Our startups

Our startups

We're proud to have been able to support all these startups since 2017. Discover them with us!

MESH PROGRAM

ALTITUDE PROGRAM

GROWTH PROGRAM

FOOTPRINT PROGRAM

The Empreinte program by Le Pôle (Pôle d’innovation en tourisme durable based in Quebec City) prepares entrepreneurs in the prototyping and pre-commercialization phase for the next stages of business growth in the tourism, culture and entertainment industry, while addressing current sustainable development priorities and considerations.

Footprint Cohort - Spring 2024

Projects in the prototyping and pre-commercialization phase that address sustainable development priorities in the tourism, culture and entertainment industries.

RAV3D-STUDIO

Spring 2024 Cohort

The aim of RAV3D-STUDIO is to enable the creation of augmented reality projects using a simple platform, and to enhance a real experience.

The Cultural Discount

Spring 2024 Cohort

To be the essential resource for the cultural community in terms of procurement, promoting the reuse of materials for the benefit of production creation.

The Zero Waste Project

Spring 2024 Cohort

Our ambition is to train people through different projects to enable them to be autonomous and improve their consumption habits.

LeMonde studio

Spring 2024 Cohort

LeMonde Studio is part of a transformative movement to develop more environmentally-friendly entertainment. Our creations, which combine interactive art and sensory technology, invite the public to become a key player in a unique immersive experience.

Merisia

Spring 2024 Cohort

Advancing digital technology towards a sustainable, environmentally-friendly future. We aim to inspire and guide Quebec companies to adopt environmentally-friendly development practices, while providing high-performance, reliable digital solutions that meet our customers’ needs.

Miévo

Spring 2024 Cohort

An alternative method of installing electric vehicle charging stations to facilitate the tourism and events industry’s participation in sustainable development.

Growth Cohort - Winter 2022

4elements

Cohort 1

4elements specializes in “gamification”, creating unifying experiences anchored in real places that enable visitors to connect with the place and other visitors, to engage, and to change the course of history, creating a unique adventure with every visit. 4elements aims to occupy an important place in the experiential tourism and live entertainment market worldwide.

Gallea

Cohort 1

Gallea is a meeting place for artists, exhibition venues and buyers, enabling the visibility of local visual art through concrete online and physical opportunities. Our business model, known by the technological term O2O (online-to-offline), brings a new approach to the art market: when exhibited, Gallea works are identified by a unique code connected to the artist’s Gallea profile. With just one click, art lovers can get to know the artist while viewing his or her various works.

Hoppin' world

Cohort 1

Hoppin’ World develops and operates the Hoppin’ social virtual reality network dedicated to promoting real-life tourist and cultural attractions, enabling teleportation and encounters anywhere, anytime, with anyone. Our ambition is to become the Instagram of 360° publications, enabling tourism and cultural organizations to teleport users of the platform straight to their homes and truly experience the atmosphere of the place, alone or in a group.

LabNco

Cohort 1

In addition to architectural services, LabNco. is, since 2018, the only company to offer in situ experience design services integrating science, data technologies (measurements and simulations), participatory methods and ”storytelling” (telling a story via space). The result is an experience with superior impact that derisks projects, exceeds expectations and guarantees the desired benefits.

Momentum

Cohort 1

Momentum is a transportation consultancy that puts mobility at the heart of urban development projects. By combining vision and technical analysis, Momentum offers an integrated range of services services to ensure that transport and sustainable mobility are taken into account in urban development. The individual pedestrian and active mobility are priorities in Momentum’s solutions for urban development.

SAGA Sound Strategy

Cohort 1

SAGA Stratégie Sonore is an innovative communications agency specializing in the creation of 360° digital sound identities for the creative, cultural and tourism sectors. As sound is the pillar of human empathy, its power to transmit emotions plays an essential role in post-pandemic communications. Mindful of the importance of a narrative user journey during any form of experience, SAGA Sound Strategy orchestrates all the sound components of an experience or brand (voice, music, sound effects, notifications, ambiences), aligning the strengths of sound so that participants can enjoy a coherent emotional experience before, during and after, amplifying their engagement and therefore their appreciation.

Growth Cohort - Winter 2023

gradiant

Cohort 2

Gradiant is a company specializing in data science for the creative industries. It helps cultural, media and tourism organizations leverage their data to build resilience and amplify their positive impact on their communities. It relies on the development of solutions based on artificial intelligence and advanced analytics in co-creation to support them.

