Creative Destruction Lab

The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a seed-stage acceleration program founded in 2012 at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Canada. It is dedicated to supporting massively scalable, science- and technology-based ventures by providing a unique coaching process focused on specific objectives. CDL connects startups with experienced entrepreneurs and leading scientists across various sectors, including artificial intelligence, healthcare, quantum computing, blockchain, energy, and cleantech. The program has expanded its reach, operating in six cities: Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and New York City, and emphasizes the commercialization of scientific and technological advancements.

Ludovic ANDRÉ

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Rob Barbara

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Mark Blackwell

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Kent Brown

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Shila Nieves Burney

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Neil Cameron

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Charles Conn

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Isabel Fox

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Matt Golden

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Bernard W. Gray

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Gary Griffiths

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Colin Harris

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Andrew Haughian

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Mack Healy

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Charles Hudson

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Patricia Hume

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Richard Jhang

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Patrick Kappel

Venture Manager, Space stream

Patrick Keefe

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Shelley Kuipers

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Elaine Kunda

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Nicole LeBlanc

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Josh Manchester

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Ashif Mawji

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Adam McNamara

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David Moehring

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Chris Moyer

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Kyle Nakatsuji

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John Neis

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Rich Osborn

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Kaustubh Pandya

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Jean-François Pariseau

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Oliver Plunkett

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Steve Pretre

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Jay Rhind

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Andre Rocha

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Adam Rogers

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Jamie Rosenblatt

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Maryanna Saenko

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Tekin Salimi

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Micah Siegel

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Isaac Souweine

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Roy Thiele-Sardina

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Claude Vachet

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Chris Wake

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Lucy Wang

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Samuel Wu

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John Yianni

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Sarah Young

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Past deals in Machine Learning

Goodloans

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Developer of a lending platform designed to improve financial inclusion and de-risk lending to customers. The company's platform utilizes AI-powered financial data APIs and machine learning to find trustworthy individuals to offer phone-based loans, enabling micro-entrepreneurs and small enterprises to avail of quick finance.

AdeptMind

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
AdeptMind Inc. is an AI company based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in enhancing product discovery for online retailers. Founded in 2016, the company has developed a deep learning platform that utilizes artificial intelligence and natural language processing to improve the search experience for customers. By employing active learning techniques, AdeptMind's technology offers personalized search results and smart filtering, effectively addressing the challenge of irrelevant search results in e-commerce. This innovative approach enables retailers to provide a more intuitive search engine that aligns with customer intentions, all without relying on third-party solutions. The founders of AdeptMind previously achieved success with their earlier venture, Maluuba, and are now focused on building a dynamic team in downtown Toronto.

AIKO

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
AIKO is a company focused on developing and commercializing artificial intelligence algorithms to enhance the autonomy of satellite missions. Its technologies analyze data collected during space missions, including telemetry and external information, to create and adjust operational schedules. This capability allows for autonomous decision-making during missions, which is tailored to meet the specific needs of end-users and mission stakeholders. Through its innovative approach, AIKO aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of space operations.

Alan AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Alan AI, Inc, based in Sunnyvale, California, specializes in providing a voice-based artificial intelligence solution tailored for enterprise applications. The company has pioneered Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) technology, enabling organizations to create, deploy, and manage conversational voice experiences within their applications. Alan AI's platform analyzes voice interactions and assesses success metrics, allowing businesses to design personalized voice user experiences using JavaScript. This approach facilitates human-like conversations across various applications, catering to the growing demand for voice-first solutions in the enterprise sector.

Connektica

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Connektica specializes in telecommunications testing services, focusing on radiofrequency (RF) component measurements applicable to both space and terrestrial environments. The company employs machine learning to enhance efficiency and lower testing costs while ensuring quality standards are met. Connektica's platform provides clients with decentralized traceability and diagnostic tools, streamlining the testing process and making it more cost-effective.

Dive Technologies Inc.

