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Bucketlist Turned a Million-User Side Project Into the Employee Recognition Habit HR Can Actually Measure
The consumer app had more than a million users. The better business appeared when employers kept asking for something else: a way to turn everyday appreciation into a system people would actually use.
CamDo Turned a Paraglider's Battery Hack Into a $999 Jobsite Camera - Here's What Builders Can Copy
A camera that wakes up, takes the right frame and goes back to sleep sounds modest. On a construction site, that small trick became a hardware-and-software business built around fewer site visits, cleaner project records and equipment that can stay outside for months.
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.
LoginRadius
LoginRadius is a Vancouver-headquartered customer identity and access management (CIAM) company that gives businesses a single platform to register, authenticate, and manage their end users at scale. Founded in 2012 as a social-login tool, it grew into a full identity-as-a-service suite covering single sign-on, passwordless login, passkeys, adaptive MFA, and no-code identity orchestration - with configurable data residency across 35+ regions to satisfy regulated industries. The platform is used by thousands of brands to secure large consumer bases while keeping login experiences fast and compliant.
Tuktu Care Inc.
Tuktu Care is a Canadian agetech marketplace that uses an AI-driven matching algorithm to pair seniors and families with vetted local companions and service providers. Founded in Vancouver in 2022 after founder Rustam Sengupta's father was diagnosed with dementia, the on-demand platform covers everything from companionship and transportation to housekeeping, overnight care, and post-hospital recovery - typically at 30-40% less than the cost of traditional agencies. A Techstars Future of Longevity company, Tuktu has served 6,000+ customers and built a network of 300+ care providers across Canada, and in March 2026 expanded into the United States with a statewide launch in Vermont.