Fuzz Bomb Collages
Year Founded: December 2024
Founder(s)/CEO: Damian Polan and Marysol Madrazo (founders); Mr. Toby (our dog and CEO) the face and inspiration of the company.
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Number of Employees: Three
Office Location: Fully remote
Product Description: We turn up to 100 of your favourite cat, dog or human photos into a custom collage in minutes. No design skills — just upload, click, smile and print on mugs, totes, water bottles and more.
Target Customers: For cat and dog lovers who want to bring their favourite memories with them everywhere they go.
Competitive Differentiator: Fuzz Bombs is the only platform that can create high-volume, totally personalized cat, dog and human photo collages in minutes — no background cutting or editing chaos required.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Fuzz Bomb Collages started as a passion project after I (Marysol) spent hours crafting a collage of our dog, Mr. Toby. That moment sparked the idea to build a faster, more magical way to create collages for cats, dogs and even your favourite humans.
Gift Better Co.
Year Founded: 2019
Founder(s)/CEO: Olivia Villalta (co-founder/CEO), Vanessa Griffiths (co-founder/ CMO)
Number of Employees: Six
Office Location: 1200 St Laurent Blvd. and St. Laurent Shopping Centre
Product Description: Full-service enterprise gifting partner that delivers custom-branded gifts at scale. We manage curation, sourcing, assembly and global fulfillment to create measurable relationship impact.
Target Customers: Marketing, sales and HR teams at law firms, software companies and professional services organizations seeking scalable gifting for engagement and retention.
Competitive Differentiator: We deliver high customization at low minimums, use technology to streamline curation and logistics, and include a donation with each gift to strengthen CSR impact.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Delivered 9,600 gifts to graduates in more than 60 countries for uOttawa’s 2021 convocation. This year, our gifting programs have contributed more than 13,000 meals to food banks across North America and we are developing an AI-powered gifting platform to automate corporate gifting workflows for teams focused on engagement and retention.
MyVeloFit
Year Founded: 2020
Founder(s)/CEO: Co-founder and CEO Jesse Jarjour, co-founder and COO Justin Goulding
Number of Employees: Six
Office Location: 7 Bayview Station Rd. (hybrid)
Product Description: AI-driven bike-fitting software that analyzes cyclist videos to deliver accurate kinematic analysis, mobility insights and personalized bike fit guidance.
Target Customers: Recreational to performance-focused cyclists seeking accessible fit guidance and cycling professionals — bike fitters, coaches and bike shops — using software to support their clients.
Competitive Differentiator: Combines computer vision and expert methodology to deliver reliable, personalized bike-fit recommendations from any mobile device without sensors, markers or in-person appointments.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Over 150,000 active user accounts in more than 100 countries; 395 per cent revenue growth in the past three years; official bike-fit partner of Triathlon Canada and Speed Skating Canada.
NotaryPro
Year Founded: 2016
Founder(s)/CEO: Charles Segal, co-founder and CEO; David Barder, co-founder and CMO; Robert Onley, co-founder and chief legal and innovation officer
Number of Employees: 13
Office Location: 7 Bayview Station Rd.
Product Description: Canada’s top-rated online notary with seven-minute appointments, free document templates, live document drafting, virtual wet-ink signing, plus more than 450 in-person notaries and nationwide Staples access.
Target Customers: Businesses and individuals across Canada and North America looking for a secure, reliable, fast and convenient way to draft, sign, commission and notarize various documents.
Competitive Differentiator: The only Canadian notary offering a hybrid virtual-and-retail model. Seven-minute remote notarization supported by more than 450 locations providing instant, walk-in legal services without a lawyer.
Traction or Notable Milestone: 2021: secured $750,000 seed funding; 2024: partnered with Staples Canada for in-store notary; 2025: secured $1-million Dragons’ Den offer.
SmartCocoon
Year Founded: 2016
Founder(s)/CEO: Founder Kaveh Raeesi, CEO Andrew Bowen
Number of Employees: Seven
Office Location: 200 Edgeley Blvd., Concord, Ont. (founder based in Ottawa)
Product Description: Our booster fan fixes rooms that are too hot or too cold. It syncs with your HVAC, works with any thermostat, integrates with Nest and Ecobee.
Target Customers: Homeowners and renters who care about health, comfort and smarter living will appreciate this easy DIY upgrade that helps create a more balanced and comfortable home.
Competitive Differentiator: It has built-in AI and a temperature and humidity sensor, including an HVAC room health dashboard. Proudly made in Canada. We work with HVAC companies (e.g., Enercare).
Traction or Notable Milestone: More than 22,000 happy customers, available on Amazon, BestBuy, HomeDepot, Rona, Walmart. Recent milestones include a new product launch and a deal with Enercare.
Sleep Efficiency
Year Founded: 2015
Founder(s)/CEO: Andrew Holmes, owner and founder; Brandon Sokoloski, business development and operations manager; Jason Flick, executive chairman and partner; Qasim Alikhan, respirologist
Number of Employees: Four
Office Location: 7 Bayview Station Rd.
Product Description: Sleep Efficiency offers home-based sleep testing with nationwide home delivery. Results reviewed by a respirologist in as soon as 48 hours.
Target Customers: Canadians experiencing fatigue, daytime sleepiness or poor sleep quality. Busy professionals, remote area patients and health-care providers seeking fast, reliable diagnostic testing without hospital wait times or inconvenience.
Competitive Differentiator: Sleep Efficiency delivers clinical-grade home sleep testing to your doorstep, offering a reliable, convenient alternative to overwhelmed hospitals facing lengthy wait times for traditional diagnostic studies.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Andrew Holmes routinely appears on CTV News as a sleep subject matter expert. Sleep Efficiency has also been featured on CBC’s The National. Holmes is also a sleep consultant to professional sports teams such as the Ottawa Senators. In 2026, Sleep Efficiency will be expanding into the B2B markets and working closely with the transportation industry.