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Drift provides a roadmap of stitched content that streamlines your learning process using machine learning and AI.

Similar.ai

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Developer of a search engine optimization platform intended to improve online visibility and web rankings. The company's platform utilizes artificial intelligence and deep learning from a huge data set to analyze keywords, search patterns and user behavior to determine what users are looking for, enabling businesses to stay competitive in the dynamic landscape of online search.

MinervaAI

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
MinervaAI predicts who poses money laundering and terrorist financing risk to banks. We provide automated, accurate and audit-proof AML investigations at a fraction of the cost of compliance.

Private AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Private AI Inc., established in 2017 and located in Toronto, Canada, specializes in the development of privacy-preserving machine learning and natural language processing tools. The company aims to create solutions that enhance secure and seamless data analysis, thereby supporting innovative software development while safeguarding user privacy. Through its advanced technologies, Private AI seeks to address the growing demand for data security in various applications, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected during analysis and processing.

DeepOpinion

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
DeepOpinion is a provider of a cognitive automation platform focused on natural language understanding (NLU) and text analysis. The company aims to make advanced NLU accessible to a wide range of users, including business professionals, developers, and data scientists, through its DeepOpinion Studio and AutoNLU framework. DeepOpinion's platform features a library of pretrained models known for their high accuracy, along with tools that facilitate the deployment and customization of these models in production environments. Its offerings include an intelligent process platform that automates repetitive text-based tasks and a drag-and-drop automation builder that allows clients to create tailored workflows. Through these innovations, DeepOpinion seeks to transform human opinions into actionable insights for businesses.

Botlhale AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Botlhale AI allows to build, train, test, and deploy multilingual conversational AI. Botlhale AI is a research and innovation start-up that specializes in conversational AI. Computer systems have become an integral part of everyday lives and as a result, natural spoken language is the desired form of human-computer interaction.

Armilla AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Armilla AI is a governance platform that enables algorithmic accountability to drive ethical decisions with transparency. The platform utilizes algorithmic accountability for tracking and governance and allows models to be tested in a matter of hours, vetting both the models themselves and the underlying datasets, helping clients by providing continuous monitoring of ongoing performance, accuracy, and algorithmic accountability by detecting errors.

DeepLife

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
DeepLife uses deep learning on multi-omics data to model cells and efficiently engineer their behavior. DeepLife is a biotech company with a mission to build the next generation of system biology. The company works in a highly collaborative translational manner, to facilitate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to patients. The company operates through collaboration with academic groups in their respective areas of expertise.

Crossing Minds

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Crossing Minds is a San Francisco-based company that leverages advanced artificial intelligence to enhance the human experience through personalized recommendations. Founded in 2016, its flagship product, Hai, serves as a cultural discovery platform, offering tailored suggestions in various categories, including music, books, movies, and video games, with plans to expand into restaurants and travel activities. Hai employs predictive models and cultural taste correlations, allowing it to adapt to individual preferences and moods. The platform is designed to be intuitive and engaging, enabling users to rate items, create personal libraries, and connect third-party accounts to refine their profiles. By utilizing comprehensive taste analytics and sophisticated data analysis techniques, Crossing Minds prioritizes user privacy while delivering relevant and meaningful recommendations.

Pythonic

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Pythonic AI, founded in 2019 and based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, specializes in artificial intelligence software aimed at enhancing document review processes. The company offers an automation platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to simplify and improve complex workflows. By providing a context-aware approach, Pythonic enables clients in sectors such as insurance, real estate, and financial compliance to achieve their automation objectives with high levels of precision and efficiency.

Opterrix

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Developer of a software platform designed for insurers to identify and assess risk in real time. The company's cloud-based platform allows users to explore, visualize and access massive data sets in real-time by leveraging machine learning algorithms, enabling clients and organizations to decrease the latency in decision-making and maximize speed-to-value.

