Startup Pitch Finalists & Alternates - Inventures 2023

STARTUP PITCH FINALISTS

The Metaverse

 

Delphi Technology Corp

Unleashing your enterprise potential with conversational and action-based Smart Avatar training solutions in an immersive environment with your own content and process.

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Smobler

Smobler Studios is metaverse architecture and Web3 design agency with offices in Canada, USA, Singapore Bhutan and we are fast expanding into Japan, Indonesia , Latin America and Africa. We are also the first The Sandbox investee studio in Singapore and its official and certified metaverse agency. We are minority owned and women led.

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Story City

Story City is a no-code platform that allows any creator to make interactive stories that only open in the right location, opening up a $70B global market to the average creator economy.

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vrCAVE

vrCAVE enables entertainment operators around the world to provide unique group-based VR experiences to their patrons.

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VRCORE Education

VRCORE Education is the ultimate field trip: using virtual reality, we transform your gymnasium into a multi-learner portal to any space, size, or time in history. Your students explore these immersive worlds together with our teacher, in a guided, interactive, curriculum-building experience.

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Future of Work

 

BillionMinds

In a world increasingly dominated by AI, robotics and automation, employees will only remain relevant through highly honed soft skills, or human skills as we prefer to call them. BillionMinds uses experiential learning to embed these skills as habits, reskilling humanity for the future of work.

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Cya Live

Cya Live is an experiential platform for collaborating, engaging, and transacting.

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Kello Inclusive

Kello Inclusive is a talent agency exclusively representing disabled and visibly different talent; because the beauty of disabilities, diversities, and differences deserves to be represented fairly and fully.

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KindWorks.AI

KindWorks.AI’s mission is to encourage and enable Kindness habits for billions. We have built an enterprise platform with a Kindness AI agent (‘Beni’) who connects through communication tools like Slack, WhatsApp, and Teams to enhance and enable high-performing teams. Beni’s nudges are grounded in science to strengthen company cultures and increase employee connectivity, motivation, and purpose.

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WaitWell

Service isn’t broken; it just needs WaitWell. Our Queueing, Booking, Virtual Meeting, Analytics, Workflow and Event Management modules combine to create the most efficient service experience for customers and service providers.

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Ag/Food Tech

 

CarbonGraph

CarbonGraph is a digital platform that measures the carbon footprint of food products from farm to table. By automating the traditional life cycle assessment process, CarbonGraph is unlocking new value from sustainability for companies across the food value chain.

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IXON

We make meat and seafood greener by enabling their storage and shipment at room temperature. By extending shelf life, reducing wastage and circumventing cold chain, our solution can help cut 20% of food-related carbon emissions.

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Lupin Platform Inc

Lupin Platform Inc is a vertically integrated lupin ingredient and food producer. We control every step of the production process, from seed to final product, to ensure the highest quality and purity of our lupin-based ingredients and meals. With our commitment to environmental responsibility, you can feel good about what you’re eating while joining us on our mission to revolutionize the food industry.

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Peko

Peko is building Canada’s #1 online grocery marketplace that delivers “peculiar” or surplus groceries at up to 40% off retail prices. We’re on a mission to fight food waste and promote access to affordable, healthy food.

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TeOra Pte Ltd

At TeOra, we are on a mission to revolutionize food production by eliminating harmful chemicals like pesticides, antibiotics, used to prevent losses in food production caused by pests and diseases, using cutting edge advances in biotechnology, material science and human pharmaceuticals. Our first products are clinically validated oral vaccines for aquaculture to prevent viral diseases.

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Health Innovation

 

nSight Surgical

nSight Surgical is a Stanford BioDesign spinout building a computer vision AI system to decode the fundamental language of surgery. nSight Surgical’s data helps reduce infection rates, increases efficiency, makes surgery safer, and reduces costs. We are operative intelligence.

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Sonaro

Sonaro has developed an AI software for ultrasound that utilizes a 3D approach to vascular diagnosis, with a mission to reduce misdiagnosis for atherosclerosis patients.

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Tusi, LLC

Tusi is a technology venture with a mission to address individuals’ mental faculties, from dementia among the aging community to neurodevelopmental challenges in early childhood. Tusi’s patent-pending Ezzle is a Hardware-as-a-Service, non-invasive biomarker platform that empowers primary care providers to administer specialist-level early dementia screening.

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Vistim Labs Inc

Neurotechnology helping clinicians identify and treat dementia patients better than current methods, thanks to our proprietary brain collection protocols and artificial intelligence.

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VoxCell is creating human-like vascularized cancer tissue models as a drug screening tool for the drug development process. Our tissue models will help accelerate the development of life-saving therapies, allowing those therapies to get in the hands of those who need them more quickly.

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Clean Tech

 

Mi Terro

Mi Terro is a venture-backed synthetic biology and advanced material company that engineers low-value biomass waste into high-value hydrophilic and hydrophobic biopolymers to end microplastic and hunger at price parity as conventional plastic yet up to 80% lesser CO2 emissions – this is a first-of-its-kind approach. Microplastic is a global public health problem that needs urgent solutions. We are excited to see such a significant leap forward in our ability to manipulate nature’s most diverse and abundant building blocks.

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Tangible

Tangible is a software platform to track, manage, and report on embodied carbon from building materials.

