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C100 Announces 26 Canadian Tech Companies Selected for '48Hrs in the Valley' Cohort for 2020 (6 from BC)
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2019 48Hrs in the Valley cohort in Menlo Park, May 2019
The Valley, CA, April 6, 2020--(T-Net)--The C100 team has announced their latest cohort of 26 early-stage Canadian entrepreneurs to 48Hrs in the Valley, C100's signature program that aims to support and inspire the next generation of Canadian success stories through mentorship, thought-partnership, and venture guidance.
"We are proud to introduce our 2020 class of founders who will join us virtually (for now), and in person (in October). We look forward to connecting them into the preeminent global community of Canadians in tech. We implore you, our community at large, to join us by supporting these 26 Canadian ambitious entrepreneurs through mentorship, investment, and partnership" said the company in a blog announcement.
2020 Cohort of 26 early-stage Canadian entrepreneurs to 48Hrs in the Valley
CEO and Founder: Drew Taylor
Acorn offers affordable, non-invasive live cell collection, analysis and cryopreservation unlocking preventative and regenerative healthcare through the simple non-invasive plucking of a few hairs. Acorn enables people to save their young cells today for use in future regenerative medicine to give them the best chance of therapeutic success.
Avalon Holographics — St Johns
President and Co-Founder: Wally Haas
Avalon is a holographic display company making the next generation information display. Their technology revolutionizes the way people consume visual content. Their technology path allows holographic displays to be widely deployed including, movies, television, computer monitors and mobile phones
CEO and Co-Founder: Andrew Batey
Beatdapp helps music labels find and authenticate up to 15% of missing royalties and help digital service providers (DSPs) fight streaming fraud and save money. Beatdapp has developed a native blockchain and Proof of Authority consensus algorithm to facilitate tracking of plays, metadata, and IP ownership resulting in an improvement of royalty collections.
CEO and Co-Founder: David Wong
BOOQED is a digital platform for tenants and landlords to find or monetize short-term unused business spaces. They address the pain of trying to find the right space to meet or work: cost, flexibility and time. With over 1,800 listings across 9 Asian cities, they can help reduce the time it takes for you to find that right workspace, meeting or event venue from days or hours down to minutes.
CEO and Co-Founder: Ian Jeffrey
Breathe Life is an Enterprise Distribution Platform for the Insurance Industry.
Their API-driven platform is focused on delivering new business, using advanced analytics and AI to unify customer data into a single view and dispatch leads to the right channel with the right insurance product at the right time. Using the Breathe Life platform, carriers can sell more policies through advisors, direct, or anywhere in between.
CEO and Co-Founder: Braden Parker
Casca is a footwear brand developing revolutionary everyday shoes. With the use of proprietary 3D manufacturing techniques, photogrammetry and a user-centric platform, they are disrupting the footwear supply chain and providing unmatched performance, comfort and quality in daily footwear. They envision a zero-waste apparel and footwear industry that leverages technology to create purposeful products in a better way for humans and the planet.
CEO and Co-Founder: Dan DeMers
Cinchy is an enterprise software platform that enables large complex organizations to avoid having to buy, build, and integrate bespoke applications. Their vision is a single secure network of interconnected data.
CEO: Dan Park
Clutch is an online marketplace for used cars. Clutch doesn't operate within a large glass showroom or employ commission-based salespeople so it can pass on those savings onto its customers. Their goal is to create an exceptional customer experience. They invite customers to browse their inventory online and book a test drive. All of their cars undergo an in-depth 210-point inspection by certified mechanics.
CEO and Co-Founder: Robert Kirstiuk
Coastline Market is on a mission to reinvent logistics for perishable goods. They are building an online, B2B marketplace that operates in the seafood industry in North America and Asia. Their technology solution is a mixture of a redesigned supply-chain, combined with technology integrations with 3rd party logistics providers. Their platform leads to higher quality and better priced perishable food items being sold and a radically faster and more transparent distribution network.
CEO and Co-Founder: John Reeves
ConversationHEALTH provides a cloud-based conversational AI platform that is uniquely tailored for the Life Science Industry. Their Conversation Management Platform (CMP) powers Commercial, Scientific Affairs, and Clinical Trial solutions that help companies better engage their health professionals, patients and consumers. The product was designed to meet the demands of consumers, patients, and healthcare professionals seeking information through a friction free channel 24/7.
CEO and Co-Founder: Sheldon Fernandez
DarwinAI helps enterprises build AI they can trust. Their patented 'AI building AI' technology allows enterprises to develop faster with AI development automation, deploy with and faster production-ready models, and explain AI's black box for a variety of applications.
