These are the Top Education and EdTech Companies in Ontario (2021)

Top Hat

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As a student engagement and interactive teaching platform, Top Hat’s software helps college professors activate classrooms. In a world of digital distractions, countless academic studies have reinforced the reality that students better understand the day’s lesson if they’re asked to engage with peers, interact with complex material and participate in class.

By requiring students to use their personal devices to answer quizzes, reply to polls, and tackle difficult simulations, Top Hat transforms the passive lecture hall into an engaging learning environment. As an advocate for traditional, on-campus education, Top Hat not only modernizes established teaching methods but also facilitates new approaches including the ‘flipped classroom,’ ‘group learning,’ and other creative solutions.

Top Hat is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, hosts 120 full-time employees, and has been operating since its 2009 launch behind $22M in venture funding.. .

D2L

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Founded in 1999, D2L is leader in providing cloud-based learning solutions for higher education, K-12 and Fortune 1000 companies. The Company provides next generation learning management system and solutions to engage and inspire learners lifelong – helping clients break down barriers to accessing the highest quality learning experiences.

D2L’s cloud-based learning solution, Brightspace, provides an open and extensible platform to over 700 clients and over 8 million learners in higher education, K-12, healthcare, government and the corporate sector including the Fortune 1000.. .

DarwinAI

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DarwinAI is the next evolution in A.I. development.

Based on distinguished scholarship by an award-winning team led by a Canada Research Chair in A.I., DarwinAI takes the guesswork out of building better A.I. Through our patented Generative Synthesis™ A.I.-building A.I., DarwinAI enables A.I.

to work in the real world by making deep learning faster, portable, scalable, and understandable. Making A.I.

work for anyone, anywhere, anytime.. .

Docebo

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Docebo is a Cloud “E-Learning as a service” product that lets you deliver, track and certify online training. With more than 300,000 Users trained across every continent, Docebo is a leader in Cloud SaaS E-Learning in Corporate, Government and Small Business sectors.

Founded in 2005 Docebo raised more than 2.5 Million € in Venture funds, investors are: -Claudio Erba (Also CEO and Founder) -Seeweb (Business Angel and ISP) -Principia (Venture Capital for Round A) -Others Docebo’s international team is comprised of top professionals with a passion for technology and training. We strongly believe that personal growth through training is the key for Employee and Company success..

KnowledgeHook

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Knowledgehook combines deep domain expertise with data science to create a technology platform that helps school boards and teachers assess gaps in math education, and apply predictive insights. Knowledgehook’s insights have led to major partnerships with leading universities, research institutes, and leading educational companies.

Knowledgehook is utilizing its access into the classroom to enable at-home tutoring and additional support and insights for parents being the first in class to create this vertically integrated educational ecosystem. Knowledgehook has won several awards in the Tech community including the Google Game Changer award, and B.N.N.

Knowledgehook has recently partnered with UCL Educate research and investment fund to be the first EdTech company to be backed by them globally.. .

ACTO

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ACTO is an omnichannel education and engagement platform for life sciences companies. They use AI-powered mobile experiences and agency partnerships to educate and engage field reps, physicians and patients, while giving senior commercial and clinical leaders real-time insights.

ACTO is a one-stop-shop sales, marketing, and training platform designed to help life sciences companies effectively communicate their clinical evidence story, increase sales, and gather field intelligence.. .

HiMama

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HiMama provides a quick and easy way for childcare programs and parents to record and share children’s activities, everything from silly and fun moments to learning and developmental milestones. The solution for childcare and early learning programs is based on extensive research and interviews with early childhood educators and enables quick and intuitive recording of observations in the early childhood setting, as well as instant sharing with parents through real-time emails and updates through mobile apps.

In addition to staying informed on their children’s activities while in childcare programs, parents can also log their children’s activities so they’ll never forget their favorite stories and can always relive through photos and videos in their child’s online journal.. .

Kira Talent

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Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Founded in 2012, Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements.

Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.. .

OneClass

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OneClass is an educational platform that allows university students to collaborate and share study resources from self-created lecture notes to study guides. At the same time, we have subject experts creating high quality video tutorials for common university subjects ranging from concepts within a textbook to step-by-step solutions to past exams.

Today, we have helped over 600,000 students in North America sharing across 30,000 different courses along with over 5,000 video tutorials that have already been created by our subject experts. Our mission is to not only become the largest library of education resources for university and college students, but also provide the necessary tools for students to successfully graduate and land their very first job.

That’s how we define a true success!. .

