Stories of Innovation
INNOVATE® Detroit
TREMEC
A Tier 1 Supplier Continuously Innovating and Elevating Performance
TREMEC is a leading manufacturer of high-performance, highly engineered propulsion and driveline systems, subsystems, and componentry supporting conventional, hybrid, and fully electrified vehicles. TREMEC is agile and vertically integrated focusing on niche and moderate-volume applications across abroad spectrum of sectors including passenger car, commercial truck, vocational truck, off-highway heavy-duty, off-road...
INNOVATE® Puerto Rico
TORO VERDE
We Offer Our Clients A Service of Excellence, In An Atmosphere Of Respect And Harmony With Our Nature
Toro Verde is the largest adventure park in the Americas and the Caribbean. In our facilities you can enjoy beautiful landscapes that will leave you breathless, with a spectacular view from the mountains of the town of Orocovis to the coast of San Juan. It is located at 2,500 feet...
INNOVATE™ Alberta
START ME UP
SPEAK YOUR TRUTH. OWN YOUR STORY.
In a galaxy far, far away but closer than you may think lived a company called Start Me Up PR. Landing in YYC first — because even extraterrestrials love the mountains — to invade the local and global tech scene, they set off to support emerging-founders, the investors who help...
INNOVATE™ Flanders
MEDICAVISIE
Be Healthier Today
MEDICAVISIE, a proud Belgian company, specializes in importing and distributing MULTISCAN systems across Europe, focusing on prevention, lifestyle, and health. Overconsumption often leads people to lose focus on their health goals and the steps to monitor and maintain their lifestyle and well-being effectively. Gaining an objective understanding of your personal...
INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2
BLACK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION OF BC (BBABC)
UNITY – EXCELLENCE – LEGACY
The Black Business Association of BC was founded by Nerissa Allen and Clavia Alleyne out of a need and passion for helping businesses at a critical point of time, when the Covid 19 pandemic was ravaging small businesses. They set out on a journey to not only support businesses through...
INNOVATE® Miami
SnapLeads
Helps businesses unlock marketing opportunities with big data
SnapLeads helps businesses unlock marketing opportunities with big data. The company specializes in building data-driven direct mail and client retention platforms for enterprises in various industries including, automotive, legal, medical, and real estate. SnapLeads began as a way for a group of attorneys to generate more business for their own...
INNOVATE™ Atlantic Canada
TRIBE NETWORK
IS BUILDINGA GLOBAL NETWORK OF ENTREPRENEURS AND INNOVATORS FOR RACIALIZED PEOPLE.
Tribe Network is a community of racialized people pursuing technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation. They envision a world where Black, Indigenous, and people of colour are at the forefront of these disciplines, fully armed with the knowledge, resources, skills, and connections they need to start, build, and scale thriving businesses. TRIBE...
Global Innovation Spotlight
HILCO CONSUMER - RETAIL
INNOVATING FOR THE RETAIL LIFECYCLE – FROM BEGINNING TO END AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN
Can a business founded as a retail liquidation firm innovate to save retail? Hilco Consumer-Retail (HCR) is undoubtedly trying – and succeeding in BIG WAYS! Retail – and the consumer product businesses that feed them inventory – is among the most troubled sectors in the United States and worldwide. This...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
V1
INNOVATION IN URBAN MOBILITY: V1, 100% DIGITAL APPLICATION FOR CAR RENTAL AND SUBSCRIPTION
V1-INNOVATION IN URBAN MOBILITY: V1, 100% DIGITAL APPLICATION FOR CAR RENTAL AND SUBSCRIPTION -VIX LOGÍSTICA STARTUP SEEKS TO TRANSFORM THE WAY PEOPLE MOVE AROUND CURITIBA. V1, recognized as one of the boldest initiatives in Brazil’s innovation ecosystem, emerged in 2018 at the Vix Labs innovation laboratory, owned by Vix Logística,...
