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Founded in 2017, Fellow.app is a leading meeting productivity platform that enhances collaboration among teams. It connects calendars with meeting notes, allowing attendees to contribute to agendas, reference past discussions, record action items, and more. The platform also offers dedicated spaces for one-on-one notes, feedback, objectives, and action items, fostering productive meetings regardless of location.

Smats Traffic Solutions Inc., founded in 2015 and based in Ottawa, Canada, specializes in the development of advanced vehicle detection software aimed at optimizing traffic flow on roadways and at key transportation hubs such as ports and borders. The company offers a comprehensive traffic management solution that includes travel time measurement, origin-destination pattern analysis, and traffic signal optimization. Additionally, it provides queue management solutions tailored for various environments, including borders, port management, work zones, and rail yards. Smats Traffic Solutions employs hardware sensors alongside machine learning and artificial intelligence to deliver actionable traffic analytics, facilitating improved monitoring and management of congestion. The company also manufactures portable traffic tools, including tablets and specialized traffic boxes, ensuring efficient data collection and analysis for effective decision-making.

Spiderwort is an innovative company based in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 2015, focused on developing biomaterials for regenerative medicine. The company specializes in creating cellulose-based biomaterials that serve as living scaffolds, which can be utilized for various medical applications, including spinal cord injury repair and soft tissue regeneration. Spiderwort's products encompass a range of biological and synthetic polymers available in multiple forms, such as powders, gels, membranes, and pastes. Currently in the pre-clinical stage, their novel biomaterials have shown promising results in terms of biocompatibility and the ability to induce angiogenesis, which is the generation of blood vessels within the scaffold. This approach aims to advance the repair and regeneration of tissues within the human body, providing new solutions for challenging medical conditions.

QuickSilk is a privately held Canadian company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. QuickSilk was borne from adversity when its founder, Garry Brownrigg, lost the ability to speak for nearly 10 years. Today, QuickSilk is a growing Software as a Service (SaaS) Content Management System (CMS) company with a disruptive proprietary technology and outstanding customer service reputation. Their mission is to provide their distribution channels and strategic SME clients with the ability to generate secure, standards-based, fully managed, device agnostic, responsive web properties without writing a single line of code - although you can still code using their API. As a best-of-breed CMS QuickSilk enables Clients to build, manage and launch secure websites, microsites, extranets, web portals & ecommerce storefronts (Q4/2015) up to 90% faster with up to 75% lower operating expense. There's no programming needed using their intuitive Drag and Drop canvas! They have eliminated the issues connected to open source software and some commercial platforms; security, long development cycles, lack of standards compliance, plug in compatibility, high development costs & general “dis-ease of use”. Imagine being able to build a global community portal in 1 week for users in 22 developing countries with five university students who received 20 minutes training. Or a secretary that manages an entire Federal Government website, previously managed by an IT department. That's the power of QuickSilk! The architecture, methodology and technology built into the QuickSilk platform enable us to strategically compete as a Best-Cost-Provider with effective low cost leadership and differentiation strategies. With lighthouse clients including: The World Bank, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Financial Accountability Officer of Ontario, University of Ottawa, and an emerging distribution channel, they're ready to go to market and become the standard by which other CMS vendors are measured.