $3000 backed by the community. Our initial funding program, The High Five Fund, allows donations based on the likeability of the idea or project. Entrelaunch will also develop a microcredit program similar to the Grameen Bank model to grant small, low interest loans. We work directly with teens under the EntreLaunch Foundation (and other chapters) in schools and other organizations. We seek out at-risk youth, students not headed for post-secondary school and those who struggle in traditional education for one reason or another. These are our future entrepreneurs and current programs focus largely on students in business programs heading to post-secondary schools.

PhenoTips

Seed Round in 2015
PhenoTips is a computer software company that provides solution for clinical genetics, phenotyping, and human phenotype ontology. It offers smart software solutions streamlined for clinical use that can be integrated with existing electronic health records. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

Pond Technologies

Grant in 2017
Pond Technologies Holdings Inc., a technology company, produces microalgal biomass using available sources of carbon dioxide(CO2), including CO2 rich emission sources from industrial plants and the licensing of its technology. The resultant algae is used in the supply of nutraceuticals, superfoods, and aquaculture and animal feeds, as well as feedstock in the production of biofoams and algae based biomaterials, and other algae derived product markets. It also focuses on the terrestrial plant and cannabis industry. The company is headquartered in Markham, Canada.

Om Company

Seed Round in 2019
Om Company's mission is to empower people to take control of their end-of-life planning as a crucial step towards financial well-being and achieve achieving peace-of-mind.

Pitstop

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Pitstop is a cloud-based Prognostic Maintenance Platform that enables enterprises to leverage the wealth of information available from their vehicle fleets. Their data engine integrates Connected Vehicles, Dealerships, Fleet Manager, Tier 1 Suppliers, OEMs, Insurance Companies and the Aftermarket Supply Chain.

Winterlight Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Winterlight Labs Inc. develops a speech-based platform for detecting cognitive and mental diseases such as, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Its AI (artificial intelligence) diagnostic platform assesses and monitors cognitive health by quantifying speech and language patterns. The company's platform has applications in clinical trials, long-term and primary care, and speech-language pathology. Winterlight Labs Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Intelocate

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Intelocate develops cloud based communication and execution platform which enables retailers configure a network of brand, vendor and sales associates to optimize execution in the retail channel. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

InDanio Bioscience

Grant in 2014
InDanio Bioscience Inc. operates as a vivo drug discovery company. The company develops new chemical entities for the pharmaceutically important nuclear protein families. The company offers assessment of nuclear receptor lead compound properties, invivo screening, De novo screen for new NG ligands with ligand trap system. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Smats Traffic Solutions

Seed Round in 2017
Smats Traffic Solutions Inc. develops vehicle detection software. Its solutions include traffic management solution that provides travel time measurement, origin destination pattern, and traffic signal optimization; and queue management solutions for borders, port management, work zones, and rail yards. Smats Traffic Solutions Inc. also manufactures sensory and portable traffic tools such as tablets and traffic box. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

ProPet Software

Seed Round in 2015
ProPet Software is full-service kennel management software that streamlines the day-to-day operations of a pet business with our clean and intuitive user interface.

Rover Parking

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Rover connects empty and unused parking spots with those looking for affordable and convenient parking.

Meet Auto

Seed Round in 2017
Meet Auto Inc. provides an online marketplace that enables users to buy and sell new and used motor vehicles. It offers MeetAuto.ca, an online marketplace that allows users to manage/view notifications, messages, test drive requests, articles, and vehicle search profile matches; and compare prices, search vehicles, and post advertisements. The company’s platform is used to buy and sell cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, and other vehicles in Canada. Meet Auto Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

LiveQoS

Venture Round in 2010
LiveQoS, formerly iPeak Networks, has IPQ™ to find and fix the problems on any wired and wireless network. This guarantees the best video and virtualization experience for smartphones, tablets, laptops and thin clients. The company’s IPQ™ technology enables OEMs to optimize the network quality to suit the exact requirements of specific network-based applications, platforms or environments. OEMs are facing daunting challenges as both the consumer and the enterprise migrate away from the reliability and predictability of the desktop-and-LAN paradigm. They are moving towards mobile devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones) that are running increasingly demanding, high bandwidth applications (video chat, video streaming, VDI) over the wired LAN, WiFi, 3G/4G, and the public Internet. The confluence of these three megatrends – real-time, mobility, and multiple networks – is driving the new requirement for application-specific network QoS solutions. IPQ™ is a framework and an evolving set of powerful technologies that maximize the quality of controlled and uncontrolled networks according to actual link conditions and actual application requirements. IPQ™ enables applications to run as-designed in network environments where the application would otherwise fail or the user would suffer unsatisfactory Quality of Experience (QoE). IPQ™ is the only commercially available solution that meets these requirements.

