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Explore the journeys of entrepreneurs that have masterfully leveraged the Start-up Visa program to transform their dreams into resounding achievements.
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Opioid-x
One Line Pitch: A Digital Health Solution Focused on Improving Substance Abuse Disorders.
Business Summary: A technology company focusing on using digital health solutions to improve substance abuse disorders with an end-to-end system for managing access to medications through a digital pillbox and an application; hence, improving the opioid crisis and preventing easy access or tampering by other people not authorized to use the medication.
Sector: Life Sciences
OPTIMAL PIMS
One Line Pitch: Optimal PIMS revolutionizes pharmacy management with AI-powered software, optimizing inventory, streamlining operations, and enhancing patient care for pharmacies across Canada.
Business Summary: Optimal PIMS is a cutting-edge software solution designed to transform the landscape of pharmacy management across Canada. Leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, Optimal PIMS offers a comprehensive suite of tools tailored to optimize inventory, streamline operations, and enhance patient care within pharmacies of all sizes. By addressing critical inefficiencies and challenges faced by the industry, Optimal PIMS aims to revolutionize pharmacy management, driving operational efficiency, and elevating the standard of patient care. With a commitment to innovation, customization, and ongoing support, Optimal PIMS is poised to become the go-to solution for pharmacies seeking to thrive in an increasingly competitive and digitally driven healthcare landscape.
Sector: Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Technology
Optiya
One Line Pitch: Traffic management software accurately processing license plates for efficient parking management
Business Summary: Optiya specializes in precise vehicle identification and tracking solutions. Their lightning-fast Automatic Number Plate Reader (ANPR) employs advanced algorithms and machine learning for accurate license plate recognition. They also offer GPS tracking systems for real-time vehicle monitoring, enhancing fleet safety and efficiency.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Oral Health 365
One Line Pitch: A virtual dental care platform that delivers consultation and diagnostic services
Business Summary: Oral Health 365 is a virtual dentistry care provider that delivers consultation and diagnostic services to patients suffering from oral health care conditions at a low cost. The convenient teledentistry service is offered 24/7 through a website and mobile application. The company will initially launch in Canada and will target individuals that are elderly, live remotely, have a physical or developmental disability, and will attract patients and caregivers that wish to reduce travel and time off work for routine dental care.
Sector: Medical
Orbitlux
One Line Pitch: A new Era in safe night driving by using cutting-edge technology of smart headlights.
Business Summary: Our Smart headlight systems provide adaptive and glare-free high beam and adaptive light control. Automotive smart headlights are now growing in popularity. Our product is a smart automotive headlight system to be used by a wide range of vehicles regardless of their make or type. We have developed three products, the most advanced of which features glare-free high beam control, traffic signs detection,curves adaptive illumination, pedestrian detection and night vision.
Sector: Automotive
Orgaland
One Line Pitch: Packaged products made of natural and circular materials agricultural waste.
Business Summary: Orgaland creates packaging materials that can be used in place of plastic in an environmentally beneficial manner. These goods are entirely biodegradable and compostable. Products from Orgaland, which are created from agricultural waste such as pineapple crowns, corn husks, natural fibres, and seeds, fall into three categories: dishes for use in food preparation, containers for cosmetic and hygienic purposes, and packaging for detergent.
Sector: Clean Technology
Origins Source
One Line Pitch: Cloud based supply chain tracker using blockchain authentication and detection technology powered by Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to validate the genuineness of suppliers.
Business Summary: Origins Source created a cloud-based supply chain tracker to validate its authenticity. Their solution is based on cloud computing, Blockchain Authentication, Bluetooth IoT, and GPS. Data points extracted from the GPS location, time, shipment, and delivery status are available to the consumer at any given time through a cloud platform created by the company.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
OrthopediConnect
One Line Pitch: AI-based telemedicine platform with real time analytics for orthopedic care and recovery.
Business Summary: OrthopediConnect employs AI diagnostic tools designed for both pre-screening and post-orthopedic treatment monitoring. The platform aims to reduce inefficiencies and save time for patients and specialists. It features real-time consultations, enabling patients to describe symptoms as they occur. Accessible through mobile and web applications, the platform allows pre- and post-operative orthopedic patients to optimize initial consultations. Additionally, users can input daily progress, pain levels, and monitor healing complications.
Sector: Healthcare, Technology
OrthoTrack
One Line Pitch: A mobile application that identifies key events and milestones in the orthodontic journey. The timeline will offer clickable tabs that let you know when your next appointment should be booked, and what to expect at the next one.
