Collision is a major technology conference held annually in Toronto. This year’s event in Toronto is the last, as the conference announced it will be moving to Vancouver. Nothing really matches the scale of Collision. Known for being one of the fastest-growing tech events in the world, Collision brings together a diverse group of people and companies from the global technology ecosystem. The conference features a mix of keynote speakers, panel discussions, workshops, and networking opportunities, attracting startups, investors, media, and established tech giants. This year, the conference brought together over 1,600 startups, scale-ups, and companies. Here are top 50+ companies to keep an eye out as they scale:
50. MaintenanceDrone.ai
MaintenanceDrone.ai (MDC) is transforming building envelope performance diagnostics and reporting using cutting-edge AI technology. Their mission is to empower building portfolio owners with transparent, unbiased diagnostics and maintenance recommendations to enable “apples to apples” comparisons and maintenance decisions. This creates value in multiple ways including by reducing operational disruptions, improving energy performance, removing health and safety risks, and extending asset life.
49. Actuality.live
Actuality helps brands to create immersive customer experiences using Augmented/Virtual Reality. The company is incubated at Mississauga’s IDEA accelerator program.
48. Klasium
Klasium is a modern-day LMS designed for effortless access and seamless educational experiences.
47. Litespace
Litespace is a SaaS platform solving the challenges of the hybrid workplace. By providing smart office scheduling, event recommendations, and analytics, litespace empowers businesses to foster a thriving company culture and boost employee productivity. Join us to elevate your hybrid workplace and bridge the gap between hybrid policies and employee needs.
46. TechNeeve
Automation is rapidly on the rise. TechNeeve focuses on digitizing and automating businesses operations, solving probelsm
45. Asepha
Asepha makes it easy for pharmacists to automate manual tasks so they can focus on clinical work.
44. Paul-Tech
Paul-Tech is on a mission to maximise farming returns with data-Driven decisions. The platform helps farmers figure out when to sow, water, fertilise, or spray.
43. Edmission
EdMission helps colleges and universities enroll international students beyond recruitments including student application assessments.
42. Omy Laboratoires
Omy Laboratoires is a Canadian skincare laboratory that offers a 100% customized day cream, night cream and serum, as well as a range of versatile, ready-to-use products. The company has raised $11 Million up to this date.
41. ZeroError
ZeroError.ai is an enterprise AI platform designed to detect errors and fraud in data. Their use their own propieteray AI, data analytics tools, and algorithms to solve real world problems from any industry, ranging from supply chain to finance.
40. King Street Media
King Street Media is one of the fastest growing marketing firms in Canada. Led by Mark Simone, Daniel Francavilla, and Anthony Chiaravalloti has recently announced an investment from Globalive, the venture capital firm founded by Anthony Lacavera.
39. Advica Health
Advica Health provides personalized health navigation support to help you access the best healthcare available. The platform helps you find the right doctors, specialists, and support teams tailored to your health.
38. WelcomePlatform
Based out of Sarnia, WelcomePlatform pitch their product at Collision pitch event. WelcomePlatform is enabling communities to launch custom apps that optimize the transition of newcomers, focusing on human connection and essential support.
37. The Story Architect
Startup world is incredibly noisey. How do you stand out in the sea of content? The Story Architect has been helping tech companies connects with their audiences using story telling.
36. Aceocial
Aceocial is one of the fastest growing tech communities in Canada. Led by Michael Liu, they are aiming to create a better startup ecosystem for all ambitious founders, investors, corporations, and students in Canada.
35. MangoVisa
MangoVisa serves as a bridge between users—international students, immigrants, and tech businesses—and vetted, verified immigration lawyers. The platform aims to combat the unfortunate prevalence of scams targeting these groups in Canada by offering a transparent and secure space for individuals seeking immigration assistance. MangoVisa is part of the Mississauga’s new accelerator program called Idea.
34. Swift Ads
Running ads can be brutal, as how do you get the math right? Swift Ads is on a mission to help companies grow using advertising with the best ROIs.
