Top 50 Hardware VC Funds & Investors in Canada (July 2026)

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• Sheertex — Sheertex - #1 Bestselling tights in the USA. Ultra-strong sheers engineered for durability and comfort, up to 10x more durable than others.
• Xanadu — Xanadu is a Canadian quantum computing company with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere.
• LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.

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• Vosker — Vosker provides remote area monitoring tech enabling you to take things further
• TickTrade Systems — smartTrade Technologies is a leading global provider with multi-asset electronic trading platforms, helping buy-side & sell-side institutions
• Renaissance Repair and Supply —

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• BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
• 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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• SELL IT9 — Get top cash for your tech with SELLIT9, Canada's trusted trade-in service. Free same-day pickups, convenient drop-off locations, and pre-paid shipping labels nationwide. Fast, secure, and hassle-free!
• TimeSmart.AI — TimeSmart.AI provides a comprehensive solution developed with the guidance of physicians and compliance professionals to help improve organizational efficiencies.TimeSmart.AI delivers a robust, all-in-one solution crafted with input from physicians and compliance experts. It streamlines organizational workflows to boost efficiencies acrosshealthcare operations. Designed for real-world reliability, it helps teams save time while upholding the highest standards of care and regulation.
• Authentic Web — Authentic Web is a Corporate Domain Name Management platform for the New TLD Era.We equip enterprise teams in Digital, Marketing & IT with domain and DNS automation, providing business intelligence to support digital optimization and innovation for digital brands.Our workflow, automation and security protocols address Security andCompliance requirements for Risk, Compliance and IT Security teams to lock down domain assets and support teams to manage DNS network exposures.

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• Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
• FluidAI Medical — Real-Time Monitoring for Anastomotic Leaks with Origin, by FluidAI. Early data shows FluidAI's Origin can detect leaks an average of 1.6 days earlier.
• Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology is building high-throughput bacterial platforms for the biotech industry, with a focus on plasmid DNA manufacturing.

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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 — Aima Laboratories is a women's health healthcare company that provides innovative solutions to diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. AIMA is working on the first non-invasive endometriosis diagnostic tool for the market. If you have chronic pelvic/period pain or are having difficulty becoming pregnant, you may have endometriosis.

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• Zilia — Zilia's non-invasive assessment of biomarkers in the eye redefines the way we prevent, diagnose, and treat various diseases.
• 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.
• Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.

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• IGNITE — Ignite assists entrepreneurs at all stages, whether they are beginning a firm, growing it, or maintaining long-term success.Ignite has been leading an innovative and knowledge-based strategy to help individuals thrive and businesses prosper.
• PEI BioAlliance — PEI BioAlliance is a not-for-profit organization committed to the advancement of the bioscience industry. The BioAlliance has aided businesses, academic and research institutions, and federal and provincial government agencies in establishing the bioscience sector as a critical pillar in the province's and Atlantic Canada's economicfoundation. It facilitates the use of new technology through research and assists in the identification of new commercial opportunities. The PEI BioAlliance leads the Cluster of business, academic, research, and government organizations committed to increasing the economic impact of the bioscience sector in Prince Edward Island.
• The Halifax Honey — The Halifax Honey is a manufacturing company that provides sweet and spicy condiments made from wildflower honey and real chili peppers.

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• MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
• unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
• Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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• Ionik — PopReach operates as a multi-platform technology company. It focuses on acquiring, optimizing, and growing companies and assets that provide services, technology, or products within the digital media ecosystem. Its portfolio of assets includes PopReach Games, a free-to-play mobile game publisher with over 25 games enjoyed by millions of players;notifyAI, a push notification subscription and monetization platform; Q1Media, a digital media advertising services provider; and Contobox, an award-winning personalization, eCommerce and creative advertising technology platform.
• Generation Mining — Generation Mining is a mineral development company that focuses on zinc and molybdenum projects in Canada. It completed a Preliminary Economic Assessment in early 2020 and plans to follow up with a Definitive Feasibility Study beginning in Q1, 2020.
• Green Circuits — GC designs and manufactures electronics circuit boards for the aerospace, defense, and health tech industries.

