The Atlantic Venture Forum, or AVF, has announced 22 showcase companies that will be highlighted at the event.
The AVF will be held Sept. 13 and 14 at the Halifax Marriot Harbourfront Hotel, marking the first in-person iteration of the event since the beginning of the pandemic.
The forum is organized by Calgary-based Critical Path Group, which describes itself as an “events, advisory and business intelligence firm” and hosts a slate of other conferences, including the Banff Venture Forum. The AVF includes networking opportunities, presentations about the latest trends in innovation and investment, and technology showcases featuring local startups and scale-ups.
“As the ecosystem continues to gain momentum, the AVF is being transformed to meet the needs of this dynamic region,” says the event website.
“New ventures and growth-stage companies need more than just financial capital to succeed. Innovation, partnerships, ingenuity, and expertise are just a few of the ingredients for an entrepreneur’s tech success story, and you will find all of these and more when you join us for the 2022 Atlantic Venture Forum.”
This year’s showcase companies replace the the analogous presenting companies from previous years.
Anyone interested in attending can register here. It costs $745 plus tax, or $999 for professional service firms.
Here are the showcase companies:
Moncton
Breathe has three product lines in various stages of development: a tool for collecting breath samples, which can then be shipped to a laboratory for analysis; a “spectrometer” for determining the contents of breath samples; and an artificial intelligence system for interpreting the spectrometer results.
Halifax
Reazent is developing organic bio-stimulants – fertilizers and pesticides that protect plants against disease and increase crop yields.
Fredericton
Rise is a B-Corp and online platform for users to find sustainable home renovation products and services.
Halifax
PhotoDynamic is developing an orthodontic oral hygiene product that allows people with braces to clean their teeth better. Its product, called PD Foam and PD Tray, removes plaque using a process that combines light and an extract from a plant that grows wild in Nova Scotia. Earlier this year, the company said it planned to enter the professional orthodontic market this fall.
Halifax
Emagix is developing software for ophthalmologists, which it dubs RetiCad Ocular Analysis. The money will go towards customer discovery and early testing.
St. John's
Myco Futures North Atlantic is developing a new environmentally friendly synthetic leather made from mycelium, or mushroom roots. The company won $55,000 in the BioInnovation Challenge last fall.
Toronto
Biome makes equipment that can be retrofitted to wind turbines to improve their efficiency.
Charlottetown
CleanBands is a system for tracking hand washing compliance for service workers and their employers.
Halifax
Nexus makes robots for weeding farmers' fields.
Atlantic Institute for Resilience
Halifax
AIR sells mental resiliency training software to companies and other organizations for use by their employees.
Halifax
Easy Platter is an online platform that matches users with personal chefs who prepare meals in their homes once a week.
Halifax
SomaDetect sells a hardware and software suite for farmers to monitor the health of their cows.
Halifax
ZeroIN is developing a next-generation sugar substitute that is made from carbohydrates — sugars — but cannot actually be digested by the body and therefore cannot contribute to obesity or health problems like diabetes.
Halifax
Clever Fruit produces fermented blueberry powder high in polyphenols, the substances in fruit’s skin that gives it its colour and other health benefits including reduced risk of dementia and heart disease, according to researchers.
Halifax
B-Line's flagship offering is an app that logs users’ movements within commercial buildings for contact tracing, as well as to help building owners identify ways to use space more efficiently.
Fredericton
Parados is developing a hardware and software suite that will track athlete’s behaviour and body movement to help predict injuries or underperformance before they happen.
St. John’s
PragmaClin is building solutions to allow for remote medical assessments of people with movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease.
Halifax
Alentic is developing portable blood-testing kits that offer on-the-spot results.
Halifax
Hollo is developing a spacer for use with asthma inhalers that is small enough to fit in a child’s pocket, unlike existing, cumbersome products.
Halifax
3D BioFibR has developed technology for manufacturing biofibres — naturally occurring fibres with commercial applications, such as spider silk and collagen.
Halifax
MOC has developed technology for 3D printing medical implants and other items compatible with human biology.
Note: This list is incomplete because Entrevestor was unable to obtain information about one company.
