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Feature Story
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Bonfire Interactive, Eyedro Green Solutions, and Plasticity Labs Graduate from the Accelerator Centre
On December 11th we celebrated the graduation of three companies! Congratulations to Bonfire Interactive, Eyedro Green Solutions and Plasticity Labs.
Trusted with more than $3 billion in public spending decisions, Bonfire Interactive is the easiest, simplest and friendliest way for purchasers to accept and evaluate supplier quotes and proposals as part of an RFx process. The company was founded by Corry Flatt, a serial entrepreneur with a passion for building products and companies from the ground up.
Eyedro Green Solutions is a software and electronics design company making electricity usage easy to understand. Co-founded by Trevor Orton and Nick Gamble, Eyedro provides consumers and businesses with simple solutions for monitoring their electricity use in real-time.
 How does happiness drive performance? This question, and their own life-changing experience drove co-founders Jim Moss and Jennifer Moss to create Plasticity Labs, a company dedicated to helping global organizations connect their employees, measure emotional intelligence in real-time, increase engagement and create the happiest, highest performing workplaces. The company recently closed a $2.1 million financing round led by Fibernetics Ventures.
"This month's graduates are all exceptional companies with significant market traction in their respective industries and we are delighted to celebrate their achievements to date," says Paul Salvini, CEO of the Accelerator Centre. "Our focus and mission here at the AC is to equip entrepreneurs with the knowledge and skills they need to not just get a business off the ground, but take it to the next level of sustainability. I'm proud to say that our graduates are responsible for building tomorrow's tech sector success stories."
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Accelerator Buzz
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The AC is now a designated business incubator for
Canada's Start-up Visa Program
We were recently selected by the Canadian Association of Business Incubation and Acceleration (CABI) to join Canada's Startup Visa Program, becoming one of a select group of certified technology incubators and accelerators across the country who can help foreign entrepreneurs with strong business ideas establish their businesses in Canada.
Canada's Startup Visa Program, established in 2013 by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, is a first of its kind and first in the world program, linking immigrant entrepreneurs with experienced private sector organizations that have expertise working with startups.
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Client Corner
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Mozzaz is working with one of the largest Centres for Autism Research in the Middle East
Mozzaz Corporation has won a three year contract with one of the largest centres for Autism Research in the Middle East. With Mozzaz's Talking Tiles application the Centre's caregivers will be able to define a care plan for each patient and share it with parents or other caregivers.
To read more, click here.
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TeTechS featured on Discovery Channel's How It's Mad
The Discovery Channel ' How It's Made' team was in town with TeTechS, documenting how to manufacture and assemble a terahertz vision sensor system - specialized technology that leverages terahertz light to find previously undetectable objects and defects in advanced manufacturing processes.
Stay tuned! The episode is expected to air in the Spring of 2015.
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A big AC welcome to our new client companies
Apartmint streamlines the rental process by offering one integrated platform for finding/listing a rental, screening a tenant, and transacting rent.
Consumer Kinetics has created the shopper marketing application CartSmart available in both iOS and Android formats. The purpose of the application is to provide the consumer the right brand content from CPG companies, at the right time.
Wingo Mobile has created Scorena, a unique sport betting game that focuses on the social experience, where fans can challenge their network in predicting live sport events; sharing the joy and excitement of big games with friends.
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BigRoad builds technology truckers love to use
In just two years, BigRoad has earned the business of more than 1,000 fleets and more than 160,000 drivers today use their app for HOS tracking.
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Clearpath Robotics receives prestigious 'Canada's Passion Capitalist' award, and receives federal funding.
Clearpath Robotics was selected by Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions and Richardson GMP Ltd., as one of ten companies honoured as Canada's Passion Capitalists. To learn more, click here.
The Kitchener-based company got a big boost from a federal financing program to help it more than double the size of its workforce to 140 people over the next two years. Clearpath is hiring engineers, manufacturing technicians and sales and marketing people. To learn more, click here.
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CrossChasm makes green vehicle purchases easy
FleetCarma provides a patented turnkey system to help fleets looking to purchase alternative fuel vehicles accurately assess the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a vehicle, and make the best investment decisions.
To learn more, click here.
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Karos Health fosters health-care collaboration
Karos Health Inc., makes it easy for doctors to share information and collaborate, no matter where they are. If the patient does need to be moved, the entire medical file, including images, notes and lab results, should instantly be at the disposal of the team at the next facility.
To read more, click here.
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Kik acquires GIF messenger Relay
Kik Interactive, announced it has acquired Relay, a leading GIF messenger, and raised a $38.3 million Series C round of funding. The addition of Relay brings Kik to the forefront of visual messaging, an increasingly popular form of communication, especially among teens and young adults.
To learn more, click here.
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Magnet Forensics helps retrieve the digital evidence online crimes leave behind
Magnet Forensics helps law enforcement professionals find and recover evidence from hundreds of Internet, business computing and mobile artifacts. The company's tools are now in use in more than 2,500 organizations in 93 countries around the world.
To read the full article, click here.
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Perspecsys expands global footprint with new Canadian office
Perspecsys, the leader in enterprise cloud data protection gateway solutions, announced the opening of its new Canadian office to support global demand for its cloud security solutions. The new Mississauga, Ontario office will house a growing team of engineering, sales, product and marketing personnel that bring Perspecsys' AppProtex Cloud Data Protection Gateway to
market.
To learn more, click here.
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Sweet Tooth integrates with Shopify and BigCommerce
Sweet Tooth, a loyalty app for ecommerce retailers, has recently integrated with Shopify and BigCommerce. In only 4 months, Sweet Tooth has seen over 100% growth month-on-month, with over 1,000 retailers having installed the app since August.
For more info visit sweettoothrewards.com.
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