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LS
One Line Pitch: Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered fast transportation system
Business Summary: LS’s intelligent platform connects sellers with the nearest available transporter through augmented reality. This helps reduce delivery time, cost, and minimizes the use of fuels. Their advanced analytical platform helps sellers improve performance with data-driven insights, including inventory adjustments and route changes based on customer behavior and traffic conditions.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Lumel
One Line Pitch: Building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) solutions which look great on any building.
Business Summary: Lumel aims to increase the use of BIPV products through producing their own high-efficiency panels. Unlike competitors, Lumel’s panels have modern styling and are fully customizable to meet design needs.
Sector: Building-Integrated Photovoltaics
Luxe Enterprise
One Line Pitch: An e-commerce platform to connect buyers and sellers seeking a sustainable, eco-friendly alternative to traditional leather goods
Business Summary: Luxe Enterprise is developing an e-commerce platform specifically catered to businesses involved in the production of bio and plant-based leather. The platform leverages blockchain technology to ensure transparency and traceability of leather goods within the supply chain, providing manufacturers, retailers and end customers with verifiable information about the materials used in their products. The company aims to promote sustainably sourced materials and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes to create a diverse range of innovative and fashionable products.
Sector: Fashion
MAK LIFE VIBE LEARNING LTD.
One Line Pitch: Revolutionizing health education, our AI-powered cloud platform offers personalized courses and interactive resources, fostering informed decisions and community support for better well-being.
Business Summary: We’re developing a cutting-edge cloud-based platform dedicated to personalized health and wellness education. Leveraging AI and machine learning, our platform provides tailored courses, interactive resources, and a supportive community, all designed to meet the unique needs of each user. Covering a wide range of health topics, from diet and exercise to medication understanding and medical test interpretation, our platform educates users on the scientific principles underlying each topic. By hyper-personalizing the learning journey, fostering interactive experiences, and promoting community engagement, we bridge the gap between healthcare professionals and patients, empowering users to make educated decisions that enhance health outcomes and overall well-being.
Sector: Education Technology, Healthcare, Technology
Manergy
One Line Pitch: Manergy is revolutionizing energy management by providing users with an intelligent tool to reduce consumption, plan usage, and maintain efficient appliances.
Business Summary: Manergy offers a competitive edge with advanced AI and IoT integration for real-time, predictive energy management that surpasses traditional solutions. Unique to the market, Manergy seamlessly integrates directly with home appliances and provides automated device control, leveraging AI, Machine Learning & IoT integration.
Sector: B2C, Clean Technology
Map Store
One Line Pitch: One-of-a-kind, fully customizable city artwork.
Business Summary: Map Store provides beautifully crafted, custom city artwork. Using Map Store, customers can select the city/location they want printed, materials used to print the map and finalize the piece with a custom frame.
Sector: Services
Marketing Consultancy for Startups
One Line Pitch: Consulting services for start-ups looking to manage their marketing efforts and grow their businesses.
Business Summary: With their innovative Sales Intelligence technology powered by AI, Marketing Consultancy can accurately and precisely gain information on new markets, customers, and competitors to create personalized market plans.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology, Services
MaryMD
One Line Pitch: Unified digital community for holistic women’s health.
Business Summary: MaryMD was developed by a multidisciplinary team of health and technology experts working to reinvent how women are cared for in terms of health, wellness, and community. Named after Mary Jacobi, a pioneer in women’s health and health knowledge, MaryMD is a digital holistic women’s health community, with a vetted knowledgebase, wellness coaching, care specialists, and health retail.
Sector: Healthcare, Information Technology
MATBionics
One Line Pitch: Innovative hydrotherapy equiptment manufacture.
Business Summary: MATBionics has developed an aquamill, which is a compact hydrotherapy gym, including an underwater treadmill and other innovative fitness equiptment. This is designed specifically for cardiac rehabilitation and fat burning exercises.
Sector: Medical Device, Medical Equipment
Material Docket
One Line Pitch: Automating construction cost estimates with material take-off solutions.
