Waterloo Accelerator Centre
AcceleratorWaterloo · Pre-Seed–Seed · 36 people tracked
Investment thesis
The Accelerator Centre takes a founder-first approach, centering its support on the entrepreneur rather than solely the business. It delivers high-touch programming that blends education, mentorship, and tactical support so founders receive the right resources and guidance at each stage. The program connects startups with experienced founders and industry leaders as mentors and fosters a supportive community that helps entrepreneurs navigate challenges and celebrate milestones as they grow and scale.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 36 people
from the firm's website & curated
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Waterloo Accelerator Centre went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 317 of 418 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×102SaaS ×92Healthtech ×60Digital Health ×51Hardware ×41Consumer ×38Fintech ×26Enterprise Software ×25
HQs:Canada×118United States×10India×2New Zealand×2Bermuda×1South Korea×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 93 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×662 founders×213 founders×54+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 56 founders with education data
University of Waterloo ×11University of Toronto ×6Western University ×5Conestoga College ×4Ivey Business School at Western University ×3McMaster University ×2Queen's University ×2Smith School of Business at Queen's University ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 61 founders with career history
University of Waterloo ×13500px ×2CIBC ×2General Motors ×2Kraken ×2Lane ×2Velocity ×2Velocity Fund ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
9 founders hold a PhD · 11 hold an MBA (of 64 with degree data)
Portfolio companies · 418 tracked
alumni founders can tell you what the program is really like1Mentor is a platform for higher education institutions that provides data insights into job market trends and employer skill requirements to help design programs and support career advising.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechFuture of Work
Martín Serrano(Founder)in
Co-investorsBuenTrip VenturesFront Row Ventures
3DPartFinder provides a geometric search engine that uses AI and the 3D shape of a part to find similar and duplicate parts within a manufacturer's PLM systems and shared data.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningSaaS
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsHealthtechSaaSWellness & FitnessLos Angeles, US
Co-investorsLotte VenturesTechstarsTofino Capital
4PAY operates PAIYHUB, an AI-based fintech software-as-a-service (FaaS) platform offering over 1,100 prebuilt core banking services, enabling startups, enterprises, and governments to build embedded financial and open-banking products such as virtual cards, payments, and payroll.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSRichmond Hill, CA
Argus Command builds an AI-powered platform for fire departments that converts existing data such as government-mandated Fire Safety Plans into tactical intelligence for responders.
AI & Machine LearningGovTechSaaS
ABRO Manufacturing provides CNC machining, precision-engineered components, and rapid prototyping services for the Canadian market.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareKitchener, CA
Accessible Design Academy (ADDA) provides accessibility consulting, reviews, and training to help organizations make documents, courses, and digital materials usable by everyone.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS
Michele Brannon-Hamilton(Founder)
Adaptis provides a platform that analyzes building portfolios using data-driven baselining and asset clustering to identify energy inefficiencies, cost savings, carbon reduction opportunities, and compliance risks.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechPropTech
Co-investorsMetaPropMetaProp Ventures
Aequify is a mobile app that helps US expats and globally employed professionals track expat taxes, foreign bank and investment accounts, filing deadlines, and required forms such as FBAR and Form 8938.
FintechSaaS
Puneet Gupta(Founder)in
Aeroport AI uses computer vision on existing ramp and jet bridge cameras to monitor aircraft ground handling in real time, providing delay alerts, timing predictions, and risk alerts to optimize apron and turnaround operations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply Chain
AgeRate develops science-based tools to measure biological age using genetics and molecular biomarkers, aimed at helping people improve health and longevity.
BiotechDigital HealthLongevity
Dr. Guillaume Paré(Founder and Chief Scientific Officer)Dr. Michael Chong(Chief Research Officer)Kevin Peters(Chief Technology Officer)
A company associated with Canadian agriculture; the page does not provide enough detail to describe its specific products or services.
AgTech
Ahead Simulations builds simulation platforms (ALEX and CARL) for demonstrating hearing devices and training hearing care professionals.
