Showing all articles in the Founder Profiles category
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Saving lives in submersion emergencies
10 April 2024 | By Rosie Del Campo in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
We have seatbelts and airbags to protect us in a crash, but what happens when a car ends up in water? Drivers and passengers only have one minute to get out. Tech startup AWOS Technologies is working to… Read more
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AI assistants are reintroducing a personal connection in real estate
19 March 2024 | By Alex Kinsella in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
QuickCasa, a Conversational AI Support Agent, provides automated lead engagement and pre-qualification for real estate and multifamily housing professionals through a human-like conversational virtual… Read more
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Erica Djossa: From a thriving community to a scaling startup
08 March 2024 | By Alex Kinsella in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Building and running a successful startup was not part of Momwell founder and CEO Erica Djossa’s life plan. Djossa was working as a trained psychotherapist and said she planned to retire as a practicing… Read more
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Rebecca Swabey: Environmental engineer turned entrepreneur
25 January 2024 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Environmental engineer Rebecca Swabey turned her effort to tackle engineering data challenges into Equator, a venture focused on speeding up the design phase of housing and infrastructure development. Read more
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Testing for safe water
04 January 2024 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
ExactBlue Technologies CEO Ela Botos credits the Communitech Fierce Founders program with providing "crucial support and strategic insights" that are contributing to the water-testing startup's growth. Read more
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Prescription to ease physician paperwork
06 December 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Toronto-based startup Tali AI is easing the paperwork burden for doctors with a virtual scribe assistant that transcribes and synthesizes physician-patient conversations. Read more
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Nastaran Saberi: Mapping the future of digital navigation
05 December 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Nastaran Saberi, co-founder of startup GeoMate and a Fierce Founders graduate, began her entrepreneurial journey when she recognized inefficiencies in the conventional methods of map making. Read more
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Rocket Doctor soars
07 November 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Toronto-based Rocket Doctor has landed a place in the UCLA Health TechQuity Accelerator, wrapped up NY Tech Week with a win at the MedStartr VC pitch contest and surpassed 300,000 virtual patient visits. Read more
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Serving the safety needs of lone workers
01 November 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Fierce Founders grad Seres Selanders is growing her company, SolusGuard, and expanding into the U.S. Read more
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Tech-infused fresh food
04 October 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
With some help from Communitech's Fierce Founders program, startup Daily Blends is finding success selling healthy food options through AI-optimized vending machines. Read more