Panache Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed and seed-stage startup investments. It seeks to invest in sectors that play to Canada’s strengths: artificial intelligence (AI), fintech, digital health, enterprise software, and blockchain.

Panache Ventures

Inovia Capital is a venture capital firm that works with founders to create influential and permanent businesses. The team leverages an operator mindset to provide founders with support, mentorship, and access to a worldwide network. Inovia manages over US$2.2B with operations in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, San Francisco, and London.

Inovia Capital

Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance, mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com

Real Ventures

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity organization that delivers an objectives-based mentoring program for massively scalable, pre-seed stage, science- and technology-based companies. Its nine-month program allows founders to learn from experienced entrepreneurs, increasing their likelihood of success. Founded in 2012 by Professor Ajay Agrawal at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded to thirteen sites across seven countries: Seattle, Oxford, Paris, Atlanta, Estonia, Wisconsin, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Berlin, Melbourne and Halifax.

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)

BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across all markets: biotech, fintech, agtech, healthcare, data, engineering, and AI/ML. We strive to balance the best elements of patient angel capital with the value-add often found at venture funds. You will often find us as the first cheque into a company. We invest our own capital and bring our experience as operators that have scaled many startups from founding to exit. We like partnering in the earliest days and continuing to support entrepreneurs with capital, expertise, and our network across their entire journey while making sure to never get in their way.

BoxOne Ventures

N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.

N49P

HumanFirst

HumanFirst is the playground for prompt and data work. Experiment with raw data, surface business-specific insights, and build reliable AI workflows with speed, accuracy, and trust. With a low-code platform and enterprise-grade security posture, HumanFirst empowers enterprises to transform every team into AI experts.

HumanFirst is a Montreal-based software company that provides a low-code data productivity platform for analyzing and leveraging conversational data. The company's core product, Atlas, allows organizations to extract insights from unstructured data sources like customer support tickets, emails, texts, and call transcripts. Using natural language understanding (NLU) and large language model (LLM) capabilities, HumanFirst enables businesses to identify trends, automate responses, and build AI-powered applications without extensive coding knowledge.

The Conversational AI Landscape & HumanFirst

Montreal startup HumanFirst raises $5M to transform organizations’ conversational data into no-code AI

Introduce Your Data To Your Prompts

HumanFirst Offers Access to Industry's Largest Decentralized Clinical Trial Database

HumanFirst Announces New Market Expansion To Bring GenAI-Powered Data Productivity to CPaaS Providers

Why I Am Joining HumanFirst

HumanFirst Raises $5M to Transform Conversational Data into Better Business and Artificial Intelligence with Low-Code Data Productivity Suite

HumanFirst Raises CAD$5M in Seed Funding

HumanFirst unveils new enterprise platform to accelerate AI in clinical research

Creative Destruction Lab

How Deloitte partnered with HumanFirst & Google to accelerate contact center transformations

Using AI to mimic and understand human language

Natural Language Processing Tools

HumanFirst and Infobip Announce a Partnership to Equip Enterprise Teams with Data + Generative AI

Google Cloud

HumanFirst collaborates with Google Cloud to transform unstructured text data into actionable insights and robust AI applications, integrating Google Cloud tools for enhanced data interpretation and AI capabilities.

Solutions that enable real-time conversation through chatbots or automate ticket routing to relevant agents.

HumanFirst is a Montreal-based software company that provides a low-code data productivity platform for analyzing and leveraging conversational data. The company's core product, Atlas, allows organizations to extract insights from unstructured data sources like customer support tickets, emails, texts, and call transcripts. Using natural language understanding (NLU) and large language model (LLM) capabilities, HumanFirst enables businesses to identify trends, automate responses, and build AI-powered applications without extensive coding knowledge.
The platform offers features for clustering similar content, topic modeling, and intent analysis to help companies better understand customer interactions at scale. HumanFirst integrates with various conversational databases and NLU engines, allowing flexibility in implementation. The company positions its technology as a bridge to help organizations unlock value from their conversational data and deploy AI more effectively, particularly for use cases like improving customer service and optimizing contact center operations.

Reduct is a cloud-based video editing and storage platform that enables users to transcribe, organize, and edit video content through text-based interfaces. The platform uses automated transcription technology to convert video and audio files into searchable text transcripts. Users can then highlight, tag, and edit these transcripts to create video clips and reels. Reduct's key differentiator is its ability to edit video by manipulating the corresponding transcript text, allowing for efficient review and compilation of interview footage and other video content. The platform supports various file formats and integrates with video conferencing tools like Zoom for direct import of recordings. Reduct also offers collaborative features, allowing multiple team members to work on projects simultaneously. In addition to its core editing capabilities, Reduct provides unlimited cloud storage for video files, making it a comprehensive solution for video post-production workflows.
Key customers and partnerships
Reduct caters to a range of industries and professionals, including researchers, content creators, marketers, and corporate teams. The platform has developed integrations with popular video editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro, enabling users to export their Reduct projects as editable sequences in these applications. Reduct also supports Final Cut Pro through XML export.