EdTechHealthtechMedical Devices
AI-innovate builds end-to-end automated visual inspection systems using 2D and 3D machine vision and industrial edge AI to detect surface defects and provide quality intelligence for manufacturers.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRobotics
RPAS WILCO is a drone operations platform for recreational and commercial drone pilots in Canada, offering flight planning, airspace intelligence, and compliance tools using official NAV CANADA aeronautical data.
Defense TechMarketplacesSaaS
Alaunus offers an all-in-one back office software platform for home healthcare and care providers, automating admin tasks such as invoicing, payroll, time and attendance tracking, scheduling, and mobile patient charting.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS
Alert Labs provides a water leak detection and management system for commercial buildings, using cellular-connected sensors, automatic shut-off valves, and AI-powered analysis to detect leaks and monitor temperature, humidity, and power.
CleantechIoTPropTech
Tom Briggette(Founder)in
Co-investorsGarage Capital
Ambature develops "a-axis" high-temperature superconductor (HTS) materials, Josephson junctions, and SQUID-based devices, offering a vertical trilayer architecture intended for scalable manufacturing in semiconductor fabs.
Deep TechQuantum ComputingSemiconductorsWaterloo, CA
Ron Kelly(CEO)Mitch Robson(CTO)Peter Kastelic(CFO)
Amicare provides a digital workflow for coordinating home care transitions, letting families, hospitals, clinics, and care organizations submit referrals, match compatible home care support, and communicate in real time.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS
Anatomiz3D converts patient-specific CT/MRI/ECHO DICOM scan data into 3D-printed anatomical models in various materials, opacities, and shore hardness for medical applications such as orthopaedics, spine, dental, neurosurgery, and cardiology.
Advanced ManufacturingHealthtechMedical Devices
Anyon Systems designs, builds, and deploys full-stack superconducting quantum computing systems, including hardware and processor-to-application software, for HPC centers, government, universities, and strategic partners.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum ComputingMontréal, CA
ApplyBoard operates a platform connecting international students with educational institutions across Canada, the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, and Germany.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesEdTechMarketplacesSaaSLondon, CA
Meti Basiri(Founder)inMartin Basiri(Co-Founder and Former Chief Executive Officer)inMassi Basiri(President and Co-Founder)in
Co-investors500 GlobalArtiman VenturesBDC Growth Venture FundCandou VenturesCeltic House Asia PartnersDrive Capital+10 more
Apricotton designs adjustable bras for young girls and teens going through puberty, including the stretchy Cloud Bra with removable padding that grows with the wearer.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFemTech
ChloeJessJessica Miao(Founder)inChloe Beaudoin(Founder)in
Aqua-Cell Energy develops a saltwater flow battery that stores energy by pumping salt-water electrolyte through a battery stack, targeting affordable long-duration (12h+) grid energy storage.
CleantechEnergyHardware
Keith Cleland(Founder)in
Co-investorsStartup TNT
Aquasensing develops battery-free, cloud-connected sensors for detecting and preventing water damage to properties and assets.
CleantechHardwareIoT
Y. Norman Zhou(Founder)in
Aram Technology is a semiconductor parts manufacturer that produces high-performance ceramic components such as electrostatic chucks (ESC) and heaters used in advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareSemiconductors
Aranas offers intelligent document processing solutions for businesses, covering digitization, classification and data extraction, along with enterprise content management (ECM), digital signature, facial authentication, RPA automation, and cybersecurity auditing (ISO 27001, GDPR).
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Arcori PM is a property management and accounting software tool designed for affordable housing organizations.
PropTechSaaS
Co-investorsFront Row Ventures
Ardee designs and sells made-to-order clothing and jewelry inspired by Bermudian culture, working with local artisans and skilled makers.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Aris Architects is an architecture firm structured as a worker co-operative that designs buildings and spaces for community-focused clients, including churches, schools, childcare centres, hospices, health centres, and affordable housing.
Construction Tech
Asima Health is developing a non-invasive, multi-cancer blood test that uses a pan-genomic platform to detect multiple cancers from a single blood draw.