Business Summary: Many young kids and adults visit the orthodontist regularly for realignment and care, but this process stretches over many years and requires the patients to be involved, and responsible for upkeep between appointments. During this process, there are many questions that come up regarding new equipment, care instructions, or pain management. OrthoTrack is a mobile application that allows the orthodontic office to communicate with patients about their own journey. It will identify milestones in the process so patients stay motivated, include FAQs about their specific orthodontic equipment and offer reminders when appointments need to be booked, or deep cleaning should happen.
Sector: Life Sciences
Osto VLearning
One Line Pitch: A virtual reality learning platform for immigrants to help them learn about culture and language through access to immersive classes focused on topics relevant to daily living situations.
Business Summary: Osto VLearning delivers a virtual reality educational platform featuring hundreds of immersive classes about culture and language. The classes include a wide range of topics relevant to daily living in English-speaking nations and other locations around the world. Learners utilize a virtual reality headset to see up-close, interactive visual as well the platform allows learners to connect with native speakers who can help learners improve their writing and speaking skills. The learning platform personalizes the learning path using artificial intelligence and makes learning enjoyable by using gamification which can improve learners’ motivation to keep studying.
Sector: Education, eLearning, Information Technology
OtherSide AI
One Line Pitch: AI for Poultry Science.
Business Summary: OtherSide AI is developing a software platform that uses artificial intelligence to monitor the health of chickens, allowing early intervention in disease. Our main goal is to automate as many labour-intensive tasks as possible, such as weighing chickens. The company formulated a business plan and have a solid grasp of the technology that will be involved. Our main goal from MTA’s incubator program is market research. The technology will make livestock farming scalable, and allow the most advanced technologies (e.g., IoT) to trickle through Manitoba and all of Canada.
Sector: Agriculture, Communications Technology, Information Technology
Otse Optical
One Line Pitch: The Company will operate an optical goods store and offer eyewear and optometry service to individuals of all ages and requirements.
Business Summary: The Company will sell optical lenses, frames, and other eyewear and offer professional support to clients. Through high-quality corrective and protective eyewear, the Company will provide solution to the increasing health conditions and support health and safety measures enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, through mobile delivery and reliance on online channels, the Company will reach clients in remote areas and enable them to receive quality support.
Sector: Life Sciences, Retail
Outworks (BSJ tech Inc.)
One Line Pitch: On-demand solution for the provision of general home labour. Outworks allow for their customers to find contractors on the network (online platform) which can offer the required service.
Business Summary: What sets outworks apart, is the way in which contracted workers are integrated into the system. Contractors facing components of the system allow for workers to bid on work, collaborate with other workers, track and analyze performance over time, optimize performance and efficiency, manage their bookings and communications, and even record revenues and expenses in preparation for tax return submissions.
Service providers using Outworks can either offer services as individuals or as organizations. Any contracting or construction services may wish to augment their traditional business and marketing, by offering services and bidding on jobs through the Outworks platform.
Sector: Services
Ovaly
One Line Pitch: Software that maximizes the nutritional value of chicken feed while minimizing feed costs.
Business Summary: Optimizing chicken feed is the most important area of innovation in egg farming as it represents about 65% of the average cost of production. Using artificial intelligence Ovaly can select and deliver the best possible feed composition throughout the hens life cycle. This is accomplished by optimizing the mix of feed nutrients to maximize nutritional value while minimizing costs. All while taking into account the environmental footprint and nutritional value of eggs.
Sector: Agriculture
Pahtloom
One Line Pitch: Pathloom automates medical file management and processing to improve workflow efficiency for healthcare, insurance, and legal professionals.
Business Summary: Pathloom developed a technology that enables medical professionals, insurance companies, and legal professionals to automate medical file management and processing. By transforming medical files into machine readable versions, this platform utilizes techniques to enhance the accuracy, traceability, security, and efficiency and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
Sector: Medical
Pajan
One Line Pitch: Bringing Middle-East expertise to manufacturing innovative new cheese products in Canada.
Business Summary: Pajan Canada’s core product is it’s Persecheese, an all-natural soft cheese that sits in between Feta and Gouda. It can use quality cow or goat milk, and is highly nutritious and delicious. Beyond just manufacturing and selling this first-of-its-kind cheese product, Pajan Canada will create a scalable franchise that combines the unique experience of seeing the cheese being made live, with ready dairy foods such as ice cream, in a single destination experience.
Sector: Information Technology, Manufacturing
Pantou Water
One Line Pitch: Portable and low profile drinking water generator.
