Better vision saves lives. Algolux enables cameras to see more clearly and perceive what cannot be sensed with existing imaging and vision systems. Using AI technology that optimizes vision for various applications, their approach not only delivers increased safety in harsh imaging conditions and more accurate security systems, but also has applications across computer vision — like better images in mobile devices, AR/VR, robotics, drones and medical equipment.

There are some jobs that are simply made for robots. Managing floor cleaning at a large facility is one of them. Powered by AI technology using integrated maps, sensors and cameras, Neo, the Avidbots floor-scrubbing robot, automates the floor cleaning process to lower labour costs, increase productivity and deliver clean, dry, streak-free floors in hospitals, shopping malls, airports and other large facilities.

Health is our most precious asset, and life scientists help protect it. Many of the treatments we take for granted today — antibiotics, vaccines, insulin, chemotherapy — all took effort by thousands of scientists over decades to research and develop. BenchSci is drastically reducing those timelines. By empowering scientists with the world’s most advanced biomedical artificial intelligence that exponentially increases the speed and quality of life-saving research, scientists can run more successful experiments and get to the next breakthrough faster.

Bus.com is transforming the future of group transportation by enabling travellers to reach events and destinations that are otherwise inconvenient to get to. By collaborating with bus riders, event organizers and bus companies, they are helping people to have better journeys and shared experiences, whether it’s for a team retreat, music festival or wedding.

Bus travel isn’t just the safest and most environmentally-friendly way to move around, but globally, it’s the most cost-effective way to get from one city to another as well. Busbud has the largest global coverage of bus bookings, serving over two million departures to travellers around the world every week. Their platform helps travellers find a bus, plot routes and book intercity bus tickets all over the world, partnering with safe and reliable bus companies everywhere.

CALA is the world’s first fashion house technology that makes it easy for creative influencers to design, produce and deliver their own fully-custom apparel. Instead of trying to do it all themselves or limiting their creativity to what print-on-demand companies or single factory cut-and-sew shops can provide, CALA offers creators the customized elegance of couture fashion with the manufacturing capabilities of the largest mass-market players.

Rather than banking on intuition or gut-feeling, companies using the Canvass AI Platform are seeing massive improvements in their production processes, maintenance and energy management — reducing greenhouse gas emissions and generating millions in incremental revenue through quality improvements, production optimization and asset utilization.

Clearbanc believes founders shouldn’t give up a piece of their company to fund marketing and inventory expenses. By offering fast, affordable growth capital to e-commerce and B2B/SaaS companies, Clearbanc is proving how quickly you can get capital to growing companies. Coupling data and machine learning technology, Clearbanc makes quick decisions, investing from $10K – $10M, with a small flat fee for their capital, and repayment once revenue comes in.

Delphia is a groundbreaking investment collective that enables anyone to turn their data into investment capital. Users can transform personal data into personal wealth, secure in the knowledge that whatever they share will only be used to improve their investment returns. For the first time in history, people don’t need money to start building their future.

When it comes to data collection and privacy, trust is everything. Integrate.ai has revolutionized how consumer enterprises collect and use data with the world’s first consumer intelligence network — enabling businesses to share consumer insights and generate better predictions about customer needs without leaking proprietary IP or compromising user privacy.

League started with a vision for the future of healthcare: consumer-centric, personalized, preventative, and always on. It would be driven by data and accessed by app—a front door to healthcare that empowers people to live healthier, happier lives. Now North America’s leading enterprise health OS, League’s data-driven platform provides a single access hub for employees to engage with their health, lifestyle and benefit programs.

Securing the identity of every person on the Internet might sound like a lofty goal but LoginRadius is well on its way to doing just that. Now a multi-faceted, industry-leading customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform, LoginRadius helps businesses from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises to securely manage the identities and data of hundreds of millions of users.

Fine jewellery for every day. Unsurprisingly, that’s what a lot of women want! Mejuri tapped into that desire by creating a next-generation fine jewellery brand that is powered by their community — a tech platform that brings affordable, quality pieces to consumers in a seamless way. We loved their passion and ideas and with 400% year-over-year growth, it’s clear that the market does too.

When MindBridge Ai approached us about their AI-powered fraud detection system, we knew that this world-class team could build something with the potential to revolutionize the finance industry. While today, MindBridge sells software to auditing firms, they are working toward a future where companies will never have to deal with corporate fraud again.

Living a life without compromise. Isn’t that what we all dream of? Ossiaco is working to make it a reality when it comes to energy. Sitting at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home and customer-centric utilities, their AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes and their lifestyles.