BiotechHealthtechMedical Devices
Shalini Gupta(Founder)in
Astrus develops AI software for analog microchip design, automating the hand-crafted layout of analog circuits used in high-speed interconnects and other critical chip components.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSemiconductors
Kenny YoungZeyi Wang(Founder)inSebastian Siverand(Founder)in
Co-investorsKhosla VenturesDrive CapitalAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundMosaic Venture LabMVP Ventures
Aterlo Networks builds Preseem, a network operations, customer support, and growth platform for regional internet service providers, offering pre-built integrations to pull data from network elements and systems for subscriber and network insight.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSWaterloo, CA
Athel AI builds a multi-agent AI "co-clinician" that conducts dynamic clinical intake interviews with patients by voice, chat, and video, then delivers structured, prioritized clinical summaries to physicians before the visit.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Alex Arrazaghi(Co-founder & CEO)
Audesse builds the FlexSeries embedded controls platform, including electronic control units (ECUs), controllers, and connected-vehicle software for OTA updates and fleet telemetry, along with turnkey custom solutions.
HardwareIoTMobility & Transportation
Co-investorsInnovative Solutions Canada
AutoCate offers car maintenance education through tiered workshops, a membership service with 24/7 live-chat support, and an auto repair shop staffed by an all-women mechanic team.
ConsumerEdTechMobility & Transportation
Stefanie Bruinsma(Founder & CEO)inEmily Pyke(Chief of Trades & Co-founder)in
Avondale Private Capital is a credit-focused private markets advisory and risk participation firm working in private credit, carbon markets, credit insurance, and impact investing.
FintechImpact & Social GoodToronto, CA
Avro Life Sciences develops platform technology for novel drug delivery through passive transdermal administration.
BiotechHealthtechMedical DevicesWaterloo, CA
Shak Lakhani(Founder)inKeean Sarani(Founder)in
Co-investorsFifty YearsGarage CapitalHeuristic Capital PartnersUpHonest CapitalY CombinatorEmbark Ventures
Axonify offers an AI-powered frontline enablement platform that combines microlearning, task execution, and analytics to train and coordinate frontline workers.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS
Co-investorsBDC Fund Investments (Fund-of-Funds)BDC Venture CapitalBridgescale PartnersHarmony PartnersJMI Equity
A marketplace for furnished, affordable accommodation in and around college and university communities, offering short- and long-term stays.
MarketplacesTravel & Hospitality
Balance is Canada's largest digital asset custodian, serving clients with blockchain and cryptocurrency custody solutions.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechToronto, CA
George Bordianu(Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer)inBaha Nurlybayev(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsTechstarsBlockchain Founders Fund
Baneks offers cross-border money transfer and currency exchange services, allowing users to send and request money and pay bills or tuition across multiple currencies.
Fintech
Best for Bees sells an all-in-one hive entrance system for beekeepers that protects colonies from wasps, hornets, and other pests, prevents robbing, regulates hive temperature, and allows closing the hive for moving or oxalic acid vaporization.
AgTechHardware
BigRoad provides an FMCSA-compliant electronic logging device (ELD) app and connected fleet platform covering freight management, fleet and asset tracking, electronic vehicle inspection, and video telematics.
IoTLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationSaaSWaterloo, CA
Co-investorsSWO Angel Group
Binaural DSP works on digital signal processing for audio, including a nonlinear psychoacoustic time-invariant DAC effect.
Deep TechHardware
Co-investorsInnovation UBC
An online grocery service for African and Caribbean food products, allowing customers to shop for these groceries in one place.
E-commerceFoodTechMarketplaces
BizGenie is an online marketplace connecting businesses with verified freelancers across fields such as design, development, and writing.
Future of WorkMarketplaces
Blair builds AI agents that handle patient conversations and administrative tasks such as calls and appointment scheduling for healthcare practices.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSaaS
Co-investorsScaleGood Fund LP (powered by TELUS)
Bloomth is a female wellness clinic offering personalized, evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle programs, combined with medical testing, to help clients prevent and reverse conditions tied to hormonal imbalances such as insomnia, anxiety, PMS symptoms and excessive weight.
Digital HealthFemTechWellness & FitnessVaughan, CA
Jana Tuhman(Founder)Olea Ahmann(Chief Customer Experience Officer)
Book Health provides an AI-powered front office platform for clinics, using AI agents to handle fax processing, referral management, patient outreach, appointment scheduling, and call answering with integration into existing EMR and practice management systems.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthSaaS
Borrum Energy Solutions makes the Anorra small-scale wind turbine for microgeneration and off-grid electricity, designed for remote homes, cottages, and properties in cold Canadian climates.
