EcoSafeSense Inc.
Year Founded: 2023
Founder(s)/CEO: Olga Koppel
(Sponsored)
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP and partners lead with generosity
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) are no strangers to supporting charities in the nation’s capital. From the Boys & Girls Club of Ottawa to Crohn’s and Colitis Canada to the
SnowBall 2026: A premier networking event with purpose returns to 50 Sussex Dr.
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Number of Employees: Three
Office Location: Ottawa
Product Description: Mobile sensors and AI-powered software for hyperlocal air quality monitoring to support public health, sustainability and smarter environmental decision-making.
Target Customers: Municipalities, environmental regulators, public health agencies and commercial fleets seeking real-time, neighbourhood-level air quality data to inform policy and reduce emissions.
Competitive Differentiator: Combines mobility, live data and fine-scale spatial resolution with decision-ready analytics, offering real-time environmental insights where fixed sensors fall short.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Achieved TRL 7 with pilot deployments, won four pitch competitions, secured first $40,000 revenue including for an active Transport Canada project to put sensors on bus stops and an autonomous Aurrigo shuttle in Kanata North.
Garma Energy
Year Founded: 2025
Founder(s)/CEO: Chris Stern (CEO), Reza Lotfalian (CTO), Ian Hilborn (COO)
Number of Employees: Four
Office Location: Fully remote
Product Description: Garma Energy is a technology-agnostic thermal energy storage (TES) developer and operator, delivering decarbonized heat with the lowest levelized cost of heat (LCOH) at point of use.
Target Customers: Industrial and commercial sector such as food and beverage, pulp and paper, primary metals and chemicals manufacturers
Competitive Differentiator: Garma will supply modular decarbonized TES and heat-as-a-service (HaaS) at a lower cost than incumbent technology, building a scaled distributed heat utility.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Garma has a pipeline of 108 MWh TES projects in Ontario and Alberta with the capacity of providing 17,200 metric tons of annual GHG emissions reduction.
GreenVeil Packaging Inc.
Year Founded: 2024
Founder(s)/CEO: Ali Maleki (Founder and CEO)
Number of Employees: Three
Office Location: Advanced Research Complex, University of Ottawa, 25 Templeton St.
Product Description: GreenVeil develops fully biodegradable, antimicrobial packaging solutions for food and agriculture that extends shelf life, reduces waste, enriches soil after degradation and replaces petroleum-based plastics.
Target Customers: Food producers, retailers, agricultural businesses and exporters seeking eco-friendly, functional packaging alternatives to improve safety, sustainability and product freshness.
Competitive Differentiator: GreenVeil uses locally sourced materials to deliver antimicrobial, fully biodegradable packaging with cost-effectiveness, keeping freshness and extending shelf life beyond typical green solutions.
Traction or Notable Milestone: GreenVeil is currently piloting biodegradable packaging with local farmers and industry partners, recently secured $200,000 in eco-funding for equipment and will launch its first production line in Kemptville in September 2025. GreenVeil received a gold medal at the Dubai Invention Show and were awarded by the GEEP program uOttawa and Desjardins Elevator Pitch Competition.
JPlug.io
Year Founded : 2022
Founder(s)/CEO: Jorge Pantoja (CEO), Mark Fossen (CIO), Jim Dawson (VP of Sales)
Number of Employees: Four
Office Location: Bayview Yards, 7 Bayview Station Rd., Ottawa
Product Description: JPlug is the button that enables electric vehicle (EV) charging on businesses. It is a software platform that allows easy integration of EV charging stations and drivers to any user experience.
Target Customers: Proptech and parking tech companies.
Competitive Differentiator: JPlug is seamless to integrate into any interface, enabling businesses to enhance the user experience of their customers.
Traction or Notable Milestone: JPlug has been successfully adopted by office and residential buildings. Its latest business integration was adopted by a proptech company managing dozens of buildings across Canada.
Tinybox Systems
Year Founded: 2023
Founder(s)/CEO: Oliver Zhang, Pooya Saberi, Charlie Frise
Number of Employees: Six
Office Location: Ottawa region, Toronto and Montreal
Product Description: Tinybox uses aerospace technology to enable builders to construct homes anywhere in 48 hours. Tinybox has reduced the components in each wall by 95 per cent with its vacuum-insulated wall module and replaced most of the plumbing and sewage with a bioreactor. Overall, Tinybox can build 10 times faster and at 30 per cent lower cost.
Target Customers: Builders in underserved areas where it’s hard to build homes due to difficult access, shipping, lack of labour, lack of infrastructure, etc.
Competitive Differentiator: Other prefab requires oversized trucks and cranes, Tinybox doesn’t; other builders are constrained by geography, Tinybox can ship anywhere as it’s flat-packed.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Three generations of Tinybox’s prototype, in which the founders have lived for a year. Tinybox is currently delivering to eight customers in the Arctic, Toronto, Montreal and California. Tinybox has reduced build time from four weeks down to three days.
