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Nomic (formerly nplex biosciences) is a bioengineering company working to make the human proteome as broadly and easily accessible as the human genome. We are building the nELISA, a next-generation ELISA platform for measuring proteins at scale and at high throughput. The nELISA was designed to seamlessly integrate into current workflows in biology and is uniquely adaptable to a wide variety of use cases within drug and biomarker development workflows. Nomic is headquartered in Montreal, with labs and offices in Boston. For more information, visit www.nomic.bio.

Petra is the first robotics company focused on undergrounding utilities. Our undergrounding robot is the first practical and affordable solution able to bore utility tunnels through high grade hard rock, in areas that are the most disaster-prone. Our mission is to make the world a safer place by making utility undergrounding ubiquitous and affordable to all communities.

Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. is a Canadian quantum technology company, and one of the worlds leading photonic quantum hardware providers. Founded in 2016, Xanadus mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. To achieve this mission, the company has taken a full-stack approach and builds hardware, software, and pursues state-of-the-art research with select partners. The company is also advancing the field of quantum machine learning (QML) through the development of PennyLane, an open-source project that has become a leading software library among quantum researchers and developers. Xanadu is bringing together exceptional minds from around the world to build something extraordinary. Learn more at xanadu.ai

ServiceNow AI Research: shaping the future of work with AI At ServiceNow, we’re putting AI to work for people. As an AI-native company, ServiceNow sees agentic AI as a defining step in how enterprises will work with intelligent systems, moving from passive assistants to active digital coworkers. We believe AI should not just support the enterprise: it should act as an adaptive partner that can continuously learn, plan, and provide meaningful assistance in complex enterprise environments. Our goal is to help organizations across every industry transform through intelligent, scalable, and human-centered AI solutions, always guided by trust, responsibility, and impact. Who we are ServiceNow AI Research is a passionate team of scientists, researchers, and innovators dedicated to advancing the state of the art in enterprise AI. We bridge frontier research and real-world applications to ensure that every ServiceNow user benefits from intelligent, scalable, and trustworthy AI-driven experiences. Our mission aligns scientific excellence with business impact, unlocking the next generation of enterprise intelligence. Our commitment to ethics and open-source innovation As an AI-native company, responsibility is built into everything we do. At ServiceNow, we believe AI must be developed with fairness, transparency, and accountability, values that guide our work and commitment to building trustworthy enterprise AI. We are also dedicated to advancing AI through open-source contributions, fostering accessibility, collaboration, and continuous innovation within the global AI community.

Blockstream’s mission is to create the financial infrastructure of the future. We build crypto-financial infrastructure based on Bitcoin, the most robust and secure blockchain. Applying cutting-edge cryptography and security engineering, we’re building the products and networks that make financial markets more efficient by reducing reliance on trust. With a long term outlook on delivering robust and scalable solutions, we invest heavily in research and development to strengthen the Bitcoin ecosystem and protocol. Peer-to-peer, open network finance holds the promise to change the world for the benefit of all. Blockstream is proud to be making this a reality.

Our vision is to expand humanity’s potential through robotics and automation. We design and build autonomous cleaning technology that empowers organizations and their workers to become more productive and efficient versions of themselves. Our robots — Neo, Neo 2W, and Kas — help raise and maintain cleanliness standards in commercial and industrial facilities without higher costs or tougher demands on teams. Our newest innovation, Kas, opens new possibilities for busy commercial environments thanks to improved performance in tight spaces, a focus on safety, and a futuristic design that enhances its surroundings. Retail, healthcare, education, transportation, and more, Kas continues Avidbots’ record of creating tailor-made solutions for its customers, so organizations can reach their full potential.

atVenu is the world’s leading Live Event Commerce platform for live events. Continuously building and enhancing features designed for maximizing revenue, dynamically adjusting your sales footprint to meet the needs of your event, and making it easier to setup, manage, and monitor sales in real-time. atVenus platform is used at over 125,000 events each year and trusted by some of the largest companies in the industry. Were built to quickly deploy, take all forms of payment including RFID and promotions both online and 100% offline, along with concierge service capabilities and mobile ordering. Our technology combines an advanced backend system specifically built to handle the unique challenges of running live events with a seamless front-end point of sale with mobile order purchasing. Dont trust us? Ask one of our customers.

Plotly offers Dash Enterprise, the premier data app platform for Python that enables organizations to collaboratively develop and deploy apps in a secure, scalable, managed environment. We're also the stewards of the open-source graphing libraries behind our namesake, bringing interactive data visualization to your web browser. With 89,000+ GitHub stars, 12,600,000+ downloads per month of Plotly open-source libraries, and 326,000,000+ total open-source downloads, Dash is the leading low-code platform for AI apps. These Dash apps give a point-and-click interface to models written in Python, vastly expanding the notion of what's possible in a traditional dashboard. Join us! https://plotly.com/careers/

Designed by a mom, VarageSale is the safer way to buy and sell new and used items locally. Founded in 2012, it has millions of members in communities across Canada, the United States and beyond. VarageSale is free to use at varagesale.com and on the mobile app, which is available on iOS and Android.