INNOVATION Quebec
MEDTEQ+
ACCÉLÉRER LE DÉVELOPPEMENTET LA COMMERCIALISATION DES TECHNOLOGIES EN SANTÉ, VOILÀ LERÔLE DE MEDTEQ+
Comment s’assurer que les technologies en santé sont robustes et percent les différents marchés? Comment soutenir les entrepreneurs et les entrepreneuses du Québec, les accompagner et contribuer à stimuler l’écosystème en innovation? Voilà la mission que s’est donnée MEDTEQ+ , un consortium pancanadien de recherche industrielle et d’innovation en technologies...
INNOVATE® Georgia
SOUTHWIRE
MORE THAN SEVEN DECADESOF INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP
Southwire’s roots extend back to 1937, when Roy Richards, Sr. started Richards & Associates (R&A) to erect power poles with the ultimate purpose of bringing electric light to his grandmother’s home. During its first two and a half years, R&A strung 3,500 miles of cable, becoming the nation’s second-largest Rural...
INNOVATION Quebec
INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE SUR L’HYDROGÈNE (IRH)
Created in 1994, the Hydrogen Research Institute (HRI) of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières is one of the most experienced and recognized centers in the field of research and development of hydrogen technologies. The HRI’s mission is to respond to the climate emergency through education, research and innovation in...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
JUST ESPORTS
BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR EACH AND EVERY GAMER
Just Esports is an organization that is dedicated to working on justice initiatives in the esports and gaming space. Much of their work focuses on educational programs aimed at empowering others to promote justice in their respective groups and providing individuals with the best tools to build out esports communities...
INNOVATE™ Adelaide
AHRENS
120 YEARS FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
Proudly, Ahrens is a 120-year-old family-owned SA company, spanning five generations, delivering a diverse range of high-quality and cost-effective products, projects and services. Beginning in 1902 as a one-dimensional business in Sheaoak Log, on the edge of the Barossa Valley, and offering blacksmithing services of its time, the business has...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
FLOW TRAVEL
A BOUTIQUE OFFERING OUT OF AFRICA THAT’S GOING PLACES
When Tara Turkington, CEO of marketing agency Flow Communications, was asked to arrange a visit for a few people to South Africa, nobody realised it was the genesis of something remarkable. Flow Travel organises exciting, immersive trips for small groups to wherever our guests lead us. We like to do...
INNOVATE™ Alberta
EARTHWARE
THE LANDSCAPE OF REUSABLE PACKAGING SYSTEMS IS TRANSFORMED BY CALGARY’S EARTHWARE
It began as a lightbulb moment during the pandemic, when Earthware Reusables Inc. founder, John MacInnes, was moved to do something about the waste he and his family generated during a typical takeout meal. It has now turned into a worldwide first, in reusable systems. No stranger to entrepreneurship, having...
INNOVATE™ Flanders
LIVING TOMORROW
A BEACON AND LANDMARK OF INNOVATION
The Living Tomorrow Innovation Campus in Vilvoorde, Brussels, is one of Europe’s leading innovation centers. Along with a vast network of partners, they create ideas and visions that make living in the future more comfortable and enjoyable. A massive blue tower reaching 50 meters into the sky literally lifts you...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
THE MAKERSPACE
WE DRIVE SOCIAL COHESION THROUGH THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF MAKING, A LANGUAGE THAT TRANSCENDS CLASS & CULTURE AND THAT UPLIFTS AS IT ENLIGHTENS
By leveraging the natural generosity inherent in maker culture, the project is able to unlock a new level of efficiency in skills transfer. Creating a safe environment where anyone can learn to use new technologies, where experienced professionals can share their knowledge and help the next generation. Makers” make things,...
INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2
DR. BRENT HOGARTH
Unlocking Innovation with Hyper-Focus and Flow
Attention entrepreneurs, CEO’s, and high-performance leaders who want to get ahead! The way we’re working is not working, it’s a crisis. Burnout is costing the global economy trillions of dollars in lost productivity and innovation. Not to mention, rising health care costs. Burnout feels like emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced...
