Little Guy Games

Alumni

Little Guy Games is an independent game studio located in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 2009, the studio develops games for Android, iOS, PC, Mac and Google Glass. We are home to a growing and diverse team of passionate developers who bring design, programming and art expertise to each project.

Little Robot Friends

Resident

Little Robot Friends create connected toys and apps for learning code and electronics. Designed for age 7 and up, our products make learning code fun and engaging, encourage the creative exploration of math and music, and inspire curious minds to discover their inner inventor. 

Lucky One Projects

Resident

Lucky One Projects is a production and editing company that works with brands, artists, influencers and creative entrepreneurs to make better video content, faster from anywhere in the world. We believe in democratising the filmmaking process and putting more women and marginalised bodies in front and behind the camera.

​LuxSOS

Resident

LuxSOS Inc. is a social purpose company that helps Entrepreneurs, who work in the service industry, embrace and thrive using the online market safely. The idea came about when a team of 12 cleaners worked, as contractors, in a brand name hotel under construction, for one month, for $0. During legal battles, the co-founders of LuxSOS dreamed of something or someone who could take them out of such a dark hole. But, no one helped, and nothing was available. So they created both the someone and the something. LuxSOS provides a safe, interactive and scalable online venue to on-demand service entrepreneurs where they can grow their business at their own pace. LuxSOS is full of human, technological and educational resources to help any service-based business owner at any stage of growth, especially during a crisis.

MacKinlay Media

Resident

Based in Toronto, MacKinlay Media is a home for independent filmmaking that prioritizes discovery, champions original voices, and favours the bold. Founded in 2018 by award-winning producer Lauren MacKinlay, our boutique production company tells stories with an auteur focus that are constantly redefining genres and perspectives. We create commercially viable films that appeal to an international audience and feature strong, unapologetic voices.

Magnify Digital

Alumni

Magnify Digital is a boutique digital strategy agency based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They design, implement and measure online marketing strategies that grow your business and your bottom line.

Mashup Machine

Resident

Led by a team that includes an Academy Award-winning creative technologist,MashUp Machine has created an AI-assisted storytelling platform that fuses crowd creativity and machine learning to enable users to create shareable, customizable and collaboratively-created animated movies. 

MBLOK

Alumni

MBLOK's platform allows individuals and companies to safely distribute their data by directly transmitting files between users. 

Medistream

Resident

Medistream's digital streaming service brings health video content directly to waiting room televisions that both educates and entertains patients. Our curated feeds offer the best licensed video content that covers a wide range of primary health topics, including seasonal health concerns, opt-in preventive care and healthy lifestyle tips.

MetaVRse

Resident

MetaVRse is North America's leading virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) consulting and product development firm. It has been nominated for both the Global VR Startup of the Year, 2017 (VR Awards), and Techweek’s Top 100 rising startups. We advise on the strategy of some of the world’s largest companies and invent, develop and execute on cutting-edge, ROI-driven VR and AR solutions for business. 

Mighty Cast

Resident

Mighty Cast, a Montreal-based startup company, develops wearable technology and software platforms that allow users to create their own customizable wearable experiences. The company aims to disrupt the space through their programmable wearable, the Nex Band, and proprietary “When/Do” platform.  

Mobio Interactive

Alumni

Mobio Interactive is a startup company in Toronto working at the intersection of brain health, gaming, and biometrics.

Mondo Forma

Resident

We are Mondo Forma. We create outrageous, extraordinary, multi-sensory art worlds. Our aim is to transform unexpected spaces into immersive public art experiences. Our goal - “art that you can be in.”

Moxie Productions

Resident

Moxie Productions is a full service video production company operating in Toronto offering expertise to turn ideas into reality. We provide the tools and services to produce eye-catching, and professional content that captures audiences. With the combination of a seasoned team and high-level production methods, we take a project from conception through to post-production in a fun, creative and efficient manner.

Music Peaks

Alumni

MusicPeaks is an entertainment metadata provider that processes, enhances and outputs valuable, high-quality information about music videos. We aggregate and analyze hundreds of sources, and in late 2019 will offer our product through a web dashboard and commercial API to record labels, music publishers, broadcasters and programmers.

From file-level analysis of a video’s acoustic and visual properties all the way up to chain of title data that helps facilitate accurate royalty payments, MusicPeaks offers an unrivalled solution for IP holders looking to better monetize their catalogs and to content developers wanting to integrate music video into their platforms.

MusicPeaks

Resident

MusicPeaks is an entertainment metadata provider that processes, enhances and outputs valuable, high-quality information about music videos. We aggregate and analyze hundreds of sources, and in late 2019 will offer our product through a web dashboard and commercial API to record labels, music publishers, broadcasters and programmers.

My Digital Kitchen

Resident

My Digital Kitchen specializes in desserts that cater to different dietary needs. We create gluten free, diary free, vegan, and paleo options that are low glycemic and sugar conscious. From our luxurious whoopie pies to our decadent brownies and cupcakes, you can be in dessert heaven without any of the guilt! All our desserts are soy free and refined sugar free.

My Well Self

Resident

My Well Self is a holistic healthcare marketplace where consumers research holistic treatments via user generated data to connect with local and vetted holistic health practitioners 

My Wine Canada

Resident

At My Wine Canada, we’re bridging the gap between wineries and consumers in this country with two specific goals: to provide wineries with alternative and additional sales opportunities, and to provide consumers with greater access to our wonderful domestic wines.

