Venture Directory

Amelia

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

Amina Health

Amina Health (formerly Vitameter) makes a device that measures your vitamin levels from a single drop of blood, combining home-diagnostics with personalized nutrition. Whether vitamins are being taken for health or performance, efficient nutrition is important.

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Animo

Animo uses AI to quantify and predict psychological well-being to facilitate human flourishing. Their Meta feature enables startups to better understand how their employees are feeling, and how sustainable their stress is on an aggregate level – all while preserving individual anonymity.

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Next 36, 2019

Avail

Avail is a holistic well-being solution for organizations and their employees. Avail's proactive, mobile-first, anytime platform uses clinical and behavioural data-driven insights to provide employees with personalized well-being profiles that are increasingly refined to reflect changes in well-being as circumstances change.

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Awake Labs

Awake Labs' partners with organizations who serve the needs of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Their technology helps people understand anxiety and improve quality of life.

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Next 36, 2016

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Comfable

Comfable's product, QSun, is the key to avoiding sunburn and skin cancer, which affects millions of adults worldwide. The must-have AI-powered wearable sun tracker syncs with the free companion app to give even more sun safety features.

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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.

Diversifai

Diversifai is a social media based beauty platform made for people of diversity. You can scan your facial features into your profile, and their AI technology will classify and match you to other people with similar features so you can get relevant content tailored for your specific needs.

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Next 36, 2019

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DOT

DOT is the future of wearable technology that helps you improve your mental health and unlock your true potential.

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Emaww

Emaww provides touchscreen emotion analytics for apps and websites. Their machine learning algorithms sense users emotions and empower them and researchers with emotional insight.

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Enhanced Medical Nutrition

EMN supports patients' journeys through surgery with clinical nutrition to help patients prepare better and recover faster. EMN's initial offerings include three evidence-based enteral formulas (drinks/tube feeds) to support muscle metabolism, immune function and accelerate recovery.

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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.

Fibra

We are on a mission to create a healthier and happier society by empowering women to take control over their reproductive health and their own reproductive system. At Fibra, we believe that the world is made better by women and that women are made better when they have full agency over their lives. By combining fashion and technology into a smart undergarment that monitors 7 different parameters such as temperature and heart rate, we provide a singular, non-invasive, non-hormonal, and personalized tool to assist women with their reproductive health. These women are 18 to 48 years old who are proactive about their health and understand that being at one with their body empowers them to live the life they want. By leveraging technology we entitle women, like myself, to know their bodies beyond their intuition.

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Next 36, 2022

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Just Vertical

At Just Vertical we build furniture that feeds you. Our indoor gardens allow you to grow your own food, right at home, 365 days per year, while using 95% less water, and no pesticides. This means you can grow your own unique, fresh flavours (like wasabi arugula or black basil!) while helping the planet. We've got over 1000 active gardeners and are fortunate to have strong backers of the company like Arlene Dickinson, Export Development Canada, and F100 firms. We also help you save money on your groceries as every garden purchased comes with everything you need to grow its value back right in the box. We've also taken our backend technology and put it into several different commercial installations where we grow food on a larger scale.

Mindset

Mindset is the solution to the modern work environment. State of the art audio and active noise cancelling create the perfect environment for doing your best work. In addition, Mindset’s EEG coaches you to better recognize distractions by sending an audio cue whenever you get distracted. Over time, this feedback conditions your subconscious to tune out distractions inherently.

Momentify

Momentify is a platform that allows entrepreneurs to find others to work next to anywhere and anytime. Their community of entrepreneurs co-work with each other to stay motivated, share ideas, offer feedback and network productively.

Myelin

Myelin uses AI to answer everyday questions about the mental health of caregivers, caregivers and affected people, with their first prototype focusing on those on the autism spectrum.

Nomz

Nomz is a healthy snack company based in Toronto, Canada. Their energy bites are made with simple, natural ingredients and come in four delicious flavours: pistachio, almond, hazelnut and coconut.

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nud fud

nud fud is a healthy snack company that produces snacks that are organic, raw, vegan, paleo, tree nut-free, sugar-free, non-GMO, grain-free, and gluten-free.

Optimity

Optimity is a SaaS loyalty program for insurance carriers offering digital wellness rewards apps that brings together communities.

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Resili

Resili is a digital therapeutic startup who's revolutionizing mental healthcare through a best-in-class eDBT app, targeting the largest, unaddressed niche market - family caregivers.

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Next 36, 2018

Wiivv

Wiivv is a technology company transforming footwear and wellness for every human body. Wiivv Insoles and Sandals are created uniquely for you, engineered for your individual feet and 3D printed using measurements taken from the award-winning Wiivv app.

Win-Win HomeSharing

By pairing students with senior citizens, Win-Win Homesharing reduces the cost of living for students while offering a helping hand and companionship to seniors living alone. In exchange for half-priced rent, students complete chores for seniors, allowing them to stay in their homes for longer and enjoy an additional income.

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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