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Deontix
One Line Pitch: A software platform integrating with accounting and other administrative software that translates contracts into code and allows users to monitor their outstanding contracts, receive alerts when terms have been met, and automate compliance by including legislation directly within the code.
Business Summary: Contracts are translated into formal logic—at first by our staff, eventually by an algorithm. Verification software is used to check for inconsistencies. Once the contract is verfiied, users can access a dashboard that shows their outstanding contracts, can receive notifications regarding upcoming deadlines, and can rate contractors’ reliability. Users will also be able to view all outstanding contracts, and receive regular progress reports.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Dermoheal
One Line Pitch: DermoHEAL is a medical device company focusing on the field of regenerative medicine applications for the treatment of skin disorders.
Business Summary: We have developed a blood-collecting tube with a special coating inside, which can extract high doses of regenerative and anti-aging proteins from a patient’s blood without adding any drugs or chemicals. These proteins (exosomes) have proven clinical efficacy and safety for skin rejuvenation, wound management and hair loss treatment in humans.
Sector: Medical, Technology
DermoMask
One Line Pitch: DermoMask is also a business-to-customer (B2C) digital platform that helps beauty-related businesses to connect to their customers.
Business Summary: DermoMask is a novel mobile application which enables users to create home-made natural and organic skin and hair care products, tailored and formulated specifically for them, using the available organic and natural ingredients at home.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology, Nutraceuticals
Design Solutions
One Line Pitch: A tablet that help patients describe pain to aid in clinical diagnosis.
Business Summary: The core technology was developed for clinical research in collaboration with the Department of Medicine and Immunology at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Medicine. The technology autoimates a manual process and allows patients to electronically “paint” a body image to describe the location and level of pain. The app also provides a secure and complicant date management system for data storage, analytics and access for physicians.
Sector: Life Sciences
Design Tech
One Line Pitch: An innovative alternative for interior design services leveraging an online application
Business Summary: Design Tech is set to revolutionize the interior design industry. The innovative platform offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional interior design options, catering specifically to homeowners and budget-conscious buyers. Leveraging innovative technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning and augmented reality, the application goes beyond design recommendations to enable users to visualize their transformed spaces. By combining these features, Design Tech aims to empower users with comprehensive tools and information, making stylish and affordable interior design accessible to all.
Sector: Interior Design
Designnet
One Line Pitch: Build a powerful freelancer team for your design projects.
Business Summary: Designnet provides a platform for designers and business to connect, collaborate and create meaningful businesses of tomorrow.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Diagnosis and Monitoring Cardiac Function
One Line Pitch: Helping doctors diagnose cardiovascular diseases in real time through an innovative Artificial Intelligence Software.
Business Summary: DMCF is developing a technology that can identify heart abnormalities using artificial intelligence. Using machine learning methods and corresponding artificial neural networks (ANN), DMCF is able to provide a rapid and reliable diagnosis of abnormal heart pathologies without compromising accuracy.
Sector: Healthcare, Medical Device
Diet of Tomorrow
One Line Pitch: Diet of Tomorrow is an online software that creates custom receipes for users based on diet requirements, fitness and health goals.
Business Summary: On the platofrm, users sign up and enter their health information, body measurements and diet goals in which the software analayzes and creates customized recipies and diet plans for users based on their information. This software uses artificial intelligence to analyze the users inputs and requirements against thousands of recipes in the Diet of Tomorrow database.
Sector: Health and Wellness
Dievita
One Line Pitch: Dievita is creating a solution to vitamin and mineral intake in adults using DNA catered manufactured supplements.
Business Summary: Dievita is developing an AI powered software in conjunction with 3D printers to provide consumers with the perfect supplements for their needs. Using DNA sampling, 3D printed supplements are manufactured specifically for each consumer to fit their exact needs in vitamins and minerals. Dievita looks to provide a way for people to do away with generic all-purpose vitamins, and instead be given the exact vitamins and minerals their body needs.
Sector: Health Sciences
DigiDent
One Line Pitch: An AI-based software solution assisting dentistry procedures.