Business Summary: Pantou water is an Eco-friendly device with low energy consumption that generates drinking water from air moisture. Our technological expertise enables us to design and manufacture the device with different capacities and weights.
Sector: Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology
Paprwork
One Line Pitch: Paprwork is an intelligent document management system that allows companies to easily create, manage, collaborate, locate, and verify documents.
Business Summary: At the core is the intelligent “Smart Snippet” system, which splits each document into blocks – these blocks of rich text are then easily categorized, searchable, and thus available for one-click copy and paste into any platform. Our Paprwork AI can easily recommend new snippets company-wide, further reducing all the hurdles in creating documentation at scale & speed. Paprwork is designed for company-wide use by employees, allowing for permission control of each snippet and categorization of snippets based on use, type, or privacy to ensure document standardization and quality.
Sector: B2B, SaaS
Parrotia Tea
One Line Pitch: World class Persian teas customized to taste and quality of life.
Business Summary: Users download our app or visit our website to order our unique teas. when users create a profile, we ask them about their health, sleep quality, and life style objectives. The app then recommends tea classes, blends and customizations that can help them achieve their goals. Users can customize teas with various flavors, and even include CBD (non hallucinogenic extract from cannabis plant), then order right to their doorstep.
Sector: Information Technology, Manufacturing
ParsaBio Tech
One Line Pitch: ParsaBio Tech has created the solution to the issue of preparing assessments for cataract surgery with their product the SLAM System.
Business Summary: ParsaBio Tech has developed the solution for quicker assessments of eyes for cataract surgery. Through the development of the Slit Lamp Angular Measurement (SLAM) device, they have made it possible to obtain quicker and highly accurate results. With the combination of this device and a mobile application, this product will enable physician to keep up with the rising need for cataract surgery. ParsaBio hopes that their creation will allow for patients to quickly obtain their assessments and be able to undergo cataract surgery in a timely fashion with this product.
Sector: Health Sciences
Pat Future
One Line Pitch: Unlocking Innovation Through Patent Licensing
Business Summary: PatFuture is an emerging player in the realm of patent licensing and intellectual property management. This small but dedicated team is fueled by a shared passion for innovation and the determination to create thriving partnerships. They bring a fresh perspective to the world of patents and IP, using their budding industry insights and growing network to help you navigate this dynamic landscape.
PEDS
One Line Pitch: Pediatric Education Device System is a mobile application that curates user-friendly and age-appropriate content based on a patient’s medical needs.
Business Summary: This application takes difficult and complex medical jargon and provides videos, infographics, and credible articles to simplify the explanation of procedures, making them easier for patients to understand. Created by a team of pediatricians, computer engineers, lawyers, and social scientists, PEDS uses AI to explain medical terminology to ease the fear and stress patients feel in the doctor’s office.
Sector: Healthcare
Peer to Peer Lending Application Company
One Line Pitch: Peer to Peer Lending is creating a P2P microlending app that allows users access an alternative lending system based on peer-to-peer interaction.
Business Summary: Peer to Peer Lending is developing an application-based lending system that evaluates users and provides them with loan options based on existing users. Using machine learning algorithms and data analysis of the borrower, this system provides users that would typically be unable to acquire loans with an option to borrow from other users on the app. Peer to Peer Lending looks to allows those who are unable to borrow from classic lenders with a way to borrow via their product.
Sector: Communications Technology, Finance, Information Technology
Penzil
One Line Pitch: Let your kids evolve their academic skills and enjoy our metaverse world of fun-filled interactive learning activities while we, parents, earn and enjoy this play-to-earn platform.
Business Summary: Penzil has developed a metaverse world with a fun-filled interactive learning platform for children that will not only enhance their academic skills which are essential to their studies. Although there are leading studios who have established their educational games, our platform has its own advantages as this is equipped with blockchain technology which will allow owners to have a peer-to-peer transaction on the items that they purchased in our games.
Sector: Information Technology
People Connection Technology
One Line Pitch: PCT offers a full suite of SMS marketing software called TextIn that allows for the use of multi-channel communication and campaigns.
Business Summary: PCT aims to remove the hassle of maintaining constant customer engagement though several platforms. They have developed TextIn; a self-service platform which allows users to communicate through several platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. PCT looks to not only maintain, but also increase and improve upon the engagement from a business’s target audience.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology, Marketing
Perform++
One Line Pitch: Perfrom++, an innovative smart application that provides a practical solution to establish an efficient and comforting environment at work uses ergonomic principles.
