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Salad Bar
One Line Pitch: Salad Bar offers a fully autonomous way for consumers to get fresh and on-the-go salads via their robotic vending machines.
Business Summary: Salad Bar is creating a fully touchless and autonomous salad bar that is served via a robotic vending machine. These salad bars will serve fresh and nutritional customizable salads that can be easily obtained on-the-go. Salad Bar looks to provides consumers with healthy and environmentally conscious alternatives for quick and easy consumption.
Sector: Food, Life Sciences
Sam Plas Co.
One Line Pitch: Sam Plas Co..
Business Summary: The Company was originally founded in Iran in 2020 and planning to relocate to Winnipeg. The company will continue to prototype and develop the product in Iran while awaiting the relocation to Winnipeg where the verification, validation, and clinical evaluation will take place. The company plans to manufacture the product in Canada, where they will obtain regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the USA, Health Canada, and CE Mark. The first clinical application will be for veterinary dermatological wounds then seek progressive indications for human dermatological skin conditions. The company is currently investigating the ideal business model for the product and is considering opening and operating dermatology clinics or sell directly to vet clinics and large hospitals.
Sector: Life Sciences
Sanflotec
One Line Pitch: A newly designed, patented, marine floating platform that is lighter in weight, easy to install, and can be customized in different sizes and applications.
Business Summary: The modified lightweight reinforced material is a game changing technology that opens new opportunities in light marine floating platforms. Current floating systems are either expensive or shape-limited; our technology provides a variety of customizable, economical platforms for different uses and applications; this technology saves businesses between 20-40% of cost inclusive of material and installation. In addition, it is easy to install and requires minimal maintenance. Also, experts are not required to install these systems; a large surface area can be assembled within a few hours. The applications are many – residential and commercial dock, swimming pools, restaurants, fish farms and many other service-based businesses.
Sector: Industrials
Sani-Signal
One Line Pitch: Automated sterile mask dispenser.
Business Summary: Sani-Signal is building an automated, sterile mask dispenser which also includes a hand sanitizer dispenser. The system allows for the distribution of masks without the risk of contamination by human touch. The market focus will be on retailers of medical supplies and hygienic products.
Sector: Medical Supplies
Sapphire
One Line Pitch: Sapphire is a company that provides IT risk assessment services, corporate employee training, systems testing, and related consulting services focusing on human elements to find and eliminate both technical and behavioral vulnerabilities of the data custody chain.
Business Summary: Sapphire is a company that helps businesses deal with the growing need for data security. The company’s core area of expertise is the human element in IT security. The company renders IT risk assessment services, corporate employee training, systems testing, and related consulting services to find and eliminate both technical and behavioral vulnerabilities of the data custody chain.
Sector: Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Services
SASCO
One Line Pitch: Integrated smart home system providing safety, security, comfort and automation.
Business Summary: Securohomes is an intelligent security system & amp service provider that combines the advantages of alarm, video surveillance, and home automation systems. It provides a one-stop solution to the requirements of home security systems which are based on electronic components specific to the personal computers (PCs), and controlled devices. Integrated with BMS (Building Management System), our computer-based systems are installed in homes to control, monitor, and notify, HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning), lighting, power systems, fire systems, and security systems.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Satellite Negotiator
One Line Pitch: Satellite Negotiator will provide collision avoidance and space traffic management services for satellite operators who operate in low‐earth orbit.
Business Summary: Satellite Negotiator initial product is a technology‐backed service for satellite operators. The long‐ term vision is to develop the technology into a global traffic management service provided to all operators in collaboration with the Canadian Government.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Scan & Pay
One Line Pitch: Scan & Pay is an app-based software that enables shoppers to scan products and add them to a virtual cart for a contactless experience.
Business Summary: Scan & Pay is a software created to further enable contactless shopping and purchasing experiences. The app-based software gives shoppers the opportunity to scan products with their mobile device and add it to a virtual shopping to be purchased via the app. Scan & Pay hopes to provide consumers with a comfortable contactless shopping experience.
