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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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Innodent
One Line Pitch: Innodent is proposing an easy and effective dental instrument to remove broken teeth roots and resolve the operative and post-operative complications.
Business Summary: Innodent is proposing an easy and effective dental instrument to remove broken teeth roots and resolve the operative and post-operative complications. Expandable micro-motor bur (EMB) is a practical dental instrument proposed for removal of broken teeth roots that cannot be extracted by the routine closed methods.
Sector: Life Sciences
InnoHack
One Line Pitch: Uniting students and businesses through AI-driven challenges, fostering innovation, competition, and actionable insights
Business Summary: InnoHack serves as a dynamic platform bridging university students with corporate challenges. Through AI-driven pairings, individuals can collaborate to construct innovative solutions and compete for prizes. InnoHack also provides companies with useful reports on trends and project timelines to help with their innovation efforts.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Inspectorail
One Line Pitch: Inspectorail provides a platform via the use of LiDAR sensors and cameras that allow for the continuous monitoring of railway networks.
Business Summary: Inspectorail has developed a solution to the issues of railway maintenance and inspections through their combination of software and hardware. They have created a system that can be installed onto locomotives to provide monitoring of railways and provide a means of predictive maintenance. Inspectorial looks to provide a method of preventing railroad accidents before they happen and increase then lifespan of railway networks.
Sector: Communications Technology, Construction, Information Technology
Instadoc
One Line Pitch: Instadoc utilizes technology to provide on-demand qualitative healthcare services to everyone who needs care
Business Summary: InstaDoc leverages telemedicine and IT driven audiovisual resources to provide immediate and on-demand care to subscribers and people who need medical consultation. Users are able to connect with certified and validated physicians, nurses and schedule their appointments easily, ensuring that they get answers to their questions and care when it matters the most.
InstaDoc will reduce presentations at the emergency rooms because more people will be able to address their health issues proactively, hence potentially eliminating wait times.
InstaDoc provides a unique opportunity for follow up checks on clients.
Sector: Healthcare
IntelBioMax
One Line Pitch: Microbial infection detection.
Business Summary: IntelBioMax offers a very fast and sensitive technology to detect the antibacterial sensitivity and resistance to antibiotics in less than one hour from the initial incubation period (24 hours).
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology, Life Sciences
Intelliaire Solutions Inc
One Line Pitch: Intelliaire Solutions Inc. is an Internet of Things (IoT) system with embedded sensors, software, and connectivity that enables HVAC system to exchange data with other connected devices.
Business Summary: Intelliaire Solutions Inc. improves preventative maintenance by sensing data on air quality and equipment status, making it significantly easier to gain insight across a range of equipment such as Rooftop air-handling units, Air-handling units, Make-up air units, and Variable air volume reheat systems.
Sector: Information Technology
Intelligent ERP Software Solutions
One Line Pitch: Intelligent ERP is a customizable Enterprise Resource Planning business software system that integrates and streamlines data for an entire enterprise on a Hyperledger blockchain platform.
Business Summary: Intelligent ERP provides an intuitive ERP system that integrates with a Hyperledger blockchain and can be customized and configured with many plugins or modules based on buyer needs. Intelligent ERP is also scalable. With the added security of blockchain technology, users are able to better manage and protect their privacy, secure their data, and automate any workflow process in an efficient and sustainable way.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Intelligent Farm Management Company
One Line Pitch: Secure, user-friendly, comprehensive online platform and mobile application to disseminate innovative Smart Farming Technologies (STF) to agriculture industry workers.
Business Summary: Intelligent Farm Management Company created an online platform that gathers different STFs. The application is uniquely interactive as users can not only get to know new technologies but can also connect with each other using communication portals to share experiences as part of an open community on a global scale
Sector: Agriculture, Communications Technology, Information Technology
Intelligent HVAC System
One Line Pitch: Intelligent HVAC System Company provides homeowners, commercial and semi-industrial companies a wireless intelligent HVAC system to reduce their cost of energy.
