Current Ventures

AVENUE INTELLIGENCE

Supercharge retail strategy with AI powered foot traffic and sales insights.

Avenue Intelligence is a Canadian technology company helping cities, place-makers and retailers map foot traffic for a better understanding of how we use urban spaces.

Founder(s):
Jake McGregor

Contact:
team@avenueintelligence.com

BAERFELL

High Performance natural fibre insulation.

Baerfell is using sustainable technologies to produce the most advanced natural insulation.

Founder(s):
Marc Massicotte, Pierre Massicotte, Feng Jiang

Contact:
https://www.baerfell.com

BAYES STUDIO

AI Driven Environmental Solutions

Bayes Studio harnesses AI, satellite data, and a multi-spectral sensor system to provide unparalleled environmental monitoring solutions to help detect wildfires early.

Founder(s):
Maryam Parizi, Hossein Rahimi

Contact:
contact@bayesstudio.com

BINTA FINANCIAL

Empowering newcomers through access to housing & financial visibility.

Binta provides financial inclusion and the tools to navigate the Canadian economic landscape.

Founder(s):
Paschal Okwundu

Contact:
info@bintafinancial.com

BROADSIGHT

Workflow Management for Media and Comms teams

Broadsight transforms comms workflow of splintered messaging in shared drives, email, messaging apps & spreadsheets to a unified workspace for your team.

Founder(s):
Kurt Heinrich, John-Jose Nunez

Contact:
https://www.broadsight.ca

CARBONYX

C02 Capture at a Gigatonne Scale

Carbonyx’s revolutionary process transforms industrial waste into valuable byproducts, like silica, while permanently storing carbon dioxide.

Founder(s):
Douglas Pimlott, Mia Stankovic, Adrien Noble, Curtis Berlinguette

Contact:
info@carbonyx.com

CERECURA NANOTHERAPEUTICS

Treating brain diseases from within

CereCura Nanotherapeutics is a preclinical biotechnology company developing innovative RNA therapies for patients with untreated brain disorders.

Founder(s):
Louis Phillippe Bernier, Nicholas Weilinger, Richard Howlet, Brian MacVicar, Pieter Cullis

Contact:
info@cerecura.com

CHECKMARK

Worried About a Skin Spot or Mole?

Checkmark’s skin assessment service lets you get a quick expert opinion locally on new, changing or worrisome spots without having to wait months.

Founder(s):
Sabrina Nurmohamed, Tom McLaughlin

Contact:
hello@checkmarkderm.ca

CNANO

Unlocking the Power of Skin Drug Delivery

CNANO combines advanced dermal drug delivery technologies with cutting-edge material sciences to create next-generation topical products. Our innovations harness the skin’s natural healing properties for regeneration while ensuring targeted delivery. Our main product pipelines focus on topical pain relief, anti-aging and anti-scar treatments.

Founder(s):
Ellie Rahmani, Mehran Khosravinejad

Contact:
info@cnano.ca

CURA

Developing solutions to decarbonize cement production by up to 85%

CURA’s electrochemical technology uses clean electricity—not heat—to split limestone into lime and pure CO₂, enabling production of low-carbon lime and Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) with existing feedstocks.

Founder(s):
Erin Bobicki, Sabrina Scott, Phil De Luna, Curtis Berlinguette

Contact:
info@curaclimate.com

DREAM PHOTONICS

Dream Photonics provides a billion devices with integrated Photonics

Tackling the biggest challenges of the semiconductor era, leveraging their expertise and resources in the world of photonics and electronics.

Founder(s):
Lukas Chrostowski, Sudip Shekhar

Contact:
https://dreamphotonics.com/contact-us/

DISC ALLOYS

The Next Generation of metal additive manufacturing.

DISC is combining optimization techniques, novel manufacturing methods and knowledge in metal behaviour to create the next breakthrough in the metal manufacturing industry.

Founder(s):
David Funes Rojas, Stefano Fregonese

Contact:
info@di-sca.com

eSENSE HEALTH

Digital Therapeutic Platform for Women’s sexual health

eSense has developed the first clinically validated digital therapeutic addressing female sexual dysfunction, delivering evidence based psychological care in a private, accessible, and scalable format.

Founder(s):
Elayne Wandler, Dr. Lori Brotto, Dr. Kyle Stephenson

Contact:
info@esensehealth.ca

FUTURI POWER

FUTURi Power builds intelligent electrical technologies that improve reliability, safety, and efficiency across the power ecosystem.

Founder(s):
Martin Ordonez

Contact:
contact@futuripower.com

GREYPOINT INDUSTRIES

Manufacturing the Future of Autonomous Systems
Greypoint is rearming the West by designing and manufacturing autonomous platforms at an industrial scale.

Founder(s):
Jordan Khoo, Nicholas Chu

Contact:
https://greypointindustries.ca/

IMAGECYTE

Providing cell analysis tools that are simple, scalable and accessible.

Empowering cell research by providing next-generation cell isolation technology.

Founder(s):
Samuel Berryman, Hongshen Ma

Contact:
contact@imagecyte.bio

INSPOROS

Intelligent Seed Sorting

Insporos is developing intelligent seed sorting to remove diseased and defective seeds, enabling growers to significantly improve yields.

Founder(s):
Amanda Ackroyd, Mallory Flynn

Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/insporos/

MINPRAXIS SOLUTIONS

Transforming orebody characterization to improve productivity in mining and milling.

Transforming geotechnical and geo-metallurgical characterization, allowing for strength characterization of unconventional samples, including resource core.

Founder(s):
Stefan Nadolski

Contact:
info@minpraxis.com

MOSA

Upcycling glass bottles into unique home decor to reduce waste.