INNOVATE® Blockchain
NUMIO
IS BUILDING APPLICATIONS TO MAKE CRYPTO FAST, CHEAP, AND SIMPLE. SIMPLE, SECURE, SWIFT AND SEAMLESS
We do this by integrating the latest in cutting edge Layer 2 technologies that allow you to send, swap, and trade your favorite cryptocurrencies instantly and up to 100x cheaper than on Ethereum. You can also show off your BAYC or Crypto Punk NFTs if you want to. By remaining...
INNOVATE® Seattle
Watson Immigration Law
Meet the Startup Visa Lawyer trying to change the law while helping startups and founders grow
Meet the Startup Visa Lawyer trying to change the law while helping startups and founders grow Tahmina Watson, founder of Watson Immigration Law in Seattle, fell into immigration law by chance and hasn’t looked back since. She is now a nationally acclaimed, award-winning lawyer, best-selling author, podcast host, and go-to...
INNOVATE® Nashville
DTB Advisors
Sports Entertainment & Hospitality Speciality Advisory
SpykeFire: Pioneering Autonomous Fire Detection in Challenging Environments David Buttrey, a Nashville native, a co-owner of SpykeFire, joined by two other Nashville natives among the company’s leadership and early supporters of founder and Veteran Todd Melcher and 30 year CA Fire Captain Robert Rowe. This connection underscores how Nashville’s burgeoning...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
SMARTGREEN
CONNECTING EVERYTHING
CONNECT TO THE FUTURESMARTGREEN TECHNOLOGY FOR SMARTCITIESWe create solutions to connect devices and sensors to the cities through mesh network infrastructure. 1998 – The Beginning of a New Era and the HistoryThe history of Smartgreen begins in 1998 in Brazil when its founders participated in a project called Rede Omega,...
INNOVATE® Kansas City
CARTER MEDIA
EST 1950
Our story begins with a dream and a vision of Andrew “Skip” Robinson Carter. Carter was born in 1919 and raised in Savannah, Georgia. In 1933, at the young age of 14, Carter’s aspirations of operating a Black radio station began, and he built his first radio. He studied physics...
INNOVATE® Detroit
TREMEC
A Tier 1 Supplier Continuously Innovating and Elevating Performance
TREMEC is a leading manufacturer of high-performance, highly engineered propulsion and driveline systems, subsystems, and componentry supporting conventional, hybrid, and fully electrified vehicles. TREMEC is agile and vertically integrated focusing on niche and moderate-volume applications across abroad spectrum of sectors including passenger car, commercial truck, vocational truck, off-highway heavy-duty, off-road...
INNOVATE® Puerto Rico
TORO VERDE
We Offer Our Clients A Service of Excellence, In An Atmosphere Of Respect And Harmony With Our Nature
Toro Verde is the largest adventure park in the Americas and the Caribbean. In our facilities you can enjoy beautiful landscapes that will leave you breathless, with a spectacular view from the mountains of the town of Orocovis to the coast of San Juan. It is located at 2,500 feet...
INNOVATE™ Alberta
START ME UP
SPEAK YOUR TRUTH. OWN YOUR STORY.
In a galaxy far, far away but closer than you may think lived a company called Start Me Up PR. Landing in YYC first — because even extraterrestrials love the mountains — to invade the local and global tech scene, they set off to support emerging-founders, the investors who help...
INNOVATE™ Flanders
MEDICAVISIE
Be Healthier Today
MEDICAVISIE, a proud Belgian company, specializes in importing and distributing MULTISCAN systems across Europe, focusing on prevention, lifestyle, and health. Overconsumption often leads people to lose focus on their health goals and the steps to monitor and maintain their lifestyle and well-being effectively. Gaining an objective understanding of your personal...
INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2
BLACK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION OF BC (BBABC)
UNITY – EXCELLENCE – LEGACY
The Black Business Association of BC was founded by Nerissa Allen and Clavia Alleyne out of a need and passion for helping businesses at a critical point of time, when the Covid 19 pandemic was ravaging small businesses. They set out on a journey to not only support businesses through...
