Learn how Desjardins' Startup in Residence program has contributed to the development and success of these participants.
Aquantix
Year of foundation: 2019
Headquarters: Montreal, QC
Who are we?
From commercial to residential properties, AQX quantifies climate risks at the asset level. More precisely, it estimates the impact of valuation, potential losses and the likelihood of impact and it provides data visualizations to facilitate analysis, thus helping portfolio managers better evaluate the long term risks of their assets.
QUBER
Year of foundation : 2016
Headquarters : Moncton, HB
Who are we?
QUBER is a free mobile app helps you make better choices with your money, every day. It is designed to help you thoughtfully manage your finances by offering you a secure, third-party account to deposit your extra savings in, reducing the likelihood that you’ll spend that money impulsively. You can cash out your money in full at any time, but every time you do, you’ll have to knowingly take it from one of your goals; in this way, QUBER increases your level of engagement in improving your own financial health. QUBER also provides its users with personalized insights on their spending patterns and offers users a number of ways to earn rewards through the app. QUBER encourages you to focus on what you want first, then works with you in real time to curb impulse spending and keep you focused on attaining your goals.
NURA Medical
Year of foundation: 2020
Headquarters: Montreal, QC
Who are we?
Automation at the service of medication: NURA Medical's intravenous medical assistant. NURA Medical attacks a challenge that affects all hospitals, but most importantly, emergency units where decisive calculations have to be done quickly and accurately.
Helperbird
Year of foundation: 2018
Headquarters: Cork, Ireland
Who are we?
Helperbird is your all in one extension that gives you the features to make the web more accessible and productive. Providing you text to speech, OCR, dyslexia support, dictation, immersive reader, overlays, annotate any website, picture dictionary, Reader mode, and more.
F8th
Year of foundation: 2019
Headquarters: Toronto, ONT
F8th's solutions are based on behavioral biometrics, which is an analysis of the keyboard, mouse and device input to authenticate users based on their unique movements.
BDATA
Year of foundation: 2020
Headquarters: Toronto, ONT
BDATA is one of the first companies using blockchain to secure IoT technology through its creation of a lightweight protocol that can be deployed on any device. This allows BDATA to provide a fast all-in- one solution that handles authentication, intrusion detection, data streaming and endpoint management.
VerifA.I.
Year of foundation: 2019
Headquarters: Montreal, QC
VerifA.I. empowers employees to combat phishing by drawing their attention to specific suspicious elements of the emails in their inbox.
WALO is a mobile application linked to a prepaid card to teach younger people the value of money, all while providing parents an easy, secure and supervised tool that transforms allowances in practical life lessons.
LIFEPlan is a complete system of financial analysis in wealth management.
The platform, which stands out for its human and financial approach, proposes a plan of achievements centered on the person and what is dear to him/her to achieve. A system greatly appreciated by the Financial Advisors not only because it is simple to use, complete and efficient but also for its quality to assist their clients over the years.
iagree AI helps consumers identify the key points of the terms and conditions they must agree to in order to use various online services. Using artificial intelligence, we have created an algorithm that analyzes the endless pages of legal terminology, extracts and presents the information that is the most relevant.
Lyra Insight’s mission is to build risk management tools that will empower portfolio managers to assess company management and directors across their portfolio and focus on what they do best: invest. We have developed a platform that allows them to follow company managers and board members that held similar roles at fraudulent companies, for example, and to understand quickly how individuals and companies can have an influence on each other and how it can create conflicts of interest between managers and shareholders.
Spending is much easier than saving – and we could all do a bit better at both. YUPP is the simple mobile app that connects you to your active accounts and helps you be more mindful about where your money is going. Learn to spend and save smarter by taking a second to think: “Yupp, I bought that!”
Ophelia helps individuals coping with high indebtedness transform their debt into savings.
Flare Systems offers smart intelligence tools for financial institutions’ security teams.
Aifred Health uses artificial intelligence to help physicians make the best mental health treatment decisions.
Synapse Tutorat is an education solution designed for today’s families, with no intermediaries and no administrative hassles. It helps quickly identify the best resource to support your child and monitor outcomes.
Bloc.Solutions is a platform for improving the day-to-day operational profitability and efficiency of owners and managers of rental properties. The company has developed a system for incorporating the principle of mandatory insurance into the rental property insurance market.
Hardbacon is a financial technology company behind an application that groups all of users’ investments in one location, analyzes their portfolios and helps them achieve their financial goals. The Startup partners with financial institutions, helping them sign up current clients and increase their portfolio assets, as well as acquire new clients. Users can also subscribe to the service directly.