33. RideALike
The world’s first peer-to-peer car sharing platform for multi-residential communities, fostering sustainable and convenient transportation solutions among neighbours. Rent from or swap vehicles with people right next door. Turn your idle vehicle into extra income. Build a more sustainable world together and find a new sense of community in your building, neighbourhood, workplace, and city. If you are looking for a sustainable and convenient vehicle rental option, look no further than your neighbour. Because life is better when it’s shared.
32. Versaware
Founded by Creed McKinnon, Versaware is creating the next generation of kitchen appliances geared towards nutritionally driven meal creation and mindful eating. Digitizing the entire recipe creation ecosystem and home cooked meal prepping process through recipe-AI and real-time nutrition building technology.
31. Deep Breath
Deep Breath is an automated ultra-portable lung imaging using ultrasound and artificial intelligence. The company is led by Robert Arntfield who is an Intensive Care and Trauma Physician at London Health Sciences Centre and a Professor of Medicine at Western University.
30. Leasey.AI
Leasey is a platform that streamlines and automates the leasing process, enabling property managers to place tenants in record time with 70% less effort.
29. Unwrapit
Unwrapit is a digital corporate gifting and incentive platform that is proud to support businesses in their efforts to gift more sustainably at scale, resulting in tangible insights all neatly wrapped in a branded experience.
28. Peple
Founded by Chris Melnick-MacDonald and Samantha Stilwell, Peple is transforming the job market into an accessible, fair and equitable experience for everyone
27. BrightIron
The administrate tasks at a startup are the biggest time sunk. Founders have to focus on what they do best. BrightIron is a cloud accounting support that grows with your startup. The firm has been growing rapidly working with some notable scale up companies including RoseRocket, Influitive, and many more.
26. JobBliss
Founded by Angie Kramer, JobBliss JobBliss is a platform that simplifies contractor and remote team management. JobBliss has an impressive client list, including Rothy’s, Walmart International, OPG, Intuit Canada, Corus Entertainment, and SGSco.
25. Cansulta
Getting access to the right advisor with the right domain expertise is challenging for small businesses. Cansulta is a global platform that provides businesses with easy and affordable access to vetted professionals. The platform has grown into a global community for the industry leaders to help small businesses grow and scale.
24. Friendlier
Friendlier revolutionizes food packaging through an easy, centralized reuse system that’s accessible for businesses and their customers, so they can work together to help save the planet. They empower communities to eliminate single-use packaging through high-quality reusable takeout packaging, a simple app to claim packaging deposits, and convenient returns at multiple locations.
23. ConeLabs
ConeLabs uses AI-powered inspections to save money, time, and lives. The company won the AWS AI Pitch Competition at the Collision Conference. Founded by Albert Mansour in 2023, ConeLabs is on a rapid growth trajectory and is backed by Techstars. The company won the AWS AI Pitch Competition at the Collision Conference. Other notable companies worth mentioning from the competition include Lancey, founded by Adi Patel; Oncoustics, founded by Miriam Naim Ibrahim; Sibli, founded by Vova Golubin; Foqus Technologies Inc., founded by Sadegh Raeisi; and Deskree, founded by Dmytro Grechko.
22. NeuraVue
NeurVue has developed a cutting-edge AI platform that’s transforming safety and surveillance monitoring. Their technology leverages advanced machine learning and computer vision to analyze real-time video feeds, enabling swift detection of critical events such as falls, physical abuse, and emergency situations.
21. Tenure
Tenure is reimagine employee benefits beyond generic health plans or standard rewards. They empower companies to offer personalized, purposeful, and portable benefits, allowing employees to choose and carry their tailored packages to any company.
20. Notepal
NotePal is an education platform where Ontario grade 1-8 teachers can collaborate and share educational resources to improve student achievement. Teachers can buy and sell quality lesson plans, assessments, and other educational material based on the Ontario curriculum.
19. SingleKey
SingleKey helps residential landlords take the risk out of renting by offering the industry leading tenant screening solution as well as a Rent Guarantee program that secures rental income for landlords in the event of tenant default.
18. Toast
Toast is revolutionizing the tech industry by tackling gender equity head-on. Founded with a mission to shift the tech landscape, Toast provides a dual solution: a unique AI-driven recruitment tool that eradicates gender and socioeconomic biases in hiring, and a vibrant membership community that combats the ‘lonely only’ syndrome among women in tech.
