Meet the 2024 Google for Startups Accelerator: Canada Cohort

This summer we celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Google for Startups Accelerator: Canada program by putting out a call for technology startups leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to apply to our latest cohort, kicking off this fall.

We were blown away by the quality of the applications we received, and worked hard to narrow it down to the 14 startups joining the class of 2024. Once again this year, we have incredible startups from coast to coast, tackling challenges and creating innovative solutions across industries including healthcare, cyber security, entertainment, logistics and more. We're excited and inspired by the incredible work these startups are doing and we can’t wait to get started with them.

Let’s hear from some of the founders themselves:

Throughout the three month equity free program, startups will have access to Google experts and technology to help them address their most pressing technical and business needs. The cohort will receive mentorship and technical project support from Google and Google Cloud, deep dives and workshops focused on areas like product design, customer acquisition and leadership development; and will tackle sprint projects focused on the development of their AI and machine learning technology. To date, over 100 participating Canadian companies have collectively raised more than $395M CAD and hired over 900 new employees after having gone through the program.

And with that, meet the fifth cohort of Google for Startups Accelerator: Canada!

Aya Care (Toronto) is a health spending account company that allows employees to use a Visa card to spend on their health and wellness without ever paying out of pocket for healthcare. Employees are able to choose what to spend on without restrictions from insurance carriers.

BioTwin (Quebec City) creates a parallel universe where people can test their virtual twin, before testing themselves. With a novel at-home biomarker kit that can be used anywhere, BioTwin creates a virtual person to simulate and predict health outcomes, enabling personalised healthcare and proactive interventions.

Deeplite (Montreal) aims to dramatically accelerate the adoption of AI processors for embedded devices, and reduce the time to market for AI applications, by offering optimised state-of-the-art models and tools to train and deploy models into a production environment.

Defang (Vancouver) is a radically simpler way to Develop, Deploy, and Debug portable cloud applications. Defang aims to empower programmers of all levels to go from idea to deployed cloud app in under 5 minutes!

Envision.ai (Montreal) is an AI SaaS platform that automatically generates a complete metadata description of videos, helping video owners curate, discover unknown video assets, simplify their production workflow and create video content.

EZee Assist (Toronto) is an all-in-one AI Assistant that provides instant support to franchisees on all their operational questions through their preferred channel (SMS, email, MS Teams, Slack). The solution integrates into franchise systems and ingests all manuals, training videos, and communications, so that franchisees can ask questions and get instant responses.

Handy.ai (Toronto) is an Al Solution Builder Platform. It combines process automation with Al agents to accelerate users' operations. Handy helps to convert complex manual tasks into automated workflows that decrease costs and improve efficiency.

OkRx (Mississauga) is digitising the Prior Authorization process so that Canadian Prescribers, Pharmacists, Pharma companies can break free from the dependency on fax and scanned documents.

OPTT Health (Toronto / Kingston) is a digital mental health platform that will increase health organisations' care capacity and lower their costs. OPTT uses ML/AI algorithms to make objective evaluation of a patient's mental status and provide clinicians with actionable insights that facilitate data-driven decision making.

PulseMedica (Edmonton) is developing the world’s first non-invasive platform to diagnose and treat vitreoretinal diseases, including eye floaters, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and diabetic retinopathy. The platform integrates advanced imaging, machine learning, and femtosecond laser technology to deliver highly precise and automated treatments.

runQL (Waterloo) is an AI coding assistant built specifically for data work done by developers and BI/analysts. runQL has completely reimagined data work, helping BI/analytics teams save hours of painful overhead daily.

Streamline (Kitchener) is an integrated supply chain and business planning platform that uses artificial intelligence to align all departments to manage inventory efficiently.

Transitional Forms (Toronto) is pioneering the future of interactive experiences with Simia, a generative social content platform, that is using patent pending technology to unlock human imagination by aligning AI with culture.

Vaultie (Toronto) helps businesses and governments deal confidently with real people by making it easy to ensure that a document comes from the right person and gets to the right place - and that isn't changed along the way.

The program kicks off in a few short weeks, and we can’t wait to see the incredible progress these startups will make over the next three months. Learn more about the program here.