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Accelerator Centre CEO, Client and Grads featured on 570 News #TechHour

Mix together a CEO 6 days on the job, one AC Grad, one soon-to-be AC Grad, and one AC Client, and you’ve got yourself one fantastic #TechHour!

On Tuesday September 2nd, the Accelerator Centre was a hot topic on the 570News Midday Show with Eric Drozd.  Listen in as Dr. Paul Salvini, CEO of the Accelerator Centre; Terry Frey, COO of BigRoad; Sam MacDonald, COO of DeepTrekker; and Rini Gahir, co-founder of Mozzaz chat about the role the Accelerator Centre plays in the startup community.

Listen to the full broadcast here.

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AC Grad LoyaltyMatch partners with Etix to improve fan experience

Etix, the largest independent ticketing company in North America, is partnering with LoyaltyMatch Inc., the leading developer of loyalty program platforms for entertainment venues. In addition to providing various benefits to customers, the partnership will allow all of Etix’s client venues to create and manage their own loyalty programs and learn more about their customers.

“Loyalty programs are not just about getting fans to return to a venue by giving them free stuff. A well-designed loyalty program will provide valuable information on what fans really want when they attend a show, buy food and drink, or scoop up merchandise. The ability to gather that information is at the core of our platform,” explains Brad Ball, CEO of LoyaltyMatch.

Etix provides web-based ticketing services for the entertainment, travel, and sports industries, processing more than 50 million tickets per year in 40 countries.

To read the full press release click here.

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AC Client Plasticity Labs raises $2.1 million to boost employee morale

Plasticity Labs, a company that uses data analytics to measure workplace morale, announced that it has raised $2.1 million led by Fibernetics Ventures. The funds will be used for sales and development.

Plasticity was founded in 2012, three years after co-founder and CEO Jim Moss, a former professional lacrosse player for Colorado Mammoth, fell ill with swine flu and was also diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, an auto-immune disorder.

Moss says Plasticity, which focuses on rapid-growth small- to medium-sized businesses, differentiates through the frequency of its data collection and “by focusing on what inspires employees instead of what simply motivates them.” Plasticity surveys employees once a day, but with questions that only take a minute to answer and then uses that information to create programs that help increase workplace morale.

Plasticity says that in the past 12 months, the company has grown from one to 12 enterprise customers. It now has teams in 11 countries and plans to add employees in another 11. Moss says Plasticity is nine months ahead of its forecasted sales and is about to double its pricing model.

To read the full article click here.

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AC Grad I Think Security secures spot in the 2014 Fintech Innovation Lab

Waterloo’s I Think Security was founded in 2010 and graduated from the Accelerator Centre program in September of 2013. The company, which was founded by cryptologist and security expert Dr. Cédric Jeannot, has been steadily growing and launching various products aimed to those concerned with data security.

I Think Security has been named one of eight startups to be selected to participate in the upcoming 2014 FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific. The core focus of the Lab is to assist early stage companies in the financial sector to develop and commercialize new technologies, specifically targeted to the Asia-Pacific region. The initiative was launched by Accenture in June 2014.

According to the Wall Street Journal, I Think Security is considering expanding into the Asia-Pacific market. Apart from I Think Security, the eight companies selected to participate are: Advanced Merchant Payments, AtCipher, Beijing Wecash Wonder Technology, FinSuite, iDGate, Jocata Financial Advisory & Technology Services and QxBranch.

To read the full article click here.

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AC Grad Karos Health acquires Medical Insight A/S

Karos Health, a leader in standards-based clinical imaging exchange, storage and cross-enterprise workflow solutions, announces that it acquired Medical Insight A/S in June 2014.

Medical Insight, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a leading provider of universal diagnostic imaging solutions. Its EasyViz products use a revolutionary adaptive streaming technology for instant cross enterprise access to large examinations and reports over low bandwidth connections. Adding complete mobility to clinical workflow and displaying of diagnostic quality images directly from any PACS or Vendor Neutral Archive all without prefetching makes it the perfect tool for primary reading, enterprise viewing, tele-medicine and real-time collaborative group sessions. EasyViz seamlessly integrates with 3rd party applications such as RIS, EMR or patient portals. It is used today in many leading institutions across North America and Europe where it delivers unparalleled access to critical diagnostic imaging information at anytime, from anywhere.

