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Innovation Factory announces top 10 finalists for LiONS LAIR 2023

HAMILTON, ON, July 11, 2023 – The inaugural Founders Fast Track program by Innovation Factory, has culminated in the selection of its top 10 finalists. These entrepreneurs, now equipped with refined business plans and pitches, will advance to the highly-anticipated LiONS LAIR pitch competition and gala event. The top 10 start-ups selected for the 13th annual LiONS LAIR pitch competition are Bug Mars, Steadiwear Inc, Sekond Skin Society, Visiontif, AWAKE, Noa Therapeutics, A.I VALI Inc, Mintier, BLUMEX, and Pocket Clinic. These start-ups represent various industries, offering innovative solutions and exemplifying the region’s entrepreneurial spirit by creating unique solutions for different market needs.

These 10 start-ups will pitch at the LiONS LAIR, Innovation Factory’s flagship competition and gala on September 27 in front of an audience of over 300 attendees. The pitching companies will also field questions from a panel of experts, the Investor LiONS, who will ultimately determine the competition winners.

Before meeting the ‘LiONS’ in September, the finalists will engage in a series of training sessions, receive expert mentorship from Gowling WLG and participate in a round of judging, designed to test their investment readiness strategies.

Over the past 12 years, LiONS LAIR has supported nearly 200 high-potential regional companies and innovators and culminates in a gala event that has seen over 1 million in cash and in-kind prizes awarded. Every year, the gala event sells out and is host to not only up-and-coming regional companies but also Hamilton’s business and innovation community and influential industry leaders.

“Our LiONS LAIR Pitch Competition and Founders Fast Track program embody our mission at Innovation Factory: to foster and drive innovation within the Hamilton area and beyond. These 10 finalists are a testament to the growth potential our region holds. We’re extremely proud of what they’ve achieved through the program and look forward to their success at LiONS LAIR and in the future,” said David Carter, CEO of Innovation Factory.

LiONS LAIR is scheduled to take place on September 27, 2023 in Hamilton, Ontario. Visit lionslair.ca to buy your tickets or table today.

About Innovation Factory

Innovation Factory is a not-for-profit business accelerator, serving as the catalyst for technology innovation in the greater Hamilton area since 2010. Innovation Factory provides business services, training, mentorship, and strategic connections to drive market adoption, leverage intellectual property, and increase revenues, investment, and jobs. Innovators can also access sector-specific resources including exclusive smart transportation test environments and data; and a formal life science and health innovation ecosystem.
www.innovationfactory.ca

Contact:

Annie Horton, Marketing Lead
Innovation Factory
[email protected]
innovationfactory.ca

 


Backgrounder

The 2023 LiONS LAIR Finalists:

Bug Mars

Bug Mars makes sustainable alternative protein more affordable and accessible, for people and livestock. Bug Mars is currently building a shipping container cricket farm to demonstrate their software product Hexapod with pilots at an established large insect farm, an academic institution, and multiple poultry farms.
bugmars.com

Steadiwear Inc.

Steadiwear has successfully commercialized the Steadi-Two – their battery-free glove designed the reduce hand tremors.
steadiwear.com

Sekond Skin Society

Sekond Skin Society is a health and fitness app designed around accessibility and inclusivity.
sekondskinsociety.com

Visiontif

Visiontif is developing an affordable AI vision assistant that provides continuous visual information, with distant object detection, and scenario-based object detection/scene description for the blind and visually impaired to empower them to navigate independently.
visiontif.com

AWAKE

AWAKE is Canada’s first clean-tech solution for cremation ashes, we combine science and spirituality to create legacies that live on.
awakeashes.com

Noa Therapeutics

Noa Therapeutics is a preclinical biotech company leveraging a systems biology approach to accelerate the design of tailored multimodal therapeutics for complex inflammatory diseases.
noatherapeutics.com

A.I VALI Inc.

A.I. VALI is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) medical device company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to accurately detect the early stages of diseases such as cancer and to improve patients’ quality of life and cost per patient.
ai-vali.com

Mintier

Mintier is proudly the first breath serum™ that is both dentist-recommended and nutritionist-approved. Free of sugar, alcohol, fillers and, additives, Mintier is the future of fresh breath.
shopmintier.com

BLUMEx

BLUMEx is an AI-as-a-Service [AIasS] startup that helps podcasters scale their post-production. BLUMEx uses cutting-edge AI presets to automate and streamline the post-production process for podcasters.
blumex.io

Pocket Clinic

Pocket Clinic provides personalized therapy for patients with chronic conditions, aiming to help more than 10% of half a billion type 1 and type 2 insulin-dependent diabetics by introducing an integrated pain-free smart injector to keep their blood glucose in the normal range.
pocketclinic.life



Innovation Factory

Innovation Factory is a business accelerator, dedicated to helping Ontario-based businesses launch, scale, and succeed. We provide start-ups, and scaling companies with advisory services, training, mentorship, and strategic connections to help bring disruptive technologies to market, leverage intellectual property, increase revenues, attract investment and create jobs. Serving as the catalyst for tech innovation in the greater Hamilton area since 2011 we are driven to help: Entrepreneurs bring new ideas to life and to market Small/Medium Enterprises (SMEs) get to the next level Hamilton build a dynamic culture and a community of innovation Innovation can happen anywhere. Our goal is to make it work everywhere. We work to elevate key industry sectors including, advanced manufacturing, clean tech, information technology, integrated mobility, life sciences & health care and social innovations.

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