Business Summary: Material Docket offers a web and mobile app for subcontractors, providing an intuitive tool that streamlines material take-offs and generates accurate cost estimates for construction projects. Our solution utilizes an up-to-date pricing database, eliminating the need for manual data entry and ensuring current pricing information.
Sector: Construction, Technology
Mathematics Without Tears
One Line Pitch: Mathematics Without Tears is building an innovative online mathematics platform that will increase math literacy amongst students
Business Summary: Mathematics Without Tears uses both machine learning and artificial intelligence to assess students’ current competencies in mathematics, and then provides personalized recommendations, learning materials, and educational games. The company’s customized materials will be for students with different learning needs and will feature gamification aspects to increase student engagement and aptitude.
Sector: IT
Matters Inc
One Line Pitch: Matters Inc. is a neuro-linguistic program that uses scientific insights to raise awareness in family, teachers, nannies, and children.
Business Summary: Matters Inc has developed a product that aims to raise awareness in its users’ bit-sized scientific insights. Their product will increase three types of awareness: social, self, and organizational. Matters Inc hopes that their product will aid in the battle against mental health issues.
Sector: Life Sciences
MAVCOR
One Line Pitch: MAVCOR provides a corrosion management system for regular inspection and predictive maintenance of pipelines and energy infrastructure.
Business Summary: MAVCOR provides an analytics dashboard that integrates with drone technology to inspect and to provide continuous corrosion data collection. MAVCOR improves the efficiency of inspection and associated costs, improves safety and reduces environmental risks associated with leaks.
Sector: Chemicals, Energy
Max 9
One Line Pitch: Provides quality assurance on safety (non-tampered) and legitimacy (non-counterfeit) of products using technology for under two cents an application.
Business Summary: Sell a version of RFID chips attached to devices that are validated at point of manufacture.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Maximon Med Corporation
One Line Pitch: Maximon is creating AI-integrated wearable devices that will monitor and analyze the health of the user and provide support when needed.
Business Summary: Maximon is developing AI-integrated software that works cohesively with a wearable device that will provides users with several analytics regarding their health. The AI will make critical decisions based on the user’s current health status and contact aid when required. Maximon is hoping to provide preventative measures to life-threatening conditions and help people overcome unexpected heath issues.
Sector: Healthcare, Life Sciences
MBF Group
One Line Pitch: MBF provides the autobody, car-dealer, car rental and paint industry with a surface defect detection smartphone application that detects damage and surface defects better than the human eye. The application features AI and machine learning, providing a cost effective tool to record and report damage and imperfections of any painted surface.
Business Summary: MBF’s mission is to provide industry with an affordable and reliable surface paint quality measurement system. The MBF app is user friendly and will allow easy capture and reporting of surface defects – saving operators time and money.
Sector: Auto-body Repair, Car Rental, Car Sales, Paint
McClick
One Line Pitch: McClick Technology Inc. designs, optimizes and develops Electrical Motor/ Generator with a proprietary Permanent Magnet-Assisted Synchronous Reluctance Motor and outer rotor in special motor such as Switched Reluctance Motor and Synchronous Reluctance Motor. The motors and generators have wide range applications, from commercial retail products such as e-bikes and e-scooter to large scale heavy manufacturing products such as robotics, automotive and aerospace industries.
Business Summary: The Company will provide engineering services in design, optimization, and manufacturing of electrical motors/generators and will directly distribute the special motors/generators in E-Bike and Scooter applications. The novel compact structure offers higher reliability and energy and cost efficiency, with applications in automotive, rehabilitation products, E-bike, Scooter and home appliance manufacturing.
Sector: Engineering, Manufacturing, Transportation
Mchalegroup Inc
One Line Pitch: An intelligent restaurant service app and cloud platform, which provides restaurant recommendation, reservation, waiting list, order and payment service for diners and restaurant owners.
Business Summary: Mchalegroup Inc. is dedicated to reducing frustration for diners, hosts and restaurants and replaces the traditional recommendation, reservation and payments system with a real-time app by adopting unique algorithm with deep learning technology and big data analysis.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
MedGlobe Innovations Inc.
One Line Pitch: We are developing an intelligent-multi agent system as a CDSS to identify potential links between drugs and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) in the area of Cardio Vascular care.