Business Summary: Intelligent HVAC System Company provides homeowners, commercial and semi-industrial companies an affordable service-based solution that wishes to invest in a wireless intelligent HVAC system. By offering a customized design, installation and continuous tech-support, Intelligent HVAC System Company offers homeowners and business owners an innovative, convenient and low-cost solution to Intelligent HVAC automation. This start-up will generate revenue by selling a customized HVAC design plan based on each customer’s needs and budget, and by installing and monitoring all components and smart sensors that are a part of an Intelligent HVAC System in residential and commercial buildings.
Sector: Clean Technology
Intelligent Project Management Mobile Application
One Line Pitch: An AI enabled project management software that allows project manager to focus on high-value, strategic activities.
Business Summary: A project management software application that leverages AI and ML to help project managers automate simple tasks. This platform utilizes AI to take over functions like meeting planning, reminders, day-to-day updates, and other administrative tasks. Their platform can also use AI to look at past projects that are similar in nature to better predict how much they will cost and how long they will take.
Sector: Technology
Intellimax Education Games Inc
One Line Pitch: Innovative toys with STEM integration for holistic child development
Business Summary: Intellimax is an innovative educational company focused on creating modern toys that support holistic child development. They aim to seamlessly integrate STEM toys and online courses for a well-rounded learning experience. Intellimax strives to become a trusted brand for parents seeking cognitive skill development options for their children.
Sector: Education, eLearning
Intelliscore Technology
One Line Pitch: An innovative solution for educators that utilizes natural-language processing AI technology to provide detailed, written feedback on long-form/essay assignments, based on a previously uploaded rubric
Business Summary: Educators at both high school and university level spend a significant amount of time reviewing and grading long-form written assignments in various subjects, such as social sciences, humanities, and English. This process, which includes reading, providing feedback, corrections, and recommendations, is crucial for monitoring student progress, setting learning plans, and assigning grades.
Intelliscore Technology is a mobile/desktop application that utilizes OCR to capture written work, and AI to compare the students’ answers against an educator-provided rubric. The solution will construct a grade, feedback and recommendations based on how well the answers align with the rubric. IntelliScore will leverage existing AI capabilities for a purpose-built education application that will streamline the grading process, allowing teachers more time to discuss and interact with students, while also allowing them to provide feedback more quickly.
Sector: Communications Technology, IT
International Learning Online
One Line Pitch: International Learning Online (ILO) is building a suite of educational services that will address a cross-section of in-demand skills
Business Summary: With its initial focus on educational services for new immigrants and unemployed Canadians, ILO is building a strategic alliance program from its expanding domestic partner group of Canadian businesses, educational institutions, and not-for-profit job training organizations to deliver exceptional education services and a unique courseware curricula.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
International Startup Booster Solutions
One Line Pitch: Startup Booster is an AI-based business consulting company that provides a range of services to new business owners
Business Summary: Startup Booster provides a seamless step-by-step Q&A platform to compose business plans, followed by market benchmark wizards that quickly advise clients on the degree of logic in their plans. AI is then applied in the style of hints to increase the probability of a successful outcome of a new business.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Invaste
One Line Pitch: A platform that enables households to generate revenue simply by separating their wastes at source.
Business Summary: Mismanagement of waste is harming human health and local environments while adding to climate challenge. Even though we all know that waste management is the key to protecting the environment, we need new incentives and prompts to take action on recycling.
Sector: Clean Technology
Invato
One Line Pitch: Invatohelps organizations to create instant e-invoicesand accept payments in seconds.
Business Summary: Invato is a web-based Software as a Service (“SaaS”) financial platform providing an all-in-one solution for businesses in Canada to sell their products and receive payments instantly. Invato’s software provides features including invoicing, billing, payment tracking, accounting, payroll management, financial management, credit card processing and fraud monitoring – all within one single ecosystem. Invato was born out of the founders’ successful experience with the ‘Keenu’, a highly successful payment start-up in Pakistan. The founders used their knowledge of the FinTech industry and their successful experience with Keenu and created Invato on an entirely new technology stack with features far surpassing just the payment gateway.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
IoT Construction
One Line Pitch: Through the combination of cloud technology and AI, IOT Construction offers a way to handle construction projects more efficiently.
