{"id":4601,"date":"2014-09-30T14:32:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:38:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:38:32","slug":"introducing-canadas-next-innovative-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/blog\/introducing-canadas-next-innovative-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Canada\u2019s next innovative businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spin Master Innovation Fund<\/a> officially announces the recipients of its 2014 program. In partnership with Spin Master Ltd. and co-financing partners, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and Futurpreneur Canada we\u2019re pleased to introduce Canada\u2019s next group of innovative young entrepreneurs who are ready to take their business to the next level.<\/p>\n

These entrepreneurs each will receive a start-up package of up to $50,000 in financing from Futurpreneur Canada and BDC, and a hand-matched mentor from Futurpreneur Canada\u2019s industry-leading mentoring program. The recipients will also come together on October 2-3 in Toronto to attend a two-day Innovation Launch Pad Workshop.<\/p>\n

This year was a record-breaking year. We had the most finalists, virtual pitches, and the widest representation of businesses across all of Canada in this programs history. Congratulations to this year\u2019s recipients!<\/p>\n

Adrien Sicard & Julie Delisle<\/strong>
\nBeeye<\/a> \u2013 Montreal, QC
\nBeeye is a web based business intelligence (BI) software system designed for small to medium sized businesses, enabling managers to visualize, plan and balance human resource and financial activities.<\/p>\n

Chris Johnson<\/strong>
\nPermission Click Inc.<\/a> \u2013 Winnipeg, MB
\nPermission Click is a company and an application that creates digital permission slips and facilitates payment collection for kindergarten to grade 12 schools, allowing parents to approve attendance and pay for events\u00a0in seconds on any device.<\/p>\n

David Boudreault & Oliver Carbonneau<\/strong>
\nRatomic Lab<\/a> (CycleMap) \u2013 Quebec, Quebec
\nCycleMap is an iOS application designed by Ratomic Lab to help cyclists around the world find bike lanes and routes worldwide, providing users with relevant information such as the type of lane, surface, and elevation, and also includes features such as bike share stations, stores, and off-line map usage.<\/p>\n

Etienne Crevier
\n<\/strong>BiogeniQ<\/a> \u2013 Montreal, QC
\nBiogeniQ provides personalized health assessments using genetic testing at the disease, ancestry, pharmacological, and nutrition level.<\/p>\n

Kamlesh Lal<\/strong>
\nNotetracks<\/a> \u2013 Montreal, QC
\nNotetracks is an iOS application designed for audio and music students and professionals to take descriptive notes of audio content while simultaneously listening to the audio track.<\/p>\n

Zach Wolff<\/strong>
\nExigence Technologies Inc.<\/a> \u2013 Winnipeg, MB
\nExigence Technologies Inc. has licensed the most advanced antimicrobial compound that can be applied to textiles and utilized in laundering garments in the healthcare and hospitality industries to reduce the spread of infection.<\/p>\n

Denis Bastien, Pierre Blanchet <\/strong>
\nId\u00e9nergie Inc.<\/a> \u2013 Montreal, QC
\nId\u00e9nergie has developed a portable river turbine that joins with existing renewable energy technologies to provide a reliable source of green energy.<\/p>\n

Kimberly Cope<\/strong>
\nEarly Entrepreneurs Inc.<\/a> \u2013 Vancouver, BC
\nEarly Entrepreneurs Inc. provides seed funding to classrooms of students in grades 4-12 to create and start their own social venture. Students gain hands-on experience starting and running a real business, and at the end of the term their profits are donated to charity.<\/p>\n

Cecile Brass & Trevor Schleede<\/strong>
\nFirst Systems Filing Inc.<\/a> \u2013 Regina, SK
\nFirst Systems Filing Inc. is a full service record and information management (RIM) company developing tailored solutions for First Nations communities. \u00a0Some of the services First Systems Filing Inc. provides are training for employees on RIM, archival, audio\/video services, proposal writing for funding for implementation and policy development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Spin Master Innovation Fund officially announces the recipients of its 2014 program. In partnership with Spin Master Ltd. and co-financing partners, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and Futurpreneur Canada we\u2019re pleased to introduce Canada\u2019s next group of innovative young entrepreneurs who are ready to take their business to the next level. These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurpreneurs-and-partners"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}