Face4 games

Cohort 2

Jeux Face4 is an innovative company that produces a wide variety of edutainment board games for the whole family. The company brings people together around games to have fun together, and to create and strengthen bonds.

Jeux Face4 develops games for families, schools, clinics and tourism.

The Nature Shuttle

Cohort 2

NANA is a company that has become the first and largest collective sustainable connector between cities and parks. It enables city dwellers to take excursions into Quebec’s natural spaces. NANA is positioned as Quebec’s future flagship in sustainable mobility between nature destinations, urban centers and Quebec’s regions.

Locapaq

Cohort 2

Locapaq specializes in the outdoors. It offers three main services: equipment rental, guided excursions and corporate services for the outdoors.

Locapaq innovates by improving the rental system and developing new complementary services to meet the growing demand for a call to nature. What’s more, with its corporate multi-services, Locapaq demonstrates its originality by combining ease, accessibility, sustainable development, inclusion and well-being.

O'land stations

Cohort 2

Stations O’land aims to create a world without single-use plastic waste, by providing an infrastructure for refill and reuse needs, such as filling water bottles. Water refill stations are a B2B solution for temporary events, cities, tourist attractions and sports and event venues.

Piecemeal

Cohort 2

Piecemeal offers a module for automating shift assignment for banquets and events, based on the collective agreement or internal rules.
Before arriving at this product, the source of its current growth, Piecemeal had created a platform for managing food services, hotels and restaurants.

Pivot

Cohort 2

Pivot is a Montreal-based company specializing in the automation of human resources management processes within restaurants. Thanks to its innovative approach, Pivot is redefining the relationship between employees and employers.

Strateolab

Cohort 2

Strateolab is a creative digital company that designs and develops projects using augmented reality to serve the tourism sector. With its unique expertise combining history and immersive technologies, the company’s multidisciplinary team delivers turnkey digital experiences for its customers. The company’s mission is to transform every visit into an immersive and memorable experience.

RE-AK technologies

Cohort 2

Technologies RE-AK is an expert in emotional and cognitive analysis, using biometrics. The company offers a range of services from the development of customized applications and experiences to the generation of business intelligence for the event, experiential and commercial sectors.

Tedy

Cohort 2

Tedy is a young technology company offering innovative solutions for employers looking to enhance their employer brand and employee well-being.
Tedy has created a new category of benefits that falls between traditional solutions (such as group insurance) and reward programs (also known as perks).

Growth Cohort - Fall 2023

In Quebec

Cohort 3

Au Québ is halfway between a media company and a tourism content creation agency. Au Québ enables tourist destinations to promote themselves on different communication channels, and helps them create quality content and perform better on their platforms.

Bon appétit Qc

Cohort 3

Bon appétit Qc is a company in the Quebec tourism industry created by two people with a passion for local products and a desire to provide epicureans with unique, authentic and memorable experiences.

Bromont Campervan

Cohort 3

Bromont Campervan is a company that rents out 100% electric or combustion-powered converted vans. Founded in 2021 and the first company to offer electric van rentals in North America, the company’s mission is to reinvent vanlife with a sustainable tourism approach and thus reduce the impact of tourism on the environment, with the goal of a 100% electric fleet by 2025.

Centralio

Cohort 3

Founded in 2019, Centrale Technologies develops a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platform for interactive configuration and quoting. With its origins in manufacturing, the company has diversified into the hospitality sector, adapting to the specific needs of the tourism industry.

Elance

Cohort 3

Élance creates inclusive work environments through an intelligent online platform (SaaS) that provides companies with specialized and personalized support in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
Thanks to its artificial intelligence-powered platform, Élance offers an IED status report (diagnosis), customized training adapted to identities/hierarchical positions and knowledge, and appropriate organizational recommendations, as well as continuous measurement of the IED performance of the actions implemented.

Giglinked

Cohort 3

GigLinked is an online marketplace that facilitates the booking of musical acts for the hospitality industry and event organizers. Leveraging its technology and subscriber base of over 600 musicians, GigLinked optimizes the process of finding, hiring and paying musicians.

Mountain Goats

Cohort 3

Les Chèvres de montagne is a community of women in the outdoors, whose mission is to democratize the outdoors by lowering accessibility barriers to activities of all kinds for women and girls.
The company creates unique province-wide outdoor experiences, tailored to the needs of each individual, in a friendly, non-competitive environment.

