Ontario Centres of Excellence

The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research. OCE invests in - Industry-Academic collaborative research - Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies - Early stage seed financing of start-ups - Skills development for high quality personnel The Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
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Past deals in Ontario

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.

FreshSpoke, Inc.

Grant in 2017
FreshSpoke, Inc. develops an application for food distribution. The company provides a platform where food products are directly traded between buyers and sellers without a middleman. It can be used by local producers, buyers and drivers who provide delivery services. FreshSpoke, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Barrie, Canada.

Payso

Grant in 2015
Payso is one of Canada’s first peer-to-peer payment services. The online app aims to be the easiest way to make and share payments with friends. It is fast, secure, and totally free. Whether you’re splitting a grocery bill, celebrating a birthday, or chipping in for gas, settling up can be done with just the click of a button. Simply add any Visa or MasterCard and you’re ready to start sending payments with no additional fees.

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.

Neutun Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Neutun Labs Inc. provides tracking software for epileptics through smartwatches and wearables. It offers a tracking tool for continuous passive tracking, medication reminders, notification, and recording progress services. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

AOMS Technologies

Grant in 2015
AOMS Technologies provides integrated Industrial IoT platforms for generating actionable insights from assets and processes to enhance efficiency and productivity, reduce operation costs, increase safety, and improve environmental sustainability. AOMS IoT platforms are integrated sensors and analytics tools developed for harsh environments and heavy industrial applications where conventional technologies fail, lose performance, or cannot be deployed efficiently.

Orca Intelligence

Seed Round in 2017
Orca Intelligence's invoice audit and payment program reduce client's workloads and allows them to refocus their time on core responsibilities.

Sortspoke

Seed Round in 2017
SortSpoke's artificial intelligence does the complex data extraction work that people do today. SortSpoke helps companies automate manual document processing. SortSpoke is a cloud service that learns how you classify your documents, what data you extract from them and then it does it for you.

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.

Plum.io, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Plum.io, Inc. develops a software as a service (SaaS) recruitment platform to match job candidates with companies. The company offers workforce re-org, workforce planning, leaders, talent acquisition, succession planning, employee development, and team building and insights. It develops talent acquisition tools that help companies hire, grow, and retain top talents. Plum.io, Inc. was formerly known as Cream.HR, Inc. and changed its name to Plum.io, Inc. in August 2014. Plum.io, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Waterloo, Canada.

STUDEOHQ.com

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.

Ethica Data Services Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Ethica offers the first research tool that is based on smartphones, wearables, and objective measurements of human behaviour, not surveys

Ourotech

Seed Round in 2015
Ourotech Inc. manufactures hydrogels for personalized cancer treatment. The company offers hydrogels that can culture tumors outside of the human body and mimic the drug resistance of tumors inside the human body. Its products include Genesis, a hydrogel for breast, colon, and brain Glioblastoma (GBM) cancers. Ourotech Inc. also provides drug testing services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Waterloo, Canada.

TranQool Inc

Seed Round in 2016
TranQool Inc provides Online counselling platform that connect users with therapist through secure video calls. TranQool services fall under counselling service, visits to psychologists or registered social workers (RSW/MSW). Check with your insurance provider to find out how much coverage you have. Your plan may cover your therapy sessions with TranQool psychologists and clinical social workers. If you have any questions about your insurance coverage do not hesitate to give us a call: (888) 365-4935

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.

GoWrench Auto

Seed Round in 2018
GoWrench Inc. offers mobile automotive maintenance services. The company allows the customer to request the service through an online booking platform and provides mechanics after receiving a quote. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Hamilton, Canada.

Proteocyte AI

Angel 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.

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.

Pathcore

Seed Round in 2008
Pathcore is dedicated to developing highly functional digital pathology solutions that enable digital workflows

AXIS Labs

Grant in 2017
AXIS has the vision to make any 'existing thing' smart - starting first with window shades. The company's first product, Gear, motorizes and automates existing window shades in minutes. Named as the 2017 Motorized Product of the Year by the Consumer Technology Association, Gear is compatible with a variety of window shades and allows you to control and schedule your shades from the comfort of your phone. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in New York City, USA, and Shenzhen, China, AXIS is on a mission to transform the window shade industry with smart and simple technology.

Kinetica Dynamics

Grant in 2013
Kinetica Dynamics Inc. designs and implements damping, isolation and vibration control technologies for prevention against wind and earthquake loading. The company offers Viscoelastic Coupling Damper (VCD) technology; and Viscoelastic (VE) Material, a damping material for wind serviceability and seismic protection. It also offers services for tall building design, such as Peer review of high-rise building design, High-rise building damping and high-performance system design, and nonlinear modeling of tall and complex buildings. Kinetica Dynamics Inc. is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional office in San Francisco, California.

NURO CORP.

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 Inc.

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.

Setter

Seed Round in 2017
Setter Inc. develops an application which connects homeowners with personal home managers. It allows users to book home maintenance and repair services, such as window cleaning, landscaping, installing a new furnace, and replacing countertops. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada. As per the transaction announced on November 21, 2020, Setter Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Thumbtack, Inc.

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 INC.

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.

AIVA Labs Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
AIVA Labs Inc. provides information technology services in the areas of website design and management. The company’s AI technology reads the users’ visitors and automatically designs a personalized experience to convert them into lifelong customers. It offers services related to campaign management, suggestions, integration support, graphic designer, multivariate testing, and customer management. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Peekapak

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Developed by education experts, Peekapak's award winning learning platform and digital games provides educators with easy-to-use, standards-aligned, research-based tools that make integrating social-emotional skills fun, engaging and effective. Peekapak is backed by Y Combinator's Edtech Vertical, Imagine K12, NewSchools Venture Fund, Uncharted and the DMZ and has been covered in EdSurge, Entrepreneur Magazine, Kidscreen, Flare, International Business Times, Flare, BetaKit, TechVibes, Yahoo Finance, CBC, CTV and Toronto Star.

SnapEDA Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Relied upon by hundreds of thousands of engineers globally, SnapEDA helps engineers build electronics faster and cheaper by providing them with ready-to-use building blocks.

Postalgia Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Postalgia Inc. is a direct mail marketing service company that uses robotics to create handwrite letters, envelopes, postcards, and other mail marketing materials. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Markham, 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.

Joyride

Seed Round in 2017
Joyride powers the largest global network of micromobility operators. They offer turnkey software solutions for dockless bike-share and electric scooter operators. Their platform includes a white-label mobile application for end-users and a web-based dashboard for fleet operators. They currently power customers in 100-plus markets worldwide, and their management software enables an any-sized business to launch their fleet within 24 hours and seamlessly scale their operations from five to 500,000-plus vehicles.

Oncoustics

Seed Round in 2015
Oncoustics is dedicated to improving productivity in clinical workflow and making ultrasound more widely available, accessible to non-experts and affordable for diagnostic imaging.

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.

Sensibill

Seed Round in 2015
Sensibill is a digital receipts ecosystem that allows customers to access receipts directly from bank accounts. Sensibill provides a turnkey digital receipt solution to financial institutions. The company's services allows retail customers to manage itemized receipts from trusted financial services applications. The Sensibill platform combines technology with beautiful interface design to deliver an experience that creates consistent customer engagement for banking applications and transforms customers into advocates.

Greenspace Mental Health Ltd

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Greenspace Mental Health uses validated and evidence based tools to help patients and therapists easily measure and track progress in psychotherapy. They are assembling a team of technology entrepreneurs, healthcare experts and world-class advisors, with a shared vision of solving big problems to improve patient treatment outcomes from therapy. We are working to make an impact across multiple sectors in mental health; being an area of significant need that is lacking innovation and solutions.

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.
QuantWave provides faster, cheaper, and simpler pathogen detection for drinking water and food suppliers. QuantWave Technologies is dedicated to providing optimal technologies and solutions for pathogen detection in food and drinking water. QuantWave is dedicated to providing a real-time, more cost-effective, easy-to-use and more environmental-friendly solution that will reduce contamination risk, enhance quality operation, and generate cost savings for food and drinking water manufacturing industries, and ultimately better protect public health.​​

BlueDot Inc.

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.

Scent Trunk Apparel Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Traditionally, fragrances have been marketed using some generic celebrity we’re all supposed to “aspire to” and sold at overwhelming department stores. Scent Trunk designs original fragrances for you based on a guided process of personal discovery. Our members start with a Scent Test kit with a palette of our six core scents, designed to help them discover what they like – and don’t like. Then we deliver a one-month supply of a custom fragrance formula. Using the data we collect, we are able to create better scent products (lotions, soaps, etc.) than anyone else.

Gorkon industries

Seed Round in 2015
Gorkon Industries provides superior engineering services for FIT and net metered solar projects as well as consultations for off-grid systems. In-house solar photovoltaic design and engineering work cooperatively with sustainability consultants, Research and development - work with government, industry and universities to stay up-to-date with latest technology and information, comprehensive training and support, project quality assurance program provide financial support through cash flow analysis.
QuantWave provides faster, cheaper, and simpler pathogen detection for drinking water and food suppliers. QuantWave Technologies is dedicated to providing optimal technologies and solutions for pathogen detection in food and drinking water. QuantWave is dedicated to providing a real-time, more cost-effective, easy-to-use and more environmental-friendly solution that will reduce contamination risk, enhance quality operation, and generate cost savings for food and drinking water manufacturing industries, and ultimately better protect public health.​​

BioRender.io

Seed Round in 2017
BioRender is building the first standard visual language of biology and software tools to communicate it. We have built a web-based software tool that enables scientists and their colleagues to create and share high-quality science figures in minutes. BioRender has developed a database of thousands of scientific icons and templates with “drag-and-drop” functionality that enables scientists to create illustrations in a way that is fast, repeatable, and standardized.

Squiggle Park

Seed Round in 2018
Squiggle Park develops bite-sized games for pre K-1 students that teach foundational reading skills through play. Its games allow kids to plan independently or in groups and stay engaged in the games, helping with classroom management and allowing teachers to spend more time in one-on-one or small group instruction. Squiggle Park was formerly known as Eyeread Inc. and changed its name to Squiggle Park in August 2016. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Halifax, Canada with additional offices in the United States and Canada. Squiggle Park operates as a subsidiary of Norex.

DragonRAD

Series A in 2009
DragonRAD is provided by Seregon Solutions Inc., a provider of mobile enterprise application platform software. Seregon’s experience in developing access solutions for wireless handheld devices resulted in the creation of DragonRAD, which enables developers to build custom enterprise applications quickly and at low cost.

Furnishr

Grant in 2016
Furnishr is a unique interior design platform that makes furnishing spaces easy and affordable. Furnishr is a turnkey furnishing platform that will completely furnish your empty home in one day. Purchase a room design on Furnishr.com, and all the furniture and accessories in the design will be delivered and assembled in your own room all at once.

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.

Hyre inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Hyre inc. operates an online marketplace that directly connects event staff with event organizers. Its platform connects event staff (bartenders, servers, and chef assistants) and event organizers (event venues, caterers, and event planners). The company’s platform enables event organizers to hire event staff for their events. Hyre inc. was formerly known as eStaffMatch, Inc. and changed its name to Hyre inc. in November 2016. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada with an additional office in Ottawa.

Gene42

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.

NURO CORP.

Grant in 2021
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.

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.

Sniper Skin

Seed Round in 2016
Sniper Skin is a sports equipment manufacturing company committed to providing products that solve problems in hockey, baseball, lacrosse, and more. Their patent-pending products aim to improve the game experience and reduce the effort required to prepare equipment for play. Sniper Skin aims to save you money by extending the life of your sports gear.

Pitstop

Seed Round in 2019
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.

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 Inc.

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 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.

SharpestMinds

Pre Seed Round in 2016
SharpestMinds is a platform for early talent discovery in machine learning. It connects STEM graduate students and machine learning developers to businesses looking for AI talent. The company aims to create a new kinds of machine learning-driven service that can identify tech talent early, get them in the door at startups, and eventually lead them to a potential hire for a problem they’re interested in.

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.

Tournkey

Seed Round in 2017
Tournkey is an innovative event enhancement tool built and designed to simplify the life of event organizers around the world. Today’s event organizer works hard to ensure they deliver a perfect event for all of their participants. By joining a range of services from competing products, we have streamlined the event landscape into one easy to use tool. Our team’s sole purpose is to reduce the time these individuals require to execute great events by improving the participant’s experience and turning hours into clicks.

Knockri Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Knockri Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based video soft skill assessment tool that reduces hiring bias and eliminates unsuccessful interviews. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Toronto, 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.

NERv Technology Inc.

Grant in 2017
NERv Technology Inc. develops an implantable biochip with biosensors to detect post-operative complications, such as internal bleeding, leakage of bodily fluids, and infection within the abdominal cavity. The biosensor collects data and identifies the complications as it develops and informs both patient and physician in real-time. It also detects changes in the levels of biomarker. The company serves physicians, surgeons, hospitals, and patients. NERv Technology Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.
Clear Blue Technologies, the Smart Off-Grid company, combines green energy with the proven advantages of communications and cloud technology to power and control off-grid lighting, security and mobile solutions. We are ushering in a new age of off-grid systems, that deliver the reliability of grid connected systems but are environmentally friendly, less costly, and can be monitored and controlled over the Internet.

Meet Auto Inc.

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.

Neutun Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Neutun Labs Inc. provides tracking software for epileptics through smartwatches and wearables. It offers a tracking tool for continuous passive tracking, medication reminders, notification, and recording progress services. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Toronto, 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.