Business Summary: This potential for CDSS is enormous and the full scope of use is beyond the ability of this business. We are developing an intelligent-multi agent system as a CDSS to identify potential links between drugs and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) in the area of Cardio Vascular care. The aim is to help health care professionals and organizations achieve earlier identification of potential Adverse Drug Events (ADEs), provide warning questions, offer alternative treatments, provide personalized recommendations, and generally improve decision making.
Sector: Medical Device
Medica-Notes
One Line Pitch: Streamlining the use of electronic medical records through voice-to-text transcription of patient interactions.
Business Summary: Documenting patient information and physician-patient interactions as electronic medical records can be an inefficient and time-consuming process. Medica-Notes aims to create software integration tools to streamline this process by transcribing interactions between healthcare professionals and patients through voice-to-text, ultimately improving the efficiency of healthcare services.
Sector: Healthcare
Medicalverse
One Line Pitch: Medicalverse provides nursing and medical simulations for training in virtual reality environment. This aids educators in providing high-quality, adaptable trainings that enhance patient care while saving time and money.
Business Summary: Medicalverse is a cutting-edge virtual reality platform for medical education and training. Our platform provides healthcare professionals and students with immersive, hands-on learning experiences that simulate real-life medical scenarios. Using artificial intelligence-powered virtual patients, real-time feedback and analytics, and cross-platform compatibility, Medicalverse transforms traditional medical simulation to provide a truly innovative and effective way to learn and practice. With Medicalverse, healthcare professionals can build their confidence and competence, while learners can experience a safe, convenient, and engaging way to develop their skills. Our goal is to improve patient care by revolutionizing the way medical professionals are trained.
Sector: Healthcare
Medilink Technology Inc.
One Line Pitch: Elevating Tradition with Technology: Medilink Clinic Management System – Where TCM Meets Innovation
Business Summary: Medilink Clinic Management System specializes in providing a tailored clinic management solution designed specifically to meet the unique requirements of traditional Chinese medicine clinics. With a commitment to enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of TCM clinics, Medilink empowers practitioners to focus on patient care while optimizing their workflow.
Sector: Healthcare
Mediplant
One Line Pitch: An online marketplace platform for medicinal plants and natural supplements that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide users with personalized recommendations based on their needs.
Business Summary: The Mediplant platform combines a user’s demographics, personal health information, and lifestyle data to provide customized recommendations on the optimal supplement diet and doses. Furthermore, our platform offers users verified information on all supplements and medicinal plants, including dosage, side effects, interactions, and more. Lastly, we allow small supplement and medicinal plant sellers to grow their businesses and expand their reach nationally and internationally.
Sector: Health and Wellness
MediTech
One Line Pitch: A mobile or tablet-based application that uses built in camera/image technology and computer vision to accurately count blister pack medications. MediTech will provide pharmacists with a way to drastically reduce the amount of time they spend on this manual task.
Business Summary: Pharmacists spend a substantial amount of time ensuing compliance for packaged medications. When patients need custom blister-pack medications (which for many pharmacies makes up a substantial portion of their business) the medication must first be put together by pharmacy assistants, put into blister packs, labels must be verified, and then a pharmacist must manually count medications in the blister packs to ensure accuracy. For many pharmacists this makes up 70% or more of their time and is an incredibly inefficient and expensive process. MediTech is a technology that uses existing, off-the-shelf hardware and proprietary software to count blister pack medications much more quickly than the current manual method while providing a cost- effective solution for small and medium sized pharmacies.
Sector: Life Sciences
MEDLOGISITCS
One Line Pitch: MedLogistics is a cloud-based, intelligent transportation management for the health care industry offering real-time tracking, fleet management and automated scheduling, combined with electronic health records (EHR) management, to reduce cost and enhance patient care.
Business Summary: The platform’s comprehensive features that utilize machine learning, chatbot and an EHR feature will set apart MedLogistics from current providers of medical supplies transportation or software that manage transportation of goods. Ms. Cheng Shu’s combined 15-year experience practising medicine in a hospital setting and her entrepreneurial experience in electromechanical equipment distribution and marketing will be immensely valuable to provide insights into the platform development and in educating health care organizations on the benefits of the intelligent fleet management platform.
