The Canadian Innovation Exchange has announced the recipients of this year’s prestigious CIX Top 20 Early and Top 10 Growth awards.
These awards celebrate the remarkable achievements of Canadian tech companies at both early and growth stages.
Selected by a committee of 150+ esteemed global investors, this year’s winners represent various industries, including climate technology, renewable energy, medtech, fintech, e-commerce, security, big data, and software.
Among the Top 20 Early award recipients are five startups from the Lower Mainland.
Burnaby’s NANOSentinel is the world’s only portable technology for trace metal detection.
A B2B platform as a service company, NANOSentinel is a plug and play toxic metal monitoring system for process optimization for clean energy OEMs and the critical minerals industry. Their hardware and software subscription enables portable, accurate, and fast metal testing on a variety of samples.
Vancouver’s Roomvu is an online platform that allows realtors to make ready-made videos.
Roomvu’s video library ranges from market updates and submarket updates to neighbourhood bio videos and tips for homeowners. The data featured in every video is pulled from regional board affiliations and local news sources, so it’s credible and geographically relevant.
Surrey’s SkyAcres is a recently stealth AgriTech firm building a network of massively scalable, turnkey, small vertical farming operations through franchise-like partnerships.
SkyAcres’ mission is to decentralize food production and alleviate the negative effects that the globalization of fresh produce production has on the climate, local economies, and our health.
Vancouver’s SpaceAlpha Insights is unlocking a world of data and insight with next-gen Earth Observation satellites.
From environmental and natural-disaster monitoring to precision agriculture, infrastructure monitoring, broad-area surveillance, and security—SpaceAlpha’s SAR-XL technology collects data through clouds, smoke, and tree cover, and from below Earth’s soil.
Kelowna’s Lomi was the sole B.C. company to receive a Top 10 Growth award.
Lomi is the world’s first kitchen appliance that will turn food scraps, boxes, cloth and bioplastics into dirt within 24 hours. Manufactured by Pela, best known for its sustainable mobile phone case, today more than 100,000 families make composting easy with Lomi.
This year’s CIX program culminates with the CIX Summit, an annual conference showcasing Canada’s most promising early stage and scaling startups. The CIX Summit takes place from March 26-27, 2024 in downtown Toronto.
With over 250 curated startups, many of whom are showcased throughThe CIX Top 20 Early and Top 10 Growth Awards program, the CIX Summit attracts North American VCs, corporates, private equity investors and provides the tools to network, build new relationships and increase deal flow.
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