Business Summary: IoT Construction has developed a product that through the use of sensors and real-time monitoring, along with AI and cloud technology, allows for the improvement of construction performance. This technology reduces construction costs, improves equipment maintenance, improves safety, and reduces environmental impact.
Sector: Communications Technology, Construction, Information Technology
IQ Delight Delivery Corp
One Line Pitch: Revolutionizing meal planning with ML-powered personalization – Discover tailored dishes to fit your preferences and dietary needs
Business Summary: IQ Delight Delivery Corp is an ML platform offering personalized meal suggestions based on users’ dietary preferences. It creates unique profiles from user data and tailors’ meal ideas. The system refines suggestions through feedback, providing various meal choices with nutrition info and cooking instructions.
Sector: Life Sciences
iSecureData
One Line Pitch: A SaaS solution using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for SMEs implementing Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) based on ISO/IEC 27001 in a very deep and fast but simple step-by-step process at a fraction of the cost of traditional processes.
Business Summary: iSecureData is a management system for Information Security providing the highest standards and best practices in information security. iSecureData has over 20 years experience implementing ISMS in high security organizations including the banking and financial services sectors. iSecureData uses AI to provide the best structure and content for organizations to implement ISMS based on their unique security requirements. iSecureData provides very efficient documentation for the management team so they can monitor and manage the cyber security status of the organization.
Sector: Information Technology
Jaya’s Academy
One Line Pitch: Empowering global education with a revolutionary self-service platform
Business Summary: Jaya’s Academy is set to revolutionize the education landscape with its innovative self-service platform, using an integrated psychographics engine. By seamlessly connecting tutors and students worldwide, it creates a personalized learning hub catering to subjects like math, science, and English.
Sector: Education
JJ Engineering Showcase
One Line Pitch: JJ Engineering is developing customizable software and hardware for global navigation manufactures.
Business Summary: JJ Engineering looks to solve the issue of global navigation manufactures needing to meet differing regulations throughout the world. This is accomplished via the use of specialized software and hardware that can be customized to meet the specific needs of the customer. JJ Engineering hopes to allow global navigation manufactures to adapt quickly and efficiently into growing markets with their product.
Sector: Manufacturing Solutions
Jolan Financial Approach
One Line Pitch: Jolan Financial is building an innovative online software that uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and block-chain technology to analyze uploaded financial statements.
Business Summary: Jolan Financial provides reports on the financial condition of a company and has the capability to forecast and predict future financial projections. With the Jolan solution, information is presented in such a way that determinations can be made to measure if a company is worth an investment. Jolan can also be used internally to evaluate areas for improvement within the company.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Juice Academy
One Line Pitch: Juice Academy is an online education academy that provides a comprehensive set of products and services targeted at learners that need to pass the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) proficiency test.
Business Summary: Juice Academy has been developed by certified experts with over two decades of experience in delivering IELTS training and preparing learners for the IELTS. The preparation courses are delivered in a blended learning environment providing learners with access to self-paced content supported by personalized teacher engagement. Self-paced learning is provided through access to online courses, recorded lessons, assessments, and other services all of which have machine learning capabilities. Ongoing student monitoring and one- on-one classes targeted at each student’s unique learning needs provides students with personalized education enhancing the quality and effectiveness of the learning experience. Juice Academy is available 24/7 allowing students to study from the comfort of their home.
Sector: Education, eLearning
KAG Engineering Co
One Line Pitch: Oil and Gas safety solutions by way of remote monitoring of values.
Business Summary: Creation of leading sophisticated technology oil and gas safety solutions for remote monitoring of variables in gas and oil stations.
Sector: Industrials
KareSupport
One Line Pitch: An online platform that helps match Personal Support Workers with Clients to ensure that the client gets the appropriate help they need as quickly and comfortably as possible.