VocaliD

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
VocaliD's award-winning technology generates high-quality, natural sounding voices within hours rather than months using cutting-edge machine learning techniques, proprietary voice blending algorithms, and a crowdsourced Voicebank.

Jaynes Computing

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Jaynes Computing is an AI company utilizing state of the art Probablistic deep learning that enable organizations to make better decions and optimize resources, that translate to profits. Jaynes Computing offers a AI as a Service platform for supply chain optimization, like sales forecasting, inventory optimization, scenario simulation.

ThermoAI

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
ThermoAI develops advanced machine learning algorithms and sensor technology aimed at optimizing industrial combustion processes in power plants. By leveraging IoT and artificial intelligence, the company enhances the efficiency of chemical reactions, addressing critical factors such as moisture content, atmospheric pressure, and air intake levels. Their systems continuously monitor these variables to achieve near-perfect combustion, which leads to significant fuel savings, increased energy output, extended lifespan of costly equipment, and reduced emissions. ThermoAI's solutions enable plant operators to model and enhance their operations, ultimately improving overall performance and sustainability.

OriGenAI

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of an AI-powered prediction and optimization platform intended to cater to the energy sector by producing and commercializing disruptive research. The company's platform enables full reservoir faster simulation, solving the representative differential equations to provide pressure, saturation, velocity, and more at every location, enabling clients with real-time optimization and increasing project NPV.

LearningBranch

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
LearningBranch is an automated conversational-based AI assessment and training platform that helps hire and train employees who will perform. The communication and language assessments focus on real-world people skills: empathy, active listening, proactive assistance and language proficiency taking into account social, cultural, linguistic and international perspective. Our situation based evaluations are bias-free and data driven. In addition, monitor and up-skill your existing hires and create benchmarks on the skills that drive performance. Our platform enables you to replace interviews, increase speed to hire, and increase speed to proficiency. The platform provides assessment and training tools focusing on the live spoken and written soft skills for customer service, sales and teamwork.

401 Labs

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
401 Labs is an innovative technology company dedicated to the development and deployment of cutting-edge AI solutions for safety critical systems.

Lynceus

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Lynceus is a Paris-based company that specializes in developing AI-driven software for manufacturing quality prediction. The software is designed to forecast the outcomes of quality control tests for products on production lines, allowing manufacturers to identify defects and monitor machine performance in real-time. By calculating the probability of products passing quality tests, Lynceus enables clients to make proactive adjustments to their processes, ultimately leading to significant cost savings and improved efficiency. The technology serves as a pivotal component in the advancement of the fourth industrial revolution, enhancing the overall quality control framework in manufacturing environments. Founded by David Meyer and Guglielmo Montone, Lynceus aims to transform traditional quality assurance methods through innovative predictive analytics.

Phaseshift Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2020
At Phaseshift, we develop novel high performance alloys using Computational Chemistry and Machine Learning. Our Machine Learning models are trained to predict material properties associated with a large range of alloy compositions in a a few seconds. This, along with our computational chemistry models, enable us to model the behavior of any alloy composition in a time and cost efficient way without any compromises with the accuracy. We use our solution to develop materials for our clients that have a very specific set of needs that are unmet by existing material choices. Currently we are focused on a specialized class of materials - Amorphous Alloys and High Entropy Alloys. These materials are often considered as some of the toughest materials known to us but are less easily commercialized than traditional alloys. Some use cases of these alloys are found in the bio-medical industry, aerospace industry, nuclear industry, etc. We can also optimize our materials for the ever evolving manufacturing landscape and are currently working on projects that involve optimizing are materials for Additive Manufacturing.

Menten AI

Seed Round in 2020
Menten AI, Inc. is an early-stage drug discovery company based in San Francisco, California, with an additional location in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 2018, the company focuses on developing protein-based drugs and enzymes using advanced technologies, specifically machine learning and quantum computing. Menten AI addresses the complex challenge of designing proteins, which can adopt numerous shapes, by leveraging quantum computing to represent multiple protein states simultaneously. This innovative approach allows for more efficient identification of optimal protein designs. The company has achieved significant milestones, including creating the world’s first peptide designed on a quantum computer, and is currently working on peptide therapeutics aimed at treating oncology and neurodegeneration, as well as enzymes for various industrial applications.

