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MasterControl's billion-dollar war on paper
A finished batch can still wait days for its paperwork. MasterControl built a business by moving quality checks into the work itself - and waited nearly 30 years to take outside investment.
Leucine and the surprisingly expensive life of a paper record
A medicine can be finished before its paperwork is. Leucine sells pharmaceutical manufacturers a way to close that gap, connecting the shop floor to the people who must prove what happened there.
Pep Gubau Bet on AI Before Pharma Wanted to Hear About It
A two-week internship taught him what he did not want. Four decades, two exits and one stubborn bet later, Pep Gubau is still trying to make industrial data useful where every decision needs a paper trail.
Elevated Signals
Elevated Signals is a Vancouver-based software company building modern, cloud-based manufacturing operations software for highly regulated industries. Born out of the Canadian cannabis boom, its platform replaces paper, spreadsheets, and legacy ERPs with a single real-time source of truth across inventory, quality, traceability, planning, costing, manufacturing, and fulfillment. After raising a $7.9M CAD Series A led by Yaletown Partners in 2024, the company is expanding beyond cannabis into nutraceuticals, food and beverage, CPG, and critical minerals.