Accelerator Centre
VC Fund
Waterloo, Canada
Accelerator Centre is a VC fund in Waterloo focused on Software and Health Care. Accelerator Centre provides an essential combination of in-house mentorship, educational programming, facilities, networking, and access to funding and facility services with a goal of building successful companies. The company's in-depth programming, unique accountability model, and long-term view, distinguishes it from other accelerators andincubators within the Canadian commercialization landscape. It helps entrepreneurs move from start-up to scale-up, accelerate the time to market, and help attract customers, investment. and revenue. Accelerator Centre was founded on 2006 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.
- Total investments:
- 143
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 94%
Last updated:
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Industries Accelerator Centre invests in
Stages Accelerator Centre invests in
Countries Accelerator Centre invests in
Contacts
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Brandon Moffatt
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Clinton Ball
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Ellyn Winters
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Gary Pooley
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 19 (13%)
- Health Care 11 (8%)
- Information Technology 10 (7%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (6%)
- Analytics 5 (3%)
Stage
- Seed 66 (46%)
- Non-equity Assistance 56 (39%)
- Grant 9 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (1%)
Country
- Canada 50 (35%)
- United States 3 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Brandon Moffatt
Cleantech Mentor
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Cleantech Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Clinton Ball
Director of Client Programs and Initiatives
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Director of Client Programs and Initiatives | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Ellyn Winters
In-House Communications and PR mentor
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In-House Communications and PR mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Gary Pooley
CFO
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CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ingrid Polini
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Steadiwear
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Steadiwear's flagship product is the Steadi-3, a battery-free glove stabilizing the wrist joint for individuals with Essential tremor & Parkinson's Disease. The Steadi-3 technology was inspired by leading-edge earthquake dampers used in buildings. It is based on magnetic tuned mass damping technology, a novel class of stabilizationsystems. It consists of a counterbalancing flywheel in between programmable magnets. The system naturally adapts to different tremor severities.The Steadi-3 are FDA & Health Canada registered Class I medical devices. | Grant / Sep 24, 2025 | |
OptiFab Technologies
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Developer of a monitoring system designed to prevent defects in manufacturing processes. The company's platform offers AI-powered real-time adjustments and optimized heat distribution, tailored to meet specific performance requirements, enabling manufacturers to produce defect-free parts, reduce costs, and eliminate post-processing. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Apr 10, 2024 | |
Zagitas
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Zagitas provides digital workforce that automates processes from end-to-end in accounting and order management, allowing companies to devote scarce and costly human time to high-value activities. Their digital workforce leverages technologies such as robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, chatbots, and businessintelligence, among others. | $22K / Grant / May 02, 2023 | |
Paperstack
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Paperstack provides working capital and financial insights to e-commerce brands. We help online merchants supercharge their business, by offering working capital financing to purchase inventory, invest in advertising, and hire more talent. | Non-equity Assistance / May 02, 2023 | |
Nfinite Nanotechnology
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Nfinite Nanotechnology is an advanced material company that enables breakthrough innovations to redefine how we live, use, and create using open-air atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology. Nfinite makes functional nanomaterials that accelerate the development and commercialization of transformative technologies for a sustainable future, such assustainable packaging, batteries, and photovoltaics. They have created a rapid open-air nanocoating system that produces large-area, high-quality, ultrathin films at up to 100x the speed of conventional ALD at a lower cost. | Non-equity Assistance / May 02, 2023 | |
Streamline
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GMDH is a global innovative provider of supply chain planning and predictive analytics solutions. GMDH solutions are built on a 100% proprietary technology and handle every part of the demand and supply planning process, providing complete transparency across the entire supply chain. | Non-equity Assistance / May 02, 2023 | |
Toy Exchange Club
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Toy Exchange Club provides that children have access to the correct toys at the right time to promote their development. When they outgrow the rental toys, they might be used by another family. | Non-equity Assistance / May 02, 2023 | |
Best for Bees
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Best for Bees conducts research and development of beekeeping products, as well as online mentoring, to improve the health of honeybees. | Non-equity Assistance / May 02, 2023 | |
Forages
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Forages delivers freshness to everyday life with stylish, easy-to-use, and healthful goods that are built to stay. | Non-equity Assistance / May 02, 2023 | |
Animatr.AI
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Animatr.ai is a SaaS startup on a mission to make video creation accessible and easy for everyone. By using cutting edge A.I. and Machine Learning, our video creation platform enables users to create beautiful and professional videos in minutes, without any prior video editing or design experience. Animatr is also applying advanced ML and NLPpipelines to compose context aware visuals and scenes, resulting in videos that speak volumes with just "text" as an input. | Non-equity Assistance / May 02, 2023 | |
| See all 143 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Archangel Network of Funds
2 deals together
LatAm Startups
2 deals together
University of Waterloo
2 deals together
Velocity
2 deals together
Communitech
1 deal together
Creative Destruction Lab
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Accelerator Centre invest in?
Accelerator Centre invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Non-equity Assistance stage. Most of the 143 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Accelerator Centre?
The team at Accelerator Centre includes Brandon Moffatt (Cleantech Mentor), Clinton Ball (Director of Client Programs and Initiatives) and Ellyn Winters (In-House Communications and PR mentor), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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