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• Cohley — Cohley is a content marketing platform focusing on user generated content, visual asset creation, and text review generation. Streamline your content generation today!
• Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
• Vector ML Analytics — Vector ML is a financial analytics tool used by executives and analysts at banks and lending institutions to increase return, lower risk, and manage liquidity. It combines treasury, credit risk, FP&A, and capital market features in a single application using AI and automation, allowing for a 360-degree view of the balance sheet. Visit us atwww.vectormla.com

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• Alongside — The perfect hire is closer than you think. Source better candidates, provide great candidate experiences & give yourself the freedom to find the perfect fit.
• Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
• Lastwall — Lastwall exists to protect democratic institutions by strengthening the cybersecurity posture of defense and critical infrastructure partners.

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• Planned — Redefining the way in-person events are planned.
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• Routehappy — ATPCO | The foundation of modern airline retailing

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• tofu — tofu is an online marketplace for founders, hiring managers, and talent team leaders to find talent.
• Friendlier — Friendlier aims to reduce single-use plastic waste generated by disposable food packaging. We provide businesses with reusable plastic cups and containers, and take care of delivery, pick-up, and washing.
• Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance.

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• Cybrid — The Cybrid software development kit & cloud-based platform can enable you to launch crypto trading within weeks, for minimal fees. Save millions in headcount, legal, and operational costs, compared to building your own platform from scratch.
• BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
• Forma.ai — Forma.ai's sales performance management software brings comp strategy and execution into one platform, and acts as a single source of truth for sales performance.

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• Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
• Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
• fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.

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• ViewsML — Explore cutting-edge AI solutions for cancer treatment, diagnosis, and research. Discover how clinical labs leverage artificial intelligence for precise cancer detection and diagnosis.
• Carbonyx — Carbonyx is a biotechnology company that transforms industrial waste into valuable byproducts while permanently storing carbon dioxide.
• CereCura Nanotherapeutics — CereCura Nanotherapeutics is developing novel RNA therapeutics for central nervous system disorders.

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• Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
• Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
• CarbonCure Technologies — CarbonCure Technologies creates, develops, and licenses solutions that consume waste CO2 to make better concrete. It spurs the market shift towards affordable green concrete, by enabling concrete manufacturers to convert waste CO2 into solid minerals, locked away as a solid within concrete during manufacturing. It is a green building technologycompany currently serving concrete product manufacturers in the US and Canada. It offers concrete producers the ability to manufacture green concrete products without compromising on either quality or price.CarbonCure is a retrofit innovation that repurposes CO2 gas from large final emitters as a feedstock in concrete plants. The gas is permanently converted into embedded solid mineral carbonates that yield material, environmental, and production advantages. By enabling concrete manufacturers to consume CO2 into concrete products during manufacturing, the technology differentiates an otherwise traditional commodity concrete product, while achieving superior material performance characteristics. In addition to technology, CarbonCure provides demand-pull marketing and environmental reporting/certification services to reinforce its customers’ exclusive competitive positioning. The technology is licensed at a very low-CAPEX to concrete producers, generating a recurring revenue stream.CarbonCure Technologies was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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• Lotly — Find your best mortgage rate in a few clicks with our mortgage discovery system. Whether you're a first time homebuyer, looking to refinance, or require a creative solution, our mortgage agents will help with every step. Expert advice, personalized results, and the best experience at no cost to you.
• PainWorth — Assess, calculate and settle your injury claim online. For free. Our automated system is faster, fairer, easier and stress-free with full transparency on every step. Resolve your injury claim now.
• CYBERNETIQ — Identify real-time threats others can't see, and get complete visibility of your network with a military-grade attack surface analysis tool.

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• Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
• PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
• eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of

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• Coral — Coral is a virtual care clinic that provides evidence-based, personalized support for perimenopause and menopause, weight loss and longevity.
• Pricepoint — Pricepoint is an AI-powered dynamic pricing engine built and designed for independent hoteliers that automatically optimizes room prices in true real-time after every booking change.
• Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.

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• Cook it — Cook it is a ready-to-cook meal company in Canada. Cook it's mission is to reduce food waste and to take away the inconvenience associated with weekly meal planning. The company delivers incredibly delicious and easily prepared meals that everyone can proudly cook.
• Carbicrete — CarbiCrete is a carbon removal technology company that enables the production of cement-free, decarbonized concrete.
• Flare — Flare equips your team to shut down cybercrime before it escalates. Detect, prioritize, and remediate external cyber threats with automated Threat Exposure Management.

