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

Founding Partner

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 Predictive Analytics

Arkangel AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Arkangel AI is a company focused on improving global health outcomes by utilizing an artificial intelligence platform designed to detect preventable diseases quickly and accurately. By achieving a detection accuracy of 90%, the platform generates results in seconds, making it a scalable and cost-effective solution for identifying diseases, especially in remote areas with limited healthcare infrastructure. Founded in 2019, Arkangel AI aims to reduce the death rate from viral diseases by combining scientific advancements with community knowledge, ensuring that equal health conditions are accessible to everyone worldwide. The company operates offices in Canada and Colombia.

Oxford Immune Algorithmics

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Developer of an immune monitoring platform designed to assist in blood analytics and remote health monitoring. The company's technology utilizes artificial intelligence to perform remote blood testing and assess the risk from home for a particular condition, enabling doctors to monitor their patient's health in an enhanced manner.

Watermarq

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Watermarq specializes in providing data-driven insights focused on water security, utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze satellite imagery. By extracting relevant information from this imagery, the company offers operational insights into environmental, social, and governance risks associated with large fixed-capital assets. This approach enables clients in both the public and private sectors to make informed estimates about future risks based on concrete observed data, rather than relying on speculation. Watermarq's services support investment decisions and collective actions aimed at enhancing water security, thereby addressing critical challenges related to resource management and sustainability.

Adaviv

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Adaviv is a predictive agriculture company focused on enhancing urban farming sustainability through advanced technology. By utilizing hardware-enabled solutions powered by artificial intelligence and computer vision, Adaviv monitors plant health continuously, uncovering hidden biometrics that inform growers with actionable insights. This approach facilitates disease prevention, rapid experimentation, and optimization of yields and quality, ultimately helping producers to grow more efficiently and sustainably. Founded by a team of MIT researchers and alumni, Adaviv has participated in prestigious entrepreneurship programs, including MIT Delta V and MIT DesignX, and has received support from Microsoft AI for Earth as one of its initial grantees.

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.

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.

HEARTio

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Heart I/O is a digital diagnostic startup using artificial intelligence to help emergency providers identify heart abnormalities more quickly, more accurately, and for orders of magnitude less. It was started in 2018 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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.

Simporter

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Simporter, Inc. is an artificial intelligence software company based in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 2018. The company specializes in predicting sales and demand for products prior to their market entry, achieving up to 93% accuracy. Simporter's platform utilizes predictive modeling and machine learning, analyzing historical sales data, social media sentiment, customer reviews, and various micro-variables. This comprehensive analysis enables retailers and manufacturers to tailor their marketing strategies, enhance product launches, and effectively manage inventory to prevent stock-outs and overstocks. By leveraging Simporter's insights, companies can improve their revenue by an average of 12%, track competitor performance, and focus on the most promising products to optimize cash flow.

Yields NV

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Yields NV, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Ghent, Belgium, is a technology company that specializes in model risk management for the financial sector. It has developed an innovative platform that leverages artificial intelligence to automate model validation processes, enhancing efficiency, coverage, and accuracy. The platform supports a wide range of financial models, including credit models, AI applications, valuation algorithms, and market risk assessments. By facilitating monitoring, regression testing, and the generation of regulatory-compliant documentation, Yields NV assists clients in streamlining model validation tasks and improving operational efficiency. With offices in Brussels and London, the company serves a diverse international clientele, including investment banks and regional financial institutions.

Ariel Precision Medicine

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Ariel Precision Medicine is an integrated genomics and digital health company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that focuses on providing precision medicine solutions for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of complex chronic diseases. Founded in 2013, the company develops innovative clinical decision support tools designed to simplify personalized treatment, particularly through its flagship product, ArielDx. This cloud-based platform specifically aids in the diagnosis and management of pancreatic disease, enhancing the capabilities of healthcare providers in both emergency and clinical settings. Ariel Precision Medicine aims to improve patient outcomes by leveraging advanced technology and genomic insights in healthcare.

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.

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.