Embodia

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Embodia is the learning marketplace for healthcare professionals of every niche and discipline. They believe that learning is an ongoing process - and the best way to remain passionate and effective as a practitioner is to open yourself up to new techniques

Tripsi

Seed Round in 2017
Tripsi is Group Travel Made Easy. A group travel marketplace and procurement platform for all forms of group travel experiences including destination weddings, educational travel, sport trips and religious pilgrimages. Tripsi's mission is to make online group travel as easy as individual travel. Designed to streamline the end to end process of planning, promoting and collecting funds, tripsi eases the burden for the trip organizer and operator.

ParticipAid

Seed Round in 2016
ParticipAid Inc. offers an online portal that provides researchers with tools to establish an online presence, communicate findings with the public, recruit participants, and streamline the processes associated with recruitment. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mississauga, Canada.

OpenSports

Pre Seed Round in 2015
OpenSports enables sports and recreation organizers to build amazing groups Groups that are using OpenSports run weekly and even daily events without the time consuming organizational burden of manually sending invites via multiple platforms, managing RSVPS, payment collection, waitlists, etc. They boast about how OpenSports cuts out the chaos of collecting cash, and dealing with no-shows. Players get notified of upcoming games from their favorite groups and can easily join and pay through the app or website.

OpenChannel

Seed Round in 2015
Your own app marketplace in minutes. Utilize the power of your developer community to build awesome apps for your product.

Peak Power

Seed Round in 2017
Peak’s AI-powered software enables intelligent energy in smart cities by optimizing synthetic, stationary, and mobile batteries to act as grid resources. Peak’s solutions reduce operating costs and the environmental footprint of our clients while decreasing strain on the grid.

Client Outlook

Grant in 2012
Client Outlook Inc. provides IT solutions for health professionals. It offers eUnity, a server-based universal viewer that enables healthcare professionals to access, manipulate, and collaborate in real-time over medical images using any browser. The company also provides eUnity Mobile that enables healthcare professionals to access, manipulate, and collaborate over medical images through mobile devices. The company has strategic alliances with GNAX Health and Acuo Technologies, LLC. Client Outlook Inc. is based in Waterloo, Canada. As of July 13, 2020, Client Outlook Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Mach7 Technologies Limited.

Parlay

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Parlay Ideas Inc. owns and operates a platform which allows teachers to have discussions with the students. The platform allows measuring the quantity and quality of student contributions and also allows teachers to give feedback. The company features include overview of the topic, online discussions, cases studies, and instructional templates. Parlay Ideas Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

KOHO Financial

Seed Round in 2015
KOHO Financial provides an application based banking platform intended to simplify financial products available to everyone. Its platform helps users to complete their day to day banking operations while offering tools such as goals, cash flow projections, group spending, spending insights, and categorizations, enabling users to manage their expenses and banking operations on the go.

Village mommy.com

Seed Round in 2015
Village mommy helps moms meet other moms for friendship, support, and playdates. Company is reducing postpartum depression and improving all kinds of postnatal outcomes for moms and babies. By bringing an online social network platform to mothers, Villagemommy.com helps provide peer support to improve mothers' mental health.

Coldblock

Private Placement in 2020
ColdBlock Technologies Inc. develops and manufactures laboratory sample digestion products and test tubes made from borosilicate and quartz glass for mining, metals and alloys, environmental, food, and agriculture industries. It offers CB12L digester for reparation of larger sample sizes and CB15S digester for smaller sample sizes. ColdBlock Technologies Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Saint Catharines, Canada.
APX Building and Onsite Data Solutions has fully embraced and revolutionized the concept of Smart City infrastructure. APX knows that manageable and accessible data that can be easily and securely shared with any organization and individual is essential for success in the modern age. It is for this reason that APX has become the unequivocal North American leader in Smart City Building and Onsite Data Solutions.

Grobo

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Grobo develops fully automated grow boxes for home use. Our IoT grow boxes leverage AI and ML to increase yields and decrease grow times.

