Stories of Innovation
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
EXATI
THE PUBLIC LIGHTING SOFTWARE, BEHIND THE MOST SUSTAINABLE CITY ON THE PLANET
Exati is a Technology company with over 10-years experience in innovative software solutions for cities and the companies that serve them, from caring for public spaces to managing Public Lighting. The main goal of these solutions is to improve citizens’ lives and make every stage of public services more efficient...
Practical AI for Non-Techies
Fireflies.AI
The AI-Powered Meeting Assistant That Works While You Work
How to Use Fireflies.ai: The AI-Powered Meeting Assistant That Works While You Work In today’s fast-paced work environment, meetings can feel overwhelming. Managing note-taking, tracking tasks, and ensuring follow-ups can quickly become chaotic. Enter Fireflies.ai, the AI-powered meeting assistant designed to streamline your workflow by automating the most tedious aspects...
INNOVATE™ Atlantic Canada
BOUNCE HEALTH INNOVATION
AT THE FOREFRONT OF BUILDING THE BURGEONING HEALTH TECH SECTOR IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR BY PROVIDING ESSENTIAL RESOURCES, NETWORKS, AND SUPPORT TO ENTREPRENEURS AND INNO
The healthtech sector is reflected through Bounce partner companies like: Since its establishment in 2018, Bounce has been working to accelerate the growth of the health innovation sector in Newfoundland and Labrador(NL). Its humble beginnings stem from local “Hacking Health” events that connected frontline healthcare workers with developers, designers, patients,...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
CONDOR CONNECT
CONNECTING GREAT IDEAS TO GREAT OPPORTUNITIES
The Condor Connect accelerator has been working for over 4-years leading to growth and investing in the acceleration of startups focused on retail and trends. Today, there are nine businesses in acceleration and six in VC investments. It found Curitiba’s innovation ecosystem the ideal place to consolidate its operation, adding...
INNOVATE® Puerto Rico
Very few people were talking about entrepreneurship in Puerto Rico when Grupo Guayacan, Inc. was born in 1996. Founded by Enrique “Ricky” Adsuar as a private sector mission-driven nonprofit organization, it has served entrepreneurs with a unique model that has coupled private equity investment with a series of programs to...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
CODECOMBAT
How An EdTech Startup Is Reinventing Esports And Providing A Competitive Platform For Creative Coders
At the start of 2021 we launched the CodeCombat AI League. Built on the foundation of our annual CodeQuest competitive coding hackathon, this new and innovative esport was born. The CodeCombat AI League is the first of its kind, part AI battle simulator and part code engine for learning real...
INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2
THE FIRST NATIONS TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL
CONNECTING INDIGENOUS LEARNERS TO A DIGITAL FUTURE
The First Nations Technology Council (The Technology Council) is an Indigenous-led organization that serves all 204 First Nations communities across the Province of British Columbia. Established in 2002, they are mandated by BC First Nations Leadership to provide digital skills training to Indigenous learners, realize digital equity, and ensure Indigenous...
Global Innovation Spotlight
3 Proven Ways to Master Golf Indoors Effortlessly
3 Proven Ways to Master Golf Indoors Effortlessly To master golf indoors effortlessly, players are leveraging a trifecta of technologies: advanced launch monitors for precision data, realistic hitting surfaces for injury prevention, and immersive projection ecosystems for course simulation. These innovations allow golfers to build consistent swing mechanics and lower...
INNOVATE® Chicago Vol.1
POWER REVIEWS
ENABLING BRANDS AND RETAILERS TO DRIVE MORE REVENUE WITH RATINGS AND REVIEWS
PowerReviews works with more than 1,000 global brands and retailers to help them collect, display and analyze user-generated content – Ratings and Reviews, Questions and Answers, and images and videos – on their websites. As more consumers flocked online as a result of Covid, this content actually became significantly more...
INNOVATE® Nashville
STUDIO BANK
How Studio Bank is fueling Nashville’s creative economy with creative financial solutions and human connections
A bank for creators…A Studio is a place where creators do their thing. Studio Bank exists to empower creators. Whether you’re designing a company or creating a better life for your family, crafting a song or writing code, orchestrating social change or enhancing the quality of care, we launched Studio...
INNOVATE® Milwaukee
zizzl health
Igniting a Revolution in the Traditional Benefits Landscape
A recent breakthrough is making it more affordable for employers to offer high quality group health insurance benefits. At the forefront of this benefits innovation stands zizzl health, a trailblazer in the field of Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs). When the Executive Order solidifying ICHRA as an ACA-compliant health...
