Making Ideas Matter - Early Stage Venture Capital
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- Group IV Semiconductor Inc.
- Group IV Semiconductor ("Group IV") is an Ottawa-based company developing a silicon-based lighting technology which is both highly energy-efficient and very low in cost. Existing solid state lighting (SSL) technologies, based on LEDs, are currently cost prohibitive. Group IV's product breaks through this cost barrier, allowing the creation of solid-state light bulbs which can compete head-on with alternatives such as compact fluorescent lamps and displace highly inefficient incandescent bulbs. The same technology is applicable to the lucrative LCD backlighting market as well as to other markets in transition to solid-state, such as automotive and signage.
- Iscopia Software Inc.
- Iscopia Software is a Montreal-based company that has developed a web-based, transactional platform and proprietary database technology which, using a SaaS model, seamlessly delivers fully customizable talent measurement processes, through a console or a portal. The system can be used for efficient selection and development of employees. Their solutions include virtual simulations, realistic job previews, access to a full library of tests and reports, access to various pre-employment screening services, as well as a state-of-the-art avatar development tool.
- Praized Media Inc.
- The rise of social media online is a game-changing opportunity for local media publishers. People are discussing, sharing and recommending to each other news to read and places to visit on Facebook, Twitter and Friendfeed. Millions of word-of-mouth conversations about local places are occurring every day on the Web, yet they are not happening on major media portals.
Praized Media was founded to help media companies tap into the growing potential of online word-of-mouth and social media. Praized's local newsfeed technology platform harnesses these valuable local conversations and brings them to local media portals.
- STEP Communications Inc.
- STEP Labs is a venture-backed, Silicon Valley-based acoustic software & design company. STEP has invented and developed the next generation of Voice Separation and Noise Elimination technologies. Regardless how noisy or windy the environment, these patented software technologies, available through licensing, provide clear and clean voice input to enable high quality voice communications, and very reliable speech recognition, voice identification, and command & control applications. STEP's expertise in acoustics and our unique acoustic design service offerings include Acoustic Design, Software Development, Product Development & Design and Market Entry & Development to assist its partners create best in class products and expeditiously bring them to market.
- ThermoCeramix Inc.
- ThermoCeramix ("TCX") is a company that has patented an advanced material process in the field of electric heating technology. The company's process enables a "spray" to be applied onto simple and complex surfaces which, when electrified by standard, variable power sources, can be used in consumer appliances, home appliances or industrial processes to rapidly generate evenly distributed heat at levels far greater than was previously possible, with less power.
