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Graphite Ventures is an early stage “seeding for scale” venture capital firm. Founded in 2008 as MaRS IAF, we are one of Canada’s most active and consistent VC firms, having invested in 175 companies over the past decade. We invest in early stage B2B SaaS, Fintech, Proptech, Digital Health and capital efficient hardware businesses. For more information please visit graphitevc.com, email at hello@graphitevc.com or follow @graphitevc on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Weever is operational excellence software that empowers manufacturers to pursue perfection through enhanced visibility, productivity, and employee engagement towards: - Zero safety incidents - Zero quality defects - Zero breakdowns - Zero waste Weever is a highly secure, modular, cloud-based software platform that can be deployed anywhere in the world in days, not months.

Cybeats is a leader in software supply chain security enabling organizations to build certainty into any software, connected device or enterprise with continuous end-to-end security. Cybeats’ innovative and holistic approach provides continuous security & compliance checks at every stage of the product development lifecycle, across both software and devices, to proactively prevent threats in every build and respond quickly to new vulnerabilities post-deployment. Both software producers and consumers use Cybeats to gain complete transparency across the entire software supply chain using comprehensive SBOMs, streamlining the process to detect vulnerabilities and saving costly time spent on rework and remediation. Today, Cybeats’ solutions are live and in use at a growing number of customers including Fortune 500 enterprises across technology, automotive, aerospace, energy and financial services. Cybeats. Software made certain.

Flosonics Medical is a venture-backed start-up that develops and commercializes wearable sensors, which improve clinical management of critically ill patients inside and outside of the hospital. Our FloPatch technology enables real-time functional hemodynamic monitoring for patients requiring cardiopulmonary and fluid resuscitation. FloPatch is the only solution suitable for use inside and outside the hospital. We are a privately-owned Canadian company with offices in Sudbury and Toronto.

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Causeview Inc. makes donor management simple. As the developer of giving apps for nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions, Causeview transforms CRM platforms into Donor Management systems by providing powerful payment processing functionality.

StandUp Ventures is a Toronto-based, seed stage venture capital fund focused on investing in high growth ventures with at least one female founder in a key leadership role. We believe that women led companies think outside the box, recruit great talent, and serve bigger markets. We invest in seed-stage, for-profit technology companies with at least one woman in a C-level leadership position within the company and an equitable amount of ownership. Were dedicated to curious, confident, and fearless entrepreneurs building ground-breaking technology companies. We partner with ambitious founders across Canada to break through from Seed to Series A.

Cyderes is a global cybersecurity powerhouse offering comprehensive solutions around managed security, identity and access management, and professional services. Cyderes provides the people, process, and technology modern enterprises rely on to manage risk, maintain compliance, and respond to security threats with greater speed, scale, and cost-efficiency than traditional in-house solutions. Born from the merger of two award-winning cybersecurity firms, Herjavec Group and Fishtech Group, Cyderes has six security operations centers and three offices across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and India.

We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. Our mission is to help create and develop strong Canadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. Through our subsidiary—BDC Capital, we also offer a full spectrum of specialized financing, including venture capital, equity as well as growth and business transition capital. BDC, Canada’s first B Corp bank. B Corps are certified Beneficial companies. Their purpose is to create value for society as well as money. They meet high standards of transparency and accountability, and create positive social and environmental benefit. Learn more at www.bcorporation.net. Social Media Community Guidelines: https://www.bdc.ca/EN/about/social_media/Pages/social-media-guidelines.aspx

Official LinkedIn page of the Schulich School of Business at York University. In global rankings, Schulich is one of the worlds leading business schools. Why? Excellent, diverse students. Award-winning faculty. Innovative, relevant programs. A state-of -the-art learning environment. Successful alumni. Strong external stakeholder networks. The Schulich advantage. Make it work for you.

Graphite Ventures is an early stage “seeding for scale” venture capital firm. Founded in 2008 as MaRS IAF, we are one of Canada’s most active and consistent VC firms, having invested in 175 companies over the past decade. We invest in early stage B2B SaaS, Fintech, Proptech, Digital Health and capital efficient hardware businesses. For more information please visit graphitevc.com, email at hello@graphitevc.com or follow @graphitevc on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Weever is operational excellence software that empowers manufacturers to pursue perfection through enhanced visibility, productivity, and employee engagement towards: - Zero safety incidents - Zero quality defects - Zero breakdowns - Zero waste Weever is a highly secure, modular, cloud-based software platform that can be deployed anywhere in the world in days, not months.

Cybeats is a leader in software supply chain security enabling organizations to build certainty into any software, connected device or enterprise with continuous end-to-end security. Cybeats’ innovative and holistic approach provides continuous security & compliance checks at every stage of the product development lifecycle, across both software and devices, to proactively prevent threats in every build and respond quickly to new vulnerabilities post-deployment. Both software producers and consumers use Cybeats to gain complete transparency across the entire software supply chain using comprehensive SBOMs, streamlining the process to detect vulnerabilities and saving costly time spent on rework and remediation. Today, Cybeats’ solutions are live and in use at a growing number of customers including Fortune 500 enterprises across technology, automotive, aerospace, energy and financial services. Cybeats. Software made certain.