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Technology Seed Investments


ADNAvance Technologies Inc. ADNAvance Technologies Inc. - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Adnavance Technologies Inc. is an early stage company formed in late 2002 developing enabling technology applications that use the conductivity properties of both normal and novel, metallic, forms of DNA, aimed at large biosensor/molecular diagnostics and energy generation/management markets.
www.adnavance.com


Advanced Molecular Imaging Advanced Molecular Imaging - Sherbrooke, Québec
Developer of new Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners which bring unprecedented performance in high-resolution, dynamic, functional imaging of small animals. PET scanners are used to detect anomalies and visualize biological processes in living subjects as part of the in vivo researches of the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries.
www.advanced-mi.com


BioPeak Corporation

BioPeak Corporation - Ottawa, Ontario
Biopeak's vision is to develop leading edge, non-invasive blood analysis devices.  The company's early research focused on lactic acid analysis for the performance athletic market.  As technical results and market information were gathered it became clear that Biopeak's technology was ideal for other larger markets: including glucose monitoring.  Biopeak is now actively developing a world leading non-invasive glucose analyzer based on its Fusion Spectroscopy technology platform.
www.biopeak.com



Chitoxansys Inc. Chitoxansys Inc. - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Environmental remediation technology in development.  Their goal is to deploy activated chitosan "Active Matrix" bioremediation technology into a series of market applications in the growing environmental technology sector and to ultimately become a supplier of cost-effective technology solutions to heavy metal remediation, on a global scale.


Coeur Metrics Inc. Coeur Metrics Inc. - Seabright, Nova Scotia
(formerly PSR Technologies)
Coeur Metrics is a developer of medical devices. Their Ballistocardiograph (BCG) Cardiac Monitor is a device that will quickly, non-invasively and directly measure cardiac output and address a market demand for a sub-clinical screening and evaluation tool.


Copperleaf Technologies Inc. Copperleaf Technologies Inc. - Vancouver, British Colombia
CopperLeaf Technologies Inc. provides Strategic Asset Planning and Reporting software and services that improve the financial performance of energy companies and utilities. Our solutions allow utilities to re-think their approach to life-cycle asset planning and budgeting by integrating planning, analysis, approval, and execution in a single package.
www.copperleafgroup.com


Cyrium Technologies Inc. Cyrium Technologies Inc. - Ottawa, Ontario
Developer of Disruptive Photonic Products using Semiconductor Nano Technology Innovations to produce high efficiency photovoltaic cell technology. Innovations.
www.cyriumtechnologies.com


Datec Coating Corporation Datec Coating Corporation - Milton, Ontario
Datec Coating Corporation produces a proprietary line of coatings based on ceramic technology. Applications vary from thermally and electrically insulative coatings to conductive and electrically resistive materials used for heating elements.
Learn more about...
www.dateccoating.com


Diablo Technologies Inc. Diablo Technologies Inc. - Gatineau, Québec
Fabless semiconductor company (10G SerDes Chip set).  They are focused on developing Mixed Signal High Speed Serial Interconnect Integrated Circuits and Intellectual Property for backplane systems.
Learn more about...
www.diablo-technologies.com


Dyaptive Systems Inc. Dyaptive Systems Inc. - Vancouver, British Colombia
Wireless network load and traffic testing.  Their focus is to establish a new paradigm for CDMA wireless network optimization and be the number one supplier of validation and optimization tools to network operators and infrastructure manufacturers.
www.dyaptive.com


Eastmed - EastMed is a Halifax based company incorporated to develop, manufacture and market medical devices. It is currently developing a new "self-fitting" incontinence pessary for women. The product is undergoing clinical trials at the IWK hospital in Halifax. A Canadian Patent has been secured and a US patent is pending. Currently EastMed is working with a company from Ontario to obtain an ISO designation, a requirement of Health Canada for the classification in which this product falls. FDA certification is being pursued. Concurrently, product branding and a complete marketing plan are being developed.
http://www.uresta.ca/



