Toronto Demo Day + Together Recap

🚀 Meet the next Rocketship Companies

Nominated by today’s top VC’s, we heard from some of the next big names in the tech space, who pitched in real-time to a packed house at MaRS Discovery District.

Here’s the next batch of companies you’ll want to keep an eye on:

• Niraj Mathur of Blumind, nominated by Eva Lau at Two Small Fish. Blumind is a deep tech company that develops ultra-low-power, all-analog AI chips for edge computing to significantly reduce energy consumption and latency.

• Braden Ream of Voiceflow, nominated by Alex Norman at N49P. Voiceflow is supporting teams with a collaborative platform, designed to prototype, and launch conversational AI assistants for various channels without writing any code.
  

• Darrell Cox of Una Software, nominated by Janet Bannister at Staircase Ventures. Una Software is an AI-powered financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform that helps businesses with revenue forecasting, operational planning, and real-time performance tracking.
  

• Jackie Hanson of Sprout Family, nominated by Lucas Perlman at StandUp Ventures. Sprout Family is doing great work to provide employers with inclusive fertility, surrogacy, and adoption benefits to offer their employees in Canada.
  

• Ryan W. of Rally.Fan, nominated by Sarah Willson at Panache Ventures. Rally.Fan is an all-in-one platform with an AI copilot that enables creators to build their online business by selling digital products, courses, and subscriptions, as well as managing coaching and affiliate programs.
  

• Aidan Kehoe of SpecifEye, nominated by Storytime Capital. For context, SpecifEye is is an AI-powered platform that integrates user feedback directly into development pipelines to automate roadmap generation and create prototypes in real-time, helping product teams make faster decisions.
  

• Mahshid Yassaei of Tali AI, nominated by Laura Samarze of MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund. TaliAI is redefining patient care, creating a software that supports today’s healthcare professionals by supporting note-taking through their AI scribe technology.
  

• Scott Brown of CarDoor, nominated by Boyang Li of Framework Ventures. If you’re looking for an easier way to buy and sell used cars, CarDoor is the Canadian online platform offering home delivery, flexible financing, and a 7-day money-back guarantee.

We also met some of today’s top builders

Following the pitches, we heard in-depth talks and presentations from some of today’s biggest names. Covering all things building, scaling and fundraising in tech today, let’s meet the founders who took the stage.

• Farzi Yusufali of Stratum, shared tips on handling rejection, getting inspired to build your startup, and how your ‘why’ will keep you going.

• Matthew Reeves of Together AI, weighed in on the companies we should be building, and how to build a company you eventually could sell.
  
  
  

• And finally, Sameer Dhar of NiaHealth, joined Alex Norman for an in-depth fireside chat, covering his journey building NiaHealth, going from building one startup, to finding momentum with the next, and how the fundraising landscape looks today.

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National Rocketships Tour: We’re coming to a city near you!

Our tour continues as we are stopping in more Canadian cities this year as part of our National Rocketships Tour. Stay tuned to our events calendar.

We’re on the lookout for standout Canadian tech companies—at any stage—that are showing exceptional momentum. Nominated by leading VCs and the local startup community, these companies might be scaling fast, solving meaningful problems, or gaining rapid traction.

Think you’ve got what it takes? Apply!

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