Law Scout

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Law Scout is an online platform that connects small businesses to lawyers at the upfront and fixed fees. It’s an online service that makes it faster and easier for businesses to find and hire lawyers. They are not a law firm, and they do not provide legal services, legal advice or lawyer referral services. They do not provide or participate in any legal representation. Law Scout was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Syngli

Grant in 2020
Syngli Inc. (formerly known as NeuRecall Inc.) is an educational technology start-up, with offices in Kitchener-Waterloo (Canada) and Berkeley (US). We are developing an online platform for increasing teaching and learning efficiency, with applications ranging from language learning to standardized test preparation within medicine and other professions. Our system includes software inspired by cognitive neuroscience and machine learning, and a uniquely-structured knowledge base grown online by users. The platform tracks each learner’s level of understanding, and uses such data to extract relevant information from the knowledge base and then generate novel questions.

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.

Validere

Seed Round in 2015
Validere Technologies Inc. develops portable devices that provide critical information about a liquid for large markets and industries. The company offers Validere Identifier, a portable device that checks liquids against its library and verifies if the liquid is hazardous; and EDGE Connect that enables buyers and sellers to securely connect with counterparties outside of their network and discover arbitrage opportunities. It offers its products for liquid fingerprinting, industrial process monitoring, and consumer product applications. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

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.

Kepler Communications Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Kepler Communications Inc. designs, develops, and operates satellites and infrastructure for space-based connectivity that connects space stations, habitats, machines, and devices with satellites on orbit. The company provides Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), a satellites that spin around the earth and deliver coverage to the planet; PolarConnect, a communication solution that enables organizations operating at the earth’s extremes to connect and share information with other regions of the globe; Global Data Service, a high bandwidth solution for transferring large data files between remote sites and the internet; and everywhereIOT, a solution that provides cellular quality and standardized connection for Internet of Things (IoT) devices through a globally available satellite services. It serves maritime, natural resources, research and exploration, defense, and shipping and logistics industries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Derek Lim Soo

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 Inc.

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 Ideas Inc.

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 Inc.

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.
Chalk is a planning and analytics platform that enables K-12 schools and districts to develop a cohesive, standards-aligned map for curriculum and instruction. From small, independent schools to large, national school networks, Chalk is behind the academic strategies influencing millions of students.

Legalswipe

Seed Round in 2016
Legalswipe informs people of their rights during interactions with police. The company's mobile application informs people of their legal rights through easily accessible and easily understandable information. Legalswipe adds further information and develops into additional areas of the law.

Payso

Grant in 2015
Finn AI provides AI-powered conversational banking technology for personal banking and finance. It puts a personal banker in every bank customer’s pocket, helping them to manage their money wherever they are, whatever they need via a simple, natural conversation. The Finn AI team of data scientists, engineers, and financial industry experts helps banks and credit unions transform customer engagement and increase financial literacy while delivering the convenience and savings of a digital-first experience. It has public deployments in three languages with a growing global customer base that includes ATB Financial, Bank of Montreal (BMO), Banpro Grupo Promerica, and Commonwealth Bank. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

My Good Green

Seed Round in 2016
The passion behind Good Green Earth is to create ‘My Good Green’ products, which help make positive and sustainable changes to the earth. Through research and innovation we strive to make natural and organic composting and fertilizer products, that are free from toxins and pesticides.

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.

gShift

Seed Round in 2010
gShift is an enterprise SEO, Web presence analytics and content performance platform designed to help agency and brand marketers optimize, monitor and report on the performance of their multi-channel owned, earned and paid campaigns from search through to conversion. gShift’s software infrastructure has been collecting and storing web presence data since 2009. More than 10,000 brands in 24 countries benefit from gShift’s insight data and software, as they optimize their time to improve the discoverability and the sharing of their content. gShift placed 29th on the PROFIT HOT 50.

IDENTOS Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Identos delivers the most secure frameworks for data connectivity on mobile devices. The Identos encryption platform operates just like the payment networks you trust while accessing your own bank account. Our solution is built on advanced mobile payments technology and implements industry standards for security and encryption. Our Innovative and low cost hardware solutions can make any mobile device a secure and industry compliant point of sale system

Lending Loop

Angel Round in 2016
Lending Loop is Canada's first peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Our core focus is providing businesses with accessible capital at fair interest rates through a simple online process. We do this by cutting out the costly intermediaries, such as banks, allowing Canadian businesses and lenders to prosper together. Lending Loop gives all Canadians access to simple and attractive returns by supporting the growth of local Canadian businesses.

OtoSim Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
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

MedView Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
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.

Roadmunk

Seed Round in 2014
Roadmunk is a web-based product roadmap visualization planning tool for product managers and stakeholders. It enables its users to manage an entire product portfolio across multiple teams with a range of comprehensive sharing features, master roadmapping, and a two-way data integration with Jira. Roadmunk supports various formats, including PDF, PowerPoint, URL, HTML, and PNG. It was launched in 2012 by Latif Nanji and Tomas Benda. Roadmunk is operated from Toronto, Ontario.

APX

Grant in 2017
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.

Digital Diatom Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Digital Diatom Inc., a media design company, develops science based video games. It offers Emergence, which uses process of evolution using realistic genetic elements that capture how genes drive the diversity of life, enabling clients to get the real life gaming experience. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Hamilton, Canada.

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.

Encycle Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2014
Encycle Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that exploits a platform technology that enables the rapid synthesis of drug-like macrocycles or membrane-permeable nacellins. The company is based in Toronto, Canada. As of October 31, 2019, Encycle Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Zealand Pharma A/S.

Welbi

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Welbi Technologies Inc. designs and develops a platform, which offers customized recreational programs. The software analyzes the data related to the resident and provides recreation programs according to them. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Geminare Incorporated

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 Inc.

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 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 SYSTEMS Inc.

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)

Blockthrough

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Blockthrough helps publishers recover the revenue they lose to adblocking without pissing users off. We believe publishers have the right to monetize the content they produce, and their users deserve an outstanding experience.

Finaeo Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
FINAEO Inc. develops applications that act as a digital assistant and sales coach for financial advisors. Its applications allow users to share documents, track tasks, answer questions, and book meetings. The company serves iOS and Android users. FINAEO Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

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.

Smartto media

Seed Round in 2015
Smartto Mirrors is a new digital signage system that presents viewers with video advertisements while collecting analytical data. When a customer approaches a Smartto Mirror, hidden sensors are activated, which enable digital video promotions to float on the glass. Information such as number of views and duration of each view per advertisement is collected and analyzed. Smartto Media’s website enables companies to provide real-time uploading of content, performance data retrieval, and troubleshooting remotely from its own office. Smartto Mirrors connect with an online dashboard that clients can use to retrieve live feedback and also create/modify ad campaigns.

SkyWatch

Seed Round in 2015
SkyWatch provides a digital infrastructure for the distribution of Earth observation data and derived intelligence. It provides developers with the tools they need to cost-effectively add Earth observation data into their applications and workflows. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario.

QReserve Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
QReserve helps organizations understand, manage, promote and share resources, expertise and facilities through our powerful web platform, professional cataloguing services, and analytics tools. We provide unprecedented quantifiable data on utilization rates, associated revenues, capacity, and performance. QReserve helps thousands of users discover, access and purchase time on over ten thousand resources every day with notable institution level clients that include SickKids, UBC Okanagan and McMaster University.

Sciventions Inc.

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.

Argentum Electronics

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Argentum Electronics, Inc. designs and manufactures S.P.E.C (Smart Power over Ethernet Controller), electrical connectors that delivers power based on Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technologies and smart power management solutions. The Smart Power over Ethernet controller (S.P.E.C) line features a cloud-managed smart PoE splitter and cloud-managed PoE power combiner for high power PoE delivery. The products are designed for commercial and industrial applications, including LED lighting and fan speed control. It caters to building owners, architects, building engineers, and construction firms. Argentum Electronics, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Toronto, 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.

Site2Site

Seed Round in 2015
Site2Site was created and guided by experienced members of the construction industry to solve day-to-day problems within the industry through technology.

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.

Pathcore

Grant in 2017
Pathcore is dedicated to developing highly functional digital pathology solutions that enable digital workflows

MedStack

Seed Round in 2019
For developers of healthcare applications in startups, enterprises and agencies, MedStack provides industry-specific data APIs and automated cloud hosting designed to achieve privacy compliance, healthcare security and data interoperability with Electronic Health Record systems out of the box. Built from the ground-up on proven high security standards and for flexibility across a wide range of application, database and deployment stacks, MedStack is the most secure, flexible and capable healthcare app hosting platform in the industry, now powering a wide range of applications from chronic disease management, healthcare workflow, monitoring and billing, leveraging AI, mobile, blockchain and VR/AR.

GaitTronics

Grant in 2015
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.

SSIMWave Inc.

Grant 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.

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.

My Lil' HealthBot

Seed Round in 2018
My Lil' HealthBot retails health and personal care products through touchscreen vending machines. The company’s HealthBot uses artificial intelligence (AI) to curate the product selection that is available on demand through smartphone or at a HealthBot. It retails health and personal care products, such as products for cough and cold, repair, stomach; toiletries, hygiene, laundry, grooming, electronics, and household cleaning. It robot retailers are available 24*7 throughout the year. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

RockMass Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
RockMass Technologies is revolutionizing structural mapping by developing a data collection tool made for geologists. The company creates data collection more efficient, accurate and safe for geologists in mining, exploration, civil engineering and education. At RockMass, our goal is to improve geological mapping in the mining, civil engineering, and exploration industries with our revolutionary mapping technologies.

inMotive Inc.

Angel Round in 2012
inMotive Inc. develops and manufactures transmission for electric vehicles. It offers inGear, an automatic transmission for electric motors; industrial systems driven by electric motors; HVAC fans and pumps; and wind turbine gearboxes. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
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.

Sojo

Seed Round in 2016
Sojo develops an online platform, which allows delivering entrepreneurship training and tracking company progress. The company allows sharing content with the use of library of social entrepreneurship training modules; managing projects; and track of each activity. It offers workshops, program & content development, and advisory services. Sojo was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Spectrafy Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Spectrafy Inc. manufactures solar spectral sensors which combine hardware and analytics. The company's products include SolarSIM-D2, which comprises a hardware and software to resolve custom range DNI; and SolarSIM-G, which provides measurement of global spectrum and global radiance. It also develops VirtuSpec software for measuring spectral range. Spectrafy Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Nulogy Corporation

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.
Cinnos is a purpose-driven company, filled with passionate people, dedicated to creating innovative solutions that make our world better. We believe, that the traditional model of building data centers, is limiting and unsustainable, both environmentally and financially. Cinnos addresses this, through combining the best ideas of design, reliability and efficiency into prefabricated, scalable, and operationally optimized modular products & solutions. Economic, societal, and environmental concerns are at the heart of everything we do, from R&D to operations. We are dedicated to continually bringing innovation-driven sustainable practices to the computing infrastructure industry.

Sampler

Seed Round in 2015
At Sampler, we help consumer packaged good brands of all sizes and categories deliver physical samples to digitally targeted consumers. Our turnkey solution helps brands gather consumer feedback and demographic insights that will increase successful trial and in-turn conversion rates. Using Sampler, brands no longer need to hand out samples at random, and can get product into the right hands. We call it Direct to Consumer Product Sampling.

Bark 'n Yapp

Seed Round in 2016
Find | Research | Locate | Review | Share Bark 'n Yapp is a vertical digital marketing solution for the dog industry that brings together dog owners, information and resources to create an engaged community based on trust and peer reviewed contributions, then connects dog retailers directly to this community so they can increase marketing ROI efforts and gain more effective and efficient access to their target market. Bark 'n Yapp is your virtual dog park, a place where dog lovers meet new people, make friendships and most of all, develop their network of advisors for dog related information. We are Dog's Best Friend! Now available in Canada From Vancouver to Ontario

ViaFoura Inc.

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.

Intellijoint Surgical

Debt Financing in 2010
Intellijoint Surgical Inc. provides Intellijoint HIP, a miniaturized system to help orthopedic surgeons in the selection and positioning of orthopedic implants during hip replacement surgery. Intellijoint Surgical Inc. was formerly known as Avenir Medical Inc. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Waterloo, Canada.

Picatic

Seed Round in 2011
Create an event. Sell tickets online. Picatic is free for free and paid events. Share bread, spill wine, learn, laugh and create memories; this is what drives our team to build Picatic. We believe in events. It’s where culture is created, relationships are forged and sometimes new loves are sparked. Events are life, and going to events is living. Here’s the problem. We’ve all heard of “convenience fees” and “service fees”. These fees have become accepted in our culture because we have had no other choice. It’s a problem for everyone, including you. When an organizer puts on an event, they have two options: - Absorb the service fees, which minimizes their profits. - Pass the service fees onto the ticket buyers, resulting in fewer people going to events. This is the problem our team has set out to solve. Picatic is a free online ticketing and event registration platform that empowers organizers to bring people together by removing unnecessary service fees. It’s that simple. This is why we do what we do. This is our passion.

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.

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.

Prelook

Seed Round in 2015
Prelook is a discovery platform that allows users to look inside a company and learn about their people, office space, and culture before applying for the job. From startups to big corporate giants, Prelook curates the world’s smartest companies and give users a sense of what it’s actually like to work at these companies.

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.

Klothed

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Klothed is an online platform that enables users to find, fit, style, and purchase clothes from a virtual shopping mall. Users can take selfies, try on items in a virtual fitting room, give and get style advice, plan and expand their wardrobe, and so on.

OneLocal

Seed Round in 2014
OneLocal, a software and services company, offers marketing tools to help businesses to manage their marketing needs from one platform. Its solutions include ContactHub to build, manage, and monetize customers’ database; FirstImpression that helps to create professional websites; Quickconnect, a business to customer text messaging solution; ReferralMagic to generate referrals through customers’ preferred channels; and ReviewEdge to get online reviews and simplify collecting feedback. The company serves businesses in automotive, health services, home services, real estate, restaurants, retail, salon and spa, and various other sectors. OneLocal is based in Toronto, Canada.