Tag.bio

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Tag.bio is a data analytics startup. It combines sophisticated statistical analysis methods with the organic intelligence of its users to find insights in any dataset. Individuals can use its point and click system to perform analysis and share results from enterprise and public datasets. It allows its users to make their own custom protocols to enterprise and public datasets. The platform is available for operations through iOS and Android applications. Tag.bio is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2013 by Tom Covington and Jesse Paquette.

HYKE

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
HYKE is on a mission to revolutionize customer engagement by using psychology and technology as the main ingredients and a pinch of gamification as a spice.

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.

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.

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.

Groundobs

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Groundobs develops a climate intelligence platform that provides information about the planet`s commodities. Its planetary intelligence aims to help financial companies, insurance companies, and energy firms, to continuously assess, predict their extreme climate risk and invest in natural resource assets.

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.

Rithmik Solutions

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Rithmik Solutions Ltd. develops and operates software solution for mining industry. The company offers Asset Health Analyzer, an artificial intelligence (AI) based solution that analyze mining equipment and provides indicator for equipment issues. Its solution tracks equipment health and helps to reduce maintenance. Rithmik Solutions Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

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.

AlphaRail

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of online software designed for North American railroads and rail customers to find patterns in the operational behavior of train traffic. The company utilizes its technology to analyze patterns and project demands on the physical rail network and develop a detailed networking model to achieve operational leverage, providing customers with detailed analytic predictions to improve efficiency.

NXT Farm

Pre Seed Round in 2020
NXT Farm provides industry-first algorithms for processing satellite imagery which help a farmer optimize their inputs and maximize their yields.

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.

Emagix

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of algorithm-based analytics technology designed to be used for the diagnosis of retinal and brain vascular injury. The company's technology decreases the time required to capture images and identifies and quantifies critical information in the images, enabling physicians to conduct early diagnosis and follow-up treatment efficacy along with improved patient care and reduced clinical costs.

MicroTraffic

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
MicroTraffic specializes in analyzing traffic video to extract near-miss data, providing valuable insights for traffic engineers to enhance road safety. By utilizing artificial intelligence, the company's platform reviews intersection camera footage to identify collisions and near-miss incidents, allowing clients to make informed decisions regarding safety measures and budget prioritization. In addition to serving traffic engineers, MicroTraffic is aggregating this data to develop behavioral risk anticipation mapping products aimed at advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and self-driving vehicles. The company has gained traction in five states and five provinces and is currently seeking to raise $2 million in a seed round, targeting one corporate strategic investor and one financial lead.

Vivid Genomics

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Vivid Genomics specializes in developing non-invasive genomic tools aimed at identifying suitable candidates for clinical trials, particularly in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. By leveraging machine learning and genomic data, the company's innovative approach allows for the stratification and screening of patients, thereby assisting pharmaceutical companies in selecting the most appropriate participants for their clinical trials. This targeted patient selection enhances the likelihood of trial success, ultimately facilitating the approval process for new treatments.

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.

Altis Labs

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Altis Labs is a clinical information company located in Toronto, where it leverages expertise in artificial intelligence and medicine. The company focuses on developing AI-powered software designed to predict drug efficacy and accelerate clinical development. By utilizing deep learning-based imaging biomarkers and proprietary real-world imaging data combined with clinical context, Altis Labs enables biopharma companies to measure treatment effects more accurately and earlier in the clinical trial process. This innovative approach aims to enhance the speed and success rate of late-stage trials, ultimately guiding personalized treatment and facilitating therapeutic research and development.

nScribe Technologies

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
The nScribe Platform uses artificial intelligence to automate emails and text generation. Currently, we are focused on the government space and operate under our product line name, PoliScribe. Please visit our PoliScribe page for more information: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/poliscribe

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.

BioIntelligence Technologies

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of an intelligent bioprocess analytics platform intended to help clients increase conversion yields and reduce product losses. The company's platform helps clients to take real-time inline snapshot measurements of multiple bioprocess variables such as products, nutrients, and intermediate metabolites, enabling clients to de-risk bioprocess scale-ups and maximize full-scale profitability.

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.