CleantechEnergyHardware
BoxBrite provides a machine-learning platform that monitors solar PV and renewable energy systems, analyzing production data daily to detect performance losses and escalate issues to experts.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergy
BrandGhost's Launchpad is an AI content engine that generates SEO-optimized blog posts and platform-specific social media content, then auto-publishes to channels like Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Brightmir builds accessible games with voice-first strategy and adaptive controls, interactive health and physiotherapy tools, and AI-assisted workflow software to clear administrative backlogs.
AI & Machine LearningGamingHealthtech
Brillio provides enterprise AI consulting and engineering services, using its ADAM accelerators to help businesses modernize data platforms, deploy AI copilots, and transform digital experience and IT workflows.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Raj Mamodia(Founder)in
Transoft Solutions develops specialized engineering software for planning, simulation, modeling, design, and road safety analysis across aviation, civil infrastructure, and transportation.
Enterprise SoftwareMobility & TransportationSaaS
BuildingAssets analyzes real estate portfolio data — starting with water bills — using AI "Teammates" and human Advisors to identify cost savings, revenue opportunities, and risk reduction that increase net operating income.
AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaS
Bykart develops technology products for doctors, patients, and healthcare organizations.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS
C-COM develops iNetVu mobile satellite (SATCOM) antenna systems, including units deployed in harsh oil and gas field environments for remote explorers and producers.
EnergyHardwareSpace Tech
Caddie Health provides AI-powered medical billing software that recommends billing codes for visits, screens and verifies claims for errors before submission, and offers real-time dashboards to track billing performance.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Co-investorsTreefrog
Superbounce Table Tennis Club operates a table tennis facility in Calgary offering memberships, drop-in admission, professional training programs, elite coaching, and group classes for players of all levels.
ConsumerSports TechCalgary, CA
The Canadian Armed Forces recruiting website provides information on military careers, occupations, pay, and benefits for prospective and former members in Canada.
Defense TechGovTech
Canurta Therapeutics develops multi-target botanical drugs using its AI-backed PolyKye platform to identify bioactive compounds and guide compound selection, disease targeting, and formulation.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtech
Akeem Gardner(Founder)in
Co-investorsInnovative Solutions Canada
Capacity Clinic provides standardized capacity evaluation software, expert access, and educational content to help lawyers, estate and incapacity planners, substitute decision-makers, and organizations handling Powers of Attorney assess when to promote or protect a decision-maker's autonomy.
HealthtechLegalTechSaaS
Nathan SpalingAndrew Putmanin
Cappers provides workflow automation, system integration, and custom software development for privacy-sensitive industries, with an emphasis on HIPAA and PHIPA compliance.
Developer ToolsHealthtechSaaS
CarbonGraph provides software for building and verifying product life cycle assessment (LCA) models, producing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs), and reduction roadmaps.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate Tech
Cardinote makes a MIDI guitar pickup designed to help users learn guitar chords and write songs.
ConsumerEdTechHardware
Caredove offers software for community health agencies to manage service listings, intake, referrals, and appointment booking.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS
Jeff Doleweerd(Founder)in
Carnex is a Canadian used-car dealership specializing exclusively in electric vehicles, inspecting and reconditioning EVs and providing battery health reports for consumers buying used electric cars.
ConsumerMarketplacesMobility & TransportationMississauga, CA
Co-investorsCeltic House Asia Partners
Carpooll.com is a carpooling app that matches drivers and riders traveling in the same direction so they can share travel costs and reduce traffic.
ConsumerMarketplacesMobility & Transportation
Rutvik Babaria(Founder)in
Casira builds HomeSense, a product that uses off-the-shelf smart home sensors (motion, door, environment, and appliance) to passively monitor aging adults living independently and generate plain-language daily summaries and real-time alerts for family caregivers.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechIoT
Dave Kroetsch(Founder & CEO)Curt Beattie(CTO)
Shift Reality builds robots and content that merge physical machines with virtual reality, using proprietary holonomic full-freedom technology to link VR experiences with robot movements in custom arenas.