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.

InnovoGENE biosciences

Seed Round in 2017
InnovoGENE Biosciences Inc., a biotechnology company, develops diagnostic sensors targeting pathogenic bacteria. It offers in vitro selection kits, such as Aptamer, a molecular receptor; and ANDzymesTM, a recognition platform that are designed to provide starting reagents for the users to begin their own Aptamer and DNAzyme identification experiments. The company also provides ANDzyme, a synthetic fluorescent probe to detect the presence of their target ligand; and services in the areas of custom Aptamer selection, Aptamer library sequencing, and urease-DNA conjugates. InnovoGENE Biosciences Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Burlington, Canada.

NONA Vegan

Grant in 2018
NONA Vegan produces a line of rich and creamy vegan sauces. The sauces are gluten-free and dairy-free with soy-free options and are ideal for those looking for a healthier alternative to familiar comfort foods.

Atomic Works

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

TruReach Health

Seed Round in 2016
TruReach develops apps that provide users with easy-to-use cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) lessons and tools.

Zepeel

Seed Round in 2016
Think of the possibilities – you can see facial expressions, hear the person’s voice and speak one on one before you meet up. That means more quality dates and a way better chance of finding a good relationship. Best of all, Zepeel is super easy to use – just check out the video profiles of members that you like. If you get a good vibe and want to learn more, you can connect with your potential match by using the ‘plus’ button. If they ‘plus’ you back, then voila’ – you’ve made a connection! You can then speak with them further through texting, your favorite photos, personal video messages and live chat. All in a safe, clean environment that’s plenty of fun. Cool huh? We think so – and so do our awesome members!

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).

Little Robot Friends Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Little Robot Friends Inc. designs and creates connected toys and apps for introducing code and electronics to kids. The company's products include Little Robot Friends App, LRF Blocks, and LRF for Arduino. The Little Robot Friends app introduces coding concepts and allows for customization of built robots. LRF Blocks enable exploration of loops, conditionals, inputs, outputs, and more. Furthermore, LRF for Arduino allows users to write codes and do programming on robots. In addition, the company offers guides for activities and customizations to be done with the robot. It also conducts workshops for imparting learning to kids. Little Robot Friends Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Enceladus Imaging

Seed Round in 2014
Enceladus Imaging Inc. develops optic solutions for industrial automation of machines. Its products includes arc eye in action, is a weld camera that can help monitor welds from a safe distance, exposing the arc details in a manner that allows an operator to assess the quality of the weld in real-time; and laser eye camera, its laser seam tracker uses a non-contact method to obtain measurements of surface profiles and detects joints between metal parts prior to the welding process and measures gaps between the parts. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Loom Analytics Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Loom Analytics Inc. provides analytics-as-a-service platform for legal research. The company’s products include Court Analytics, which provides counsel analytics, which provides research litigation tactics of opposing counsel; judge analytics, which finds everything about the judge; and party analytics, which provides information about the client. The platform allows users to run searches on the Loom platform to find case law that fits the criteria. Loom Analytics Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Limelight Platform Inc.

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 Inc.

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.
Sound Options Tinnitus Treatments Inc. designs and develops a health care software, which offers individually tailored sound therapy for tinnitus. The software uses a neuroscience research based assessment to provide a customized tinnitus treatment in music. It serves tinnitus patients and hearing healthcare professionals. Sound Options Tinnitus Treatments Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Ancaster, Canada.

FlexCap Energy Ltd.

Grant in 2016
FlexCap Energy Ltd. develops and delivers lightweight energy storage solutions. Its portfolio includes flexible thin-film supercapacitors and alkaline battery solutions. It focuses on providing continuous power in enabling products ranging from wearables to embedded smart textiles. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

NERv Technology Inc.

Grant in 2017
NERv Technology Inc. develops an implantable biochip with biosensors to detect post-operative complications, such as internal bleeding, leakage of bodily fluids, and infection within the abdominal cavity. The biosensor collects data and identifies the complications as it develops and informs both patient and physician in real-time. It also detects changes in the levels of biomarker. The company serves physicians, surgeons, hospitals, and patients. NERv Technology Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.

Health Yourself Guide Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Health Yourself Guide creates video “infotainment” for patient health conditions while harvesting an email database for health-care providers to use for outreach campaigns. It's aim is to take our discovery channel television expertise and create entertaining content around health-care messaging so that patients are inspired to learn about their condition.

Factory Bucket Inc.

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.

OneSet Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
OneSet Inc. operates as a fitness video community where users can share workout ideas through 15 second videos. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Cambridge, Canada.

Heliolytics

Seed Round in 2015
Heliolytics Inc. offers aerial inspection, analytics, and consulting services for solar PV systems. The company offers regular preventative maintenance scans, reactive troubleshooting scans, commissioning or asset transfer service, portfolio analysis and reporting, and advanced analytics. The company offers their services to system owners, EPC contractors, insurance providers, and independent engineers. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

AceAge

Seed Round in 2016
AceAge is a healthcare technology company, creating intuitive products to ease the aging process and improve health outcomes. AceAge is the company behind the next innovation in healthcare technology. Its upcoming product is a home health appliance designed to help people take their medication properly. Karie is a personal health companion that organizes, schedules, and dispenses pills with easy one-button control. The CEO of AceAge, Spencer Waugh, created Karie to increase the health and safety of medical patients, and as a way to minimize the negative consequences of missed medications or general failure to adhere to medication directions. The success of medicine is dependent on the patient’s compliance with the medical directions that accompany it, making it an integral part of healthcare. The total direct and indirect costs of nonadherence in the US annually is $290 billion. By making daily medicine routines completely automated, Karie removes the chance of human error. Karie uses common multi-dose pouch packaging that can be pre-set by pharmacists. Doses are scheduled, delivered and monitored for the user. Karie is easy to use, enables greater patient autonomy and ensures better healthcare through a highly coordinated program.

GaN Systems Inc.

Grant in 2011
GaN Systems Inc., a semiconductor company, develops and manufactures a range of gallium nitride power switching transistors. The company offers 650 V E-HEMT and 100 V E-HEMT transistors and wireless power amplifiers. Its products are used in consumer, enterprise, industrial, solar/wind/smart grid, and transportation power conversion applications. The company serves consumer brand and enterprise equipment manufacturers in Japan, Taiwan, China, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Ottawa, Canada with additional offices in Aichi-ken, Japan; Shanghai, China; and München, Germany.

Hockeystick.co Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Smart companies understand that investors want to know what's going on in your business. It's a key part of the venture investing model and the best investors are expecting more data and more discipline around sharing it. But it's not all about them. You benefit when your investors (and advisors) are better informed. It lets them jump in and help, whether it's opening that door or leading the next financing round.

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.

Betterfrost Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
Betterfrost Technologies Inc. develops energy-saving refrigeration and ice-management systems for refrigeration, automotive, and ice makers, gas vaporizers, solar panels, and industrial power lines. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, 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.

IAmI Authentications, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
IAmI Authentications, Inc. provides cybersecurity services. Its services include enterprise security, which provides real time prevention by preventing unauthorized access to the network; securing mainframes; customer authentication; and fraud prevention. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Toronto, Canada with an additional office in Markham, Canada.

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!

Algocian Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Algocian Inc. develops image recognition video analytics software that allows any camera, digital or analog, to have real-time person detection for security and automotive applications. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

FarmLead Resources Ltd.

Seed Round in 2015
FarmLead Resources Ltd. operates a digital marketplace that allows buyers and sellers to list, negotiate, and finalize grain deals. The company offers GrainTests.com, an online service that allows grain farmers to test their grain. It serves farms in North America. Its marketplace is available online and as a mobile application. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Ottawa, Canada. It has operations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.
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.

Ecopia Tech Corporation

Seed Round in 2014
Ecopia.AI is an artificial intelligence company specializing in extracting insight from geospatial big data. The company's intelligent systems leverage groundbreaking advancements in machine learning to convert high-resolution imagery of earth into HD Vector Maps. It provides actionable insights for observing, analyzing, and monitoring business processes including asset management, risk assessment, and disaster response for organizations. The Toronto, Ontario headquartered company was established in 2013.

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!

Distributed ID

Seed Round in 2017
Distributed ID Inc. develops a platform that provides data governance infrastructure for data matching, mapping, and auditing. The company caters to the financial services sector. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Gymtrack Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Gymtrack Inc. develops and provides exercise planning and virtual coaching software and devices that help individuals track their workouts. Its technology allows gyms and fitness centers to create relationships with their clients, while users get insight into their progress and health. The company also offers a bracelet that connects with user’s smartphone to track tempo and form while they work out. It serves customers in Canada and internationally. Gymtrack Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

2Keys Corporation

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 Inc.

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.

Akira

Seed Round in 2015
The way Canadians interact with their doctors hasn't changed for 100 years. And yet, technology has made so many other aspects of their lives better. Akira was founded in 2015 with a radical idea: that healthcare should work the way you do. On your schedule, wherever you are and with complete transparency, because your health data belongs to you. Their doctors, engineers, data scientists and designers are working together to build the future of healthcare right here in Canada.

Loopio Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Loopio’s RFP response software streamlines the way enterprises respond to RFPs, RFIs, and Security Questionnaires. Our platform makes sales content accessible and enables collaboration across the organization. Since 2014, Loopio has empowered hundreds of world-leading organizations, including Thomson Reuters, IBM, Netskope, Sprinklr, and Citrix. Learn more at www.loopio.com

Swiggle Inc

Seed Round in 2019
When prices drop after you make a purchase, Swiggle works to get you your money back. Most retailers and many credit cards have a price drop guarantee but, until now, it’s been up to shoppers to check for lower prices and file price adjustment claims. Swiggle saves users time and money with it's 'set and forget' technology by automatically getting users price adjustment refunds when prices drop. After shoppers make their online purchase, Swiggle constantly searches for lower prices at over 100 retailers across North America. When it finds a price drop, Swiggle automatically works with retailers to refund shoppers the price difference.

Pond Technologies

Grant in 2019
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.

Alaunus

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2011, Alaunus provides mobile IT solutions for the ever-changing Canadian healthcare landscape. By working with practitioners and case managers directly, they have learned much about what needs improvement in the healthcare industry. As a technology provider, they’re excited to enter an age where outdated, inefficient processes no longer have to be a reality. Their mission is to provide the best possible tools for success to healthcare organizations of all sizes and specialities.

SafeSump

Seed Round in 2016
Developer of a control system designed to provide security to inflow of power. The company's control system automatically adjusts to incoming flow and its backup battery keeps the system running, even during power failures, enabling homeowners to recognize emergency situations.

FillSpaces

Seed Round in 2016
FillSpaces.com is your space marketplace to discover, list and book unique spaces for events, music and pop-up retail. Whether you are looking for new spaces or looking to list your own, they try to make the process as seamless and smooth as possible. They know from experience that booking space and renting it out is often a frustrating process, causing lots of paperwork and stress. They want to save you the stress so you can get back to doing the awesome things you do.

FireRein Inc.

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.

SmoothPay

Seed Round in 2014
SmoothPay is a mobile payment, loyalty and engagement company delivering valuable offers and rewards to consumers through the SmoothPay app and "Powered by SmoothPay" apps.

FPrimeC Solutions

Seed Round in 2018
FPrimeC Solutions Inc. engage sin the research, development, and manufacture ng of device that are used to provide testing solutions for the infrastructure industry. Its products include i.Pile, a wireless instrument that is used for the evaluation of consistency of piles and deep foundations and allows engineers and field technicians to detect defects, such as major cracks, necking, and soil inclusions or voids in slender piles. Its services include bridge inspection and monitoring, corrosion monitoring, foundation and pile testing, concrete imaging and scanning, structural engineering, durability assessment, concrete tanks testing, parking garages condition inspection, and trunk sewer inspection. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Oshawa, Canada.

Acumyn

Grant in 2015
AQUA is a web-based QA management software that delivers a streamlined QA workflow to reduce the resources needed for QA protocols in the radiotherapy department. Through automation and standardization, AQUA provides opportunity to run tests effortlessly ensuring 100% confidence in the machine. With out-of-the-box test protocols for TG142 and flexible test scripting, AQUA is ready for any clinic’s specific needs.

Hive.co

Seed Round in 2014
Hive is a marketing analytics platform built for the entertainment industry. Hive aggregates billions of data points on all of the music fans in the world and generates insights into who the most valuable fans are and how the artists they work with can monetize those people. Artists and their team use Hive to analyze their online audience and draw insights that help them execute more effective marketing and advertising campaigns.

NanoQuan Inc.

Grant in 2016
NanoQuan Inc. develops nano-composite materials and processing technologies for electronic devices, automotive components, aerospace components, and other industries. The company is based in Kitchener, Canada.

KidsWifi

Seed Round in 2017
KidsWifi is an elegant wall-plug device that creates a new Wi-Fi network just for your kids. Adult content and ads are filtered. Parents' can set time limits and bedtimes from their phone. Give your kids the best of the Internet without worry!

Stromcore Energy Inc.

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.

iamsick.ca

Seed Round in 2015
iamsick.ca offers digital health platform that empowers patients & healthcare providers. iamsick.ca maintains Canada's most comprehensive registry of patient-centered information about healthcare facilities & providers to improve coordination of care. Patients can find healthcare services, book appointments online through the iamsick.ca EMR-integrated ebooking solution, check wait-times, and be notified of appointment information. Canadians can access the iamsick.ca platform through multiple websites, mobile apps, and partner apps (including major consumer brands). In addition to empowering patients and healthcare professionals, iamsick.ca also provides a back-end analytics solution to assist with regional healthcare resource management, care coordination, patient routing, and healthcare system planning.