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At Universe, our mission is simple: Bring people together in real life through events. Founded in Toronto in 2011, weve built a platform for people to discover and create events all over the world. In 2015, Universe was acquired by Live Nation Entertainment and has continued its rapid growth, doubling the size of the team since the acquisition. To date, we have six offices around the globe - Toronto, San Francisco, New York City, London, Melbourne, and Hong Kong. Together, weve built a community of over 50,000 event organizers and hundreds of thousands of fans who are the heart of our company.

Execution Labs was founded in 2012 with the goal of providing hands-on support to talented game developers in order to help them become better entrepreneurs and business leaders. Over the years we evolved from a hybrid incubator/accelerator into a global investor, offering our support to studios across North America and Europe. In our current form we are not investing in new studios, but instead focus on supporting our network of some of the best independent games studios in the business. Recent and upcoming releases from our studios include Tribes of Midgard (Norsfell), Outward (Nine Dots Studio), Boyfriend Dungeon (Kitfox Games), and Convergence (Double Stallion), just to name a few.

Lagoa built world’s first web-based platform for 3D CAD design and photo-real visualization. Lagoa enables designers, engineers and architects to create and render spectacular 3D content and publish interactive experiences. Built from the ground up as a scalable web-platform, Lagoa can run in any device, anywhere in the world, with no installation or downloads. Users can also collaborate in realtime on the same content, at the same time. Lagoa was founded by Thiago Costa (creator of Lagoa Multiphysics), Arno Zinke and Dov Amihod to make digital 3D creation available to everyone, everywhere. Lagoa is based in Montreal, Canada and Bonn, Germany. To learn more visit www.lagoa.com

Datacratic is a leader in providing audience data that helps enterprise brands create more effective and targeted digital marketing campaigns. Datacratic’s Audience Recognition Solution uses visitor feedback to build smarter audience segments that improve the effectiveness of retargeting campaigns. Datacratic’s Audience Optimizer scores 3rd party audiences using 1st party data signals to create high-quality look-alike audiences that increase the reach and performance of digital marketing campaigns. The world’s leading Data Management Platforms integrate with Datacratic including Oracle Data Cloud. To start creating better performing digital marketing campaigns today, visit Datacratic.com.

Nomic (formerly nplex biosciences) is a bioengineering company working to make the human proteome as broadly and easily accessible as the human genome. We are building the nELISA, a next-generation ELISA platform for measuring proteins at scale and at high throughput. The nELISA was designed to seamlessly integrate into current workflows in biology and is uniquely adaptable to a wide variety of use cases within drug and biomarker development workflows. Nomic is headquartered in Montreal, with labs and offices in Boston. For more information, visit www.nomic.bio.

Petra is the first robotics company focused on undergrounding utilities. Our undergrounding robot is the first practical and affordable solution able to bore utility tunnels through high grade hard rock, in areas that are the most disaster-prone. Our mission is to make the world a safer place by making utility undergrounding ubiquitous and affordable to all communities.

Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. is a Canadian quantum technology company, and one of the worlds leading photonic quantum hardware providers. Founded in 2016, Xanadus mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. To achieve this mission, the company has taken a full-stack approach and builds hardware, software, and pursues state-of-the-art research with select partners. The company is also advancing the field of quantum machine learning (QML) through the development of PennyLane, an open-source project that has become a leading software library among quantum researchers and developers. Xanadu is bringing together exceptional minds from around the world to build something extraordinary. Learn more at xanadu.ai

ServiceNow AI Research: shaping the future of work with AI At ServiceNow, we’re putting AI to work for people. As an AI-native company, ServiceNow sees agentic AI as a defining step in how enterprises will work with intelligent systems, moving from passive assistants to active digital coworkers. We believe AI should not just support the enterprise: it should act as an adaptive partner that can continuously learn, plan, and provide meaningful assistance in complex enterprise environments. Our goal is to help organizations across every industry transform through intelligent, scalable, and human-centered AI solutions, always guided by trust, responsibility, and impact. Who we are ServiceNow AI Research is a passionate team of scientists, researchers, and innovators dedicated to advancing the state of the art in enterprise AI. We bridge frontier research and real-world applications to ensure that every ServiceNow user benefits from intelligent, scalable, and trustworthy AI-driven experiences. Our mission aligns scientific excellence with business impact, unlocking the next generation of enterprise intelligence. Our commitment to ethics and open-source innovation As an AI-native company, responsibility is built into everything we do. At ServiceNow, we believe AI must be developed with fairness, transparency, and accountability, values that guide our work and commitment to building trustworthy enterprise AI. We are also dedicated to advancing AI through open-source contributions, fostering accessibility, collaboration, and continuous innovation within the global AI community.