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When finishing my Masters in Management, I was faced with the classic ‘what-do-I-do-now?’ dilemma. Applying for a job didn’t feel right to me, so I followed the wise advice of my teacher, who reminded me that I didn’t necessarily need to have experience before going into business: ‘If that’s what you want to do, go for it, Amira!
– Amira Boutouchent, Co-founder and CEO of Bridgr

Bridgr supports manufacturing SMEs in their digital transformation, offering a virtual hub where companies can identify and collaborate with the key tech experts and providers necessary to make the change happen.

This Quebec startup matches technologies and specialists with clients, according to their needs, both in terms of expertise and corporate culture. Client companies make a selection from three to six profiles and use a platform specifically designed by Bridgr for the management of manufacturing projects, including everything from the documents related to these suppliers to payment of their services.

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If major companies like TransferWise, Wealthsimple and one of the ten largest financial institutions in the country do business with us, it’s mainly because we really focus on the quality of the data we make available to them and the speed of our application.
– Yves-Gabriel Lebœuf, CEO and Co-founder of Flinks

Combining the words financial and links, Flinks is a financial data aggregation application that facilitates the connection between financial institutions and the various software companies that use this data as part of the services they offer.

Yves-Gabriel gives the example of Paypal, which must be linked to users’ bank accounts to allow deposits and withdrawals. “Previously, people had to submit all the numbers required to tell the system which institution, transit and account to use,” he explains. “With the technology we’ve developed, we do that instantly. Then, our clients choose our API because of the reliability and stability of the connection from which the financial data is drawn.”

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The end users of our product – a product that bridges the real world and the web – never feel observed, for example, by their employer. Instead, they are requesting the kind of recognition our technology offers because it improves their experience. That’s a huge win for us.
– Jeffrey Dungen, Co-founder and CEO of reelyActive

reelyActive, a world leader in BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) real-time location systems, allows their clients to view the real world as if it were made up of webpages, in order to optimize what matters most to their business.

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Thanks to this reciprocal agreement, clients of CEIM and of WBC will benefit from the services offered by the Liège or Montréal incubators under the same conditions as if they were clients of the partner incubator.
– Serge Bourassa, President and Chief Operations Officer, CEIM

To support entrepreneurship in life sciences, Centre d’entreprises et d’innovation de Montréal (CEIM) and WBC Incubator, based in Liège, Belgium, signed a cooperation agreement.

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Understanding the on-the-ground needs of our clients’ clinical teams is a key success factor. It enables us to determine the best approach for implementing our clinical solutions, while ensuring user-friendliness, which facilitates clinicians’ operation of our platform. Computerization of the clinical field has always been a major challenge. To date, more than 2,500 multidisciplinary clinicians use our clinical documentation module and more than 15,000 refer to our clinical practice guides and decision support module… so I think we can say we’ve succeeded!
– David Bertrand, CEO and Cofounder, HOSPITALIS

HOSPITALIS is shaping the future’s health sector through the development and implementation of a digital platform for coordinating health care and services. The platform aims to create a positive experience for citizens and clinicians by implementing clinical trajectories, for effective health services planning. “Our platform helps institutions with health care promotion, prevention, and clinical intervention while directing the pertinent information to the right person, in the right place, at the right time,” explains David.

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Our world is characterized more and more by technological innovation. I like to think that we’re helping to make the human aspect more important in the human-machine interface expression. In this world where innovation sometimes seems to be about finding a problem to solve, we develop a technology that allows for much more human, natural, intuitive and personal interactions with all of our electronic devices.
– Denis Lavallée, President and CEO, Mirametrix

Mirametrix, a software developer specializing in AI, has designed Glance, the world’s most advanced attention detection platform. Using computer vision, Glance detects a user’s face, eyes and sightline on all electronic devices, including those in the automotive sector. It also has millions of users worldwide.

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In 2016, for the first time in Quebec, 51% of IT jobs were not in specialized companies like ours, but in traditional businesses such as insurance companies and banks. In fact, Industrial Alliance told La Presse again this week that one out of every five jobs in their company is in IT. So it’s imperative to react to this phenomenon, which will only accelerate.
– Paul Raymond, President and CEO, Alithya

Alithya, a Quebec-based digital strategy and technology consulting company, supports its customers in their 4.0 transformation, more precisely by upgrading their systems in order to digitally optimize their activities.

Twilight coloured the view of the river and city in the office of Alithya’s president when I met with him. The company, in contrast, is far from its twilight years, having grown by 500% over the past six years and celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2017!

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With our technology, patients whose files need to be reviewed in priority are automatically identified by an alert score. The higher the score, the more important it is to review the file, because the chances of success of an intervention are that much higher. Rather than reviewing all 200 patients who receive antibiotics, the pharmacist looks at around forty, using a strategy supported by software that gathers all the information required for a good review of the file.
– Vincent Nault, President, LUMED

LUMED, a software development company dedicated to improving hospital care, was born in Sherbrooke in 2012. It started a few years earlier as part of a research project on the optimal use of antibiotics to treat infectious diseases, particularly by avoiding their overuse.

The wide range of medical and computer skills of the three founders Louis Valiquette, Mathieu Beaudoin and Vincent Nault, has led to the design of the world’s most effective antibiotic stewardship system: the subject of various publications, widely recognized by pharmacists and infectious disease specialists, and winner of several awards for innovation.

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To succeed, you have to know how to deal with whatever is thrown at you. If you react well, with a glass-half-full attitude, you’ll always see the opportunity in front of you. I understand this even more today, with being more focussed on strategic efforts and less on operations. Outlook and philosophy make all the difference.
– Isabelle Bettez, Co-founder, 8D Technologies

Since 1987, Croesus has been providing sophisticated wealth management solutions to financial institutions across North America. Nearly 10,000 investment professionals use their platform to collectively manage over $900 billion in assets.

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Right now, OSSimTech is riding a wave of success. And just like with surfing, a company must always stay a little ahead of the wave to avoid going backward or losing the moment. We are therefore focussing on the field’s current opportunities and transformations to achieve our goals.
– André Blain, President of OSSimTech

Founded in 2013 in Montreal by two engineers, André Blain and Ngoc Huynh, OSSimTech develops simulators specialized in open surgery, which use virtual reality and haptic force feedback for personalized training of surgeons.

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