DigitalEd

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DigitalEd is a software company focused on the delivery of online education tools. Möbius, our industry leading e-learning platform, provides interactive courses including automated testing and assessment, to educational institutions around the world, with a differentiating strength in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).

We offer a multi-channel approach to learning going beyond the simple digitization of courseware, ensuring dynamic, interactive experiences for the student, and providing multiple delivery options for the educator. Founded on mission to transform online education and empower educators to make learning better for everyone, DigitalEd was established in 2018 and is based in Waterloo, Ontario..

PolicyMe

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PolicyMe (https://www.policyme.com) is on a mission to make insurance simpler and cheaper for everyone who needs it. The company provides a platform for users to get quality and customized life insurance advice in 5 minutes free of hassle and free of charge.

It’s goal is to improve financial literacy, put an end to the industry practice of upselling / overprotecting and reduce frictional costs in the insurance value chain.. .

Chalk

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Chalk helps K-12 schools to act on real-time academic insights from curriculum and instruction

QuadFi

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Invisible Credit Group (Millennial & Newcomers) Risk Rating & Lending

Kivuto Solutions

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Kivuto Solutions is a provider of advanced digital distribution and management solutions that enable the secure delivery of digital resources to individuals, businesses, and organizations anywhere in the world. Kivuto simplifies the process of delivering any digital good to any market under virtually any terms and conditions.

Over 60,000 academic institutions and departments trust Kivuto to manage and distribute software to their students, faculty and staff. The company distributes software and other digital resources to millions of users in over 195 countries..

Peekapak

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Award-winning social-emotional learning platform and digital games

Altus Assessments Inc.

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At Altus Assessments, we believe great professionals are more than book smart. We deliver personal characteristic assessments for schools.

Parlay Ideas

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Parlay is an educational technology software company.

Canada Learning Code

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Ladies Learning Code is a not-for-profit organization that aims to offer digital literacy for women and youth in Canada.

YOURIKA

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Smarter and more connected learning.

Hatchways

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Hatchways is a platform focused on making career transitions easier. Focused on web developers.

They believe that helping people find fulfilling work will lead to the betterment of society and themselves. The current education to employment pathway restricts people from exploring and discovering different missions, teams and industries– leaving people feeling dissatisfied with where they spend 30-50% of their days.

With an increase in automation and AI, this is a problem that increasingly needs to be solved or companies will face unstable and unhappy workforces. Hatchways is a platform that qualifies and matches candidates with paid work placements that will help them discover fulfilling work at any stage of their life..

Prosper

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Prosper is the career coach in your pocket. By connecting you to experienced, on-demand coaches, Prosper is designed to help you pursue your potential and guide your career growth.

Video sessions and chat based coaching incorporate interactive exercises to sharpen your skills and build your confidence in 5-minutes a day. Prosper’s free library of self-improvement audio is like self-care for your career.

Listen to Prosper’s audio library of pep-talks with self-reflective journaling exercises, daily affirmations, and meditations. Set goals, and track your progress..

SharpestMinds

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SharpestMinds is a platform for early talent discovery in machine learning. It connects STEM graduate students and machine learning developers to businesses looking for AI talent.

The company aims to create a new kinds of machine learning-driven service that can identify tech talent early, get them in the door at startups, and eventually lead them to a potential hire for a problem they’re interested in.. .

BATL (batlgrounds.com)

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Our mission is to show people the power of being good to each other, using the axe as a tool to build community inspired by our backyard roots. Founded in 2006, BATL attracted initial seed capital in 2014 to grow from its original two Toronto locations.

Since then, BATL has expanded to today operating 14 corporately owned venues across North America; offering bar service, best-in-class facilities, and expertly trained coaches to host axe throwing leagues as well as private group events ranging from 2–100+ people. BATL has been covered extensively by national and international press including the BBC, The Wall Street Journal and The Lonely Planet.

To date, the company has hosted over 1.25 million visitors in leagues and private events – such as birthdays, bachelor/ bachelorette parties and corporate team building. BATL’s proprietary digital scoring system and cloud-based operating platform is also broadly licensed by third parties in the axe throwing space..

Pressly

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Pressly is a smart online platform that helps you aggregate the right content for your audience and establish your brand as a thought leader in your industry. Content is exactly like your audience: It’s all over the web, pinging from social networks to blogs via corporate websites and emails.

Pressly allows all of this to happen in a single place: your hub.. .

Brink Bionics

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The Axo Hand is Brink Bionics flagship technology. The Axo Hand is a six degree of freedom myo-electric hand prosthesis, designed for adults with below-elbow limb differences.