Business Summary: Kare Support has developed proprietary software that rates the compatibility of Personal Support Workers with potential clients based on the skills, availability and client feedback. The Software system is continuously updated by both workers and clients to ensure the most current and appropriate match. The KareSupport online platform provides healthcare organizations an efficient and cost-effective way to manage their Personal Support Workers to ensure they are providing appropriate support to people in need.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology, Life Sciences
Kata AI Solution
One Line Pitch: AI-based platform for Diecast production
Business Summary: Kata offers an innovative software platform tailored for Diecast manufacturers, enabling them to seamlessly enhance their production processes. This cutting-edge platform empowers users to efficiently plan, closely monitor, and strategically optimize their production, drawing valuable insights from their past experiences. As a result, it contributes significantly to the reduction of energy consumption and minimizes the environmental footprint.
Sector: Information Technology, Manufacturing
KidiHealth
One Line Pitch: The vision KidiHealth is to make every daycare an extension of the child’s home by creating collaborative circles of parents, dedicated daycare staff, and healthcare professionals around every child so they can reach their full potential.
Business Summary: While existing solutions attempt to automate some administrative tasks, KidiHealth’s cloud-based platform provides a single, easy to access place to manage daycare activities, automate government forms & compliance tasks, inform parents, and refer children to healthcare specialists when they need it most.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Kids Robot Interactive
One Line Pitch: An interactive and intelligent robot toy designed to enhance children’s cognitive development and analytical skills through the reading of flashcard commands.
Business Summary: Kids Robot Interactive (KRI) is inventing a robot that can read flashcards and commands using a camera and software application. It is designed to enhance cognitive development in children aged 3-5 by providing an interactive experience that differentiates itself form the traditional screen-based games that today’s children are overexposed to.
Sector: Education Technology
Kimia Aquva Polymer Inc
One Line Pitch: Low-cost polyelectrolytes for industrial use.
Business Summary: Kimia Aquva Polymer Inc specializes in producing various polyelectrolyte products which can be used in various industries such as water treatment, cosmetics, and medical. Thanks to their innovative production method, their products are inexpensive and easy to produce in high quantities.
Sector: Life Sciences
KOGA
One Line Pitch: KOGA is creating an AI based yoga platform to help increase physical activity in children in a fun and interactive way.
Business Summary: KOGA is developing an intelligent yoga platformed aimed at increasing physical activity in young children. With many of the children today having excessive amounts of screen time and a sedentary lifestyle, it leads to increase levels of obesity and lowered mental growth. Using an AI supported platform, KOGA has created a way to utilize healthy screen time to engage children in a fun and interactive yoga activities that are custom catered to each child. KOGA hopes that their platform will allow for children to grow in a healthier fashion.
Sector: Health and Wellness
Kokuban
One Line Pitch: An online virtual classroom that provides simulations and animations that increase engagement and learning quality in Canadian schools.
Business Summary: Kokuban provides an innovative, responsive, and purpose-built virtual classroom environment platform for teaching math and science topics. Kokuban platform allows instructors to use predefined math, physics and chemistry problems, formulas, equations, and simulations to improve the virtual classroom experience and make the teaching engaging.
Sector: Education, eLearning
Konsolu
One Line Pitch: Deep learning in construction.
Business Summary: Konsolu is a construction software and consulting company using deep learning AI technology to optimize processes over the entire construction cycle.
Sector: AEC, Artificial Intelligence, Communications Technology, Information Technology
Koral
One Line Pitch: Koral is the software solution that will enable municipalities to work on data collection collaboratively and cohesively in various sectors and improve upon strategy, measurement, and reporting.
Business Summary: Koral has created a software platform that aims to provide the necessary tools for the circular strategy tracking, measurement, and reporting. This platform will enable various stakeholders in a municipality to collaborate create dynamic workflows and reports that provide the basis for creating optimal strategies. Koral looks to provide municipalities with the platform that will enable them to create the most efficient and feasible circular strategies.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Labour Crown
One Line Pitch: Wearables embedded with IoT sensors to monitor working environments in real-time.
