The article below was written by Marie Cook, from C100, and originally published on their blog.
Since its inception in 2010, the C100 Fellows Program has catalyzed a transformative shift in the Canadian tech landscape. It has nurtured over 325 founders whose ventures, such as Applyboard, Wealthsimple and Jane are now at the forefront of innovation.
The Fellows Program has been a driving force in the Canadian tech landscape, providing mentorship, Silicon Valley resources, and meaningful connections to over 325 founders. Augmented in its 15th year with deeper mentorship and a second 48Hrs, the program continues its tradition of identifying and supporting early-stage companies that showcase ingenuity, technological advancement, and a commitment to social impact.
This year’s cohort of 26 startups – the largest ever – is characterized by its diversity, spanning B2B SaaS, deep tech, health tech, fintech, legal tech, and beyond.
These founders, selected from a pool of hundreds of nominees, have the potential to shape the future of the Canadian tech ecosystem.
Let’s meet the cohort:
📍 Vancouver, BC
Logan Underwood (CEO), Tina Haertel (COO)
Ad Auris is the Canva for audio generation – enabling marketing teams to automatically transform and distribute their written content into immersive audio experiences.
📍 Richmond Hill, ON
Ali Nawab (CEO), Dave Kim (CTO)
Org design and workforce planning platform to drive organizational performance.
📍 Vancouver, BC
Kaylee Lieffers (CEO), Adam Chuntz (CMO), Doug Long (CTO)
Our vision is to be the leading platform where anybody can build and scale a world-class brand.
📍 Toronto, ON
Sean Monteiro (CEO)
Bounce is on a mission to simplify the way a generation connects and creates memories. Everything you need for every social interaction, in one place.
📍 Toronto, ON
Michael Shum (CEO), Kyle Meade (COO)
Democratizing access to the private credit and asset-based finance markets.
📍 Calgary, AB
Vicki Knott (CEO), Roger Shirt (CTO)
CruxOCM was born to close the loop in heavy industrial control rooms to deliver tools to control room operators that have a meaningful impact on heavy industrial operations. Through its trademarked technology RIPA (robotic industrial process automation), CruxOCM is future-proofing oil and gas control room operations to run efficiently and safely.
📍 Toronto, ON
Avinash Chidambaram (CEO), Brent Carrara (CTO), Ali Irshad (Head of Revenue)
Cybrid enables the next generation of fintech that allows any user or business to pay anyone else anywhere in the world across fiat and crypto rails in a fully regulatory-compliant manner. Currently, payments are often deliberately chosen across multiple rails and are often not optimized for the user, or the merchant for speed or cost. Allows fintech partners to deliver rail-agnostic experiences optimized over the best delivery path, including using on-chain crypto transactions to deliver anywhere in the world.
Cybrid has built a platform for fintech to seamlessly orchestrate and build these experiences without complex integrations or the need for a compliance team to manage the product.
📍 Toronto, ON
Eli Moore (CEO), Rezaul Hoque (CTO)
Endor Health is an integrated pharmacy and virtual care app for people living with diabetes. We’re on a mission to radically improve diabetes care for Canadians by simplifying an individual’s access to care, medication, medical devices, funding and healthcare data.
📍 Guelph, ON
Kayli Dale (CEO), Jacqueline Hutchings (CRO)
Simplifying the world’s transition from single-use to reusable packaging.
📍 Delta, BC
Jessie Vaid (CEO), Sachin Bhalla (CMO), Gavin Heer (CTO)
GoVeyance is a digital conveyancing solution that provides an unparalleled experience for legal professionals. With a focus on practical innovation and customer service, we understand the pain points and challenges that lawyers, notaries, and conveyancers face, and made it our mission to address them head-on.
📍 Whitehorse, YN
Ben Sanders (CEO), Damian McCabe (CPO)
Hyper automates 911 calls with voice A.I. to reduce wait times and save lives.