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™ Oeiras
MERCK
Curiosity Is In Our DNA
At Merck, we are curious, we constantly ask questions and seek out answers. Why? Because we believe breakthroughs begin with curiosity and it’s this curiosity that allows us to introduce ourselves as a vibrant science and technology company able to make a positive difference in millions of people’s lives every...
INNOVATE® Jacksonville
When visitors arrive in destinations like Nashville, Las Vegas, or Boston, they know exactly what to expect. Whether it’s the music, the nightlife, or the culture, these epicenters of travel and tourism always deliver. Wander has effectively become visitors’ go-to resource for where to eat, drink, shop, and play. –...
INNOVATE™ Bristol & Bath
DIGITAL HEALTH
Health Sciences, Life Sciences and Digital Health at the University of Bristol
The University of Bristol (UoB) is a research-intensive University with a global reputation ranked in the world’s top 60 and the UK’s top 10 in the QS World University Rankings 2021. Health, Life Sciences and Digital Health are areas of strength with world class teaching, research and enterprise development. UoB...
INNOVATION Quebec
CINTECH
CCTT IN AGRI-FOOD
At Cintech agroalimentaire, we intend to act collectively by combining the expertise of our teams and drawing on the specific know-how of each of our clients, we strive to meet consumers’ and society’s new expectations with respect to food and the industry’s technological needs for its development and resilience. With...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
OLIST
MEET OLIST, THE LEADING ECOSYSTEM IN E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS FOR SMES
Founded in 2015, Olist is a benchmark startup in e-commerce solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, focused on operational management, increased competitiveness in marketplaces and multichannel sales. In 2021, the company acquired Tiny e Vnda, companies based on high technology that offer top-notch services and share the same goal of...
INNOVATE™ Botswana Vol.1
BUSINESS RITES INVESTMENTS (BSSR)
BEGAN OPERATION IN SEPTEMBER 2020 AND HAS BEEN FOCUSING EXCLUSIVELY ON HIGH QUALITY AND COSTEFFECTIVE BIG DATA SOLUTIONS, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SERVICES
We are advancing at a tremendous pace and with the involvement of skilled and experienced people working in the organization. BSSR is currently doing business with local SMEs and is actively taking part in hackathons and competitions, developing innovative solutions, and becoming key players in the country’s digital transformation. The...
INNOVATE™ Toronto
RADICAL VENTURES
AN AI-FOCUSED VENTURE CAPITAL FUND INVESTING IN PEOPLE WHO ARE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF HOW WE LIVE, WORK AND PLAY
Like Benjamin Franklin knotting a key to a kite in a lightning storm, today’s AI researchers are unlocking technology that is reshaping our world. From quantum neural networks and natural language processing, to AI for drug discovery, the path to future innovations and commercialization is charted by a small subset...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
NEW HOLLAND
SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION
Global leader in clean energy, New Holland Agriculture, a CNH brand and headquartered in Curitiba, is one of the most innovative companies in the agricultural sector in the world. Investment in new technologies and sustainable solutions is constant – always seeking to improve the experience of its customers. This culture...
INNOVATE™ Adelaide
FIVECAST
Enabling A Safer World
Fivecast is an Australian company based in Adelaide that has gone global capitalising on artificial intelligence and machine learning to uncover insights across the surface, deep and dark web, and help their customers enable a safer world. Whether it’s fraud detection, human trafficking or counter terrorism, the bad guys aren’t...
INNOVATE™ Toronto
LATAM STARTUPS
HELPING INTERNATIONAL STARTUPS SCALE
In the heart of Canada’s technology and innovation ecosystem, you’ll find LatAm Startups helping grow innovative entrepreneurs and their international technology companies in Canada. As an accelerator that works exclusively with international companies and as a designated organization for Canada’s Start-up Visa Program, LatAm Startups has developed a special...
INNOVATE™ Botswana Vol.1
BRASTORNE ENTERPRISES
SELECTED AS A WINNER FOR THE MIT SOLVE 2021 INITIATIVE.
CONNECTING THE UNCONNECTED. Brastorne Enterprises has been selected as a winning solver team for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Solve 2021 Initiative. Solve is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States of America with a mission to solve world challenges. Through open innovation...
INNOVATION Quebec
AÉRO MONTRÉAL
NNOVATION COUNCIL - AÉRO MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC’S AEROSPACE CLUSTER
Thanks to its unique and diversified ecosystem, Québec has been able to maintain a prominent position in the global aerospace supply chain, and Aéro Montréal plays a key role in this. Founded in 2006, Aéro Montréal is a not-for-profit organization created to mobilize the players in Québec’s aerospace sector. The...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
EXATI
THE PUBLIC LIGHTING SOFTWARE, BEHIND THE MOST SUSTAINABLE CITY ON THE PLANET
Exati is a Technology company with over 10-years experience in innovative software solutions for cities and the companies that serve them, from caring for public spaces to managing Public Lighting. The main goal of these solutions is to improve citizens’ lives and make every stage of public services more efficient...