MyCantine

Cohort 3

My Cantine is a technology company whose ambition is to enable everyone to eat well away from home. To achieve this, My Cantine is developing innovative means of automated sales of fresh or frozen produce, and federating an ecosystem of food-producing partners who share its values and vision. The offer is an autonomous restaurant: a connected, secure fridge available 24/7.

Otonomi Solutions

Cohort 3

Otonomi Solutions positions itself as an innovator in Canada’s solar industry with its innovative software solutions. Designed for solar panel installers, wholesalers and resellers specializing in off-grid projects, the company’s software solutions are designed to improve efficiency and stimulate growth, as well as support companies in their digital transition.

Sponteous

Cohort 3

Sponteous is a young, innovative company aimed at independent hoteliers and multi-property hotel groups. Sponteous offers a simple, effective solution to facilitate the booking of premium rooms, combining customer experience, hotel profitability and operational efficiency.

Talksoon

Cohort 3

Talksoon.com is an innovative company specializing in optimized call management for the tourism sector.

Their mission is to simplify and improve communication between tourism businesses and their customers. Talksoon has already established partnerships with key players in the tourism industry, such as restaurants and tourist attractions in Quebec.

Mesh cohort - Spring 2024

Addad Media

Cohort 2024-25

The company offers an innovative advertising solution based on artificial intelligence, with a flexible, pay-per-use business model.

Eden Creative Studio

Cohort 2024-25

Eden Creative Studio is a Montreal-based multimedia company specializing in interactive
illuminations and projections. This young, creative Quebec startup thinks outside the box to tell stories through digital arts and media. At the crossroads of live art and digital art, the studio’s
work stands out by placing people at the heart of its creative process.

Elance

Cohort 2024-25

Élance offers services in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Élance offers a SaaS solution that adapts to the realities of companies and their employees, helping them create inclusive workplaces for all.

Nexart

Cohort 2024-25

As of March 2023, the game Fortnite allows you to create custom games that can be published directly on their platform. With the help of this new tool, we have developed a turnkey service enabling businesses, tourism entities and events to create their own game to reach their target audience in a whole new way.
Our service aims to recreate existing environments or create unique worlds for Quebec tourism entities. This enables them to communicate and interact in new ways with a large
local or international audience.

Novom

Cohort 2024-25

MovOn.vip is an IT innovation in SAAS mode that enables users to cut queues to access events/attractions/services for a small fee. Part of the fee (33%) is donated to sustainable development organizations. The manager pays nothing to use this solution and receives 25% of the money. Novom creates, manages and maintains the platform, and provides managers with a user-friendly, easy-to-integrate dashboard. The manager can therefore offer an enhanced customer experience, and together (user, manager, Novom) we contribute to sustainable development efforts.

Orangead

Cohort 2024-25

The platform enables campaigns to be broadcast on digital screens outside the web, with real-view billing thanks to computer vision sensors and algorithms that analyze screen attention.

Oxygenize (Foresta)

Cohort 2024-25

Oxygenize aims to democratize access to sustainable energy, with the humble mission of reengineering the infrastructure of electric mobility. Our ambitions are commensurate with our depth: to make electric vehicle recharging accessible everywhere, to everyone, at any time. Our innovative solution is distinguished by its combination of three unique functions: open/interoperable technology, a reservation and sharing platform, and hybrid (private/public) charging management. Under-used charging stations are maximized. In the face of collective awareness of the imperatives of decarbonization: we respond to those seeking to rationalize the capital required to acquire charging stations, operating expenses, the capture of carbon credits and internal accountability.

Studio Overall

Cohort 2024-25

Overall reinvents the discovery of sites through outdoor and indoor visitor itineraries that integrate harmoniously with their surroundings.
We develop narrative spaces that combine relaxation, encounters and education, thanks to a family of multifunctional furniture and innovative display systems, creating playful and enriching moments, all focused on the user’s well-being.
Each element, from signage to comfortable, Instagrammable installations, is designed to blend seamlessly into the landscape, be adapted to the different seasons and be accessible to all.

Mesh Cohort - Fall 2023

Bo

Cohort 2023-24

Bo offers a reusable packaging solution with tracking and reverse logistics to replace single-use food packaging on a large scale, promoting a profitable and sustainable business model for foodservice providers.

Miévo

Cohort 2023-24

Miévo offers electric vehicle charging solutions for the tourism and events industry (temporary charging stations).

FRACTAL robotic solutions

Cohort 2023-24

FRACTAL robotic solutions seeks to popularize the use of robots in a variety of environments. They offer complete integration of service robots, covering needs analysis, installation, personnel training, support, and ongoing improvements.