INNOVATE® Miami
SnapLeads
Helps businesses unlock marketing opportunities with big data
SnapLeads helps businesses unlock marketing opportunities with big data. The company specializes in building data-driven direct mail and client retention platforms for enterprises in various industries including, automotive, legal, medical, and real estate. SnapLeads began as a way for a group of attorneys to generate more business for their own...
INNOVATE™ Atlantic Canada
TRIBE NETWORK
IS BUILDINGA GLOBAL NETWORK OF ENTREPRENEURS AND INNOVATORS FOR RACIALIZED PEOPLE.
Tribe Network is a community of racialized people pursuing technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation. They envision a world where Black, Indigenous, and people of colour are at the forefront of these disciplines, fully armed with the knowledge, resources, skills, and connections they need to start, build, and scale thriving businesses. TRIBE...
Global Innovation Spotlight
HILCO CONSUMER - RETAIL
INNOVATING FOR THE RETAIL LIFECYCLE – FROM BEGINNING TO END AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN
Can a business founded as a retail liquidation firm innovate to save retail? Hilco Consumer-Retail (HCR) is undoubtedly trying – and succeeding in BIG WAYS! Retail – and the consumer product businesses that feed them inventory – is among the most troubled sectors in the United States and worldwide. This...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
V1
INNOVATION IN URBAN MOBILITY: V1, 100% DIGITAL APPLICATION FOR CAR RENTAL AND SUBSCRIPTION
V1-INNOVATION IN URBAN MOBILITY: V1, 100% DIGITAL APPLICATION FOR CAR RENTAL AND SUBSCRIPTION -VIX LOGÍSTICA STARTUP SEEKS TO TRANSFORM THE WAY PEOPLE MOVE AROUND CURITIBA. V1, recognized as one of the boldest initiatives in Brazil’s innovation ecosystem, emerged in 2018 at the Vix Labs innovation laboratory, owned by Vix Logística,...
INNOVATION Quebec
MEDTEQ+
ACCÉLÉRER LE DÉVELOPPEMENTET LA COMMERCIALISATION DES TECHNOLOGIES EN SANTÉ, VOILÀ LERÔLE DE MEDTEQ+
Comment s’assurer que les technologies en santé sont robustes et percent les différents marchés? Comment soutenir les entrepreneurs et les entrepreneuses du Québec, les accompagner et contribuer à stimuler l’écosystème en innovation? Voilà la mission que s’est donnée MEDTEQ+ , un consortium pancanadien de recherche industrielle et d’innovation en technologies...
INNOVATE® Georgia
SOUTHWIRE
MORE THAN SEVEN DECADESOF INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP
Southwire’s roots extend back to 1937, when Roy Richards, Sr. started Richards & Associates (R&A) to erect power poles with the ultimate purpose of bringing electric light to his grandmother’s home. During its first two and a half years, R&A strung 3,500 miles of cable, becoming the nation’s second-largest Rural...
INNOVATION Quebec
INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE SUR L’HYDROGÈNE (IRH)
Created in 1994, the Hydrogen Research Institute (HRI) of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières is one of the most experienced and recognized centers in the field of research and development of hydrogen technologies. The HRI’s mission is to respond to the climate emergency through education, research and innovation in...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
JUST ESPORTS
BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR EACH AND EVERY GAMER
Just Esports is an organization that is dedicated to working on justice initiatives in the esports and gaming space. Much of their work focuses on educational programs aimed at empowering others to promote justice in their respective groups and providing individuals with the best tools to build out esports communities...
INNOVATE™ Adelaide
AHRENS
120 YEARS FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
Proudly, Ahrens is a 120-year-old family-owned SA company, spanning five generations, delivering a diverse range of high-quality and cost-effective products, projects and services. Beginning in 1902 as a one-dimensional business in Sheaoak Log, on the edge of the Barossa Valley, and offering blacksmithing services of its time, the business has...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
FLOW TRAVEL
A BOUTIQUE OFFERING OUT OF AFRICA THAT’S GOING PLACES
When Tara Turkington, CEO of marketing agency Flow Communications, was asked to arrange a visit for a few people to South Africa, nobody realised it was the genesis of something remarkable. Flow Travel organises exciting, immersive trips for small groups to wherever our guests lead us. We like to do...