Group IV Semiconductor Inc.
Group IV Semiconductor Inc. -
Ottawa, Ontario
SSL technology for general lighting applications.  Their aim is to develop and sell Solid State Lighting products as high quality and energy efficient replacements for incandescent and other general illumination products.
http://www.groupivsemi.com


Horizon Environment Technology
Horizon Environment Technology -
Québec, Québec
New technology for treatment and valuation of organic sludge generated in the agri-food sector.  The initial focus is on pork manure where agricultural lands are in excess of phosphorous-based nutrients.  They provide simple, modular and cost-competitive solutions to pig farms across various operating scales and environments.
http://www.corporationhet.com


Imaginum Inc.
Imaginum Inc. -
Montréal, Québec
Developer of high quality large flat panel display technologies and processes.
http://www.imaginum.ca


Kleer Semiconductors


Kleer Semiconductors - Ottawa, Ontario
Kleer is the leading provider of ultra low power RF solutions targeted at the emerging multi-billion dollar wireless audio market. The Company is backed by top-tier venture capital firms. The Company's solutions are based upon a superior, patented, design architecture, and feature industry leading audio fidelity.
www.kleer.com 



Metafoam Technologies Metafoam Technologies - Boucherville, Quebec
MetaFoam develops and manufactures new open cell metallic and ceramic foams through its own patent pending technologies and other patented manufacturing processes. MetaFoam's technology offers significant advantages: a considerable reduction in production costs, greater control on several key product parameters, and the highest specific surface area in the industry. As such, MetaFoam is exceptionally positioned to address a wide range of industrial problems in mass market applications and new market segments. From heat diffusing materials for the electronic cooling industry to porous media for water purification, bio medical implants, porous electrode and other devices, MetaFoam's open cell foam technology is a unique platform with large market potential.
www.metafoam.com


Mobidia Inc. Mobidia Inc. - Richmond, British Columbia
Mobidia, Inc. is taking a revolutionary approach to managing wireless multimedia traffic (multiple data types including wireless VoIP, streaming video, audio, images, email, messaging, and application data) over multiple wireless network types, including 2.5G, 3G, Wi-Fi and WiMax technologies.
www.mobidia.com


MODASolutions MODASolutions - Kanata, Ontario
MODASolutions offers a new and unique processing technology that seamlessly integrates online banking payments with existing online shopping infrastructures. SECURE-eBill, MODASolutions' innovative product offering, combines a powerful array of technology, processes and services that enable merchants to expand their markets, recapture lost sales and manage transaction risk. How can one product do all this? By allowing online shoppers to pay for purchases through the convenience, comfort and trust of their own bank.
www.modasolutions.com


Nanometrix Technology

Nanometrix Technology -
Montréal, Québec
Structured particles and molecules assembly technology.  Their mission is to become the market leader as a fully integrated provider of mono-layer equipment, services and mono-layer based solutions.
www.nanometrix.ca


NYSA Membrane Technologies Inc.

NYSA Membrane Technology Inc. -
Burlington , Ontario
Development and commercialization of novel membrane-based platform technology for use in protein purification and other biological separations.  The ultimate goal is to create novel, high value products for specific applications, including large-scale bioprocessing, small-scale bioanalytics, blood processing, and food and beverage processing.
www.nysamembranes.com


OptoSecurity OptoSecurity - Québec, Québec
Optosecurity's technology is based on the ground-breaking and patented INO Optical Correlator (OC); an optical computer specialized in image recognition. INO is Canada's largest R&D centre in applied optics, lasers and photonics.
The Optical Correlator is designed to be integrated into and enhance the automation, accuracy and speed of next generation security and military solutions.
www.optosecurity.com


www.paraxip.com Paraxip Technologies - Montreal, Québec
Paraxip Technologies offers software products enabling a seamless transition from traditional telephony to IP telephony. Paraxip's products are designed from the ground up to offer Voice-over-IP (VoIP) applications with un-paralleled transparency to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), enabling seamless operations in hybrid environments, where traditional and IP telephony equipment and applications are mixed.
www.paraxip.com