AXIS Labs

Seed Round in 2017
AXIS has the vision to make any 'existing thing' smart - starting first with window shades. The company's first product, Gear, motorizes and automates existing window shades in minutes. Named as the 2017 Motorized Product of the Year by the Consumer Technology Association, Gear is compatible with a variety of window shades and allows you to control and schedule your shades from the comfort of your phone. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in New York City, USA, and Shenzhen, China, AXIS is on a mission to transform the window shade industry with smart and simple technology.
Epineuron is a bioelectronic medicine company bringing a new standard of care for peripheral nerve repair and regeneration. The company is developing a suite of surgical solutions for repairing and treating peripheral nerve injuries with the mission of becoming the world leader in bioelectronic nerve care, starting with its neuroregenerative therapy.

Kapplex Inc.

Grant in 2013
Kapplex Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets point-of-care diagnostic platforms suitable for use in retail clinics, doctor’s offices, urgent care units, and ERs. The company specializes in the diagnosis of common infectious diseases. It delivers instruments and consumables for diagnostic markets. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

TechBoomers

Seed Round in 2016
Techboomers Media Inc. operates TechBoomers.com, an educational website that teaches older adults and other inexperienced Internet users with basic computer skills about websites. It introduces users to new websites and Internet-based applications; provides video and article tutorials; and keeps its users informed of news and information about their favorite products via on-site alerts and periodic email newsletters. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Saint Catharines, Canada.

Acumyn

Seed Round in 2018
AQUA is a web-based QA management software that delivers a streamlined QA workflow to reduce the resources needed for QA protocols in the radiotherapy department. Through automation and standardization, AQUA provides opportunity to run tests effortlessly ensuring 100% confidence in the machine. With out-of-the-box test protocols for TG142 and flexible test scripting, AQUA is ready for any clinic’s specific needs.

tossdown Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Platform as a service for global restaurant and catering industry.

BRIKA

Seed Round in 2015
BRIKA offers a curated assortment of beautiful and unique crafted products from the most talented, authentic artisans and designers. At BRIKA, we believe it is about more than just the products we sell. We tell the stories of the talented and inspiring artisans and makers we partner with. Our vision is to inspire individuals everywhere to discover the beauty of a “well-crafted life” through these stories.

Beyond Media Digital Inc

Seed Round in 2017
Beyond Media is a digital agency based in Toronto. We serve organizations in education, recreation, travel and tourism to research, design, and launch innovative experiences that connect them with their audiences online.

Brizi Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Brizi Inc. develops remote-control augmented reality camera systems to automate and monetize fan content. It serves real-time sharing, social sharing, brand messaging, and end to end control applications. The company serves indoor and outdoor venues, including stadiums, arenas, racetracks, and auditoriums, as well as sports organizations globally. Brizi Inc. has a strategic alliance with Canon U.S.A., Inc. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Vive Crop Protection, Inc. develops and markets crop protection products, such as fungicide, insecticide, and nematicide. Vive Crop Protection Inc. was formerly known as Vive Nano, Inc. and changed its name to Vive Crop Protection Inc. in November 2011. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Mississauga, Canada. It also has operations in Boston, Massachusetts and Calgary, Canada.

TrendMD Inc.

Grant in 2014
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.
Vital Biomedical Technologies explores, designs, and develops MRI-compatible phantom motion stages and MRI compatible surgical robots. Currently, their prime research focus is on developing MRI-compatible mechatronics devices without compromising image quality, safety, or system performance. Their technology allows consumers to build custom-designed manipulators for use within the MRI bore or for other applications requiring real-time control.

Vitameter

Seed Round in 2017
Vitameter is a personal health tracker.

IPPINKA

Seed Round in 2014
IPPINKA is about design, quality and sustainability of the products we use everyday. We discover the world for the most distinctive products and offer a highly curated selection to people who truly appreciate design.

Humi Holdings Corp.

Seed Round in 2016
Humi Holdings Corp. designs and develops human resource software for businesses in Canada. It offers Humi, a cloud-based HR software solution that allows users to digitally sign new-hires, store employee documents in the cloud, and browse employees with org-chart or universal search; set up time off policies, approve (or deny) employee requests for time off, and view planned leave time on one calendar; and conduct 360 degree surveys, intimate one on one reviews, and drive employee growth and development with goal setting. The company’s solution also offers Payroll Digest that ensures payroll-relevant changes in Humi that get reflected in the external payroll system. Humi Holdings Corp. was formerly known as Humi Inc. Humi Holdings Corp. was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Eve Medical

Seed Round in 2013
Eve Medical Inc., a medical device company, designs and manufactures medical products for healthcare needs of women. It offers HerSwab that enables women to take control of their own sexual health through self-sampling for sexually transmitted infections screening that have an impact on the reproductive well-being conditions, including cervical cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, and infertility. Eve Medical Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Pics Alive

Seed Round in 2016
Pics Alive is a one-stop design and décor solutions for home & office. Drawing on years of advertising and design experience, this new concept boutique transforms spaces by using custom murals, canvas prints, acrylic face mounts and metal prints. We have started an initiative to create a fully sustainable print cycle to deliver final products that are safe for consumers, and include no PVC and hazardous material. Our processes are designed to minimize waste and move from conventional unsafe processes.

PawCharge

Seed Round in 2016
PawCharge provides an end-to-end mobile learning solution to universities that will help them enhance the student experience and connect with them off-campus. Students can borrow a 4G-enabled hotspot for up to 48 hours, allowing them to connect their devices to the internet — maximizing learning while travelling and allowing access to online resources.

H2Sorber

Grant in 2015
H2Sorber is a green chemical products company whose primary offering is a safe, efficient and environmentally friendly sulfur scavenger treatment of the highly toxic and corrosive gas H2S. H2Sorber is a green product that can quickly and easily remove H2S. The product has applications in oil and gas, water treatment, agriculture, and odour control. H2Sorber can be misted in the air, added to ponds, and injected into hydrocarbons. H2Sorber can also be applied without personal protective equipment (PPE).

Braze Mobility Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
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.

Good Food For Good Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Good Food For Good Inc. manufactures gluten, soy, corn, refined sugars, and preservatives free ingredients. It offers BBQ sauces, ketchups, cooking sauces, and turmeric teas. It offers products through a network of stores, as well as online. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Markham, Canada.

Distil Interactive

Seed Round in 2006
Distil Interactive, Ltd. develops and creates automated teaching and testing solutions that enhance personnel skills training and assessment. It provides digital games based learning platform that enables certification and training bodies to consistently and accurately teach and assess skills and behavior. Distil Interactive, Ltd. was formerly known as I Squared Learning. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Argentum Electronics

Grant in 2016
Argentum Electronics, Inc. designs and manufactures S.P.E.C (Smart Power over Ethernet Controller), electrical connectors that delivers power based on Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technologies and smart power management solutions. The Smart Power over Ethernet controller (S.P.E.C) line features a cloud-managed smart PoE splitter and cloud-managed PoE power combiner for high power PoE delivery. The products are designed for commercial and industrial applications, including LED lighting and fan speed control. It caters to building owners, architects, building engineers, and construction firms. Argentum Electronics, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Prosperitas Medical Solutions Inc. develops a billing platform for clinical practices and healthcare institutions in Canada. Its services include consulting, practice management, remittance and payment outsourcing, and support and training services. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

JamCam, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
It's happened to all of us: You're listening to a song on your iPhone, and the music just seems to match the moment perfectly. You open up your video app of choice, but annoyingly the music stops! JamCam not only keeps the music playing during video recording, but records the raw music file playing from your iPhone music app, in sync with the video! There's no other app like it. JamCam is about capturing and sharing the musical moments in your life - all in one step.

Petal Incorporated

Seed Round in 2016
Petal Incorporated is a small start-up company from Toronto, looking to make a big impact in the consumer appliance market. Founded by two aerospace engineers, the company remains nimble with minimal overhead and an eye towards a lean operating structure and supply chain. Leveraging their small size, agility, and expertise in design, manufacturing, and electronics, Petal Inc. offers new and innovative products that create a positive impact for customers and the environment.

Halion Displays

Convertible Note in 2017
Halion Displays building the display technology that Low power, daylight-visible displays enabling the next generation of devices. The next global standard in display technologies. Just like print — if print could play video. Their technology is based on the idea of ink on paper. It uses advanced cyan, magenta and yellow materials, just like the inks your printer uses, only our inks can switch rapidly between colours, offering unparalleled refresh rate.

Charity Republic

Grant in 2017
Charity Republic Inc. provides an online forum/place for volunteers to share their experiences with a charity or nonprofit. The company allows people who are searching for volunteer opportunities to read volunteer reviews of charities and nonprofits. It also provides reports for charities and nonprofits to summarize the experiences of their volunteers, as well as to post and share volunteer opportunities; and a volunteer application for students to track volunteer hours and more. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.

InstaMedic

Seed Round in 2017
InstaMedic is a social network of global medical professionals to collaborate, share and get feedback on any medical conditions and cases in the fastest possible way.

Shapetrace

Seed Round in 2015
Shapetrace develops a cloud-based workflow for construction site teams. We prevent errors from becoming fiascos by using mobile devices to compare what was designed with what was built. The longer that construction errors go unaddressed, the more expensive they are to fix, compounding into major delays, cost-overruns, and penalties. Shapetrace allows anyone to detect errors quickly using 3D sensing and change detection technology.

Sojourn Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Sojourn Labs is creating vehicles by combining the safety and comfort of a car with the environmental and cost benefits of a bicycle.

Qoints Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Qoints is a collaborative repository for digital marketing data; it allows marketers to monitor the success of their campaigns against their competition in real time and gain actionable intelligence from the data they collect. The insights and predictions Qoints generates are used by brand marketers (and their agencies) to justify tactical decisions before, during and after a campaign and get maximum ROI from a marketing budget. Using a democratized approach to performance benchmarking and data warehousing, Qoints delivers a simple, data-driven solution that provides digital marketers with the competitive intelligence they need to create the most effective promotions for their target audiences.

Kneebone

Venture Round in 2010
Kneebone Inc. develops a Cross Marketing Performance Technology that connects all Marketing Investments with Business Performance. Kneebone 3.0 is the only Cross Marketing Software Platform built for marketers that integrates all marketing investment and performance information in real time. Kneebone handles all types of marketing data and automates the process of delivering the information to marketers with little or no impact on IT. Kneebone 3.0 is the only platform that can automatically generate marketing performance baselines (using our patented technology) allowing marketers to do real-time analysis and create forward-looking marketing plans (scenarios). Marketers have access to a suite of Software as a Service products (SaaS) that are designed to provide marketers with an easy way to analyze, visualize, dashboard, and plan their marketing performance with built in team collaboration tools.

C2C Link

Venture Round in 2010
C2C Link Corporation engages in designing and manufacturing nonlinear optical chips for wavelength conversion. The company offers periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) based chips, including green light and blue light generation PPLN chips. Its products are used in various applications, such as laser displays, bio-medical instrumentation, sensing, and telecommunications, as well as high pump power applications. The company serves diode pumped solid state laser and telecom equipment manufacturers. C2C Link Corporation is based in Hamilton, Canada.

Neurescence Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Neurescence Inc. develops assessment tools for brain diseases and developing effective therapeutics. The company offers two types of GRIN lenses for imaging different areas of the central nervous system. Its thin, cylindrical, graded-refractive-index lenses (grin) get implanted along with focus adjustable fiber-lens connector in any region of the brain and spinal cord; and allows imaging fiber bundle to connect to the implanted GRIN lens to transmit the fluorescence signal from neurons to the CMOS sensor. It also offers Quartet, a miniature fluorescence microscope and data collection software package optimized for neuronal calcium imaging. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Encycle Corporation

Venture Round in 2010
REGEN Energy Inc. designs, develops, and markets wireless energy management solutions in Canada and the United States. The company’s products include EnviroGrid swarm-logic controllers, which are attached to electrical loads to communicate and coordinate with each other to reduce electrical demand for commercial, industrial, institutional, and multi-unit residential facilities. Its products are used to control electrical demand for heaters, fans, compressors, chillers, cold storage systems, batter chargers, pumps, and dehumidifiers and humidifiers, as well as for new construction, retrofit, and ongoing building operations.
Mednovation Health Technologies Limited's goal is to utilize machine learning/artificial intelligence to improve the quality of care that patients receive. Our current focus includes using AI to improve diagnostic accuracy for a variety of common medical conditions.

Desk Nibbles

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Hoppier offers a worry-free office snacking solution with a goal of creating happier and more productive workplaces. Ordering snacks, supplies, and more for an office of 20+ people can be incredibly time-consuming; it's not easy to know what everyone needs, and it can be difficult to stay within budget. Using technology Hoppier creates a simple platform that makes it easy for organizations to manage to purchase for the office. Over 500 offices across the US and Canada have used Hoppier ordering for over 10,000+ employees. Some of the largest and fastest growing companies in the world use Hoppier such as Uber, Concordia University, TripAdvisor, Wealthsimple, CIBC, and Canvas Pop.

MoveSnap Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
MoveSnap designs and develops a software, which streamlines the relocation process. The company enables its users to change addresses, transfer home services, update identification, and get advice on relocating. It also offers the application software on white labeling and co-branding basis to its clients. The company serves real estate agents and brokers. MoveSnap Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Dozr

Seed Round in 2016
Dozr is a contractor to contractor equipment rental marketplace that is disrupting the construction industry by changing the way contractors manage their equipment. Using Dozr's online marketplace contractors can earn income with their high quality but underutilized equipment by listing their idle equipment for rent, sale, or rent with operator to other contractors within their trusted network. Contractors get significant savings by renting the equipment they need through Dozr.