Provision

Grant in 2020
Provision Analytics Inc., founded in 2018 and headquartered in Calgary, Canada, provides a cloud-based solution designed to enhance food safety by tracing and tracking food products throughout the supply chain. The company's software automates food safety processes for food processors and manufacturers, significantly minimizing the time required for data input and recall procedures. By linking detailed process data with production results, Provision Analytics generates analytics that help reduce food loss and improve product quality.

Revelio Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Revelio Labs specializes in labor market analytics, providing detailed insights into the workforces of companies globally. The company utilizes advanced AI technologies to analyze vast amounts of online profiles, resumes, and job postings, transforming this data into actionable insights. Its platform standardizes public employment records to create a comprehensive HR database, which allows corporate strategists, HR professionals, venture capitalists, and investors to understand workforce dynamics, identify skill gaps, and uncover trends in human capital. By offering valuable workforce analytics, Revelio Labs enables clients to make informed, data-driven decisions in their strategic planning and workforce management.

InVivo AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
InVivo AI is a Montreal-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in using artificial intelligence to enhance pharmaceutical research and development. The company primarily focuses on preclinical toxicology, aiming to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of drug development processes. By leveraging advanced AI technologies, InVivo AI seeks to transform traditional methodologies in the pharmaceutical industry, ultimately contributing to faster and more reliable outcomes in drug safety assessments.

Odaia

Seed Round in 2019
ODAIA Intelligence Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-based platform for customer engagement analysis. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Toronto, ODAIA offers a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) platform that enables enterprise clients to automate the mapping of customer touchpoints and journeys. Utilizing advanced techniques in big data mining, process journey mapping, and machine learning, the platform provides insights into customer behavior, predicts future actions, and identifies potential churn. ODAIA simplifies data ingestion and normalization from various sources, offering an intuitive dashboard for visualizing insights and predictions. The company was established by a team of academics and industry professionals, including members from the University of Toronto and the University of Lausanne, whose research has been widely recognized in the field.

Aifred Health

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Aifred Health Inc. develops and offers deep-learning based clinical decision tool for physicians to enable personalized medicine to psychiatry. The company's application software offers treatment prediction, interpretability, patient data tracking, and electronic patient record. Aifred Health Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Pani Energy

Grant in 2019
Developer of an operational intelligence platform intended to optimize water treatment with artificial intelligence. The company's platform leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning that integrates with existing equipment and control systems, enabling plant owners and operators to log in and see how to optimize their plant's energy consumption, chemical usage, up-time, equipment life, and operational costs.

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

Metricsflow

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Developer of a cookieless analytics platform intended to help marketers effectively measure the impact of their content marketing. The company's platform offers features such as fixing data integrity, determining attribution, and visualizing the customer journey at the individual user level, enabling clients to seamlessly make critical business decisions.

Biotx.ai

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Biotx.ai is a company focused on advancing precision medicine through the development of innovative biomarkers. Its drug discovery platform utilizes artificial neural networks to analyze significant patterns, facilitating the identification of potential diagnostics and therapeutics. By monitoring individual patient responses, the platform helps stratify participants in clinical studies, enabling healthcare providers to address unmet medical needs more effectively. Through its technology, Biotx.ai aims to enhance decision-making in medical practice and improve patient outcomes.

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.

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.

LifeBooster

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
LifeBooster is a predictive analytics company focused on health and safety, utilizing wearable technology to help self-insured industrial workforces reduce preventable workplace injuries. Their primary offering, ErgoSenz, consists of wireless motion capture sensors and a cloud-based risk analytics engine. This system enables health and safety professionals to identify and assess risk factors associated with musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), which account for a significant percentage of workplace injuries and result in substantial financial costs to businesses. ErgoSenz provides an objective evaluation of workforce biomechanics, allowing companies to tailor training and risk mitigation strategies to specific needs. In addition to proactive injury prevention, the system facilitates comprehensive incident analysis, enabling safety professionals to reconstruct events surrounding injuries. By shifting the focus from reactive to proactive health and safety measures, LifeBooster aims to eliminate preventable injuries in the workplace.

