Top 40 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in Canada (September 2026)

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• Modem — Your dev team's auto-triage Product Manager
• Cohere — Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data into actionable insights.
• TripleLift — Turn fragmented media into a coordinated system. TripleLift connects data, creative, and supply to drive measurable advertising outcomes.

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• Alta — Alta leverages data and AI to drive business growth 24/7.
• Novella — Find E&S coverage in minutes. Commercial Property, General Liability and more coverages instantly when you submit a risk
• Receive — The first earned revenue access platform for businesses. Turn your sales into instant spending power with zero fees. Get immediate access to money you've already earned - no credit checks or interest charges required.

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• LyteHorse — LyteHorse is a manufacurer designing to build innovative electric performance vehicles to meet mobility needs across various sectors.
• AVEE HEALTH — Avee Health is redefining access to primary care and positioning itself as a model for the future of healthcare. Its virtual care platform connects patients with licensed doctors within hours, reducing long wait times and the friction of traditional systems.Avee operates on a flexible on demand model that allows physicians to open availabilityduring slower periods or between other commitments, maximizing efficiency while ensuring patients receive timely care. This creates a balanced system that respects both patient urgency and practitioner autonomy.Powered by technology, AI, and strong partnerships, Avee Health matches healthcare supply with real time patient demand while streamlining clinical workflows and supporting clinical decision making. Through its expanding network of pharmacy partners and practitioners, Avee Health is setting a new benchmark for fast, flexible, and patient centred virtual care with a model designed for global scalability.
• Notify Me! — Never lose a sale again with "Notify Me! Back in Stock & PreOrder", a reliable inventory management solution for Shopify stores

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• 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.
• Leonardo Worldwide —

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• Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.
• Generalist AI — At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world.
• Gritt Robotics — Gritt is an intelligent system that combines robotics and AI to build the infrastructure that pulls society forward. Doing real work on real jobsites, today.

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• 1VALET — 1VALET creates smart building ecosystems using hardware & software to make multi-family buildings better places to live & work. Book a demo.
• Tiny — We give founders simple exits that protect their team and keep their businesses operating. Offers in 7 days, close in 30.
• GSC Technologies — GSC Technologies is a manufacturing company that provides plastic storage and household furniture products.

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• GOURMEY — We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
• Nowadays — The Nowadays nugget is made with just 7 simple, plant-based ingredients.
• OLALA! — Seafood Reboot's ambition is to promote worldwide best-in-class Fish substitutes from micro-algae for natural, healthy, sustainable food and to preserve marine wildlife.

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

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• Fama — Fama is an AI-based solution that identifies and offers an opportunity to address problematic behavior among potential hires and current employees by analyzing publicly available online information. This type of content can ultimately lead to brand risk and toxic culture, and is often missed in the hiring and management process.
• HONK — Drive customer loyalty with the highest rated customer satisfaction scores in the industry. Lots of companies make promises. We've built the technology to follow-through on ours.
• Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.

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• Viafoura — CommunityOS is the community operating system trusted by 1,000+ media brands worldwide. Build direct audience relationships, boost registrations and revenue, and own your first-party data, all on infrastructure built for media brands.
• Nicoya Lifesciences — Nicoya is a provider of advanced analytical instruments for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
• Vida Fresh Air — Vita Fresh Air Corp has developed and is set to commercialize a new catalytic converter technology, the Multi-Chamber Catalytic Converter (MCCC), which aims to lower emissions, lower fuel consumption, and lower equipment costs. Vida’s mission is to develop automotive products that genuinely improve engine performance and emission control in anethical, economical and sustainable manner.

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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! Our patented system is the safe, easy, and effective way to start early allergen introduction with you baby. Allergist-mom developed with all organic ingredients and zero added sugar.

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• CoHealth — Minitoto dikenal sebagai situs toto 4D resmi dengan reputasi kuat di Asia, cocok buat pemain togel yang cari prediksi akurat, hadiah terbesar dan gampang menang tahun 2025.
• Viafoura — CommunityOS is the community operating system trusted by 1,000+ media brands worldwide. Build direct audience relationships, boost registrations and revenue, and own your first-party data, all on infrastructure built for media brands.
• Coldblock — Coldblock delivers short-wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy, and safety. They offer services that include mining assays, environmental testing, food testing, metal assays, laboratory technology, and sample digestion.

