Queen's Venture Network
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- Company: 5crowdC
- Founder: Rachel Zimmer and Bram Warshafsky
- Description: 5Crowd is a technology-enabled Marketing implementation agency focused on execution. That's fancy Marketing speak for saying that we bring the strategy to life, faster and for less! We're an agency with no creative or production folks on staff. Instead, we have a curated network of freelance professionals, which we call our Crowd. We collaborate with them through a proprietary digital platform on a project-by-project basis, making our operations lean and efficient.
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- Company: ANF Capital
- Founder: Ainos Ngadya
- Description: Private Equity and Investment firm focusing on Southern Africa
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- Company: AppArmor
- Founder:
David Sinkinson, President, Marketing and Business Development
Chris Sinkinson, President, Innovation and Software Development - Description: Develop and support custom mobile safety applications on all major platforms at institutions across the globe 
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- Company: Arafat & Company, Canada
- Founder: Nader Arafat, Managing Director
- Description: Provide consulting services to small business looking to expand
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- Company: BluRoot
- Founder: Massimo Ianniruberto, CEO
- Description: A Digital agency helping companies establish their presence online, and a connection to their customers.
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- Company: cheddarr
- Founder: Ryan Son Kee, Co-founder
- Description: Real-money, real-time stock trading tournament competitions
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- Company: CutCom Software
- Founder:
Chris Sinkinson, President, Product Development
David Sinkinson, President, Sales and Marketing - Description: Leading developer of mobile, web and desktop software applications.
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- Company: EnviraMet, Inc.
- Founder:
Junian Ioffe, Co-Founder
Gioulchen Tairova, Co-Founder
Vusal Najafov, Co-Founder - Description: EnviraMet is focused on the research and development of advanced water treatment technologies for industry
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- Company: FundThrough Inc.
- Founder: Graham McBride, Co-Founder
- Description: FundThrough is Canada’s first marketplace lending platform offering secured lines of credit to growing entrepreneurial businesses.
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- Company: GreenSky Capital
- Founder: Geoff Simonett, Mike List
- Description: GreenSky provides financial advisory services, investment and access to capital to early stage Tech, CleanTech and MedTech companies.
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- Company: Hatch Ltd.
- Founder:
Gerald G. Hatch, President and CEO
William S. Atkins, Founder and Partner - Description: Hatch supplies engineering, project and construction management services, process and business consulting and operational services to the mining, metallurgical, energy and infrastructure industries.
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- Company: HIRE GRAY MATTER
- Founder:
Ron Jamieson, Managing Partner
Karen Tulk, Partner - Description: HIRE GRAY MATTER is an executive search consultancy that helps small-to-mid-sized companies improve the calibre of their leadership by connecting them with the best talent available (on either a permanent or interim basis) and supporting them through all phases of the hiring process.
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- Company: Ideal Candidate
- Founder: Somen Mondal, CEO
- Description: Not all sales jobs are the same. We match talented salespeople with their perfect sales job.
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- Company: Indivi
- Founder: Steadman Dinning, CEO
- Description: Indivi is a private social network that encourages “micro media” by allowing users to share appropriated content.
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- Company: integro Marketing Strategies
- Founder: Mitch Gudgeon, Managing Director
- Description: Brand development and sponsorship strategy consulting for sports, charities, events and other non-profits.
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- Company: J. Thompson Consulting Limited
- Founder: Joel Thompson, President & CEO
- Description: Small business and new product development.
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- Company: Kinetic Cafe
- Founder:
David Dougherty, Chief Innovation Officer
Chris Carder, Chief Operating Officer
Gary Fung, Chief Technology Officer - Description: Kinetic Cafe is a global design and innovation firm connecting shoppers with retail spaces through beautiful mobile technology.
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- Company: LowestRates.ca
- Founder: Justin Thouin
- Description: LowestRates.ca provides Canadians with free tools to compare mortgage, insurance, car loan, and credit card offers from Canada's leading financial institutions, helping them save time and money.
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- Company: MakerKids
- Founder: Jennifer Turliuk
- Description: MakerKids is the first and largest makerspace for kids in the world. MakerKids runs programs on Robotics, Coding and Minecraft for kids ages 8-12 through programs including Camps, After School Programs and Birthday Parties. CEO Jennifer Turliuk coded her first website at age 12 and was amazed to see it go viral; she was later accepted into the Singularity University program based at NASA, where she learned how to apply technology to education and decided to start MakerKids to help more kids have transformative experiences and become the leaders of tomorrow. Graduates of MakerKids have gone on to start businesses, present their projects on national TV, teach classes, and more. Thousands of kids have gone through MakerKids’ programs at the flagship location in Toronto, and many people have been reaching out asking if they could become franchisees. MakerKids has been featured in media such as Wired, Popular Science, and CTV and received the honors of “Best Children’s Workshops†from Toronto Life Magazine, and one of the top 10 birthday party places in Toronto according to Today’s Parent. In the past we have done Content and Curriculum Development for clients like Intel and 3D Systems, and Professional Development services for clients such as the Toronto Public Library. Our Board of Advisors includes Dale Dougherty (CEO of Maker Media, MAKE Magazine and Maker Faire) and Massimo Banzi (CEO of Arduino). We are proud to be a Certified B Corporation.