Pathogen Detection Systems Pathogen Detection Systems - Kingston, Ontario
Pathogen Detection Systems (PDS) develops fully automated, on-site, in-line systems to detect pathogenic bacteria such as E.coli and total coliform bacteria for a wide variety of water testing applications.
www.pathogendetect.com


Pyrophotonics Laser Inc. Pyrophotonics Laser Inc. - Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Québec
Flexible fiber laser subsystem for material processing.  They will exploit this technology to develop and manufacture PYFL (Pulsed Y…Fiber Laser) fiber lasers that meet the needs of current and emerging materials processing applications.  This unique laser platform will allow customers to develop highly flexible automated materials processing platforms.
http://www.pyrophotonics.com


RapidMind

RapidMind - Waterloo, Ontario
RapidMind provides a software development platform that allows applications to take advantage of a new generation of high performance processors, including the GPU, Cell BE, and other multi-core processors.  RapidMind enables applications to realize the performance breakthroughs offered by these processors.
www.rapidmind.net



SiM Composites
SiM Composites -
Québec, Québec
Manufacturer of fuel cell material and applications, to develop, commercialize and manufacture unique and novel functional membranes for high-value applications in the alternative energy space (fuel cells), water purification and desalinization, micro-filtration, gas separation and other applicable industries.
www.simcomposites.com


Solido Design Automation


Solido Design Automation -
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Solido Design Automation is an electronic design automation (EDA) company pioneering transistor-level tools addressing emerging challenges for analog/mixed-signal, custom digital and memory designers.
http://www.solidodesign.com



Surfasys Inc.
Surfasys Inc. -
Ste-Foy, Québec
Surfasys develops tools allowing the automation of industrial moulds and parts polishing using a ductile electrode process. The technology used by Surfasys to manufacture these composite electrodes and carbon nanoparticles was discovered in the laboratory of Professor Alain Curodeau from Université Laval's mechanical engineering department.
Read the press release. 


TENXC Wireless
TENXC Wireless -
Ottawa, Ontario
Smart Antenna for mobile communications networks.  TenXc's technology will improve overall wireless network performance by increasing capacity, improving and maintaining network quality, reducing network operating costs and better managing network infrastructure.
www.tenxc.com


Third Brigade
Third Brigade -
Ottawa, Ontario
Third Brigade is a leader in the emerging IT security field of Host Intrusion Prevention (HIP).  Our Deep HIP approach, recognized by industry analysts as the approach required by a leading intrusion prevention system, provides server-based protection from the broadest range of attacks, and then goes several steps further.
Learn more about...
www.thirdbrigade.com


Ulysses Pharmaceuticals
Ulysses Pharmaceuticals -
Sherbrooke, Québec
Ulysses Pharmaceuticals is dedicated to the discovery and development of novel and safe antimicrobial agents for the treatment of severe and recurrent infections occurring in human.  The Company intends to become an industry leader in the anti-infective field through the development of new antibiotics, including some acting as Trojan Horses that take advantage of essential microbial transport systems to specifically enter targeted pathogens.  Severe infections cannot be cured without antibiotics and new drugs are urgently needed to replace failing first line therapies.  Ulysses is product-oriented and is developed as an Rx-pharmaceutical company.  Ulysses concentrates on the development of advanced hit and lead compounds with promising features and characteristics that are indicative of potent antibacterial agents with potential for strong market penetration.
February 1, 2006 press release


Virtual Expert Clinics Inc.
Virtual Expert Clinics Inc. -
Fredericton, New Brunswick
The company's current focus is to market an innovative web-based product, Virtual Autism Clinic - autism treatment management and decision support tools servicing parents and staff in pre-school autism treatment and management programs.  Subsequent applications will address other disabilities and disorders.
www.vecinc.com


V.1 Labs
V.1 Labs -
Halifax, Nova Scotia
V.1 Labs has been developing and marketing high quality software solutions since it first entered the technology market. Delivering scalable, reliable, operating solutions is our core business today. Having invested more than 40 collective years of experience working in the ISP market, our management and sales teams have become the conduit through which we are delivering advanced software solutions including wireless, DSL and broadband software to both residential and commercial customers.
www.v1labs.com




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