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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 — #FemTech startup developing fast, easy-to-use products to fill current gaps in #womenshealth-- starting with at-home testing for #endometriosis.

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• Gynger — Unlock flexible payment terms for any software or infrastructure bill by using Gynger to pay your vendors for you, while paying us back later.
• Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.
• LIVEKINDLY — LIVEKINDLY is a news and media platform focusing on food, health, sustainable living, and cruelty-free beauty. They build a home for informative and thought-provoking content, focusing on sustainable and compassionate living. The platform transforming the global food system by partnering with forward-looking poultry production companies seeking toembrace and contribute to plant-based options.

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• Frontly — Build custom apps with no code
• Vesto — Fintech
• Yield Exchange — Find competitive rates quickly & efficiently with Yield Exchange, the all-in-one treasury management platform, transforming how businesses search, compare, and negotiate for GIC rates.

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• NearPad — NearPad Launchpad & DeFi hub for the NEAR ecosystem
• Symtext — Symtext focuses on the development of digital learning material for students, educational institutes, and educators.Symtext offers Liquid Textbook that enables instructors create customized digital textbooks that include texts from multiple publishers, presentations, videos, images, and podcasts.Symtext was founded by Ian Barker and it is basedin Toronto, Canada.

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• Moovit — Utilizing the power of MaaS, we're helping cities, transit agencies and corporations simplify urban mobility, making it more efficient, accessible and sustainable.
• Quiet Therapeutics — Quiet Therapeutics is an emerging biotech company founded in 2010 developing a proprietary nanoparticle-based delivery system (gagomers) focused on oncology and inflammation.Based on the targeting capability of our innovative technology, the company is well positioned to expand the drug target repertoire in cancer and inflammation. The Gagomerdelivery approach enables us to target cell components that are not manageable by other therapeutic agents like small molecules or antibodies.
• SolarEdge Technologiesa — Turn your businesses and homes into a sustainable energy hub with a SolarEdge inverter solution and the SolarEdge energy manager platform.

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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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• MesoMat — Boost fleet safety, fuel consumption, and operating costs real-time data from your tires.
• YOURIKA — AI-assisted education technology and student support
• 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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• The Logic — Canada's business and tech newsroom
• SiEngine Technology — SiEngine technology creates vehicle electronic chips.
• Shanghai Electric Group Corp — Shanghai Electric (Group) Corporation designs, develops, and manufactures thermal, nuclear, and wind power equipment in China. The company offers gas turbines, transmission and distribution equipment, elevators, machine tools, refrigeration compressors, environmental protection equipment, automation products, rail transportation equipment, machineparts, generators, and other products.

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• Hail Merry Snacks — Hail Merry exists to elevate the snacking experience through fresh energizing snacks made from clean plant-based ingredients. Our purpose is to provide better-for-you plant-based snacks that celebrate the benefits of energizing coconut oil and raw fats from nuts, while delivering an unparalleled luxurious taste experi
• Nettwerk Music Group — Founded in 1984, Nettwerk Music Group is a leading global independent record label with a legacy of purpose-driven innovation. We nurture a diverse roster of artists within fan-connected communities, helping artists cultivate deeply engaged audiences to build sustainable, long-term careers in the ever-evolving music industry.

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• Kore.ai — Deploy AI agents at enterprise scale. Kore.ai helps you transform work, service, and processes with intelligent automation, orchestration, and AI insights.
• Vistara Growth — Vistara Growth provides highly flexible growth debt and equity solutions to leading technology companies across North America.
• Varvara Development Group — Varvara Development Group is a mining company developing, operating, and financing mining projects.

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• Space — Space is a cloud filesystem that appears in Finder as a regular drive. Open and save files with the apps that are used in regular basis while Space keeps them in the cloud and up to date across the Macs. So that one can work with terabytes of files without filling the computer or carrying external drives.
• Terminal — Easily add 30+ telematics integrations to your application with a single API. Connect your application to the services you need, without worrying about the underlying details
• Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com

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• FINN — At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated.
• Kin Insurance — Protect what you love. Kin Insurance offers easy, affordable homeowners insurance designed for your needs. Call today at 855-717-0022 or get an online quote now!
• Madison Reed — Madison Reed is transforming at home hair color with ammonia free hair dye that results in multi-dimensional color that looks beautiful, healthy and natural.