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Urban Machine

Urban Machine is a robotics company on a mission to reclaim the millions of tons of wood waste from construction and demolition for reuse as high-volume, locally sourced, premium lumber products. Urban Machine was founded by Eric Law, Andrew Gillies, and Alex Thiele. Based in Oakland, California, Urban Machine is innovating sustainable practices for construction with the help of technology. UM is salvaging the past to build the future.

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VALIS

VALIS is a B2B software startup that leverages unique expertise in material science and machine learning to support the creation of a circular economy. Our AI-powered software tool integrates with equipment at scrap metal processing facilities to provide plant managers with the real time process insights and optimization they need to maximize material recovery and profitability.

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Wildfire Robotics Inc.

Solving scalable wildfire separation through novel robotics. We improve capacity for wildfire agencies, private asset owners, and the general public so that we may coexist with wildfires.

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Computing Infinity

 

FLUIX Inc.

FLUIX automates cooling with the power of AI. Enabling building & data center owners to save 35% in energy costs by running their HVAC on autopilot.

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Glüxkind Technologies

Glüxkind uses AI to reinvent pedestrian mobility, one stroll at a time.

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Kunye Financial Inc.

Kunye helps geographically dispersed families manage household finances across borders through a shared mobile wallet where families can chat, plan, track, and make payments together.

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Metabob

Metabob is a generative AI tool that helps developers cut debugging time in half by detecting and automatically resolving critical bugs in their code

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VerdeCode

VerdeCode offers SaaS tools to developers and executives to quantify and reduce cloud costs and CO2 emissions by improving software efficiency. When given to developers, VerdeCode’s tools have shown over a 50% cost and CO2 reduction.

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STARTUP PITCH ALTERNATES

 

 

Future of Work

 

Aro Robotic Systems Inc.

We develop AI based autonomous robots to automate manual and repetitive tasks for manufacturers and warehouses. Our clients need to acquire just one robot to perform multiple tasks such as floor cleaning, moving boxes, spraying disinfectants and the list goes on.

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Local Shops

Shop locally, globally! Local Shops provides a D2C marketplace, retail collective and co-warehousing for local brands, so they can meet the same critical mass as major labels.

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Ag/Food Tech

 

Carbon OxyTech Inc.

Carbon OxyTech provides new innovative and clean technologies for converting carbon-based materials into value-added products. These new unique technologies create high-quality humic compounds from domestic residual feedstocks such as coal and biomass. The purpose is to transform solid waste hydrocarbons plentiful in Canada into humic and fulvic acids.
At Carbon OxyTech Inc., our proprietary approach successfully captures a complete spectrum of beneficial compounds, delivering high quality and quantity of fulvic and humic substances that are more convenient, adaptable, and cost-effective. Our humic substance products are highly concentrated, solubilized, and homogenized, with notably low ash levels and high carbon and oxygen content, as certified by the ISO standard.

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CO2Brew

CO2Brew offers a CO2 recovery system specifically designed for small-to-medium sized craft breweries to ensure a self-sufficient supply of beverage grade CO2, while reducing their GHG emissions.

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Health Innovation

 

48Hour Discovery

48Hour Discovery is a leading peptide discovery platform accelerating discovery of novel molecules for the delivery of therapeutic payloads, with a focus on bringing targeted radiopharmaceuticals to market faster than ever before.

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Nimble Science Ltd

Nimble Science is transforming personalized health through actionable intelligence from the gut microbiome.

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Wave View Imaging Inc.

Wave View Imaging is developing a safe, comfortable, and portable breast imaging medical device to improve breast cancer screening and treatment monitoring.

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Clean Tech

 

Ayrton Energy

Ayrton’s liquid organic H2 carrier (LOHC) storage technology presents an opportunity for large, scalable and efficient transport of H2 over long distances, while mitigating H2 loss and pipeline corrosion. The storage technology provides a dense H2 storage medium without cryogenics or pressure. Ayrton’s proprietary technology stores hydrogen as a liquid that can be handled and transported no differently than gasoline. This allows for hydrogen to be safely and efficiently delivered to a broad customer base.

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Bio-Climate Change Materials

As a company, we strive to help consumers to improve the energy efficiency and environmental impacts of their households. We convert biomass wastes into smart energy materials that provide thermal comfort reduce energy bills and lower environmental impacts.

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Innova Hydrogen

Innova Hydrogen provides technology that converts natural gas into low-cost, zero-emission hydrogen and synthetic graphite without needing water or oxygen.

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Computing Infinity

 

IEP Canada Inc.

IEP is an AI-powered solution that enables international students to find affordable university programs for studying abroad. With remote study options, personalized recommendations, and a focus on affordability and flexibility, IEP empowers students to make informed decisions for their study abroad experience.

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OMB Nation Inc O/A Bssential

Bssential is the new authority for a segment of small businesses, the Owner Managed Businesses “OMBs,” which represent 97% of the entire 64 million small business market in North America, and have a history of high failure rates. Whether for an existing business or a new startup we have created software 100% focused on solutions to fix OMB problems. Our service starts with learning more about the OMB, with our proprietary Discovery business health check assessment and financial analysis. An efficiency scorecard and list of business weaknesses and strengths are generated including prioritized step-by-step guides and applications for maximizing efficiency that will lead to greater profits and cash flow and improving owner’s work/life balance. We then introduce Owners to our unique subscription based software applications.

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