Intelocate

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Intelocate develops cloud based communication and execution platform which enables retailers configure a network of brand, vendor and sales associates to optimize execution in the retail channel. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Geminare

Seed Round in 2010
Geminare is a pioneer in delivering Recovery as a Service solutions to the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector. Dedicated to building game-changing cloud technologies, including Cloud Recovery and Cloud Storage solutions, Geminare delivers its products through a network of channel partners worldwide. Currently in the market with Server Replication, Geminare counts among its partners Qwest Communications, Hosting.com, Bell Canada, CA Technologies Inc. and many other leading organizations. Geminare is located in Toronto, Canada with operations and partners in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Optimity

Pre Seed Round in 2016
We apply behavioral science through gamification, incentives, and the power of communities to nudge consumers in making better, healthier choices. As a B2B platform, our large health community becomes a cost-effective lead-gen funnel. Our first set of clients are life insurance companies: Acquisition economics in life insurance are painfully wasteful: 70% of their total cost is spent on acquiring new policyholders. Our products help them acquire high-quality leads at the lowest cost, dramatically improving their acquisition economics.

OTTO Motors

Grant in 2017
OTTO Motors, a division of Clearpath Robotics Inc. OTTO Motors provides autonomous mobile robots for material handling inside manufacturing facilities and warehouses. The vehicles operate with infrastructure-free navigation, offering intelligent, safe, efficient, and reliable transportation within industrial centers. Proprietary hardware, software, and services are delivered to provide customer excellence.

Giatec

Grant in 2012
Giatec Scientific Inc. designs and manufactures sensor based testing products for the construction industry. It develops mobile applications to monitor concrete strength. The company’s products include SmartRock, a wireless concrete sensor; Smart Concrete, an application to monitor concrete; BlueRock 2, a concrete humidity sensor; SmartBox, a wireless resistance monitoring device; iCor, a wireless non-destructive testing tool; Xcell, a corrosion mapping device; Perma 2, an electrical resistance measurement device; Rcon 2, a non-destructive electrical resistivity measurement device; and Surf, a surface electrical resistivity measurement device. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Aetonix

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Aetonix simplify the complexity of home healthcare. Aetonix aTouchAway helps healthcare professionals remotely manage the care of patients with chronic diseases or with pre/post surgery needs at home through a secure mobile easy-to-use digital platform. Healthcare professionals and family caregivers use aTouchAway to stay connected from anywhere. From virtual visits and remote check-ins, to managing appointments and reminders, to remote monitoring of vital signs, aTouchAway makes staying connected easy. (PHIPA & HIPAA compliant)

PR-A-PO

Seed Round in 2015
Latest version featured in Best New Apps on Apple App Store. PR-A-PO is a direct-to-consumer commerce solution for designer fashion brands. It currently ships to 11 regions around the world including Canada, United States, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and United Kingdom. PR-A-PO makes selling and advertising to mobile consumers simple by providing brands with the technology and marketing reach necessary to be successful. PR-A-PO also makes buying fun and easy for mobile customers through a focus on customer service, user experience and design.

Green Story

Seed Round in 2017
Green Story Inc. provides visual storytelling solutions that helps green companies connect with their customers. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

Sciventions

Grant in 2013
Sciventions is an online platform for scientists to trade their ideas and innovative solutions. Sciventions offers specialty products made in research laboratories around the world, ranging from chemicals and lab gadgets to instruments and characterization services. Scientists and researchers can sell ideas, products and services that are in development or otherwise too small in volume to be sold separately.

gofor

Angel Round in 2018
GoFor is a provider of last-mile, on-demand, and same-day delivery services and solutions for suppliers and retailers. The company's streamlined SaaS platform encompasses a full suite of logistics capabilities including eCommerce integration, dispatching, and reporting. GoFor’s delivery model allows businesses to supplement their busy fleets or act as a complete out-sourced logistics partner. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Maple MicroSystems

Seed Round in 2016
Maple MicroSystems Inc. provides intelligent sensor network and communication solutions. It offers product, MapleBee Sensor Networks, a monitoring system which runs without batteries, and consists of three components that includes Repeater Sensor Node (SRN), Collector Gate Way (CGW), and Controller End Point (CEP). Maple MicroSystems Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Codify Legal Publishing

Seed Round in 2016
Codify Legal Publishing is transforming the way businesses, law firms, and regulators approach law. Codify Legal Publishing wants to make it better, by making information more accessible, legal services more affordable, and society more equitable for all. Using automation, the company streamlines work that used to take months or weeks into hours or seconds.

