Founder and company directory.

ProNavigator launched the first-ever insurance chatbot to improve sales and customer service capabilities for insurance organizations. In 2019, they broke new ground by creating the first knowledge management platform for insurance, powered by natural language processing, to help insurance professionals get quick, accurate answers. Today, they continue to push the boundaries, integrating large language models that are accurate and secure.

PromedAI's AI-powered error management system helps healthcare providers eliminate these preventable errors by analyzing mistakes with AI and generating data-driven, predictive insights. Unlike current error management solutions that require manual labour and only react to severe errors, PromedAI's solution automates 99% of manual tasks while offering evidence-based predictive insights, enabling healthcare providers to proactively prevent their own mistakes with the least required resources.

Pronti is a AI Outfit Generator with 1M+ downloads available on iOS and Android. Our users shop by looking at outfits, that our AI (machine learning) has generated, from their closet items along with a shoppable item. Using proprietary user data we make personal and powerful recommendations that convert.

Prospect+ is your one stop shop for finding world-class BDMs and filling their calendars with sales calls.

Pulse Industrial is an IoT company with the primary goal to reduce fuel consumption, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve safety in industrial plants, through the use of artificial intelligence and machine-learned analytics.

A health and fitness app that provides personal coaching, workouts and a supportive community.

Qidni Labs is developing technologies that make dialysis significantly more accessible for patients with kidney failure. 

QuantWave aims to improve the quality of industrial manufacturing process and finished products, to minimize the capital and operational costs as well as to provide optimal decision-making tools by developing a real-time, AI-powered, multi-parameter intelligent sensing system.

Quip Medical is an AI-powered platform designed to alleviate the burden of manual documentation for physicians. It records, transcribes, and summarizes patient consultations, helping reduce administrative tasks, which are a major contributor to physician burnout. By streamlining record-keeping, Quip improves efficiency and reduces legal risks, allowing doctors to focus more on patient care.

RAVICO is developing a fully integrated purchase-to-waste platform of chemical material for commercial and research laboratories.

RIZE Heath is a a digital recruitment and participant management service for clinical trial procedures.

Readwise helps you get the most out of what you read by making it fun & easy to revisit your highlights from all your favorite reading platforms in one place.

Real Life Robotics (RLR) is a Waterloo-based company revolutionizing last-mile delivery and automation with its AI-driven platform, PASSENGER, and proprietary hardware like BUBS. With over 60 years of combined robotics expertise, RLR offers scalable, efficient, and sustainable solutions for industries such as logistics, retail, and healthcare. Their hardware-agnostic platform and rugged, customizable robots help organizations reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance safety across various real-world environments.

Lumos is a game analytics service providing developers with insight into performance and an overview of player engagement. Rated ?#1 Game Analytics Service? by Fictional Developer Magazine.

Redtree is building the chipset for robots. Our chipset makes it easy to connect sensors, actuators and components to the robot. Our software makes it easy to program using data from these components. Robots built around our chipset are always connected to each other and to the Internet through our cloud services.

An app for shoppers to browse flyers, create lists and search for products.

For busy people who have a hard time grounding themselves to their goals and values, we've built an app which asks 3 personalised daily reflection questions, allows you to track your daily mood, and allows you to write down your daily goals. Unlike Calm or Headspace, we focus on active reflection and journaling to ground yourself instead of passive meditation.

Digital assistant for real estate agents and renters

Birdhouse performs bridge inspection with drones.

For psychologists (and other professionals) who write lengthy assessment reports. ReportSuite reduces the time that it takes to write the report, and increase legibility and understanding for this reader with an interactive assessment reporting software platform.

Requity is a financing solution for people looking for mortgages with poor credit. "Rent your dream home while we help you save for a down payment."

Rhombus is a customer communication software that combines voice, messaging and customer billing into a single platform. As the first conversational commerce platform, their goal is to make it extremely easy for businesses to connect with their customers, and securely accept payments across multiple communication channels.

Ribbit is making autonomous cargo planes to transport food and other necessities to communities and regions with limited or no road access. 

Voted as one of the World Changing Ideas by Fast Company, Roga is a mental healthcare platform designed to reduce employee anxiety. We provide a science-backed wearable device designed to reduce brain activity associated with anxiety, and an app that provides AI generated relaxation content and tracking analytics.

