GoKidu Technologies
Year Founded: 2023
Founder(s)/CEO: Puja Pachchigar
(Sponsored)
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Number of Employees: Seven
Office Location: Ottawa
Product Description: Secure, affordable platform for known sperm, egg and surrogate donation; connecting families with verified donors, legal tools and community support.
Target Customers: LGBTQ+ families, single parents by choice, and couples facing infertility seeking safe, ethical and affordable known donation options.
Competitive Differentiator: First platform to combine verified known donation with legal, medical and community tools, offering a safer, ethical alternative to sperm banks and forums.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Recently launched with 400-plus users onboarded across North America, reflecting strong early demand.
Loon
Year Founded: 2022
Founder(s)/CEO: Ghayath Janoudi (CEO), Mara Rada (COO)
Number of Employees: Eight
Office Location: Studio7, 7 Bayview Station Rd., Ottawa
Product Description: Scientifically validated, regulatory-grade AI platform that optimizes drug reimbursement to reduce timelines and fast-track patient access to approved therapies.
Target Customers: Biopharma, national health systems, clinical research organizations, professional medical associations, clinical researchers.
Competitive Differentiator: Only regulatory-compliant research AI with scientifically validated performance automating drug reimbursement evidence, outperforming human accuracy and speed while exceeding global health systems standards and requirements.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Enterprise contracts with global pharma and health systems; $370,000 bootstrapped revenue; peer-reviewed validation; silver medal at 2025 Startup World Cup; active pipeline with seven top pharma.
Pluvo
Year Founded: 2024
Founder(s)/CEO: Alexandre Labreche (CEO), Vanessa Galarneau (CFO), Andrew Ingram (CTO), Sebastian Fallenbuchl (COO)
Number of Employees: 13
Office Location: 421 Richmond Rd., Ottawa
Product Description: An AI-powered platform for continuous financial planning, scenario modelling and strategic forecasting that helps businesses make confident, data-driven decisions in real time.
Target Customers: CFOs, finance directors, accounting firms and decision-makers at mid-market and enterprise businesses seeking efficient financial planning and strategic decision-making.
Competitive Differentiator: Uses AI to embed context and automate financial model building enabling teams to improve planning without lengthy implementations or specialized expertise.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Backed by industry leaders; serving 60-plus CFOs and operators; revenue growing 447 per cent year over year.
RV Management USA
Year Founded: 2022
Founder(s)/CEO: Joel Williams-Walters (CEO), Michael-Anthony Clement (COO), Bhavik Mistry (CTO), Khristine Lahaie (head of customer success)
Number of Employees: Five
Office Location: Ottawa-based, with a distributed remote team across Canada and the U.S.
Product Description: A platform that helps RV owners consign their vehicles into managed rental fleets, powered by vertical SaaS and a network of professional fleet managers.
Target Customers: RV owners with under-utilized vehicles, fleet operators looking to scale and renters seeking premium RV experiences.
Competitive Differentiator: Combines marketplace reach with proprietary software, insurance infrastructure and land partnerships to deliver full-stack asset management for the RV consignment economy.
Traction or Notable Milestones: More than $1 million in rental bookings and more than $10 million in assets under management; launched across 15 U.S. markets; partnered with commercial insurance and national storage providers; 300 per cent year over year growth.
Stratosfy
Year Founded: 2018
Founder(s)/CEO: Madan Kanala
Number of Employees: Four
Office Location: Fully remote
Product Description: Stratosfy uses AI and sensors to monitor restaurant refrigeration, preventing spoilage, reducing labour and automating compliance for safer, smarter kitchen operations.
Target Customers: Multi-unit restaurant operators, franchisees and foodservice businesses seeking to reduce inventory loss, ensure compliance and streamline back-of-house operations with smart automation.
Competitive Differentiator: Stratosfy goes beyond basic temperature sensors by delivering AI-driven insights, predictive alerts and automated compliance, thereby cutting spoilage and labour costs across multi-unit operations.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Stratosfy provides AI-powered refrigeration monitoring solutions to numerous multi-unit Wendy’s and Domino’s franchisees across Canada. The platform has been featured in industry media like Restobiz and showcased at major trade events including the RC Show and Campuspalooza.