Nanoleaf

Resident

Nanoleaf, a green technology company, changes the world with lighting solutions that are smarter by design. It infuses artistic and technological innovation to reimagine the role that lighting plays in people’s lives.

Founded in 2012 by three engineers, the company now has offices in Toronto and Shenzhen, Hong Kong. Made up of a diverse team of passionate out-of-the-box problem-solvers, Nanoleaf transforms illumination and reshapes how we light up our world.

NeedLists

Resident

NeedsList builds software and solutions for a new era of global crises. Our flagship software powers faster and sustainable humanitarian action with real-time matching tools. In addition, we offer workshops, design sessions, and strategic consulting for organizations interested in innovating their approach to humanitarian aid and natural disasters. NeedsList has been deployed in over 20 countries including in partnership with USAID for the Bahamas response to Hurricane Dorian. Cumulatively our company has moved over two million USD in resources to local communities around the globe.

Normative

Alumni

Normative is a software design firm that helps organizations develop products, technologies and experiences for a networked world. Normative excels at solving problems at the intersection of human behaviour and networked technology; a capability they call “Design for the Network”.

Notebook Productions Inc.

Resident

Notebook Productions Inc. is an independent Canadian production company with a focus on scripted content. Based in Toronto, Notebook Productions was founded by Claire Ross Dunn, a television writer, story editor and producer, to develop content across TV, film, digital and publishing platforms. Notebook Productions is currently developing three properties: At Last Count, a one-hour drama TV series based on Dunn’s soon-to-be published novel of the same name, to be released by Invisible Publishing; Plunder, a one-hour TV series about two female math professors who plunder the lottery, co-created by Claire Ross Dunn and Dolly Reisman; and The Casterbridge Chronicles, a digital multi-platform anachronistic period drama created by Claire Ross Dunn, loosely based on Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge and retold from the women’s point of view.

​NOYADESIGNS

Resident

NOYADESIGNS is a digital design and marketing firm that provides solopreneurs and large organizations with digital marketing assets produced through a diverse and inclusive lens.

Obvious Allegory

Resident

Obvious Allegory is a Toronto based media company that focuses on producing made-for-platform movies and short format digital series. We put emphasis on producing within a specific budget range to allow for a more flexible slate, with a creative formula that focuses on human connection, sexuality and the complexity of relationships. Our work is centered on creating content that is based on user generated IP. We seek to develop stories for niche online communities that are built around a variety of subgenres. Using a data backed approach, we identify the stories that are most suitable for screen adaptation and will best serve our intended audiences.

​Oya Media Group

Resident

Oya Media Group is a Black women-led production company. Our mission is to thrive in the Canadian and International media marketplace and contribute our voice to an underrepresented demographic, concentrating on new forms of socially relevant diverse content. Oya Media Group is owned and operated by Creators/ Producers Alison Duke and Ngardy Conteh George. Together we have over 40 years of experience in film and TV production. We have worked with non-profit organizations, broadcasters such as CBC, Documentary Channel, Rogers, CityTV, Sundance Channel, NHK, DR, Superchannel, and independent production companies like Maple Rock Media, Shadow Shows, Catbird Productions Chimpanzee Productions, and Take Action Films in the United States and Canada.

Paddle HR

Resident

Paddle HR helps large organizations match existing talent to new internal career paths. People voluntarily leave their jobs most often because of a perceived lack of opportunities, especially when many organizations are so complex that their employees cannot see the next viable job. By recommending great career options, Paddle HR helps organizations keep top talent and employees build rewarding, diverse careers. Its matching algorithm, powered by 330 million peoples’ career histories, trains its machine-learning models to predict subsequent career moves. The product leverages this intelligence, not only to offer high-level analytics to human resources leaders about internal mobility, but also to provide employees exciting internal career choices.

Peeps Magazine

Resident

Peeps is an independent magazine that shares stories that put context before events. We work with social science researchers, primarily ethnographers, from around the world to develop their peer-reviewed findings into narratively engaging stories, pairing their writing with world-class photojournalism and design. Our editorial and design team, comprised of cultural analysts and designers driven by cultural theory, assure that the same rigor applied to the production of the original research is upheld through translation to a popular readership and through design. The result is a deeper dive into the whys of the whats that you read about every day in an information resource that is accountable, ethically produced, and verified (and a damn fine read!).

Perspective Squared

Resident

We’re driven by a passion for storytelling, using the power of human connection to inspire ideas, feelings, change, and joy.

We support our clients by exploring every opportunity from strategic, design, and narrative lenses to provide the right creative that best suits each project and connects with audiences on every platform.

Perspective Squared was founded in the spirit of delivering content strategy and video production services with integrity and purpose. We take pride in the process, our relationships, and the products we produce.

At our core, we are problem solvers. We listen, explore, create, and impact experiences. And we have fun doing it!

Phantom Compass

Alumni

Phantom Compass is an acclaimed game studio staffed by seasoned veterans from the console game, web software and TV industries. We've worked on branded entertainment games, primarily with Canadian production companies and broadcasters, since 2008.

​Pitch Better

Resident

Pitch Better uses market research and analytical insights to help diverse entrepreneurs make better business decisions.