Hiotto AI

Cohort 2023-24

Hiotto AI uses an advanced voluminous language model to help MICE tourism organizers create a personalized virtual assistant in minutes that offers advice, supports multiple languages, and suggests promotions.

Nurau

Cohort 2023-24

Nurau offers prompt engineering expertise for personalized coaching of first-level managers, using Natural Language Processing (NLP) for natural conversations and emotion and behavior analysis algorithms for psychological insights.

EVERYWHERE

Cohort 2023-24

PARTOUT chez nous offers solutions for nomadic workers to work anywhere with adapted tools. They offer a certificate for remote workplaces and a portal for finding suitable workspaces.

Tui-yo

Cohort 2023-24

Tui-yo is a sourcing platform that connects Quebec-based tourism businesses with suppliers to meet their needs. They generate revenue through subscriptions from tourism businesses and suppliers.

Yoplanning

Cohort 2023-24

Yoplanning is a web application for outdoor professionals, offering schedule management, payment, invoicing, online booking, and collaboration with other companies to improve efficiency and increase sales.

Altitude Cohort - Fall 2023

4elements

Cohort 2023-24

4elements has developed a game platform that simplifies the process of creating and managing immersive multiplayer adventures in the real world, enabling experience creators to easily integrate geolocation technologies, interactive objects and more into an open-world multimedia experience.

Hivenue

Cohort 2023-24

Hivenue helps newcomers settle into a new city by offering furnished rooms in shared apartments.

Face4 games

Cohort 2023-24

Sul’bord d’la route au Québec is based on their Sul’bord d’la card games (20, 138, Transcanadienne, 401), which have sold several thousand copies. This success led them to transfer the game to digital format. The free application retains the spirit of the game, i.e. to answer questions on geography, history, miscellaneous and surprising facts about Quebec. All in a humorous and amusing tone.

Panache

Cohort 2023-24

Pivot

Cohort 2023-24

Mesh cohort - Spring 2023

Uska

Cohort 2023-24

Uska (formerly DAHUB) is the 1st online presence optimization platform dedicated to tourism businesses. Tourism businesses (hotels, restaurants, activity providers…) entrust Uska with all their information, which they then relay to their distribution partners (Tourist Office, Google my business, TripAdvisor, Here, OSM…). Tourism operators save time managing their data, seize new opportunities to promote themselves, measure the ROI of broadcasters and maximize direct bookings.

MIA Explore

Cohort 2023-24

MIA is a web-based platform for visualizing and sharing stories, focusing on content, space and time, and offering a tool that automates the triangulation of these. MIA is therefore the ultimate storytelling tool, providing different types of tourism organizations with a platform for highlighting their stories and those of their communities to tourists before and during their visits.

Mythologi

Cohort 2023-24

MYTHOLOGI offers the 360 ELYSIUM solution for the design to distribution of geolocated augmented reality (AR) experiences in real time. With a new creation paradigm, on their code-free cloud platform, it enables anyone to design, host and deploy interactive AR experiences that immediately create new value in spaces. Designed specifically for persistent discovery worlds and experiences, ELYSIUM is intuitive, simple and fun to use, yet powerful enough to create complete gaming experiences.

Landscapes

Cohort 2023-24

PAYSAGES is a multimedia studio specializing in immersive and contemplative experiences. Somewhere between a creative agency, a production company and a label, two artists have developed a unique vision for enhancing living spaces and encouraging us to take the time to appreciate them. Co-founders Daniel Boisclair and Charles Montambault surround themselves with artists and specialists for the needs of each project, to create sensitive, high-quality experiences that generate in the audience a sense of calm and harmony with the atmosphere of a space.

Sound Serenity

Cohort 2023-24

We’re all looking for serenity and well-being. In times when anxiety and stress can easily resurface (pandemics, lack of time for oneself, hyper-productivity), offering spaces and experiences where everyone can refocus and soothe themselves is the answer to a growing need. SÉRÉNITÉ SONORE is a company that combines music and well-being. An atypical concert hall in Montreal has been created, offering concerts in hanging chairs, a concept that has been exported to the great outdoors (in the forest, under the stars). In parallel with their events, a collection of musical instruments has been created (harp-lyre, musical awakening tray). Digital wellness trails in various locations are also now on offer.

TaxyMatch

Cohort 2023-24

TAXYMATCH enables passengers with similar journeys to share a cab, thus benefiting from reduced prices and environmental impact.

