EMN (Enhanced Medical Nutrition) builds clinical nutrition products to help patients prepare better to recover faster from surgery and critical illness. These products are powders mixed in water and taken as a drink or by tube feeding designed to reduce risk of infection, improve clinical READ MORE

Biofect Innovations is redefining animal-derived ingredients using sustainable animal-free processes. We remove animals from harm and leave the environment better for future generations. To create our ingredients in an animal-free manner, we design microorganisms and use fermentation (similar to brewing beer) to convert sugars into valuable animal ingredient READ MORE

Microorganisms react very quickly to changes in their immediate environment. AquaSignum’s novel sensor exploits this phenomenon to facilitate remote, on-line water quality monitoring. Using microbes as the proverbial miner’s canary allows for the real-time detection of changes in water quality, be it from sewage contamination, READ MORE

Summit Nanotech develops processes designed to sustainably extract lithium resources. The company’s denaLi platform uses advanced nanomaterials and employs processes to make lithium extraction cleaner and more efficient. At the core of Summit’s offering is its award-winning denaLi™ DLE platform, which leverages advanced nanomaterials and READ MORE

QD Solar is a next-generation solar materials company developing advanced multilayered solar photovoltaics. By using highly tuned and complementary pervoskite and quantum dot layers, the company can harvest significantly larger amounts of solar radiation than conventional solar cells. QD Solar does this by developing a READ MORE

Sanctuary AI is working to create the world’s “first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots”. The company says that instead of working on developing special-purpose AI and special-purpose robots to address specific singular tasks or activities, they are focused on a more general-purpose approach to both READ MORE

Tartan AI is a hardware/firmware company that works on optimizations for machine learning workloads. It delivers building blocks for hardware acceleration for deep learning, offering processing elements and transparent memory compression technologies. The company’s portfolio covers processing elements and transparent memory compression technologies that reduce READ MORE

Toronto-based EcoPackers is creating fully compostable products that can one day replace most, if not all, single-use plastics such as cutlery and bags. EcoPackers’ story started with creating compostable peanut packaging but the company has since scaled its vision to concentrate more on the compostable READ MORE

Phenomic AI develops a ground-breaking phenotypic drug discovery platform that accelerates assay development and automates the interpretation of high-content image-based screening data. This solves the problem of challenging assay development and complex data analysis workflows that hamper cell-based phenotypic screening technology’s potential for early drug READ MORE

AmacaThera is focused on developing a unique, injectable hydrogel platform technology that addresses the critical problem of sustaining therapeutic delivery of pharmacological agents for multiple disease areas. AmacaThera’s proprietary hydrogels enable local, sustained release of small-molecule drugs, biotherapeutics and cells. These scalable materials have broad READ MORE