MindTrace

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
MindTrace is a medical software company that develops personalized 3D brain maps to guide neurosurgeries. The company pairs 3D brain maps with machine learning algorithms to simulate surgical resection plans and allow surgeons to predict their patient’s cognitive outcome – all before the first incision, enabling surgeons to remove as many brain tumors as possible without damaging the nearby healthy tissue. It is supported by the Creative Destruction Lab.

Tenyks

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Tenyks is a software tool that explains why a neural network made a specific decision or provided an output, down to a single node level.

Deep Planet

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Operator of an agri-tech machine-learning platform designed to assist in farming and sourcing decisions. The company's platform uses space technology to assist in global sustainability goals by applying satellite imagery and data to provide insights into agriculture and forestry, enabling growers and supply chain companies to get value-added benefits and assistance in the detection of problems in sectors such as agriculture, forestry, water, oil, and gas.

Sensi.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Clanz developed an audio-based solution, that is able to learn the routine in at-risk environments, detect abnormalities, and send out alerts, which could indicate a possible violent incident or maltreatment.

HumanSignal

Seed Round in 2019
HumanSignal, formerly known as Heartex, Inc, develops a comprehensive platform focused on data labeling and annotation to assist businesses in creating artificial intelligence products. The platform enables companies to efficiently manage and annotate training data, significantly reducing the time spent on preparing datasets for machine learning. Its features include support for unlimited projects, integration with various models, and a robust API, which collectively enhance collaboration, quality assurance, and analytics in the data labeling process. By streamlining these tasks, HumanSignal empowers organizations to generate accurate and competitive AI models at scale, all while facilitating a more efficient workflow for teams involved in data management and analysis. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

A.I. VALI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Operator of a SaaS (software-as-a-service) medical device company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to detect the early stages of diseases such as cancer. The company's tools are based on machine learning and deep learning and act as modules to analyze multiple imaging techniques including endoscopy, ultrasound, MR, and CT (computed tomography) imaging, it provides clinicians with better accuracy in diagnosis through real-time image analysis and generates an instant patient report at the end of an endoscopy procedure (Health Canada approved), it is partnered with manufacturers and distributors of medical devices and started processes for commercializationmore

modl.ai

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
modl.ai ApS offers development tools to game developers. The company uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning that enables game developers to test games and allows content generation, weed out bots from online communities, and optimize player engagement. modl.ai ApS was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with an additional office in Msida, Malta.

StratumAI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
StratumAI specializes in advanced mining technology aimed at optimizing resource modeling for hard rock mining. The company employs deep learning techniques to enhance the accuracy of predictions regarding mineral deposits, particularly gold, by improving the traditional method of statistical interpolation used to estimate the quantity of resources between drill holes. This innovative approach not only identifies the most promising drilling locations but also provides a clearer picture of the mineral concentration in the surrounding areas. StratumAI's technology is versatile, demonstrating effectiveness across various metals, including base metals like copper. Current pilot projects indicate that the implementation of their technology could generate approximately $10 million in annual value for the average mining operation, thereby offering significant improvements in operational efficiency and resource management.

TasteGuru

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Developer of an AI-based software intended to offer a personalized shopping experience. The company's software helps consumers find their favorite food and drinks based on personal taste preferences using artificial intelligence technology, enabling retailers and brands to increase product trial, customer experience, consumer engagement, product awareness, target marketing and localize assortment.