Voyages Latitude

Cohort 2023-24

VOYAGES LATITUDE is both a travel agency and a wholesaler, selling packages and products in B2B and B2C, both online and at our branches. The business model is based on human expertise, but incorporates many forms of technology to enhance the customer experience from start to finish. Technology also improves the lives of employees, while eliminating many resource-intensive, low-value-added tasks.

Yiqqi

Cohort 2023-24

YIQQI is a collaborative video platform that makes it easy to create campaigns with users and amplify collective messages.

Mesh Cohort - Fall 2022

Atracktiv

Cohort 2022-23

Through the combination of movement and technology, ATRACKTIV invites people to collaborate together and bring playful, interactive experiences to life. Their creative studio for new technologies and content “gamification” (e.g. musical, sound, narrative or visual tracks) makes them an original transmission belt between artists, brands and the public.

Services:

  • Immersive installations
  • Experiential marketing
  • Video games and custom installations
  • Augmented Reality
  • Connected objects and sensors
  • Intelligent 3D visualization – Web, Android and iOS applications.
  • LED mapping.

Autel-Relais

Cohort 2022-23

AUTEL-RELAIS consists first and foremost in the requalification of the Sainte-Marie de L’Isle-Maligne church, strategically located for tourism in Lac Saint-Jean. The church was then transformed into a hotel offering a range of services. Its commercial side capitalizes on an exceptional place of exchange where local flavors are offered to locals and tourists alike. Their vision is to implement the same concept in other strategically located churches, to create a network of integrated altars saving churches. The hotel opened in early September 2023.

Bromont Campervan

Cohort 2022-23

BROMONT CAMPERVAN is the first van rental company in North America to offer a 100% electric vehicle.

Maple

Cohort 2022-23

ERABLEE offers a unique integration experience in Quebec, through a range of reception and integration services for immigrants.

ERABLEE also helps Quebec companies who wish to offer a unique personalized onboarding for their new new foreign employees.

Services include professional, local and cultural coaching assistance with housing and administrative as well as sightseeing and local local activities.

Grey-box

Cohort 2022-23

GREY-BOX is a social innovation startup whose main product, UNI, provides organizations (B2B) and consumers (B2C) with wifi access to essential digital resources in areas where access to the internet or electricity is problematic. These resources can be customized to contain an offline copy of the company’s intranet, a Moodle for training employees in the field, or even general sources such as Wikipedia.

Kübbii

Cohort 2022-23

KÜBBII, the durable promotional display solution for your message.

The magic behind Kübbii: its multifunctionality! With its modules made from recycled cardboard, Kübbii creates high-impact products that meet the needs of promotional space planning. They allow you to stand out from the crowd in a unique way, in keeping with your customers’ eco-responsible values. All Kübbii items are entirely designed and manufactured in Quebec.

My Cantine

Cohort 2022-23

MY CANTINE offers high-quality, unmanned catering solutions for businesses and other high-traffic locations, via its self-contained restaurant, a connected fridge equipped with RFID technology.

MY CANTINE is a technology company that develops and markets innovative ways to eat fresh, healthy meals. To do this, they have partner caterers who enable them to offer a complete and simple package for their customers.

Quebec Basket

Cohort 2022-23

QUEBEC BASKET is a B-to-B digital platform specializing in the marketing and delivery of fresh, local produce in Montreal. The company works with Montreal’s main public markets: Jean-Talon, Atwater, Maisonneuve and offers a shared service for over 150 local merchants in the city.

Tedy

Cohort 2022-23

TEDY enables SMEs to set up a flexible health and welfare allowance in just a few clicks, with monthly subscription pricing based on the number of employees.

Teknotip

Cohort 2022-23

TEKNOTIP, an innovative tipping service that sends money directly to hotel staff by credit card via a QR code. It’s also the ideal service for fund-raising evenings.

TempIn

Cohort 2022-23

TEMPIN is a technological platform (web and mobile) that enables seasonal employers in the tourism sector (hotels, restaurants, parks and leisure, culture and events…) to find available employees for short and medium-term assignments. The platform offers flexibility to both parties, enabling them to meet their more sustained one-off needs, as well as quieter periods. The aim is to share human resources within a defined region.

Cohort Mesh 2021-22

HERALYS Talents & Immigrants

Cohort 2021-22

HERALYS Talents & Immigrants is a consulting firm that develops tools to improve the integration of immigrants into the job market. Our firm has developed a range of tools to help companies recruit and integrate immigrants already on the job market:

  • A recruitment service;
  • Support in integrating immigrant candidates;
  • Support in implementing a diversity and inclusion management policy;
  • A database of candidates available to employers.

