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These startups said yes to the journey and are now changing the world through their businesses.

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Company Spotlight

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Aterlo Networks creates unique products that help Internet Service Providers deliver the best experience to subscribers.

Founders Showcase

The AC’s current and future alumni

All of our startups enter the AC with a vision to improve and change the world through their business—and beginning to realize that that’s a tricky (and exhausting) feat to achieve alone.

But through the extensive selection of customizable opportunities at the AC, all of these businesses have accomplished accelerated success. Now it’s your time to thrive.

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ApplyBoard is a solutions-focused tech company revolutionising the international application process. Their team of experts connects with students worldwide, assisting them with their platform and services. The platform is intuitive, personalised, and uniquely designed to help everyone succeed.

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Axonify is the world’s first eLearning platform that delivers knowledge in a fun, bite-sized, and personalized way. Their unique approach identifies and closes critical knowledge gaps in real time, improving long-term retention and achieving significant financial outcomes for their customers.

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Clearpath Inc. designs, manufactures, and operates the most advanced network of self-driving vehicles to over 500 of the world’s most innovative brands. Clearpath’s self-driving technology enables organizations to automate their dullest, deadliest, and dirtiest jobs.

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As the industry leader in reward programs, Smile.io allows businesses to reward their customers how they want, when they want, and for the reasons they want. They have thousands of live programs of different sizes, from small local stores to billion-dollar businesses.

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Discover our founders' impact

Our startup alumni have been taking the world by storm, driving major impact. Discover their successes.

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Current Roster

Meet our current startups

Seeing our founders thrive is what makes us come alive. We are proud to share our current roster of talented startups.

Our alumni

Working through the program with the mentors gave us the confidence to grow our business knowing that whatever challenges we ran into, someone at the AC would be there to help us.

Dr. Abdul Rehman, CEO, SSIMWAVE

I came to the AC because of their focus on long-term success and their stellar mentorship team. They are incredibly experienced, can shift focus easily, and go as deep into my business as I need them to.

Mary Pat Hinton, CEO, Emmetros

A tree can’t grow unless it has strong roots and is part of a supportive ecosystem. The AC provided us with a foundation to transform our passion into a thriving business.

Matt Randell, CEO, Clearpath Robotics

Success Stories

Client Spotlight: Cameron Waite, Founder and CEO of Real Life Robotics

Real Life Robotics is working to change how businesses manage labour by developing and deploying robots for cargo and last-mile delivery work. Founder Cameron Waite is using his decades of robotics experience to commercialize the startup’s robot, BUBS, which can be used in a multitude of industries like healthcare, retail, restaurants, and hospitality.

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Success Stories

Client Spotlight: Jerry Mailloux, Co-Founder and CTO of enVgo

enVgo is bringing electrification to boating with its innovative battery-powered propulsion system.

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Success Stories

Client Spotlight: Pat Chaisang, Founder and CEO of Isempower

Isempower provides universities and colleges a platform to support international students at scale. The platform connects students with job opportunities and tailored resources while helping employers hire ethnically diverse candidates across Canada.

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Success Stories

Nominal Controls Contributes to Advancements in Space Industry With New Testing Rig Delivery

Fast forward to today, Nominal Controls is celebrating its 7th year as a company. After recently delivering a solid-state test rig for one of Elon Musk’s companies, Nominal Controls officially begin R&D of aerospace/space variants of their solid-state contactors.

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Success Stories

Founder Spotlight: Stuart Mooney, Founder of Utradea

Utradea is leveling the playing field for investing by combining artificial intelligence and real-time market data to provide its customers with investment insights.

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Success Stories

Client Spotlight: Erica Shelley, CEO of Best for Bees

Best for Bees works with researchers, producers, and supply companies to improve bee health, make beekeeping easier, and save the world's bees—one hive at a time. The startup offers a subscription service delivering bee health products to beekeepers worldwide.

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Success Stories

Client Spotlight: Phil Ballyk, CEO of Caddie Health

Caddie Health is helping physicians make more time for patient care by using AI to automate medical billing. Its product analyzes physician chart notes to predict the optimal billing and diagnosis codes, saving time, increasing revenue, and improving billing staff efficiency.

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Founder Spotlight: Kyle Collier, CEO of Phaze

Phaze provides large enterprises with a secure payment API to issue digital gift cards, cash cards, and prepaid mobile top-ups to their users. Phaze supports digital gift cards in over 100 countries, making it the go-to platform for digital wallets, neo-banks, and gaming platforms.

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Success Stories

Founder Spotlight: Mila Banerjee, CEO of Pronti AI

Pronti AI is an AI-powered stylist that helps fashionistas and the fashionably challenged alike find the perfect outfits using the items from their closets.

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Founder Spotlight: Andrea Edginton, President and COO of MAPflow

MAPflow is a new platform designed to help pharmacists assess patients and prescribe medication for 13 minor ailments under a recent provincial change. It's a platform built by pharmacists for pharmacists.

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Success Stories

InheritChain Launches Product Beta of New LegalTech Platform Utilizing Blockchain and AI

Based on their own experiences, expertise, and market research they agreed that there was a need in the market to build a groundbreaking, Blockchain protected, legal software involving Wills and Estates. Collectively, they founded InheritChain, a LegalTech startup that is building a Blockchain-backed Will Management software for Lawyers.

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Success Stories

AceAge brings healthcare to you

In just three years, AceAge went from development to market secure distribution agreements for its smart pill companion.

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Success Stories

EXO Insights offers safe failure

EXO Insights provides hyper-realistic training for industries with high-risk environments, focusing on nuclear and defence sectors.

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Success Stories

AHead Develops Hearing Healthcare Training

AHead has completed its programming and is focusing on expanding the product line to continue innovating the Healthcare industry.

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