It’s that time of year we at L-SPARK love so much: KICKING OFF A NEW COHORT!
After months of applications and recruitment, boot camp selection, pitch prep, and review, we hosted our annual Selection Week to kick off our next cohort. These founders made it through each hurdle along the way and ultimately were selected by a panel of investors to represent the 11th cohort of our SaaS Accelerator. We cannot wait to see what the future holds for these companies!
Meet the cohort
This cohort is made up of an exceptional group of founders passionate to solve the problems surrounding them and lead the change for innovation in their space. We can only dare to dream how this group of startups will thrive and grow within the next 6 months of our program, and we can’t wait to share the updates with each win and success!
Read on to discover the companies making up the 11th cohort of our SaaS Accelerator 👇
Apprendo
Apprendo, an eCommerce platform for service providers, revolutionizes how to monetize expertise. Apprendo enables companies to effortlessly transform fee-for-service professionals’ expertise into revenue streams and introduce subscription models, opening up unprecedented opportunities for growth and profitability.
Apprendo is a successful veteran of Invest Ottawa’s Flex Program and the University of Southern California’s Rossier Venture Accelerator.
Camilo Rivera, CEO & Founder, Apprendo
Shane Maley, COO, Apprendo
CyberSSS
CyberSSS is streamlining cybersecurity with a cutting-edge platform that consolidates vulnerabilities into a single, unified view. The CyberSSS solution enhances assessment and prioritization, making vulnerability management more streamlined and effective than ever before – using one tool instead of multiple.
Stephane Vaillancourt, CEO + Founder, CyberSSS
Glowtify
Glowtify is a unified marketing platform that identifies issues, gives marketing benchmarks, and implements solutions with a single click – to help eCommerce brands boost their sales and drive revenue. Glowtify integrates with eCommerce tools (Shopify, Google Analytics, Meta, Klaviyo, etc), analyzes data, offers smart recommendations, and helps draft and publish marketing materials using AI, all from one platform. Glowtify provides automation and insights for SEO, ads, social – and everything in between.
Marc Allard, CEO + Co-Founder, Glowtify
illuxi
illuxi leverages advanced AI technologies to produce, host, and distribute dynamic training paths, revolutionizing knowledge exchange within organizations. Their sophisticated SaaS platform, coupled with comprehensive support services, ensures seamless learning management that not only empowers employee development but also commercializes cutting-edge online training solutions, driving both individual growth and organizational success.
illuxi CEO is an endurance athlete who competed in marathons, ultramarathons, and half Ironmans around the world. He is channeling that same energy and drive into the company—just without making the team run laps (for now, anyway!).
Philippe Richard Bertrand, CEO, illuxi
KnowledgeNow
KnowledgeNow is a full service eLearning company that offers both service and technological solutions for designing the best learning experiences for everyone, through their tool eClarity. The product designs and develops online learning solutions using a flexible system that ensures long-term success,
eClarity allows for a seamless transition from building to integration into LMS, to make the production and deployment of content simple and quick.
It’s project management meets design best practice, with simply deployement into LMS baked in.
Amanda Douglas-Young, CEO + Co-Founder, KnowledgeNow
Lodestone
Lodestone is a product management platform that helps product teams and founders make better product decisions when it comes to how to allocate limited resources across unlimited opportunities. Lodestone learns from the usage of Product Managers and Product Leaders and in turn delivers an increasingly sophisticated AI product management function for Startup Founders.
Lodestone was part of CodeLaunch’s very first Canadian cohort in the summer of 2024 and was awarded the Judges’ Champion at the final pitch competition in late August.
Dennis Chow, Founder + CEO, Lodestone
Meerby
Meerby is an intelligent retail roster deployment and management tool that specializes in a customer-first approach. They use modern technology to support staff and to grow sales while navigating the challenging business climate in today’s world.
Meerby also uses the data and insights gathered through their product to deploy the right staff to the right customer at the right time as well as optimize staff scheduling – directly impacting in store revenue and customer experience.
Allan Malcomson, President CEO + Co-Founder, Meerby
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Want to be put in touch with any of these founders? Let us know! We’re happy to make an intro. Reach out to Marketing Manager, Natasha Tardioli, at natasha@l-spark.com.
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