Seismocode Inc.
Year Founded: 2021 in Turkey (Canadian entity incorporated in 2025)
Founder(s)/CEO: Serhat Tekebaş, founder and CEO
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Number of Employees: Five to seven
Office Location: Hybrid
Product Description: Cloud-based SaaS platform delivering passive seismic data acquisition, analysis and subsurface modelling to support pre-drilling decisions in exploration and geotechnical projects.
Target Customers: Mining, oil and gas and geothermal exploration companies requiring subsurface modelling before drilling, and construction and geotechnical firms performing soil classification studies.
Competitive Differentiator: A project-based, cloud platform dedicated to passive seismic methods, enabling faster subsurface modelling, reduced field costs and remote collaboration before drilling.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Achieved a first POC sale within three months of founding, secured pre-seed investment, won Invest Ottawa’s IO Ignition Pitch Finale (Cohort 28), and initiated POC discussions with Canadian mining companies.
Crewd Inc.
Year Founded: 2025
Founder(s)/CEO: Johny Camara (co-founder and CEO), Hashir Imam (co-founder and COO) and Marco Tan (co-founder and CTO)
Number of Employees: Three
Office Location: Remote
Product Description: Crewd. helps construction contractors share or gain instant access to a pipeline of idle workers from trade firms, handling matching, communication and team management.
Target Customers: Construction SMEs and contractors, specifically those seeking reliable, vetted, on-demand labour for projects, and trades firms looking to monetize their “benched” workforce during downtime.
Competitive Differentiator: The trades firms are our inventory, providing zero-cost recruitment and reliable talent. Additionally, our AI agent allows contractors to request and manage staff without an app.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Eleven companies onboarded, seven using us as their go-to platform for their staffing needs, and four staff suppliers; winner of the Invest Ottawa Immigrant Catalyst Program Pitch Competition ($10,000 grant).
O Nanotech
Year Founded: 2023
Founder(s)/CEO: Keroles Riad
Number of Employees: Two
Office Location: 7 Bayview Station Rd., Ottawa
Product Description: We produce nanomaterials, including metal oxide quantum dots. These metal oxides include a variety of critical minerals such as titanium, copper, zinc and tin.
Target Customers: OEMs and research institutions working on catalysis, clean energy, biofuels and emissions reduction systems.
Competitive Differentiator: Orders of magnitude lower cost enabled by flame-synthesis, while maintaining performance comparable to or exceeding incumbent nanoparticles made with wet-chemistry techniques.
Traction or Notable Milestone: We recently launched our public e-commerce site (Onanotech.ca). We secured approximately $250,000 in scholarship funding. Secured a sub-contractor manufacturer agreement to produce our nanomaterials at larger scales. We filed our first patent application on the use of flame-made quantum dots as catalysts in epoxy photopolymerization. In September, we onboarded our first full-time employee who will be in charge of fulfilling orders, conducting market research and initiating R&D projects.
Beamra
Year Founded: 2024
Founder(s)/CEO: Mahmoud Al Jaroud, Imad Ibrahim
Number of Employees: 12
Office Location: Ottawa
Product Description: AI enterprise strategy platform that helps organizations clarify goals, map initiatives and execute strategies using integrated business tools.
Target Customers: Enterprises, government teams and mid‑size organizations seeking clarity, alignment and AI‑driven strategic planning across digital transformation, operations and customer experience.
Competitive Differentiator: Comprehensive, structured and consultant‑friendly platform that replaces scattered tools and unstructured data with one unified system, reducing cost and saving time.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Rapid early traction with 50-plus clients, $200,000 in revenue in six months and 20 active partnerships with leading consulting firms worldwide.
DocSplain AI Doctor Inc.
Year Founded: 2023
Founder(s): Hamid Shirdastian, co-founder and CEO, Mohsen Sadi, co-founder and CTO
Number of Employees: Early-stage team
Office Location: 7 Bayview Station Rd., Ottawa
Product Description: An AI layer on top of electronic medical records that supports physicians across the full patient journey, reduces administrative work and replaces fragmented EMR workflows.
Target Customers: Small and mid-sized primary care clinics, family physicians and care teams operating in resource-constrained health-care environments.
Competitive Differentiator: Workflow-first and AI-native, designed for easy adoption and immediate impact by moving beyond rigid data entry toward clinical reasoning and continuity of care.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Over 80,000 patient visits supported and more than $200,000 in revenue and pre-purchases as of December 2025; listed on Supply Ontario’s Vendor of Record for AI Scribe; active pilots with Canadian clinics; advanced discussions with EMR ecosystem partners.
