Volta Residents
Current Resident Companies
3DBioFibR
Focus: BioTech
Stream: Virtual
3D BioFibR Inc. uses a patented “dry-spinning” manufacturing process to produce high quality protein fibers (e.g. collagen and spider silk) at commercial scales. The fibers we make have shown mechanical properties matching or exceeding their natural counterparts. These fibers have the potential to transform many industries, with our first focus being the large ($18.3B annually) and growing (34.8% CAGR) tissue engineering market, as we develop applications for 3D bioprinting and 3D tissue culture.
Begin.AI
Focus: Software Development
Stream: In-House
Being.AI is a platform that enables B2C product managers to launch recommenders and other retention features in minutes. Very fast and secure machine learning infrastructure, at scale. Begin.AI is a privacy-preserving, self-serve auto ML SaaS for mobile apps.
Binogi
Focus: Education
Stream: In-House
Binogi is a multilingual learning tool! Binogi provides teachers and students with local curricula in their language of choice. Using engaging animated videos and quizzes alongside useful analytics Binogi helps teachers and students succeed. Binogi, is a powerful tool for today’s diverse classroom. Education for all, from day one!
Bloxo
Focus: Online Sports Platform
Stream: Virtual
Bloxo is a mobile and web-based platform that simplifies the process of organizing and participating in sports, by connecting organizers, players and facilities.
Blue Charm Adherence
Focus: Healthcare
Stream: In-House
Blue Charm Adherence is a healthcare company which provides patients with interactive self-help platforms that assist in managing health and medication adherence.
Byos
Focus: Cybersecurity
Stream: In-House
The Byos Endpoint Security Platform makes endpoint security for Zero Trust networks achievable and affordable. Byos gives IT teams comprehensive centralized endpoint management capabilities and as the only plug & play solution, the Byos Portable Secure Gateway protects endpoint devices using breakthrough Hardware-Enforced Network Isolation.
CapIntel
Focus: Online Sales Platform
Stream: In-House
CapIntel is an investment sales platform for wealth management companies. The platforms allows advisors to compare investment, create portfolios and highlight investment information for clients.
Curv Health
Focus: Fitness & Health
Stream: In-House
Curv Health is a venture-backed, multidisciplinary allied health virtual clinic that empowers healthcare providers to build and operate their own practice. To do so, we connect them with a growing pool of clients, driven by our partnerships with large insurance carriers and organizations.
Dear Life
Focus: Online Platform
Stream: In-House
Dear Life is a B2C technology startup focused on improving the way our lives get documented and showcased – “tell your story as beautifully as a life well lived.”
Drinkable
Focus: Water testing
Stream: Virtual
Drinkable has partnered with world leading nano-sensor scientists to build the first effortless, accurate, and affordable water quality test device. Their all-in-one solution provides well users peace of mind with immediate insight into the quality of their water, how that water might impact the health of their loved ones, and what steps can be taken to keep them safe.
Dugo
Focus: Energy Management for Remote Sites
Stream: In-House
Dugo enables wireless companies to save on OpEx and CapEx while keeping them informed of their cell towers energy related performance.
EnPoint
Focus: Mentorship
Stream: Virtual
EnPoint helps clients harness the power of mentorship to support their people and participants in creating meaningful careers. Their mission is to support one million individuals in making the right connections at the right stages in their careers.
Frenter
Focus: Online Rental Platform
Stream: In-House
Frenter is an all-in-one Saas tool for small businesses. We give them the tools to build their own online presence and rental store such as payment integration, scheduling, rental and management inventory and everything else they need to compete with larger brick and mortar stores.
Granville Biomedical
Focus: Healthcare
Stream: Virtual
Granville Biomedical (St. John’s, NL) is a women’s health tech company, specializing in the design of anatomical models to enhance health care training, advance patient education, and innovate device demonstration.
HomeschoolToGo
Focus: Education
Stream: Virtual
homeschoolToGo is a worldwide educational alternative designed to propel the next generation of conscious leaders.
Nowadays, skills such as creativity, adaptability, social skills, and confidence are in high demand for careers that lead to a better quality of life. Parents are realizing that public schools are not conducive environments for these skills.
KataPilla
Focus: Health
Stream: Virtual
The Katapilla system is a simple and cost-effective solution for clinicians to remotely monitor patients or athletes after an injury. Our solution uses a simple temporary tattoo placed on the skin, and/or on a post-operative bandage, to assess range of motion, swelling and temperature. In addition to tracking activity (or motion), our application will help clinicians monitor and optimize an athlete or patients recovery after a sports injury or surgery.