It has been developed in the Engineering Bionics Lab at the University of Waterloo.. .

Cliniconex

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Cliniconex believes that patient engagement is at the heart of a better healthcare system.

GOJI

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GOJI connects ESL students all over the world to native English-speaking tutors.

Crowdmark

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Crowdmark is a grading & analytics platform powered by AI to streamline assessment, increase productivity & provide personalized learning.

Flipd

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Flipd is the Digital Wellness Company that’s engineering healthy screen habits, helping people lead happier, more productive, and tech-balanced lives. With over 1M users and 1+ billion minutes of time well spent, Flipd is changing behavior by nudging people to live in the moment and engage in more wellness activities.

Whether it’s to focus, meditate, or or get better sleep, Flipd empowers people around the world to become happier, healthier, and more productive. Flipd also partners with leading wellness content creators to feature the best audio tracks for the unique needs of individuals.

Since launching in 2016, Flipd has been featured in the NYT, WSJ, WP, NPR, INC, WIRED, and hundreds of other publications globally, and is a fast-growing force in the $600B wellness market.. .

Eagle’s Flight

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World leader in experiential learning Delivers practical business impact through changed behavior

HITCH Tech Inc

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Educational video platform for African Schools

Venture For Canada

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Their mission is to provide opportunities for the best and brightest to create dynamic companies

JOEZOO

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Education, globally, has a massive problem. It has prioritized the improvement of 21st Century Learning Skills (aka Essential Skills or Global Competencies) in all students, but has no method, tool or time to do so.

JoeZoo’s ‘next generation’ classwork assessment app solves all these problems. Our AI analyzes student coursework, teacher feedback and student usage of feedback to generate automated improvement and skill building prompts, while reducing teacher efforts by 80%.

Since launching in 2016, our app is now being used by 12,000+ K-12 schools in 93 countries and growing by 3 to 4 schools per day.. .

Halp

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Halp is a personal development company helping students unlock their potential through personalized online courses led by elite college and university mentors. The company offers personal online university guidance courses that help students throughout their transition to higher education.

The students develop a competitive advantage, get targeted mentorship, build relevant experience, and drive better results. Halp was founded in January 2019 and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada..

Little Robot Friends

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They are Cute, programmable robots for learning code + electronics.

Captual

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Captual offers ePresence, a system that allows organizations to capture rich media presentations for live or on-demand webcasting.

Discovr Labs

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We’re bringing virtual reality to education.

Voilà Learning

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Voilà is an Ed-Tech organization mandated by multiple school boards to create designed solutions for students and school boards Voilà uses Virtual Reality, apps, gamification and online homework help. Today, our organization is proud to use a human-centered design approach to answer the need of thousands of teachers, students, and parents.

Our common goals: – to encourage students to do better, – to help parents meet the needs of their children, – and to help school boards offer after-school programs on-site and online.. .

Edusight

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Edusight’s mission is to understand how students learn. Through its analytics and digital portfolio product, Edusight has impacted over 300,000 K-12 students across 40 countries.

Edusight received venture capital funding from Imagine K12, the education vertical within Y Combinator.. .

LumenEd

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LumenEd is an online tutoring and education company removing the barriers to receiving high quality, personalized education, anywhere. We match students who want help, with teachers who want to help to receive personalized 1:1 tutoring online.

LumenEd is a one-stop-shop for tutoring companies with features to automate back office and deliver virtual services, while hosting their tutors on an unaffiliated marketplace to increase throughput.. .

Nerdstudy

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Nerdstudy provides the highest quality of learning content for high school students across North America.

getapy

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Getapy ensures professionals have a way to connect and learn from each other, through mentorship. Our offering is based on 2 products, – Our marketplace getapy.com, enables any professional to connect in a mentoring setting.

We handle everything from vetting to meetings. (payments, note-taking, next steps….).

Based on your career this is why I connected with you as you would be a perfect mentor and share your expertise with others. – An enterprise platform getapy.com/enterprise, which enables organizations, say Sienna senior living, to mix and match their employees and solve ongoing issues (onboarding, high turnover, deficient processes…) The benefits are : – For employees: greater communication, better knowledge acquisition/transmission…

– For employers: Higher productivity and retention as you are magnifying your DNA and mission. And many other benefits, as each time you create emulation between people there is a positive outcome.

Especially within a turnkey framework like APY.. .

