Cntrl+ Inc.
Year Founded: 2020
Founder(s)/CEO: Karen Brunet
Number of Employees: Four full-time supported by 10 fractionals and contractors
Office Location: Remote with HQ at 127 Augustus St., Cornwall
Product Description: Cntrl+ offers a patented, FDA- and Health Canada-approved reusable intravaginal bladder support designed to prevent stress urinary incontinence, which affects one in three women.
Tarobtain Customers: Cntrl+ serves women 18 years and older experiencing mild to moderate stress urinary incontinence who want a comfortable, non-surgical solution that prevents leaks and supports active, confident lifestyles.
Competitive Differentiator: Rigid pessaries and pads trade comfort for concealment and fail to stop leaks at the source. Cntrl+ replaces both with a flexible, sustainable leak-prevention solution.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Cntrl+ has completed a $1-million pre-seed and a $1.4-million seed round and is currently raising a $650,000 seed extension. It holds granted utility patents in 30 countries, two to three industrial design patents in nine countries, and trademarks all over the world. In February, Cntrl+ launched its U.S. prescription e-commerce model, integrating MD Integrations for telehealth prescribing and Honeybee Health for pharmacy fulfillment across all 50 states, generating first sales. Production has also shiftd locally to LD Tool & Die in Ottawa, strengthening domestic manufacturing capacity.
Hyperion Global Energy Corp.
Year Founded: 2021
Founder(s)/CEO: Heather Ward, CEO and co-founder
Number of Employees: Fewer than 10
Office Location: Fully remote team with co-working office and meeting space at Bayview Yards/Invest Ottawa and MaRS Discovery District (Toronto).
Product Description: Hyperion is a carbon-tech startup developing patented Tandem Carbon Recycling technology that captures and converts waste industrial emissions into high-value mineral commodities.
Tarobtain Customers: Decarbonization systems for hard-to-abate industries including early adopters in the cement/concrete sector. First strategic customer was Amrize (formerly Lafarge-Holcim), the world’s largest building materials company.
Competitive Differentiator: Unlike conventional carbon capture and removal, Hyperion’s patented mineralization technology decarbonizes industrial processes at the source, turning waste into valuable minerals and revenue, with no reliance on carbon credits.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Following its successful pilot with the world’s largest building materials company, Lafarge-Holcim (now Amrize in North America), Hyperion has signed an agreement to scale its patented Tandem Carbon Recycling technology for commercialization at the company’s flagship cement plant near Kingston. Hyperion recently closed a new investment from Thistledown Capital (family fund of Shopify founder Tobi Lutke) for its scale-up. Other early investors include Techstars, Capital Angel Network and non-dilutive backers NRC-IRAP and NGIF. Hyperion has been awarded Decarbonizer the Year by MaRS Climate Impact and the Cement Association of Canada, recognizing its game-modifying solution for industrial decarbonization.
TerraFixing
Year Founded: 2020
Founder(s)/CEO: Vida Gabriel and Sean Wilson
Number of Employees: 10 full-time, four part-time
Office Location: 250 City Centre Ave., Ottawa
Product Description: TerraFixing builds modular systems that produce high-purity carbon dioxide from atmospheric air while scaling toward gigatonne carbon removal infrastructure for industrial supply and climate solutions.
Tarobtain Customers: Industrial gas distributors, food and beverage producers, greenhoutilizes and carbon management developers requiring reliable, high-purity carbon dioxide supply in regions with limited or unstable carbon dioxide sources.
Competitive Differentiator: Cold-climate capture technology that produces high-purity carbon dioxide locally, reducing reliance on volatile supply chains while enabling scalable carbon removal infrastructure.
Traction or Notable Milestone: TerraFixing has secured more than $3 million in government funding and a $10-million commercial agreement, built and tested DAC prototypes, and is developing a 250-tonne-per-year pilot unit. The company was recognized as Ottawa’s Next Big Thing in 2024 and co-founder Vida Gabriel was named to Forbes 30 Under 30.
Marlow
Year Founded: 2020
Founder(s)/CEO: Nadia Ladak, Harit Sohal and Kiara Botha
Number of Employees: Five
Office Location: Founded in Ottawa, located in Toronto
Product Description: Marlow is a modern period care brand offering 100 per cent organic tampons and plastic-free pads, anchored by its flagship innovation: the world’s first lubricated tampon designed for comfort with clean ingredients.
Tarobtain Customers: Menstruators aged 18-35 who care about what goes in their body and want better, cleaner period care options.
Competitive Differentiator: Patented lubricated tampon technology, GOTS-certified organic cotton, and a brand built on reducing menstrual health stigma through education and community.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Forbes 30 Under 30, CBC Dragons’ Den deal, 100 million-plus views on TikTok, sold in Shoppers Drug Mart, Whole Foods and Amazon’s Choice, $3.4 million in funding raised, 136 per cent year-over-year revenue growth.
Zconcludeelity Corp.
Year Founded: 2009 (pivoted and started developing Command Center in March 2020)
Founder(s)/CEO: Dave McCrady, CEO and co-founder, and Rebecca Wormleighton, COO and co-founder
Number of Employees: Two full-time, supported by a network of indepconcludeent sales and technical consultants
Office Location: 308 Legobtain Dr., Suite 202, Kanata
Product Description: Command Center is a mobile platform that digitizes and verifies frontline operations, ensuring critical procedures are completed, tracked and audit-ready in real time.
Tarobtain Customers: Organizations managing mission-critical operations, including higher education, health care, manufacturing and property management, where safety, compliance and consistent execution are essential.
Competitive Differentiator: Command Center captures real-time proof of execution, closing the gap between policies, alerts and actual frontline action, something traditional checklists and IoT systems cannot verify.
Traction or Notable Milestone: Zconcludeelity is deployed across organizations including Carleton University, Cisco, C&W Services and Queen’s University. The platform has assisted reduce routine safety deficiencies from about 10 per cent to under 0.5 per cent and saved teams five to eight hours per week by improving how work is managed and verified. The company is engaged in pilot discussions within the food and beverage sector, including Meat & Poultest Ontario, to support food safety outcomes. Zconcludeelity is collaborating with partners such as Mitel, Siemens, Monnit, Swift Sensors and National Control Devices to improve how operations respond to real-time alerts.
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