StakUp

Seed Round in 2015
StakUp Inc. develops software for the trucking industry. The software can be used for performance benchmarking, decision making, forecasting and goal setting, manage projects, and data aggregation. StakUp Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in London, Canada. As of June 3, 2019, StakUp Inc. operates as a subsidiary of FreightWaves.

Syngli

Grant in 2015
Syngli Inc. (formerly known as NeuRecall Inc.) is an educational technology start-up, with offices in Kitchener-Waterloo (Canada) and Berkeley (US). We are developing an online platform for increasing teaching and learning efficiency, with applications ranging from language learning to standardized test preparation within medicine and other professions. Our system includes software inspired by cognitive neuroscience and machine learning, and a uniquely-structured knowledge base grown online by users. The platform tracks each learner’s level of understanding, and uses such data to extract relevant information from the knowledge base and then generate novel questions.

TAKU

Pre Seed Round in 2019
TAKU is the only retail platform that allows multi-location merchants to sell offline and online seamlessly with a single view of data across their entire business.

JobBliss

Seed Round in 2016
JobBliss is a platform dedicated to building a flexible workforce for the future. We help Employers manage their freelancer resources more efficiently – and allow Employers to tap into the best network of top freelance talent.

True Phantom

Seed Round in 2014
True Phantom Solutions offers technology to fabricate material with realistic physical & mechanical properties of human tissues & bones.

Hybrid Power Solutions

Seed Round in 2017
Hybrid Power Solutions has focused on not only building a great product, but has designed a “building block” style design process.

WeTraq

Seed Round in 2018
Wetraq is a Global Tracking Device that will help people keep track of their loved ones and valued possessions. GPS tracking device is currently a $11 Billion market and expected to grow to $55 Billion by 2020. WeTraq is a credit card sized tracker, first in it's class that works using IOT technology along with enhanced GPS. This device controlled by Wetraq Mobile Application allows you to monitor the location of your loved ones & valuable possessions anywhere & anytime across the globe. Wetraq Mobile App comes with an extensive set of features such as Report Scheduling, Geo-Fencing, SOS alerts, Battery saver mode & lot more. Families who have their loved ones affected by Autism or Dementia who wander, Vehicle theft, Fleet management, Lost pets, kids, journalists going to remote areas are some of the varied applications of WeTraq. Some of it's competitive advantages: 1. Global Coverage 2. Extended battery life 3. First tracking device in the market using IoT technology

FreePoint Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
FreePoint was established on the simple notion that every process, in every factory, can and should be monitored and measured. They work with all levels of manufacturing to create smart connections that facilitate detailed data collection and analysis, ensuring that your operational decisions are based on up-to-date and relevant metrics. They strive to help connect you to your machines and with your people.

SilkStart Technology Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
SilkStart Technology Inc. provides association management software by using Software-as-a-Service model that leverages the social networking and membership management technology. It offers SilkStart software that provides membership organizations a solution for membership management, events management, and private social networking. The company’s clients include the Vancouver Board of Trade, the Digital Media and Wireless Association of British Columbia, and the U.S. Asian American Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Pascal Press

Seed Round in 2016
Pascal Press is a travel mug and pressure brewer, all in one.

Optimity Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2015
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.

Salient Energy

Grant in 2017
Salient Energy is commercializing a revolutionary new battery based on research at the University of Waterloo. Their zinc-ion battery is perfectly suited, both technically and economically, for storing electricity in the grid. The company's proprietary cathode materials store energy in zinc in a way that has never been commercialized before – Salient Energy has made unique cathode materials that can actually incorporate zinc in their crystal lattice instead of just reacting on the surface. This allows the batteries to have a relatively high energy density. It also allows the user to use of traditional battery designs that are compatible with standard manufacturing equipment. This means that the cheaper, safer, and the longer-lasting battery can be made in existing battery factories around the world.

WhereiPark

Seed Round in 2015
WhereiPark is a marketplace for monthly parking focused on helping companies and commuters find and secure monthly parking spots.

Aterlo Networks Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Aterlo Networks Inc. provides a solution to extend the content delivery network into household networks. It offers NightShift, a managed service that moves streaming media from peak to off-peak hours and reduces load on the network. The company serves content providers and service providers. Aterlo Networks Inc. is based in Waterloo, Canada.

Zentrela

Seed Round in 2016
Zentrela Inc. develops end-to-end EEG systems to mitigate the risk of accidents caused by cognitive impairment while driving or working. The company’s product Zentrela wellness system, a wearable device that uses AI algorithms to decode human brain activity to prevent accidents. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Hamilton, Canada.

Edusight, Inc.

Grant in 2014
Edusight’s mission is to understand how students learn. Through its analytics and digital portfolio product, Edusight has impacted over 300,000 K-12 students across 40 countries. Edusight received venture capital funding from Imagine K12, the education vertical within Y Combinator.

GoFish Cam, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2015
GoFish Cam sits on a fishing line and works with a mobile app. Anglers can capture action- packed footage, gain insight into the underwater fishing experience, and review and edit awesome video content that can be shared on social media

Vive Crop Protection, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2007
Vive Crop Protection, Inc. develops and markets crop protection products, such as fungicide, insecticide, and nematicide. Vive Crop Protection Inc. was formerly known as Vive Nano, Inc. and changed its name to Vive Crop Protection Inc. in November 2011. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Mississauga, Canada. It also has operations in Boston, Massachusetts and Calgary, Canada.

My Effect

Seed Round in 2015
My Effect makes it fun and easy for people to connect with like-minded organizations, track their community leadership, and celebrate their impact.

Yogasoda

Seed Round in 2015
Yogasoda is a beverage manufacturing company that makes kombucha tea as well as other tea products. The company provides alternative beverages for health conscious consumers. Yogasoda customers are active, holistically inclined individuals who seek kombucha or health beverages. It offers both caffeinated and non-caffeinated low-sugar, low-calorie drinks. The company also provides customers with an alternative source of natural probiotics. Yogasoda is the first kombucha company to offer kombucha made from herbal teas, and they have created kits and an instructional e-book that teaches customers how to safely make this drink in their own homes.

Acumyn

Grant in 2014
AQUA is a web-based QA management software that delivers a streamlined QA workflow to reduce the resources needed for QA protocols in the radiotherapy department. Through automation and standardization, AQUA provides opportunity to run tests effortlessly ensuring 100% confidence in the machine. With out-of-the-box test protocols for TG142 and flexible test scripting, AQUA is ready for any clinic’s specific needs.

Code Connect

Seed Round in 2015
Code Connect is a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio that radically alters the software development experience. Code Connect dynamically visualizes program control flow as the developer types, making software development and and design easier. The dependencies between functions are clearly depicted, providing developers with context and idea of code flow. Such context is especially important when working on large and complicated systems. Code Connect operates within Visual Studio, which allows programmers to retain all the benefits of the IDE they have come to enjoy.

GIMME360

Seed Round in 2017
GIMME360° is an augmented reality solutions firm. We build custom experiences for each organization that we work with, all of which are done by the best quality that technology can provide. GIMME360° is also disrupting the digital media revolution by entering the mobile augmented reality market with its revolutionary applications.

Spectral Devices Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Spectral Devices has developed proprietary methods to fabricate micro/nano-filters with specific color properties (visible, near-infrared, mid-infrared, and far-infrared) for a variety of substrates. These capabilities have enabled Spectral Devices to integrate micro/nano-filters into inexpensive monochromatic camera systems for multi-spectral imaging and videography. The company’s multispectral imaging technology offers a solution for sensing and detecting material composition in applications related to remote-sensing, machine learning, security, and biomedical imaging.

Magnusmode

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Magnusmode was envisioned by Nadia Hamilton, whose brother, Troy, has autism. Growing up with Troy, she discovered that he learned best when having fun and through visual communication. Nadia created Magnusmode based on personal experience with her brother and working with others with special needs. Magnusmode's first solution, Magnus Cards, is a is an online and mobile program that combines a proven method of instruction (task analysis) and elements of game design (positive reinforcement) to enable teens and young adults to live with greater independence. Users team up with Magnus to create, collect and use digital cards to master activities step-by-step; for instance taking public transit, managing money, cooking etc. As Magnus learns, the user learns with him!

Gobbo Internet Services Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Gobbo Internet Services Inc. offers home cooking food online. It provides a community where talented chefs can share their home cooked meals with hungry gobblers. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Xanadu

Grant in 2018
Since its founding in 2016, Xanadu has focused extensively on the effects quantum will have on society and how to best service those needs. Xanadu's ultimate goal is to provide quantum on demand to enable significant computational improvements over the best classical methods to solve really tough real-world problems. Xanadu has amalgamated leading scientists and professionals to pair academic research with industry veterans to develop a massively scalable venture. For more information, please visit xanadu.ai

Blanc Labs

Venture Round in 2016
Blanc Labs Inc. develops and offers custom-made digital solutions for businesses. The company’s services include cloud enablement, application development and integration, decision-making, planning, and execution of modern digital solutions, data intelligence, and agile. It offers its services to emerging tech, financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare industries. Blanc Labs Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Korah

Grant in 2017
The Korah team is built with trusted IT professionals and in the past has delivered a broad spectrum of projects for major Canadian telecommunication and financial companies. Our staff are highly experienced in technology integration, legacy modernization, system architecture design, application development, quality assurance, and project management.

GetQuorum

Seed Round in 2016
GetQuorum provides advance electronic proxy voting, virtual annual general meetings and other governance related services.

TieiT

Seed Round in 2016
TieiT app is an all-in-one business management, sales and marketing automation platform, includes a CRM, email Marketing, social Media, marketing automation, landing page builder, SMS marketing, scheduling, Invoicing & estimating, google analytics and more. TieiT’s value is that it streamlines business operations by eliminating the need to sign up and pay for multiple applications. TieiT App is the only application any business will need to manage their business, drive more leads, convert more sales and market their business.

DATEVA Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
DATEVA Inc. develops a platform for data integration, analysis, and reporting. It serves organizations, doctors, and individuals worldwide. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Fitset Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Fitset is a custom pass for people to discover, book, and sweat in studios and facilities across the City — all from a digital platform online or on their phone. Whether a spin Class in the candlelight, a Challenging boulder Climb, or a restorative yoga Class, Fitset connects variety—seekers to unique fitness experiences. With a hard working customer service team, and growing community of users, Fitset is the most impactful way for sweat seekers to cross—train and enhance their physical wellness. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Edmonton, Alberta.

GaitTronics

Grant 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.

Chimp Treats

Seed Round in 2017
Chimp Treats Ltd. produces and distributes frozen dessert. Its product Nice Cream is available in three flavors banana, mango, and strawberry. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Peterborough, Canada.

Imerciv

Seed Round in 2015
iMerciv Inc. creates wearable assistive technology solutions for blind, deaf-blind, and visually impaired communities around the globe. The company offers BuzzClip, a wearable device for people living with blindness or partial sight. Its device uses ultrasound to detect obstacles that may lie directly in one's path; and then notifies the user of these obstacles through intuitive vibrations, allowing the user to safely navigate around any objects that they may encounter. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada with an additional office in New Delhi, India.

World of Angus Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
World of Angus Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells apparel, grooming, and home products for dogs. The company offers beds, shampoos, blankets, and sweaters, and parks. It sells its products online. The company sells its products direct to consumer and direct to retail model. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
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.

CubbySpot Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
CubbySpot is a mobile platform that connects parents and daycares. They help parents find the best daycare for their child and they enable daycares to fill available spots easily. Unlike other child care listing services, they focus on providing up-to-date availability and rate information, timely notifications, and mobile daycare fee payment. Daycares would fill open spaces faster through better parent communication and simplified waiting list management.

FIBOS

Grant in 2017
FIBOS Inc. develops optical measurement technology for the industrial sensing industry. The company’s product line includes optical gauge amplifier (OGA-01), a single-channel industrial optical gauge amplifier intended to compete against a traditional strain gauge amplifier; and optical gauge sensor that measures strain. It offers solutions for load sensing, pressure sensing, vibration sensing, and temperature sensing in oil and gas, energy, and test and measurement industries. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

SAMETRICA

Seed Round in 2014
Sametrica offers software-as-a-service product that helps governments and enterprises to measure, manage, and demonstrate the value of social investments. It serves governments, enterprises, and nonprofits organizations. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

MediSeen

Seed Round in 2017
MediSeen provides a virtual healthcare and home care technology helping physicians and allied health providers care for their community. Through its easy-to-use software platform, health and wellness professionals can offer mobile and virtual care appointments, providing both more accessible and affordable patient care. With MediSeen, patients can easily browse and book care providers for online or in-home visits via secure apps or website.

Meta

Seed Round in 2012
At Meta, they work on landmark AI challenges that have the power to transform how scientific knowledge is experienced and consumed. Meta provides innovators throughout the scientific ecosystem with powerful views of the current and future trajectories of science and technology with the goal of making all scientific knowledge computable. Meta’s mission is to unlock all of the world’s scientific and technical insights using artificial intelligence.

Formarum Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Formarum is a Canadian corporation which has developed an automatic and all-in-one sanitization device called Dive which enables consumers to use and manage their recreational waters safely while reducing the cost, and hassles of chemical applications. The Chlorine consumption will be reduced to the minimum government-regulated requirement, which is up to 90% less than average consumption. This system will save consumers maintenance time and the downtime often required after chemical adjustments. Financially, consumers will be saving significantly on their chemical expenses and operational costs. Dive will also generate its own power internally, and therefore eliminates the need of an external power supply.