Marine Thinking
Focus: Ocean
Stream: In-House
Marine Thinking is an AI-driven, big data company providing innovative insights to the seafood industry. They seamlessly integrate factories with big data, empowering client companies to stay at the forefront of changing demand and operating efficiency.
MIMOSA
Focus: Healthcare
Stream: In-House
MIMOSA provides a proactive approach to skin health, allowing clinicians to implement earlier interventions, or even prevent them from being needed at all. Our products promote inclusive and equitable healthcare, enabling patients in remote areas and persons of colour across the globe to access the critical healthcare everyone deserves.
Motryx
Focus: Healthcare
Stream: In-House
Motryx works with hospital laboratories across Europe and in North America to provide a quality control solution for pre-analytic blood transport.
Ondash
Focus: Branding and Design Software
Stream: In-House
Today companies with independent field agents are faced with two options, pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire a marketing firm to service their field agent’s digital needs or save money by allowing the independent field agents to go out and create their own marketing which can result in mismatched branding and brand dilution. Times have changed and people want to be their own bosses. With Ondash you can give your field agents all the power they need without the mismatched branding. Using the design rules set by your company, Ondash will learn to study your business, understand font interactions, industry standards, brand insights, and trend insights and finally design the perfect digital assets for field agents to use and deploy. We believe that great brands are crucial for excellent business success. Say goodbye to brand dilution and hello to Ondash!
Pain Coach
Focus: Health
Stream: Virtual
Pain Coach Inc creates digital tools that allow for more personalized postoperative pain control, so that all patients can get back to doing the things they love with the support they need.
Pressto
Focus: Education
Stream: Virtual
Pressto helps to develop media literacy, critical thinking & strong writing skills in young people by making journalism easy, simple and accessible for students of all ages.
Quantum Link
Focus: Consumer Goods/Retail
Stream: In-House
vLife is a Social Enterprise Platform connecting you with more of the small indie businesses that sustain & grow our communities – for a deeper local experience.
QuickFacts
Focus: Online Insurance Platform
Stream: Virtual
QuickFacts is a Software as a Service (SaaS) that organizes information and presents it on a custom search-engine website. Currently, we provide the software to the insurance industry, offering brokerages a one-stop location for all their carrier information and organizational workflows. This software compares multiple carriers side-by-side, reducing broker search time by 10-20x, facilitating operational workflows across departments, and drastically improving broker training.
Side Door
Focus: Entertainment
Stream: Virtual
Side Door is a platform matching artists with spaces to create shows anytime, anywhere. Side Door matches artists with hosts, builds direct connections, and simplifies the show-booking process with easy and transparent digital tools. Side Door re-imagines how people connect through art and performance by creating memorable shows in living rooms, backyards, coffee shops, community halls, studio spaces, etc.
SomaDetect
Focus: Agritech
Stream: In-House
SomaDetect is an agricultural AI company – they work with dairy farmers and industry to provide milk quality and health data to farmers when they need it most.
Talem Health Analytics
Focus: Online Platform
Stream: Virtual
Talem Health Analytics is creating a software for auto insurers. The platform offers innovative injury and recovery insights to help make effective, transparent, and customer-centric decisions from the start of a claim to settlement.
Talkatoo
Focus: Speech-to-Text Software
Stream: In-House
Talkatoo provides speech-to-text software for professionals. The simple to use software works everywhere and cuts documentation time in half.
Tribe Network
Focus: Networking & Innovation
Stream: In-House
Tribe Network is a digital platform where Black, Indigenous and People of Colour come to accelerate ideas, build communities and access opportunities.
Union.Dev
Focus: Online Union Management Platform
Stream: In-House
Union.Dev is a cloud based union management platform.
WWN Technologies
Focus: Talent Management SaaS platform
Stream: In-House
Working Women Network (WWN) is Canada’s first AI-powered talent management SaaS platform helping women and the LGBTQ2+ community to onboard the right jobs as well as help corporates enhance diversity hiring, and save time and cost by making the recruitment process more efficient. WWN aims to economically uplift 1 million+ women and LGBTQ2+ community members every year facilitating to bridge the diversity gap in Canada by 10 years and support in meeting the United Nations sustainability goal of “Gender Equality”.
How do I know if I’m ready?
You might be surprised how much residency will help you early on.
You don’t need a finished product. If your idea is validated and you have potential clients, we want to hear from you.
The point of residency is to get your company to Product/Market Fit. This can take up to two years, depending on the industry.
Our current Volta Residents and Alumni are in various stages of growth, so no matter what stage you’re in, apply. They all started in the same place you did.