AideRSS Inc.
WATERLOO, ONTARIO

AideRSS is focused on delivering personal productivity tools that help people deal with information overload and “Read What Matters™”.

The company was founded in January 2007 by Ilya Grigorik and Kevin Thomason.

AideRSS received seed financing from Tech Capital Partners and Angel Investors.

Avaning Inc.
TORONTO, ONTARIO

Avaning is an early stage company developing an intelligent home automation platform. Avaning's platform allows homeowners to conserve energy, save money, and reduce their environmental impact. The centre piece of the Avaning automation platform is a more intelligent programmable thermostat which implements advanced control algorithms to reduce energy consumption and to shift consumption to off-peak hours. The Avaning platform integrates utility advanced metering infrastructure, major appliances, renewable energy sources and the Internet to provide a complete energy management platform for homeowners.

The company was founded in May 2007 by Stuart Lombard.

Avaning received seed financing from JLA Ventures and Tech Capital Partners.

Covarity Inc.
KITCHENER, ONTARIO

Covarity is the leading provider of commercial loan software solutions. The Covarity Dashboard helps financial institutions attract new business by harnessing the internet to improve customer service, while reducing the risk and effort associated with capturing borrower financial statement data and monitoring commercial loans.

The company was founded in December 2001 by Jeff Fedor. Rod Foster, an experienced technology executive, heads up the management team.

Covarity received seed financing from Tech Capital Partners.

LiveHive Systems Inc.
WATERLOO, ONTARIO

LiveHive Systems provides two-screen, interactive entertainment for TV broadcasters, fantasy sports sites, and web portals looking to differentiate their offering and increase value to viewers, advertisers and stakeholders. Its flagship product, NanoGaming, converts live TV shows into hundreds of real-time prediction opportunities, giving audience members a continuous and engaging way to accumulate points, play with friends, and win prizes.

The company was incorporated in December 2005 by Jean-Pierre Bhavnani, David Bullock, Jean Paul Dupuis and Robert Riopelle.

LiveHive received seed financing from Tech Capital Partners.

Overlay.TV
OTTAWA, ONTARIO

Overlay.TV is an interactive media company that provides a video-advertising platform enabling users to lay contextual information directly onto video content.

The company was founded in mid 2007 by Tyler Cope, Rob Lane, Gord Wyse and Nadav Zin.

Overlay.TV received Series A financing from Celtic House, EdgeStone and Tech Capital Partners.

Sidense Corporation

MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO

Sidense Corp. is focused on developing Memory Semiconductor Intellectual Property (MSIP). Sidense provides Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) SIP cores to customers that use their technologies in digital and analog devices ranging from Flat panel displays, wireless networks, PDAs to cellular phones. Their modular approach emphasizes reusable MSIP cores that focus on the design of System on chip (SOC) products and systems. Semiconductor and systems companies integrate their MSIP cores into the overall semiconductor designs, saving time and money and allowing them to focus on the core competencies that differentiate their products. By integrating Sidense's MSIP cores into their customers IC designs, they are better able to solve the widening "design gap" caused by the difficulty of building complex SOCs with embedded MSIP cores.

The company was founded in 2004.

Sidense received seed financing from Tech Capital Partners.

Sirific Wireless Corporation
WATERLOO, ONTARIO

Sirific Wireless leads the industry in the design and development of single-chip CMOS RF HEDGE transceivers that support the 3.5G communications market and enable true mobile cellular voice and broadband data worldwide. With an emphasis on digital design and the highest levels of integration, Sirific’s NEXUS™ platform combines HSDPA, WCDMA, EDGE, GPRS and GSM, with available on-chip Receive Diversity, to deliver cost effective 3.5G transceivers for multi-mode, multi-band wireless applications. Setting new benchmarks for cost, functionality, power consumption, size and RF system component count, Sirific is Advancing RF CMOS™.

The company was founded in 2000 by Dr. Taj Manku, associate professor with the University of Waterloo's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Sirific received seed financing from Tech Capital Partners and Solowave Investments.

Software Innovation, Inc.
WATERLOO, ONTARIO

Software Innovation is the developer of Coreworx™ solutions, providing secure global worksharing to support the entire lifecycle of large capital projects. These integrated solutions help enhance capital projects by dramatically reducing costs, reducing project timelines, and by mitigating legal and financial risks. The company delivers tailored technology solutions for clients in a variety of vertical markets, based on Coreworx project collaboration solutions. Coreworx is in use on more than 180 capital projects with over 25,000 users worldwide.

Software Innovation was founded in 1997 and was acquired in 2004 by Randall Howard and Ray Simonson of Verdexus.

During 2005, Software Innovation completed a round of expansion financing, which included Tech Capital Partners.

VideoLocus Inc.
WATERLOO, ONTARIO

VideoLocus was acquired by LSI Logic Corporation in November 2002.

VideoLocus developed next-generation video compression and processing technologies. The company was founded by four former members of PixStream/Cisco's advanced engineering team: Mate Prgin, Lowell Winger, Guy Cote and Michael Gallant.

VideoLocus received seed financing from Tech Capital Partners.

Sandvine Incorporated
WATERLOO, ONTARIO

Sandvine completed an Initial Public Offering on AIM in March 2006. The company completed a secondary offering and cross listed on the TSX in October 2006.

Sandvine develops and markets network equipment targeted to the evolving needs of today's residential broadband service providers. Sandvine's award-winning solutions identify the types and behaviours of traffic on networks enabling service providers to improve customer service satisfaction, reduce operational costs and increase profitability. Service providers can better understand subscriber behavior, recognize and address network threats like worms and spam Trojans, classify applications running on your network (for example, voice over IP, gaming, video streams), guarantee service levels and create profitable tiers for multiple broadband services.

The company was founded in September 2001 by Don Bowman, Dave Caputo, Tom Donnelly, Marc Morin and Brad Siim, a team that worked closely together at PixStream Incorporated. PixStream was founded by Morin and Siim in 1996 and sold to Cisco Systems in December 2000.

Sandvine received seed financing from Celtic House, VenGrowth, Tech Capital Partners and the Business Development Bank of Canada.

Handshake VR Inc.
WATERLOO, ONTARIO

Handshake VR provided technology and software development tools that enabled users to rapidly add force-feedback and remote force-feedback to applications. Handshake VR developed the proprietary time delay compensation technology (TiDeC™), recognized by industry as the only commercially available technology that addresses fatal network latency.

The company was founded in January 2001 by Dr. David Wang, associate professor with the University of Waterloo's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dr. Kevin Tuer and Tim Ellis.

Handshake VR received seed financing from Tech Capital Partners, BDC Venture Capital and Trellis Capital Corporation.

DiskStream Inc.
WATERLOO, ONTARIO

DiskStream provided innovative products that enabled companies in the media entertainment industry to get the most out of their media assets and the best from their creative resources. DiskStream's open, easy-to-use products facilitated the location, movement and interchange of digital media assets within modern production and broadcast facilities.

The company was founded in 2004 by Jim Trainor and Tom Pike.

DiskStream received seed financing from Tech Capital Partners.