FleetRover

Seed Round in 2016
FleetRover is a trucking company that specializes in the fields of delivery, GPS, and information technology. It features a mobile-based application platform that allows its users to track their fleets and delivery in real-time. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada.
Fetchit Technologies Incorporated provides logistics services. Its services include small moves, such as beds, dressers, tables, couches, and boxes; junk removal; store delivery; storage moves; small businesses; and craiglist find services. The company allows the customers to book service through its application and hire drivers of trucks and vans for moving goods from one place to other. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Set Scouter

Seed Round in 2014
Set Scouter is the first and only full-service marketplace that connects film producers with location owners. Locations is one of the crucial aspects of a production — it's easy to underestimate their importance. Set Scouter is the only marketplace that takes the hassle out of location scouting by facilitating the process end-to-end.

Ansik

Seed Round in 2015
Making Automotive Servicing Safer, Quicker, And More Affordable

Fortuna.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Fortuna is an AI-powered AUM growth platform helping financial services firms scale leveraging video, automation and digital transformation to get new clients and ultimately boost assets under management. AUM Growth Platform is a brand new category, most financial advisory businesses today rely on word of mouth referrals, cold calling, or hosting expensive seminars to acquire new clients. We've figured out a way to amplify your word of mouth client acquisition attracting new + retaining existing clients - leveraging the power of digital. Our mission is to turn your current customers and connections into your biggest advocates - a true sales army. We are extremely confident we can help you grow your financial services business. Talk to us today to give us an opportunity to show you how over 400+ advisors have used us successfully - let's brainstorm!

Pearl’s Choice

Seed Round in 2016
The Pearl's Choice website is a platform where people can share their personal experiences living at or visiting retirement communities with others through comments and by rating homes on their, quality of care, cleanliness, room quality, food quality, and overall experience.

Bartesian Inc.

Grant in 2015
Bartesian Inc. manufactures a cocktail machine that makes cocktails from capsules in home. It offers Bartesian, a robotic bartender that uses pre-mixed ingredient cups with different alcoholic choices to get a homemade martini or cosmo at the press of a button. The company was formerly known as MaxMixology Inc. and changed its name to Bartesian Inc. in January 2015. Bartesian Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

TritonWear Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
TritonWear builds the world’s most accurate sports wearable and the only one that provides personalized, AI-based auto-coaching driven by an individual's data. By addressing the largest problem plaguing the projected $15B fitness and sports wearables market - inaccurate data and no actionable feedback - TritonWear has taken a unique position in the market.

MedEssist

Seed Round in 2019
MedEssist is a collaborative platform built by practicing pharmacists.

Steadiwear

Grant in 2018
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.

EMERGE

Seed Round in 2016
EMERGE provides a mobile application that aims to improve information flow between patients, hospitals, and clinics. EMERGE helps patients to have faster access to the right care by providing transparency on the available nearby hospitals or clinics. EMERGE allows hospitals and clinics to deliver better coordinated and integrated care in the community by saving them time and money and increasing the quality of care.

StaffStat

Seed Round in 2017
Born out of the challenges that make up a regular day in the staffing industry - StaffStat® is a simple, quick and effective way to get shifts covered. Our software allows users to connect with each and every one of their employees within seconds using their preferred method of communication (text message, email and/or telephone). Administrators receive real time updates on shifts posted, filled, updated or cancelled. Notifications come up with all schedule changes so that they are aware of any unexpected staffing issues. We have a simple and quick onboarding process with easy to understand training for management and staff.

Giatec Scientific Inc.

Debt Financing 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.

MedStack

Angel Round in 2017
For developers of healthcare applications in startups, enterprises and agencies, MedStack provides industry-specific data APIs and automated cloud hosting designed to achieve privacy compliance, healthcare security and data interoperability with Electronic Health Record systems out of the box. Built from the ground-up on proven high security standards and for flexibility across a wide range of application, database and deployment stacks, MedStack is the most secure, flexible and capable healthcare app hosting platform in the industry, now powering a wide range of applications from chronic disease management, healthcare workflow, monitoring and billing, leveraging AI, mobile, blockchain and VR/AR.

TrueBlue

Seed Round in 2015
TrueBlue provides businesses a branded mobile solution to empower their organization with loyalty and convenience to build stronger customer relationships. TrueBlue helps these businesses actively engage their customers through the mobile solution, whether it be reservations, ordering, catering, push marketing, loyalty, or any other feature that can be achieved through a mobile device.

Thrive Games

Seed Round in 2016
Thrive Games is a group of talented, like-minded individuals who wish to recapture that sense of wonder and excitement first experienced by gamers as young children during the 1980s and 1990s.

DNAstack Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
DNAstack Inc. develops a cloud-based platform for genomics data analysis and sharing. It provides push-button access to help researchers, clinical laboratories, and pharmaceutical companies in accumulating genomics data and break down barriers to data sharing. The company uses Pricing Model to make genomics accessible and to deliver a cutting edge infrastructure. It offers Cost Calculator to estimate the cloud costs associated with bioinformatics and monthly storage. DNAstack Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

BenchSci Analytics Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
BenchSci's vision is to bring medicine to patients 50% faster by 2025. The company empowers scientists with the world’s most advanced biomedical artificial intelligence to run more successful experiments. Backed by F-Prime, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), and Inovia Capital, BenchSci's proprietary technology accelerates science at 15 top 20 pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 leading research centers worldwide. BenchSci is a CIX Top 10 Growth company, certified Great Place to Work®, and top-ranked company on Glassdoor.

20/20 Armor

Seed Round in 2018
20/20 Armor makes an electronic chestguard that brings the street fighter video game to life. This technology gamifies martial arts, making it fun and engaging through its multiple built-in game modes, which teach the fundamentals of sparring such as timing, power, and speed. It is used to make training fun and helps club owners significantly increase their bottom line by attracting and retaining students. The founders are club owners and National Team members themselves, with decades of experience. 20/20 Armor aims to be the standard training system for all striking martial arts and the official scoring system for the Olympics, with the ultimate vision of making Taekwondo a new professional sport.

Cheelcare

Seed Round in 2019
Created assistive mobility device with rich functionality, modern technologies, futuristic design

Coldblock

Series A 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.

My wine canada

Seed Round in 2016
MY WINE CANADA INC owns and operates an online wine shopping portal. The company retails products such as white wine, red wine, rose wine, sparkling wine, icewine, dessert wine, and fruit wine. MY WINE CANADA INC was founded in 2012 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Piik Insights

Seed Round in 2019
Piik uses data analytics and artificial intelligence to provide actionable insights and integrate actions within organizations' workflows.

SWTCH Energy Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
SWTCH provides electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions designed specifically for high-density urban settings. Our innovative EV charging and energy management platform optimizes charger usage to benefit charging providers and drivers. Platform features include usage enforcement, simple billing, smart energy management, and open-standards compliance. At SWTCH, we are committed to improving EV charging accessibility in order to realize the social, economic, and environmental benefits of widespread electric vehicle adoption.

ZippyJamz

Seed Round in 2019
ZippyJamz develops, manufacturers and distributes a patent-pending baby sleeper that makes diaper changing quick and easy for parents and keeps babies warm and covered through the entire process. The intuitive design makes it simple to change a diaper at night in the dark. Two zippers means no more fumbling with impossible snaps and no more cold air drafts.

Mosaic Manufacturing Ltd.

Seed Round in 2016
Mosaic Manufacturing Ltd. produces hardware and software for combining multiple filaments into single filament strand to be fed into a printer to enable 3D printing. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

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.

uConektPay

Seed Round in 2016
uConektPAY PSP platform all-in-one tools enable companies, organizations and private persons to start accepting online payments within a few minutes.

EnerMotion

Venture Round in 2014
EnerMotion Inc. was founded in 2008 by a small team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals dedicated to sustainable energy efficient technologies. The company’s highly experienced team has worked on alternative fuels, rapid transit, hybrid and electric vehicles, aerodynamics, fuel cells, and control system design for more than 20 years. The company’s waste heat recovery technology known as ‘HYPER’, is now entering customer demonstration trials in the heavy duty vehicle market. EnerMotion is also a Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) portfolio company.

iApotheca

Seed Round in 2016
iApotheca is a pharmacy software company specializing in the design and implementation of powerful custom business applications intended to streamline pharmacy operations.

Daniel Christian Tang

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Daniel Christian Tang is a design firm based out of Toronto Canada that designs and manufactures high end 3D Printed Fine Jewelry.

Encycle Therapeutics

Grant in 2013
Encycle Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that exploits a platform technology that enables the rapid synthesis of drug-like macrocycles or membrane-permeable nacellins. The company is based in Toronto, Canada. As of October 31, 2019, Encycle Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Zealand Pharma A/S.

Coastline Market Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Freshline is an eCommerce & fulfillment platform for perishable food suppliers selling direct-to-consumer. Before Freshline, the company launched as a seafood marketplace called Coastline in 2016. Coastline connected fish farms & fisheries to high-end restaurants. The founders spent 4 years in the perishable food supply chain building Coastline - working tirelessly to build seafood supply lines from Japan, Mexico, Vietnam and more into North America. They took the company from $0 to ~$4M/year in revenue and then subsequently pivoted to Freshline during the COVID-19 pandemic.

SoapBox Innovations Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
SoapBox provides software solutions that help organizations adapt to the needs of a changing workforce by creating a real time feedback loop between employees and leaders. Employees can easily share their ideas on how to improve the organization, while leaders ensure that ideas are aligned to business priorities. The entire feedback loop is a transparent process - which improves engagement, performance, and culture.

Caddle

Angel Round in 2016
Caddle is a free app that pays users with real cash back for everyday purchases, completing surveys, and engaging with brands and products.

Singspiel

Grant in 2013
Singspiel is an incredibly easy way to learn music on your own and figure out if you're improving. It is like a virtual music teacher that provides you realtime feedback on how you play. Singspiel is the music learning equivalent for what Duolingo is for language learning. Using our product, Students can self-sufficiently develop their performance, aural and theory skills in music.

Livegauge

Seed Round in 2014
LiveGauge Inc. develops a portable sensor that provides tangible rate of interest on marketing initiatives by measuring engagements, impressions, visit durations, and more. It also develops an experiential marketing analytics application. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional office in New York City, New York.

NoticeConnect

Seed Round in 2017
NoticeConnect is a web platform for publishing, accessing, and managing legal information. NoticeConnect effectively and affordably connects public legal notices with their intended audiences. The platform is trusted by lawyers, trustees, banks, and the government. In 2017, the Superior Court confirmed that publishing a notice to creditors on NoticeConnect entitles an estate trustee to the liability protection afforded the Trustee Act. Since then, the company has developed a suite of products for creditors and the Canada Will Registry.

MyndMove

Grant in 2017
MyndMove an innovative, non-invasive functional electrical stimulation (FES) based neurorehabilitation therapy, helping individuals with upper limb paralysis gain movement and function of their arm, hand and fingers after a neurological injury such as stroke, spinal cord injury (SCI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Onyx Motion

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Onyx Motion is a developer of sports coaching applications for apple and android smartwatches.

erplain

Seed Round in 2016
erplain Inc. develops inventory management platform. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

CoHealth

Seed Round in 2016
CoHealth is a content creation and distribution platform that helps Health Organizations (like, providers, systems, industry) create, transform and distribute their health-related content to reach health consumers.

NERv Technology Inc.

Grant in 2017
NERv Technology Inc. develops an implantable biochip with biosensors to detect post-operative complications, such as internal bleeding, leakage of bodily fluids, and infection within the abdominal cavity. The biosensor collects data and identifies the complications as it develops and informs both patient and physician in real-time. It also detects changes in the levels of biomarker. The company serves physicians, surgeons, hospitals, and patients. NERv Technology Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.

Splashtones

Seed Round in 2016
Splashtones is redefining architecture with interactive aquatic technology. Our flagship product, the Hydraulophone, is the world's first musical instrument that makes music from water. It produces a rich, unique, and soulful sound when a player touches, covers, or blocks its water jets. It is easy to play, and yet capable of a large repertoire of musical pieces. The Hydraulophone is an innovative new aquatic installation for water parks, museums, science centres, and other public installations.

Rewind

Seed Round in 2016
Since 2015, Rewind has been on a mission to help small and medium businesses keep growing online. Today, over 30,000 total customers in more than 100 countries use Rewind’s top-reviewed software and support to easily control the software-as-a-service data that's critical to their success. Rewind's solutions empower businesses to protect and recover the data they need for consistent growth.

Enhanced Medical Nutrition

Seed Round in 2017
Enhanced Medical Nutrition Inc. ("EMN") is a university-based life sciences organization engaged in developing, researching, and distributing evidence-based clinical nutrition. The foundation of their company is directly related to current research and innovation in clinical nutrition.

Wearatec Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Wearatec Inc. designs and develops wearable computing devices. The company manufactures technology enabled watch clasps and buckles with various functionalities for the watch market. The products include Link; a smart clasp which offers push notification services, messaging features, fitness application, and chronograph solutions; and Smart-Clasp. The company's device uses encrypted near field communication (NFC) sensor on a clasp for payment access and links watch with a smartphone. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Waterloo, Canada.

FreshSpoke, Inc.

Grant in 2017
FreshSpoke, Inc. develops an application for food distribution. The company provides a platform where food products are directly traded between buyers and sellers without a middleman. It can be used by local producers, buyers and drivers who provide delivery services. FreshSpoke, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Barrie, Canada.

Educredu

Seed Round in 2015
Educredu is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company with offices in both Toronto and Hamilton catering to the needs of professionals who maintain credentials, as well as those of educational events and accreditors. Its mobile application software and web platform are designed to streamline the process of finding and registering for relevant educational events and activities, submitting the required evidence to accrediting organizations, networking with fellow professionals, and tracking the status of the education credits needed for their credentials. Its product provides an elegant and intuitive solution to a cumbersome process faced by millions of professionals globally. Educredu is a part of The Forge, an accelerator partnership between the Innovation Factory and McMaster University.