Gastrograph

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Gastrograph, developed by Analytical Flavor Systems, Inc., is an artificial intelligence platform designed for the food and beverage industry. Founded in 2010 and based in New York, the platform enables companies to gather real-time flavor data, detect and predict production flaws, and assess market fit. By moving beyond traditional tasting panels, Gastrograph employs a predictive flavor profile engine to evaluate how new products are likely to perform across various markets and demographic segments. This capability is particularly valuable in an industry characterized by high failure rates, as it helps food companies adapt to rapidly changing consumer preferences and optimize their product development processes. Through its innovative approach, Gastrograph supports packaged food companies in navigating the complexities of the modern marketplace.

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.

Prescryptive

Seed Round in 2019
Prescryptive Health, Inc. is a digital health company based in Redmond, Washington, that operates a prescription benefits platform aimed at enhancing accessibility, affordability, and personalization in the medication market. Established in 2017, the company provides a range of services, including the analysis of existing plan designs, recommendations for new plans, and assistance with member enrollment. Its platform offers users, including employers, health plans, providers, pharmacies, and pharmaceutical companies, direct access to unbiased market pricing and essential information about prescribed treatments. This enables patients to understand their out-of-pocket expenses, insurance coverage, and available lower-cost alternatives at the point of care, thereby promoting informed decision-making in the prescription drug market.

Personifi

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
[Personifi](http://personifi.com/) is a contextual ad targeting company. The company provides solutions that allow web properties, ad networks, and mobile providers to optimize the relevancy of ads, content, and recommendations.

INANIBUS Unmanned Systems

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
INANIBUS Unmanned Systems provides predictive maintenance and fault detection analytics for power grid infrastructure. It also supports infrastructures exhibiting wire tampering or having limited sensors and monitoring.

Valence

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Valence is a cloud infrastructure management tool that uses historical performance data to predict computing resources and configurations. Using Valence allows developers to balance cost against performance before user demand changes, enabling autonomous and scalable cloud architecture.

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.

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.

Enkidoo AI

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Enkidoo Technologies Inc., founded in 2015 and based in Montreal, Canada, specializes in developing cloud-based business applications that leverage artificial intelligence to enhance operational efficiency for small and medium-sized businesses. The company provides an AI-driven platform designed to streamline inventory management, demand planning, and forecasting. By simulating new inventory policies, Enkidoo's solutions help clients reduce excess stock, prevent stock-outs, and minimize costs. This enables businesses to order the right products at the right time based on accurate demand forecasts. Additionally, the platform allows clients to customize or create conversational-driven applications, which can be seamlessly integrated into their market stores, facilitating improved customer engagement and operational effectiveness. Enkidoo serves a diverse clientele, including retailers and distributors, by integrating with existing ERP, CRM, and e-commerce systems.

HumanFirst

Seed Round in 2018
HumanFirst is a conversational artificial intelligence that helps companies in their transactions. It helps companies leverage their B2C conversations by transforming their raw conversational data into high-quality labelled data at scale to create business value. HumanFirst integrates with platforms like Zendesk, Intercom, Drift, Live Chat, Front, SMS, WhatsApp, messenger to name a few. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.

Contxtful

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Contxtful Technologies Inc. is a Montreal-based company that develops mobile digital solutions utilizing AI-driven technology. Founded in 2018, it leverages sensor-based data from mobile devices to identify user intent and context without compromising privacy, adhering to GDPR regulations. Its software enables businesses to measure brand engagement, optimize advertisement placements, and deliver tailored marketing messages based on real-time insights. The platform provides analytics for audience engagement, segmentation, and viewability, supporting various industries including advertising technology, marketing technology, finance, and video streaming. Contxtful's solutions enhance marketing performance and business intelligence by offering context-aware insights into digital audiences, facilitating improved ad monetization and the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

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.

Discover Dollar

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Discover Dollar helps retailers to detect overpayment issues by analyzing various data sources including emails & contracts in real-time and resolve them in click of button.

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.