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• Solaires Entreprises Inc — Solaires Entreprises Inc is a Canadian cleantech company located in Victoria, BC, that consists of a team of 23 scientists, engineers, and business professionals. Solaires is focused on developing the next generation of solar cells by replacing silicon with perovskite through an innovative and sustainable manufacturing process resulting inaffordable solar photovoltaics with higher energy conversion efficiency.
• Prairie Robotics — Leading smart camera solutions for sustainable recycling and waste management.
• Progressive Planet Solutions — Progressive Planet Solutions Inc is a metal/mineral based company that deals with the exploration & development of zeolite minerals.

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• Backboard.io — Backboard.io provides developers a single stateful interface to more than 400 LLMs and SLMs for app development.
• Partage Club —

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• Carbicrete — CarbiCrete is a carbon removal technology company that enables the production of cement-free, decarbonized concrete.
• Turtlebrace — Turtlebrace designs and produces custom-fitted wrist, thumb, and hand braces using 3D scanning and additive manufacturing. Offerings address stabilization, pain reduction, and guided movement for sprains, tendinopathies, fractures, and post-operative recovery. The ordering process typically uses a mobile scan to capture anatomy, followed by digitalmodeling and fabrication of a ventilated orthosis with adjustable closures. Product lines include sport-focused variants for climbing and fitness, everyday support options, and clinician-informed configurations for specific protocols. Guidance covers sizing, donning and doffing, wear schedules, and care, with support available for fit refinements and component replacement. Accessories such as straps or padding kits complement the core devices and help extend service life.
• BBM-Lanctôt — BBM-Lanctôt is a major printing company in Quebec.

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• Vention — Design and order custom industrial equipment in days. Fast and easy-to-use cloud CAD, loaded with modular parts, that ship next day.
• Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
• Vosker — Vosker provides remote area monitoring tech enabling you to take things further

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• Justo — Cashback. Lower listing fees. Experienced local agents. Advanced technology. Free services. Justo is a new real estate brokerage based on a radical idea: Consumers are paying too much to buy or sell a home. That's why we offer a new model, based on fairness and transparency. Looking to buy a home? We'll split our commission with you50/50. Plus, our all-inclusive model covers home inspections and lawyer fees. Selling a home? Save half the listing fee of traditional brokerages, and thousands more with free staging, 3D virtual tours, professional photography and online marketing. Our experienced agents work closely with you to help find the home of your dreams, or sell your home for best the possible price. It just makes sense to use Justo.
• MesoMat — Boost fleet safety, fuel consumption, and operating costs real-time data from your tires.
• Motion Gestures — Motion Gestures is a Canadian machine learning startup specializing in gesture recognition software. Motion Gestures specializes in machine learning-based gesture recognition software and was founded in Waterloo, Canada in 2016. The company aims to enable the rapid development and deployment of gesture-enabled interfaces for systems, devices, andapps. Its software supports advanced 2D and 3D gestures using motion, touch, and vision sensors and can be deployed on the cloud, gateway/hub, and embedded platforms. Developers are offered free licenses to the cloud SDK and can quickly create and test any gesture using their smartphones.

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• Purse — The biggest challenge to Bitcoin commerce is the lack of consumer incentive to spend. Purse generates this incentive in the form of 15% discounts on Amazon. Buyers can purchase bitcoins with a credit card as easily as checking out on Amazon, thus solving the last mile problem.
• Voker — Voker is the Agent Analytics Platform for monitoring and improving your AI agents. Companies like Dutch.com use our SDK to build better AI. Alex and Tyler met at a high-growth E-Commerce startup where Tyler was running Technology & Data. Together, they built AI products that bootstrapped the company profitably to $100MM in Revenue.
• Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure

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• Botpress — Botpress is a modern developer stack to build enterprise and open-source chatbots. Learn about our conversational AI platform built for developers.
• AlayaCare — AlayaCare is a revolutionary cloud-based home care software platform for agencies looking for innovation and efficiencies across the entire agency.
• CONTXTFUL Technologies — Contxtful is a patent pending AI-driven technology leverages sensors from mobile smart devices such as phones, tablets & smart watches to identify user intent and context. It's designed with privacy in mind to be compliant with GDPR so we don't need to request permission from users. No need for GPS, camera or microphone. CONTXTFULprovide attention, viewability and predictive marketing analysis, performance improvement and business intelligence on the environment context of any digital audience. Our technologies generates different strategic activities like audience engagement, segmentation, online marketing security and real-time marketing data insights and can be used in many industry, including Adtech, Martech, Insurance/Banking, Fintech, Video Streaming and Game Engines providers to gather better context aware intel about their audience and customers.Our solution is respect privacy, it’s real-time and always-on.

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• Rails — Experience unparalleled speed and efficiency with Rails, your go-to platform for lightning-fast crypto perpetuals trading.
• CWX — CWX is a full-service enterprise cloud consulting company.
• 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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• Mesosil — Mesosil develops responsive antimicrobial materials to prevent infection at the medical device-tissue interface, with lifetime length of effect. Our technology is ideally suited for dental restoratives and dental implant surfaces. The result is greatly improved patient outcome with no change to practitioner workflow, reducing the likelihood ofrecurrent caries and detachment of dental restorations, or peri-implant wound infection that could result in implant loss and implant revision.
• TimeSmart.AI — TimeSmart.AI provides a comprehensive solution developed with the guidance of physicians and compliance professionals to help improve organizational efficiencies.TimeSmart.AI delivers a robust, all-in-one solution crafted with input from physicians and compliance experts. It streamlines organizational workflows to boost efficiencies acrosshealthcare operations. Designed for real-world reliability, it helps teams save time while upholding the highest standards of care and regulation.
• IRegained Inc. — IRegained develops an in-home digital rehabilitation system to rewire the brain through the power of neuroplasticity, empowering stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors to reclaim unassisted use of their hands.

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• Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
• ClearRisk — Our easy-to-use risk management software increases productivity, creates differentiation, and adds a simple and efficient process to manage risk!
• HIGHLINEvc — HIGHLINE is a Pre-Seed investor & Acceleration Platform that helps digital startups get follow-on capital, backed by leading VCs with offices in Vancouver & Toronto.We believe in providing our founders with far more than capital. Yet unlike most accelerators, we have no rigid start/end dates throughout the year. By joining theHIGHLINE family, you get to call on us for advice on an ongoing basis, gain access to our premium network and monthly founder events. We’ll do our best to help with fundraising challenges and partner with incubators to help deliver specialized programming.

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• UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
• Quadshift — Quadshift provides software solutions to thousands of businesses in a variety of vertical markets by acquiring and building great B2B software companies and holding them for the long term.
• Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.

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• Awake Chocolate — AWAKE Chocolate combines delicious milk chocolate.
• ShopVision Technologies — AI is reinventing digital selling. Lead the change or risk being left behind.
• Mobi724 Global Solutions — MOBI724 Global Solutions is a fintech leader in digital incentives (Card-Linked Offers, mobile couponing & loyalty rewards) and payment solutions (including mobile payment). The company is fully dedicated to deliver unique “real time” and seamless digital promotional incentives (Card-Linked Offers, Loyalty Rewards and Coupons), providingclients with full and comprehensive traceability, real time messaging, business intelligence and enriched consumer data.Its solutions enable card issuers, banks and retailers to create, manage, deliver, and “track & measure” incentive campaigns worldwide, and allow their redemption at ANY point of sale.MOBI724’s PCI & EMV switch, with its robust technology and device agnostic connectivity, simplifies deployment, integration and introduces new payment and couponing solutions to the market and a new tool to monetize data insights.Issuers’ goals of enabling cardholders to have friction-free purchasing experiences anywhere and accelerating the use of their payment cards, can be greatly enhanced by using MOBI724’s Card-Linked Offer platform, solutions and expertise.