Business Summary: Labour Crown provides wearables that are embedded with IoT sensors in order to help monitor working environments in real-time. Information collected through the sensors are used for worker activity & physiological monitoring, environmental sensing, location tracking and detection of construction hazards. Relevant information is used to ensure ultimate work-site safety, compliance, and efficiencies.
Sector: Construction
LadderAi
One Line Pitch: LadderAi is a video-based networking platform that helps unite working professionals with students.
Business Summary: LadderAi allows for the sharing of 3- to 4-minute videos to effectively discuss role-specific opportunities. As an example, job seekers can create their profile with a video resume to showcase their strengths and abilities, and recruiters and employers can login to the job seeker’s profile to gain significant and previously unavailable insight on the candidate based on AI analysis.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
LanGeek
One Line Pitch: AI-powered language learning platform that offers faster and smarter solutions for learning
Business Summary: LanGeek is an e-learning platform that uses NLP and ML to provide a high-tech and dynamic path for language learners to accelerate learning a new language and make the process easier and more personalized for each learner.
Sector: Education Technology
Lasergy Safety Products
One Line Pitch: Lasergy Safety Products has invented a safety hologram that illuminates the “danger zone” with red and green lasers where passengers disembark from transit vehicles.
Business Summary: Transit operators manually activate our easy-to-install, eye-safe IEC class 3R lasers. The lasers flash red through motion activation when a rider is in the ‘danger zone’ or green when it is safe to disembark. This technology can be applied to public transportation, taxis, and other transit vehicles.
Sector: B2B, Transportation
Lawyab
One Line Pitch: Connecting lawyers with clients using a proprietary matching system.
Business Summary: Lawyab is an online referral marketplace which uses an innovative matching algorithm and recommendation system. Users on the platform can browse through all available lawyers or upload their case information and be matched with a lawyer best suited for them. Additionally, Lawyab’s own in-house legal team will provide users with on-going support to ensure peace-of-mind.
Sector: Legal, Online Marketplace
Lean Meals
One Line Pitch: Lean Meals has created an AI supported online platform that allows for customizable healthy meals to be delivered right to your door.
Business Summary: Lean Meals is developing an online food ordering platform for easy and healthy meals. With the current worldwide obesity rates rapidly rising, having healthy and easily accessible meals is the main way to combat this. Through the use of an AI and cloud-based system that suggests meals specifically based off user profile, Lean Meals offers users the ability to custom order healthy meals that can be then directly delivered to their doorstep. Lean Meals hopes their product helps create a healthier and happier world.
Sector: Health and Wellness
Learn Wyse
One Line Pitch: Learn Wyse Education Limited : EdTech platform for tailor – made education.
Business Summary: Learn Wyse Education Limited is a EdTech platform that provides enhanced learning for students, as well as offering efficiencies in education, training delivery, and assessment. The company targets both teachers/ tutors and students, as well as wide range of educational institutions. Starting from Canada, Learn Wyse will spread its reach to North America, as well as internationally.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
Leave Pet Alone
One Line Pitch: Comprehensive remote pet health management and control system.
Business Summary: A remote pet health management and control system (LPA) to meet pets essential requirements including food, water, toilet, health, game, etc. without the need to the physical presence of the owner. Leverages technologies of artificial intelligence, active learning, sound, and image processing.
Sector: Communications Technology, Information Technology
LeFu Health Products
One Line Pitch: Health Biotech products company.
Business Summary: LeFu produces and distributes nutrition supplements, including a collagen-based UC-II line to treat arthritis and joint pain, and kefir starters that are added to milk to produce a pro-biotic rich and healthy beverage. LeFu is also developing new innovative health products based on soybean fermentation.
Sector: Life Sciences
LegalTech
One Line Pitch: LegalTech has created an AI-assisted technology platform that provides its customers with an efficient and cost-effective way to resolve their minor/recurring legal issues
Business Summary: The LegalTech platform provides its users with an AI-based legal assistant. It can help users draft simple legal documents, fight parking tickets, file chargebacks, and more. When users have more complex issues and require professional legal advice, the LegalTech marketplace feature – also AI-enabled – connects them to the optimal service provider by considering key input criteria to match the user with the appropriate lawyer that will help them solve their issues.