Sector: Healthcare
MeetWise Canada Technologies Inc
One Line Pitch: MeetWise Canada Technologies Inc. is a real-time contact management system, complete with advanced technologies that allow dual profiles for personal and business.
Business Summary: MeetWise Canada Technologies Inc. is a super-app platform with integrated foundation technologies that combine profiles, contacts, meetings, events, social & commercial feeds, tasks, notes, and an intuitive calendar to resolve the inherent user frustrations of multiple apps and repetitive tasks.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Meisam Luxury
One Line Pitch: Advance gemstone analysis with virtual try-on and price prediction.
Business Summary: We offer a revolutionary shopping platform with innovative features such as advanced gemstone analysis, price prediction and re-sell value, virtual try-on and an AI powered personalized journey.
Sector: Mobile Applications
MendMe
One Line Pitch: Employee Health Software platform for enterprise.
Business Summary: MendMe is the ultimate tool for employees to recover faster, and get back to work sooner. Employers save on lost wages, benefits providers control costs, and employees get access to the mental, physical, general health, and pre & post-operative best practices they need to get back on their feet.
Sector: Healthcare, Information Technology
Meta Wings XR
One Line Pitch: Meta Wings XR provides users with a virtual 3D space platform that can be used to facilitate virtual meetings, training rooms, virtual showrooms, onboarding and workspaces, thus enhancing the user’s ability to collaborate
Business Summary: Meta Wings XR has created a SaaS platform that enable users to take advantage of the uprising Metaverse technologies. They have created a web-based platform that enables real-time interactions among users on laptop, mobile and in a virtual reality space with the capability for the program to be custom tailored to suit the specific needs of the users.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
MightyID
One Line Pitch: Using a peer-to-peer model, the MightyID communication platform brings together the features of high-end video calls with both the messaging and the task management abilities of social media.
Business Summary: MightyID is communication company with technology that combines video and conference calling with messaging and task management abilities. MightyID has been designed for individuals and small- to medium-sized companies. The app provides users with a messaging platform where you can also schedule calls or make them on the go.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
MigrateDesk.AI
One Line Pitch: Smart immigration assistant for immigration lawyers and consultants.
Business Summary: MigrateDesk.AI powerful AI assistant for immigration lawyers and consultants, identifying timely opportunities, application improvement areas, and facilitating application workflows. The solution is structured into 4 key feature areas: Case & Task Management, Client Onboarding & Data Room, Fit IQ, Templates & Best Practices.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology, Services
MigrateEzy
One Line Pitch: MigrateEzy is an AI-driven platform that streamlines the Canadian immigration process with essential resources, cultural integration help, and personalized immigrant experiences.
Business Summary: MigrateEzy is a comprehensive, AI-powered digital platform that simplifies the Canadian immigration process by providing direct access to essential services and resources, facilitating cultural integration, and creating personalized experiences for immigrants. This paltform will provide immigrants with all the necessary information and resources they need to make a smooth transition into Canadian life.
Sector: Immigration and Labour Technology, Tourism
Mindelia
One Line Pitch: Mindelia is an AI-powered lead-scoring tool helping home-renovation pros to connect with high-potential leads.
Business Summary: Mindelia is an AI-powered lead-scoring tool helping micro and small home-renovation pros to connect with high-potential leads. For the end-users, the platform acts as a listing website where people can see pros’ completed renovation projects and get inspired by them. They also can interact with these posted projects and reach out to pros free of charge. “Only pay when you have too many leads to catch up with” instead of buying garbage leads.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
MindHabit Wellness Inc
One Line Pitch: MindHabit will provide mental wellness support by offering personalized programs which place a focus on the user’s physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual wellbeing.
Business Summary: MindHabit Wellness Inc. will develop an intuitive Android and iOS application that aims to improve people’s mental health by combining a holistic integrative approach to mental wellness with nutrition programs and mind-body yoga sessions, as well as offering personalised expert consultation and guidance.
