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In the February Issue
Name change for Avenir Medical
Welcome POET; Deep Trekker around the world; AC Clients speak at UpStart breakfast this week
AC Clients @ Waterloo, Stratford and Communitech Hub
Alumni News: Energent; I Think Security; and Clearpath Robotics
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Feature Story


Avenir Medical is now Intellijoint Surgical 
   

Accelerator Centre Client Avenir Medical recently changed their name to Intellijoint Surgical.  

 

Intellijoint Surgical is an early stage orthopedic medical device company committed to improving patient outcomes and hospital economics in joint replacement surgery. Intellijoint is the creator of Intellijoint HIP™, a miniaturized intelligent instrument that enhances surgeon accuracy, increases hospital economic efficiencies, and improves patient outcomes.

 

Intellijoint's R & D team is led by the co-founder and former director of surgical navigation at Medtronic, Inc., and driven by a team of renowned orthopedic surgeons: Dr. Allan Gross and Dr. David Backstein from Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Dr. Wayne Paprosky from Rush Hospital in Chicago, and 

Dr. Javad Parvizi from the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia.

 

Visit them online at www.intellijointsurgical.com.

 

Accelerator Buzz
The Accelerator Centre welcomes new client POET (Point of Experience Technology) 
 
 
POET (Point of Experience Technology) combines physical products, product messages and transactions to create a seamless in-store experience.  Our goal is to revolutionize the retail experience by using emerging digital technologies to introduce an innovative approach to customer engagement.

Our digital signage system allows users to scan an object in order to learn more about it.  It then provides all of the information about that product the customer needs to make a decision to buy.

Customers get the additional information they want, while retail sales boost without additional staffing. 
 

Accelerator Centre Client Deep Trekker has ROVs in 26 countries  
 
deep trekker

Deep Trekker is trekking around the world with their 250 gallon demonstration water tank giving trade show attendees a firsthand experience of driving their underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV). 

 

Deep Trekker now has ROVs working in 26 countries and customers are always finding new applications to use their ROVs. 

 

This year new accessories have been introduced such as auxiliary lighting, laser scalers, and crawler wheels to provide a more custom ROV to business and individuals in the portable water tank, aquaculture, and commercial diving industries.

 


Accelerator Centre Clients Mozzaz and Milao Language to be guest speakers for Communitech 
 
On Wednesday February 19th, Sammy Wahab of Mozzaz, and Camelia Nunez of Milao Language, will be guest speakers at Communitech's UpStart Breakfast series.  For event and registration information click here.
Client Corner

Accelerator Centre Clients from three of our locations well represented in the news!

 

 

Waterloo Accelerator Centre

 

 

 
New product announcement for Accelerator Centre Client TeTechS Inc!
 
Accelerator Centre Client TeTechS Inc., a terahertz technology solution company, released its first terahertz spectrometer system.
 
The TeTechS Rigel 1550 terahertz spectrometer is portable, modular, compact, fast, and reconfigurable for analysis of solids, liquids, powders, and gases.  Read the full press release here. 





Accelerator Centre Client Sober Steering's technology being used in New York Education system.

"...based out of Canada, [Sober Steering] developed this product that acts as an alcohol interlock for school buses and other vehicles.  They accomplish this through transdermal sensors that are built into the steering wheel."

Read full article here.

 

 

Stratford Accelerator Centre

 

 


YouInc.com profiles Stratford Accelerator Centre Client Buildcircle - "The Art of Compromise"
 
"Balance [for an entrepreneur] doesn't exist," says Dan Heitbohmer. "It's like taking oil and water and shaking them up, trying to keep them mixed. Impossible."
 

Heitbohmer, 38, has learned the hard way that the elusive "balance" the media and healthcare professionals encourage is for a different type of person than the entrepreneur. It might work for the nine-to-fiver, but as the president of BuildCircle Inc., a cloud-based software that manages the complex series of communications that accompany any construction project, Heitbohmer says the only option available to him is simple compromise.

Read the full article on youinc.com.

 

 

Communitech Hub
  
 

Accelerator Centre Client (Communitech Hub) SuiteQ offers home decor customers a 3D shopping experience.

"SuiteQ's 'true to life, contextual 3D room planner' helps take the guess work out of furniture buying by helping consumers visualize home furnishings. Using the site they can build authentic rooms complete with wall colour, flooring and accessories."

Read the full article on betakit.com.


Accelerator Centre Client (Communitech Hub) TitanFile Inc., unveils collaborative communications systems for corporate legal departments.

"Putting the user firmly in control with hassle-free, hacker-proof security combined with powerful information sharing functionality, Hitachi Solutions America, Ltd. and TitanFile Inc., are announcing a collaborative communications system built for today's corporate legal departments. Secure client communications are essential to successful law firm operations and the new joint effort allows confidential file sharing anytime, anywhere with the user maintaining control of the encryption key to further safeguard confidentiality."
 
Read the full article at marketwired.com

 

 

Alumni News


 energent

Accelerator Centre graduate Energent's energy management information system to be used in 10 leading Ontario universities!

 

Energent's best in class modeling and analytics solution will enable these universities - McMaster, Carleton, Ottawa, Waterloo, Trent, Queens, Lakehead, Brock, Laurentian and Windsor - to reach their individual and collective energy management goals, by tracking their individual energy performance as well as benchmarking and comparing their usage across the full portfolio of the 10 campuses.  
 
Read the full press release here.
 

Clearpath Robotics Logo compressed
 
Accelerator Centre Graduate Clearpath Robotics profiled in Profit$; fulfills grant program for Portuguese University; and sees their very own Kingfisher used for testing tailing ponds in Northern Ontario.
 
BDC's Winter 2014 edition of Profit$: Essential Information for Entrepreneurs captures feature article on Clearpath Robotics. Read "Path to Growth: An International Business Built on an Irrational Love for Robots" on page 16.
 
Clearpath Robotics provided The University of Coimbra's Institute of Systems and Robotics with a mobile robotic base, which will be used for minesweeping.  Read the full article here
 
Clearpath Robotics' Kingfisher Unmanned Surface Vessel profiled in "Making Remote Sense: Artic and Oilsands data collection without physical contact." Read the full article on page 18.

  

  I Think Security
 
Accelerator Centre Graduate I Think Security featured in
Watch: Today's Technology Playground.  
 
The article, called " Rethinking Security in a Cloud-based world" was written by Cedric Jeannot and can be found on page 5.  Click here to go to publication.