Hilo Smart Mirror

Cohort 2021-22

Hilo manufactures customized mirrors and software for theaters, museums, convention centers, casinos, hotels, restaurants and bars. Our solution saves you money on HR, increases your profitability and gives you access to a new source of revenue.

UNIQ Hotel

Cohort 2021-22

Hôtel UNIQ is a group of “Unités, Nomades, Insolites, Québécoises” that travel the province in search of exclusive locations in regions where there is a shortage of accommodation. Visitors enjoy a happy blend of camping, which offers a privileged contact with nature, and classic hotels, which provide service, design and comfort, all with respect for the environment.

LabNco

Cohort 2021-22

Experience design services integrating cognitive science, technology & storytelling for superior impact. And processes that maximize feedback for consensus and success.

LifeLine

Cohort 2021-22

We offer a service (similar to Bixi but for portable chargers) enabling establishments to attract more customers and learn more about their behaviors thanks to the data collected.

Locapaq

Cohort 2021-22

Locapaq aims to facilitate access to the outdoors. With the aim of connecting everyone to nature in the right way, we firstly provide technical equipment for hire, secondly we organize activities to improve skills and enjoyment in a natural environment, and finally we help companies to awaken the adventurer in each of their employees, in order to develop them and give them new perspectives.

Otis Nature

Cohort 2021-22

Otis Nature has developed and manufactured Canada’s first universal-access ready-to-camp (RTC). We offer 2 B2B turnkey solutions. Purchase and/or revenue-sharing of our PACs. Contact us for details!

Radish

Cohort 2021-22

Radish is a meal delivery platform, structured as a cooperative and collectively owned by its member restaurateurs, delivery drivers and consumers. It aspires to be an alternative to the unsustainable models of food delivery giants such as Uber Eats and DoorDash, but has since expanded to offer complementary SaaS products and services in areas such as analytics, marketing and advertising.

Retournzy Coop de solidarité

Cohort 2021-22

To offer an innovative turnkey distribution (rental), collection and washing/sanitation solution for food services in Montreal, enabling waste reduction at source in the take-out sector.

Mesh cohort 2020-21

Alpha Premium

Cohort 2020-21

Alpha Premium helps businesses in the accommodation and ecotourism sectors maximize their return on investment by offering products and services in..:

(1) digital traffic generation;

(2) dynamic pricing;

(3) in data strategy development.

We build state-of-the-art automated technological solutions that integrate into the ecosystem of products already used by our customers, and are certified to work with both large international hotel chains and independent hoteliers.

BRITE4

Cohort 2020-21

Brite4 offers a technological ecosystem of simple, accessible solutions designed to facilitate the transition of various companies to a self-service business model. Our expertise in mechanical design, automated production, electronics and software has enabled us to develop a range of products that address the labor, positioning and distribution issues found in many industries, including entertainment, healthcare, food, community and industrial.

3D laser expertise - iSCAN

Cohort 2020-21

iSCAN contributes to the realization of digital clones of heritage sites/buildings/objects through 3D laser scanning and photogrammetry, 3D digital clones, i360 virtual tours, and historical reconstructions that allow Documenting the past, in the present, for the future!

Gradiant

Cohort 2020-21

Gradiant helps tourism, cultural and media organizations structure, harmonize and leverage their data to strengthen their resilience and amplify their positive impact on their communities. We focus on developing solutions based on artificial intelligence and advanced analytics in co-creation, to support them at every stage of data maturity.

HookMotion

Cohort 2020-21

Specializing in computer vision, HookMotion enhances surveillance tools with autonomous, real-time analysis of existing cameras.

Hoppin'

Cohort 2020-21

Hoppin’ is THE social virtual reality platform for real destinations. The new promotional medium is social and immersive.

Make your publications into 360° videos and invite your customers and potential visitors to meet you there. There’s no better way to bring your offer to life than by teleporting there and feeling the atmosphere together on site. Hoppin’ brings your destination into the Metaverse, and takes visitors out of the Metaverse and into your destination.

No development required, private branded salons included, instant online presence. Open your account today. Contact us for more information. “Are you on Hoppin’?”

COVALY

Cohort 2020-21

Covaly is a web-based application that enables managers to engage and develop their employees remotely.