INNOVATE™ Alberta
EARTHWARE
THE LANDSCAPE OF REUSABLE PACKAGING SYSTEMS IS TRANSFORMED BY CALGARY’S EARTHWARE
It began as a lightbulb moment during the pandemic, when Earthware Reusables Inc. founder, John MacInnes, was moved to do something about the waste he and his family generated during a typical takeout meal. It has now turned into a worldwide first, in reusable systems. No stranger to entrepreneurship, having...
INNOVATE™ Flanders
LIVING TOMORROW
A BEACON AND LANDMARK OF INNOVATION
The Living Tomorrow Innovation Campus in Vilvoorde, Brussels, is one of Europe’s leading innovation centers. Along with a vast network of partners, they create ideas and visions that make living in the future more comfortable and enjoyable. A massive blue tower reaching 50 meters into the sky literally lifts you...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
THE MAKERSPACE
WE DRIVE SOCIAL COHESION THROUGH THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF MAKING, A LANGUAGE THAT TRANSCENDS CLASS & CULTURE AND THAT UPLIFTS AS IT ENLIGHTENS
By leveraging the natural generosity inherent in maker culture, the project is able to unlock a new level of efficiency in skills transfer. Creating a safe environment where anyone can learn to use new technologies, where experienced professionals can share their knowledge and help the next generation. Makers” make things,...
INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2
DR. BRENT HOGARTH
Unlocking Innovation with Hyper-Focus and Flow
Attention entrepreneurs, CEO’s, and high-performance leaders who want to get ahead! The way we’re working is not working, it’s a crisis. Burnout is costing the global economy trillions of dollars in lost productivity and innovation. Not to mention, rising health care costs. Burnout feels like emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced...
INNOVATE® Blockchain
NUMIO
IS BUILDING APPLICATIONS TO MAKE CRYPTO FAST, CHEAP, AND SIMPLE. SIMPLE, SECURE, SWIFT AND SEAMLESS
We do this by integrating the latest in cutting edge Layer 2 technologies that allow you to send, swap, and trade your favorite cryptocurrencies instantly and up to 100x cheaper than on Ethereum. You can also show off your BAYC or Crypto Punk NFTs if you want to. By remaining...
INNOVATE® Seattle
Watson Immigration Law
Meet the Startup Visa Lawyer trying to change the law while helping startups and founders grow
Meet the Startup Visa Lawyer trying to change the law while helping startups and founders grow Tahmina Watson, founder of Watson Immigration Law in Seattle, fell into immigration law by chance and hasn’t looked back since. She is now a nationally acclaimed, award-winning lawyer, best-selling author, podcast host, and go-to...
INNOVATE® Nashville
DTB Advisors
Sports Entertainment & Hospitality Speciality Advisory
SpykeFire: Pioneering Autonomous Fire Detection in Challenging Environments David Buttrey, a Nashville native, a co-owner of SpykeFire, joined by two other Nashville natives among the company’s leadership and early supporters of founder and Veteran Todd Melcher and 30 year CA Fire Captain Robert Rowe. This connection underscores how Nashville’s burgeoning...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
SMARTGREEN
CONNECTING EVERYTHING
CONNECT TO THE FUTURESMARTGREEN TECHNOLOGY FOR SMARTCITIESWe create solutions to connect devices and sensors to the cities through mesh network infrastructure. 1998 – The Beginning of a New Era and the HistoryThe history of Smartgreen begins in 1998 in Brazil when its founders participated in a project called Rede Omega,...
INNOVATE® Kansas City
CARTER MEDIA
EST 1950
Our story begins with a dream and a vision of Andrew “Skip” Robinson Carter. Carter was born in 1919 and raised in Savannah, Georgia. In 1933, at the young age of 14, Carter’s aspirations of operating a Black radio station began, and he built his first radio. He studied physics...