Business Summary: The business proposes introducing an Application, which employs Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist dentists in deciding whether to choose the best option in Dental prosthesis, either replacement procedures or reconstruction.
Sector: Advanced Health/Health Care IT, Life Sciences
Digital Rain Fission
One Line Pitch: Digital Rain Fission has developed a cloud based digital platform that is custom designed to assist water utilities simplify and improve operations by combining big data and machine learning technologies, alerting monitoring personnel of anomalies and streamlining problem isolation and diagnosis.
Business Summary: Digital Rain’s platform is a suite of software solutions that help water utilities reduce costs, boost efficiency, increase the accuracy of planning and improve day-to-day decision-making in an ever-changing landscape. Competitive advantages translate to identifying previously undetectable changes in system performance and unlocking new opportunities to control costs, manage risk and improve service.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Digital Terrace
One Line Pitch: Bring out automation in your greenhouse.
Business Summary: Digital Terrace is a greenhouse automation platform allowing users to quickly integrate climate control, irrigation, CO2 monitoring, soil moisture control, pest control, ventilation, lighting and more. Users can buy tried and tested hardware from our marketplace, with hardware pre-integrated out of the box for easy scalability.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Digital Vault
One Line Pitch: An application providing users with encrypted digital security
Business Summary: Digital Vault is developing a user-friendly and secured application that allows users to store all their important data, such as contacts, credit card details, mail passwords, login passwords, bank particulars, legal heirs details, asset documents, photos, and more. The data will be stored in cloud storage that will prevent data losses. The company will provide a highly secure and a user-friendly platform for Canadian users to store all their sensitive information in one place.
Sector: Information Technology
Disruptive Banking Technology
One Line Pitch: Drag and drop RPA mobile banking solution for Tier 2 banking institutions that don’t have in-house ICT development resources.
Business Summary: A configurable, scalable, and adaptive RPA “drag and drop” mobile banking platform for Tier 2 banking institutions. This cost-effective mobile banking solution incorporates AI learning and open API so that banks can offer their clients online banking without having to build it in-house. Smaller banking institutions become more competitive in the marketplace and can offer clients secured access to banking services at any time.
Sector: Banking, Communications Technology, Mobile Applications
Dkora
One Line Pitch: Dkora is a software solution for optimizing interior design and redecorating solutions focused on smart-home technology integration, using AI.
Business Summary: Dkora provides a platform for interior designers to improve and optimize design-decision making and product selection using AI and direct user interaction, with a focus on smart-home technology integration. Dkora’s solution enables customization of designs considering various pre-set design styles, and optimization of product package selection based on cost, material preference and product carbon emissions.
Sector: Interior Design, Technology
DMH Products
One Line Pitch: DMH looks to take care of the issue of single use paper coffee cups through their polymer science-based recycling technology.
Business Summary: DMH has developed a method to deal with the rising issue of single use paper coffee cups through recycling. Based on polymer science, DMH has created a way to not only recycle these coffee cups, but also repurpose them via the creation of woodplast composite. DMH looks to not only aid in this environmental issue, but also aims to help create a more circular economy within a community.
Sector: Environment, Manufacturing, Materials Science
Doctellu
One Line Pitch: Online chatbot for health related questions.
Business Summary: Doctellu is creating an online chatbot specfically for the heath care indsutry that will provide fast and accurate answers to health related questions. The Doctellu chatbot can also connect users to health care professionals and paharmacy’s within their area for advanced assistance.
Sector: Healthcare
Domchain Technologies
One Line Pitch: A blockchain built for the trading of second hand domains.
Business Summary: Domchain’s proprietary blockchain technology eliminates the key barriers associated with purchasing a second hand domain: Trust, time, and fees. With Domchain, you will use a smart contract to verify parties, transfer domains, and receive payments. All of this is done in a few milliseconds and at a fraction of the cost of traditional vendors.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Dreamy Bed
One Line Pitch: Dreamy bed offers your patient a smart hospital bed that can be adjusted electronically to help the patient with mobility and is equipped with sensors to monitor oxygen levels, urine, and stool parameters.
