Embedded Partners

On Site: Nirali Rathwa, CEO & Co-Founder

Bionomics Health Innovations is a life-sciences company advancing next-generation genetic insights to enable proactive health and disease resilience. We integrate scientific research, biomarker discovery, and translational innovation to develop accessible solutions that help individuals and healthcare systems move from reactive treatment toward early risk understanding and prevention. Operating at the intersection of science, commercialization, and ecosystem collaboration, Bionomics is building scalable, evidence-driven solutions with global relevance. Our long-term vision is to become a trusted engine for translating genetic science into meaningful real-world health impact.

On Site: Himanshu Joshi, Chief Executive Officer

COHUMAIN LABS is an AI research and product company that harnesses collective intelligence, the synergy between human expertise and machine capability, to build safe, secure, and aligned AI solutions to solve real-life problems. We bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world application, developing AI systems grounded in scientific rigor, transparency, and human-centricity. Our approach ensures AI augments human decision-making rather than replacing it, creating technology that organizations can trust and understand.

On Site: Alex Cheah, Managing Partner and Soham Mehta, CFO

Lionpeak Partners is an early-stage investment and operating platform that works alongside founders from seed through Series A and beyond. We focus on technically sophisticated companies across AI, data infrastructure, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies, supporting both capital formation and the operational groundwork required to scale responsibly.

Our strength lies in combining capital strategy, investor alignment, and hands-on operational support. We help companies think through capital structure (equity, debt, or hybrid), prepare for institutional diligence, and engage the right investors at the right stage while allowing founders to stay focused on building and selling.

Beyond fundraising, Lionpeak operates as a flexible platform founders can leverage as needed, including fractional finance support, recruitment, legal and academic partnerships, go-to-market validation, and access to a global network of operators, enterprise buyers, and strategic partners. We are selective in how we engage and work best with teams looking for long-term partners rather than transactional capital.

Founded in Canada and active globally, Lionpeak Partners bridges the disciplines of product innovation, capital markets, and strategy to build the next generation of intelligent, durable enterprises.

On Site: Andrea Irina Yzeiri, Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Picsume Inc. is an award winning recruitment platform that replaces traditional resumes with dynamic, structured talent profiles built for faster, clearer hiring. Candidates present experience through rich media and validated data, while employers receive consistent information that integrates with existing HR systems. The platform reduces bias, simplifies screening, and scales with growing teams, helping organizations connect with qualified talent and make better hiring decisions.

On Site: Aashna Aggarwal, Project Manager, Customer Success

Powertrust is a climate tech startup focused on enabling clean energy procurement from impactful distributed energy projects around the world. Through its project management platform, Powertrust helps large organizations identify, evaluate, and contract renewable energy and decarbonization projects across their global portfolios. By bringing transparency, structure, and speed to the procurement process, Powertrust enables companies to make faster, more confident investment decisions to meet their climate and energy goals.

On Site: Olivia Charles, Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Veridocx is an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform designed to help medical device startups navigate the FDA process with clarity and confidence. We aggregate and structure FDA guidance, predicate data, decision summaries, and historical submissions to reduce the information asymmetry that makes regulatory strategy so difficult for early-stage teams. Our goal is to provide startups with consultant-level insight in a format that is accessible, structured, and scalable.

Veridocx is built specifically for founders who need to make smart regulatory decisions early — from predicate selection to testing strategy to submission readiness. We help companies move faster, reduce unnecessary consulting spend, and approach FDA interactions with stronger strategic positioning.

On Site: Aldwin Neekon, Marketer

If you’re a small to mid-sized B2B business using Google Ads for lead generation, you’re probably having a terrible time. You’re not small enough to dominate your small, local niche, and you’re not big enough to feed Google Ads’ algorithms enough cash (I mean clicks and conversions). Inquisitive Marketer Inc. helps companies like yours figure out how to find your next customer with Google Ads.