Sector: Retail
SecureCare
One Line Pitch: A revolutionized healthcare communication platform.
Business Summary: SecureCare will act as a simple and secure communication software to address the inefficiencies that exist today in communication between pharmacists and physicians. The platform will enable pharmacists, doctors, and clinic staff to communicate key information inside of a single, secure, and consolidated web/mobile platform to greatly improve patient care and medication management.
Sector: Communications, Healthcare
Seed to Spruce
One Line Pitch: Community engagement platform.
Business Summary: Seed to Spruce is a community driven platform that connects seniors and youth through guided programs. These activities build skills, foster connections, reduce isolation, and benefit local communities. Their goal is to create meaningful intergenerational relationships.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
SeedAR
One Line Pitch: SeedAR Inc. is building Indiroot, an augmented reality (AR) based Customer-to-Customer (C2C) online marketplace dedicated to indigenous peoples’ art, handicrafts, and traditional non-perishable foods.
Business Summary: To build a C2C online platform to both sell indigenous created products and to showcase their rituals, ancient knowledge, and languages with AR marketing methods. Our goal is to empower the indigenous people financially while revitalizing their culture and languages.
Sector: Augmented Reality, E-commerce
Sentechnology
One Line Pitch: Sentechnology pioneers non-invasive health monitoring through a wearable sensor, analyzing eccrine sweat biomarkers for athletes and diabetic patients, enhancing performance and well-being
Business Summary: Sentechnology produces a revolutionary wearable sensor that provides real-time, highly accurate analysis of critical eccrine sweat constituents such as glucose, sodium, potassium, and lactate. Our multiplexed sensing approach enables simultaneous measurement, allowing for personalized health monitoring of athletes and diabetic patients. With a focus on direct-to-consumer sales initially, our technology aims to evolve into B2B partnerships, integrating with smartwatches and major wearable sport gadgets.
Sector: Health, Technology
SepsisAlert Pro
One Line Pitch: SepsisAlert Pro is developing a sepsis detection platform that combines AI with dental and oral professionals’ expertise.
Business Summary: Dental infections, whether within or below teeth, can lead to sepsis, a serious life-threatening condition caused by the body’s response to infection. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sepsis accounts for one in every five global deaths. Current diagnostic methods for sepsis often overlook oral and dental indicators. SepsisAlert Pro wants to improve sepsis diagnosis, through its Dental AI platform by providing real-time sepsis risk score software into every dental practice.
Sector: Life Sciences
Service Digital Powerhouse
One Line Pitch: Service Digital Powerhouse is creating an automated end-to-end affordable and scalable customer service software.
Business Summary: Service Digital Powerhouse (SDP) is developing customer service software for SMEs. Most customer service software is marketed toward large corporations, which makes it difficult to find a suitable one for SMEs. Using a cloud-based software that utilizes automated self-service chatbots, SDP has created a scalable and affordable service for SMEs to respond to customers easily and effectively.
Sector: Communications Technology, Customer Service, Information Technology
SHAADI
One Line Pitch: Shadi is a network of experienced, exclusively trained and licensed therapists who deliver 24/7 mental health services through a high-tech, AI-equipped platform.
Business Summary: A network of experienced, exclusively trained and licensed therapists who deliver 24/7 mental health services through a high-tech, AI equipped online platform.
The clients provide basic data via questionnaires. In less than a few hours, the platform suggests several therapists based on the clients’ objectives, preferences, and the type of issues they are dealing with. The clients choose the favored therapist. They can start communicating through the dedicated private online room instantly using text messages, voice memos, scheduled phone calls, or live video sessions.
Sector: Life Sciences
Shahjee Enterprises
One Line Pitch: Connecting sellers and buyers in real-time via a multi-vendor ecommerce marketplace.
Business Summary: Shahjee Enterprises is developing a multi-vendor e-commerce marketplace that tackles the numerous difficulties traders face when selling goods online. The proprietary platform includes AI-based localised shopping and real-time live shopping, reducing pain points through face-to-face interactions between seller and buyer.
