Discoveries making a difference
High growth companies from all technology sectors are welcome to pitch to a panel of investors with prioirity areas including energy, agriculture, artificial intelligence, health & life sciences.
Pitches are either by 10 minute zoom slots or 20 minutes in-person slots, with time for Q&A, evaluations and networking included.
Presenters receive same-day scorecards, a video of their pitch within a day, feedback on business development, industry connections and funding opportunities and networking reception.
Active investors and VCs are welcome to register and will be given the opportunity to evaluate the plans and pitches by companies looking to grow and scale.
Our next meetings will be at ICE on April 17, 2024 for companies and VCs in partnership with the University of Alberta Innovation Fund, and on July 29, 2024 with a focus on agtech and agbusiness in partnership with Olds College, CARIN, FCC and AgSmart.
Pitches on April 17 include:
Aaron Barr, CEO, Canadian Rockies Hemp Corp focussing on the development of processed hemp fiber at scale to meet industry needs
Ameneh Madjd, COO & Co-Founder, D2Type developing a mobile app to empower at-risk individuals to prevent & reverse Type 2 Diabetes.
Amreesh Khanna, CEO & Founder, Oraq.ai empowering dentists to improve treatment & acceptance through AI and patient engagement
Conny Avila, Chief Innovation Officer, Covenant Health aiming to provide the most effective & efficient healthcare services to Albertans
David Antoniuk, CEO, Dark Matter Materials providing on-demand H2 from water using a revolutionary nanocatalyst.
Geoffrey Shmigelsky, CTO, OneCup AI deploying AI BETSY, a computer vision system that can identify and track animals uniquely
Greg Kawchuk, Founder & CEO, Augment that projecting medical images such as CT scans directly onto a patient's moving body
Jana Rieger, CEO & co-Founder, True Angle, developing a wearable digital health technologies for restoring swallowing function in patients
John McDougall, CEO, SynBioBlox Innovations Ltd. using synthetic biology to convert GHG emissions into valuable products
John Murphy, CEO, Bio-stream Diagnostics Inc. offering a platform for faster, more accurate diagnostic tests based on antibody binding.
Lana Cuthbertson, Founder & CEO, Areto Labs, a B2B SaaS startup building machine learning technology for improving digital communities
Lourdes Juan, Founder, Knead Technologies, providing food recovery organizations with a platform that connects waste with food reuse
Marc Curial, Founder & CEO, MACH32 Inc, a medical device company creating drug delivery solutions to health concerns
Mark Olson, President, Flokk Systems providing systems for herd management and traceability reporting
Mike Krokis, President, Dune Engineering providing energy auditing, modeling, commissioning and recommissioning services across Canada
Nir Katchinskiy, CEO & Founder, Pulse Medica building revolutionary technology to image and treat vitreoretinal disease
Peter Light, CSO,Fringe Field Technologies commercializing a wearable device for monitoring multiple biomarkers
Sarah Glofcheskie, CEO & Founder, Beme.ai proviings a health and wellbeing tracker & insight generating app to support autistic children
Shaneel Pathak, CEO and Cofounder, Zamplo offering a platform that allows individuals and researchers to record and share health data
Meeting with Edmonton Global on March 5, 2024
Rob Brown, CEO, KERB offers technology and relationships to improve the parking experiences and mobility for citizens across the world. Plan Deck
Hagay Levy, Co-founder & CEO, Iluria Ltd. offers a precision medicine platform for behavioral & mental health, starting with ADHD. Deck
Ameneh Madjd, Co-Founder, D2Type is developing a mobile app to empower at-risk individuals to prevent & reverse Type
2 Diabetes Plan Deck
Kevin Hull, CEO, Emergent Waste Solutions is deploying its Advanced Thermolysis System for converting of waste materials into marketable products. Plan
Fred Glawischnig, CEO, Credit Gurus, is aiming to transform the credit improvement industry by offering an online credit improvement App. Plan Deck
Jolene Ali, Founder, Gummy Nutrition Lab produces innovative and delicious nutraceutical gummies. Plan Deck
Jeremie Bourqui, Founder & CEO, Wave View Imaging is developing the Wave View Scanner for breast density assessment. Plan
Todd McMullen, Director, Pavonis Diagnostics Inc. is commercializing a label-free, thin film platform for performing immunoassays.Plan Deck
Piyush Kumar, President & CEO, WWiKY BioSciences offers precision theranostic (therapy+diagnostic) management of hypoxic tumors. Plan Deck
See the world differently. Tell your story.
DiscoveryLab offers events where teams pitch plans to a panel of investors and advisors, and keynote talks are offered on a theme. Scalable innovations in any sector, location or stage of development are presented as are transformative technologies for diagnostics, medical devices, therapeutics, biotech, agtech, AI, cleantech, edtech, fintech, food/drinks, materials, energy, environment and resources.
We welcome new members including investors, industry experts and business advisors to join in to advise the diversity of teams presenting.
Presenters receive constructive feedback on the business plan summary and slidedeck they submit beforehand, a video recording of their pitch, an evaluation and scores, new connections and leads for funding.
Note: Teams that are pitching are invited to submit their business plan summary at least two weeks before the event to qualify for a slot and gain feedback to strengthen their pitch.
Presenters can also check out our Presenter Guide.
Our aims are to play a positive role by:
1. building trust and mutual understanding to ensure sustainable and rewarding multi-party relationships,
2. identifying major challenges that require innovative thinking,
3. mapping out precompetitive spaces for open-source collaboration,
4. developing fair and reasonable intellectual property strategies for progression and scalable funding,
5. structuring and optimizing core activities and facilities for supporting innovation, and
6. increasing data quality, reproducibility and decisiveness while eliminating unnecessary duplication and costs.
We welcome collaborators and partners who are interested in working together to support the innovation ecosystem.
For clarity, DiscoveryLab does not recommend advisors or investors, make investments or provide funding, but can make introductions. Each person and company has the responsibility of obtaining legal advice and performing due diligence before signing contracts or taking investments.