CEO and Co-Founder: Aly Dhalla
Finaeo is powering the future of life and health insurance with their all-in-one platform. Their digital marketplace connects carriers, brokers and clients through a fully-integrated experience.
CEO and Co-Founder: Kostyantyn Khomutov
GBatteries is an advanced battery technology company on a mission to charge electric vehicles (EVs) as fast as it takes to fill a tank of gas. They have developed an innovative way to charge Li-ion batteries using artificial intelligence. Their protocol uses adaptive pulses as an alternative to CCCV (constant current, constant voltage), enabling ultra-fast charge without compromising the health of the battery.
CEO and Co-Founder: Brad Rollo
GoFor is an on-demand logistics marketplace for the construction industry. They work with the largest suppliers and construction companies in North America to ensure building materials are onsite when they are needed, increasing efficiencies and productivity.
Co-CEOs and Co-Founders: Alison Taylor & Trevor Johnston
Jane is a modern and beautifully designed practice management software used by practitioners in a variety of allied health disciplines around the world. Jane focusses on a design that considers all aspects of private practice users: the admin staff, the practitioners, the patients booking online and the owners running a business.
CEO and Co-Founder: Clinton Robinson
Lane is creating a universal platform that powers interacting with any workplace anywhere in the world. Their modular technology is custom suited to your office, instantly allowing you to offer services, functionality, and software integrations that drive tenant and employee engagement.
CEO and Co-Founder: James Bateman
Medchart is an online medical record sharing platform that digitizes and simplifies the request and release of health information for healthcare providers, lawyers, insurance providers, and patients. Their vision is to create the world's largest health data marketplace.
CEO and Founder: Marc Forget
Ossiaco sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home and customer-centric utilities. Their patented power electronic technology coupled with AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes and their lifestyles.
CEO and Co-Founder: Ben Sanders
Proof empowers governments to go paperless by streamlining approvals, digitizing forms, and improving data-driven decisions so they can spend each taxpayer dollar perfectly.
CEO and Co-Founder: Monika Jaroszonek
Ratio.city enables their customers to make data driven decisions about land acquisition and development. They bring together a broad spectrum of real estate data sources and provide 3D analysis tools for Real Estate Industry professionals.
CEO and Co-Founder: Michael Kaden
RedCircle is a marketplace for podcast advertising and monetization. They help podcasters grow their audience and monetize their content as well as planning , launching and measuring podcast advertising campaigns quickly and at scale.
CEO and Co-Founder: Femi Adebogun
ScholarMe helps college students in the US by automating applications for 1,000+ financial aid sources with a single form.
CEO and Co-Founder: Nadia Tatlow
Shift is a SaaS productivity company that helps customers manage and streamline their work across multiple apps, accounts, and workspaces with deeper focus and higher efficiency.
CEO and Founder: Tim Regnier
Smart Access has developed a web and mobile platform that leverages physical connection points to help large retail workforces learn, understand and execute faster through curated delivery of information where the workforce needs it — on the floor and on the go.
CEO and Co-Founder: Saba Mohebpour
Spocket is a marketplace that enables online retailers to source products from thousands of suppliers all over the world without holding inventory, Retailers can download Spocket from Shopify or WooCommerce and instantly have access to hundreds of thousands of products which they can add to their online store and sell, without ever holding the inventory.
CEO and Co-Founder: Casey Kachur
Virtuo blends tech and human support to liberate people from all the painful experiences in their homeownership journey. They take care of all the time-consuming tasks, from connecting them to trusted movers and delivering special eco-friendly boxes, to transferring their internet and utilities and organizing cleaners on their behalf.
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Editor's Note: See the full list of the 2020 cohort below. Due to COVID-19, the C100 has postpone the program's "physical convening" in Silicon Valley to October 6-7, 2020 (ordinarily held in May).
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About C100
C100 is a non-profit, member-driven association of Canadian business leaders based in the San Francisco Bay Area. These investors, senior corporate leaders and successful entrepreneurs form a dynamic group of patriots dedicated to giving back to the Canadian innovation community and fostering the next generation of successful entrepreneurs and innovative companies in Canada. They do this through programs, such as Growth Summit and 48Hrs in the Valley, and through consultation with corporate leaders and policy-makers to provide key insights so Canadians can build world-class companies where we need them: in Canada. We bring "The Best of Silicon Valley to Accelerate Canada's Innovation Economy".
For further information, contact C100 at connect@thec100.org
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