2024-LaunchPad-TeamList

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2024 Team List

VitalTracer focused on developing wearable medical devices, with its flagship product "VT-Patch" designed for children’s health monitoring. This wireless device provides continuous real-time tracking of vital signs such as blood oxygen levels, heart rate, respiratory rate, and skin temperature, integrated with an alarm system, aims to improve patients' quality of life while reducing the burden on healthcare resources. It is suitable for both inpatient and outpatient care, and can be seamlessly integrated with medical systems through customizable APIs.

VitalTracer

Synaptive Medical is a global medical device company specializing in neuro-imaging and precision intervention technologies. The company provides an integrated suite of products that address clinical and workflow challenges in modern neurosurgery and beyond, covering the entire process from diagnosis to treatment.

Synaptive Medical’s core products include Modus Plan (surgical planning software), Modus Nav (navigation system), Modus X (surgical robot), and Synaptive 0.5T MRI (low-field MRI system). These products offer enhanced imaging quality and operational ease, particularly suited for brain, spine, and oncology surgeries.

Synaptive’s integrated platform significantly improves surgical precision and efficiency, with applications in neurosurgery, oncology, and ENT.

Synaptive Medical

Simmunome is a techbio company leveraging generative AI to enhance the predictability of clinical drug development. They offer a SaaS-based multimodal disease model platform that integrates data such as genomics and proteomics to simulate patient responses and predict clinical outcomes. The platform optimizes drug development by providing features like biomarker discovery, dose optimization, and patient stratification. Target markets include pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, and academic institutions, helping them improve R&D efficiency and reduce clinical trial failure rates.

Simmunome

PragmaClin is a company focused on Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) for Parkinson’s disease patients, founded by a Parkinson’s patient and a researcher specializing in the field.

PragmaClin’s core product, the PRIMS system, utilizes 3D video and real-time data capture, provides real-time motion capture and clinical data to assist doctors in analyzing patients' motor functions with intelligent insights. This system significantly reduces diagnostic time and improves the accuracy of diagnosis and monitoring through integrated software and hardware solutions. PRIMS primarily serves hospitals, private movement clinics, and pharmaceutical companies, advancing clinical research on Parkinson’s and related diseases.

PragmaClin

Bowhead Health is a company focused on Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS), dedicated to applying precision medicine in clinical trial matching. The company utilizes advanced knowledge graph technology and artificial intelligence to reduce patient-trial matching time and improve accuracy.

Bowhead Health's core product is the "Bowhead Navigator," a precision clinical trial matching system specifically designed for oncology. It analyzes patient genomic data, health history, and disease staging to quickly match patients with suitable clinical trials, reducing the matching process from days to minutes. This system not only speeds up trial enrollment but also provides pharmaceutical companies with unique insights to optimize trial criteria.

Bowhead Health

BioAro is a Canadian biotech company specializing in precision medicine and personalized healthcare, holds two issued patents and fourteen patent applications. It operates a state-of-the-art genomics lab and data analysis center, focusing on developing proprietary AI and blockchain technologies for genomics.

BioAro offers services such as Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS), microbiome sequencing, and pharmacogenomics. The company also focuses on data encryption and transmission using quantum cryptography and fully homomorphic encryption. Additionally, BioAro has developed an OMICS AI analysis platform and blockchain-based data management systems, offering solutions in cancer screening, gut health, mental health, and more.

BioAro

Aqua Solution(ZOE)

-Global ETS is a testing and authentication facility approved by DLA, AS9100, ISO 17025, GIDEP, ANAB, and ILAC.
-Offers comprehensive, next-generation component authentication techniques and quality testing services.
-Provides independent and unbiased testing, with new proprietary technologies, software, hardware, and analytical methodologies.

Global ETS

Reservency operates an online reservation platform that offers services to assist foreign tourists in booking Japanese experiences. Their platform eliminates the need for phone calls or translation services, making the booking process more accessible for international users.

Reservency

Synaptech is a GreenTech company focused on eco-friendly consumer products. They develop a variety of environmentally friendly items such as laundry detergents, disinfectants, and moisturizing chemical products. Synaptech collaborates with several prestigious Japanese institutions, including Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Yamagata Central Bank, Ashikaga University, Shinsyu University, Kyushu University, and Ashikaga Bank. In addition, they partner with research institutions to advance R&D on plant-based ingredients and chemical materials.

Synaptech

MaiSend is involved in the video production and live streaming industry. They offer a comprehensive range of services that combine video production with live streaming, including aerial photography and music production.

MaiSend

Generic Cosmetics operates within the cosmetics industry, specializing in the development and manufacture of customized cosmetic formulations. Their services encompass planning, development, distribution, e-commerce management, and OEM production.

Generic Cosmetics

We at Yobo are building the world¡¦s most capable voice assistant. Yobo can be easily customized to perform all types of cognitive tasks for businesses serving customers at physical locations. It can be connected to existing databases and knowledge bases within minutes and can be employed as a sales and customer service agent at retail shops, hospitals, airports, drive-throughs, etc. Yobo can understand and speak over 50 languages and can interpret the real world using its camera. Some of Yobo¡¦s skills include proactive detects visitors using a built in camera and promotes custom campaigns.
Inquiry: Instantly responds to questions about products and services including inventory, location pricing and other frequently asked questions.