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- Company: Morgan Meighen & Associates Limited
- Founder:
Vanessa Morgan, President & CEO
Jonathan Morgan, Executive VP
Michael Smedley, Executive VP & CIO - Description: Investment Management Company
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- Company: Nimis Group LLC
- Founder: Meen Sathish, Dinesh Sam, Senthil Sam
- Description: Nimis is the leading provider of Consumer Sales intelligence solution for Consumer Products companies. Founded in 2012 with offices in Austin, Texas and India.
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- Company: NRStor Inc.
- Founder:
Annette Verschuren O.C., Chair & CEO
Jason Rioux, Vice President - Description: NRStor Inc. is a Toronto-based energy storage project developer and owner focused on accelerating the development & construction of industry-leading energy storage technologies.
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- Company: Opprox Inc.
- Founder:
Ahsen Basit, CEO
Raza Ali, CFO - Description: A location based B2C platform delivering time sensitive opportunities and loyalty rewards from local merchants to consumers
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- Company: ParseHub
- Founder:
Serge Toarca, CEO
Angelina Fomina, COO
Peter Prelich, CTO - Description: A visual data extraction tool, that anyone can use (with or without technical skills) to get data from complex and poorly-designed websites.
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- Company: Phoenix BlueMobility Inc
- Founder: Martina Simmonds, Communications Director
- Description: Focus on leading edge technology in the wearable sports and IOE space. Extensive traction in mobile integration, SMS, CMS and e- commerce platforms
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- Company: Queen’s Venture Capital Club (QVCC)
- Founder: Mark Skinner, President and Founder
- Description: Teaching, analyzing and expanding Queen’s start-up community.
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- Company: Rover Parking
- Founder:
Tim Wootton, CEO
Grant Brigden, COO
Andrew Holbrook, CTO - Description: The Shared Parking Mobile App
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- Company: Sea Container Cabin.com
- Founder: Jason Rioux, Founder
- Description: Developing unique sea container homes that offer sustainable living and less dependancy on the grid. Leading the Ontario market in developing residential and commercial container structures suitable for our Canadian climate.
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- Company: SharpScholar
- Founder:
Tejas Mehta, CTO
Amin Nikdel, COO - Description: A virtual teaching assistant for teachers – telling them what students are learning, missing, and why.
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- Company: SmartIncs
- Founder: Ulrich Fandl, Nikolai Scheurecker
- Description: Specialized job platform for startups and innovative SMEs.
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- Company: The Mission Business Inc.
- Founder: Trevor Haldenby
- Description: The Mission Business is an experiential futures consultancy based in Toronto. Our CEO Trevor Haldenby is a Time Traveller - an imaginative futurist and entrepreneur with 10 years of experience in business innovation, strategic foresight, and digital storytelling. Trevor has helped organizations all over the world change their stories about the future, and was formerly an Interactive Producer at Canadian Film Centre (2004), Habbo Hotel (2006), and Earth Rangers (2008). Special presenter at TED, CBC, Autodesk University.
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- Company: TRACTION
- Founder: Nick Deshpande, Lead Developer
- Description: Team collaboration. Perfected.
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- Company: Tradyo
- Founder:
Terry Kukle, Managing Director
Ameya Juvekar, Business Lead - Description: Geo-based, mobile app for buying and selling of used goods
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- Company: TrueBlue Mobile Software Inc.
- Founder:
Ronald Kwok, Director of Operations Desmond Hsu, CEO
Adib Roumsani, Director of Technology
Andrew U, Interactive and Creative Director - Description: TrueBlue provides small to medium sized businesses a custom branded mobile app to help with marketing as well as drive return business through a loyalty platform.
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- Company: Unata
- Founder: Chris Bryson, CEO
- Description: Unata provides retailers with 1-to-1 omni-commerce customer experiences by leveraging the power of data-driven personalization.
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- Company: Wellclient
- Founder: Jeffrey Veffer, CEO
- Description: Wellclient is the easy-to-use software that makes it simple to manage administrative tasks, increase engagement with your clients and generate more revenue from your healthcare business.
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- Company: Wirkn
- Founder: Derek Szeto, CEO; Francois Jobin, Chief People and Operations; Todd Dean, CMO
- Description: Wirkn is a mobile employment solution that helps youth find local employment opportunities, particularly in the retail and restaurant industry, using the power of video and chat to help them stand out. Employers (such as McDonalds, Bier Markt, and Ivanhoe Cambridge) use Wirkn to save time and effort in finding and pre-screening qualified candidates, market their brand, and build a better team with the millennial generation. Wirkn is currently available on the web, via iOS and Android apps, and within the Kik Bot Shop.
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- Company: WIRL
- Founder:
Greg Pantelic, Co-Founder
Wesley Nelson, Co-Founder & CTO - Description: WIRL is a SaaS platform that empowers employees and their organizations through continuous feedback.
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- Company: Workbench Corp.
- Founder: Jason Rioux, President
- Description: Energy management services to owners of power generation in Ontario (renewables and gas-fired) with respect to commercial operations in the dispatchable IESO market