Top 45 Art Startup Investors in Canada (November 2026)

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• Axya — Axya is a procurement execution platform for manufacturers. Use AI to run sourcing, purchase orders, and supplier follow-up alongside your ERP.
• DropGenie — DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information.
• Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.

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• Wondereur — Wondereur is a digital art platform that gives the market for art assets real-time intelligence. This platform examines factors that affect an artist's market value over the long term, such as endorsements from galleries and museums, publications, art movements, and ideas. It then produces intelligent indices that include a suggested pricerange and the projected growth rate for any work of contemporary art.
• BeMused Network — Part interactive discovery tool, part knowledge network for the performing arts, BeMused Network offers you quick and easy access to live performances in Toronto, and a way to connect with the performing arts community—whether as an audience member, artist, producer or venue owner. Start discovering local events right away, or register through their one-step process and take advantage of the user-friendly features available to all BeMused members. Pin a Bravi! on profiles of artists you want to show some love to or buy tickets to events you can't wait to see! If you are an artist and want access to services and tools designed to make it easier for you to be discovered by local audiences or promoters, learn how on their for artists page. If you are a venue owner looking for artists to showcase, or an effective outlet to promote your events, check their for venues page or contact us to learn how BeMused Network’s advanced business solutions can help you grow. How you use BeMused—from buying tickets to seeing amazing new talents to streamlining your marketing efforts for your upcoming performances—is up to you!

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• Kin Community — Kin is a lifestyle entertainment company that develops, creates and distributes lifestyle entertainment in all forms and across all platforms for women in the “Builder” stage of their lives.
• Execution Labs — Execution Labs

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• Sylica LLC — Infin8t.tech provides state-of-the-art AI-powered customer support infrastructure for businesses of all sizes. Create, deploy, and manage intelligent chatbots trained on your specific content for personalized and efficient customer interactions that scale with your business needs.
• Planted — Plan. Build. Repeat. High-density racking, solar design software, and robotic construction to help turn more solar sites into good sites and build clean energy resources faster.
• Commonwealth Fusion Systems — The fastest path to clean, limitless fusion energy.

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• Swish Solar — Eliminate inefficiencies and maximize energy output with our breakthrough waterless self-cleaning solar panel technology. Perfect for arid regions with zero moving parts.
• Serenity Power — Advanced SOFC technology with high-efficiency targets, lower emissions, and fuel flexibility for oil & gas, industrial operations, and distributed power applications.
• Tydra Laboratories — High-performance fibrillated chitin that replaces toxic additives without sacrificing cost or performance.

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• Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
• Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
• Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.

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• MACH32 — MACH32 is a medical device startup that develops innovative solutions for new and longstanding medical problems.
• Difinity Solutions — Difinity Solutions is specializing in the development of medical devices and technology solutions.
• Possibility Neurotechnologies — Possibility Neurotechnologies develops user-centric assistive solutions to bridge the gap between advanced brain-computer interface technologies and the applications they can manage.

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• Fetalix — Fetal-inspired solutions for tissue regeneration
• Unlockit — Unlockit will offer to public and governmental bodies the guarantee that everything within a real estate transaction is recorded, meaning better industry regulation, more taxes and public fees collected, and less overall fraud and money laundering activities.
• Outgoing — A ticketing tool that allows organizers to sell tickets directly on WhatsApp and Instagram. Users can purchase tickets through a personalized checkout process entirely within the chat, without registration or redirects. It also offers customer support that answers questions in real time.

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• Anime Universe Global — The AU platform will be a fully immersive, safe and trusted environment where we will find a space for ourselves and our communities to create new memories and share our activities.