Device for continuous cell culturing

Safi is a social enterprise providing East African farmers with a cost effective and accessible pasteurization control unit. The mission of Safi is three-fold: to provide safe drinking milk, to help farmers rise out of poverty through the increased revenues from selling pasteurized milk and to help East African governments regulate the dairy supply chain. 

Salient Energy makes affordable, safe, long-lasting, and easy to manufacture zinc-ion batteries; specifically designed for grid-scale storage (safe and long cycle time)

It is important to our team at Samos to provide insurance that is affordable, easy to understand, and accessible to people when they need it most. Insurance should be there for families in their time of need. That's why Samos is committing to providing support in one of life's critical moments by leveraging machine learning methodologies and its proprietary underwriting modelling to create innovative insurance solutions.

Digital microfluidics lab automation tools

We are a fast growing life science SaaS company. Our mission is to scale and grow a biotech company the way a tech company does. Our co-founders bring a rich blend of Biotech expertise, Product lifecycle and growth expertise and of course Silicon Valley Tech expertise. We are super passionate about what we do and what we’re trying to build at this company. Scispot’s vision is to create a world where anyone from anywhere can start and scale a bio company in a digitally connected and collaborative network (“Labverse”). We are using ML to help build, design, and plan experiments using wet lab and computational templates offered by Scispot. We help biotech labs create their own knowledge graph as they execute experiments and automate inventory using Scispot. We do this, in part, by understanding the experiment metadata of our customers and using our recommendation engine to predict what workflow templates will be used by our current and future users to plan and execute their R&D on Scispot.

Scope is building lossless zoom with electrically tunable lenses, to improve smartphone photography and microscope imaging.

Scribenote is automating documentation for clinicians.

Secnd is an AI-native e-commerce solutions provider, enabling unique-SKU vendors to manage and grow their online operations. Our goal is making e-commerce easier than ever for SMBs who often struggle with tools that are manual, expensive, and fragmented - making it hard to compete, manage inventory, and get seen by customers. We automate multichannel listing, pricing, and hybrid inventory management, increasing sell-through rates and promoting greater efficiency - beginning with vintage clothing shops.

all social browsers have hidden intentions to make purchases. Willet uses the web and users online behaviours to help retailers discover these intentions turn social browsers into shoppers.

Water testing. Ensure fish have a clean health environment to thrive. Optimize crop yield and prevent sudden die offs.

An AI powered therapist for university and high school students to tackle mental health issues

Research and development on new therapeutics for cancer.

Service DoDo is like Hotwire[travel website] for Service Industry. We are a market place app for Home Owners to find technicians for house hold emergencies. Our goal is to bring the technician to the home owner under 60 minutes with the lowest cost possible in the market. Currently we cover Appliance Repair, Electricians, Locksmiths, Plumbing, Pest Control, HVAC and Snow Removal. We are fully servicing Toronto for all seven industries, with potentially spanning to other cities this year.

A platform for teachers that provides a living, visual record of student competencies.

A peer-to-peer car sharing platform.

A cloud-based diagnostic platform for automotive vehicles.

Arkana Arts bridges the technical gap that exists between artists and both the world of online marketing and sales. Artists are known for producing works of great value yet many still struggle to support themselves from their work. Our research has shown that the lack of business, marketing, and technical knowledge are the primary factors limiting artist from successfully selling their work or running their own art businesses. Selling online has proven to be an efficient method to reach a larger target audience and increase sales; if one knows how to effectively navigate, compete, and market in this space. Many artists struggle with this aspect or have no clue as where to start or no interest in managing this side of their business, often finding the task to be tedious and difficult.

Signal is a platform for cryptocurrency signal groups.

An app that helps you learn to play piano with the songs you love.

Comprehensive travel safety platform

A mobile application to automate constructions job sites.

Using intelligent media management to eliminate construction rework. A software platform that allows construction managers to capture, organize, and share moments on site with their entire project team.

Siteability is powering the future of urban planning by transforming static, unstructured zoning bylaws into dynamic, queryable data. We turn this data into intuitive planning tools that show you what can be built on any property in seconds.

Skopien is a platform that centralizes data from ICU bed monitors, regardless of the brand, onto a single dashboard. Unlike traditional systems from companies like Siemens, Philips, and GE, which only display live data, Skopien allows hospitals to store, replay, and manage data from all monitors in one place. This helps hospitals streamline data management and avoid the need for multiple control centres.

SmartRecover personally reaches out to customers who abandon your website and wins back lost revenue by engaging them in realtime 1:1 SMS conversations.