GamingHardwareRobotics
CellaraRx analyzes tumor biology at the single-cell level to predict whether a patient is likely to respond to a cancer treatment before clinical trial enrollment.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtech
CELLECT develops nanomaterial-embedded menstrual products (tampons and pads) that non-invasively collect and preserve DNA from menstrual blood for screening of HPV, cervical cancer, and STDs.
BiotechFemTechMedical Devices
Chirp makes a cloud-connected ambient sensing device using radar and thermal sensors to automatically detect events and monitor daily activity in the home, without cameras, wearables, or buttons.
Digital HealthHardwareIoT
Co-investorsL-SPARK
Chronicle Creations is an edtech startup building child-centered digital learning tools for early-childhood education.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerEdTech
Charles David Jameson(Founder)Charles Jameson(Founder)inAndrew Schools(CTO)Jennifer Chan(CFO)
CircuitIQ maps, digitizes, and labels a building's electrical circuits and panels, delivering a shareable app-based system of record with QR-linked digital twins, printed panel schedules, and electrical safety reports.
HardwareIoTSaaS
Clean Works develops a waterless decontamination technology that reduces illness-causing pathogens on produce, proteins, and packaged products, as well as surfaces like shipping bins and boxes.
AgTechCleantechFoodTech
Clearpath Robotics builds unmanned vehicles and robotics platforms aimed at making robotics research and development easier for its customers.
Deep TechHardwareRoboticsKitchener
Bryan Webb(Executive Officer, Director)Matthew Rendall(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMurray Gamble(Director)Karamdeep Nijjar(Director)inStuart Ellman(Director)inMichael Stork(Director)
Co-investorsGarage CapitalKeiretsu ForumKensington Capital Partners LimitedSWO Angel GroupVenture OntarioInovia Capital+1 more
Closed Caption Creator is a desktop and web application for creating, editing, translating, and quality-checking closed captions, subtitles, transcripts, and audio descriptions, with AI transcription, batch editing, and support for over 30 caption file formats.
AI & Machine LearningMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Cloud DX develops the Connected Health platform, including remote patient monitoring software, mobile apps, and devices such as VITALITI for capturing vital signs.
Digital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesKitchener, CA
Co-investorsInnovative Solutions Canada
CoachnCoachee is a coaching platform offering access to leadership, life, wellbeing, career, business/start-up, relationship, and spiritual coaches.
Future of WorkMarketplacesWellness & Fitness
Deep Ahuja Sharma(Founder)in
Codeless ONE is an AI-powered no-code platform that lets users describe requirements and have AI agents build internal and client-facing applications without writing code.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Cogitat develops AI-powered market intelligence for registered portfolio managers and investment advisers, using machine learning and large language models to analyze public and regulatory data and surface signals for capital allocation decisions.
AI & Machine LearningFintech
CoGuard audits an organization's infrastructure security posture and checks configurations against compliance frameworks such as SOC2, HIPAA, and ISO27001.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Albert Heinle(Founder)in
Cohesys is a medical device company developing BoneTape, a resorbable material solution for fracture repair designed to replace traditional invasive surgical plates and screws in orthopedic treatment.
Medical DevicesToronto, CA
Michael Floros(Founder)inAlexander Lausch, PhD(Founder)in
Co-investorsScaleGood Fund LP (powered by TELUS)
CoinValue offers an AI-based machine that counts, recognizes, and sorts Indian coins across 27+ styles and 6 denominations using machine learning and computer vision, enabling coin value to be transferred to a user's bank account.
AI & Machine LearningFintechHardware
Comply Pro provides digital safety management software, including site safety and food safety systems, for businesses in the construction and hospitality industries.
Construction TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Michael Hartley(Founder)in
Cone Labs develops AI-powered software for structural engineers to perform building condition assessments, converting field inspection data into high-resolution 3D models and semantic analysis of building conditions.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingConstruction TechEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsEtobicoke, CA
Ahmed M.(Founder)in
Co-investorsScale Shift VenturesTechstarsMaRS
Consolidated Learning is an IT and publishing consultancy offering system design and build, publishing, and application development for professionals and businesses.
EdTechMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
ConvoEdge is an AI-powered communication practice platform where users engage in adaptive roleplay conversations with AI personas to handle objections, negotiations, feedback, and conflict resolution.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechHR Tech
Creative Connex offers book publishing services including writing coaching, editing, proofreading, cover and interior design, illustration, formatting, distribution, and author marketing.
Creator EconomyMedia & Entertainment
Crutchgecko makes a system of magnetic clips, hooks, and quick-release wrist straps that attach to most standard crutches, canes, and walking sticks.
ConsumerHardwareMedical Devices
Curiato develops a smart surface monitoring system that uses the bed surface to continuously track patient pressure and humidity, generating clinical-grade data and insights.
Digital HealthHealthtechMedical Devices
Moazam Khan(Founder)in
Sami Siddique(Founder)in
Cyberworks Robotics develops OmniSuite, an end-to-end autonomous navigation software platform licensed to global OEMs and system integrators to build autonomous mobility applications.
AI & Machine LearningMobility & TransportationRobotics
Burhanpurkar
Co-investorsTreefrog
Deaf AI develops artificial intelligence that produces sign language, including digital human interpreters that translate real-time speech into sign language, to make public services, media, online meetings, games, and virtual environments accessible to deaf people.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechImpact & Social Good
Dean Group is a Canadian recruitment agency that connects employers with talent and helps professionals find career opportunities.
Future of WorkHR Tech
DeepHome is an AI-powered housing platform for buying and selling homes, using search algorithms and listing standards to match properties to buyer preferences.
AI & Machine LearningMarketplacesPropTech
Vito(Zhixian) Yang(Founder)in
Deep Trekker builds underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) with features such as flexible control and power options, data capture, and waypoint navigation.
AgTechHardwareRobotics
Device Nanny is a mobile app scanning tool that identifies every app installed on a child's phone, including hidden or disguised apps, and explains each in plain language with automatic categorization.
ConsumerCybersecurity
Dexlabs is an engineering design and manufacturing services firm offering product design, 3D modeling, rapid prototyping via 3D printing, additive manufacturing, and injection molding design.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardware
Dialectic offers scenario-based microlearning and soft skills training focused on leadership, belonging, and collaboration to drive behavior change in organizations.
EdTechFuture of WorkHR Tech
Aaron Barth(Founder)Aaron Barth, Ph.D.(Founder)in
DietiQ is an AI-powered nutrition and diet-tracking app that scans meals to analyze calories, macros, ingredients, and portions, generates personalized meal plans, and creates automatic grocery lists.
DigiBiomics applies AI and multimodal clinical data to build diagnostic platforms aimed at earlier disease detection and precision medicine.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Dr. Meraj Khan(Co-Founder & Clinical Scientist)
Dijilele builds digital fretted musical instruments, including a microtonal model, aimed at beginners, music students, and educators.
ConsumerEdTechHardware
Dimples handcrafts custom 3D fingerprint jewelry, including rings and necklaces made from images of fingerprints, hand and footprints, handwriting, drawings, and paw prints.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Patti(Co-founder)Jeff(Co-founder)
Dinaburg Technology makes compact, hand-crafted loudspeakers using its patented C2S driver architecture that reuses back-wave energy for balanced sound.
ConsumerHardware
DocTalk builds a suite of applications for doctors and clinicians that support clinical knowledge sharing, workflow, and peer collaboration, including tools for residents, patient education on diagnoses and treatment, and medical affairs research.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS
DotsNet is an AI-powered community operating system that analyzes members' real-time intent from Journals and an asks/offers marketplace to make double-opt-in introductions, share knowledge via its TLDR Hub, and surface private career opportunities.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSocial
Driven is a nonprofit management platform built on a single shared database that combines donor, member, and volunteer management with event registration, membership tracking, and email marketing.
Impact & Social GoodSaaS
Drocity provides drone-based aerial services including high-resolution inspections of infrastructure, construction, solar panels, pipelines, tanks and bridges, along with surveying, mapping, aerial videography, and drone pilot training.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechRobotics
DropLab designs, tests, and manufactures custom microfluidics cartridges, systems, and devices, offering the full development spectrum from design and prototyping to fabrication.