Founder(s):
Prishita Agarwal, Abhiudai Mishra

Contact:
partner@itsmosa.ca

NARVAL ENERGY

Sodium Battery Systems built for extreme temperature environments

Energy storage systems that enable energy equity for remote and extreme environments, replacing diesel dependence with reliable, affordable renewable power.

Founder(s):
Dr. Ivan Stosevski, Dr. Arman Bonakdarpour, Dr David Wilkinson

Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/narvalenergy

OFFSHORE DESIGNS LTD

Reducing ships’ fuel consumption through proactive hull cleaning

In-water robotic ship hull cleaning to improve fuel efficiency, reduce GHG emissions & maintenance costs, and protect the environment from invasive species.

Founder(s):
Voytek Klaptocz, Bill Rawlings

Contact:
info@offshoredesigns.ca

PHASELAB DYNAMICS

Advanced radio-frequency (RF) pulses for MRI and MRS

phaseLab dynamics will transform Magnetic Resonance Imaging by controlling signal generation at its source, enabling faster, artifact-free, and highly reproducible scans.

Founder(s):
Christina Graf, Armin Rund, Alexander Jaffray, Alexander Rauscher, Cam Melvin

Contact:
https://phaselab.ca

PROMIRIN THERAPEUTICS

Bringing the power of Precision Medicine to more patients

Designing a personalized activatable nucleic acid-based treatment platform to deliver therapeutics for currently untreatable tumours.

Founder(s):
Dr. Dermott Kelleher, Dr. Shane Duggan, Dr. Corina Stewart, Cam Melvin

Contact:
shane.duggan@promirin.com

RADIANT FLUIDICS

Automated chemistry platforms for radiopharma development and translation.

Their flagship TACU (Trace Amount Chemistry Unit) technology helps research institutions and the nuclear medicine industry streamline their transition from early process development to clinical translation.

Founder(s):
Nicolas Fedrigo

Contact:
contact@radiantfluidics.com

RESOLVE NANOTHERAPEUTICS

Revolutionizing acute infection treatment

Resolve Nanotherapeutics is committed to bringing a first-in-class broad-spectrum therapeutic to market for acute bacterial infections.

Founder(s):
Dr. Jim Russell, Dr. Cedric Brimacombe, Dr. Evan Haney, Dr. Pieter Cullis, Dr. Ehsan Ansari Dezfouli

Contact:
info@resolventx.com

SERAGENE THERAPEUTICS

Long lasting targeted control over coagulation disorders

Seragene is reimagining the treatment of coagulation disorders through innovative RNA and nanomedicine technologies.

Founder(s):
Erika Siren, Lih Jiin Juang, Amy Strilchuk, Katherine Badior, Christian Kastrup, Pieter Cullis

Contact:
info@seragenetx.com

SMARTPARENT

Texting reliable information to promote safe pregnancy and parenting.

Founder(s):
Shaina Pennington

Contact:
https://smartparentcanada.ca/contact-us/

SUSTAINABLE BIOPRODUCT INNOVATIONS INC.

Plant-based ingredients that drive sustainability in the food industry

SBI’s flagship product, ZroFat, is a plant-based fat substitute designed to replace traditional fats in food production.

Founder(s):
Dave Eto

Contact:
info@sbinnovations.net

SENTACT TECHNOLOGIES

Giving manufacturing equipment a “Sense of Touch”

A “Smart Roller” for the composite aircraft manufacturing sector that lets manufacturers see, in real-time, how evenly material is being deposited during automated carbon fiber layup.

Founder(s):
Charlie Picciotto, Xiulun Yin, Dr. John Madden, Dr. Anoush Poursartip, Dr. Adam Clare

Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentact-technologies/

SYRIS

Decision intelligence for critical minerals mining

Syris employs advanced AI to help translate complex sensor data across a variety of industries into easy to understand reporting.

Founder(s):
Vidya Kotamraju, Bhushan Gopaluni

Contact:
contact@syris.ai

TRUMOTION TECHNOLOGIES LTD

TruMotion Empowering those with limited to no mobility & their caregivers with accessible & automated solutions to meet daily movement goals.

Founder(s):
Sukhneet Dhillon

Contact:
truteam@trumotion.ca

TYDRA LABORATORIES

Redefining Everyday Materials

Tydra has developed a biotechnological platform that transforms renewable resources into high-value materials. This process maximizes efficiency, minimizes waste, and prioritizes safety, all while taking inspiration from nature’s brilliance.

Founder(s):
Dr. Thanos Kritharis, Jaiya Varshney, Dr. Vikramaditya Yadav

Contact:
info@tydralabs.com

VIRDIS RESEARCH

Empowering People and Communities to Protect Water Sources Everywhere.

Founder(s):
Macarena Cataldo, Ahmad Erfan

Contact:
info@viridisresearch.com

VITAPULSE TECHNOLOGIES

Clinically validated AI Platform for real-time critical illness detection

VitaPulse specializes in developing device-agnostic machine learning systems for the monitoring and detection of critical health events, based on real clinical data.

Founder(s):
Dr. Jacob Hutton, Dr. Saud Lingawi, Dr. Brian Grunau, Sadra Khosravi

Contact:
hello@vitapulse.ca

VULCANX

Empowering a Net Zero Future

Vulcan X is accelerating the transition to net-zero by providing clean hydrogen and solid carbon.

Founder(s):
Omar E Herrera

Contact:
info@vulcanx.ca

ZERONE ANALYTIQS

Bridging Africa’s Data Gap

Zerone AnalytiQs is connecting the rest of the world to Africa through data and analytics by organizing Africa’s Data On An AI-powered Analytics Platform.

Founder(s):
Abby Aidoo, Kofi Oppong-Asumang

Contact:
https://zeroneanalytiqs.com/contact-us