LegWorks

Debt Financing in 2015
LegWorks is a for-profit social enterprise. The company vision is to produce and supply all components of a complete prosthetic leg solution for amputees around the world, regardless of where they live, their social status, or their ability to pay. LegWorks uses tiered pricing both across and within markets to create margin where appropriate and maximize distribution of its products to all, from the developed world to the developing world.

Greenlid

Pre Seed Round in 2014
The Greenlid is a fully compostable organic waste container. The greenlid compostable containers are made from 100% post-consumer end-of-life recycled paper that can no longer be used for any other purpose. This project has two parts: including a fully Compostable Container (1) and a reusable, dishwasher friendly Lid (2) to conceal the organic contents.

Laser Depth Dynamics

Grant in 2012
LDD is an innovative provider of in-process quality monitoring and control solutions for laser-based welding applications. LDD’s proprietary inline coherent imaging (ICI) technology is the first industrial solution to enable direct measurement of weld penetration depth with high precision and in real time by adding a near-infrared measurement beam to the welding head.

ScarX Therapeutics

Grant in 2013
ScarX Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company, discovers and develops treatments for dermal scarring (fibrosis). It develops SCX-001, a topical prescription cream to treat and prevent post-surgical scarring; and Nefopam active drug substance in SCX-001, a small molecule that inhibits the production of catenin, the protein associated with hypertrophic (excessive) scarring in animals and humans. The company serves customers worldwide. ScarX Therapeutics Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Dynamix

Seed Round in 2017
Provider of cannabis oil intended to improve health benefits. The company's oil are used in powdered beverage mixes that can balance and counteract the foul taste of medical marijuana, enabling users to get benefit from a healthy alternative that brings discretion, convenience and flavor to the health regimen.

Nulogy

Venture Round in 2010
Nulogy has been a world leading provider of specialized solutions for complex supply-chain challenges for over a decade. Nulogy is transforming the way Fortune 500 companies around the world engage their consumer customers. By allowing unprecedented responsiveness, automation, control, and collaboration, Nulogy's solutions enable the personalization of consumer products like never before. Nulogy’s flagship cloud-based solution, Pack Manager, is used by the world’s premiere contract manufacturers and packagers to reduce costs, gain real-time visibility, improve compliance, and increase customer loyalty and is backed by a team of dedicated professionals to ensure PackManager customers always achieve success.

GaitTronics

Seed Round in 2013
GaitTronics develops and distributes robotic rehabilitation products for its clients. The company distributes SoloWalk, patient handling robots that offer healthcare services to its patients. It offers its services to patients, caregivers, and hospitals. GaitTronics was founded in 2012 by Aliasgar Morbi, Richard Beranek, and Mojtaba Ahmadi and is based in Ontario.

Viafoura

Angel Round in 2012
Viafoura partners with over 600 media brands to engage, convert and monetize their digital audiences. With best-in-class engagement and content moderation solutions — including real-time conversations, live blogs, community chat, personalization tools and AI-powered moderation — Viafoura helps companies create active, civil and loyal online communities. Advanced data analytics also offer customers access to unique and valuable insights into their audience's behaviors and preferences. As a result, the Viafoura solution drives higher registrations and subscriptions as well as better-targeted content and advertising.

ReUp

Grant in 2016
ReUp is a digital platform that allows business owners to build a branded loyalty program.

ODAIA

Seed Round in 2019
ODAIA Intelligence Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based customer engagement analysis platform. The company offers a software as a service (SaaS) and cloud based platform, ODAIA, which provides analysis of customer engagement behavior through data analytics, data process mining, machine learning, prediction algorithms, and customer journey mapping tools. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Blue Pier

Seed Round in 2017
Developer of a pension planning platform intended to provide workers with income security and quality of life in retirement. The company's platform offers customizable and scalable pension alternatives without the work, hidden fees, and endless admin, enabling clients to have a pension plan membership, including employees of small and medium-sized businesses to build a secure retirement income.