Wondeur

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Wondeur specializes in researching value creation dynamics and biases within the art world. The company has developed a quantitative decision-making platform that collects and verifies art-related data from various global sources in real-time. This platform serves museums and art professionals by providing them with essential information to meet their curatorial objectives. Additionally, it offers the financial sector the necessary tools and insights to implement responsible art asset strategies. Wondeur's analytics quantify artist growth, track the evolution of value, and assess the past and future impact of museums and galleries worldwide.

Savormetrics

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Savormetrics specializes in developing advanced sensor-driven solutions aimed at extending the shelf life of food products. Their innovative technology utilizes non-chemical methods to optimize storage environments by monitoring air quality and removing harmful contaminants through artificial intelligence. The company's food-safe analyzers provide real-time metrics on food and water safety and quality, detecting pathogens, contaminants, and biomarkers. Additionally, these analyzers can predict decay curves, allowing businesses to accurately estimate the remaining shelf life of their food products. Through this approach, Savormetrics enhances food safety and quality, supporting businesses in maintaining optimal conditions for their products.

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.

Awake Labs

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Awake Labs is building an AI-powered app accompanied by a wearable to collect real-time data to empower care for neurological disorders, starting with autism. Reveal Stories, the application, allows users to track behavior by voice, text, or file to facilitate collaboration within the care team. Reveal Band, the wearable, tracks physiological indicators of anxiety to give real-time insights and predict states of high-anxiety. Our platform is being designed to collect data from any available wearable on the market to make our technology more accessible.

Phenomic AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Phenomic AI is a developer of a drug discovery platform designed to discovery and optimize therapeutics directly against phenotypic assays.The company's platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze phenotypes in complex disease models including high-content co-culture and 3D assays, enabling pharmaceutical companies to discover drugs in an easier way.

Saccade Analytics

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Saccade Analytics Inc., founded in 2016 by Dr. Mimi Galiana after her extensive research at McGill University, specializes in developing clinical tools that analyze eye and head movement data to assess brain function. The company's flagship product, InSight, enables healthcare professionals to diagnose and monitor conditions such as concussions, vestibular issues, and neurological disorders. Based in Montreal, Canada, Saccade Analytics aims to enhance the standard of neurological care by transforming advanced research into practical, accessible solutions for clinicians and therapists.

Denti.AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Denti.AI is a cloud-based service that utilizes machine learning to analyze dental images, aiding dentists in identifying pathologies while reducing false positives. The platform enhances patient care by offering objective assessments and facilitating earlier treatments. Its capabilities include generating electronic medical records, creating dental charts, and providing analytics for dental chains and insurers. Additionally, Denti.AI automates the charting of dental conditions and past treatments through voice dictation, which streamlines clinical workflows and increases productivity for dental practices. The system is designed to seamlessly integrate with various practice management and imaging equipment, ultimately improving the efficiency and revenue of dental organizations.

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.

Local Logic

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Local Logic is a location intelligence company that provides insights and analysis primarily for the residential real estate market. Founded in 2014 by urban planners who transitioned into data science, the company specializes in gathering, cleaning, and integrating various data sources to assist travelers, home buyers, and consumers in making informed decisions related to location. Its platform employs artificial intelligence and geospatial data to assess lifestyle and location attributes, delivering predictive and precise analytics. This empowers clients in urban planning, real estate, and other location-driven sectors with actionable tools to enhance their understanding of specific addresses and their implications for daily life. By focusing on the significance of location, Local Logic aims to help individuals optimize their experiences in both personal and professional contexts.

True Positive Medical Devices

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
True Positive MD develops imaging software analytics to assess brain health.

MarketMuse

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
MarketMuse, Inc. is an AI-based content intelligence and strategy platform that assists users in researching, planning, creating, and optimizing content. Founded in 2013 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company provides a comprehensive suite designed for SEOs, content strategists, editors, and marketers. The platform analyzes vast amounts of online content to develop detailed blueprints that guide users on how to effectively cover topics. By assessing a customer's website and identifying topical gaps, MarketMuse recommends prioritized improvements within an SEO impact framework. This approach significantly accelerates content research and strategy formulation, enabling brands to achieve substantial increases in organic search traffic. Over 120 organizations, including notable names such as IBM and GSK, utilize MarketMuse to enhance their content marketing efforts.