Practical AI for Non-Techies
Fireflies.AI
The AI-Powered Meeting Assistant That Works While You Work
How to Use Fireflies.ai: The AI-Powered Meeting Assistant That Works While You Work In today’s fast-paced work environment, meetings can feel overwhelming. Managing note-taking, tracking tasks, and ensuring follow-ups can quickly become chaotic. Enter Fireflies.ai, the AI-powered meeting assistant designed to streamline your workflow by automating the most tedious aspects...
INNOVATE™ Atlantic Canada
BOUNCE HEALTH INNOVATION
AT THE FOREFRONT OF BUILDING THE BURGEONING HEALTH TECH SECTOR IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR BY PROVIDING ESSENTIAL RESOURCES, NETWORKS, AND SUPPORT TO ENTREPRENEURS AND INNO
The healthtech sector is reflected through Bounce partner companies like: Since its establishment in 2018, Bounce has been working to accelerate the growth of the health innovation sector in Newfoundland and Labrador(NL). Its humble beginnings stem from local “Hacking Health” events that connected frontline healthcare workers with developers, designers, patients,...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
CONDOR CONNECT
CONNECTING GREAT IDEAS TO GREAT OPPORTUNITIES
The Condor Connect accelerator has been working for over 4-years leading to growth and investing in the acceleration of startups focused on retail and trends. Today, there are nine businesses in acceleration and six in VC investments. It found Curitiba’s innovation ecosystem the ideal place to consolidate its operation, adding...
INNOVATE® Puerto Rico
Very few people were talking about entrepreneurship in Puerto Rico when Grupo Guayacan, Inc. was born in 1996. Founded by Enrique “Ricky” Adsuar as a private sector mission-driven nonprofit organization, it has served entrepreneurs with a unique model that has coupled private equity investment with a series of programs to...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
CODECOMBAT
How An EdTech Startup Is Reinventing Esports And Providing A Competitive Platform For Creative Coders
At the start of 2021 we launched the CodeCombat AI League. Built on the foundation of our annual CodeQuest competitive coding hackathon, this new and innovative esport was born. The CodeCombat AI League is the first of its kind, part AI battle simulator and part code engine for learning real...
INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2
THE FIRST NATIONS TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL
CONNECTING INDIGENOUS LEARNERS TO A DIGITAL FUTURE
The First Nations Technology Council (The Technology Council) is an Indigenous-led organization that serves all 204 First Nations communities across the Province of British Columbia. Established in 2002, they are mandated by BC First Nations Leadership to provide digital skills training to Indigenous learners, realize digital equity, and ensure Indigenous...
Global Innovation Spotlight
3 Proven Ways to Master Golf Indoors Effortlessly
3 Proven Ways to Master Golf Indoors Effortlessly To master golf indoors effortlessly, players are leveraging a trifecta of technologies: advanced launch monitors for precision data, realistic hitting surfaces for injury prevention, and immersive projection ecosystems for course simulation. These innovations allow golfers to build consistent swing mechanics and lower...
INNOVATE® Chicago Vol.1
POWER REVIEWS
ENABLING BRANDS AND RETAILERS TO DRIVE MORE REVENUE WITH RATINGS AND REVIEWS
PowerReviews works with more than 1,000 global brands and retailers to help them collect, display and analyze user-generated content – Ratings and Reviews, Questions and Answers, and images and videos – on their websites. As more consumers flocked online as a result of Covid, this content actually became significantly more...
INNOVATE® Nashville
STUDIO BANK
How Studio Bank is fueling Nashville’s creative economy with creative financial solutions and human connections
A bank for creators…A Studio is a place where creators do their thing. Studio Bank exists to empower creators. Whether you’re designing a company or creating a better life for your family, crafting a song or writing code, orchestrating social change or enhancing the quality of care, we launched Studio...
INNOVATE® Milwaukee
zizzl health
Igniting a Revolution in the Traditional Benefits Landscape
A recent breakthrough is making it more affordable for employers to offer high quality group health insurance benefits. At the forefront of this benefits innovation stands zizzl health, a trailblazer in the field of Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs). When the Executive Order solidifying ICHRA as an ACA-compliant health...