Epistemic AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Epistemic AI focuses on developing advanced tools to enhance biomedical research through artificial intelligence and natural language processing. The company offers a research intelligence platform that facilitates interaction among professionals in the life sciences by integrating diverse public and private databases. This web-based application allows users to efficiently connect diseases, genes, and their variants with relevant chemicals, drugs, pathways, and clinical trials. By streamlining access to a wide array of biomedical knowledge, Epistemic AI aims to empower researchers and practitioners, fostering a collaborative environment dedicated to innovation in the field of medicine and healthcare.

Inverted AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Inverted AI is a research and product company that originated as a spinout from the University of British Columbia. It focuses on developing a proprietary software system that predicts human driving behavior. This technology is utilized to create bots that emulate human drivers, which are essential for training simulators used in the development of self-driving cars. By employing probabilistic programming, Inverted AI aims to enhance the capabilities of AI agents for safe and efficient vehicle control. This approach not only aids vehicle manufacturers in obtaining relevant data but also plays a significant role in advancing the technology required to achieve higher levels of autonomy in self-driving vehicles.

EverestLabs

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Everest Labs is advancing the waste management industry using modern technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Computer Vision and Robotics. Our solutions increase the quality of marketable recyclables and reduces dependency on human labor while enabling top line and bottom line revenue growth for waste management companies. Our Master Plan: To reduce fossil fuels burn rate by empowering manufacturers and packaging industry to use more recycled materials in their inputs and sustainable packaging. We started by solving problems at recycling plants using AI and robotics. Our vision is to become the trusted leader in AI and Robotics in complex environments such as the waste management industry.

FIND

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
FIND AI brings the power of predictive AI to retailers reducing over and under-buying, promoting ideal product allocation, and increasing their customer's lifetime value through personalized, relevant, and customer-centric messaging. They are Building AI-powered sustainable, predictive, and collaborative inventory sales planning tools requiring minimal IT commitment that increase margins and reduce retail waste.

SensiML

Seed Round in 2019
SensiML Corporation, founded in 2017 and based in Beaverton, Oregon, specializes in developing an end-to-end software suite designed for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). The company provides a software and cloud service toolkit that enables developers of IoT and wearable devices to create customizable pattern matching sensor algorithms. These algorithms leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence, optimized for ultra-low power consumption, and can run autonomously on embedded sensor devices without requiring deep coding or data science expertise. SensiML's platform encompasses the entire development process, including data collection, labeling, algorithm generation, and testing, facilitating the transformation of raw sensor data into actionable insights for developers. As of January 2019, SensiML operates as a subsidiary of QuickLogic Corporation.

Metaspectral

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.

DeepCure

Pre Seed Round in 2018
DeepCure Inc. offers drugs discovery services using artificial intelligence technology. Its products include De-novo Lead Discovery, Artificial Intelligence-driven Lead Optimization, and MoIDB. De-novo Lead Discovery uses artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze drug candidates from virtual library. Artificial Intelligence-driven Lead Optimization identifies optimization steps to improve the development of drugs. MolDB is designed to maximize scale, diversity, and synthesizability of chemical search space. DeepCure Inc. develops new drug through molecular feature extraction, MoIDB, artificial intelligence predictive modeling and feedback loop. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

DarwinAI

Seed Round in 2018
DarwinAI Corp. specializes in designing and developing a platform that generates deep neural networks for enterprise artificial intelligence applications. The company's flagship product, GenSynth, is a software platform that provides developers and data scientists with tools to accelerate the deep learning development cycle in a transparent manner. GenSynth automatically creates new models that meet specific performance targets while maintaining transparency throughout the development process, allowing users to understand the factors influencing model decisions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Waterloo, Canada, DarwinAI leverages patented Generative Synthesis technology to enhance the efficiency, portability, scalability, and comprehensibility of artificial intelligence, making advanced AI accessible to a broader audience.

eMurmur

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
EMurmur is a digital health company that creates apps that specializes in detecting, analyzing, and classifying heart murmurs. They specializes in Machine Learning for the analysis of data for medical applications. The company also offers educational solutions for classroom teaching and self-paced learning. Emurmur uses Machine Learning to identify and classify heart murmurs, its absence, and heart sounds. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

bridge7

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Developer of an artificial intelligence-powered consultation software designed to ensure patients receive care from cancer treatment centers. The company's software uses machine learning algorithms to provide the clinical team with AI-derived decision-making metrics utilizing data from thousands of patients, enabling clients to gain consultation and insights on the quality of cancer care before patients begin their treatment course and hospitals to increase clinical efficiency and improve quality of delivery of cancer care.