The manager knows in real time the state of psychological health of each employee, and which employees are in difficulty, and can act at the right moment. Employees are put in touch with each other thanks to relevant matching based on their motivations and skills. Employees rediscover the feeling of sharing and mutual support with their team, even at a distance.

Unlike existing survey and communication tools, iCollective stimulates informal co-development exchanges.

Happy Hotels Inc.

Cohort 2020-21

Happy Hotels offers tourism organizations customized training solutions using augmented reality technology.

Using connected glasses, employees enjoy a memorable and striking learning experience. Our innovative method is autonomous, automated and ensures optimal retention of training content. Happy Hotels’ solutions have a positive impact on employee engagement, customer experience and overall business performance.

Through our collaborative, personalized and specialized approach to tourism, we help our customers overcome their workforce challenges and become more agile in the face of industry changes.

Leav

Cohort 2020-21

Leav is the automation platform for the future of retail. You’ll no longer need checkouts, and your employees will be able to devote themselves to service, all while cutting queues.

Automatic personalized offers based on artificial intelligence will engage your customers and serve to increase the size of the average basket.

Momentum

Cohort 2020-21

By combining vision and technical analysis, Momentum offers an integrated range of services and technologies for implementing sustainable mobility in the development of recreational areas.

Momentum helps you to better understand, optimize and make safer the visitor’s journey through your destination.

Strateolab Solutions Inc.

Cohort 2020-21

Our team designs and develops the immersive applications of tomorrow, optimizing the use of new technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality.

With this in mind, the last few years have seen the team develop a unique approach to the creation of augmented reality walking tours, and the XO World platform was born. Since then, we’ve been deploying geolocalized stories and quests through augmented reality applications for a multitude of tourist sites, municipalities, MRCs, cities, territories and events in Quebec.

Steeple

Cohort 2020-21

Steeple helps companies deliver an engaging employee experience by reinventing their internal communications.

Steeple digitizes the bulletin board to make it accessible everywhere and to everyone at the same time! Without discriminating against employees on the floor or on the move!

SAGA

Cohort 2020-21

SAGA Stratégie Sonore is a young, innovative communications agency specializing in the creation of 360° digital sound identities for the cultural and tourism sectors.

Saga has developed an innovative methodology, basing strategy and sound design on concrete (qualitative and quantitative) data. This unprecedented approach enables SAGA’s clients to ensure the cognitive engagement of target audiences through all forms of expression in their digital strategies, from ad placement to virtual reality experiences.

O'land Stations

Cohort 2020-21

O’land stations offer touchless water stations. Our O’land bottle-filling and hand-washing stations are ideal for large crowds at events and public spaces. By using our stations, you help reduce the waste generated by single-use plastic water bottles, as well as emerging medical waste such as hand sanitizers and gloves, amid the new realities of the global pandemic.

O’land contactless water stations provide fast, secure access for up to 6 users at a time, and offer useful impact data to highlight your environmental and social responsibility.

Mesh Cohort 2019-20

ALTKEY

Cohort 2019-20

ALTKEY uses innovative technologies to design interactive applications. Using augmented reality, virtual reality and immersive installations, ALTKEY creates cutting-edge experiences that stimulate the public’s curiosity.

arrival

Cohort 2019-20

Arrivage: the farm-to-plate network for food professionals. All the diversity of local produce in restaurants and grocery stores, direct from producers.

Gallea

Cohort 2019-20

Gallea is Canada’s largest art distribution network, enabling 2D visual artists (painting, photography, digital art) to gain visibility both online and in physical locations. In addition to providing venues (restaurants, corporate offices, hotels and coworking spaces) with not only new artwork to embellish their walls every four months, but also a marketing tool to support their brand both online and offline.

Gallea is a meeting place for artists, exhibition venues and buyers, promoting the visibility of local visual art through concrete online and physical opportunities.

Cabinets

Cohort 2019-20

Les Cabinets reinvents the standard for public, corporate and event washrooms, transforming this essential service into a renewed experience. Consulting, management, layout, host and hostess services, impeccable cleanliness, conceptual ambiance, quality product offering, à la carte services and sponsorship activation. For individual well-being and collective hygiene.

Locketgo

Cohort 2019-20

Locketgo’s mission is to improve the logistics infrastructure for delivery and temporary personal storage.

It offers secure, touch-free, automated temporary storage for parcels, merchandise and personal belongings. Locketgo is your space, everywhere.

