Venture-Backed Startups

Ceres grows organic shiitake and oyster mushrooms year-round at its farm in Crossfield, Alberta, using agricultural byproducts as growing substrate. It supplies specialty mushrooms to retailers, distributors, and foodservice customers across Western Canada.

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Ceres AI provides aerial imagery and analytics to help growers monitor crop water use, plant health, and nutrient needs, supporting targeted decisions on irrigation and fertilizer application. The service is aimed at agricultural producers and farm operations.

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Ceres Nanosciences develops Nanotrap particle technology, a magnetic hydrogel used to capture, concentrate, and preserve low-abundance analytes such as pathogens, proteins, and cell-free biomarkers from complex biological and environmental samples. Its products support sample preparation for molecular, proteomic, and culture-based workflows including PCR, sequencing, mass spectrometry, liquid biopsy, and wastewater surveillance.

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Pharmaceutical company developing novel approach to Alzheimer's disease

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CereTax is a cloud-native, AI-powered platform for indirect tax that automates sales and use tax compliance across many jurisdictions. It serves businesses in industries including telecom, SaaS, retail, manufacturing, energy, and ecommerce.

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Ceretrieve Ltd. develops neurointerventional medical devices, including distal access catheters, thrombectomy devices, and related accessories, working with physicians to improve device performance and patient outcomes. It serves the interventional physician and neurovascular care market.

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Ceretype is a services, platform, and insights company that produces functional brain maps and biomarkers by quantifying fMRI data to measure brain activity and circuitry at the individual patient level. Its cloud-based platform serves drug and device developers and clinicians working on psychiatric and neurological disorders, with initial applications in anxiety, mood disorders, and neurodegenerative disease.

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Cereus Ultrasonics develops ultra-wideband active/passive sonar systems and high-power analogue components for interfacing piezo-electric transducers to power amplifiers in fluidic and high-pressure gas mediums. The company applies electro-acoustic techniques such as Acoustic Resonance Technology, including crack detection and condition measurement in gas pipelines.

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Cerevance is a clinical-stage drug discovery and development company developing non-dopaminergic, orally-delivered therapies for brain and central nervous system disorders, including Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, and ALS. It uses a proprietary human brain tissue profiling platform (NETSseq) and advances candidates such as solengepras (CVN424), CVN293, and CVN766 through clinical trials.

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Cerevanta provides AI-powered analysis of brain imaging to help neurologists make clinical decisions more effectively. The platform targets neurology care providers to reduce diagnostic delays and improve patient outcomes.

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CereVasc is developing the eShunt System, a minimally invasive device intended to treat communicating hydrocephalus in children and adults as an alternative to invasive neurosurgical procedures. The company operates in the medical device sector for neurological conditions.

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CereVu develops a non-invasive pain assessment system that uses near-infrared spectroscopy and a wearable sensor array to derive objective pain indices from cerebral oxygenation changes, along with heart rate, respiratory rate, and SpO₂. Its AI-derived biomarkers target clinical settings such as emergency departments and pain management, and the technology has been validated in studies with institutions including Stanford University.

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Cergentis provides genetic characterization and quality control services built on its Targeted Locus Amplification (TLA) technology platform, supporting the development of advanced therapies for pharma and biotech clients. Now part of Solvias, a CMC analytical services provider, it serves drug developers across the full development journey.

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Ceribell is a medical technology company that develops products for detecting and monitoring seizures, including EEG-based diagnostic systems. It serves healthcare providers in the neurodiagnostics and medical device field.

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