Makes shape memory materials smarter smarter, lighter, and more reliable.

Gene transfection reagents based on functionalized dendrimer structures

Solvergen is a web-based no-code auto machine learning platform that's tuned for analyzing biomedical data to find disease markers, therapies and drug targets.

An online marketplace for local musical performers to connect with event opportunities.

Delivering therapy to children using off-the-shelf VR tech.

Spectra Plasmonics makes technology to enable comprehensive chemical analysis by anyone, anywhere. The company's user friendly devices are currently deployed across North America enabling frontline responders to tackle the opioid crisis by rapidly detecting and tracking dangerous substances like fentanyl. Beyond this, their technology platform has been adapted to other important applications like food safety, and analyzing critical materials for industry.

Global trading partner?

Repositories (e.g. like GitHub) for DNA data: analysis, sharing, team work

Wearable device to accelerate stroke recovery

Stabl is a digital health startup that uses medical data and machine learning algorithms to facilitate clinical care and effective patient recovery for value-based care health systems.

creating an inexpensive high-quality modular battery to enable electric conversion for industrial vehicles.

Stride helps rehabilitation professionals deliver better care to their patients by helping them collect insightful patient data in less time, with more accuracy, and in a more cost-effective way with the help of machine learning.

Effective wellness software for HR managers

Strivonix is dedicated to the development of a never before seen compressive massage therapy garment for athlete recovery and medical applications.

A smart wearable patch that changes colour to indicate when sunscreen has worn off, helping sunscreen users safely enjoy the sun.

Fashionable heated winter jackets, made without design comprises using printable inks

Super Visas are making Visa Applications Simple, Affordable and Fast.

Swap Robotics is a rapidly growing robotics company based in Ontario, Canada. We are building sidewalk robots to do important daily tasks interchangeably.

Best possible undershirts, so you never get sweat stains.

Swish is developing self-cleaning solar panel technology designed to actively keep solar panels clean in snowy and sandy regions. Accumulation of debris, such as sand in arid areas and snow in colder climates, drastically reduces solar panel efficiency, leading to significant revenue losses. For example, $5 billion was lost in 2021 due to these issues. Existing cleaning methods, such as fresh water washing and costly robotic systems, are not only inefficient but also unsustainable. Swish’s innovative solution aims to address this problem by providing a more effective, sustainable, and cost-efficient way to maintain solar panel performance, ensuring maximum energy production and minimizing operational costs.

Symphonic Labs is developing wearable silent speech interfaces that convert mouthed words into voice or text, enabling telepathic-like communication. Initially targeting defense, the technology allows soldiers to communicate covertly without vocalizing. Beyond defense, it aims to assist people with speech disabilities, enhance AI interactions, and enable silent calling for businesses.

TAMVOES health is a digital health data company that seeks to empower individuals with access to their health information. Based on 4 pillars of health: my journal, my health profile, my personal data trust, and my team, individuals can securely and seamlessly store, obtain, and share their health records. The TAMVOES platform is designed to keep everyone informed and educated along an individual’s health journey. 

TRUSTiiN intelligent Software Test Automation platform offers enterprises no-code, self-healing tests that run at scale and securely in the TRUSTiiN Test Cloud, enabling accelerated release cycles, enhanced software quality, and cost-effective product delivery, ensuring higher quality products, faster time-to-market, and streamlined testing processes.

At TWELVE we offer integrated solutions for occupational burnout.

Recruitment automation and intelligence platform

Tactic Hive Entertainment Inc. was founded in January of 2014. We offers casual, amateur and semi-professional gamers an improved gaming experience. By introducing a combination of tiered tournaments, challenge system and an in house league, we will level the playing ground and give every player a more fair and enjoyable gaming experience.

Tako is a B2B solution for the global seafood supply chain. Tako takes care of the information processes, allowing exporters and importers to focus on their expertise in delivering fish.

Tallyfi is a simple handheld people-counting solution that provides a live online dashboard with insightful analytics.

Tangled is a mobile app, currently just in IOS, preparing to launch the Beta version in September, that allows the users to reach out to a beauty community to exchange ideas and pictures, as well as find the most suitable service provider for them in their area. Tangled will be headquartered and launched in Waterloo.

Water usage monitoring at the tap.

Tapcelerate is helping mobile companies reduce bandwidth costs and improve content delivery speeds by up to 50%. We do this by automatically compressing images, so companies can focus more time on their business while we focus on speeding things up.