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aiphrodite.ai is an AdTech SaaS platform that predicts visual and textual ad performance across all mediums through artificial intelligence personas (AI Personas) that replicate your customers.

TransCrypts is a tool for Human Resource Departments to automate the issuance of employment and income verification documents using the blockchain. Our proprietary process not only saves HRs time, money, and headache in dealing with compliance but also gives employees total control over how their work information is being shared.

Dalriada is a small molecule drug discovery company supporting global innovators through its TURN-KEY model, where R&D is perfectly aligned with business and IP.

Inteligex is developing proprietary stem cell-based therapeutics to restore function in patients with spinal cord injury— a devastating condition for which there is no effective therapy — and for other diseases of the Central Nervous System. Successful outcomes from the development program would position Inteligex as the first in the world with a treatment affecting hundreds of thousand patients worldwide.

The African Impact Initiative is dedicated to creating a platform for impacting the African community through its youth. It enables this through initiatives centered around community impact, professional development, and impact entrepreneurship.

Cohesys uses inspiration from nature to create the next generation of surgical adhesives that are strong enough to replace titanium screws in craniomaxillofacial (CMF) fracture fixation. Its technology employs a resorbable, flexible polymer tape and bio-inspired adhesive system, resulting in safer and faster CMF fracture fixation procedures.

TissueX Technologies is a Toronto-based biotechnology company focused on improving the efficiency of drug discovery by increasing the predictability and quantification power of cell-based assays used in preclinical drug development.

Onyx Motion is a developer of sports coaching applications for apple and android smartwatches.

Ardra is a startup based on technology developed at the University of Toronto. Their technology uses model-guided metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to develop biocatalysts for the production of specialty chemicals from renewable resources. Their current target is the cosmetics industry, which uses $2.6 billion worth of petroleum chemicals in a variety of products.

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

Crowdmark uses AI to administer and grade online and in-class assessments. The company's platform is used by instructors from different countries in primary, secondary, and tertiary education. The goal of Crowdmark is to improve learning and teaching for both students and teachers by redefining assessment as a dialogue.

Treata Smart Solutions provides caregiving system technology for memory-impaired adults. It offers three products which include The Smart Lost Item Finder, The Smart Wandering Assistant, and The Smart Reminder. These products utilize existing smartphone technology and patent-pending hardware and software added straight on the top. The comp[any was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

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.

Empowering businesses and academic institutions to improve performance and productivity CoursePeer is a revolutionary suite of learning tools for varied environments. Highly scalable and fully integrated, these tools can be deployed from the cloud on a distributed basis, or through institutional and enterprise intranets with cloud-based support. The company's software solutions combine blended learning, video, quizzes, and live interactions with a social network that encourages people to interact. The academic version is targeted at universities and colleges. It enables professors to deliver content while accelerating communication with and among students. Student assessment is facilitated, as is review of course content for external accreditation. The corporate version seamlessly offers employee training, certification, intranet and long-term advanced performance assessment.

Kapplex is a Toronto-based startup developing sensitive, high-performance and multiplexed point-of-care diagnostic platforms suitable for use in doctor’s offices, urgent care, and emergency rooms to enable clinicians to rapidly and accurately diagnose a disease at a patient’s first visit and significantly improve the course of treatment while reducing healthcare costs. The Kapplex instruments and consumables are driven by a proprietary Digital Microfluidic (DMF) platform developed in Dr. Aaron Wheeler’s lab at the University of Toronto. DMF dramatically simplifies and automates traditional sample preparations and analyses on a single, low-cost chip driven by a low-cost instrument.

DossierView, which is based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada at the Accelerator Centre in the University of Waterloo's Research & Technology Park, is leveraging a technology developed by Dr. Andrew Wong, a founder of the PAMI (Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence) Lab at the University of Waterloo in order to develop an intelligent search technology that promises to offer corporate and consumer users faster access to the most relevant information located on a desktop or on the Web.