Business Summary: An innovative smart bed comprised of sensors to detect oxygen levels around the patient’s head and release more oxygen as needed. All movements or adjustments can be electronically made by the patient. This bed has a toilet attachment under the bed which can be used while lying on the bed along with a feature that detectors that can analyze patient’s urine and stool parameters to help the medical team assess the patient’s healing period.
Sector: Life Sciences
Drobotic
One Line Pitch: Offering innovative, autonomous aerial monitoring technology to attain efficient and cost-effective security systems to asset protection to industrial, commercial, and governmental sectors.
Business Summary: Drobotic Inc. provides an innovative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) video analysis for monitoring valuable assets. The company uses video content analytics (VCA) to automatically detect events, providing risk and data assessments services to identify threats. Drobotic’s operational system includes network video recorders (NVRs) and intelligent gateways that send recorded data to a cloud platform. Their objective is to reduce workplace risk, and to early detect compromised assets.
Sector: Drone Technology, Services
Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance Company
One Line Pitch: Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance Company (DSPC) has developed an AI program enabling detailed clinical trial monitoring for medical devices and therapeutics.
Business Summary: DSPC’s technology is designed to ensure the safety and well-being of patients who use medications. It monitors and collects data on the efficacy and adverse reactions of drugs and devices throughout their lifecycle, from pre-marketing clinical trials to post-marketing surveillance, and identifies appropriate actions to minimize risks and maximize benefits.
Sector: Life Sciences
DTMEDICAL Inc.
One Line Pitch: DTMEDICAL Inc. offers an innovative blockchain EHR software system for mental healthcare providers to securely store and share patient data while automating administrative tasks and creating personalized therapy programs.
Business Summary: DTMEDICAL Inc. is a start-up that aims to revolutionize mental healthcare by offering a novel blockchain EHR software system that provides secure storage and sharing of patient data while automating non-productive administrative tasks, including patient onboarding procedures, scheduling reminders, and billing. The software is unique as mental healthcare providers can create personalized Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Dialectal Behavioral Therapy (DBT) programs for patients to improve their mental wellbeing. The system utilizes blockchain technology to protect a patient’s medical history and personal information, making it difficult for any unauthorized access to the information. The company plans to sell its product to government, community, and private mental healthcare practices that want to adopt a cloud EHR system to better manage and share sensitive patient data while minimizing the risk of private medical security breaches.
Sector: Healthcare, Technology
DynaGaunt
One Line Pitch: Dynamic Gantlet has created a wearable wrist device that helps in detecting early symptoms of Carpel Tunnel Syndrome.
Business Summary: DynaGaunt has developed a wrist support device that can be used in conjunction with a mobile app to help detect early symptoms of Carpel Tunnel Syndrome (CTS). With the increasing prominence of CTS in workplace injuries, getting treatment can become a large financial burden. DynaGaunt has designed and created a system utilizing AI and IMU sensors to help prevent CTS.
Sector: Health and Wellness
DynamicP
One Line Pitch: DynamicP is creating an AI-based pricing platform that automatically prices products at the appropriate market price.
Business Summary: DynamicP has developed a system that evaluates the market price of a product, and prices it accordingly. Our algorithm provides retailers globally with the ability to dynamically price their products based on their target demographic characteristics, location, among many other factors. Particularly, our platform has the ability to price new products and products with low demand that do not have a history of sales.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
E-Bonds
One Line Pitch: E-Bonds is developing a system that will fully digitalize the transaction related to Canadian and provincial bonds, making them more accessible by the industry, and thus creating a greater volume of transactions for the market.
Business Summary: E-Bonds is creating transparency between selling prices and purchasing target prices, bringing confidence in the actual market value. International and smaller broker dealers will be able to trade Canadian bonds directly (not currently possible). Adding more broker dealers will also bring more liquidity into the Canadian bond market and facilitate transactions.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
E-Waste Recycling
One Line Pitch: E-Waste Recycling is an innovative, environmentally friendly way to recycle electronics.