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• Wondeur Ai — Wondeur researches the dynamics of value creation and biases in the art world. Wondeur equips museums and art professionals with new information to achieve their curatorial goals and provides the financial industry the tools and knowledge necessary to deliver responsible art asset strategies. It quantifies the artist’s growth, tracks the evolutionof value, and measures the past and future influence of museums and galleries, globally.
• Elucid Labs — Elucid Labs is a MedTech company developing augmented intelligence imaging solution for early detection and diagnosis of skin cancer.Its proprietary imaging technology probes the molecular makeup of the skin at different layers and produces an unique fingerprint for the mole/lesion. The company has developed a proprietary AI technologytranslates this fingerprint into valuable clinical informatics to assist dermatologists in making better, faster, and more well informed decisions. With its technology, detection and diagnosis of skin cancer can be performed at much earlier stages of development which in turn reduces the cost of treatment as well as significantly reducing the unnecessary biopsies carried out every year.
• InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.

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• Biossil — Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform to create specialized treatments for distinct patients.
• Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
• Daedal Systems — Daedal Systems delivers instrumentation integration and contract development services for the clean tech nuclear sector. The company focuses on fusion energy and small modular reactor projects that require specialized plasma and reactor diagnostics. Its teams design and integrate diagnostic suites that provide parametric, temporal, and spatial coverage of plasma behavior to support measurement and validation. Offerings include neutron-hardened instrumentation, temperature sensing, and coolant analysis tailored for next-generation nuclear systems. Daedal Systems supports reactor developers by acting as an outsourced partner for diagnostics architecture so customers can concentrate on core power plant systems. The company also provides neutronics modeling and engineering services for both fission and fusion hardware design.

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• Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
• RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
• Afynia Laboratories — Keluaran sgp hari ini dan pengeluaran sgp tercepat menyediakan hasil togel singapore pools melalui tabel data sgp prize. Angka keluar sgp terbaru ditampilkan melalui siaran live draw sgp.

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• Pelgo — Pelgo re-engineers outplacement and severance for the modern enterprise. Intelligent severance administration, next-gen outplacement, and severance maximization in one platform.
• howie — Howie is an AI calendar secretary for email, SMS, iMessage, Gmail, and Google Calendar. He books meetings, protects focus time, follows up, and handles reminders.
• Self Protocol — Future-proof your organization with identity and agent infrastructure already accessible to billions of people across 180+ countries and trusted by companies like Google.

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• Aghanim — Aghanim is an integrated commerce, liveops automation, community engagement, and payments platform for mobile games.
• Kontempo — Kontempo is the leading B2B payments platform built and designed specifically for the industrial sector in Mexico. Our software allows wholesalers, manufacturers and distributors to offer flexible payment terms, including credit and installment pricing, to their customers in a fast, user friendly way. Powered by our advanced API's andAI-driven risk models, we help your business process more credit for more clients, without absorbing additional financial risk and without the need for additional capital.
• Pathfinder AI — Pathfinder AI provides psychometric assessments, career counseling, and admission guidance to help students explore and plan their futures.

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• Botsi — Botsi personalizes prices, paywalls, and offers for the real people behind your numbers. Custom AI models that grow subscription revenue.
• Apartool — housing supplier with accommodation for staff
• Ezra AI Labs — Meet the AI interview agent built for structured hiring. Greenhouse Voice AI runs two-way voice interviews, scored against your rubric.

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• Diginex — World leading blockchain-enabled software to collect, digitize and improve your ESG and sustainability impact. Accessible, intuitive and affordable.
• Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
• ShopVision Technologies — AI is reinventing digital selling. Lead the change or risk being left behind.

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• Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
• Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
• Sanzo — The 1st Asian-inspired sparkling water, Sanzo uses real fruit + no added sugars to deliver refreshing taste. Whether these flavors are a taste of home or a source of discovery, we're excited to bring you authentic flavors in the most delicious way we know how.