Micharity Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Micharity Inc. develops cloud based CRM solution for online fundraising. The company’s products include donation form, donor CRM, donation management, event management, email marketing, funding portal, peer-to-peer fundraising, pledge management, membership management, volunteer management, and insights and analytics. It serves markets, including small and growing nonprofits; medium to large-sized nonprofits; global and multi-chapter nonprofits; animal welfare; arts, culture, and sports; education, environment, faith-based, food bank, and hospice; health and services; and housing and shelter. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada with an additional office in Santa Monica, California.

Crowdmark

Seed Round in 2012
Crowdmark helps teachers grade better. Crowdmark has developed a patent-pending, ultra-scalable web application, with a paper-to-cloud bridge and a marking workflow that streamlines academic assessment on a massive scale. Crowdmark converts grading from a logistical nightmare into an efficient, easy, game-like activity. For the 28 million instructors worldwide, an annual subscription to Crowdmark lets them cut their grading time, while providing better feedback to improve learning outcomes.
Granata's software platform provides real-time optimization and scenario analysis capabilities for large-scale, data-driven marketing problems and group/organizational decision-making. Companies use the technology to amplify the value of machine learning and analytics by distilling the insights produced by multiple analyses and focusing on the factors relevant to global enterprise objectives.

Chickapea

Seed Round in 2016
Chickapea is a pasta product made entirely from organic chickpeas and lentils. They also offer a food service line for restaurants, schools, hospitals, and etc. By focusing on plant-based proteins they are helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, conserve their fresh-water stores, reduce deforestation and clean air. Chickapea also provides a nutritious, convenient and familiar meal option to families dealing with time constraints, picky eaters, allergies and health issues. Their mission is to make healthy eating simple, convenient and delicious by reinventing comfort foods with only nutritious, organic ingredients. Chickapea was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.

RightBlue Labs

Seed Round in 2015
RightBlue Labs provides software to facilitate valuable information collection, aggregation, communication, and distribution between oversight organizations and service providers + clients.

National Prostaff

Seed Round in 2015
National ProStaff Inc. develops a social network and e-commerce channel for anglers. The company is based in Oshawa, Canada.

Hydrostor

Seed Round in 2012
Hydrostor Inc. develops a compressed air energy storage solution, a technology to address electricity system needs for dispatchable capacity, renewable integration and optimization, transmission deferral, and behind-the-meter or remote applications. The company solutions delivers bulk energy storage that is synchronous and emission-free to locate, including the ability to repurpose retired coal plants and leverage existing mining infrastructure. Its solutions are used in fossil plant repurposing, renewable integration, transmission deferral, and mines and large industrial operations. The company serves customers in the United States, Australia, and Canada. It has a strategic partnership with AECOM. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Nuts For Cheese

Seed Round in 2016
Nuts For Cheese produces and sells vegan cashew cheeses. It offers products through stores in Canada. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, Canada.

ReDeTec Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
ProtoCycler allows 3D printer users to create filament, or 'ink', for their 3D printer at home or enterprise with the touch of a button. Instead of paying $30-$50 for a standard Kg of filament, users can now create their own custom filament for as little as $5-10 per Kg. ProtoCycler also allows the user to recycle their old 3D printed parts, thus creating even more cost savings.

Oxilight Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Oxilight Inc. designs and manufactures medical devices for wound care. The company provides wound imaging device for diabetic food ulcers and peripheral vascular disease that enables health care professionals to assess wound status. Oxilight Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Brainsview

Seed Round in 2016
BrainsView Inc. develops a brain monitoring technology that provides doctors with a real-time numeric index of brain function for critically ill patients. The company’s portfolio includes a dry EEG headband that provides real-time analysis with interface. Its technology facilitates a numeric index that alerts doctors and nurses to impending brain events, such as recovery from a coma, seizure, or stroke. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mississauga, Canada.

Fintros Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Fintros enables financial services companies to hire people not applying to their jobs. Our proprietary anonymization software liberates the career curious by empowering them to confidentially explore highly targeted professional opportunities. Leveraging our AI recommendation engine, companies are increasing candidate quality, curtailing recruitment costs, and drastically reducing hiring bias.

Kegshoe Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Kegshoe Inc. develops keg tracking software for breweries. The company offers keg tracking software and application that allows breweries to track keg inventory throughout production, storage, sales, and delivery using phone. It enables breweries to reduce keg loss, improve turnover, and gain valuable insights into keg fleet and sales. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

ParseHub

Seed Round in 2017
ParseHub is an easy-to-learn, visual tool, gathering data from the web that can be used to power its users’ products, do research, create visualizations, and make key business decisions. It eliminates the major hurdles of gathering and cleaning data, so its users can have more time to analyze useful insights. ParseHub works with single-page apps, multi-page apps, and just about any other modern web technology. It is capable of handling Javascript, AJAX, cookies, sessions, and redirects. It allows users to easily fill in forms, loop through dropdowns, login to websites, click on interactive maps, and even deal with infinite scrolling.

Yirego

Seed Round in 2015
Yirego is a product design company that is geared toward providing sustainable solution through unconventional design. Its objective is to create ethical, eco-friendly household products that both better everyday living and provide simple solutions for your household tasks.

Medchart

Seed Round in 2016
MedChart is a release of information platform that makes transfer of medical records easy and secure on the cloud. MedChart is a digital health company whose mission is to change the way anyone interacts with their health data. The company makes it easy for you to own their medical records, and in turn, get the best care possible. MedChart automates the Release of Information process and saves time and hassle.

Blue Salt Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Blue Salt Inc. offers digital marketing products and services. The company offers HDTV digital signage, marketing products and programs, and multi-platform application development and mobile site construction services. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

HyperPad

Angel Round in 2014
HyperPad allows non technical users like artists to create amazing mobile games then publish them to the App Store as native apps.

Karibu Solar

Seed Round in 2014
KARIBU Solar Power is an innovative social enterprise that makes high quality solar power affordable. We produce a modular solar lamp (solar panel + rechargeable battery + light) and employ an innovative social business model that allows the average Base of the Pyramid (BoP) consumer to enjoy the benefits of solar lighting and energy. By paying in small increments which replicate the required cash flow for kerosene, we make solar affordable.

Ulula

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Ulula LLC designs and develops software and analytics platform that equips companies with tools to monitor human rights risks. The platform enables organizations to engage workers directly in real time across global supply chains. The company uses mobile technologies such as SMS, USSD, and IVR to create sustainable feedback loops between businesses and communities with the goal of creating intelligence to address social, environmental, and governance (ESG) problems. The company caters to food and beverage, garment manufacturing, mining, agriculture, and sustainable certification sectors. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Toronto, Canada with additional office in New York.

Bartesian Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Bartesian Inc. manufactures a cocktail machine that makes cocktails from capsules in home. It offers Bartesian, a robotic bartender that uses pre-mixed ingredient cups with different alcoholic choices to get a homemade martini or cosmo at the press of a button. The company was formerly known as MaxMixology Inc. and changed its name to Bartesian Inc. in January 2015. Bartesian Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

FIBOS

Seed Round in 2016
FIBOS Inc. develops optical measurement technology for the industrial sensing industry. The company’s product line includes optical gauge amplifier (OGA-01), a single-channel industrial optical gauge amplifier intended to compete against a traditional strain gauge amplifier; and optical gauge sensor that measures strain. It offers solutions for load sensing, pressure sensing, vibration sensing, and temperature sensing in oil and gas, energy, and test and measurement industries. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Formen

Seed Round in 2016
Formen Inc. manufactures and sells makeup kit and cosmetics for men. The company manufactures face wash, facial moisturizers, under eye concealer, invisible blotting powders, and anti-shine products. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Mississauga, Canada.

Health Myself

Seed Round in 2015
Health Myself Innovations Inc. provides an online portal that provides an integrated web-based interface, which allows patients and providers to engage online. It offers The Health Myself Patient Portal, that enables healthcare-providers to customize their portal and help them to support their existing clinical workflow; and for e-booking, messaging, and receiving notifications. The company’s portal also comprises a web-based/mobile messaging system that allows patients to communicate directly with their primary healthcare provider; and book and manage their appointments. Health Myself Innovations Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Toronto, Canada. As of June 29, 2020, Health Myself Innovations Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Chronometriq Inc..

Crowdbabble, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Crowdbabble is a social media analytics company that helps marketers tie social media activities to business outcomes by eliminating complexities and reducing the time required for analysis. Customers leverage the Crowdbabble SaaS platform to measure, benchmark and optimize their social media performance. Based out of Toronto at the Ryerson Futures Technology Accelerator in the DMZ, Crowdbabble has 9 employees with users in 450 cities around the world. Some top subscribers include Reebok, Covergirl, The Guardian, and digital advertising agencies 4am Saatchi & Saatchi, Havas and Mirum.

Very Important Puppets Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
VIPs creates character-based digital assistants, using humor to increase customer engagement. VIPs' core technology is personality-based natural language generation algorithm.

paid

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Learn more about #paid’s creator media platform at www.hashtagpaid.com/product

Loop Lab

Seed Round in 2015
Loop Lab provides smart connected devices that offers its users with temperature control solutions for rooms. Loop Lab allows its users to set their room’s temperature from their mobile devices and the mobile application is available through iOS and Android system platforms. It helps its users connect to popular smart thermostats and it offers devices through a wide range of designs and colors. Loop Lab was founded in 2014 by George Polack and Joey Piro and the company is situated in Canada.

Venture For Canada

Grant in 2018
Venture For Canada's mission is to provide opportunities for the best and brightest to create dynamic companies for themselves and others, to restore entrepreneurship as a career path for elite young grads and to assist great companies through providing sharp young minds to help them grow.

Noblegen Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Noblegen’s ingredients and food systems cover all aspects of nutrition - protein, lipids and carbohydrates (beta-glucan) and functionality. All of Noblegen’s ingredients are non-GMO, certified vegan and minimally processed. Food products currently include a plant-based egg, snackable protein crisps and snack bars. Meat and dairy analogues are in development

FlexCap Energy Ltd.

Seed Round in 2016
FlexCap Energy Ltd. develops and delivers lightweight energy storage solutions. Its portfolio includes flexible thin-film supercapacitors and alkaline battery solutions. It focuses on providing continuous power in enabling products ranging from wearables to embedded smart textiles. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Miovision Technologies provides software and hardware that significantly improves its clients cost-structure and accuracy. Backed by the world’s most advanced traffic AI, our innovations in traffic signal planning and operations have made it possible for cities to improve the transportation experience for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians since 2005. Miovision develops intelligent technology solutions to address the challenges facing today global transportation network and to minimize the environmental impacts of inefficient transportation flow. With offices in Kitchener, Canada and Cologne, Germany, Miovision serves over 17,000 municipalities worldwide.

PayBySky Inc.

Venture Round in 2010
PayBySky Inc. provides Skymeter, an in-vehicle parking meter for automatic parking payment transactions. The company also offers a cloud-based technology platform that determines the location of the Skymeter by interfacing with global navigation satellite systems. It serves consumer vehicle, commercial vehicle, and private parking operators. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Salient Energy

Seed Round in 2017
Salient Energy is commercializing a revolutionary new battery based on research at the University of Waterloo. Their zinc-ion battery is perfectly suited, both technically and economically, for storing electricity in the grid. The company's proprietary cathode materials store energy in zinc in a way that has never been commercialized before – Salient Energy has made unique cathode materials that can actually incorporate zinc in their crystal lattice instead of just reacting on the surface. This allows the batteries to have a relatively high energy density. It also allows the user to use of traditional battery designs that are compatible with standard manufacturing equipment. This means that the cheaper, safer, and the longer-lasting battery can be made in existing battery factories around the world.

Discover Media House Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Discover Media House mission is to simplify ad buying and improve the quality of campaigns run by small and large advertisers. They work constantly to learn about new media options and technologies that help you better target your media spend and they make that information available in their comprehensive market database and with their industry analysis and strategic planning services.

Brightworks Energy

Seed Round in 2015
Brightworks Energy, Inc. designs, installs, and manages solar power systems. The company serves for homeowners, building owners, property owners, farmers, and businesses. Brightworks Energy, Inc. was formerly known as Brightworks Solar Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Markham, Canada.

Reportin

Seed Round in 2018
Working with files is a pain! They are silos of static content that are the cause of manual work processes and collaboration friction. Making matters worse, more than 90% of information created by teams is sitting inside document files. Reportin frees your information from document silos, allowing you to store, manage and share individual pieces of content. With Reportin, working with files is painless and leads to one structured system of truth for all your information. Try Reportin today and discover the future of work @ www.reportin.com

House of Anesi

Seed Round in 2018
House of Anesi Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells lingerie. The company offers bras for women. It serves customers online. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Ioffe Biotechnologies Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Featured on Dragons' Den, Indezone Energy is our first product to market. This patent-pending nootropic (cognitive enhancer) is approved by Health Canada with the claim, "Helps to Enhance Cognitive Performance. With the highest regulated quality standards, Indezone is already the #1 Nootropic in Canada on Amazon.ca.

CiteRight

Seed Round in 2017
CiteRight is an intelligent legal assistant that does in minutes what articling students and junior lawyers used to do in hours. CiteRight helps you save cases from online legal databases and makes them available right where you are — inside Microsoft Word. Click on a case to cite it automatically. No Blue Book or McGill Guide required!

Luminari

Seed Round in 2019
Luminari is a career management platform for CPAs (Chartered Professional Accountants). We help make their lives easier and their careers progress faster by offering a unique suite of services to help them get ahead. From jobs, CPD/education, mentorship, events, volunteer roles & more, Luminari has helped thousands of Canadian CPAs take the next step in their career. Luminari is proudly partnered with Xero, CPA Ontario, CIBC, Farber Group, CBV (Certified Business Valuators), FEI Canada, Canadian IP Office & more organizations who are all striving to drive the accounting profession forward. Luminari was founded in 2016 by Michael Kravshik and Adam Bercovici.
HiNT is developing a wearable point-of-care monitoring device that detects a stroke with EEG and alerts high-risk patients, Its care givers, and their medical support team when the patient is having a stroke.