Business Summary: E-Waste Recyling is building an innovative e-recycling plant to remove precious metals from printed circuit boards (PCBs) in a single stage process.
Sector: Electronics, Environment
E360 Health
One Line Pitch: Integration of wellness, psychology, and behavioral health through a digital platform to optimize mental performance of individuals. As well as digital solutions for diagnostics, treatment, progress tracking, and reporting of users’ mental state and growth.
Business Summary: E360 will develop a digital health platform, focused on the mental health and wellbeing of individuals of various ages, occupancies, and mental states. The platform will provide advanced diagnosis through a set of comprehensive tests, combining the knowledge and experience of psychology experts and machine learning technology. E360 will be able to analyze, diagnose, and offer treatment for each individual as well as track progress and create reports. This solution will be subscription-based and will be offered to individuals and institutions.
Sector: Life Sciences
E4Games
One Line Pitch: E4Games develops mobile games with a unique focus on educational content. Our games target various social subjects that creatively inspire people in an educative way using machine learning.
Business Summary: E4Games is focused on developing mobile games enhanced with ML. Our games are designed in a way that the player, whose character is a citizen, will navigate to solve real-world problems and receive educational lessons through them. We produce interactive, experiential mobile games that deeply immerse the player in the narratives. The immersion allows the player to explore personas, themes, and moral quandaries in a way that few other art forms can match. We take our imaginations to new heights that allow the player to engage with complex subjects and moral dilemmas.
Sector: Gaming
Early Oral Cancer Diagnosis(EOCD)
One Line Pitch: An AI enabled tool to help screen and diagnose oral cancer in its early stages.
Business Summary: Our platform helps dentists, pathologists, and oral surgeons screen and diagnose patients for oral cancer in its early stages. Our software uses AI and ML to identify cancerous behaviors in cells through the analysis of cytology images, allowing screening & diagnosis of oral cancer before patients may even have experienced symptoms.
Sector: Healthcare, Medical Device
Earthen Connect
One Line Pitch: An AI-Enabled Agriculture Solution.
Business Summary: A socially responsible technology company working with the organic & natural food ecosystem connecting consumers and farmers – bringing the best quality products directly from farmer to consumer. They ensure fair trade and traceability of produce across the value chain through strong agriculture, IT, and automation expertise, right from procurement to premium packaging and online sales. They plan to target the health-conscious consumers of Canada, the US and Europe offering subscription-based services.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology, Supply Chain
Ease Off Technologies
One Line Pitch: Essential Home Services Company with insightful technology and business focusing on customer experience as a key differentiator. COME, EXPERIENCE THE EASE OFF!
Business Summary: The business is to serve our customers and corporate clients with quality home services at their doorsteps by connecting / providing them with experienced professionals and technicians Founded in 2021, we are building a team of incredible service providers & technicians whose expertise would bring Ease Off Technologies Inc. to the forefront of the industry to provide excellent solutions & services. We dedicate time and resources to research the market needs and our users’ habits and motives to raise the standards of the solutions & service delivery now and in coming times as well.
Sector: Services
Easy Acupuncture Online Services Inc
One Line Pitch: Comfortable, Accessible and Economic Acupuncture Services.
Business Summary: Easy acupuncture is an educational app that will allow people to navigate acupuncture self-guided treatments with assistance of A.I.. This innovative method offers the first self-guided treatment, followed by a possible Online consultation when the condition requires, then a possible in-person consultation with the mobile acupuncture service that provides more commodity to patients, avoiding the physical and mental strain that would have been caused otherwise.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Easy Code
One Line Pitch: A marketplace where developers can sell their no-code software tools and solutions.
Business Summary: Many small and medium sized enterprises need customized software tools, but can’t afford enterprise solutions or teams of developers to build them. Easy Code is a marketplace where developers can sell custom software solutions to SMEs that can easily be purchased, modified and integrated with established systems. SMEs looking for specific solutions can purchase subscriptions to these tools and integrate them into their existing software for easy and painless customization.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Easy Reg AI Solutions
One Line Pitch: Innovative intelligent cloud-based software platform for manufacturers to manage all warranty services information. As well as intuitive APPS for customer’s warranty registration and management.