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• Scopia Surgical — Revolutionizing the operating room with our real-time artificial intelligence image processing technology. Scopia Surgical is a co-pilot for the human body, guiding surgeons with unprecedented accuracy and confidence.
• Galaxia — GALAXIA Mission Systems designs and develops intelligent satellites and edge computation platforms for space.
• Bia — Bia Education provides continuing education resources for healthcare professionals in rehabilitation fields. Their offerings include online self-paced and live courses, scientific memberships with access to webinars and publication summaries, and corporate training packages. The company also hosts networking events to connect students with employers. Bia Education aims to support professionals in staying current with clinical knowledge and enhancing their skills. Their platform is designed to be user-friendly and accessible for ongoing professional development.​

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• BOB — Join Bob AI appears to be an AI technology platform that helps businesses automate workflows using AI agents and digital employees.
• Ghost — Ghost is a consumer hardware and software company building a private, local-first computing system for personal artificial intelligence.
• Photon — Photon provides dependable, low-latency communications infrastructure and agent execution. designed to grow in response to actual consumer need.

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• OQT — OQT is focusing on developing QPUs utilizing neutral atoms.
• QueryLift — QueryLift develops software for analyzing how generative AI systems represent brands and products. Its marketing intelligence service provides prompt analysis, competitor comparison, brand visibility monitoring, and source tracking. Its security service monitors misinformation, brand damage, data leakage, and other reputation risks associated with generative AI. The company provides these capabilities through SaaS products and positions them within generative engine optimization and AI security.
• Ocean — Ocean is a technology-driven company dedicated to promoting digital transformation in the tax-free and retail shopping sectors. By developing innovative digital platforms and integrated solutions, the company streamlines tax refund processes and enhances the overall shopping experience for international travelers and retailers alike.

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• Lancey — Lancey is an interactive demo builder designed for sales and marketing teams to grow pipeline and close deals.
• Lang.ai — Automated tagging of support tickets and calls. We build AI for business users and help their support teams scale.
• MEISSNER — Meissner leverages artificial intelligence to discover and develop next-generation superconducting materials.

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• Baz — Baz is an AI code review platform that helps engineering teams ship better code faster.
• Clay — Clay's spreadsheet helps you find, enrich and act on people and company data from any source - without a line of code. Get started for free, today.
• Generalist AI — Generalist is a frontier AI research and product driven company building general intelligence for the physical world.

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• Brex — Simplify expense management with Brex's finance platform. From company cards to banking, Brex helps you drive growth, automate processes, & earn more.
• Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
• Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.

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• HP Capital — HP Capital is a private credit manager that specializes in asset-based lending solutions across a number of industries.
• Astara Energy Corp. — Astara Energy Corp. is an emerging, private junior oil and gas company with operations in Alberta.
• Complete Framing Solutions — Complete Framing Solutions specializes in designing, manufacturing, and supplying light steel framing systems.

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• thri5 — Thri5 develops software that connects retail data, people, and AI agents through a System of Actions. The platform monitors sales, margin, inventory, availability, and other operational data to identify exceptions and opportunities. It prioritizes signals, assigns ownership, coordinates workflows across retail teams, and supports execution through copilots and automation. The system also provides traceability and measures outcomes such as sales, margin, and inventory accuracy.
• Ultimarii — Cited, traceable answers grounded in the actual regulatory record. Purpose-built for regulated industries.
• Backboard.io — Backboard is an AI compute efficiency lab building the infrastructure that makes intelligence faster, more affordable, and more widely available.

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• Double — AI-powered, ledger-integrated close management for accounting firms and teams. Automate manual work, gain real-time visibility, and close the books faster.
• Lassie — The AI for independent doctors.
• Function Health — Test your whole body and own your health. Function, co-founded by Dr. Mark Hyman, is a lifelong routine of 100+ lab tests for the whole body including thyroid, hormones, fertility, autoimmunity, heart, kidney, liver and more. Lab results direct to you with insights from top doctors.

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• Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
• Cartage — Wilson quotes, books and tracks your freight, chases carriers, files every document and pays every invoice. Free on his network, a small share when he pays your own carriers.

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• Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
• Magrathea — Magrathea is rebuilding America's magnesium supply chain, producing primary magnesium metal from seawater and brines with a new electrolytic process.

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• YOURIKA — AI-assisted education technology and student support
• Lucra Sports — Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.
• Troubadour Goods — Based in London, Troubadour specialises in minimalist bags and accessories, designed for maximum performance. Timeless designs with modern touches.