Sector: Communications Technology, IT
LepsiCur
One Line Pitch: A pediatric ketogenic diet monitoring software system for children with epilepsy and their families.
Business Summary: Instead of prescribing children with anti-epileptic drugs, this is a platform to support families with children prone to seizures by providing them with ketogenic diet meal plans, seizure logs, and monitoring technology for diet, hydration, and weight. They are simplifying the transition to a ketogenic diet by providing a meal delivery service and increasing the ease of communication with pediatricians.
Sector: Life Sciences
Lexhom Solutions Inc
One Line Pitch: Lexhom’s vision is to simplify real estate transactions and make them more transparent at a global level, beginning with Canada.
Business Summary: Lexhom is a Software business that aims to deliver informed, efficient, and secure experiences for users looking to close real estate deals. The features focus on AI-Powered document screening and management, and blockchain-enabled security and verification. Lexhom’s software automates purchase agreement screening, as well as title transfers and tax calculations inherent in real estate transactions. Users can also generate simply worded contracts in various languages and have critical phrases or terms highlighted and explained.
Sector: B2B, SaaS
Lexlore
One Line Pitch: LEXLORE is a low-cost platform for legal solutions, connecting clients to IVA and lawyers for personalized counsel and document preparation, with access to a library of contracts and a community forum.
Business Summary: LEXLORE is a comprehensive online platform for resolving legal issues, providing a quick and affordable solution for all legal needs. The platform offers a unique two-step process where users can first connect with an Intelligent Virtual Assistant to find related legal methods, and then explore and connect with experienced lawyers for personalized legal counsel and document preparation. The platform also offers access to a global library of contracts and templates and a community forum for sharing experiences. All services are offered at a low cost, making it accessible to everyone.
Light Edge
One Line Pitch: Light Edge is a smart-lighting service solution for individuals and businesses.
Business Summary: Light Edge takes a holistic user-focused approach to smart-lighting systems’, by utilizing artificial intelligence to customize and tailor the lighting of indoor spaces. This includes the color, intensity, and duration of the lighting. Our goal is to help create a healthy living and working environment for all of our users.
Sector: Smart Lighting
Lightbox
One Line Pitch: Lightbox offers programable and sensor-enabled digital screens that can be affixed to taxis/rideshares for advertising.
Business Summary: Lightbox has developed digital screens that can be placed upon taxis/rideshares that can be programmed and altered to the wants of the clients. These screens offer the ability to broadcast adverts that can change aspects based on time of day, location, and target audience. Lightbox looks to provide clients with the ability to adapt and change their advertisements on demand to fit the needs at that exact moment.
Sector: Manufacturing, Marketing
Liver Pro
One Line Pitch: Diagnostic Software Application, based on AI, to help radiologists/oncologists diagnose liver cancer and tumors in real-time.
Business Summary: Liver Pro is actively developing a computer tomography (CT) software application to help clinicians’ more quickly and accurately diagnosis tumours in the Liver by using AI and ML algorithms. Based upon the result of patient CT image analysis, physicians will be able to diagnose liver cancer in the early stages of the disease and plan anticancer treatments for the patient accordingly. This disruptive software will empower health care professionals to design and administer effective cancer treatments at early onset of the disease to slow down or prevent cancer development and lethality.
Sector: Life Sciences
LogicMed AI Inc.
One Line Pitch: Software powered by Artificial Intelligence to be used by healthcare professionals for pregnancy and infertility applications.
Business Summary: LogicMed’s Artificial Intelligence software program is designed to interpret existing clinical data, test results and medical imagery in real-time for the accurate and early detection of possible pregnancy complications or infertility. The proprietary algorithm will provide pathologists and infertility therapists key insights for patient care management and treatment options.
Sector: Life Sciences