Business Summary: To create and easy way to help every end consumer to register warranty and manage the after-sale service. It is a third-party platform to offer technology-led warranty registration.
For Consumers, Easy Reg provides an intuitive APP that contains easy steps to register and manage warranty. On the manufacturer’s end, Easy Reg provides a cloud-based software platform to manage warranty info.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
EasyAccess
One Line Pitch: Motion Tracking Technology to Support the Disabled.
Business Summary: EasyAccess allows people with disabilities to turn any electronic device with a camera into a universal device for interaction with the surrounding world. The camera is empowered with the motion capture module that can track head or eyeball movements to project captured movements to X-Y pivots to control the device. Additionally, the application is enriched with the AI module capable of analysis of users’ actions and creation of algorithms to make daily routines more swiftly handled.
Sector: Life Sciences
EchoSim
One Line Pitch: EchoSim is a software company providing a solution to manage patients stress level and improve the quality of medical imaging.
Business Summary: EchoSim is a software platform building an immersive solution for pediatric patients to get familiar with medical imaging. Through a game environment, the pediatric patient is trained and can practice each procedure step at home. The patient’s level of anxiety is measured through a standard wearable and their movements while playing the game. The platform also can correct images that are distorted by pediatric patient motion. Lastly, the medical imaging facility receives information about pediatric patients’ readiness and risk of failure.
Sector: Healthcare
Eco Reservoir Solutions
One Line Pitch: AI-driven modeling and simulation software suite, enhanced by IoT-based environmental monitoring systems.
Business Summary: Eco Reservoir Solutions specializes in providing innovative products and services for enhancing operational efficiency and environmental sustainability in the oil and gas sector. The AI-driven modeling and simulation software suite, paired with IoT-based environmental monitoring systems, empowers clients to optimize reservoir development, detect leaks, and address inefficiencies in real-time. Additionally, we offer expert consultancy, installation and maintenance of software and sensors, subscription-based access to our solutions, and tailored training programs for clients’ teams, ensuring comprehensive support for firms striving to balance environmental responsibility with profitability.
Sector: Artificial Intelligence, Oil and Gas, Technology
Eco Smart Floors
One Line Pitch: Elevating sustainable living with innovative ink technology and IoT-integrated smart flooring, ensuring safety and independence for seniors
Business Summary: Eco Smart Floors converts plastic waste into conductive ink. This ink is applied to various flooring types to create smart flooring integrated with an IoT monitoring system. This system offers features like fall detection, wandering behavior alerts for dementia patients, people counting, and movement tracking to enhance the independence and safety of elderly individuals.
Sector: Clean Technology
Eco Smart Irrigation
One Line Pitch: Farmers and green space managers can use Eco Smart Irrigation to intelligently manage their farms and farmland through an intelligent system (including hardware and software).
Business Summary: By utilizing creative and affordable techniques and modern technology such as machine learning and big data analysis, EcoSmartIrrigation seeks to optimize water and energy consumption in agriculture, increase agricultural production and productivity, and become more environmentally friendly. Additionally, it facilitates the management of green spaces and agricultural lands through the facilitation of executive processes.
Sector: Agriculture
EcoPlanter Inc.
One Line Pitch: Transforming urban landscapes with eco-friendly, stone-like flowerpots and advanced agricultural solutions for enhanced sustainability and precision.
Business Summary: EcoPlanter Inc. utilizes specialized plastic and rotational machinery to create urban flowerpots resembling stone and concrete. These eco-friendly pots are made entirely from recycled materials. The company also produces innovative agricultural products like seedling trays and drip tape, designed for multiple seasons and improved crop irrigation accuracy.
Sector: Agriculture, Clean Technology
EcoRecycledBrick
One Line Pitch: EcoRecycledBrick converts plastic waste efficiently (more than 75% yield) to a construction paste that can be added simply to brick feedstocks and produces high-quality bricks.