Chisel.ai

Grant in 2016
Chisel AI provides artificial Intelligence solutions for the insurance industry in Canada and internationally. Its solutions use natural language processing and named entity recognition to read documents and extract critical data from digital native documents in various file formats, such as Word, PDF, and Excel. The company offers solutions for data extraction, errors and omissions check, submission prioritization, claims triage, and quote comparison. It serves provides insurers, reinsurers, and brokers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Ticketfi

Seed Round in 2015
Ticketfi is an analytics driven, feature-rich event creation platform intended to offer actionable insights and event pages to customers. The company's ticketing platform provides customer relationship management as well as an analytics engine that offers actionable insights and event information, enabling clients to analyze their attendees' attendance patterns, trends and sources of engagement.

Simulare Medical

Seed Round in 2017
Simulare Medical develops and integrates innovative medical training programs with its advanced, high-fidelity surgical simulators to create turnkey workshops and events where complex procedures can be learned safely and effectively.

Atomic Works

Seed Round in 2017
Atomic Works is a comprehensive platform for discovery of new materials and structures on molecular scale

Hypercare

Grant in 2017
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.

Char Technologies

Grant in 2017
The Corporation is in the business of producing a proprietary activated charcoal like material (SulfaCHAR), which can be used to removed hydrogen sulfide from various gas streams (focusing on methane-rich and odourous air). The SulfaCHAR, once used for the gas cleaning application, has further use as a sulfur-enriched biochar for agricultural purposes (saleable soil amendment product).

Limelight Platform

Seed Round in 2015
Limelight Platform, Inc. operates Limelight platform that provides tools to build automated, data driven live marketing campaigns. Its SaaS based platform provides various elements, such as live strategy, activation tools, consumer communication, social amplification, real time data, and analysis to run a live marketing program. The company offers solutions for mall tours, contests and surveys, events, experiential marketing, activations and in store experiences, kiosks, samplings, sponsorships and activations, and test drives. Limelight Platform, Inc. is based in Toronto, Canada.

Sysomos

Seed Round in 2008
Sysomos offers social media monitoring and analytics products that give corporations, marketers, public relations agencies and advertisers the intelligence and insight needed to make smarter business and strategic decisions. The Sysomos platform brings business intelligence to social media, giving you instant and unlimited access to all social media conversations so you can quickly see what's happening, why it's happening, and who's driving the conversations. Through the use of contextual text analytics and data mining technology Sysomos collects billions of social media conversations from blogs, Twitter, social networks, messages, boards, wikis and a growing number of major new sources.

Enrich Bioscience

Seed Round in 2017
Developer of a non-invasive genetic testing technology designed to detect various types of cancer at the earliest. The company's technology offers to detect different types of cancer including lung, liver, bladder, prostate, colorectal, breast, pancreatic, thyroid, gastric cancer, and leukemia from extracted DNA using a fast, simple and non-invasive diagnostic test, enabling oncologists to detect and prevent cancer at a very early stage.

Cohesiv

Seed Round in 2017
Factory Bucket helps manufacturers integrate their silos of data with our no-code solutions in order to visualize and improve their process.

InnerSpace

Seed Round in 2016
InnerSpace Technologies Inc. provides a turnkey indoor mapping and indoor navigation platform that uses mapping technology, smartphone-compatible sensors, and machine learning to automatically generate maps and locate people and things throughout indoor spaces. The company’s location-as-a-service provides users with contextual maps and positioning data accessible on a subscription basis for enterprise and consumer-level uses. It serves customers primarily in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Flosonics

Grant in 2018
Flosonics is a medical device company that focuses on developing non-invasive sensors to improve the management of critically ill patients. Flosonics's flagship smart-bandage product, the FloPatch, addresses unmet clinical needs of critically ill patients and the physicians, nurses, and paramedics who care for them in the ambulance, emergency department, operating room, and intensive care unit.

Structur3d Printing

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Structur3d Printing allows makers and 3D printers to work with pastes like silicone, polyurethane, latex, icing sugar. They're enabling 3D printers to go past just printing rigid plastics and create useful objects with real world applications using the right materials for the job.

Suncayr

Grant in 2017
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!

Acuity Insights

Grant in 2015
Altus Assessments Inc. provides online applicant screening services for academic programs admissions departments. The company offers CASPer, an online, video-scenario based situational judgement test for applicants. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Hamilton, Canada.

SeaWell Networks

Series A in 2010
SeaWell Networks is setting a new standard for online video experiences with innovative solutions for video preparation that combine striking video quality, simplicity, and versatility. Embracing standards-based technology, SeaWell Networks enables the adaptive distribution of IP-based video that costs less to create and distribute, yet provides a superior viewing experience across the spectrum of viewing platforms.