Reduct

MonkeyLearn is an AI-powered text analysis and data visualization platform that enables businesses to extract insights from unstructured textual data. The platform offers both pre-built and custom machine learning models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, topic detection, and intent classification. MonkeyLearn's no-code interface allows users to clean, label, and visualize customer feedback data without requiring programming skills. The platform can process various types of text data including customer reviews, surveys, social media posts, and support tickets. MonkeyLearn integrates with popular tools like Excel, Google Sheets, Zapier, and Zendesk, allowing users to connect their existing data sources. In 2023, MonkeyLearn launched an all-in-one text analysis and data visualization studio that provides instant insights with greater granularity. The platform offers customizable dashboards and templates for different business scenarios, enabling users to create visualizations tailored to their specific needs.

MonkeyLearn

Keatext is an AI-powered text analytics platform that specializes in interpreting customer feedback. The company's cloud-based solution synthesizes large volumes of unstructured feedback data from multiple channels, including open-survey questions, online reviews, support tickets, chats, and social media posts. Keatext's platform utilizes deep learning and natural language processing to analyze, cluster, correlate, and track customer opinions autonomously, providing actionable insights through a comprehensive dashboard.
The platform is designed to minimize response time and requires no setup, featuring multilingual analysis and context-sensitive, industry-agnostic understanding. It automatically visualizes correlations and trends, offering immediate report-sharing capabilities. Keatext's technology adapts to various industries without requiring algorithm customization, eliminating the need for keywords, lexicons, and semantic dictionaries.
Founded in 2010 by Narjès Boufaden, Keatext initially operated as a professional services provider. In 2015, the company transitioned to a product-based model with the launch of its cloud-based AI-powered text analytics platform. Keatext's solution helps businesses optimize profitability through customer feedback analysis, enabling them to move from assumption-based decision-making to data-driven, research-based strategies. The platform significantly reduces the time required for analyzing customer feedback, with users reporting that tasks that previously took eight hours can now be completed in 10 minutes using Keatext.

Keatext

Aircover is a sale assistant tool that leverages conversational AI and real-time technologies to enhance the efficiency of sales teams. The platform integrates with virtual meetings, providing sales representatives with up-to-date messaging and positioning information. This approach aims to reduce ramp time for new representatives and products, shorten sales cycles, and increase win rates. Aircover's AI-powered system enforces best practices throughout sales meetings, offering real-time answers to representatives and potentially reducing the number of follow-up meetings required per prospect. The tool is designed to serve a wide range of users, from individuals to large enterprises. Aircover also features a relationship management component, allowing users to store notes and track roles within deals. By putting sales enablement on autopilot, the platform seeks to streamline the sales process and improve overall performance.

Aircover

NeuralSpace is an AI SaaS company that specializes in providing advanced text and voice AI technologies in over 100 languages. Founded in 2019, the company focuses on delivering language AI solutions, particularly for Arabic, Indian, and other low-resource languages predominantly spoken in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. NeuralSpace's platform offers a suite of products including speech-to-text, machine translation, entity recognition, transliteration, data generation, language detection, and text-to-speech conversion. The company's flagship product, VoiceAI, launched in October 2023, provides highly accurate call transcription, translation, and speech analytics for Arabic and Indian languages and dialects, achieving an average accuracy rate of 91%. NeuralSpace utilizes proprietary speech-to-text technology trained on a dataset of 40,000 hours of audio data, which it aims to increase to 100,000 hours. The company's no-code modular toolkit enables enterprises to train and deploy AI models for language processing applications without extensive coding knowledge. NeuralSpace's technology leverages modeling techniques such as transfer learning, multilingual learning, and data augmentation to work effectively with limited text or speech data. The platform can be accessed through a command-line interface, REST APIs, or a no-code GUI, making it versatile for various integration needs.

NeuralSpace

Solutions that use techniques such as named entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, or summarization to produce insights from unstructured textual documents.

Platforms that summarize conversations, audio, or video files including reactions into text formats.

Tools to identify and analyze the opinions or emotions expressed in survey responses or reviews to produce actionable insights.

Platforms that decipher search queries by analyzing structured and unstructured data based on user intent and behavior.

Tools that automatically translate text from one language to another.

Tools that detect plagiarism, punctuation errors, or style errors in text.

NLP tools such as chatbots are used to cater to each individual

NLP tools are built using AI/ML technologies

Some NLP tools are built using foundation models

NLP tools are provided for other companies to integrate into their workflows

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