BiotechDeep TechHardware
DTM builds Janus, an AI governance system that blocks unapproved AI actions in workflows and records human approvals before changes reach production, grounding decisions in institutional memory such as contracts and prior decisions.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
EC Energy Technologies is a company associated with a product called Certia.
Energy
ECO2 Solutions provides carbon accounting and climate advisory services to help Canadian businesses measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pursue carbon compliance and net-zero goals.
CleantechClimate TechImpact & Social Good
Ecopia uses AI-based mapping systems to extract high-definition vector data from geospatial imagery, producing large-scale maps of land cover and infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureGovTech
Effizient Immigration is a Canadian immigration consultancy offering services for visitor visas, study permits, work permits, permanent residence, citizenship, and immigration appeals to clients in Canada and abroad.
ConsumerSaaS
Dhruv Sharma(Founder, Director, RCIC)in
Elate Pay is a payment platform that lets businesses accept payments, including scan-to-pay QR transactions, and integrates with existing payment providers.
FintechSaaS
elerGreen Industry develops a patented modular electrochemical reactor and process that converts chemical wastes and renewable electricity into polymers, metals, and chemicals.
Circular EconomyCleantechNew Materials
eleven-x offers eXactpark, a smart parking software platform that provides real-time occupancy monitoring and data analytics to help drivers find available spaces and manage curbside, on-street, and lot parking.
IoTMobility & TransportationSaaS
Co-investorsGood News Ventures
Sanjeev Singh(Founder)in
EMAGIN offers an AI-driven operational intelligence platform for water and wastewater treatment facilities, integrating with SCADA systems to support real-time decision-making, anomaly detection, and optimization of critical infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechSaaS
Emergency Response Africa provides mobile-enabled emergency medical dispatch and first responder training across Africa to reduce preventable deaths from sudden illness, accidents, and trauma.
Digital HealthHealthtechImpact & Social GoodWaterloo, CA
Folake Owodunni(Co-Founder & CEO)Maame Poku(Co-Founder & CTO)
Co-investorsMo AngelsRising Tide Africa (RTA)Techstars
SparxConnect is a care-coordination platform that connects residents, families, caregivers, and care teams through apps such as a social feed, group chat, surveys, care journals, and content libraries.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS
Empowered is a boutique consulting firm that builds evidence-based equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) strategies for companies, using tools such as its EDI Diagnostic Survey, focus groups, and systems reviews.
Future of WorkHR Tech
Enabled Talent operates a job-matching platform that connects jobseekers with roles fitting their skills and support needs, and provides résumé tips, interview preparation, and skills-development guidance.
Future of WorkHR TechMarketplaces
Enabling Adaptations offers consultations, courses, workshops, and resources to support parents seeking help for their children as well as adults seeking support for themselves or their organizations.
ConsumerWellness & Fitness
ENCA Systems develops electric and hybrid powertrains, new energy power systems, and hydrogen fuel system accessories for vehicle manufacturers building electric buses, trucks, and other EV and hybrid vehicles.
CleantechHardwareMobility & Transportation
This Is Perimenopause is a content and community resource hub offering articles, a weekly newsletter, and a podcast about perimenopause and related life topics such as work, family, and relationships.
FemTechMedia & EntertainmentWellness & Fitness
MikelleMichelle
Co-investorsFirst Star VenturesInovia Capital
ENVGO builds electric-propulsion marine technology that lifts vessels above the water to improve efficiency and adds autonomy, real-time awareness, and safety systems for defence, transportation, and recreational markets.
CleantechDeep TechDefense TechMobility & Transportation
Mike Peasgood(CEO)Mike Tribou(CTO)Paul Masojc(COO)Pete Keller(VP Sales & BD)Jerry Mailloux(VP Engineering)
Co-investorsGraphite Ventures
Epoch is a platform for managing company-wide events including town halls, all-hands meetings, and employee gatherings.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR TechSaaS
Jade Choy(Cofounder)inKeith Choy(Cofounder)Mike Miller(Cofounder)
Co-investorsPrecursor Venturesm]x[v CapitalMGV.VCRally Ventures Management, LlcAlphemy CapitalLongHash Ventures
eQcell is a Canadian clinical-stage regenerative medicine company developing allogeneic equine cord blood stem cells and canine adipose-derived mesenchymal stromal cells to treat conditions such as osteoarthritis and joint infections in horses and domestic animals.