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™ Oeiras
MERCK
Curiosity Is In Our DNA
At Merck, we are curious, we constantly ask questions and seek out answers. Why? Because we believe breakthroughs begin with curiosity and it’s this curiosity that allows us to introduce ourselves as a vibrant science and technology company able to make a positive difference in millions of people’s lives every...
INNOVATE® Jacksonville
When visitors arrive in destinations like Nashville, Las Vegas, or Boston, they know exactly what to expect. Whether it’s the music, the nightlife, or the culture, these epicenters of travel and tourism always deliver. Wander has effectively become visitors’ go-to resource for where to eat, drink, shop, and play. –...
INNOVATE™ Bristol & Bath
DIGITAL HEALTH
Health Sciences, Life Sciences and Digital Health at the University of Bristol
The University of Bristol (UoB) is a research-intensive University with a global reputation ranked in the world’s top 60 and the UK’s top 10 in the QS World University Rankings 2021. Health, Life Sciences and Digital Health are areas of strength with world class teaching, research and enterprise development. UoB...
INNOVATION Quebec
CINTECH
CCTT IN AGRI-FOOD
At Cintech agroalimentaire, we intend to act collectively by combining the expertise of our teams and drawing on the specific know-how of each of our clients, we strive to meet consumers’ and society’s new expectations with respect to food and the industry’s technological needs for its development and resilience. With...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
OLIST
MEET OLIST, THE LEADING ECOSYSTEM IN E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS FOR SMES
Founded in 2015, Olist is a benchmark startup in e-commerce solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, focused on operational management, increased competitiveness in marketplaces and multichannel sales. In 2021, the company acquired Tiny e Vnda, companies based on high technology that offer top-notch services and share the same goal of...
INNOVATE™ Botswana Vol.1
BUSINESS RITES INVESTMENTS (BSSR)
BEGAN OPERATION IN SEPTEMBER 2020 AND HAS BEEN FOCUSING EXCLUSIVELY ON HIGH QUALITY AND COSTEFFECTIVE BIG DATA SOLUTIONS, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SERVICES
We are advancing at a tremendous pace and with the involvement of skilled and experienced people working in the organization. BSSR is currently doing business with local SMEs and is actively taking part in hackathons and competitions, developing innovative solutions, and becoming key players in the country’s digital transformation. The...
INNOVATE™ Toronto
RADICAL VENTURES
AN AI-FOCUSED VENTURE CAPITAL FUND INVESTING IN PEOPLE WHO ARE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF HOW WE LIVE, WORK AND PLAY
Like Benjamin Franklin knotting a key to a kite in a lightning storm, today’s AI researchers are unlocking technology that is reshaping our world. From quantum neural networks and natural language processing, to AI for drug discovery, the path to future innovations and commercialization is charted by a small subset...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
NEW HOLLAND
SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION
Global leader in clean energy, New Holland Agriculture, a CNH brand and headquartered in Curitiba, is one of the most innovative companies in the agricultural sector in the world. Investment in new technologies and sustainable solutions is constant – always seeking to improve the experience of its customers. This culture...
INNOVATE™ Adelaide
FIVECAST
Enabling A Safer World
Fivecast is an Australian company based in Adelaide that has gone global capitalising on artificial intelligence and machine learning to uncover insights across the surface, deep and dark web, and help their customers enable a safer world. Whether it’s fraud detection, human trafficking or counter terrorism, the bad guys aren’t...
INNOVATE™ Toronto
LATAM STARTUPS
HELPING INTERNATIONAL STARTUPS SCALE
In the heart of Canada’s technology and innovation ecosystem, you’ll find LatAm Startups helping grow innovative entrepreneurs and their international technology companies in Canada. As an accelerator that works exclusively with international companies and as a designated organization for Canada’s Start-up Visa Program, LatAm Startups has developed a special...
INNOVATE™ Botswana Vol.1
BRASTORNE ENTERPRISES
SELECTED AS A WINNER FOR THE MIT SOLVE 2021 INITIATIVE.
CONNECTING THE UNCONNECTED. Brastorne Enterprises has been selected as a winning solver team for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Solve 2021 Initiative. Solve is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States of America with a mission to solve world challenges. Through open innovation...
INNOVATION Quebec
AÉRO MONTRÉAL
NNOVATION COUNCIL - AÉRO MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC’S AEROSPACE CLUSTER
Thanks to its unique and diversified ecosystem, Québec has been able to maintain a prominent position in the global aerospace supply chain, and Aéro Montréal plays a key role in this. Founded in 2006, Aéro Montréal is a not-for-profit organization created to mobilize the players in Québec’s aerospace sector. The...