On Site: Tim Morton, Cofounder & President

Prompta AI is a people-centered, AI-enabled change and integration intelligence platform that helps organizations deliver transformation and post-merger integration by converting workforce sentiment into disciplined leadership action. Prompta AI captures insight using privacy-first, text-based prompts that do not depend on HR systems or personal identifiable information. It applies advanced natural language processing (NLP) to open-ended feedback to uncover what employees/customers truly think and feel. Insights are then segmented to pinpoint friction points by team, function, location, and level, and translated into rapid Insight-to-Action cycles, equipping leaders and people managers with clear actions, messaging guidance, and enablement tools to reduce risk, build trust, and accelerate adoption.

On Site: Kevin Kuang, Founder & CEO

Pillarix is an agentic AI platform building the intelligence layer for construction projects, helping teams reduce costs, avoid delays, and protect work quality by automating project management workflows.

On Site: Ameya Juvekar, Founder & CEO

HealthBuddha is an ecosystem of practitioners, bringing users to those who are best aligned with their health needs.
Powered by intelligent systems, we connect the right practitioners with the right users—creating trust, enabling meaningful collaboration, and supporting long-term health and vitality.

On Site: Areeb Salsabil, Founder & CEO and Vaishal Jariwala, Founder & COO

SecondPlate Inc. is a Toronto-based social enterprise and digital platform dedicated to reducing food waste while making high-quality meals more affordable. The app connects users with local restaurants, allowing them to purchase surplus food at discounts ranging from 20% to 50%. By turning potential waste into discounted dining options, the initiative helps businesses recover costs and provides a sustainable solution to urban food insecurity.

On Site: Andrew Murphy, CEO 

Stature is a leadership intelligence company that helps organizations see leadership strain before it turns into burnout, turnover, or declining performance. Most leadership investments rely on lagging indicators and broad programs. Stature provides early insight into leadership capacity, pressure, and cultural alignment at both individual and organizational levels. Leaders gain clear direction on where to focus development, while organizations aim coaching and resources where they will have the greatest effect.

On Site: Shrutya Bhalla, CEO & Co-founder

BioDynLab is a Toronto-based computational health start-up specializing in two core areas:
1. Drug Discovery: We have developed a proprietary computing platform (OPTIMUS) designed to accelerate and expand the capacity to discover novel small-molecule therapies.
2. Biomanufacturing & Process Development
We are building tools and methods that enhance the speed, efficiency, and bioengineering of biological compounds, including bioenzymes, proteins (MACRO), and catalysts, while reducing associated costs. Our Mission is to advance human health by generating new scientific knowledge that drives breakthroughs in life science R&D

On Site: Maria Paz Navarro Pena, CEO and Felipe Andres Arredondo Velasco, CTI

AtacamaScope is a binational STEM innovation company operating in both North and South America. We are a Chilean-Canadian educational technology company that supports teachers and school students in strengthening STEM areas (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), with a core focus on astronomy as a gateway to scientific thinking. We offer an affordable and easy-to-use platform that enables parents and educators to teach astronomy in an interactive and accessible way, fully aligned with school curricula. Our platform combines technological tools such as simulators, educational video games, remote telescopes, and real-time astrophotography to deliver immersive and meaningful learning experiences. Our mission is to bring the universe into classrooms and homes, inspiring curiosity, exploration, and a love for science from an early age.Through our astronomy-themed videogames, simulators, and real-time astrophotography using telescopes located in the world’s astronomy capital — the Atacama Desert in Chile — we offer a hands-on and engaging solution for teaching astronomy to children.

On Site: Ahsan Eslami, CEO 

Oversite is an AI field intelligence company building smart-glasses software for construction and maritime teams. We help frontline workers capture, analyze, and act on real-world operational data in real time to improve safety, quality, and productivity.

Kevito Group partners with emerging and established Asian food concepts to successfully launch and scale across Canada. Our team combines operational expertise, franchise infrastructure, and deep market insight to build brands designed for long‑term success

On Site: Nancy Elliott, Founder

Elliott Law is a full service Canadian immigration law firm assisting individuals and companies with immigration legal issues, including permanent residence (EE, PNP, Entrepreneur, Self-Employed, TR to PR, Special Programs, In Demand, and others) temporary residence (Global Talent Stream, LMIA, LMIA-exempt, work permit, study permit, temporary resident permit and others), sponsorships, Federal Court litigation (judicial review and mandamus applications), hearings and appeals, enforcement matters and highly specialized and complex legal issues.