Yobo

Trusted today by the likes of Associated Press and UFC, Nextologies is a technology-enabled services company specializing in the global transportation of broadcast-grade video. We simplify the interconnection between channels, content owners, and live productions with their major distribution hubs around the world, priced 20-50% less than competitors in this space. Nextologies leverages its vertical integration and innovation, developing and operating its own infrastructure, hardware, and software that's built in house.

Nextologies

Aposys Technologies is revolutionizing railway infrastructure monitoring with its innovative Apollo Framework. Utilizing advanced AI and machine learning algorithms, Apollo integrates autonomous data capture, satellite imagery, climate modeling, and ground-penetrating radar to provide comprehensive, real-time insights into railway conditions. This enables predictive maintenance and enhances operational decision-making, substantially improving safety and efficiency for railway operators.
With over three years of research and successful pilots on a Canadian railway network, Aposys has demonstrated the effectiveness and reliability of its technology. The company is now poised to expand within Canada and explore international markets, aiming to set new standards in railway safety and infrastructure management.
Endorsed by top executives and backed by solid partnerships with industry global leaders, Aposys is committed to advancing railway management technologies, driving forward the future of transportation infrastructure with cutting-edge solutions.

ApoSys Technologies Inc.

The rapid advancement of AI in the technology sector is not without its challenges, including escalating costs and environmental concerns. The energy demands of AI development strain software company margins and escalate the carbon footprint of data centers. In response, tech companies are innovating with AI-specific processors and custom chips optimized for LLM inference, as well as new GPU and NPU/TPU solutions, particularly valuable in mobile sectors for on-device AI processing.

Procero emerges as a pioneering leader in this landscape, focusing on optimizing existing and future GPU/NPU's performance to meet these challenges. Our proprietary technology, protected by a broad portfolio of patents, enhances the inference rate of LLMs by a factor of 2X to 5X while concurrently reducing the energy consumption on existing, unmodified GPUs and NPUs. This technological advancement not only applies to inference tasks but also extends significant benefits to the training phases of LLMs, demonstrating a critical leap in efficiency and sustainability across the board. Graphics and gaming also inherits those improvements.

Procero

Enersion has developed a refrigerant-free heating & cooling system powered by waste heat. The system works with water, eliminating the need for harmful refrigerants; the waste heat means that the system can tap into a building's existing steam, solar, CHP / natural gas, geothermal, or fuel cell energy sources – and use 10x less electricity to produce the same output of cooling and heating. The system is entirely AI-enabled as well, ensuring buildings run at peak efficiency at all times.

Enersion

Cipher Neutron stands at the forefront of innovation in technology, specializing in the advancement of AEM Electrolysers and Reversible Fuel Cells for the purpose of green hydrogen production, power generation, and energy storage solutions. As a prominent provider of green hydrogen, our AEM Electrolysers distinguish themselves by their capacity to produce hydrogen without the reliance on PGMs (Platinum Group Metals), including Platinum, Iridium, and Ruthenium. This unique feature positions our AEM Electrolysers as one of the most economically viable and supply chain constraint free commercially available solution, facilitating the cost-effective production of green hydrogen. Our AEM electrolysers are PFAS-free, ensuring sustainable and environmentally friendly green hydrogen production.

Cipher Neutron

Synaptive Medical Inc., a Toronto-based, global medical device and technology company solves surgical, imaging, and data challenges to improve the quality of human lives. Synaptive’s integrated suite of products – bridging MRI, surgical planning, navigation, and robotic visualization – delivers novel information with automated efficiency across all stages of clinical intervention. To date, Synaptive Medical has commercialized seven medical device products, including planning software, navigation system, surgical robotic system, informatics software, surgical simulation tools and a head-only MRI. The high performance MRI system is currently used in US and Canada for surgery, radiotherapy, neuro-degenerative diseases, and traumatic brain injury.

Synaptive Medical

Skinopathy is a Canadian medical AI company that helps dermatology patients get the right treatment at the right time by arming physicians, nurses, and pharmacists with tools that enable them to screen, track, and manage skin conditions more effectively.

Our work is already helping doctors provide better care for more patients; helping individuals control their own health; and helping pharmaceuticals and cosmeceuticals access compliant and interoperable health data.

We have won, and continue to win, many awards, including:

• Recognized as the 2024 Top Startup to represent Canada at the Startup World Cup

• Named as a Top 20 Early Tech Company by the Canadian Innovation Exchange and Elevate

• LG announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that Skinopathy has been chosen as 1 of 40 startups in a field of over 2,200 to join them on their Mission for the Future

• 2023 Canadian Society of Plastic Surgery Conference First Prize for Innovation

• 2022 AIMed Conference Abstract Competition for originality, scholarship, and potential impact winner

• 2022 Nominated by Responsible AI Institute for Lead AI startup of the Year in New York City

Skinopathy

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