Class Messenger

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Class Messenger is a private messaging service specifically to keep Teachers, Parents and Students in sync. It’s the best of things you use today (Twitter, email, text, Instagram, blogs) simplified into a service that takes 10 seconds to use.

Teachers use our mobile app and website to create quick short form messages in categories like Homework, Reminders, Surveys, Meeting Requests and more.. .

Minute School

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Minute School helps students transition into and through higher education. Through a mobile app, we deliver short, impactful micro-courses and assessments.

Academic preparation, lifestyle, and common first year courses are easily available. Students can prepare in advance, review material, assess their progress, and compare their performance to their peers.

With Minute School, students can improve their success in higher education.. .

Hubbli

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Parent involvement is the holy grail in the k12 education sector. Everyone agrees that more involvement equals greater success for students but facilitation requires that everyone can communicate with each other.

Currently schools are using a patchwork of disparate tools to communicate with parents, staff and students resulting in haphazard structures that are hard to manage resulting in an arduous and often blocked flow of communication. Hubbli saves time, effort and costs from the multitude of communications happening between parents and schools by offering school specific communication features on top of a simple, user-friendly, groups-based social network.

Each school gets its very own private community, allowing parents, teachers and administrators to collaborate and communicate effectively and efficiently.. .

Rayku

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Rayku is online tutoring for math. Rayku provides each student with a customized course and lesson plan, along with scheduled online tutoring with a world-class tutor.

By combining curated and pre-created learning materials with live online tutoring, students achieve better academic outcomes, at a third of the price, with the convenience of online. Rayku delivers world-class online tutoring to the masses..

unilingo

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End to end voice translation platform for educational YouTube creators.

ClevrU Corporation

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ClevrU Corporation provides an e-teaching content delivery platform to assist in interactive teaching and student-instructor collaboration.

Unlearn

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Unlearn is a company that enables human connection and understanding of a better quality of life.

LightBot

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Lightbot is a puzzle game that utilizes game mechanics that are firmly rooted in programming concepts. The game enables players to gain a practical understanding of basic control-flow concepts like procedures, loops, and conditionals, just by guiding a robot with commands to light up tiles and solve levels.

The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.. .

Acadium

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Acadium (formerly GenM) is an online platform providing students with free, hands-on marketing experience to launch their careers. Our mission is to accelerate human potential.

We aim to make the barrier to entry for starting a new career as low as an internet connection. Students can take online courses created by industry experts and then gain real-world work experience through a fully remote, online apprenticeship with one of thousands of vetted businesses.

Small businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs looking for marketing help can mentor an apprentice and get up to 40 hours a month of extra help on their marketing efforts.. .

Nelson Education

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Nelson Education Ltd. is Canada’s leading educational publisher providing innovative products and solutions for learners of all ages.

Nelson values and respects the life long learning continuum and dedicates its business efforts to the diverse learning needs of students and educators alike. In addition to its English language publishing, Nelson also supports French Language learning markets through Groupe Modulo, its Quebec based publishing business.

Nelson Education Ltd. is active in Canada’s K-12, Higher Education, Professional Learning and Business, Industry & Government markets.

Our success now and in the future is based on our strong partnerships and ongoing relationships with educators across the country. Together, we are making a positive difference in the lives of Canadians, by producing the highest quality educational product and services.

Nelson Education Ltd. is owned by OMERS Capital Partners and certain funds of APAX Partners and enjoys a strong relationship with Cengage Learning, our US affiliate company.

Cengage Learning is a highly respected US academic & professional publisher. OMERS is a multi-employer pension plan established in 1962 and is one of the largest and most sophisticated asset management entities in Canada.

Institute for Quantum Computing

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The Institute for Quantum Computing is a scientific research institute at the University of Waterloo.

nugget

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nugget is a recruiter company.

Edulytics

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Edulytics uses AI and predictive analytics to produce hyper-personalized lesson plans

Fit Factory Fitness

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Voted the Top Fitness Club in 2013 by Top Choice Awards, Fit Factory Fitness is a one-stop shop for all things fitness to get you into the best shape of your life. The fitness club is led by co-founder Sgt.

Tony Austin, a former U.S. Marine Corps Drill Instructor with over 22 years’ experience in the fitness industry working with both civilian and military personnel.

Fit Factory Fitness is located in the heart of downtown Toronto at 579 Yonge Street (north of Wellesley) and offers one-of-a-kind fitness training unlike any other program in the city, with over 120 classes a month, including personal training, boot camp and boxing. What sets their signature boot camp classes apart from the others is that they offer legitimate military styled fitness training that the U.S.