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• Colare — Colare is an AI-powered hiring platform that uses real engineering simulations to help hardtech companies assess and hire engineers faster and more accurately.
• Minicor — Minicor agentically builds self-healing automations on any no-API system, then hands you an API endpoint to call.
• North Vector Dynamics — North Vector Dynamics is a defense tech company that offers precision autonomous systems.

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• Keye — Perform better diligence in less time with AI. Empower deal teams with cutting edge LLMs. Now in beta.
• Root — Root is a next-generation social platform that combines communication tools with a customizable app framework, allowing communities to organize, coordinate, and extend their functionality through apps.
• Voiceflow — Visually design, prototype and publish voice and chat apps across channels like Alexa, Google or any custom channel/modality. Get started today, with no code.

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• InsideDesk — Reduce AR days, boost collections, and streamline billing operations with InsideDesk's centralized revenue cycle management platform.
• CWX — CWX is an AI-native consultancy for regulated industries. Forward Deployed Strategists and Engineers turn AI use cases into measurable business value.
• Lightworks — Lightworks is a Canadian consulting company that focuses on enterprise AI infrastructure and control systems. The company works with the biggest and most regulated companies in the world to plan, manage, and safeguard AI-powered systems.

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• ElevenLabs — Create lifelike speech with our AI voice generator and voice agents platform. Access 17,500+ voices in 90+ languages with secure APIs and SDKs.
• PB Fintech — PB Fintech develops online platforms for insurance and lending products, primarily via Policybazaar and Paisabazaar.
• AuMEGA Metals — A gold exploration company focused on growing its two properties, Cape Ray Shear Zone and Hermitage Flexure.

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• Ultimarii — Cited, traceable answers grounded in the actual regulatory record. Purpose-built for regulated industries.
• Cheetah Networks — Cheetah Networks empowers network owners with real-time, actionable visibility across LTEM, IoT, and 5G networks.
• AirMatrix — At AirMatrix we are unlocking aviation's potential by building software to help drone delivery scale globally. We help companies automate their drone operations using AirMatrix.

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• Pillow — Pillow provides Internet-based management services. It offers information about a property, essential amenities, and other apartments and houses. The company is an Expedia group that solves short-term rentals for multifamily properties, allowing building owners and property managers to have control and transparency over short-term rentals whileenabling their residents to rent their units short-term on listings sites such as Homeaway, VRBO, and Airbnb.
• iCollector — Founded in 1997, icollector.com was one of the pioneers in bringing auctioneers together with interested buyers. Today, we have over 1000 auction house clients worldwide, among them the top auction houses and licensed dealers in their respective categories. We specialize and excel in coin auctions, vintage collectibles, gaming memorabilia,collectible firearms, movie props and original set costumes. Furthermore, our clients excel in placing native memorabilia, original prints and paintings as well as vintage and one of a kind jewellery and diamonds.Our main service offering is pay per use access to our platform icollector.com on which we list our client’s items for sale in a catalogue order to coincide with the physical auction at the location and date they chose. Our software tools and reporting suite let interested bidders register for a free account online, place bids raise or alter bids on as many items they like and ultimately bid live in real time against hundreds of other bidders on the auction floor or around the world.Having run over 10,000 auctions since our inception, we can draw from a deep and well structured database of past bidders, auction item stats, sold prices and other useful information for bidders and dealers alike. Coupled with innovative marketing using a combination of email marketing, social media and traditional vehicles to reach bidders, we are a full service firm focused on doing the best things to help our customers grow in their business.Before, during and after each auction, we offer full auction house support. This ranges from reporting functions such as geo targeting of bidders and marketing efforts to credit approval payment and shipping integration to facilitate and automate as many functions of our client’s operations as possible.Icollector.com also has shared functions with its sister platform www.liveauctionworld.com which is mainly used to promote industrial and commercial sales at auction.Icollector.com also belongs to the same group of brands that operates www.liveauctiongroup.com, which is a custom software builder for the auction industry, lending a client a unique and powerfully branded platform while giving them full access to all the major tools and reports the auction industry relies on for its success.