Sector: Information Technology, Services
Minfusion
One Line Pitch: Minfusion has designed and developed a medical grade beverage dispenser that purifies tab water, adds a measured amount of minerals, vitamins and flavours to the filtered water and carbonates the mixtures.
Business Summary: Minfusion has designed and developed a medical grade beverage dispenser that purifies tab water, adds a measured amount of minerals, vitamins and flavours to the filtered water and carbonates the mixtures. Users can customize their drinking water based on their own desired amount of minerals, vitamins and flavours. Minfusion can track and monitor the micronutrient and water consumption and provides personalized reports. Each mixture formulation is designed to maximize the bioavailability and efficacy of each of the elements in the mixture.
Sector: Life Sciences
Minueto
One Line Pitch: Through disruptive innovation and a revolutionary platform, Minueto automates music education, making it scalable and accessible globally, uniting people of all the different cultures around the world through music.
Business Summary: Learning music is an impossible challenge for many, whether due to the lack of access, price, geographical displacement, content of interest, languages, ineffective methodologies, learning barriers, among others. Minueto solves all these barriers through 5 pillars: Content Global Access; Musical Knowledge Break Down; Lessons and Practices in Different Approaches; Customized Dedication Learning Levels; and Endless Content Production.
Sector: Education, eLearning
Miracare Medi Tech
One Line Pitch: Magnolia Medi Tech combines an affordable 3D image capture system and 3D printing techniques. Which deliver customized maxillofacial prosthetics with accurate skin colour with fine textures over a 3Dshape, with significant savings in both time and cost.
Business Summary: New and innovative methods for manufacturing facial soft tissue prostheses that prioritize accurate 3D color image reproduction have been developed and a framework and protocol for specific 3D processing designed. Additionally, color management processing has been developed and successfully applied to 3D imaging devices and manufacturing processes.
The overall plan is to integrate electronic sensors at the intersection between the prosthetic and the wearer’s tissue, which the prosthesis can gather information related to prosthetic function and comfort, such as the pressure, temperature, and light across wearer’s tissue, that can help improve further iterations of these types of prosthetics.
Sector: Life Sciences
Mobilab
One Line Pitch: Mobilab is a mobile bovine semen collection facility offering on-site collection, freezing and storage of semen at the breeder’s location.
Business Summary: Mobilab is offering on-farm bovine semen collection, and has developed a unique, nanocomposite-assisted cryopreservation procedure, increasing the motility and integrity of sperm by as much as 20%. Traditional methods of semen collection and preservation lead to a high degree of oxidative stress, especially in the freezing and thawing operation. Traditional players often also require the bulls to be transported to collection facilities causing high costs and distress to the bulls.
Sector: Agriculture, Life Sciences
Mobile Marketing
One Line Pitch: A new way for businesses to advertise and engage with customers to collect data in the digital space.
Business Summary: By using artificial intelligence businesses are provided in-depth reports. metrics and analysis of shopping trends and usage data so that they can make informed marketing decisions.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Mobile Money Services Company
One Line Pitch: Mobile Money provides users with the ease of being able to access and use financial services from the palm of their hand.
Business Summary: Mobile Money provides users with an alternative option to traditional mobile banking. Using their product, users do away with typical fees associated with deposits and withdrawals, and instead only pay a flat fee per transaction. Mobile Money looks to enable users to have a more efficient and accessible use of their money.
Sector: Mobile Applications
Modular Green
One Line Pitch: ModularGreen growing surgically clean food without soil, lighting and heating – all year round.
Business Summary: ModularGreen has developed entirely self-sustained modular greenhouses that will help solve the problem of food security in non-agricultural climates. The modules will enable year-round production of fresh fruit, vegetables and fish using an aquaponics system, pyrolysis heater and solar energy.
Sector: Agriculture, Food
Monday Blues HR Solution
One Line Pitch: An artificial intelligence (AI) screening tool developed to support workplace mental health.
Business Summary: An AI-enabled mental health screening tool that can be used to monitor an employee’s wellbeing. This automated model utilizes computer vision to analyze a person’s body posture and facial expressions. The results are driven by AI algorithm to analyze physical behavior and emotional reactions to decipher whether an individual is at risk of developing a mental illness.