17. Karla Rewards
Karla is dedicated to breaking down barriers for underrepresented individuals, such as newcomers and students, by helping them escape credit invisibility through rental payment credit building, in partnership with Equifax.
16. Salubrum
Salubrum is on a mission to evangelize the North American healthcare system to medical tourism. We do this in two ways: For patients we build digital tools, like our Travelwise Passport, to make their medical tourism experience safe, affordable and easy. For payers we build compliance products that allow them to leverage medical tourism for their referrals. Salubrum is a graduate of Treefrog Accelerator, uOttawa eHub and is currently part of NEXT36.
Salubrum is also backed by LA based Artest Management Group, led by former NBA Player Metta World Peace.
15. Hipo
Hipo is revolutionizing hiring with a pre-vetted marketplace of high-potential candidates & companies. Hipo aims to eliminate the need to attract, source and verify talent and reduce hiring time by up to 95%
14. MedMe Health
MedMe Health is the operating System for Pharmacies of the Future. It streamlines pharmacy workflows to deliver clinical services at scale, build patient relationships, and diversify revenue.
13. CruxOCM
Just as planes have autopilot to assist—but not replace—pilots, CruxOCM enables the autonomous control rooms of tomorrow, working alongside control room operators within the safety constraints of today. Their revolutionary technology leverages machine learning and advanced physics-based methodologies to uncover unforeseen efficiencies in heavy industrial control rooms such as energy, utilities, renewables and beyond to maximize ROI, without ever compromising safety.
12. Edgecom Energy
Edgecom Energy empowers large energy consumers to take control of their energy costs and reduce emissions by harnessing the power of IoT and AI solutions. Their innovative technology helps you optimize energy usage, save money, and contribute to a greener, more sustainable future.
11. Part3
Part3 is a category-defining platform that brings Architects, Engineers, Owners and Contractors together to administer construction with speed, accuracy, and intelligence. Having raised a $2m USD Seed round earlier in 2023 Part3 has grown to a team of 16 and has seen incredible traction with Architecture firms in North America.
10. Biiibo
Biiibo is an on-demand marketplace and platform for construction supplies that streamlines the purchase and delivery of materials in the construction industry. They have been fully self-funded and have expanded our operations within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), serving thousands of customers.
9. Islands
Islands is a Fractional CTO and Technology partner, specializing in AI and B2B SaaS. We also manage a venture studio called Island X, building and commercializing innovative solutions that’ll win in the market.
8. Boast
Every founder should explore non-dilutive funding option first. Boast can help founders get non-dilutive funding for R&D. Boast is the only R&D tax credit solution that combines technical and R&D tax expertise with AI to simplify claim preparation and maximize returns.
7. 409.ai
409.AI helps business leaders complete IRS compliant 409a valuations that are used to protect the equity value of their employees. Through the integration of ML/AI, they help businesses complete these valuations 10x faster, 50% cheaper, and infinitely easier.
6. Vetster
Vetster is the world’s fastest growing veterinary telehealth platform connecting pet owners with top-rated licensed veterinary professionals. Pet owners can speak to a veterinary professional from the comfort of their own home by video or online chat – 24/7.
5. Truly Financial
Banking is one of the biggest challenge for businesses. Truly Financial is the everyday business banking built for small business, globally. This is the business banking that empowers you to buy, sell, and hire anywhere in the world
4. Whistle Technologies
Whistle is a revolutionary new SaaS platform unifying business communications and social apps in one place. While is a rapid growth trajectory as the company scale further.
3. Maple
Founded by former tech veterans from Silicon Valley, Maple is a consolidated billing operations platform for business and self-serve sales workflows for your product.
2. Bidmii
Home renovation is an absolute headache for every homeowner, as you have to deal with finding quality contractors while also avoiding scams. Bidmii is every homeowner’s dream, as you can post your project and get connected with vetted contractors. They also release the funds only when the project is completed. The company presented at this year’s Collision and recently appeared on national TV on CTV News.
1. Airfairness
Flight got delay? This tech startup can help you. Airfairness is helping passengers around the world receive fair compensation after experiencing flight disruptions. After the initial launch the company has seen a massive growth trajectory as it more travellers look into seeking compensation after delays.
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