Vivametrica

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Vivametrica Ltd. is a Calgary-based company that specializes in predictive health data analytics by analyzing information from wearable sensor devices. Founded in 2013, Vivametrica provides businesses with tools to assess health and wellness programs through its vBioAge application, which determines biological age based on physical attributes and lifestyle, and vScore, which measures overall health. The company offers health intelligence solutions for various sectors, including insurance, health providers, and device manufacturers. Its platform enables standardized data collection and management, facilitating actionable insights for consumers, enterprises, healthcare professionals, and researchers. Additionally, Vivametrica provides the InteractiveRisk Tool, which calculates combined risk for various health conditions. The company operates as a subsidiary of SPROUT Wellness Solutions Inc. as of August 2020.

Unsist

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Unsist is a predictive analytics company creating technology for the oil & gas industry that never stops. It is composed of a team of international scientists and engineers, part of the NextAI Program, a global innovation hub for artificial intelligence. The program is partnered with Next Canada, Google Canada, IBM Canada, and NVIDIA to leverage Canada's leadership position in artificial intelligence.

Canvass AI

Seed Round in 2017
Canvass AI develops a predictive analytics platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance industrial operations across various sectors, including food and agriculture, automotive, energy, and metals and mining. The platform automates the data analysis process, enabling companies to gather insights on production efficiency, maintenance, and energy use with ease. By providing actionable insights and real-time guidance, Canvass AI empowers industrial operators to optimize their processes, improve quality, and reduce energy consumption. The technology is designed to facilitate the adoption of AI in industrial settings without requiring extensive data science expertise, thus supporting companies in lowering operational costs, improving profitability, and extending the lifespan of their assets. Founded in 2016 and based in Toronto, Canada, Canvass AI was previously known as Dat-uh Inc. and rebranded in August 2017.

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.

Plantiga

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Plantiga provides human movement intelligence, a deep insight into health based on the way people move. Its platform is built to optimize health, prevent injury, and monitor recovery by detecting changes in functional movement patterns that the eye cannot see. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Retrievium

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Retrievium is a unique data-driven modeling tool in the chemical sciences.

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.

Pervazive

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Pervazive specializes in automating network functions for telecom providers by leveraging an analytics platform that utilizes machine intelligence and big data streaming analytics. The platform predicts potential network failures, identifying when, where, and why they may occur, thus allowing providers to address issues before they affect service quality. By providing instant insights, Pervazive's solution adapts and evolves in response to changing data, ensuring that clients can maintain optimal network performance and reliability.

Heuritech

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Heuritech is a Paris-based fashion technology company founded in 2013 that specializes in providing predictive analytics for the fashion and beauty industries. Utilizing advanced artificial intelligence, Heuritech analyzes real-world images shared on social media to deliver insights on trends and products. Its AI-driven solutions enable brands to detect trends, automate tagging, and access detailed analytics. By translating visual data into actionable information, Heuritech helps fashion brands forecast demand more accurately, optimize production processes, and enhance sustainability efforts, thereby gaining a competitive edge in the market.

WatrHub

Venture Round in 2015
WatrHub Inc. is an artificial intelligence-powered digital intelligence company based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in providing critical market insights for water infrastructure businesses in the U.S. and Canada. Founded in 2011, WatrHub offers predictive intelligence on infrastructure opportunities, transforming millions of public documents into actionable sales leads and market insights. The company maintains a comprehensive data warehouse focused on the water and wastewater utilities market, enabling clients to conduct custom-tailored queries to uncover their best sales opportunities. Manufacturers utilize WatrHub's services to identify potential clients within water utilities and to promote their advanced technologies for addressing aging infrastructure challenges.