Nannybag

Cohort 2019-20

Your intelligent local depot solution for safe distribution of sanitary or promotional items. Modular, easy to install indoors or outdoors. Accessible at all times. Pick-up and drop-off possible day and night.

Optionizr

Cohort 2019-20

Optionizr is a fintech specialized in the world of tourism, enabling merchants to optimize their traffic, conversion rates and average shopping baskets.

Ottomata

Cohort 2019-20
Ottomata is an experiential design studio specializing in immersive pathways in public spaces. Using various technologies such as architectural projections, show lasers, holographic processes and motion capture technologies, we are able to place people at the center of the scenario and engage them in rich and exciting ways. All these collective experiences are in line with our vision of bringing people back into the present moment.

Piecemeal

Cohort 2019-20

Piecemeal is a restaurant management platform. They use artificial intelligence to automate inventory, scheduling, purchasing and food preparation.

Prologue

Cohort 2019-20

Prologue is a pioneer in the development of immersive software technologies integrating AI. We innovate at the intersection of gaming, art and entertainment, developing cutting-edge solutions that democratize XR by combining augmented reality, virtual reality, computer vision and spatialized audio.

Ar Stories, our mobile streaming platform, is designed for discovering world-class stories in augmented reality. Discover captivating narrative content such as crime stories, comedies and more.

RE-AK Technologies

Cohort 2019-20

Technologies RE-AK brings together experts in emotional and cognitive analysis. Our approach, using biometrics, enables us to understand people’s experience with a high degree of precision and respect for personal data. We can also help you make the most of your data: diagnostics and recommendations, scientific marketing, revenue-generating market research and event marketing.

RE-AK has developed an exclusive technology combining flexibility and performance, the only one capable of measuring emotions and cognition on an urban scale.

WeChalet

Cohort 2019-20

WeChalet connects you with unique cottages for rent, condos and homes located in nature. Their mission is to connect you with nature to help you appreciate its beauty and importance, and to accelerate the call to protect the Earth we all share.

Mesh Cohort 2018-19

4elements

Cohort 2018-19

4elements specializes in gamification. The company has created an interactive platform for gamifying spaces, creating unifying experiences rooted in real places.

Thanks to the technology developed by our team, visitors interact with each other, with the site and with interactive objects. The experiences we create allow visitors not only to engage, but to change the course of history, creating a unique adventure on every visit!

Nature Shuttle

Cohort 2018-19

A company that makes the large parks surrounding the metropolitan area accessible by bus.

Nu Guest

Cohort 2018-19

An innovative solution that enhances the traveler’s experience by accompanying them throughout their journey. Thanks to a tablet placed in the accommodation, Nu Guest offers a personalized experience based on the tourist’s profile.

SpotEv

Cohort 2018-19

SpotEv is a cultural events platform that takes the search for all kinds of cultural events to another level in a simple way, and helps promote urban living and regional discovery.

Stimulation Déjà Vu

Cohort 2018-19

SDV develops olfactory and sensory experiences combining cognitive science, anthropology and creativity. The choice to explore tourism is in line with our approach to creating experiences based on scientific and cultural data.

In summary SDV offers :

  • Development of an olfactory and sensory creation or narrative.
  • Deployment of developed products (installation, activation, structural products, devices)
  • Development of derivative products (sensory boxes, vaporizers, experiential candles, olfactory objects and other customized products).

Mesh Cohort 2017-18

OHRIZON

Cohort 2017-18

OHRIZON, your expert in advanced augmented reality for training and cultural tourism.

Since 2015, OHRIZON has been:

  • More than 50 custom-built projects in Quebec, France, Spain and Belgium, winning awards in Canada and abroad
  • A range of scalable application products to facilitate family and group visits to cultural and historical sites
  • Solutions and tools to enhance learning, with augmented reality, group dynamics and gamification of the experience.

Milo

Cohort 2017-18

Discover authentic experiences and enjoy exclusive privileges.

Our daily mission is to inspire our community with quality content, and to help them discover exceptional places while making significant savings.

Merinio

Cohort 2017-18

Specialized in human resources management, in particular by automating the management of reminder lists.

MySmartJourney

Cohort 2017-18

Our digital tool can be rapidly deployed in your public spaces. It can be used as interactive signage, a welcome station, a guided tour or a relay to reservation systems.

Using their cell phones, visitors can instantly access your multimedia content without the need for an application, a login or, above all, physical contact.

Over 100 projects in tourism, culture and entertainment!

Stay22

Cohort 2017-18

Specialized in booking and geolocating accommodations close to an event, improving the user experience.