Laser Depth Dynamics

Seed Round in 2012
LDD is an innovative provider of in-process quality monitoring and control solutions for laser-based welding applications. LDD’s proprietary inline coherent imaging (ICI) technology is the first industrial solution to enable direct measurement of weld penetration depth with high precision and in real time by adding a near-infrared measurement beam to the welding head.

Textbooks for Change

Seed Round in 2014
Textbooks for Change, a B Corp and social venture, that provides affordable and accessible educational material to students both locally and across the globe. It allows the students to reuse the textbook and also recycled it efficiently. It collects the textbooks in two ways; from drop boxes on post-secondary campuses, and from student club collection drives and rest are resold online. The company also distributes microfinance loans to entrepreneurs. Textbooks for Change was founded in 2013 and is based in Hamilton, Canada.

Lumago Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Lumago is an aquaponics company that offers educational, commercial, and custom-built systems. Lumago’s industrial and custom systems are for greenhouses and indoor growers. This system capitalizes on our customizable and expandable grow beds and fish tanks, our predictive water controller, and our full system servicing plans, which ensures the system is always operating at optimal conditions. With aquaponics, we strive to make fresh, local, and healthier food more accessible to everyone!

2Keys

Grant in 2017
2Keys was founded in 1998 on the security principles of Confidentiality, Availability, Integrity and Privacy. Based in Ottawa and Toronto, Canada, 2Keys is a private employee owned company. We are a national leader in enabling secure digital experiences for Canadian governments, financial institutions and commercial clients. 2Keys designs, deploys and operates Digital Identity Platforms and Cyber Security Platforms through Managed Service and Professional Service engagements. 2Keys engagements focus on Confidentiality, Availability, Integrity and Privacy as the best way to enhance and secure digital business value for our clients.

Kindera

Seed Round in 2015
Kindera is a unique solution Monitor and manage your home Internet from the convenience of your smartphone, wherever you are. With Kindera, never again wonder where your children are online. In just five simple steps, Kindera will start protecting your children before they return home from school.

Voilà Learning

Grant in 2017
Voilà is an Ed-Tech organization mandated by multiple school boards to create designed solutions for students and school boards Voilà uses Virtual Reality, apps, gamification and online homework help. Today, our organization is proud to use a human-centered design approach to answer the need of thousands of teachers, students, and parents. Our common goals: - to encourage students to do better, - to help parents meet the needs of their children, - and to help school boards offer after-school programs on-site and online.

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.

Cheelcare

Seed Round in 2016
Created assistive mobility device with rich functionality, modern technologies, futuristic design

Visr

Seed Round in 2014
VISR Inc. technology solutions to identify distress indicators from language and image based content. The company uses AI to automatically detect the emotional well-being of children online. It offers context processing engine, a solution that allows users to understand the tone and patterns of conversational text without having to pore over the data manually; FORENSICS, a solution to identify violent, inappropriate, or mental health related problematic content; and child safety applications. The company is based in Toronto, Canada. As of May 31, 2018, VISR Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SafeToNet Limited.

FireRein

Grant in 2017
FireRein Inc. manufactures water additive firefighting solutions. Its products include Eco-Gel, which is a water additive that prevents, protects, and extinguishes fires; Eco-Rinse that allows end users to clean equipment, pumps, and nozzles; and FireRein TPP, which helps to draft and control the thickness and viscosity of the Eco-Gel into firefighting water stream. The company also conducts training programs for the usage of Eco-Gel. FireRein Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Napanee, Canada.

DisTech Automation

Seed Round in 2017
DisTech Automation is a developer of an extrusion system designed to expand the capabilities of any low-cost 3D printer. The company's system permits 3D printer to produce complex multi-color and multi-material objects with the simplicity of a single hot end, helps in removable support material to create complex objects with steep overhangs and creates functional parts with composite structures for optimized strength, enabling customers to produce vibrant multi-color objects, print with support material and create unique multi-material prints.

Stromcore

Seed Round in 2016
Stromcore Energy is a designer and manufacturer of cutting-edge Lithium-Ion batteries for large industrial forklifts. The Stromcore Battery Management System (BMS) manages the lithium battery modules and continuously delivers updates and diagnostic information to the cloud. Individual modules are remotely monitored and controlled to maintain stable operating conditions.

Voltera

Grant in 2014
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.