BenchSci

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
BenchSci Analytics Inc., founded in 2015 and based in Toronto, Canada, offers a research intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to assist scientists in navigating scientific literature for antibody usage data. By translating both closed and open-access data, the platform provides tailored recommendations for experiments, ultimately aiming to enhance the efficiency and success of biomedical research. BenchSci's technology is utilized by leading pharmaceutical companies and research institutions worldwide, significantly contributing to the acceleration of scientific discoveries. The company aspires to reduce the time it takes to bring medicines to patients by 50% by 2025, reflecting its commitment to advancing healthcare through innovative research solutions. BenchSci has garnered recognition as a top growth company and a favorable workplace, reflecting its impact and culture in the biotech industry.

UDIO

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

Preteckt

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Preteckt, Inc. operates a cloud-based platform that specializes in predicting and prescribing maintenance diagnostics for vehicles, catering primarily to connected and autonomous vehicle manufacturers and service providers. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, with an additional location in Hamilton, Canada, Preteckt offers vehicle prognostics-as-a-service (VPaaS) that leverages proprietary real-time automotive data architecture. This architecture employs advanced AI, deep learning, and machine learning algorithms to analyze raw sensor data in real time, enabling users to detect potential issues early and improve maintenance efficiency. By providing a 100x speed advantage over conventional Big Data solutions, Preteckt ensures real-time diagnostics with zero false positives, ultimately helping fleets, municipalities, telematics service providers, and original equipment manufacturers reduce maintenance costs and enhance technician productivity.

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.

PiinPoint

Non Equity Assistance in 2013
PiinPoint is a location analytics company that helps business owners discover, compare, and validate locations for expansion. It provides web-based solutions for businesses to identify new locations and forecast future site sales. The company allows its clients to monitor the performance of their current locations and identify key success factors, explore new locations, and generate reports which includes an in-depth analysis into various locations. PiinPoint was founded by Adam Saunders and Jim Robeson in 2013; and is located in Sunnyvale, California.

PUSH

Seed Round in 2013
PUSH Design Solutions Inc., founded in 2013 and based in Toronto, Canada, specializes in performance monitoring and analysis through innovative technology. The company offers the PUSH Band 2.0, a wristband that tracks workout performance and integrates with an online portal for organizing training programs and storing data. Catering to both enterprise and consumer markets, PUSH operates under two brands: PUSH Pro and PUSH Athlete. PUSH Pro focuses on providing coaches and trainers with tools for remote program delivery and data analysis, enhancing team performance in professional sports and military settings. Meanwhile, PUSH Athlete aims to enhance the fitness experience for consumers by combining traditional workout equipment with technology, enabling users to access coaching, data analytics, and community support. Through its integrated hardware and software platform, PUSH empowers coaches to optimize training loads and improve athlete performance effectively.

Taplytics

Non Equity Assistance in 2013
Developer of a SaaS customer engagement platform designed for the world's leading enterprise brands to improve and personalize their apps, websites, and customer communication channels. The Company's platform unifies the digital customer journey, product optimization, and marketing automation in a single, AI driven application. This empowers modern engineering and marketing teams to create robust customer experiences, using contextual data and AI orchestration to optimize customer engagement, conversion and revenue.

Canopy Labs

Non Equity Assistance in 2012
Canopy Labs Software Inc. offers a predictive customer analytics platform designed for small and mid-sized enterprises. Founded in 2012 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company assists businesses in analyzing data to forecast customer preferences and churn rates. The platform enables users to develop customer models, plan sales campaigns, and optimize lead lists, ultimately aiming to enhance revenue and sales growth. By providing tools for marketing strategy and audience analysis, Canopy Labs has supported numerous companies in effectively understanding and engaging with their customers. As of November 2018, Canopy Labs operates as a subsidiary of Drop Technologies Inc.

Donor IQ

Non Equity Assistance in 2012
Donor IQ is an automated predictive analytics software for direct mail fundraisers. Donor IQ utilizes proprietary predictive modeling techniques to help direct mail fundraisers increase net donations. The power of Donor IQ comes from its ability to process, manage, and detect patterns in hundreds of millions of solicitations and donations to find the most likely donors for a house mailing or a prospect mailing.
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