Sector: E-commerce
ShipScanner
One Line Pitch: A mobile application to revolutionize your shipping experience
Business Summary: ShipScanner is a mobile application that utilizes smartphone cameras to scan and compute package dimensions. It compares prices, shipping times, and other benefits from available transport companies. ShipScanner’s mobile application ensures a user-friendly experience, incorporating essential features for seamless order fulfillment from start to finish.
Sector: Communications Technology, IT
SightVet
One Line Pitch: Sightvet provides a Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) Tool That Quickly and Accurately Differentiates Between Primary Brain Tumors in dogs and cats using MRI image data.
Business Summary: Sightvet software is sold to veterinary radiologists that want to increase the accuracy and thoroughness of their patient diagnosis and analysis. Both dogs and cats with brain cancer benefit from MRI imaging. We use the MRI images and apply our image processing software to quickly and accurately determine the type of tumour between gliomas and meningiomas. The radiologists use this software as a trusted second opinion for their diagnosis.
Sector: Artificial Intelligence, Veterinary Radiologist Tool
SignVid
One Line Pitch: A communication platform to support people with hearing disabilities that assists them in communicating with people as well as service providers such as banks, health care providers and other businesses.
Business Summary: SignVid markets accessibility services for deaf people to services providers. By leveraging code scanner technologies and on demand video calls with a sign language call center, SignVid creates communication platforms that help businesses communicate their products and services to deaf people.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Simac Tech
One Line Pitch: Comprehensive E-permitting platform.
Business Summary: Simac Tech’s team is bringing an integrated, multi-agency, interoperable and comprehensive e-permitting platform that can improve the regulatory processes of an entire country, province, or city.
Sector: GovTech, Information Technology
SimpleSpec
One Line Pitch: A simple application that leads service providers through installations while gathering data from the field to provide a better way of tracking and organizing the process from start to finish.
Business Summary: Businesses that conduct installs or repairs often track and document processes performed using paper or through disjointed programs, causing long wait times for review of the installation and steps being missed. The SimplSpec application combines installation steps and quality assurance steps into a single step-by-step guide. SimpleSpec also generates reports for back office to ensure all data is logged and tracked from the field.
Sector: Services
Simplibuy
One Line Pitch: Simplibuy Inc. aims to bridge the gap between healthcare providers and suppliers.
Business Summary: Simplibuy Inc. is a digital platform that aids healthcare providers (HP), to solve their medical supplies issues through a frictionless process which is fast, reliable, economical and easy. Its vision is to be a one-stop shop for all medical supplies. It is currently serving over 473 customers. It advises clients on market trends by analyzing information and identifying market opportunities to recommend solutions which will meet their clients’ clinical needs.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Siotech
One Line Pitch: Makes you look good anytime, anywhere.
Business Summary: Siotech offers AI / mobile apps which features a personalized fashion connisseur allowing users to complete their outfit from head to toe with a comprehensive collection of fashion accessories. We provide our customers the opportunities to do their own mix & match with our variety of modules including hairstyles (for head bands), clothings at collar (for necklaces), ears (for ear rings), forearms (for bracelets) etc.
Sector: Information Technology, Technology
SK Technology
One Line Pitch: Professional internet digital reading company.
Business Summary: SK Technology is a digital book reading business providing mobile application, online web bookshop, audible book reading including animated books, comics and novels. This includes recommending books to readers through algorithms.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
SkiviYaan
One Line Pitch: The Next-Generation of Silk.
Business Summary: SkiviYaan developed a strategy to genetically engineer silkworms for production of recombinant silk-wool yarn which combines the characteristics of silk and wool in a single thread. Our product has several competitive advantages over expensive blended fabrics and our technology allows for future expansion to create recombinants with cashmere, alpaca, and mohair.
Sector: Clean Technology, Life Sciences, Manufacturing
SkyCondor
One Line Pitch: Unique Drone-enabled solutions for pre-construction condo builders and sellers.
