Venture Directory

Amelia

Amelia is building a dedicated and holistic DEI solution to help companies attract and retain top women talent.

Coastal Carbon

Coastal Carbon is the world's first and only marketplace that focuses on verification services in ocean carbon credits. Our mission is to help organizations combat climate change, while restoring earth's largest ecosystem. We work with some of the best blue carbon projects to verify their credits and bring them to the right markets.

Compass

Compass is a B2B SaaS company tackling the mental health crisis, starting with higher education. The platform benefits both students and administration at an institution. Compass provides anonymous data insights to institutions to optimize resource allocation, and for students they receive a personalized assessment and are recommended resources based on their unique needs, wants and identity through our assessment tool. With the massive opportunity to scale beyond institutions, we are building a universal wellness ecosystem by harmonizing human and tech enabled treatment to build predictive models so that we can prevent acute, severe and chronic mental health illnesses.

CulturExpo

CulturExpo is an online marketplace for unique handmade products around the world. Low quality and fake products are becoming an increasingly alarming global issue. At CulturExpo, we fight this problem with our complex verification processes, ensuring all our products are unique and authentic. Our primary channel is corporate gifting. Expat workers are at a higher risk of facing loneliness or homesickness. At CulturExpo, we created unique gift boxes full of handmade products so that employers across North America can give their workers a piece of their culture while reducing the risk of mental health problems international workers face in their workspaces.

Deaf AI

Deaf AI is a social venture making society more inclusive, and the digital world more accessible to Deaf people by creating AI-based accessibility features and digital humans as sign language interpreters. Deaf AI is an example of AI4 Social Good to specify how AI serves human beings, especially people with hard of hearing and hearing loss.

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EcoPackers

Ecopackers uses the power of plants to help existing plastic manufacturers create single use plastics in a 100% eco-friendly and non-toxic way.

EnvAI Solutions

EnvAI helps businesses meet their climate mandates and understand their climate risks. Using our AI engine, we are able to ingest corporate sustainability documents, extract key information, standardize the data, and output plug & play metrics and insights. By providing Geoscience-as-a-Service (GaaS), we place climate data on an equal footing with traditional financial data and enabling next generation environmental analytics.

FentaGone

FentaGone’s mission is to reduce the amount of fentanyl-related overdoses occurring on the street level. The basis of our product lies in a fentanyl detecting technology embedded in a syringe to test for the presence of fentanyl contamination within substances in order to prevent accidental overdoses on the street-level.

Flashfood

Flashfood partners with grocery chains to allow them to sell surplus food through the Flashfood app at significant discounts for its users while reducing store-level food waste.

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Foodage

Foodage is the easiest way for restaurants to reduce waste and lower their prime costs by predicting daily demand.

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Next 36, 2022

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GiveMagic

GiveMagic is creating the next generation of online giving tools for inspiring nonprofits and institutions.

HonestEmpathy

Honest Empathy is a mental health support platform fixated on removing the isolation and stigma surrounding mental healthcare. The platform uses machine learning to provide on-demand support group sessions and immersive cognitive behavioural therapy. Honest Empathy houses a team of 15 individuals with backgrounds in medicine, psychology and engineering. They are currently partnered with the University of British Columbia, the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Government of Yukon.

Intuitive

Intuitive is creating technology to empower a zero waste world. Their product, Oscar, eliminates contamination by identifying the object in your hand at the point of disposal and visually educates you on how to sort your trash.

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Klir

Klir's integrated water regulatory compliance platform helps the world's water utilities make water safer. The Klir platform gathers, monitors and analyses regulatory compliance data, all in one easy-to-use web-based application.

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MycoRemedy

MycoRemedy remediates contaminated environmental sites the natural way – no chemicals or energy-intensive inputs necessary. Their technology is the most efficient and cost-effective on the market.

Nudnik

Nudnik transforms textile waste into unisex apparel for kids and adults.

SAMETRICA

SAMETRICA is a software company that helps governments and enterprises measure, manage and demonstrate the value of social investments, using state-of-the-art SROI and outcome reporting.

spotted

There are 50M+ renters in North America per year. On average, it takes 1-6 months to find an apartment and renters pay on average of $400 to view apartments outside their city in travel, accommodation expenses viewing only 3-4 apartments during their visit. spotted is an app that connects renters to local spotters to help out-of-city renters view apartments at a distance. By pairing renters with trustworthy spotters, we ensure that no renter will be unhappy with their new homes. Hiring a spotter will offer detailed summary of apartment home features without the out-of-pocket expenses of transportation and accommodations. We make apartment viewing fun, timely and affordable.

Suppli

Suppli has built a solution that allows food vendors to swap in high-quality reusable packaging for their single-use containers. We're the only reusables company with an end-to-end platform that seamlessly captures order data, and uses this to power circular inventory management and logistics, facilitating scalability.

Greenlid

Greenlid is the world's first fully biodegradable kitchen food waste bin. Just fill it up and compost the entire Greenlid. It's made from 100% end-of-life recycled cardboard and has a proprietary formulation that prevents leaks and smells.

The Knowledge Society

The Knowledge Society (TKS) is a 10-month accelerator program for curious and ambitious teens. Through project-based learning and real-world skill building, TKS trains young people to solve the world's biggest problems using emerging technologies.

ThriveHire

ThriveHire is the career platform for the global health community. By featuring organizations, jobs, volunteer positions and more, ThriveHire is a one-stop-shop for launching and developing your global health career.

Time Auction

Time Auction is a charity that connects anyone with inspiring leaders while encouraging volunteerism. By volunteering to any charity, one can join remarkable experiences — from power dinners with CEOs to cooking with Michelin-starred chefs.

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Tribe Technologies

Tribe is a cloud-based customer-to-customer community platform, empowering the new generation of online branded communities. It enables customers to discuss and connect under a customer community.

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Vox Pop Labs

Vox Pop Labs builds innovative technologies that foster democratic participation, using data science to create online applications that organize information in ways which are at once easily accessible, empirically rigorous, and profoundly personalized.

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WeavAir

WeavAir sensor modules make use of advanced sensor array technology to measure metrics core to HVAC system performance and indoor air quality. The devices are powered in part by renewable energy sources. Real time analytics and predictive algorithms improve device accuracy and provide preventative alerts and actionable insights.

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Next 36, 2017

Wilder Harrier

Wilder Harrier's mission is to prepare the healthiest foods for our pets and for the planet using only wholesome, human-grade, and tasty ingredients in a fully responsible way. Their first product is a hypoallergenic and healthy dog treat made with cricket flour - a sustainable superfood.

Wishplay

Wishplay uses virtual reality so patients of all ages can experience the world beyond their illness or circumstance. Wishplay provides an escape beyond the four walls of their room, reduces their pain, and in many cases grants final wishes so loved ones can experience something truly special.

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