Business Summary: Perform ++ offers innovative, intelligent software based on ergonomic principles to help dentists avoid musculoskeletal injuries in their work environment. Specifically, Perform ++ removes the physical and mental challenges that dentists face and provides a practical solution to create a calm and efficient working environment.
Sector: IT, Life Sciences
Pet Habit
One Line Pitch: Pet Habit is an AI powered pet behavioural monitoring software application that keeps pets physically and mentally healthy and creates a better owner-pet relationship.
Business Summary: Pet Habit’s solution is based on Artificial Intelligence and digital image processing of video streams captured by pet monitoring cameras (or any other camera) that can provide early warning signs of abnormal behaviours. Abnormal pet behaviours can be the result of a pet being mentally or physically ill and Pet Habit will detect issues much sooner than pet owners would.
Sector: Communications, Information Technology
Pet Nation
One Line Pitch: Pet Nation is developing a feature-rich smartphone app that will facilitate all pet care services, the location of lost pets, and the procurement of pet supplies.
Business Summary: Pet Nation is creating a user-friendly website and app that will provide a broad range of proprietary features catering to pet care. The app will include a revolutionary pet face recognition technology to help pet owners find lost pets. The Pet Nation app and website will also provide a variety of other pet services, including the booking of pet-friendly travel arrangements, grooming appointments, custom diet plans, pet sitting services, and pet training exercises. There will also be messaging and live chat, personalized user content, GPS pet tracking, notifications, and detailed report cards. The platform will offer its users complete pet care support.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Petaik System
One Line Pitch: Elevating Communication: Petiak System, Your Trusted Partner for Excellence
Business Summary: At Petiak System, they’ve been delivering top-notch communication services to a wide range of individual and corporate clients since 2006. Their dedicated team of over 40 employees, along with the in-house development team, has crafted unique Business Support Systems (BSS) and Routing Panel. They have a diverse client portfolio that includes esteemed embassies and prominent corporations like Refah Kargaran Bank, Rexan and Remis Airport hotels, Taban Airlines, and major petrochemical firms. Team is here to elevate your communication solutions with their expertise.
Sector: Communications Technology
Petreat Limited
One Line Pitch: Petreat is looking to create nutritional supplements for pets that will aid in health and provide preventative measures against illness.
Business Summary: Petreat looks to ease the mind of pet owners with the use of nutritional supplements catered towards animals. These supplements will help maintain the health of pets, along with aiding in preventing health issues in the future. Through constant research, trials, and studies, Petreat is making headway in becoming a specialist in pet health care.
Sector: Life Sciences
PGEAR Interactive Motorsport Inc
One Line Pitch: PGear is a software and hardware-integrated solution for motorsport fans and racing enthusiasts
Business Summary: PGEAR enables millions of users to upload and share their drag, race track and go-karting times in the PGEAR app. Our community of users can use our platform to compete online or through our mobile app.
Sector: Information Technology
Pharma Text RX
One Line Pitch: A simple platform aimed towards pharmacies that will allow the intake of patient contact information alongside details about their specific prescriptions. The application will anticipate when a prescription is close to its end date and automatically send a text to the patient to both remind them of the refill and offer them the ability to request and schedule a refill.
Business Summary: When patients call in to pharmacies to refill prescriptions it results in an inefficiency of pharmacy staff time. Many pharmacy employees spend upwards of 20-40% of their time on the phone taking patient calls for prescription refills. Some pharmacies have their own dedicated apps that patients can use to refill prescriptions, but most patients won’t download and think to use new apps.
Pharma Text RX provides the ability for pharmacies to receive refill requests via text and communicate in a much more efficient way with patients. The solution includes the ability to remind patients about upcoming expected refills based on their prescription over text and allow simple confirmations and reminders when prescriptions are ready for pickup. When the client sends a response it will streamline the message to the Pharma Text RX app where a tidy list of refill requests can be sorted by dates and priorities saving the time pharmacists currently spend on the phone.
Sector: Life Sciences
Pharmacy Management Software
One Line Pitch: Pharmacy Management Software is an innovative solution to managing a pharmacy through the use AI and machine learning technology.
Business Summary: Pharmacy Management Software looks to solve the issue of maintaining pharmacy operations to be consistent with regulations and trends. With the time sink that that pharmacy maintenance brings to pharmacists, it takes away from their patient care. Their product solves this issue through the creation of their web-based management software that is driven by AI and machine learning to enhance the workflow state of pharmacies. Pharmacy Management Software hopes their product helps reduce errors in pharmacies and allow for better patient care.