AgTechBiotechHealthtech
Dr. Koch(Founder)
Equator Studios provides a web-based platform for accessing geospatial data — LiDAR, contours, parcels, and imagery — that can be exported clipped to a site without requiring a GIS team, and includes tools for creating site maps and generating engineering proposals.
Construction TechPropTechSaaS
Escarpment Aeronautics designs and manufactures autonomous, AI-integrated unmanned aerial systems (UAS/UAV) featuring on-board processing, thermal imaging, and all-weather route flying.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareRobotics
ESGTree is a cloud-based platform for ESG reporting and compliance, offering automated data collection, carbon emissions calculation, scorecards, and benchmarking alongside advisory services.
FintechImpact & Social GoodSaaSWaterloo, CA
Euna Solutions builds SaaS software for the public sector to manage budgets, procurement, grants, payments, and financial operations.
Enterprise SoftwareGovTechSaaS
Co-investorsGolub Growth
Eventastic appears to be an event featuring a lineup of speakers and networking leaders from marketing, media, and the events industry.
Marketing TechMedia & Entertainment
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CleantechClimate TechNew Materials
Evelyn Allen(Founder)in
Co-investorsGreensoil PropTech VenturesGroundBreak Ventures
Evoke Health offers Engage+, an EHR-integrated resident and family portal for long-term care, skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care communities.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS
exedee provides cloud-based business process automation and eSolutions, including document scanning, data extraction, and automated digital data exchange that integrates with clients' existing computer systems.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Desi Lorand(CEO)
ExoInsights builds digital twin technology that provides virtual environments for training, testing, and operational simulation.
Deep TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Extra Dimension Games is a video game development studio that prototypes, iterates, and builds original games based on player feedback.
GamingKitchener, CA
Chris Gander(Founder)Sean Wylie-Toal(Founder)
Co-investorsSisu Game Ventures
EyeBuddy develops AI tools for ophthalmology, including smartphone-based self-screening and detection of conditions such as diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, glaucoma, and keratoconus, plus AI-enhanced video consultations.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
EyeCheck develops health screening tools that produce an eyeglass prescription automatically, handling refraction and accommodation measurement.
Digital HealthHealthtechMedical Devices
Eyedro provides energy monitoring hardware paired with its MyEyedro cloud platform to measure, analyze, and manage electricity, gas, and water usage in real time.
CleantechEnergyIoT
Nick Gamble(Founder)in
Fadr is a web-based music tool that lets users separate songs into stems, create remixes, and build DJ sets, with options for drum separation, a stems plugin, and audio downloads.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerMedia & Entertainment
Robert Thomas(Founder)in
Faino offers a Telegram-based antistress bot that guides users through simple daily psychological exercises to help manage stress and grief.
Digital HealthMental HealthWellness & Fitness
Feel Good Interactive builds AI-powered interactive storytelling technology for children and families, including Little Magic Stories, a UGC platform where kids tell stories to an AI to create playable games, and a collaborative storytelling game for parents and kids ages 7–12.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerGaming
LaurenKentAkaash
FindBob provides software for wealth management and insurance firms to retain advisors and transition books of business within their network, combining advisor retention signals with in-network M&A and transition tooling.
FintechInsurTechSaaS
Co-investorsGlobal Insurance Accelerator
FIVELION offers life and business coaching programs for individuals, business owners, professionals, and corporate executives, focused on personal development, wellness, and business success.
ConsumerWellness & Fitness
Neil Sharma(Founder)
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- Waterloo Accelerator Centre has 415 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
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- Waterloo Accelerator Centre invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
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- Waterloo Accelerator Centre is headquartered in Waterloo, CA.
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- Waterloo Accelerator Centre most often shares deals with Techstars, Innovative Solutions Canada, Garage Capital, among 87 tracked co-investors.
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