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Reinforcing recycling, rerouting refuse, and reducing wasteflows

Waste Recovery & Management Tech

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    Mycocycle is an Illinois-based, female-founded biotechnology startup that transforms industrial waste into new, low-carbon, raw materials, such as fillers and fibers, that are used in the building products industry. The company uses mycelium to break down hard-to-treat materials using its mycoremediation process to manufacture acoustic tile, flooring, concrete, walls, and insulation.
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    Mycocycle employs a patent-pending approach that takes approximately two weeks and involves initiating a three-step treatment process on-site with manufacturers or contractors utilizing their containerized solution, MYCOntainer, to ensure the controlled processing of toxic waste. The process involves blending lab-cultivated fungi with ground waste materials, allowing incubation and growth over 7&ndash;14 days. The resulting fungi are then harvested and transformed into new raw materials. On average, Mycocycle claims its solution can reduce material toxicity by up to 98%.
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    In addition, the company offers support services such as material testing, hardware and setup, technology licensing, royalty services, and remediation fees. The company&rsquo;s long-term aims involve achieving full integration with manufacturers through strategic partnerships at their facilities.
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    As of May 2023, Mycocycle has treated 12,000 lbs of material via paid pilots with customers across the waste management, recycling, and manufacturing sectors, as well as with building owners and contractors like META and Lendlease that are focused on reducing Scope 3 emissions and innovations within their industries. In October 2022, the company along with Lendlease, Rubicon Technologies, and Rockwood Sustainable Solutions completed a partnered pilot involving used asphalt shingles, mushrooms, and mycoremediation technology to reduce construction and demolition waste. As of May 2023, the company is yet to commercialize and is developing its first-generation decentralized treatment container (MYCOntainer), validating the reuse of its biobased byproduct by Q3 2023.&nbsp;
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    Mycocyle raised USD 2.2 million in 
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     led by Anthropocene Ventures in May 2023 to establish a model pilot facility.
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Mycocycle is an environmental remediation company that offers a process to decarbonize waste streams using fungi via mycoremediation. Treatment through our engineered ecosystems renders a non-toxic biomass available for use in the manufacture of new products. Our clients are waste management companies, landfill operators, material recycling facilities, manufacturers of petrochemical materials who want to become closed-loop in their process, and advanced materials manufacturers.

Hohonu provides sensors and software that deliver water level data and insights. They compare real-time water levels against defined thresholds to inform actions like closing roads, moving cars, or alerting the community. They provide solutions for site selection, sensor deployments, sensor calibrations, maintenance, and data delivery.

HelpWear is striving to achieve better at-home healthcare by developing affordable and accessible products for patients all around the world. HelpWear’s focus is clinical need driven innovation, designing solutions to not only what a patient would need, but from a clinical perspective, to what the healthcare system requires as well.

Dispension is a platform that provides health tools to educate consumers and make the distribution of regulated products simple and responsible. The Verified Identity Dispenser (VID), employs proprietary technology and software based on advanced vascular biometrics to provide safe and secure access to the controlled substances locked inside.  The VID is a secure, integrated retail platform for regulated products.

Home Health Systems delivers first in class, small lightweight vital signs monitoring.  MySafetyPatch is an ideal add on to physician's video examination software,  supporting complete virtual exams using five vital signs and motion.  SafetyPatch provides similar features for inpatient and outpatient use.  SPORTsSAFER provides individual and team athlete monitoring.

Hyivy Health creates an intelligent and holistic pelvic rehabilitation device for the 1 in 3 women worldwide who will experience a pelvic health complication in their lifetime. Our device provides the first quantifiable data set on the pelvic floor and 3 different therapies from multiple sensors and mechanical functions to help keep track of progress, adapt treatment plans and provide more effective, comfortable rehab experiences.

FluidAI Medical is a medical platform company at the forefront of revolutionizing global patient care, leveraging the transformative power of artificial intelligence in post-operative recovery.

Flosonics is a medical device company that focuses on developing non-invasive sensors to improve the management of critically ill patients.  Flosonics's flagship smart-bandage product, the FloPatch, addresses unmet clinical needs of critically ill patients and the physicians, nurses, and paramedics who care for them in the ambulance, emergency department, operating room, and intensive care unit.

iMerciv is a Toronto based start-up leveraging crowdsourcing and AI to empower pedestrians with personalized navigation and actionable data in real time for safe, convenient and accessible trips. With the help of fellow pedestrians, always know what’s happening on your sidewalks and get the best routes for you, with our new pedestrian navigation app: MapinHood. Think Waze for Walkers. Navigation was never built for pedestrians. Existing navigation apps are run on routing engines that have been built and optimized for vehicular travel and don’t consider all the variables that can affect pedestrian travel. People are not cars so why should we navigate like them?   MapinHood runs on iMerciv's custom AI routing engine that is built for the flexibility of pedestrian travel, resulting in the most personalized and inclusive navigation experience. For example, MapinHood can generate a user the safest path home at night based on lighting, crime and accident data. Or provide the most accessible route to a user in a wheelchair using gradient and accessibility relevant data. Our team has bootstrapped MapinHood with revenues from a previous product and were awarded Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility grant to help with the development. The company also recently made the cut for this year’s Next AI cohort – A Next Canada accelerator program.    The beta version of the MapinHood app was recently released on the Canadian app stores and is available to download on both Android or IOS. In light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have also just released new updates on MapinHood that help the public practice safe physical distancing via an ‘avoid crowds’ setting in the app, with more features coming that can help with estimating wait times at retailers and empowering vulnerable communities.

Second largest Canadian telecommunications company.  Provides wireless phone service, high speed Internet, IPTV, home phone, long distance, and many other telecom/data related services.

<div>  <p>    Second largest Canadian telecommunications company.  Provides wireless phone service, high speed Internet, IPTV, home phone, long distance, and many other telecom/data related services.  </p></div>

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