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• Airex Energy — Airex Energy provides solutions for a sustainable future. Helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
• Thymox Technology — A powerful, non-toxic botanical disinfectant that kills 99.9% of bacteria, fungi and molds as well as COVID-19. Thymox is safe for you and your family.
• YWire technologies — Based in Montreal, YWire Technologies designs, manufactures and sells lighting control devices for the commercial buildings market. Founded by three building automation industry veterans in 2009, YWire designs products targeted specifically at lowering the installed cost of integrated systems across the market. The FiveSeries Lighting ControlSystem is the first building-level command and control system in the world to use Broadband over Power Line for device networks and integration into Building Automation Systems.

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• Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
• Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
• Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.

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• Mave — Mave is the trusted AI partner for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
• PressBox — PressBox was founded by ex-Bleacher Report engineers who saw where AI could help media organizations scale the discovery, creation, and measurement of personalized content across a variety of platforms. Gen-Z is leading a shift in fandom, following sports through athletes, influencers, and cultural moments in contrast to the team and city-basedaffinity of previous generations. Sports organizations are looking to personalization to meet this rapidly growing portion of the fan base, but lack the end-to-end solution to deliver revenue-producing results. Our platform enables leagues to reach more fans by automating the creation and distribution of highly-personalized, sponsorable, multi-modal content that speaks to fans regardless of their connection to a sport.
• ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.

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• HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
• Lastro — Lastro is an all-in-one real estate management platform with integrated payments that simplifies managing rental properties. It helps landlords streamline workflows by organizing lease contract information in a cloud-based system, automating rent charging processes, monitoring tenant obligations and generating customized reports.
• Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.

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• Mazza Innovation — From the ingredients we produce to how we give back to the planet, we reflect health in everything we do. Simplicity is key to our method; water & plants.
• Big Mountain Foods —
• Creative Destruction Lab — Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity organization that delivers an objectives-based mentoring program for massively scalable, pre-seed stage, science- and technology-based companies. Its nine-month program allows founders to learn from experienced entrepreneurs, increasing their likelihood of success. Founded in 2012 byProfessor Ajay Agrawal at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded to thirteen sites across seven countries: Seattle, Oxford, Paris, Atlanta, Estonia, Wisconsin, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Berlin, Melbourne and Halifax.

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• Liberté — In 1936, Liberté began manufacturing cream and cottage cheeses near downtown Montréal on the corner of Saint-Urbain and Duluth streets, which today is home to Café Santropol.As the company grew, production maintained a traditional and artisanal character. After relocating to Brossard in 1964, Liberté continued to manufacture cream cheese andbegan producing yogurt. With the success of this new endeavour, the company then developed an increasing number of products, all the while upholding its standards of quality and purity. In 2008, Liberté acquired a plant in Saint-Hyacinthe to support its expansion.
• Elysis — Elysis is a technology enterprise that provides an eco-friendly solution for the production and process of aluminium. It is a joint venture created by Rio Tinto and Alcoa.
• JEFAGRO TECHNOLOGIES INC. — Jefo designs and manufactures non-medicated animal nutrition solutions and feed additives for livestock and companion animals. The company focuses on alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters and uses its Jefo Matrix Technology microencapsulation process to deliver targeted release of active ingredients in the digestive tract. Its portfolioincludes enzyme supplements, vitamin and mineral premixes, acidifiers, fermentation products, liquid supplements, and complementary feeds for dairy and beef cattle, swine, poultry, aquaculture species, pets, and rabbits. Jefo also provides precision intestinal nutrition programs organized around health and prevention, production and performance, and reproduction. In addition, it offers technical support, customized ingredient sourcing, private labeling, and packaging services to feed manufacturers, premix companies, and producers. Jefo bases product development on applied research conducted in dedicated facilities and through collaborations with commercial farms and research partners.

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• HaiLa Technologies Inc. — HaiLa's ultra-low power RF technology paves the way for battery-free operation of wireless IoT sensors and devices.
• Brilliant Matters — Brilliant Matters is a supplier of organic semiconductors and conductors for Organic solar cells and other printed electronics markets.
• Rithmik Solutions — We increase uptime in mines with advanced analytics that optimize maintenance and extend equipment life.