Business Summary: Highly experienced team of engineers delivering a unique drone-enabled set of solutions for the condo construction industry. The first product, called SkyPreview, allows builders and brokers of pre-construction condos to get stunning mock-ups of condo views powered by real-world photographs captured by our semi-autonomous drones. Team already has LOIs in place, in is poised for rapid growth.
Sector: Information Technology, Services
Skysama Buildings
One Line Pitch: Revolutionize the construction industry with this cloud-based digital platform for streamlining inspection and quality control processes
Business Summary: Skysama Buildings is cloud-based platform that automates construction inspections and quality control. This platform combines AI/ML technology to generate annotated videos and inspection reports, creating a more efficient quality assurance process beyond the capabilities of a manual inspection.
Sector: Communications Technology, IT
Smagritech Technologies
One Line Pitch: An innovative software platform form integrating different IOT solutions.
Business Summary: Developing a concept of commerce, Smagritech’s platform would be able to integrate all sensors provided from various vendors in a single window. The artificial intelligence helps farm managers monitor and analyze all data. Based on the data of benchmarks in the industry, their platform would receive suggestions regarding the best harvest time and the highest yield.
Sector: Technology
SmarDEN
One Line Pitch: SmarDEN is improving dentistry thorough mixed reality (VR/AR) in conjunction with AI and 3D printing in dentistry to help with accurate design and surgery planning.
Business Summary: SmarDEN has developed a mixed realty with the aim to improve current dentistry operations and planning. Using virtual and augmented reality with both 3D printing and AI technology, they have created a space for dentists to optimize and plan out dental procedures. SmarDEN hopes their product will help to improve and enhance the current state of dentistry through its use.
Sector: Health Sciences
Smart Auto Diagnosis
One Line Pitch: Smart Auto Diagnosis provides software and a diagnostic tool that accesses the data memory of the control units and electronic devices inside the device and evaluates them.
Business Summary: The use of diagnostic scanning tools in the car allows its owners to fix the problem as soon as they are alerted to the error and understanding the importance of this error before there is further damage can avoid high repair costs.
Sector: Automotive, Communications Technology, Information Technology
Smart Beekeeping
One Line Pitch: Specializes in finding an ideal site for bee colonies in a given area to optimize profit by increasing the quantity and quality of honey produced.
Business Summary: Using a combination of drone footage, GIS, and AI, Smart Beekeeping will assist beekeepers in determining which sites to use for their bee colonies. This technology incorporates the weather history, plant species, road maps, and hydrographic mapping of the area to determine the best possible location.
Sector: Agricultural Technology
Smart Bid and Tender Management
One Line Pitch: A powerful collaborative tool designed for end-to-end bid and tender management.
Business Summary: Team has developed an intelligent tender management software solution using artificial intelligence and machine learning. This solution will offer any stakeholder within the bidding process, the ability to plan, manage, and track all contract bidding activity on a single platform. Key features include tender schedules, technical committees and evaluations, financial evaluations, and formal evaluations.
Sector: Technology
Smart Civil Inc.
One Line Pitch: Empower your projects with our AI-based solution for predicting concrete compressive strength. Streamline your process, minimize trial and error, and maximize performance.
Business Summary: Smart Civil Inc. will design and develop an accurate AI-based digital model for predicting concrete compressive strength by extracting the optimized mixture proportions and mixed designs. The company intends to use the extracted outputs, in the production step of the required concrete, and produce the required, reliable and optimized concrete.
Sector: Engineering
Smart Core Concrete
One Line Pitch: Smart Core Concrete has developed a software application powered by artificial intelligence and based on neural network algorithms to offer a fast, accurate, and unsupervised prediction of concrete compressive strength.
Business Summary: A user-friendly software that uses an ANN algorithm to make a data-driven software model that converts data into meaningful insights. The model monitors and seamlessly predicts concrete compressive strength effectively and accurately. A second conditional/environmental model is used to individualize the optimization of concrete mixtures by considering the structure’s conditions and environment.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Smart Credit Repair Mobile Application
One Line Pitch: AI driven finance assistant application.
