Our Programs
VentureOut Explore One-Week Market Exploration Programs
Meet decision makers in NYC
Meet 20 thought leaders, decision makers and investors in NYC in 3 days. Whether innovation officers at top corporates, the most active venture investors or CEOs of the most innovative startups, this program will super charge your network in NYC.
Meet influential investors
Meet over a dozen tier-1 venture capitalists and angel investors.Through VC office visits, one-to-one meetings and our pitch events, you will have the opportunity to learn from and pitch some of the world's leading tech investors.
Develop your advisor and mentor network
Through one-to-one mentoring and advisory sessions with serial entrepreneurs, investors and industry thought leaders, you will have an opportunity to gain insights and feedback to enable a transformation in your strategy, pitch and message. Build an actionable network of mentors and advisors that you can leverage for years to come.
Accelerate your sales and marketing machine
For those of us that have not been a VP of Sales or Marketing, we are currently running the largest company we have ever run. The knowledge required to build scalable and replicable sales and marketing operations is something we need to learn: what are the right roles to hire for, processes that allow scalable repetition, tools to support these efforts? Come join us and learn!
Canada Partners
Canadian Venture Capital Associate
he CVCA is the voice of Canada’s venture capital and private equity industry.
We are focused on broadening industry awareness through market research and networking opportunities so that our members can make the best decisions for their investments. We also advocate on behalf of the industry to ensure sound public policy that encourages a favourable environment for investment.
The CVCA works alongside its members (private and public sector firms managing the vast majority of venture capital and private equity in Canada) to improve the industry and drive innovation and growth.
www.cvca.caCandian Digital Media Network
The Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN), a federal Centre of Excellence in Commercialization and Research (CECR), is dedicated to establishing Canada as a world leader in digital media (ICT + mobile) by creating and enabling connections and collaboration between entrepreneurs, companies, research institutes, government and intermediary organizations across the country.
cdmn.caGovernment of Quebec
The Québec Government Office in New York is Québec’s primary representation in the United States. The Office promotes the interests of Québec in the following sectors: business, investment, government institutions, education, culture and public affairs. Inaugurated in 1940, the Office serves the Mid Atlantic region, which includes eight states.
http://www.international.gouv.qc.ca/en/new-yorkConsulate General of Canada
The Canadian consulate general in New York is one of 252 Canadian diplomatic and consular representations abroad
http://international.gc.ca/world-monde/united_states-etats_unis/new_york.aspx?lang=engTestimonials
Ben Block
GozAround
“The program distills your idea down, I think I know my idea better than ever now. I had people come up to me after and opened my eyes to opportunities that I never thought of or knew even existed in the United States. This has been an outstanding experience and I don’t know if I can say enough of the value of this program”
Ilias Benjelloun
Stay22
“This is an amazing experience for venturing out of your comfort zone, the program is so comprehensive that you don’t get time to even scratch your head. Learning so much about the tech ecosystem in a New York setting was truly amazing”
Arpad Barabas
Mobizou
"Gained a lot of great information about setting up shop in the US in general that any Canadian entrepreneur needs to know before moving."
Canada Alumni
Jump2Spot
Jump2Spot is the world’s largest GPS story atlas—bigger than 1st digital encyclopedia & 2x world’s longest novel. A who’s who is geo-tagged in movie scenes
itunes.apple.com/us/app/jump2spot/id571372545?mt=8HealthWave
Health Wave creates practice management software for holistic health professionals centred around facilitating better patient outcomes. It identified this opportunity based on the challenges the co-founder's wife faced when building her practice. With thousands of practitioners and patients using its platform HaelthWave has the foundation built to own this $114 billion market.
www.healthwave.coGuestful
Guestful helps restaurants fill their tables. Guestful gets restaurant availability in front of more customers - in just a few clicks. Guestful also helps local search & discovery apps retain all visitors and monetize restaurant content. Guestful does that by providing restaurants table inventory in real-time via our widget/API.
http://www.guestful.com/enFameBit
FameBit is a marketplace that delivers the next generation of marketing by matching and connecting businesses to accomplished video influencers and structuring the process from influential video campaign creation to delivery. Through FameBit
famebit.com/#Candid
Candid is a visual commerce platform that tells your brand's story through the eyes of your biggest fans. Authentic photos & videos are streamed directly to your website to create a fresh and inspiring shopping experience that increases conversions.
