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Mike Mangano ABK Biomedical Incorporated is a medical device company developing products to simplify clinical procedures performed by interventional radiologists. The company’s lead product, OccluSystem is focused on in uterine fibroid embolization (UFE). OccluSystem delivers novel radiopaque embolic agent with improved visibility during embolization for improved safety and ease of use.
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Katherine Regnier
Coconut Software is an innovative web-based company that is poised to dominate the Enterprise Customer Engagement space. Large corporations and financial institutions have a huge problem: they have no way to allow their customers to book online, and with that, they have to manage staff scheduling and resources. Corporations reached out to Coconut Software and approximately 95% of their customers have reported an increase in money and a decrease in time spent. Other customers have chosen to use it as an internal resource to manage staff and resource schedules. |
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Lynda Brown-Ganzert #1200 - 555 W Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6B 4N4 https://curatio.me/
Curatio is the world’s first social health prescription. Curatio’s mobile health platform uniquely combines personalized content and private peer support with daily disease management tools that lead to better health outcomes. The award-winning Curatio team has been internationally recognized for its innovative technology and business approach. |
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Dana Rath
Defyrus is a private life sciences biodefence company. They collaborate with public health agencies and military R&D partners in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada to develop and sell broad spectrum anti-viral drugs and vaccine system as medical countermeasures to bioterrorist threats and emerging infectious diseases. |
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Heather Haupstein Golden Health Care Inc. (GHCI) is the largest private provider of long-term care facilities in Saskatchewan with 7 facilities currently in operation. PIC is a partner with GHCI and other investors in the 7th facility called Diamond House, a 100 room assisted living and level 1 to 4 personal care home located in Warman. Diamond House opened in September of 2016. The GHCI successful delivery model provides care home residents with a home-like, caring family atmosphere designed to enhance their well-being and sense of self-worth. |
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Arlene Dickinson District Ventures Capital is a venture capital fund investing in innovative companies in the food and beverage and health and wellness sectors. The fund is led by General Partner, Arlene Dickinson. District Ventures is the leading ecosystem in Canada that focuses on the CPG space and brings capital, marketing support, programming and commercialization as support to the companies it invests in. In July 2019, Arlene Dickinson announced funding commitments from OMERS and the Bank of Montreal. The two investments from these highly regarded institutional investors increased the fund size to $70 million. |
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Brian and Roberta Bain Ecobain Gardens (now Mother Labs) was an indoor vertical hydroponic greenhouse that utilized state-of-the art technology to grow high quality living herbs including basil, dill, chives and mint for the grocery market. This past year Mother Labs brought on new investors to create a Health Canada licensed cannabis (and soon to be hemp) nursery producing genetically specific, high quality, clean and safe plants in their cutting-edge facility. |
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Dan Leachman Exaltexx Inc. is a chemical distribution and technology commercialization company. They target the removal of paraffin deposits in oil and gas operations using artificial maturing agent (AMA). Their chemicals, using a patent-pending technology, react differently with oil and gas unlike anything currently available. Exaltexx Inc. prides itself in offering safer alternatives to conventional oilfield products, which is why their products and technologies decrease the impact on the environment while reducing the risk to the people who handle them. |
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Garth MacDonald G-Mac’s AgTeam is an independently owned crop input retailer that provides exceptional agronomic services. Founded in 2000, G-Mac’s AgTeam has 10 retail locations in West Central Saskatchewan with their corporate head office in Kindersley. G-Mac’s AgTeam’s solid reputation and high degree of success is based on partnering with customers to identify their needs, establish goals and create unique customized solutions. PIC co-invested in G-Mac’s with Westcap Mgt Ltd.’s Golden Opportunities Fund Inc. and the Westcap MBO II Fund. |
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Gary Montague HeartHero is on a mission to save millions of lives from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA), which claims over 350,000 lives annually in the U.S. alone (American Heart Association, 2017). They are revolutionizing the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) by developing an ultra-portable, affordable, user-friendly AED to make this life-saving technology accessible and attractive to the consumer market, while simultaneously creating a better alternative for the existing institutional market. |
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Dr. Siamak Arzanpour Human in Motion Robotics patented exoskeleton technology enables people living with a wide range of mobility challenges to stand and walk without need of crutches or an attendant, perhaps for the first time ever. Their goal is to empower the millions of people with limited use of their legs to go about many of their daily activities without need of a wheelchair and mitigate the health consequences of being permanently confined to a sedentary position. |
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Dr. Shawn Ritchie Med-Life Discoveries LP is a world-leading human health research company. They are focused on the discovery and development of novel disease screening, treatment and health monitoring products to address diseases such as colon, pancreatic and ovarian cancers, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.
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Richard Roseboom MicroMech was founded in response to a critical point in the automotive industry. With rapid change on the horizon, there is a need to keep up with the changing demands of consumers and the evolution of a tech driven society. MicroMech provides mobile auto service - they send qualified automotive technicians right to the consumer’s home or office and offers all common maintenance and repair services. |
Formerly MPT Mustard Products & Technologies Inc.
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Corey Giasson MustGrow is an agricultural biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing a portfolio of patented natural bio-pesticides and bio-fertilizers, including its patented signature mustard-derived biologics. This past year, MustGrow became a listed company on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol MGRO. |
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Gary Scholl POI has been in business for over 60 years and is Canada’s largest workspace environment provider. It offers a comprehensive portfolio of furniture, architectural and technology products and integrated services. It has evolved its core business from corporate office furniture dealer to an integrated service provider serving esteemed corporate, healthcare, education and government clients. |
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Ian Lewis & Glen Follett Stellar has strong leadership that builds on its collective history in the Electrical Integrator and Power Quality electrical systems industry. The company has built a reputation throughout Western Canada as well as internationally, for providing variable frequency drives, kiosks and industrial motor control equipment to industries such as mining, oil and gas, forestry and municipal water treatment facilities. |
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Craig Bell The Blok (123 Ave B. South) is an innovative commercial condominium development project in Riversdale consisting of a unique building structure made up of boxes, squares and blocks. Main floor owners will revel in the mill of the courtyard atmosphere while 2nd floor and penthouse owners can be inspired from their private balconies, by views of the downtown and the beautiful South Saskatchewan River. The site is located in the Riversdale Community on Avenue B, in between 21st and 22nd Street West in Saskatoon, SK. |
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Rick Casavant Located in the heart of Warman, SK, Warman Home Centre was first established in 1984 and has been a favourite location of first-time home buyers, as well as experienced contractors. It is made up of five divisions including: Warman Metals, Warman Truss, Warman Cabinets, Warman Homes, and Warman Home Centre. The company continues to perform well in periods of high and low construction cycles. Warman Homes is well-known for its excellence in customer service. |
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Grant Kook PIC invested in the Westcap MBO Investment LP Fund I and Fund II (Westcap MBO), both Funds are managed by Saskatchewan’s leading private equity fund manager, Westcap Mgt. Ltd. The Westcap MBO Fund is now fully invested in the following companies: Dyna Holdings LP; H.J.R. Asphalt Partnership; Modular Driven Technologies; and Warman Home Centre LP. The Westcap MBO II Fund closed on its first investment this past year – G-Mac’s AgTeam based out of Kindersley, Saskatchewan and is actively seeking additional opportunities. |