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• Icentia — Icentia provides a range of innovative medical tests for healthcare institutions. They are able to offer valuable solutions for major problems in the field of medical testing.
• Solar Uniquartier —
• Turtlebrace — Turtlebrace is more than just an immobilization brace, it's a dynamic and innovative solution.

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• OP Games — OP Games is the place where game developers come to build the future of Web 3 gaming one block at a time.
• The Logic — Canada's business and tech newsroom
• PSS Systems — PSS leads the industry with its visionary products. They anticipated the legal holds and retention problem years ahead of others and launched the Atlas Solution Suite two years before the FRCP changes. They have invested deeply for five years in creating solutions on the Atlas platform to meet evolving market needs. PSS is committed to advancinglegal holds and retention practices across the industry through the Corporate Governance and Oversight Council, a corporate practitioners' community focused on retention, preservation and privacy.

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• Rna Diagnostics — Rna Diagnostics is a clinical-stage molecular diagnostics company improving cancer care with the Veridapt DX predictive biomarker.
• Flosonics — Flosonics Medical is improving patient care through technology-enabled solutions and services that clinicians, and patients, love.
• Myomar Molecular — Myomar Molecular is developing a diagnostic tool to identify early stages of muscle atrophy. this technology will be used by physiotherapists and medical doctors to access therapy approaches, reduce hospitalization time, and analyze recovery progress.

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• Kaon — Chat with AI characters for free on FlowGPT! More than 1 million characters and bots to chat with, AI boyfriend, girlfriend, uncencored chat and AI tools.
• RedotPay — Where Crypto Meets Real Life | Trusted by 8M+ | Accepted at 130M+ merchants | Pay with BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT & more
• Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People

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• Glidance — Glidance develops a self-driving mobility aid for people with sight loss. It leverages advancements in robotics, AI, and autonomous systems to guide people with sight loss where they want to go. With the aid of its advanced technology, users may navigate through crowds of people and around objects with ease and safety, getting to a door, stairwell,or park seat in the area.
• 3D BioFibR — 3DBioFibR is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures biopolymer fibers for tissue engineering and advanced biomaterial applications. The company uses a patented dry-spinning technology to produce collagen fibers that replicate the structural, biochemical, and biomechanical properties of natural collagen. Its product portfolioincludes collagen-based materials for 3D bioprinting, hydrogels, cell culture, and tissue engineering research, as well as custom collagen scaffolds for specialized applications. In addition to collagen, the company applies its manufacturing platform to other biopolymers, including spider silk, fibrin, and chitosan, for use in biomedical and advanced material research. The company collaborates with research institutions and industry partners to support the development of biomaterials for regenerative medicine, life sciences, and other engineering applications.
• Hest Outdoors — We're on a mission to maximize days outside through a better night's sleep under the stars. Explore our revolutionary camping mattresses, sleeping pads and pillows. Sleep well. Play more.

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• AeroSafe Global — AeroSafe Global delivers cold chain solutions to the biopharma industry with zero temperature excursions for every patient, every product, every time.
• NeoEdge Networks — NeoEdge Networks is an in game advertising firm.
• Combinent Biomedical Systems — Combinent Biomedical Systems, Inc., a women's healthcare company, offers multi-segmented vaginal rings that allow the delivery of hydrophobic and hydrophilic molecules, proteins, and other large molecules. It focuses on transvaginal delivery of drugs targeting women's reproductive endocrinology disorders, as well as diabetes, obesity, andinfectious diseases. Combinent Biomedical Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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• City of Cold Lake — City of Cold Lake administers local government services, bylaws, and programs for the community. It manages utilities such as water, wastewater, waste and recycling, and stormwater billing. The municipality oversees roads, transit, protective services, municipal enforcement, taxes, and property assessments. City of Cold Lake provides recreation andcultural facilities, events, and community programs through venues like the Energy Centre and local parks. It issues permits and licences for building, development, businesses, taxis, and special events. The organization supports economic development through incentive programs, business licensing, and investment initiatives. City of Cold Lake also coordinates public information, elections, grants, and access to information requests.
• Mercer Peace River Pulp — Mercer Peace River Pulp is a wholly owned subsidiary of the global forest products company Mercer International.
• Energy Transition Centre foundation — The ETC Foundation is a vibrant center that brings together players from academia, industry, government, and the larger innovation ecosystem to create vital answers to climate concerns and spur innovation.