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http://www.candid.ioExecNote
ExecNote is a sales automation platform that is changing the way Sales Teams sell to Enterprise CEOs. ExecNote helps Sales Professionals leverage LinkedIn to engage and start 1 to 1 conversations online with their sales prospects and clients. By utilizing the ExecNote sales automation platform
teamexecnote.wordpress.com/aboutNeedle
Needle is a platform that helps employers find the right designers effectively and efficiently by rethinking the way employers choose designers. Needle removes industry language barriers by focusing on visual communication so that employers can choose designers based on their portfolios and quality of work. Its database of designers is populated automatically everyday using search engine technology that crawls the web to identify online portfolio websites.
http://www.needlehr.comSqueezeCMM
Enterprise content marketing performance measurement platform
http://www.squeezecmm.comVoices.com
Voices.com is the online marketplace that connects businesses with voice over talent. As its voice talent step up to their microphones, Voices.com meets and exceeds your expectations with excellence through the spoken word. More than 250, 000 people from companies like ABC, NBC, ESPN, PBS, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, Sony Pictures, Audible, Comcast, Bell Canada, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Western Union, American Airlines, Toyota, Ford and GM as well as organizations such as the US Army and the US Government entrust its online marketplace with their stories and collaborate online.
www.voices.com
Thirdshelf
Thirdshelf allows SMB retailers to quickly create and launch a branded mobile app and a powerful loyalty program. Its simple and quick, no technical skills required. Thirdshelf allows advanced customer targeting, push notifications, iBeacon integration, and enables amazing in-store experiences. It's the best mobile loyalty deployment a retailer can get, on an affordable monthly license, and deployed in weeks.
http://www.thirdshelf.com
Preo
Preo (pre-o) is a free app that lets guests order, pay, and tip in bars, restaurants and coffee shops without standing in line or waiting for a server. Its patent-pending hardware eliminates point-of-sale interactions during rush hours so staff can serve up to 75% more orders. Its vision is to create a world with no lines.
getpreo.com
Mobizou
Mobizou is a Location Based Mobile Marketing Platform geared for mid-tier Premium Retailers. Connect with your customers anytime, anywhere with fully branded mobile apps using the latest location technologies.
http://www.mobizou.com
Innohub
Uplette delivers highly personalized, dynamic, and context-aware mobile landing pages that increase conversion rates and boost brand interactions. Powered by Uplette’s advanced analytics engine, unified user profiles, and real-time feedback loop, brands and advertisers can analyze performance and optimize their campaigns in real-time.
Hurrier
Hurrier is Uber for goods. Hurrier unlocks local commerce by providing online access to on-demand delivery of premium goods. Hurrier’s urban logistics platform uses mobile technology to seamlessly connects buyers, sellers and couriers.
www.usehurrier.comFora
Fora is Africa’s first online marketplace for young African professionals to discover and enroll in fully online professional certifications and graduate degree programs accredited by top Universities and professional organizations in North America.
Dubb
A turbo simple and secure way to reach social and professional contacts. Tag contacts, search tags and expand your network through your friends. Dubb helps you find the Photographer, Event Planner, or IT Consultant in your network. Dubb aggregates your friend's address books and contacts into one easily searchable and discoverable network.
http://www.getyuppie.comAffinio
Tactics Cloud is an audience modelling platform for digital advertisers and marketers who need in-depth audience insights to guide their strategy, planning and buying. Unlike traditional cookie/pixel-based tracking technologies, Tactics Cloud’s machine learning algorithm analyzes billions of social connections and features in real-time to find audiences with similar interests, behaviours and networks.
affin.ioHashtag Paid
#paid is product placement for social media. Its platform allows brands and startups to gain customers through organic celebrity recommendations while getting celebrities paid to do what they love: share awesome content with millions of their engaged followers.
www.hashtagpaid.com
GozAround
GozAround is a social network centered around people helping people and the idea that “what GozAround, comes around.” GozAround allows individuals and volunteer organizations to post and respond to help requests and formal volunteer opportunities, making it quicker and easier to get involved in your community. GozAround can be thought of as a loyalty program for making the world a better place.
http://www.gozaround.com
Evinance
Evinance was founded to focus on providing innovative solutions that improve patient care, and reduce healthcare costs. Their team has over 50 years combined experience building technology solutions for cancer care.