Sector: Technology
Mositto City
One Line Pitch: Mositto City is a neural network-based educational system that uses a graph-like structure and artificial intelligence to create better STEAM skills learning experience.
Business Summary: Mositto City is a neural network-based educational system that uses a graph-like structure and artificial intelligence, trying to encompass all interests and talent, for better STEAM skills learning experience which will lead to a more practical approach towards industry needs.
Sector: Education Technology
MPPM
One Line Pitch: MPPM is a hardware company building a mobile device for purification and rerefining of used lubricating oil using renewable energy.
Business Summary: The platform provides a cost-effective and environmentally friendly solution for purification of used oil that can be used anywhere in the world, especially in remote locations. MPPM invention can turn a large costly refinery facility into a relatively small, portable device for a very reasonable price.
Sector: Environment, Oil and Gas
MST VR Solutions
One Line Pitch: Most maritime accidents are caused by human error. Safety training could significantly reduce accidents and employee injury. The industry is challenged to find competent safety trainers as training has been chronically underfunded by the maritime industry. MST VR Solutions will fill that void by providing cost effective sustainable safety training to the Canadian marine industry delivered through Virtual Reality (VR).
Business Summary: MST VR Solutions will earn revenue via an affordable annual subscription that will deliver sustainable and engaging maritime safety training using VR technology. As most maritime training to date has been done utilizing legacy training techniques, MST VR Solutions will be a disruptor in this sector and offer a better, more engaging and effective training solution.
My Digital Stethoscope
One Line Pitch: Created a Digital Stethoscope which can transmit heartbeat and breathing sounds wirelessly using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for remote medical and veterinary examinations.
Business Summary: My Digital Stethoscope improves standard Stethoscope technology by providing extra listening power for the faintest heartbeat sounds. It’s easy to use and can transmit sound wirelessly even from a remote location to help medical professionals diagnose diseases with confidence. My Digital Stethoscope is tubeless, lightweight and can directly connect a Bluetooth earphone to the chest piece without any other application. It also filters and eliminates ambient sounds plus can be equipped with a heart rhythm recorder and a miniature ECG.
Sector: Life Sciences
My Little Explorer
One Line Pitch: My Little Explorer redefines immersive education through AI and augmented realities so children can enjoy a more interactive learning experience.
Business Summary: By working with educators, this application uses machine learning technology to provide an alternate way for children to learn their course curriculum. The goal of gamifying the learning process is for greater engagement while children ages 4 to 8 learn about topics such as language, mathematics, and science.
Sector: Artificial Intelligence, eLearning
My Patissier
One Line Pitch: My Patissier are tech “family bakers”, providing access to full bakery services through a ground breaking digital platform designed to deliver the most positive consumer experience.
Business Summary: My Patissier provides a digital platform consisting of mobile app and omni-channel chat system using start-of-the-art technology to create a powerfully branded, high quality, on-demand personalized bakery service to consumers. The proprietary offering is designed as a personal / family baker that connects customers directly to the digital bakery, conveying client needs, expectations, custom orders with delivery to the customers doorstep.
Sector: Food, Information Technology
My Rhythm
One Line Pitch: My Rhythm has created a wearable sensor technology that using AI technology to diagnose arrhythmias through data analysis and reporting.
Business Summary: My Rhythm has developed wearable technology that incorporates sensor and AI technology to diagnose arrhythmias accurately and easily. With the current diagnosis’s process being lengthy and inconvenient, My Rhythm has created a product that allows for patients to receive a diagnosis from the comfort of their homes. With the ease of use that their product provides, the wearable technology can collect data and relay it to the patient’s assigned physician. My Rhythm hopes their product creates a quicker and more efficient process for arrhythmias diagnosis.
Sector: Health Sciences
Nano Bricks
One Line Pitch: Nanotechnological Bricks made out of fly ash, suitable for harsh Canadian cold climate.
Business Summary: Nanotechnological Fly Ash Based Bricks Company utilized fly ash to create bricks for the construction of houses. Their product is resistant to freezing and uses nanomaterials to enhance the rate of pozzolanic reactions of the brick, increasing the product’s strength.
Sector: Construction