Armed Forces would receive. This type of training is designed for all fitness levels and it gets results in a short period of time.

Whether a client is an avid “gym rat”, an absolute beginner or a top athlete, Fit Factory Fitness has got the training system and methods to make anybody stronger, faster and fitter. Their style of training is fad-free and they provide a straight forward approach.

Fit Factory Fitness helps everyday people from all walks of life achieve amazing results in their health and physical conditioning through discipline and hard work. Fit Factory Fitness is also home to the “O Course” and “Kids O Course”, Canada’s first and only military obstacle training course designed for adults and kids, as well as the Toronto Fitness Challenge in support of SickKids Foundation.

GenM

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GenM is an online platform providing students with free, hands-on marketing experience to help businesses grow. Students can take online courses created by industry experts and then gain real-world work experience through a fully remote, online apprenticeship with one of thousands of vetted businesses.

Small businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs looking for marketing help can take on an apprentice and save up to 40 hours a month on their marketing efforts. Bring on an apprentice and start getting help with things like social media management, content marketing, email marketing and more..

Singspiel

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Singspiel is an incredibly easy way to learn music on your own and figure out if you’re improving. It is like a virtual music teacher that provides you realtime feedback on how you play.

Singspiel is the music learning equivalent for what Duolingo is for language learning. Using our product, Students can self-sufficiently develop their performance, aural and theory skills in music..

Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada is a leading provider of quality after-school program.

Skillit

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Skillit is an online marketplace connecting people in-person to learn skills. It is dedicated to helping today’s generation learn life-skills, from learning to code to changing a tire, by connecting them with experiences created by skilled experts.

Skillit provides a platform to thousands of makers to share their expertise, for businesses to share their wares and for everyone to make money.. .

The MasterCard Foundation

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The MasterCard Foundation is an independent, global organization based in Toronto, Canada, with more than $7 billion in assets. Through collaboration with partner organizations in 46 countries, it is creating opportunities for all people to learn and prosper.

The Foundation’s programs promote financial inclusion and advance youth learning, mostly in Africa. Established in 2006 through the generosity of MasterCard Worldwide when it became a public company, the Foundation is a separate and independent entity.

The policies, operations, and funding decisions of the Foundation are determined by its own Board of Directors and President and CEO.. .

Homadorma

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Homadorma is the largest homestay network in Canada for international students

Wipebook

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The Wipebook team was created on a late Tuesday evening in February, 2013, in an entrepreneurship course at that University of Ottawa. The MBA professor asked his class to form groups, with the primary objective of coming up with a business model that could be validated over the ensuing 6 weeks of the course.

Little did we know that three months later over 100 Wipebooks units would be sold; exclusively by word of mouth.. .

Parkin Architects Limited

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Parkin Architects Limited is a firm of institutional clients in architectural programs including mental health, law, etc.

Metal Merger Corp

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Consolidate and Innovate Metal Distribution with 21st Century Technology

Raise Your Flag

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45% of students do not go to college when they finish high school. Instead they join the workforce unprepared for work, unaware of the options and uninspired for what’s to come.

Raise Your Flag connects these students with entry-level career paths that don’t require a degree and the companies who are interested in hiring them. When a young career-seeker uses Raise Your Flag, they connect with companies that they believe have a bright future, with a clear line of promotion.

They are able to see requirements for the entry point or promotions and if they don’t have those requirements, they can use Raise Your Flag to obtain those non-degree requirements. It’s simple, if young, millennial employees see a future with the company they work for (or apply for) they stay longer.

If those employees stay longer, they save companies A TON of money. On Raise Your Flag, companies promote the available career paths, open positions, employee success stories and promotion opportunities within their company.

Raise Your Flag users come from high schools, employment agencies and organically through discovery + search.. .

Monkey Jabber Inc.

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Keeping kids safe one watch at a time

Intact Centre

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The Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation (Intact Centre) is an applied research centre with a national focus located within the Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo. The Intact Centre helps homeowners, communities, governments and businesses to identify, and reduce, risks associated with climate change and extreme weather events in Canada.

The establishment of the Intact Centre was made possible from Intact Financial Corporation (Intact); in November 2015, Intact announced a gift of $4.25 million directed in support of the centre’s mission and goal.. .

Kreyonic

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Kreyonic creates interactive toys to discover educational content by combining physical interactions with digital applications. Kreyonic launched their first product Qboo, a set of farm animals from the magical farm land far far away, made of fabric (plush toys), and they come bundled with an interactive educational tablet application.