Business Summary: Smart Credit’s AI-powered application makes managing your finances easy. It uses smart technology to analyze your credit score data from TransUnion and Equifax, providing personalized advice to boost your credit and achieve your financial goals. Their application continuously learns from your financial history, offering personalized recommendations.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Smart Disaster Survival Mobile Application
One Line Pitch: Innovative solution to preventing and responding to natural disasters.
Business Summary: This company is building an innovative mobile application that is free for users to download. This application uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and blockchain technology to collect and analyze data from satellite images, user uploaded images and thermal maps to then notify users and communities of potential natural disasters that could occur in their area. The application further
provides recommended steps for a community to take to avoid these disaster from happening and immediately notifies first responders if a disaster does occur. This application will help to save lives and reduce disaster related expenses and costs.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Smart Earth Guardians
One Line Pitch: Smart Earth Guardians aims to transform waste collection into a social mission that benefits individuals and the planet
Business Summary: Smart Earth Guardians has developed a unique software solution to address waste management issues. This platform incentivizes individuals to segregate their waste, and they can earn rewards for doing so. Team has also created a reliable e-wallet for customers to cash out their rewards or trade them for items in the online store.
Sector: B2C, Utilities
Smart English Learning Mobile Application
One Line Pitch: Smart English is a mobile application that will use artificial intelligence to teach non-English speaking users how to speak, write and communicate in English.
Business Summary: Smart English users will download the application onto their smartphone and be guided by a virtual instructor, working at their own pace to learn the basics of the English language. The application provides intuitive, interactive, and engaging learning modules that use artificial intelligence to analyze user progress and offer a personalized learning experience.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Smart Fire Extinguishing System
One Line Pitch: Smart Fire Extinguishing System is bringing innovative fire extinguishing balls to fight fires faster and more effectively.
Business Summary: Smart Fire Extinguishing System looks to help fight against the issue of rising wildfires and the dangers that fire fighting brings. Through the creation of an innovative monoammonium phosphate ball, they have created a way to extinguish fires effectively and safely via the use of drones delivering these balls where needed. Smart Fire Extinguishing System hopes to provide a safer and more effective way to fight fires with this product.
Sector: Life Sciences, Safety
Smart Furniture
One Line Pitch: Smart Furniture provides furniture solutions based on virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence to improve today’s furniture purchase process.
Business Summary: Through virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence, Smart Furniture will play an essential role in meeting growing interior design demands in Canada, cutting cost and saving time in the furniture buying process, and connecting the ecosystem better.
Sector: Information Technology
Smart Garden
One Line Pitch: Smart Garden is an indoor/outdoor IoT sensor that measures soil moisture, pH, and ambient sunlight to provide gardeners with critical data through an application to alert when and how much to water plants.
Business Summary: Watering plants is time consuming, and gardeners don’t have the data to tell them when and how much to water. Many gardeners chronically overwater their plants because they don’t understand the needs of the plant species and they don’t have real-time soil data. Many gardeners forget to water plants, which can be costly and time-consuming to replace. Smart Garden uses an indoor/outdoor IoT sensor to measure soil moisture, pH level, and ambient sunlight and an associated application to alert gardeners when and how much to water their plants.
Sector: Agriculture
Smart Geofencing Company
One Line Pitch: Smart Geofencing Company is creating an AI algorithmic driven software solution to geofencing and workplace safety in high-risk and restricted areas.
Business Summary: Smart Geofencing Company is developing a smartphone app that allows users to be notified of potential hazards and risks via their software. Using an AI algorithm and machine learning, they have created a software capable of assessing a user’s travel path and alerting them of alternate routes to take and locations to avoid due to hazards and risk currently present. Smart Geofencing Company hopes their product will provide aid in creating safer workplaces and reducing risks.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology, Safety
Smart Health Care Counselling
One Line Pitch: Smart Health Care Counselling provides a novel Virtual Nurse Assistant powered by Artificial intelligence.