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• Deaf AI — AI Deaf :AI Innovations for Deaf people
• Eat Impact — Eat Impact is a food delivery service platform that gathers food from local restaurants customizes a food package box.
• The Green Line — The Green Line is a local news outlet that provide local news and information about the community.

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• Hyperoptic — Hyper Fast & Hyper Reliable Full Fibre Broadband. Accelerate with equally fast upload and download speeds on our 150 Mb to 1Gb packages. Check out our deals today!
• YourMechanic — The most trusted mobile car repair service. Get an instant quote. All makes & models. 1 Year/12K mile warranty. No worries. No hassle. No over-charging. Available 7 days a week.
• King Children — King Children operates as a 3D custom-printed eyewear company.Through their proprietary technology, their customers can conduct face scans and virtually try-on an ever expanding range of frame designs, colors, and lenses right from their phones. With exact measurements and confirmed order selections in hand, they then print and ship these customglasses directly to their doors.The company is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

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• Turnstile — Turnstile takes the hassle out of managing your revenue lifecycle.
• Dominion Dynamics — Building the autonomy stack for the Arctic, the harshest environment on Earth.
• 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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• LXRandCo — Pre-loved luxury handbags, accessories, and lifestyle. All items expertly authenticated.
• CrowdRiff — Elevate your travel marketing with CrowdRiff. Find tools to source user-generated visuals, create authentic videos, and manage digital assets.
• Lunata Beauty — Lunata Beauty offers innovative, cordless hair styling products and tools. The company provides hair straighteners, curling wands, tool cases, heat-resistant silicone mats, styling sets, and a hot brush. Lunata Beauty combines beauty with technology to revolutionize the hair industry.

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• Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
• Hooked Foods — Hooked Foods is working on a plant-based tuna substitute. By serving delicious plant-based seafood for everyone to enjoy, the company is leading the transition to a healthier seafood ecosystem. The company was established in 2019 and is headquartered in Sweden.
• Cultimate Foods — At Cultimate, we are transforming the flavor and aroma industry with natural innovative ingredients.

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• Megawheels — Buy Electric Transport online in our site megawheels.com. High-quality E Transport at affordable prices with fast delivery for your comfort. Make your order right now!

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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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• STN Video — STN Video is an award-winning online video platform that solves digital video for publishers, content creators, and advertisers. STN Video supplies digital publishers with premium content, advanced player technology, and reliable revenue. With a library of up to 5,000 new videos every day, the STN Video online video platform serves over 1,800publishers and hundreds of premium content providers at zero cost. STN Video’s partners include publishers like the NY Post, NY Daily News, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and premium content providers like MLB, NBA, Bloomberg, AP and Rolling Stone. Using the STN Video online video platform, publishers easily serve official video to keep readers engaged and on-site longer. From “sports to news”, STN Video offers publishers all the content they need to cover their sites. The combination of official, premium content, and top publishers provides a brand-safe environment for advertisers and connects content providers with a broader incremental audience. STN Video’s advanced technology sets it apart, offering the best contextually relevant content via Smart Match, an AI-powered video player. Smart Match matches articles with content from an extensive library of over 1 million videos, allowing publishers to embed relevant videos on every page automatically in seconds. The STN Video online video platform improves user experience, publisher workflow, and both its partners’ top and bottom lines. STN Video shares the revenue it generates with publishing partners and content creators while also accommodating their own advertising sales.

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• Astronome AI — Astronome AI is a company that provides streamlined IT management for SMEs, powered by AI.
• Electric Sheep — Electric Sheep offers an AI-powered agentic video editor and VFX platform, streamlining content creation and post-production. Generate, edit, and enhance videos with advanced AI tools for filmmakers and creators.
• NeuWave Technologies — NeuWave Technologies delivers environmental analysis for floating offshore wind farm development and operational management.