Elevated Signals
Series A in 2024
Elevated Signals provides a digital operations platform for regulated industries, combining IoT-enabled cultivation environment management with real-time data capture, traceability, and flexible workflows across production, quality, and finance. The cloud-based platform supports seed-to-harvest cultivation, compliant record keeping for Health Canada GPP/GMP, cultivar-specific workflow management, high-resolution environmental monitoring linked to plant IDs, and reporting and analytics. It serves cannabis, nutraceutical, food and beverage manufacturers, helping them optimize controlled environments, achieve audit readiness, avoid waste, and scale operations. Founded in 2016 and based in Vancouver, it aims to streamline end-to-end batch production tracking and compliance reporting with a central source of truth accessible across departments.
Wayout is a company that provides environmentally friendly drinking water solutions through its innovative microfactories. These systems are designed for local production, enabling communities to produce high-quality drinking water while minimizing the environmental impact associated with transporting bottled water. The microfactories utilize various purification methods, including double reverse osmosis, desalination, UV treatment, and remineralization, ensuring medical-grade purity. Each microfactory can sustainably serve approximately 300 households and significantly reduce plastic waste and carbon emissions. Operating on renewable energy sources like solar power, the plug-and-play systems are user-friendly, allowing anyone to manage them with minimal effort. Wayout's integrated cloud connectivity also allows for real-time monitoring and management, catering to the needs of various stakeholders while promoting the right to access clean drinking water.
Trilio specializes in data protection solutions for Kubernetes, OpenStack, and Red Hat Virtualization environments. Its flagship product, TrilioVault, enables cloud infrastructure operators and developers to recover from disasters, migrate workloads, and move applications between different infrastructures or software distributions.
Assurified
Seed Round in 2022
Assurified is a technology company specializing in an AI-powered Risk Transformation Platform for rental housing. The platform helps property owners and managers quantify and mitigate insurable risks, optimizing asset performance and enhancing operational efficiency.
Elevated Signals
Seed Round in 2022
Elevated Signals provides a digital operations platform for regulated industries, combining IoT-enabled cultivation environment management with real-time data capture, traceability, and flexible workflows across production, quality, and finance. The cloud-based platform supports seed-to-harvest cultivation, compliant record keeping for Health Canada GPP/GMP, cultivar-specific workflow management, high-resolution environmental monitoring linked to plant IDs, and reporting and analytics. It serves cannabis, nutraceutical, food and beverage manufacturers, helping them optimize controlled environments, achieve audit readiness, avoid waste, and scale operations. Founded in 2016 and based in Vancouver, it aims to streamline end-to-end batch production tracking and compliance reporting with a central source of truth accessible across departments.
Vertical Harvest Farms
Series A in 2022
Vertical Harvest Farms is a Wyoming-based agribusiness focused on hydroponic farming to provide fresh, locally grown produce year-round. The company aims to enhance the local economy by selling its products at competitive prices through various venues. It emphasizes inclusive employment opportunities for underserved populations, fostering community engagement and development. By utilizing vertical farming techniques in controlled environments, Vertical Harvest energizes local food systems and promotes healthier eating. Additionally, the company collaborates with communities to transform underutilized urban spaces into productive farms, supporting regional food networks while also enabling potential national expansion.
KnowWake
Venture Round in 2021
KnowWake is a company that develops a waterway navigation application aimed at enhancing the boating experience. By providing an intuitive platform similar to WAZE, KnowWake simplifies navigation on the water, offering features such as posted wake zones and access to over 35,000 points of interest. The application leverages real-time information shared by its community, along with historical data sourced from local law enforcement agencies. This enables users to receive updates on current conditions, discover safe routes, identify suitable boating locations, and find proximity to essential marine services. Additionally, the app allows sailors to share their current locations, save voyages, and communicate with each other, thereby fostering a safer and more enjoyable environment for all boaters.
Shopistry
Seed Round in 2021
Shopistry empowers fast-growing brands with a comprehensive toolkit for headless commerce. It offers tailored customer shopping experiences across channels without the typical development costs or need for replatforming.
Scopio
Venture Round in 2021
Scopio is a global visual art platform that connects photographers and visual artists with potential clients, enabling licensing of millions of images, including photography, illustrations, and 3D designs. The platform supports hiring and licensing, allowing artists to monetize their work and brands to access diverse, high-quality visuals. It leverages AI to broaden participation and provides a marketplace where creators from around the world can showcase portfolios and be discovered by businesses, brands, and other buyers.
Pratexo
Seed Round in 2021
Pratexo provides an intelligent edge-computing and distributed cloud platform for artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and Industry 4.0 applications. The platform is designed to simplify and accelerate the design, provisioning, and management of edge nodes and micro clouds required to host next-generation applications. It enables rapid configuration, simulation, monitoring, and optimization of architectures running edge-enabled applications in a distributed cloud or across multiple micro-clouds, helping organizations deploy complex workloads while keeping critical data private and local.
Whizmo is a financial services platform that provides a peer-to-peer mobile money solution specifically designed for unbanked individuals. By facilitating value transfer, payment, and remittance services, the company enables users in emerging economies to conduct financial transactions without requiring a traditional bank account. Whizmo's platform allows customers to receive, transfer, and pay value between each other, offering functionalities such as deposits, withdrawals, vendor payments, and bill splitting. Through its innovative approach, Whizmo aims to enhance financial inclusion and empower individuals who lack access to conventional banking services.