http://evinance.com
Capbeast
CapBeast is the number one custom hat website in North America. They make custom snapbacks and hats that are designed by you on their website.
capbeast.comMayvin
Mayvin is a PR analytics platform powered by proprietary data. They're replacing biased polls and useless social media analytics with reliable insight. Tap into millions of conversations about important issues. Mayvin built the world’s largest source of PR data because they own the fastest growing outreach tools for grassroots leaders.
http://www.mayv.inMirens
Mirens is a crowdsourced furniture design platform that hosts design challenges tailored for urban small-spaces. Their "Made By You" model looks to co-create/crowdsource furniture designs. They would collect designs from amateur and professional furniture designers, allow customers to vote for what they want, and they would manufacture and sell the designs in their online retail store. Their customers will have complete control on which products will be added into their Made By You product line.
http://mirens.comStay22
Find places to sleep near your favourite event, concert, neighborhood, landmark, street address, venue, team, artist, business.
www.stay22.comVowsmith
Customization is a deep trend for the millenials. They are willing to pay subsantial amount of money to get a unique product that fits their need. We address this issue by offering a web based
www.vowsmith.comVooban
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http://vooban.com/enPlayhybrid
Playhybrid is a game development studio that was founded by artists and developers from Dreamworks Animation. We are creating a original IP for mobile-VR platform. We bring high production values and feature film quality to games
http://www.playhybrid.comCallbox
Callbox is a marketing automation platform allowing Advertisers to generate new inbound consumer sales calls for their business through our network of Publishers. Using our call exchange marketplace our Advertisers and Publishers are able to buy calls for their business
http://usecallbox.comBlack Tie Ventures
Black Tie Ventures (BTV) is a developer and operator of Social Casino games. We have developed a unique product and marketing approach to capitalize on the opportunities offered by the booming Social Casino industry. With over 170 Million social casino players world-wide
http://www.blacktieventures.comUCIC
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http://ucic.vcStudeo
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http://studeohq.comSnapclarity
Studeo is a content marketing platform that outputs highly engaging personalized interactive stories in an extremely scalable way. Integrating and repackaging online content (photography, video, 3D tours, cinemagraphs and more), Studeo enables brands to engage personally with audiences on masse while achieving maximum engagement and social sharing. Launching in Real Estate, Studeo has already gained the attention and usage of some of the industry's top brands across Canada and the United States. Now we are poised to enter into new verticals, closing our first contract with a U.S. luxury VRBO.
http://snapclarity.comShift Health
Shift Health is a leading edge digital health company, grounded in solving key problems for health systems, through recognizing at its core, that patients are people first. Our expert leadership, foundational healthcare experience and creative talent have created an unique interactive platform, Tickit® which empowers patients as partners in care, giving healthcare professionals personalized, live data analytics at patient and population level. Our 30 customers, including Boston Children's Hospital and San Francisco Public Health Department, have cut appointment time in half while still being able to build better relationships with their patients. We are growing, doubling sales in 2016, are profitable and have been been recognized by Health 2.0 as one of the top influencers of the digital health space.
http://shifthealth.caPenta Medical
Penta Medical is developing a wearable therapeutic system to improve the recovery process of soft tissue injuries. We're targeting professional athletes, a $90M market, before expanding into the $30B physiotherapy market and the $185B chronic conditions market.
http://www.pentamedical.caOptimity
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http://www.myoptimity.comMazu
Mazu is a family content messaging platform that provides a two way engagement system to promote real life interaction, core values and interests for the whole family. We partner with large brands such as LA Lakers, NY Knicks and engage our family audience with professional sports, brands, music and entertainment. Our sole mission is for the Love of Family by creating a co-viewing, co-engaging experience both in Digital and real life for the whole family.
mazufamily.comKeatext
Keatext is an AI-driven startup offering Text Analytics platform for Customer Experience departments to assist them with recommendations to improves customer experience based on the analysis of hundreds of thousands of feedback they’ve collected through emails, chats or surveys,... We believe that AI based technology is a key factor to democratize cognitive applications capable of making companies engage with their customers in a conversational way to build and improve customer loyalty. Since 2015, Keatext is counting on the support of amazing angels and institutional investors who believe in the team, the technology and the problem we are solving
http://www.keatext.aiInitLive
InitLive takes a mobile-first approach to managing the most mobile of event resources - the team on the ground. The cloud-based system includes a web service and a free mobile device app. InitLive equips event planners, event staff and volunteers with a real-time communication system and a comprehensive scheduling service. The tool improves the end-to-end experience for the team, and by extension, event attendees and sponsors. It reduces set up time, keeps event planners organized and increases staff communication, creating an overall safer event space.