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• Derapi — Derapi is a universal API for distributed energy resource (DER) devices, including solar, battery storage, EV chargers, smart thermostats, heat pumps, and other behind-the-meter loads. Derapi unlocks the full value of DERs by removing bottlenecks related to data integration, reducing data infrastructure costs and speeding time to market for DERsoftware developers, DER device manufacturers, and others in the DER ecosystem.
• GridBank — GridBank is a vertical video UGC library for brands that want ready-made social content without managing creators directly. It offers royalty-free, social-native videos you can search in natural language and download for use in organic and paid campaigns.
• Trolley — Trolley is the best payouts platform for businesses needing to pay creators, musicians, artists, freelancers, or on-demand workers.

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• Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
• Echosec Systems — Echosec Systems' OSINT tools are trusted by security and intelligence teams globally for social media intelligence and discussion monitoring.
• Foodsmart — With the largest national network of registered dietitians, we've helped over 1.5 million members improve their health with personalized nutrition guidance from the comfort of their own home.

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• MyVR — Guesty is a property management platform. It is used by property managers to manage Short-Term Rentals and Vacation Rentals listed on multiple platforms such as Airbnb, HomeAway, and Booking.com
• Espa — Espa provides an AI assistant platform that helps individuals and organizations manage email, scheduling, and personal or work tasks. The service connects to users’ inboxes and calendars to flag priority messages, draft context-aware responses, and coordinate meeting times. Users can interact with Espa via messaging channels such as text, WhatsApp,and other chat tools to book appointments, set reminders, and follow up on tasks. The platform offers plans for personal use, professional assistants, and larger enterprises, with options for multiple inboxes, synced calendars, and integrations with tools like email, calendar, storage, and collaboration systems. Espa emphasizes privacy controls, encryption, and user management features for larger teams.
• NavigateAI — NavigateAI is an AI copilot for the physical world specifically designed for construction and field service teams to help them complete projects faster, with higher quality, and at lower costs.

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• Canalyst — 4,000+ financial models with every KPI that matters, built and updated by our team of analysts.
• Penny — Discover Penny. Transforming sellers' lives. Providing tailored corporate solutions. Try the best social selling app today.
• Dream Appeal — Dream Appeal is a career growth platform that helps in management of career oriented goals and connect with peers with similar interest.

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• Turnstile — Turnstile takes the hassle out of managing your revenue lifecycle.
• Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance.
• Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.

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• ResVR — B2B Proptech SaaS working with small and medium production home builders to help them sell more upgrades.
• Wisedocs — The Wisedocs platform makes it easy to sort, understand, and organize messy, unstructured medical, legal, and insurance documents.
• Nimble Science — small intestine sampling technology - Nimble Science

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• Kaloom — Kaloom is an emerging company developing a fully automated, programmable data center networking software solution that will disrupt how cloud and data center networks are built, managed and operated for enterprises, cloud providers, gaming companies, data center operators and 5G wireless providers. Kaloom comprises technology veterans with proventrack records of delivering large-scale networking, analytics and AI-based solutions for the world’s largest networks. The company is backed by leading investors including Fonds FTQ and Somel Investments. Kaloom has research and development offices located in the heart of the Quartier de l'innovation in Montreal, Quebec and a sales and marketing office in the Silicon Valley.
• Deeplite — Deeplite provides an AI-Driven Optimizer to make Deep Neural Networks faster, smaller, energy-efficient from cloud to edge computing.
• Noviflow — Programmable Network Solutions

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• ePACT Network — ePACT will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.
• Elevated Signals — Elevated Signals provides cannabis producers with user-friendly manufacturing software that combines digital batch production records, inventory tracking and environmental data into a single customizable platform. By digitizing how cannabis operations run and streamlining data collection and aggregation, the system helps businesses significantlylower costs, scale quickly and make more informed decisions.Elevated Signals is used by some of the largest producers in North America, as well as a growing wave of innovative mid-size and craft facilities. It is the fastest-growing regulated manufacturing execution and quality software company in Canada.
• Circle Cardiovascular Imaging — Explore advanced cardiovascular imaging software. Enhance diagnosis & clinical workflows with our AI-driven solutions. Contact us today!

Portfolio highlights

• Grüvi — Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers & wines.
• Wyvern — Discover hyperspectral imaging and Earth observation data from Wyvern. Access research-grade satellite imagery that reveals the hidden reality of our planet.
• EmergConnect — Home page - Localized information, services, and support for Canadian visitors.