Children can place toys on the tablet screen and the application presents a variety of creative activities based on the type of toy. By playing with Qboo, kids can reveal the secret magical world of animals, fun facts and their whereabouts.

Qboo application encourages non-structured, open-ended game play. Children can choose the characters they want in their story.

Characters come to life in the digital world. They listen and respond to children.

Qboo’s open-ended game play allows kids to control the flow of the game/stories based on their own imagination. So every time kids play they will experience a different flow in the same story! And the best part is, even when there is no tablet around children can continue playing with the toys with their own imagination.

Kreyonic is the first international company in the Communitech Hyperdrive Accelerator program. Check out their crowd-funding campaign at: http://igg.me/at/qboo.

Audiobooks.com

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Audiobooks is a company that provides its customers with the audio versions of the several books.

Nimbus Learning

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Nimbus is a personalized learning platform, which helps to connect with qualified tutors, Instructors and mentors

TrainingSeeker

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Founded in early 2016 and based in Hamilton, Ontario, TrainingSeeker is Canada’s only online marketplace for managers to search, choose and book health and safety training from certified providers across Canada. You no longer have to rely upon last minute online searching, emailing or phone calls to find the training your people and organization need.

Finding training is now at your fingertips. If your company still needs help finding training we have professional training advisors available to companies registered with TrainingSeeker.

Whether it’s first aid, fall protection, or new worker orientation, TrainingSeeker helps you find the course you need, when you need it, at the best price for you and your company.. .

CoursePeer

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Empowering businesses and academic institutions to improve performance and productivity CoursePeer is a revolutionary suite of learning tools for varied environments. Highly scalable and fully integrated, these tools can be deployed from the cloud on a distributed basis, or through institutional and enterprise intranets with cloud-based support.

The company’s software solutions combine blended learning, video, quizzes, and live interactions with a social network that encourages people to interact. The academic version is targeted at universities and colleges.

It enables professors to deliver content while accelerating communication with and among students. Student assessment is facilitated, as is review of course content for external accreditation.

The corporate version seamlessly offers employee training, certification, intranet and long-term advanced performance assessment.. .

Spectrum Educational Supplies Limited

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Spectrum’s ten discipline-specific educational catalogues have been instrumental in bringing the classroom to life with products designed.

Edsby

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Edsby develops high performance cloud-based software that blends social networking with class and student management. Edsby was founded in April 2010 by the original founders and architects of the FirstClass email and groupware product used widely in education.

The Edsby digital learning platform offers K-12 school districts, regional governments and private schools an array of online social learning tools–including gradebooks, attendance trackers, parent-teacher communication features, content management and social classroom interaction–connected to their existing systems of record. Powerful data consolidation and analytics capabilities are also unique features of the underlying technology..

Vizualize.Me

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We believe that the traditional text resume is boring, lengthy and long overdue for a makeover. We are creating an online resume format that is beautiful, relevant and fun.

We want to enable people to express their professional accomplishments in a simple yet compelling personal visualization. Our vision is to become the future of resumes..

Established Men

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Established Men connects ambitious and attractive young women with successful, generous men.

Konnectics Inc

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Konnectics is building a software to help university and college students.

Prodigy Education

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Prodigy Education connects students, parents, teachers and school districts with resources that promote a lifelong love of learning.

Educredu

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Educredu is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company with offices in both Toronto and Hamilton catering to the needs of professionals who maintain credentials, as well as those of educational events and accreditors. Its mobile application software and web platform are designed to streamline the process of finding and registering for relevant educational events and activities, submitting the required evidence to accrediting organizations, networking with fellow professionals, and tracking the status of the education credits needed for their credentials.

Its product provides an elegant and intuitive solution to a cumbersome process faced by millions of professionals globally. Educredu is a part of The Forge, an accelerator partnership between the Innovation Factory and McMaster University..

Bitmaker Labs

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Bitmaker Labs is a 9-week training program that takes absolute beginners and teaches them the skills necessary to be computer programmers. Bitmaker Labs uses a combination of lectures, classwork, one-on-one mentoring, group exercises, pair programming, and hackathons to fully immerse students in the material.

And by the end of the program, students will have spent hundreds of hours learning, practicing, and creating. Bitmaker Labs has assembled a roster of hiring partners who are eager to offer web development apprenticeships, which lead to full-time positions as junior developers.

By the end of the program, students will have over 600 hours of experience and a portfolio of work they can share with the hiring partners.. .