Imagine a business where every employee is working to their greatest potential. That’s Plum’s goal — by using the power of AI and Industrial/Organizational Psychology, they help companies hire, grow, and retain top talent. By measuring traits like adaptability, innovation and communication, Plum hosts the world’s largest database for quantifying human potential at every stage of the employee journey.

Practice Ignition was born of the frustration of working with disconnected processes and systems. Back and forths with clients. Manual data entry. Different software for different steps in the customer acquisition process. By streamlining and centralizing all steps into one simple system — from proposal to getting paid — Practice Ignition created a tool that’s easy to understand and simple to use for clients while helping businesses sign more clients and get paid faster.

If you feel like construction workers always seem to be waiting around, it’s likely because their companies aren’t using RenoRun. The most efficient way of getting last-minute construction materials delivered to construction job sites, RenoRun is revolutionizing the construction industry by maximizing productivity, saving contractors wasted run-around hours and allowing their clients to leave their competition in the dust. Not only do they deliver materials within two hours, but they also provide coffee for everyone on site. No wonder their growth is off the charts!

A pioneer of the Hometel — a hotel with the comfort and local feel of a home — Sonder is a new way to stay in your favourite neighbourhoods around the world. They have found a way to put the hotel lobby in a guest’s phone — available at any time and for virtually any reason. With the explosion of the sharing economy, we knew Sonder’s hotel-style spaces in urban homes and country cottages around North America would make a big impact. Having reached “unicorn” status last year, the impact is as great as we could have imagined and they simply keep upping their game.

SPARK Microsystems is a fabless semiconductor company leading the way towards ultra-low power, ultra-low latency wireless communications. With its patented technologies, SPARK Microsystems delivers order-of-magnitude better bandwidth, latency and power consumption compared to legacy wireless protocols. The company also seeks to bring battery-less operation to the market.

You’ve likely never thought about it, but there are more people suffering from chronic wounds than lung cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer and leukemia combined. Using visualization technology and AI, Swift Medical has created a wound measurement and management system so effective that within a couple of years, this Toronto-based startup has revolutionized wound care and cornered the market.

Tenstorrent is helping enable a new era in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning with its breakthrough processor architecture and software. The company’s mission is to deliver orders of magnitude better performance and efficiency for AI workloads from the datacenter to edge of Cloud by co-designing hardware, software and AI algorithms with our unique technology.

Tenstorrent’s architecture scales from datacenter servers to IoT devices with dramatically improved efficiency, flexibility, programmability compared to legacy accelerators including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and TPU-type processors. It is developed by our world-class team with deep expertise in computer architecture, hardware design and verification, systems engineering, compilers, software development, and machine learning algorithms.

Transit believes the future of transportation revolves around people, not cars. Now the number one public transit app in North America, Transit brings together all forms of shared travel – bus, train, bikeshare, carshare – to connect communities and make city travel a whole lot friendlier.

A digital platform that makes the business of moving construction materials easier, faster and more profitable, Tread allows contractors, brokers, and operators to interact as if they’re in the same fleet. With paperless invoicing, digital tracking, simple-to-use dispatching and real-time data analytics, Tread is bringing the construction industry into the digital world.

Unsplash was born from the frustration of trying to find great, usable imagery. Now the world’s biggest free photographic community, it has been used by millions of creators from around the world. With over 1 billion Unsplash image downloads, Unsplash has brought exposure to photographers and non-cheesy photos to those in search of the perfect image for their website, presentation or artwork.

Vention envisions a world where the process to build industrial equipment is as straightforward and enjoyable as building with LEGO. A world where you imagine your machine in the morning and build it in the afternoon. By pioneering an industry where agility, speed and simplicity meet industrial automation, Vention’s mission is to make machine design accessible to everyone by re-engineering the process of designing, simulating, procuring and commissioning industrial equipment.

Xanadu is a photonic quantum hardware company that builds integrated photonic chips that can be used in quantum computing, communication and sensing systems. The company’s mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. Xanadu’s photonic approach uses laser light to carry information through optical chips, rather than the electrons or ions used by their competitors. By using photonic technology, Xanadu’s quantum computers will one day have the ability to perform calculations at room temperature, and eliminate the bulky and power-hungry cooling systems required by most other types of quantum computers.

XpertSea’s mission is to develop technologies that transform aquaculture into a modern, efficient and sustainable source of food for our planet. Through research and development of advanced technologies such as AI and computer vision, their team is increasing the availability of quality food, reducing the environmental impact of food production, and improving profitability across the aquaculture food chain.