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Meet the Fall 2024 Startups

Sagehood

https://sagehood.ai
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sagehood empowers individual investors, financial institutions, and hedge funds by providing AI-driven, real-time market insights; solving the problem of bias and inefficiency in investment decision-making through predictive analytics and personalized investment strategies.
Finance, Fintech
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Sagehood

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sagehood empowers individual investors, financial institutions, and hedge funds by providing AI-driven, real-time market insights; solving the problem of bias and inefficiency in investment decision-making through predictive analytics and personalized investment strategies.
Finance, Fintech
Sales Motion:
B2B, B2C
Revenue Model:
Subscription
Investment Stage:
Pre-Seed
Revenue Stage:
Pre-Revenue
Product Stage:
Post-Product

Founding Team

Ali Jafari
Co-Founder, CPO, CMO

Preeminent Technologies

https://go-preeminent.com
Mission, BC, Canada
Delivering cutting-edge technology and personalized travel experiences that empower travelers and elevate journeys, while leading innovation in the global travel landscape.
AI / ML, Travel & Tourism, Big Data, Cloud, Enterprise, SaaS, Software
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Preeminent Technologies

Our Website
Mission, BC, Canada
Delivering cutting-edge technology and personalized travel experiences that empower travelers and elevate journeys, while leading innovation in the global travel landscape.
AI / ML, Travel & Tourism, Big Data, Cloud, Enterprise, SaaS, Software
Sales Motion:
B2B2C, Enterprise, B2C2C
Revenue Model:
Commerce
Investment Stage:
Pre-Seed
Revenue Stage:
Post-Revenue
Product Stage:
Post-Product

Founding Team

Harvinder Kaur
CEO, Founder

Nexafin

https://monseapp.com
North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Nexafin, previously Monse, is developing a platform to help individuals to mange and improve their finances.
Banking / Finance
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Nexafin

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North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Nexafin, previously Monse, is developing a platform to help individuals to mange and improve their finances.
Banking / Finance
Sales Motion:
B2C
Revenue Model:
Subscription
Investment Stage:
Friends & Family
Revenue Stage:
Pre-Revenue
Product Stage:
Post-Product

Founding Team

Begum Sungurtekin
Co-Founder, CMO

Backflow Club

https://backflow.club/
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Backflow.Club provides backflow testing, repair and installation services for all makes, models and types of backflow prevention devices.
SaaS, Cleantech
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Backflow Club

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Backflow.Club provides backflow testing, repair and installation services for all makes, models and types of backflow prevention devices.
SaaS, Cleantech
Sales Motion:
B2B, B2C
Revenue Model:
Services/Fee for Service
Investment Stage:
Friends & Family
Revenue Stage:
Post-Revenue
Product Stage:
Post-Product

Founding Team

Elizabeth Thorsen
Co-Founder, Other C-suite role
Graham Buksa
Founder, CEO, Growth

Drive Hockey Analytics

https://drivehockey.com/
Coquitlam, BC, Canada
Drive Hockey Analytics helps amateur hockey harness the power of data analytics through our NHL-level sensor based technology.
Sportstech, AI / ML, Analytics, Sensors, IoT
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Drive Hockey Analytics

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Coquitlam, BC, Canada
Drive Hockey Analytics helps amateur hockey harness the power of data analytics through our NHL-level sensor based technology.
Sportstech, AI / ML, Analytics, Sensors, IoT
Sales Motion:
B2B2C
Revenue Model:
Licensing
Investment Stage:
Seed
Revenue Stage:
Post-Revenue
Product Stage:
Post-Product

Founding Team

Mike Dahlstedt
Founder
Adam Nathwani
Other C-suite role

Motus

https://www.motus.fun
Vancouver, B.C, Canada
Motus is developing WhatsApp extension to help friends organize social activities by instantly creating plans for the group chat, and to help business engage with their community by allowing them to provide services and products proactively by leveraging machine learning to facilitate activity organization and providing preventative products and services.
Mobile Apps, SaaS, Social Networks
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Motus

Our Website
Vancouver, B.C, Canada
Motus is developing WhatsApp extension to help friends organize social activities by instantly creating plans for the group chat, and to help business engage with their community by allowing them to provide services and products proactively by leveraging machine learning to facilitate activity organization and providing preventative products and services.
Mobile Apps, SaaS, Social Networks
Sales Motion:
B2B2C
Revenue Model:
Subscription
Investment Stage:
Pre-Seed
Revenue Stage:
Pre-Revenue
Product Stage:
Post-Product

Founding Team

Richard Scott
Founder, CEO

Living Maples

https://LivingMaples.com
Vancouver, BC, Canada
A mobile application equipped with cognitive assessment tools designed to detect dementia and Alzheimer's disease at the earliest possible stage.
Health & Wellness, IT, Mobile Apps
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Living Maples

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Vancouver, BC, Canada
A mobile application equipped with cognitive assessment tools designed to detect dementia and Alzheimer's disease at the earliest possible stage.
Health & Wellness, IT, Mobile Apps
Sales Motion:
B2C
Revenue Model:
Services/Fee for Service
Investment Stage:
Seed
Revenue Stage:
Pre-Revenue
Product Stage:
Pre-Product

Founding Team

Mansour Khazraei Manesh
Co-Founder, CEO
Hossein Mazrooei
Co-Founder

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Hear from industry expert speakers on the factors that go into making products that your users and customers will care about to make your startup a necessary item for their everyday way of doing things. Learn how to find Product-Market Fit.

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Learn the best practices on preparing for investment and how to appropriately attack your fundraising process.

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Get insights into what role accelerators, angels, VC's, and other types of funding may play in the future of your startup; and how best to deal with them at the right time for your business.

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In 5 years, we've had the following impact on pre-seed founders.

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$230M

Funding Raised
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80%

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