EntreLaunch

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EntreLaunch is on a mission to launch the next generation of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. Business Description: EntreLaunch Inc.

is developing a fully online global pre-accelerator program primarily for youth age 15-35 to offset global youth unemployment and underemployment and build resiliency in a rapidly changing job market. In addition, Impact Cup is a 48 hour experiential teen entrepreneurial challenge geared to give youth the soft skills they need to succeed in any career and the power to create their own future as an entrepreneur or intrapreneurs.

EntreLaunch rounds out our offerings by providing a platform for microloans and our future microcredit program that will provide youth with the initial funds to test, validate and launch their idea. Company Background: EntreLaunch Inc.

is a federally registered Canadian Corporation operating in Ontario and incorporated in 2015 by Rebecca Palmer, the sole director and shareholder. All IP, programs, licensing and branding are owned by EntreLaunch Inc.

EntreLaunch Foundation is a federally incorporated not for profit registered in 2017 operating in Ontario. This is the first chapter for EntreLaunch Inc.

and delivers all not for profit programming. Products/Services: EntreLaunch Inc.

Chumbuggy.com

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An online book club for people 50+

Illuster Technologies Inc.

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Illuster is dedicated to making analog and mixed-signal electronics more accessible.

Kritik

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Kritik is a peer-to-peer learning platform.

The Nutraceutical Alliance

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Founded in 2013, the Nutraceutical Alliance provides an interface between product development, product testing, animal and literature research, product registration, and the regulatory environment. It is our mission to be the global leader in the objective assessment of nutraceuticals, feeds and pharmaceuticals for use in livestock and companion animals.

We offer the following services: preparation of research grant proposals to access funding support for research; comprehensive literature reviews; design and preparation of detailed research proposals and placement in research laboratories; execution of target animal safety and/or efficacy studies, and/or in vitro high-throughput screening models; toxicology studies; pharmacokinetics and drug residue testing publication of research results in peer-reviewed scientific literature; presentation of research results at local, national and/or international conferences or business venues. Company President, Dr.

Wendy Pearson received her PhD from the Dept of Biomedical Sciences at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, with a specialization in efficacy and safety of nutraceutical products in horses with arthritis. Her NSERC-funded post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Guelph focussed on the effects of ‘designer plants’ on arthritis in horses.

Prior to starting the Nutraceutical Alliance, Dr. Pearson worked for a multinational research and development consulting firm specializing in natural veterinary drug development.

Vice President Dr. Mike Lindinger was an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph at the time of his retirement in 2012, after 25 years of service.

He has specialized in skeletal muscle and blood responses to exercise, the physiology of heat stress, heat acclimation and exercise, non-invasive methods of assessing hydration in high-performance horses, and screening and testing of nutraceutical products for anti-inflammatory or nutritional benefits.. .

Blueballoon Health Services

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blueballoon specializes in pediatric assessment and treatment for children and young adults (ages 0-18+) with mild to severe physical and developmental challenges, delays and learning disabilities. We operated four facilities across Ontario in Toronto, Burlington, Aurora and Waterloo.

As well, we offer many group programs and products needed by children with special needs including toys, equipment and therapy tools. We invite you to discover our website and contact us for further information..

The Knowledge Society

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Training “olympic level” CEOs, innovators, thought leaders, and researchers to solve important problems using exponential technologies

Skillqore

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Skillqore is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Learning Experience Platform for individuals and organizations with a mission to enable lifelong learning. Using Skillqore, individuals or employees can discover learning opportunities that includes thousands of free online courses from hundreds of universities, videos, books, articles and podcasts.

Skillqore aggregates learning content from different sources on the web. For Corporations, internal Learning Management Systems and other learning content can also be aggregated.

In a few simple steps, a profile can be created. Skillqore’s AI-based recommendation engine will curate and deliver the most relevant, high quality and personalized learning content to your Inbox.

You can add any content to your profile to manage and track your progress and completion.. .

BreakStudy

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BreakStudy helps students build their personal cloud library, where they can store, classify, exchange and trade study materials, such as lecture notes and study guides. Their website helps students easily upload and store their study materials on the cloud.

These materials will be organized by subject, document type, year, and professor. For every document students upload, they will get points, which can be used to download study materials offered by other students.

Every document has a price on their website. Users can pay to download either by points or money..

Destiny Solutions

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Destiny Solutions is committed to providing non-traditional learners with an outstanding customer experience. Their SaaS platform, Destiny One is customer lifecycle management software made specifically for higher education administrators serving non-traditional students.