Sector: Communications Technology, Health Sciences, Information Technology
PhProbe
One Line Pitch: An affordable instrument for monitoring pH and ECG concurrently to monitor fetal health and make fetal pH data continually available in real-time, provide easy access for the clinical team with minimal stress on the fetus or mother.
Business Summary: The importance of pH as a biomedical indicator is underscored by the fact that in all deliveries in North American hospitals, the pH of the umbilical cord is measured and recorded immediately after birth. Fetal pH monitoring, as currently done, has several shortfalls. In addition to being intrusive, awkward and uncomfortable for the mother, it can be difficult to collect the volume of blood required (30-50µL) and the sample is at risk of being contaminated prior to being analyzed. The proposed solution is an instrument under development for monitoring pH and ECG concurrently through one integrated device. With this design, PhProbe leverages the existing work flow practices. With this solution, the obstetrician uses a device that looks and feels the same, with the simple addition of the real-time, continual pH probe.
Sector: Life Sciences
Pick up Pal Food Systems
One Line Pitch: Pickup Pal Food Systems has developed a warming cabinet for restaurants and eateries to help streamline delivery-app orders for a smoother front-of- the -house delivery experience.
Business Summary: Pickup Pal Food Systems is a new company incorporated in the province of Ontario Canada that provides food warming and organization units which integrates with popular delivery apps like Uber Eats, Foodora, DoorDash, Postmates, Skip the Dishes, Jumia foods etc. Our warming units maintain temperature, eliminates mix-ups on order pickup, and streamline the pickup experience for drivers. Pickup Pal Food Systems offers these services to restaurants and eateries for their online delivery. This is the only offering in the marketplace of this kind.
Sector: Online Food Delivery
PillSmart
One Line Pitch: Biometric recognition smart pill dispenser.
Business Summary: PillSmart is a smart pill dispenser that safely stores and dispenses the user’s medication and can be used for the entire household’s medication needs. The device uses facial and voice recognition to provide the correct pills to the right person hassle free.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology, Life Sciences
Pioneer Modern Medicine Ltd
One Line Pitch: AI-based platform with personalized antioxidant tracking and recommendations to optimize users’ health
Business Summary: Pioneer has developed an integrated platform for antioxidant tracking and personalized recommendations, leveraging cutting-edge AI technology and seamless integration with popular wearables such as Fitbit and Apple Watch. Their gamified system not only motivates users through rewarding experiences but also provides them with tailored antioxidant guidance.
Sector: Life Sciences
Pitstop Canada PRND Inc
One Line Pitch: Pitstop Canada PRND Inc. is a technology driven automotive service company that provides maintenance, servicing, and installable products on-the-go using mobile servicing trucks.
Business Summary: The company plans to utilize app-based technology and mobile servicing trucks to provide auto services at customer homes or places of business. By removing the need to take the vehicle to a servicing center, this solution will create newfound efficiencies and increase customer accessibility in the auto servicing process. This disruptive company plans to launch in the Greater Toronto Area before scaling to other large urban markets across Canada.
Sector: Automotive Services and Technology
PKM Solutions Canada Inc
One Line Pitch: The PKM team is a start-up company and is going to design, develop, and commercialize an innovative facial mask with capabilities of high protection and killing pathogens.
Business Summary: PKM has developed a face mask for the prevention of airborne pathogen transfer and distribution, which not only has high efficiency in trapping the pathogenic particles but also kills them rapidly after trapping.
Sector: Healthcare
Placid Concept
One Line Pitch: Placid Concept is an innovative marketplace, connecting professional, highly vetted, independent cleaning staff, with homeowners, tenants and office managers.
Business Summary: Placid Concept is building a marketplace that allows homeowners, tenants, businesses and others to hire vetted, professional cleaning staff. With a focus on the Canadian market, Placid Concept innovates the home service industry by offering an alternative to classified ads, which are currently used to find home service staff.
Sector: Home Services
Plain Mind
One Line Pitch: Plain Mind is revolutionizing how clinicians interact and interpret and use dialogue with patients.
Business Summary: Plain mind is a medical technology company that is using advanced AI and cloud computing to interpret patient clinician dialogue in real time. The ability to provide valuable insight to both the patient and the clinician to guide therapy and measure results, faster and more efficiently. Improving outcomes, increasing capacity and reducing the cost of healthcare delivery. Plain Minds initial target market are Psychologists and Psychiatrists.