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• Wygo — This is why you've gotta go outside.
• Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is the Certified B Corp.™ behind the only natural incontinence care line that outperforms conventional brands. Our products and packaging combine innovative, plant-based materials with cutting edge technology to deliver high performance, skin-safe protection women can trust while supporting better overall health and wellbeing. We arealso deeply committed to eliminating the shame and stigma historically associated with urinary incontinence and ensuring women have access to reliable information about this condition, including treatment options that may be available.Attn: Grace was founded by Mia Abbruzzese and Alexandra Fennell in 2019 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Tall Poppy — Digital safety for everyone.

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• Optosecurity — PAX CHECKPOINT combines automated screening lanes with a screening software to create a fully integrated checkpoint solution.
• TechInsights — TechInsights is a technology company that offers intellectual property consulting, patent brokerage services, and technical analysis.TechInsights offers IP advisory and consulting services; technical investigation and reverse engineering; market intelligence and device teardown and analysis; patent management software and tools; andmore.TechInsights is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Ottawa, Canada; Austin, U.S.A.; Tokyo, Japan; Shanghai, China; Warsaw, Poland; Taipei, Taiwan; Seoul, Korea; and Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Gemin X Pharmaceuticals — Own Geminx.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.

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• Chomp — Chomp is a social network platform that focuses on on question-and-answer with prediction-based systems.
• Ayble Health — Ayble is your digital guide to better gut health.
• Realm.Security — Realm.Security transforms sprawling security data into a unified intelligent entity. Leveraging AI and cutting edge data processing technology, we deliver the right information to the right destination at the right time.

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• UserHub — The quickest way to add Billing & Seat Management features to your SaaS product. A User Based Billing Platform compatible with Stripe Billing, Auth0, Google Firebase, and more.
• Neutron — Neutron: The most secure CosmWasm platform in Cosmos, Neutron lets smart-contracts leverage bleeding-edge Interchain technology with minimal overhead
• Cambrian — Cambrian is the financial intelligence layer for the age of digital assets. Fast, comprehensive, and verifiable onchain data for agents, institutions, and protocols.

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• Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.

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• howie — Howie is an AI calendar secretary for email, SMS, iMessage, Gmail, and Google Calendar. He books meetings, protects focus time, follows up, and handles reminders.
• Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
• Augment Markets — Invest in pre-IPO companies on the Augment Private Liquidity Network. Join the network or download the mobile app today.

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• NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
• Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
• Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.

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• Hallow — Pray every day this Lent with Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pratt, Jonathan Roumie, and millions of others around the world on Hallow, the #1 prayer app.
• Schoola — Schoola is an American online retail company that sells second hand women's and children's clothing. Schoola solicit the clothing via donation and in return donate a portion of each sales proceeds to the school of the donor's choice. Schoola is a self-service fundraising platform that schools, principals, PTAs and PTOs can use toraise significant funds for schools and other non-profits. To date Schoola has partnered and raised funds for over 10,000 schools throughout the US. Headquartered in San Francisco, Schoola was founded by former school administrator Stacey Boyd and is backed by several prominent angel and institutional investors.
• Unsplash — Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.

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• Durin — Mineral exploration technology company
• TensorZero — TensorZero builds open-source tools for production-grade LLM applications: LLM gateway, observability, optimization, evaluations, and experimentation.
• Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.

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• Float Financial — Float helps close your books 8x faster. Expense management, corporate cards, bill pay, and business accounts in one platform. Built for Canada, in Canada.
• Exact Technology — Discover innovative solutions to measure, monitor, and control concrete curing with EXACT Technology, ensuring efficiency, safety, and sustainability.
• Float Financial — Float Financial: Corporate cards, expense management, bill payments & high-yield accounts for Canadian businesses. Modern banking built for growth.