NetraMark

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Combines proprietary QML/ML algorithms with cross-domain expertise to bring ML commercialization into reality

Solid State AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Solid State AI develops a software-as-a-service platform aimed at enhancing advanced manufacturing processes for equipment and process engineers. The platform utilizes hybrid quantum-classical machine learning algorithms to effectively analyze sparse data sets, which often contain limited information or significant noise. By predicting production line outcomes and dynamically optimizing process parameters, the platform helps manufacturers adapt to changing environments, thereby increasing product quality and maximizing manufacturing yields. Additionally, it assists in reducing equipment maintenance costs and minimizing downtime, allowing engineers to concentrate on high-value tasks. Overall, Solid State AI's solutions enable companies to streamline manufacturing flows and improve plant revenue.

Aluna

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Aluna is the San Francisco based tech company that’s disrupting respiratory illnesses through machine learning. We’re creating the standard of care for lung health, and envision being the global leader in the respiratory space. Aluna was founded with a mission - to track, and ultimately have control over chronic diseases. To achieve it, we’ve turned an expensive hospital device that required clinician supervision into a self-management system that helps keep you healthy.

Adaptive Finance Technologies

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Provider of artificial intelligence-driven financial services intended to deliver strategies for various markets. The company offers investment management strategies to gain deeper insights, discover hidden patterns and anomalies, and systematically exploit market inefficiencies, enabling global markets in equities, derivatives, and other traditional and emerging asset classes to get hybrid models and investment strategies.

Blue Lava AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Blue Lava AI enables any cancer treatment center to efficiently deliver world-class care for patients. Blue Lava uses AI tools and shared expertise to automatically review and ensure the quality of radiation therapy treatment plans.

OpenMined

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
OpenMined is a community focused on building open-source technology for the decentralized ownership of data and intelligence. The mission of the OpenMined community is to make privacy-preserving deep learning technology accessible to consumers, who supply data, and machine learning practitioners, who train models on that data. Given recent developments in cryptography, AI-based products and services do not need a copy of a dataset in order to create value from it.

Cerebri AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Cerebri AI Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, develops software solutions aimed at enhancing decision-making for enterprises. The company's key offering, the Cerebri Decisions platform, utilizes advanced artificial intelligence technologies from leading providers such as IBM Watson, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Through its SaaS product, Cerebri CX 2.0, the company enables organizations to assess individual brand commitment and implement personalized actions in real time, thereby increasing revenue and lowering costs across various channels. This platform employs reinforcement learning to evaluate the value of customer interactions—encompassing sales, marketing, and service—providing actionable insights into customer experience from the customer's perspective.

black.ai

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
black.ai is an automation platform company based in Fitzroy, Australia, established in 2017. It focuses on enhancing autonomous decision-making and robotic service delivery in supermarket and industrial settings. The company offers a distributed perception stack that enables users to train agent behavior more efficiently. By providing plug-and-play 3D computer vision capabilities, black.ai allows for the rapid development of both singular and swarm robotic systems, ensuring that these bots can effectively understand and navigate their environments from the outset. This approach streamlines the process of developing intelligent robotic solutions, making it easier for businesses to implement automation in their operations.

