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Large multinational clients of LiORA can carry up to $64 billion in AROs, roughly half of which is tied to soil and groundwater contamination. Nick Gray left B2B tech to join LiORA, replacing grab samples with live AI-powered data that finally makes site closure possible.
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Canada's AI ecosystem has moved from research credibility to deployment infrastructure. The 2026 Google Accelerator cohort signals the shift — 14 startups building for enterprise buyers, not labs, with technical stacks vetted for scale.
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The possible link between long-term use of hormonal contraception and autoimmune disease led Jennifer Johnston to build a better option for patients. Elle MD’s copper vaginal ring is a once-monthly, hormone-free contraceptive that women can use themselves, without surgery or a prescription routine.
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Recruiting has been solving a relationship problem with search tools. After two years inside the system, Alexander Farr built Clera to fix it, reaching passive candidates through WhatsApp, iMessage, and email and already representing 80,000 people in relevant roles.
OneEleven’s ScaleUp 10: Ones to Watch spotlighted Canadian scaleups building across AI, healthcare, manufacturing, mobility, and enterprise systems at DiscoveryX 2026. The cohort reflected where commercial traction and operational scale are emerging across Canada’s tech ecosystem.
When chemotherapy fails, immunotherapy does not respond, and targeted therapies do not apply, patients are left without a path forward. BiPER Therapeutics is developing an oral drug, selected by blood test, to treat that gap directly.
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Aquaplaning has caused accidents since the first cars drove on wet roads. Giovanni Blandina founded EasyRain in Turin to become the first company to actively restore grip, not just detect its loss.
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Every year, 60 million patients suffer anesthesia complications that current monitoring cannot anticipate. Eva Gubern and Pedro Gambús built Predictheon to change that, starting with 30 years of mathematical modelling and a proprietary patient database nobody else has.
Abdelrahman Ghareeb dislocated his knee in 2014 and spent the next decade asking why nobody saw it coming. The Egyptian founder built SEE, an AI platform that turns any phone camera into an objective movement assessor, to give every athlete the data that only professionals have ever had.
Hermine Bonde Jahren watched her husband's psychology clinic struggle with an ever-growing waiting list and realized the access crisis was only half the problem. She built Braive to fix what happens after you get through the door, and it now supports 100,000 patients across the Nordics.
Jess Liew spent over a decade watching consulting teams rebuild from zero on every new engagement, manually assembling data before the real work could even begin. She built Intriq to break that cycle, so advisors can skip the groundwork and get straight to the insights their clients actually need.
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