Tandempark

Seed Round in 2017
Tradempark Inc provides online platform that helps volunteers to connect and communicate with each other. It also offers organizations to recruit, manage, schedule, and communicate with their volunteer teams. Tandempark Inc was founded in 2015 and is based in Barrie, Canada.

Spently

Seed Round in 2015
Spently makes it easy for merchants to create and deliver e-receipts and other transactional messages that increase customer engagement and drive sales. Spently also provides capability for full customer lifecycle messaging via outbound campaigns. Spently’s software helps merchants plan, create, and deliver content to individual customers via e-Receipts and other email notifications. Email notifications can be customized to deliver promotional messages, logos, disclaimers, and geographic-based information, all while providing new insights to merchants.
Bedside Clinical Systems (BCS) facilitates the deployment of innovations in healthcare supporting clinicians in providing safer and more effective care.

Focus21 Inc

Seed Round in 2015
From re-engineering old IT to building fresh agile software, Focus21 is ready to deliver on time and on budget with no BS. When your project is ready for launch, we complete a knowledge transfer with your team ensuring long-term success before our departure.

Medistream

Seed Round in 2017
Medistream Inc. provides entertaining and engaging health care content directly to medical waiting rooms. Its content comprises video segments from Canadian and American health care that cover various personal health concerns, including vaccinations, cancer pre-screenings, innoculations, health care advocacy, technological advancements in health care, and mini-documentaries. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Invision AI

Seed Round in 2017
We are on a mission to transform the Internet of Things into the Internet of Intelligent Things. Our AI software runs directly on edge devices, enabling them to create valuable situational insight without expensive hardware or cloud uploads

DreamQii

Seed Round in 2014
DreamQii Inc. founded in 2012 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada. DreamQii is primarily focused on the development of leading-edge hardware, software, firmware, and web applications for consumer electronics, industrial, and military applications. We believe that new technologies must be simplified and molded to fit your life. DreamQii creates products that simplify the complex new tech, enhance your capabilities, and provoke your desire to create. DreamQii first entered the consumer electronics space with its iconic camera drone, PlexiDrone X8, as a genuine rugged drone that is also elegant in design and everyday use. PlexiDrone changed the drone market with its fully modular and detachable arms, detachable & retractable landing gear, a modular and customizable payload clip, and voice communication-- PlexiDrone is the first drone to speak to you! These market-leading features give PlexiDrone unmatched modularity, safety, and ruggedness in additional to an unmatched industrial design. That is: Powerful, Portable, and Professional. . . . Looking for more info on PlexiDrone X8? Visit our website for updates! dreamqii.com Support: http://support.dreamqii.com/ . . . Or, check us out on your preferred social network: Google+ https://plus.google.com/107513097824099494434 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/plexidrone/ Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.ca/Overview/Working-at-DreamQii-EI_IE1104047.11,19.htm AngelList https://angel.co/dreamqii Twitter (DreamQii) https://twitter.com/dreamqii Twitter (PlexiDrone) https://twitter.com/plexidrone YouTube (DreamQii) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChI7rV6fBSYPg-7i_wk5Scw YouTube (PlexiDrone) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbAkEasfVPNB2b9eH9sgpOg Pinterest (DreamQii) https://www.pinterest.ca/dreamqii/ Pinterest (PlexiDrone) https://www.pinterest.ca/plexidrone/ Facebook (DreamQii) https://www.facebook.com/DreamQii/ Facebook (PlexiDrone) https://www.facebook.com/PlexiDrone/ Instagram (DreamQii) https://www.instagram.com/dreamqii/ Instagram (PlexiDrone) https://www.instagram.com/plexidrone.x8/ . . . PlexiDrone in the News & Press: Engadget https://www.engadget.com/2014/10/10/plexidrone-quadcopter/ Financial Post http://business.financialpost.com/entrepreneur/fp-startups/startup-funding-roundup-dreamqiis-plexidrone-raises-more-that-2-5m-and-pch-hardware-hackathon-comes-to-kitchener Yahoo Financehttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/dreamqii-introduces-plexidrone-aerial-photography-130000313.html Design Engineering https://www.design-engineering.com/photography-drone-becomes-canadian%E2%80%99s-highest-grossing-crowdfunding-campaign-135242/ Betakit https://betakit.com/plexidrone-by-dreamqii-raises-over-460000-on-indiegogo-signs-on-henrys-as-distributor/ Recode https://www.recode.net/2014/10/1/11631454/swarm-drones-take-flight-on-indiegogo

Your Doctors Online

Seed Round in 2017
With the rising cost of healthcare, in most parts of the world, it is becoming difficult to seek medical advice for a large number of people. To address this concern, Your Doctors Online (YDO), provides a platform where anyone, from any part of the world, can reach out to North American doctors, round-the-clock, free-of-charge. YDO strives to make healthcare more accessible and affordable by connecting people to doctors from the comfort of their own homes. By downloading the application, on Android or iOS, or simply visiting the webpage, the users can share their questions with qualified doctors who can provide genuine medical advice, within a matter of a few minutes. Since it was founded, YDO has helped over 50,000 patients including women and elderly. The team of physicians has addressed a number of queries around sexual health, conception, pregnancy, virals, and skin diseases over the last one year.

HELM App

Pre Seed Round in 2015
HELM App provides grant-funded childcare support to ontario-based women entrepreneurs.

Spivo, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Spivo, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells camera accessories. The company’s product includes Spivo Stick which is a rotating camera mount. It also provides Spivo 360, travel lens, and tripod grip. Spivo, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

The Growcer

Seed Round in 2017
The Growcer Inc. manufactures plug-and-play hydroponic growing systems to produce vegetables. It offers solutions for entrepreneurs, communities and non-profits, remote camps and sites, and institutions. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Top Spin 360

Seed Round in 2015
Top Spin 360 is a device that is attached to a conventional football helmet.

Eve Medical

Grant in 2013
Eve Medical Inc., a medical device company, designs and manufactures medical products for healthcare needs of women. It offers HerSwab that enables women to take control of their own sexual health through self-sampling for sexually transmitted infections screening that have an impact on the reproductive well-being conditions, including cervical cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, and infertility. Eve Medical Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Teabot

Seed Round in 2015
teaBOTTM is creating a retail platform for customized grab-and go tea. Our robotic kiosks allow you to order a custom cup of loose-leaf tea and share your blends at the touch of a button. Customers control features on the touch screen or their smartphone and walk away with a personalized cup of tea in under a minute. Whether experimenting with new flavors, reordering a favorite, or trying a friend’s blend, teaBOTTM simplifies tea blending and speeds up the tea serving process. After talking to tea enthusiasts, we found that many tea drinkers love the idea of making their own blends but find it too tedious, expensive, or risky to do this at home. We decided to make this easier for everyone by building a robot that blends tea. After trying out different blends, customers can pick their favorites and order a pouch for home.

Majik Systems

Seed Round in 2014
MAJiK Systems does the hard work to connect directly to your Capital Equipment and existing Factory Information Systems utilizing the IT infrastructure already in place in your factory. This means that there is no overhead of installing additional hardware to monitor your machines, adjust your production schedule in real-time according to plant conditions, or view important quality metrics.

The Yoak

Seed Round in 2017
Yoak Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells a multi-modal training system that enables the activation of stabilizer muscles with traditional push, pull, and squat movements. Its system is used by kids, seniors, professional athletes, as well as for patients of physiotherapists and chiropractors. The company’s system is compatible for use in commercial gyms, homes, personal training facilities, and health and rehab centers. Yoak Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Sudbury, Canada.

AOMS Technologies

Series A in 2018
AOMS Technologies provides integrated Industrial IoT platforms for generating actionable insights from assets and processes to enhance efficiency and productivity, reduce operation costs, increase safety, and improve environmental sustainability. AOMS IoT platforms are integrated sensors and analytics tools developed for harsh environments and heavy industrial applications where conventional technologies fail, lose performance, or cannot be deployed efficiently.

GeneYouIn

Seed Round in 2014
GeneYouIn is a personalized medicine software company. It developed the Pillcheck platform for clinical pharmacogenetics reporting, workflow tools for clinicians, collecting patient-reported outcomes and actionable analytics for evidence-based population health management. Pillcheck helps to minimize side effects and find an effective prescription sooner. Pillcheck is easy to implement digital service. Pillcheck is also a fully integrated, secure platform for sharing health data governed by consent and rapid access to analytics by stakeholders. GeneYouIn provides a field-tested seamless implementation program and communication support. GeneYouIn has built a full software and technology stack to support the return of genetic results to large populations, taking into consideration compliance with health data management regulations.

Hyperion Sensors

Seed Round in 2015
Hyperion is developing a fibre-sensing system that will allow its customers to instrument and monitor the inner workings of large power transformers and other critical energy infrastructure assets.

Syngli

Grant in 2019
Syngli Inc. (formerly known as NeuRecall Inc.) is an educational technology start-up, with offices in Kitchener-Waterloo (Canada) and Berkeley (US). We are developing an online platform for increasing teaching and learning efficiency, with applications ranging from language learning to standardized test preparation within medicine and other professions. Our system includes software inspired by cognitive neuroscience and machine learning, and a uniquely-structured knowledge base grown online by users. The platform tracks each learner’s level of understanding, and uses such data to extract relevant information from the knowledge base and then generate novel questions.

HaulerAds

Seed Round in 2018
Helping brands maximize their advertising results with a unique combination of mobile ads and technology. Movia installs tracking and Wi-Fi collecting devices onto trucks acting as moving billboards, offering real-time impression analytics and retargeting opportunities. Brands can view their real-time dashboard to see when where and who saw their message and track their ROI. They can then build relevant audiences and reach them again on their mobile devices, increasing overall effectiveness far beyond what traditional OOH can offer.

Adrenalease Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Adrenalease Inc. designs and sells posture performance shirts for use in office or during exercise. It offers its products online. The company serves men and women in Canada and internationally. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Raise Your Flag

Seed Round in 2015
45% of students do not go to college when they finish high school. Instead they join the workforce unprepared for work, unaware of the options and uninspired for what's to come. Raise Your Flag connects these students with entry-level career paths that don't require a degree and the companies who are interested in hiring them. When a young career-seeker uses Raise Your Flag, they connect with companies that they believe have a bright future, with a clear line of promotion. They are able to see requirements for the entry point or promotions and if they don't have those requirements, they can use Raise Your Flag to obtain those non-degree requirements. It's simple, if young, millennial employees see a future with the company they work for (or apply for) they stay longer. If those employees stay longer, they save companies A TON of money. On Raise Your Flag, companies promote the available career paths, open positions, employee success stories and promotion opportunities within their company. Raise Your Flag users come from high schools, employment agencies and organically through discovery + search.

eQOL

Grant in 2015
We believe that chronic care will transition from the hospital environment into the home in response to an aging population and increase in healthcare demands. Our objective is to build the infrastructure and solutions that will promote self-care by leveraging innovative technologies and processes.

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!

Mariner Endosurgery

Seed Round in 2017
Mariner Endosurgery Inc. designs and develops a novel soft tissue surgical navigation platform. The platform under the name LaparoGuard offers surgical navigation system that enables surgeons to annotate areas of 3D safety zones during minimally invasive procedures and to aid surgeons in guiding their tools and informing their surgical approach. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Hamilton, Canada.

Anomera Inc

Seed Round in 2017
With its sustainable manufacturing processes, Anomera converts forest industry pulp and wood waste into next-generation bio-products. The first of these bio-products are “natural cellulose” ingredients with enhanced performance for the multi-$Billion global cosmetic and skin care markets. Follow-on applications in Anomera’s roadmap include its DextraCel™ materials for markets ranging from environmentally friendly inks and pigments, to water and air purification, coatings, composites, and medical/life sciences.

Rna Diagnostics

Angel Round in 2016
Rna Diagnostics Inc., a cancer diagnostics company, builds a platform of biomarkers to improve the lives of cancer patients. It offers The RNA Disruption Assay, a cancer diagnostic platform that measures tumor response early in cancer treatment. The company serves patients, physicians and healthcare systems, as well as clinical research centers in Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. The company was founded in 2010 is based in Toronto, Canada. It has a laboratory in Ontario, Canada.

Better Current Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Better Current Inc. develops Better ReCharge, a solar-powered phone charging kiosk for public spaces. It serves marketing and event company clients, as well as brands on golf tournaments, music festivals, and various types of indoor and outdoor events. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Blue Orchid Care

Seed Round in 2014
Blue Orchid Care Inc. designs and manufactures mobility devices and rehabilitation tools. The company manufactures ORCHIDlift, a compact and portable sit-to-stand lift that allows caregivers to lift and transfer patients. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Hamilton, Canada.

CAST CONNEX

Seed Round in 2012
Cast ConneX Corp. provides cast steel structural components for building and bridge structures in North America. The company offers pre-engineered cast steel connectors for use with hollow structural section members. Its products include brace connectors for seismic-resistant concentrically braced frames; and high-strength clevis-type connectors for architecturally exposed structural steel applications. The company also offers structural engineering design and design-build services for custom cast steel components. Cast ConneX Corp. was founded in 2007 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

TeleHex

Grant in 2016
TeleHex designs, manufactures, markets, and sells its state-of-the-art mechanism, which automatically selects the correct wrench size when the user inserts the tool into a hex socket. TeleHex significantly reduces the bulk and the time required to select a hex wrench from a conventional set.