DarwinAI

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
DarwinAI Corp. specializes in designing and developing a platform that generates deep neural networks for enterprise artificial intelligence applications. The company's flagship product, GenSynth, is a software platform that provides developers and data scientists with tools to accelerate the deep learning development cycle in a transparent manner. GenSynth automatically creates new models that meet specific performance targets while maintaining transparency throughout the development process, allowing users to understand the factors influencing model decisions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Waterloo, Canada, DarwinAI leverages patented Generative Synthesis technology to enhance the efficiency, portability, scalability, and comprehensibility of artificial intelligence, making advanced AI accessible to a broader audience.

SortSpoke

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
SortSpoke's artificial intelligence does the complex data extraction work that people do today. SortSpoke helps companies automate manual document processing. SortSpoke is a cloud service that learns how you classify your documents, what data you extract from them and then it does it for you.

CSD Labs

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
CSD Labs International Inc., operating under the name eMurmur, is a medical technology company based in Ottawa, Canada, founded in 2014. It specializes in machine learning applications for medical data analysis, focusing on heart murmur detection technology. The company has developed eMurmur ID, an advanced auscultation platform that employs a proprietary artificial intelligence engine to enhance the accuracy and objectivity of cardiac auscultation. This technology aims to reduce variability and subjectivity in both educational and clinical settings, facilitating the swift identification of pathological heart murmurs. In addition to its detection technology, CSD Labs offers educational solutions for medical schools, supporting the training of future healthcare professionals.

Pure Strategy

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Pure Strategy provides the solution by analyzing the language data from interviews, call centres, sales systems (CRM databases), comments from market research, customer service surveys, reviews on websites, sales inquiries, usability testing data – whatever information is appropriate. The system uses machine learning to compile the information and provide a report to the organization with actionable information, just like a human analyst would.

SortSpoke

Seed Round in 2017
SortSpoke's artificial intelligence does the complex data extraction work that people do today. SortSpoke helps companies automate manual document processing. SortSpoke is a cloud service that learns how you classify your documents, what data you extract from them and then it does it for you.

Galaxy.AI

Grant in 2016
Galaxy.AI specializes in automating property and casualty insurance claims processing through its proprietary deep learning technology. The company employs machine vision and deep learning algorithms to analyze images of damaged vehicles, enabling it to provide accurate claims cost estimates via a mobile application and for claims adjusters. By streamlining the claims process, Galaxy.AI aims to disrupt the substantial $50 billion annual market. The company has gained recognition for its innovative approach, being highlighted in Inc. magazine as one of the top artificial intelligence companies to watch in 2017, and it collaborates with leading global insurance firms.

Datalogue

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Datalogue is a group of computer scientists, business leaders and designers with a passion for data but frustrated with the amount of work that it takes to prepare data experiments. They build data products that make our own lives as data scientists easier. They promise to always provide you with an unparalleled experience as you embark on your next data project.

Kyndi

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Kyndi, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company that specializes in developing an explainable AI platform tailored for government, financial services, and healthcare sectors. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an additional office in Washington, D.C., Kyndi focuses on providing auditable AI systems that address the need for transparency in decision-making processes. The Kyndi AI Platform leverages machine learning to enhance business regulation and supports critical functions such as strategy, compliance, and research operations. By enabling organizations to avoid 'black box' machine learning, Kyndi empowers clients to gain insights from complex data, facilitating informed and decisive actions in a rapidly changing environment.

Fluent.ai

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Fluent.ai is a company that specializes in advanced speech recognition solutions, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada. The company adopts a unique machine learning approach that enables its technology to understand spoken language without requiring conversion to text. This allows Fluent.ai's speech recognition engine to interpret natural phrases accurately across various languages, accents, and challenging environments, such as smart homes and connected vehicles. Its system is designed to function both online and offline, making it versatile for different applications, including wearables and virtual reality. Fluent.ai's solutions emphasize personalization and reliability, providing businesses with the tools to create secure and user-friendly voice interfaces tailored to their specific needs.