📍 Montreal, PQ
Max Leca (CEO), Mike Furino (COO)
Kento Health aims to revolutionize cardiac care worldwide, leveraging cutting-edge digital solutions to provide accessible, personalized treatment. Our vision is to eliminate barriers to cardiac rehabilitation, reduce heart disease mortality, and enhance the quality of life for millions by seamlessly integrating advanced technology into patient care.
📍 Victoria, BC
Scott Beatty (CEO)
A globally trusted enterprise maritime weather intelligence provider that improves safety and efficiency for ports while building climate resilience.
📍 Edmonton, AB
Sameer Dhar (CEO), Mike Goss (COO), Saif Mahmud (CTO)
NiaHealth makes top-tier proactive health accessible.
📍 Toronto, ON
Amitayu Basu (CEO), Samudra Gupta (CTO)
Numr’s mission is to transform customer experience management by leveraging AI-driven insights to predict customer behavior, enhancing satisfaction, and driving measurable financial outcomes for businesses.
📍 Windsor, ON
Scott Fairley (CEO)
Optimotive builds mobile robotic platforms that enable automation in extreme environments, such as construction, mining, and oil & gas.
📍 Toronto, ON
Tomas Ronis (CEO), Erin Chan (CPO), Julio Fujimaki (CTO)
We allow residential landlords/property managers to consolidate and automate their marketing and leasing ‘top-of-funnel’ tech stack under one roof.
📍 Victoria, BC
Ania Wysocka (CEO)
Rootd is “anxiety and panic attack relief in your pocket”. The award-winning, and scientifically-validated app blends stigma-breaking design, on-demand accessibility, and therapist-approved lessons and exercises (including a panic button, deep breathing, and more) – all alongside a caring blue monster companion – to help users during all stages of managing panic attacks and anxiety and provide relief from the debilitating effects of panic attacks and anxiety.
📍 Kitchener, ON
Tim Litchi (CEO), Spencer Kschesinski, Mohamed Hassan Asurti, Adonis Mansour
Make outdoor work equipment sustainable through 100% electric robots.
📍 Winnipeg, MB
Noah Palansky (CEO), Avi Stoller (CSO), Jordan Davis (CTO)
Taiv makes screens in businesses more interesting and valuable for patrons, business owners, and advertisers. Our proprietary technology gives us atypically low CAC, high margin, and the ability to sell ads at premium locations that have never before been possible to monetize. We are building the most valuable out-of-home ad network to ever exist.
📍 Saskatoon, SK
Jay Maharaj (CEO)
TeamLinkt’s mission is to make sports management easier and more efficient by providing teams and organizations with powerful AI-driven tools that automate communication, scheduling, and administrative tasks.
📍 Montreal, PQ
Annie Cyr (CEO), Carlos Agudelo PhD (COO)
Tengiva offers comprehensive technology solutions for the textile industry. Crafted by industry professionals, our technology provides textile distribution, management, and procurement solutions.
📍 Montreal, PQ
Charles Onu (CEO), Samantha Latremouille (Clinical Lead), Innocent Udeogu (Engineering Lead)
Ubenwa is developing the first AI foundation model to detect and diagnose health conditions in kids through voice analysis.
📍 Toronto, ON
Roy Pereira (CEO), Alexey Adamsky (CTO)
Unified will be the 1-stop shop for all B2B SaaS APIs. We will be as successful as Twilio, Stripe and Okta.
📍 Calgary, AB
Joel Nicholson (CEO), Nader K (CTO)
Our mission is to scale personalized coaching in education, using AI and human expertise to replace the traditional classroom model and help students succeed in school and their careers.
📍 Toronto, ON
Rishard Rameez (CEO), Mak Pashang (CTO), Jake Guenther (Chief of Sales), Nabeel Rushdi (Chief Product Officer)
Zown bridges the gap between first-time home sellers and buyers, transforming the Canadian homeownership landscape for young individuals.
Congratulations to this year’s cohort – we look forward to our incredible journey ahead.
And to those who applied but were not selected – please keep trying, we’d love to see you again for next year’s cohort!