Sector: Life Sciences
Planverse
One Line Pitch: Planverse is a software that uses artifical intelligence to recommend architectural designs and floor plans based on a consumers interest.
Business Summary: Planverse is a smart platform powered by an application of artificial intelligence. The software provides a smart search and recommending system for architects, designers and brokers. Through the proprietary search engine, users can look for ideal design layouts in the form of floor plans and will make customized recomendations based on inputs and preferences for design.
Sector: Architecture, Design
Pleroma Inc
One Line Pitch: Pleroma has developed a cyber-security software that adapts via an algorithm to find the most suitable form of protection.
Business Summary: Pleroma has created an adaptative cyber-security software that uses an algorithm to improve itself. Instead of relying on several software’s, Pleroma has done away with this through the creation of their product that aims to cover all needed sectors of cyber-security and adapt specifically to the needs of the client.
Sector: Communications Technology, Cybersecurity, Information Technology
Plus Tree (FTA Canada)
One Line Pitch: Production and sales of an innovative bio-disinfectant to kill resistant bacteria, viruses, and fungus.
Business Summary: Our compound kills bacteria, virus and fungus to be fully effective without leaving harmful residues and not exposing users, and health care givers to risk.
Sector: Biomedical, Life Sciences
PlusVirtual
One Line Pitch: Full-service online pharmacy for the digital age.
Business Summary: PlusVirtual is a full-service online pharmacy for North America. The platform allows patients to get and automatically refill their prescriptions through the mail with easy to use blister packs, and consult with a pharmacist around associated care plans, nutraceuticals, info on generics, as well as best practices and safety information. Launched in Canada, the team consists of experts with years of experience and investing their own capital, looking to scale this business through partnerships, and empowering pharmacists in local communities.
Sector: Healthcare, Information Technology
Pneumonia Early Detection Canada Inc
One Line Pitch: A novel Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based deep learning system to rapidly and accurately diagnose pneumonia from chest X-Ray images.
Business Summary: Pneumonia is one of the diseases that causes the most fatalities worldwide, especially in children and seniors. Chest X-Ray images are one of the most readily available and common imaging modalities for the detection and identification of pneumonia. However, the detection of pneumonia from chest radiography is a difficult task even for experienced radiologists.
PEDCanada Inc is developing a novel AI-based deep learning system for diagnosing viral, bacterial or mycoplasma pneumonia in real-time from chest X-Ray images. The software application generates a results-orientated radiology report that can easily be interpreted by any medical professional with very little training. This enables technicians and physicians to confirm a pneumonia diagnosis significantly faster with greater accuracy than current clinical practice, enabling treatment to start sooner, which is vital for patients that are severely ill. The technology may be adopted by remote radiology clinics, globally, that are required to screen and progressively monitor patients that are at a high risk of developing the disease as the radiology report can be reviewed and interpreted by a qualified radiologist through telemedicine.
Sector: Life Sciences
Pocket BIM
One Line Pitch: An all-in-one DIY renovation management tool.
Business Summary: PocketBIM aims to bring a true Building Information Modeling experience to small home renovation projects. By cutting down the BIM process to its core elements, PocketBIM enables users to effectively manage their DIY projects. The company estimates that proper use of their platform could save ~30% of the project costs for the average user.
Sector: Communications Technology, Home Improvement, Information Technology
Polyean Technology
One Line Pitch: Polyean Technology is creating environmentally friendly products that will absorb garbage leakage and odors.
Business Summary: Polyean Technology is developing a material made up of absorbable polymers and nanomaterials that will absorb any waste leachate and odors from household garbage. As well as controlling the microbial activity and odors, their first product, K-Lean, will also make waste more environmentally friendly. K-lean will be available as a tablet or pad.
Sector: Environment
Polynix Technology
One Line Pitch: Polynix has developed a breakthrough technology to overcome the problems of bone grafts by using an in-situ forming scaffold (IFS) which does not originate from humans or animals.
Business Summary: In bone grafts with human or animal sources, both detecting and eliminating viruses in the preparation procedure are not possible. This IFS solidifies in the site of the surgery within 2 minutes, with evenly distributed homogenous porosities resembling spongy bone.
Sector: Life Sciences
Pontactive
One Line Pitch: Revolutionizing structural health monitoring with smart-dust technology.
Business Summary: Pontactive is a cloud-based bridge health monitoring system. The system uses smart-dust technology which will be placed strategically on structural points and within the concrete prior to construction. Pontactive can maintain safety, boost productivity, support analytics, and ensure quality.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology, Structural Health Monitoring