They are trusted at over 50 schools like yours to manage their learners, programs, and operations. They understand their business and they know that it’s always running, so they offer a 99.9% uptime guarantee, dedicated support specialists, and industry-best security certifications.

Their mantra is simple, ‘They only succeed when their customers succeed’.. .

WE Charity

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WE Charity was founded by Craig and Marc Kielburger on the belief that the only engine for sustainable change is to use a multifaceted, realistic approach to empower individuals and families to help themselves. To accomplish these goals, the organization operates WE Schools and WE Day in Canada, the United States and the UK as well as WE Villages around the world..

History The WE Charity concept was hatched when the 12-year-old Craig Kielburger read a story about another 12-year-old, Iqbal Masih, who was murdered on account of his outspoken protest of child slave labor in Pakistani carpet mills. Realizing that someone of any age had the power to be an agent for change, Kielburger was inspired by Masih’s story, which sparked his passion for saving children from slavery and exploitation.

Kielburger convinced some of his seventh-grade classmates to join him in his quest to end child labor and established Free the Children, which would later become WE Charity. Craig and his brother soon discovered, though, that there were many barriers to self-actualization and personal empowerment other than slave labor.

Children still needed to work to support their families even after being freed from slave mills. It was clear that there were more fundamental issues at play and that a more comprehensive approach was necessary.

The Five Pillars of Impact The brothers thus created WE Villages to enable entire communities to emerge from poverty. WE Villages has what it calls five Pillars of Impact, education, : health care, food security, clean water and sanitation, and alternative income.

WE Charity’s collaborative and holistic approach to assisting communities has created legacies of long-term success. By carefully addressing each one of the five pillars, WE Charity is successfully rewriting the destinies of many impoverished communities around the world.

HackerYou

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HackerYou is a technology education provider based in Toronto, Canada. It was Canada’s first programming bootcamp.

Founded by the same team that introduced Ladies Learning Code in 2011, HackerYou offers full-time and part-time courses to people who want to build or sharpen their technical skills. With a focus on hands-on, project-based learning from industry-leading professionals, small classes with a 10:1 ratio (or better!) of students to instructors, and a learning environment that’s purposely social and collaborative, HackerYou now serves over 450 students a year..

BiblioCommons

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BiblioCommons uses a multi-tenant SaaS model to provide best-in-class components for a library’s digital presence. It collaborates with the most respected and largest library services in North America, and Its aggregate registered user base is over 8 million.

Its services include a responsive catalog with a critical mass of community-contributed content, a responsive catalog-integrated website service, an events service, and mobile apps.. .

PriveHealth

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PriveHealth is a gamified cybersecurity training platform for healthcare professionals.

Tutorocean

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TutorOcean is a global marketplace where learners and tutors connect through its intuitive and integrated online classroom.

Flow

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Flow is a social course planning website. Launched in September 2012, it was built by four students in Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

What does the name mean? Well, they are not sure themselves… they launched with it, and it just sort of stuck!.

Edusity

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Edusity is a real-time online teaching platform for teachers to share their knowledge with millions of students across the globe. The platform allows the classes to be conducted online using patent-pending technology which removes the notion that teaching can only be done in closed classrooms.

It also uses a unique teacher grading system which takes student and parent feedback and teacher experience into account to determine the teacher’s compensation. Edusity has all the features and tools a teacher would need in today’s teaching methodology to run an engaging classroom, including an interactive whiteboard, audio, and video support, active student participation, direct and group interaction, directed and taught coursework options, examinations, and testing options, grading and much more.

It allows for active participation from the parents by allowing them to check how their child is doing in the classroom in real-time and monitor their progress. Edusity is available on a Software as a service (SaaS) model where teachers can sign up and put their courses online using their platform.

The platform also provides an ideal platform to move away from tradition, limitations, and boundaries and embrace the world of unlimited opportunities in the online education space using the technology of the future. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mississauga, ON, Canada..

KuzoClass

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KuzoClass offers the tools and training you need to kickstart a career you love.

eProf Education Inc

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eProf is an education technology consultancy and software provider. We work with education businesses, schoolboards, colleges and universities to help them select technology platforms, and develop and sell their online courses.

Check us out here – http://eprof.com. .

Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario

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We are CPA Ontario We are an educator, thought leader, regulator, advocate and provider. We protect the public interest by ensuring our members meet the highest standards of integrity and expertise.

We provide pathways to the profession for aspiring accountants from around the world. And we engage in our community as a responsible corporate citizen..