Business Summary: In EcoRecycledBrick, we convert plastic waste to a nano additive like construction pastes, which can mix with several minerals to produce brick in only 1 hour. In comparison to common brick production methods, this is a novel record. Conventional bricks cannot be made in less than 24 hours and are considered energy-intensive. Comparatively, we consume less energy and produce brick 24 times faster than traditional methods. Furthermore, we reduce fixed costs and expenses by 30-70% compared to routine methods.
Sector: Construction, Environment, Green Technology
Edha Lab
One Line Pitch: AI Enabled Yoga Practices
Business Summary: Edha Lab is at the forefront of a yoga revolution. Their innovative AI-based trainers are reshaping the yoga experience, offering personalized guidance and feedback to individuals at every skill level. With a mission to enhance well-being, Edha Lab empowers people to refine their practice and attain their wellness objectives through cutting-edge technology.
Sector: Health and Wellness
eDiet
One Line Pitch: Health Through Innovation.
Business Summary: eDiet pioneers the future of personalized nutrition and wellness through the use of cutting-edge technology. Our innovative services include gamified food recognition, real-time nutritional analysis, and API integrations with wearables and health records for holistic wellness tracking. eDiet is committed to seamlessly integrate technology into users’ daily lives, fostering informed food choices and empowering individuals to achieve their health and fitness goals. Join us on the journey to a healthier future with eDiet.
Sector: Food, Technology
Edunative
One Line Pitch: A project-based learning platform for students and immigrants to help them learn English through the delivery of Canadian-context specific cultural and business situations.
Business Summary: Edunative delivers a project-based learning platform on Metaverse, specifically targeted at students wanting to improve their English skills. The platform has been designed to create an immersive learning environment that allows students to improve the English skills through interaction with avatars resembling real life characters depicted in real life Canadian cultural and business situations. Edunative’s project-based learning platform is proven to enhance user engagement as well as attain higher retention in online learning environments.
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Sector: Education, eLearning, Information Technology
ElectroBioTech Inc
One Line Pitch: Innovative hybrid, eco-friendly method to characterize and determine Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) in energy industries.
Business Summary: ElectroBioTech developed a new method of identifying and mitigating Microbiologically Influenced Corrosions (MCIs) in oil, gas, and industrial water cooling and wastewater treatment systems. Their techniques are environmentally friendly, hybrid, adjustable, and scalable.
Sector: Communications Technology, Environment, Information Technology
Electrocompost Machine
One Line Pitch: The Electrocompost machine can turn 10 tonnes of organic waste into compost in a single day – 10 times faster than any competitor, saving time and real estate.
Business Summary: Significant value is being offered to municipalities, waste management companies, farming, fishing, and poultry associations, and large food production and restaurant chains across North America and Europe.
Sector: Clean Technology, Manufacturing
Element Slaughter
One Line Pitch: Augmented reality live stream video software for remote meat inspections.
Business Summary: Element Slaughter developed an out-of-the-box solution to facilitate video meat inspections using two-way remote video connections. They have accomplished XMReality hands overlay technology.
Sector: Agriculture, Communications Technology
Elite for Energy
One Line Pitch: Online resource for renewable energy resources.
Business Summary: Elite for Energy is providing a web-based database and list of resources for renewable energy technologies. This database contains everything you need to know for using renewable energy technologies for construction.
Sector: Renewable Energy
Emazh Co
One Line Pitch: Unlocking the true capabilities of drone technology with AI-based ecosystems.
Business Summary: Emazh has developed a drone ecosystem which increases efficiency using AI. The ecosystem is comprised of drones, charging stations, and an advanced task shifting system.
Sector: Drone Technology
Encaps3D Technologies Inc
One Line Pitch: Encaps3D is building an intelligent system using wireless sensor networks and machine learning to create 3-dimensional evaluations for factories and manufacturers that use assembly machines.
Business Summary: The Encaps3D image processing system algorithm is designed to examine each product component in the encapsulation process and its 3-dimensional location. Sensors are connected to the product or device to collect data. The device designed by Encaps3D will provide precise inspection data that will save the user time and money through early identification of potential technical issues.
Sector: B2B, SaaS