SharpestMinds

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
SharpestMinds operates an online platform designed to connect early talent in machine learning with businesses seeking AI expertise. The platform facilitates the discovery of STEM graduate students and machine learning developers by allowing companies to submit project requests, which are then matched with suitable candidates. This includes a diverse range of graduates such as physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers from various universities globally. By fostering collaboration on projects, SharpestMinds enables businesses to identify and engage with top performers, ultimately streamlining the hiring process for full-time roles and helping students transition into the workforce.

Acerta

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Acerta Systems Analytics Inc. specializes in providing machine intelligence solutions that convert raw machine data into actionable insights. The company's primary offering, Acerta CHECK, employs a combination of statistical methods, data mining algorithms, and machine learning techniques to identify critical issues and anomalies in machine behavior. Targeting the automotive sector, Acerta's solutions cater to OEMs, parts suppliers, and vehicle testing equipment providers, enhancing vehicle health monitoring and data acquisition. Additionally, the company's algorithms are utilized in the aerospace industry for airplane health management and engine testing. By detecting anomalies and predicting equipment failures, Acerta supports manufacturers in optimizing their processes and improving product quality. Founded in 2014 and based in Waterloo, Canada, Acerta is committed to transforming quality control in the automotive industry through advanced artificial intelligence applications.

Chisel AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Chisel AI specializes in providing artificial intelligence solutions tailored for the insurance industry, both in Canada and internationally. Founded in 2015 and based in Toronto, the company utilizes natural language processing and named entity recognition to analyze various digital document formats, including Word, PDF, and Excel. Its software effectively processes both structured and unstructured text, allowing for the extraction of critical data from previously unreadable documents. Chisel AI's offerings include automation of key tasks such as data extraction, errors and omissions checks, submission prioritization, claims triage, and quote comparison. By enabling insurers, reinsurers, and brokers to harness previously inaccessible information, Chisel AI enhances operational efficiency and decision-making within the insurance sector.

MashUp Machine

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Developer of a social storytelling platform intended to combine machine learning and artificial intelligence for the creation of animated movies. The company's platform offers fully customizable, AR/VR-enabled, crowd-created, machine learning-assembled animated movies that showcase highly visual and humorous cabin-in-the-woods style animations on web and mobile applications, enabling movie creators to explore, transform, and share interactive animated movies.

WinterLight Labs

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Winterlight Labs Inc. develops a speech-based platform for detecting cognitive and mental diseases such as, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Its AI (artificial intelligence) diagnostic platform assesses and monitors cognitive health by quantifying speech and language patterns. The company's platform has applications in clinical trials, long-term and primary care, and speech-language pathology. Winterlight Labs Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

UDIO

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
UDIO utilizes data science and machine-learning technology to optimize the farm operations and gain higher yields

Blue J

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Blue J Legal Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in artificial intelligence software designed to predict court outcomes in employment law and tax matters. Founded in 2015, Blue J Legal offers two main products: Tax Foresight and Employment Foresight. Tax Foresight utilizes deep learning to analyze fact situations and uncover patterns in case law, enabling tax professionals to make informed judgments that align with the likely decisions of tax enforcement agencies and courts. Employment Foresight is tailored for human resource professionals, in-house counsel, and employment lawyers, providing rapid insights into how courts would address complex employment law issues, including reasonable notice, employee drug testing, worker classification, and dismissal causes. Through its innovative solutions, Blue J Legal aims to bring clarity and predictability to legal decision-making.

Atomwise

Non Equity Assistance in 2012
Atomwise, Inc. specializes in deep learning artificial intelligence technology aimed at small molecule drug discovery. The company leverages its proprietary AI platform, AtomNet, which contains over 16 billion molecules for virtual screening, to enhance the speed and accuracy of drug discovery processes. This technology employs a statistical approach to predict the binding of small molecules to proteins, aiding in drug hit discovery, binding affinity prediction, and toxicity detection. Atomwise collaborates on numerous projects each year with major pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies, as well as over 200 universities and hospitals across 40 countries. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, Atomwise was previously known as Chematria, Inc. before rebranding in 2015.
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