Business Summary: Smart Healthcare Counselling Company is a disruptive start-up that provides an automated patient engagement tool to help patients receive medical care that is highly cost-effective and efficient. Their novel AI Virtual Nurse Assistant offers an exceptional personalized healthcare experience to persons that are unable to see a doctor or other healthcare provider regularly, have been prescribed medical care with special measures, or wish to receive remote medical services.
Sector: Healthcare, Technology
Smart Home Services
One Line Pitch: Smart Home Services provides specialty design, installation and ongoing after-sales services and maintenance to homeowners that invest in a wireless blockchain smart home system.
Business Summary: Smart Home Services provides homeowners an affordable service-based solution to homeowners that wish to invest in a wireless blockchain smart home system. By offering a customized design, installation and continuous tech-support, Smart Home Services offers homeowners a secure, convenient and low-cost solution to smart home automation.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Smart HSE Software Development
One Line Pitch: An AI powered software system that will give employers access to real-time data to improve health, safety, and environmental factors in the workplace.
Business Summary: Smart HSE Software Development is building a software system that integrates with companies’ data to provide a health, safety, and environmental (HSE) perspective across the organization. The software will use data science to understand and analyze risk. It will create automated processes related to planning, implementing, controlling, and monitoring the performance of the safety management system, occupational health, and workplace environments. HSE managers will be able to ensure that their efforts are focused on reducing the frequency of workplace incidents.
Sector: Environment, Health, Information Technology, Safety
Smart Human Resources
One Line Pitch: Smart Human Resources is an artificial intelligence Human Resource Management model framework designed primarily to help HR managers make better and more efficient decisions in the face of large amounts of information.
Business Summary: Smart Human Resources will enable organizations to measure the HR process throughout the employee life cycle. The solution will track the employee life cycle, and provide for accurate identification of individuals for their next opportunity. The application allows for simplification of the volume of data collected on job applicants and active employees providing the following benefits; avoidance of potentially negative employment-related consequences, such as adverse effects on protected groups, assists in limiting employee turnover and includes the provision of chatbot-based tools to revolutionize the recruitment process.
Sector: Services
Smart Hydraulic System
One Line Pitch: Intelligent hydraulic system that collects and analyzes equipment data in real-time.
Business Summary: Smart Hydraulic System is creating an intelligent hydraulic system through the use of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart sensors, and proprietary software that collects and analyzes heavy machinery equipment performance in real-time. Our company provides users with smart data, informing them of potential equipment failures before they happen, therefore decreasing repair costs, machine downtimes, and increasing safety.
Sector: Clean Technology
Smart Interior Design
One Line Pitch: Innovative interior design mobile application using artificial intelligence and blockchain technology.
Business Summary: This company is developing a mobile application that uses a combination of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, machine learning and blockchain technology to provide a low cost, timely and professional solution for designing interior spaces.
Sector: Information Technology, Interior Design
Smart Medical Diet
One Line Pitch: An application for mobile devices to provide a personalized approach to health and diet.
Business Summary: This application will provide users with a personalized diet based on results from blood tests and other health assessment data. From this data, the app will create a unique diet based on specific health needs. With multiple subscription offerings, price points, and diet plan options within this app, Smart Medical Diet provides flexibility based on the clients’ individual needs.
Sector: Healthcare
Smart Mining Platform
One Line Pitch: Smart Mining Platform (SMP) delivers increased operational efficiency to mines through the use of AI and other components that enhances workforce safety, while reducing the environmental impact of the mine.
Business Summary: SMP provides a package of components and software to mines at a simple transactional cost, that provides a solution that is driven by AI and advanced machine learning. The mine can choose to operate the SMP platform and components itself or hire SMP on an ongoing basis to operate and deliver data to management that improves efficiency in production, worker safety and reduces the environmental footprint.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