www.initlive.comHunch Manifest
In order for Google to match web content with search requests, it needs to understand what webpage is about. Google recommends pages be translated into "schema markup" so that their algorithms understand. Schema App translates content on the web into schema markup, page by page, or in bulk. The results of translating your pages are higher search rank, 30% higher click through rates, and rich results in search (such as stars and images). Digital marketers subscribe to our tools monthly to do translations 82% faster than doing it manually with no errors, at scale across client portfolios or large enterprise websites.
www.hunchmanifest.comEatSleepRIDE Mobile
EatSleepRIDE Motorcycle GPS is the most advanced and comprehensive app for motorcycle riders. ESR is a social telemetric app that helps motorcycle riders explore & share the best roads, track unlimited rides, find riders nearby and share their riding experiences in a community platform. The ESR app provides safety too. Using CRASHLIGHT® it can automatically detect a crash and notify set contacts of the rider’s location. Since the app launched in 2013 ESR has been rated top motorcycle app and continues to help riders log 10s of millions of miles in 138 countries. The EatSleepRIDE app (ESR app) is available free for both iOS and Android and works in conjunction with the EatSleepRIDE website. Check it out now app.EatSleepRIDE.com.
eatsleepride.comClickDishes
ClickDishes is an on-demand food-tech startup that reinvents the traditional methods of ordering food and modernizes restaurant operations management. The ClickDishes platform partners with local restaurants, enabling their customers to order in-app streamlining to-go ordering, dine in eating, and payment services.
www.clickdishes.comChic Marie
Chic Marie is a clothing-rental company, based on a subscription model. For $55/month, women can receive up to 9 different items of clothes, that they can wear and return, to receive new ones.
chicmarie.com/enXpertSea
In 2050 our planet will be home to 10 billion humans. Unlike livestock, aquaculture can potentially provide healthy protein for everyone without wrecking the environment. XpertSea empowers aquaculture producers of all stripes to redefine their resource management practices and achieve better yields through powerful, user-centered technology. Our platform combines complementary hardware and software solutions for generating, storing and analyzing accurate data about aquatic populations.
http://xpertsea.comAmbience Data
Ambience Data provides remote real-time environmental monitoring by offering an IoT platform as a service. We accomplish this with our specialized hardware that receives data from the sensors, which then uses a commercial GSM or WiFi connection to wirelessly transmit the information to our servers. The live data is transmitted and available on our web-based dashboard in the form of graphs, charts, tables, maps, etc. Our dashboard requires zero programming skills, can be fully setup in a matter of minutes, and has a fully customizable user interface. Customers are also able to set thresholds on each sensor parameter and receive live alerts and daily reports in the form of either email or SMS notifications.
http://ambiencedata.comTexta
Supper
If you love music, food, drinks, and places with the perfect vibe, we want you. Share your favorite place to eat, drink, party, or chill to join our list of trusted curators from around the world.
http://supper.mxHooch
In most cases, going out and exploring the bar and nightlife scene in cities can be confusing and fairly expensive. Hooch™ was made to streamline that process by giving you hundreds of places to go while also having a drink every day ON US.
hooch.coGuidePal
GuidePal is filtering out the noise for an unforgettable experience. We're all about high-quality curated city guides from sources you can trust: local experts, professional journalists, and your friends.
With GuidePal, you will only get the best experiences. Our experts reveal the hard-to-find, high-quality places genuinely loved by locals. Explore our expert guides for inspiration and collect all your favourite places in your own beautiful digital guides, which you can then share with friends.
www.guidepal.comGuestdriven
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http://www.guestdriven.comgShift
SEO and Content Optimization Platform. At gShift, we make life easier for digital marketers to connect with their audience.
http://www.gshiftlabs.comPlotly
Plotly provides GitHub-style data governance, reporting, and collaboration for modern data science and scientific computing.
plot.ly