Karos’ Rialto platform, combined with EasyViz, delivers a seamless solution for imaging departments and healthcare enterprises, providing our customers with a platform for clinical collaboration and rapid access to imaging information and any other clinical documents at anytime, from anywhere. The scalability, performance and comprehensive feature set delivers our vision for the future today.

To read the full press release click here.

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AC Grad Client Outlook's eUnity™ platform standardized by Marshfield Clinic

Client Outlook Inc., an industry leader in clinical image viewing solutions, announced today that Marshfield Clinic, one of the largest multi-specialty group practices in the United States, has standardized upon the company’s eUnity™ universal viewer and collaboration platform as its default viewer serving Marshfield’s 750+ physicians located across 54 locations and over 17,000 users through their commercially available CattailsMD EHR, which has integrated the eUnity solution.

eUnity™ offers Marshfield Clinic physicians, rapid retrieval of archived studies; anywhere, anytime ability to view diagnostic quality images from a browser or mobile device; and improved collaboration with hospital-based physicians and users within the clinic’s Tier II provider network enabling more rapid delivery of care to patients.

eUnity™ is now used across the Marshfield Clinic health enterprise to display medical images housed within the Cattails Software Suite, the Clinic’s homegrown medical records system. Marshfield Clinic’s more than 17,000 users within the Clinic and its extended Tier II provider network (referring physicians in hospitals, public health departments, nursing homes etc) access, manipulate and collaborate in real-time over full quality medical images using nothing more than a commonly configured web-browser.

To read the full article, click here.

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AC Grad Axonify set to transform employee education in the Middle East

Corporate training company biz-group is set to change the way employee education is undertaken in the Middle East with the launch of Axonify. The web-based training solution combines the latest research in brain science with game mechanics to significantly improve knowledge retention rates and business impact.

Axonify will be delivered across the GCC exclusively by biz-group, the Middle East’s leading corporate training, teambuilding and business strategy company. The innovative online knowledge reinforcement platform is a first for the region and is already being used by an increasing number of Fortune 100 companies and multinationals such as GE Energy, Bloomingdale’s and Toys”R”Us.

“The increasing knowledge around brain science is driving the way we deliver learning and is set to ensure training moves away from the traditional classroom structure to a lighter touch, with frequent interventions. This is supported by research that highlights 90 percent of information is being leant on the job, however, 80 percent of training budgets in the Middle East are still allocated to traditional classroom based methods. This is because, until now, there hasn’t been a solution that could reinforce learning and deliver measurable results,” said Hazel Jackson Founder and CEO of biz-group.

To read the full press release click here.

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PC Magazine review of AC Client Eyedro's electricity monitor

The Eyedro Monitor is a relatively easy-to-install digital home device, and a free Web app offers a wealth of reporting options including hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly electricity usage and estimated costs. You only get three sensors with the Eyedro Business kit and two with the Home kit ($199), so if you want to monitor multiple circuits, you’ll have to cough up another $99, $139, or $189 for the 1-sensor, 2-sensor, or 3-sensor expansion models (respectively). However, the sensors’ bulky size may limit how many you can fit inside your electrical panel. That aside, the Eyedro is a great system for monitoring just how much electricity your various devices are using.

Design and Installation
The folks at Eyedro sent me a Business kit (EBWEM1), which includes a wireless gateway module, a wireless sensor module, an Ethernet cable, a Quick Start guide, two power adapters, and three 200A sensors (400A-5,000A sensors are available for businesses that require more capacity). They also sent along an expansion kit that included 3 sensors, a power adapter, and a wireless sensor module.

Smaller than a deck of cards, the gateway module measures 0.8 by 2.7 by 2.7 inches (HWD) and has a LAN port and a jack for the power adapter. The sensor module is the same size as the gateway module and has three sensor inputs and a jack for the power adapter. The wireless modules are not Wi-Fi enabled; they communicate with each other via a proprietary mesh network with up to a 1,000-foot range, which means you can install the gateway module close to your router (the sensor module must be installed at the electrical panel, which in my house is located in the basement).

To read the full review by PC Magazine click here.

 

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AC Client Konectera talks to the Globe & Mail about their New Wearable Pet Technology Startup

When former BlackBerry Ltd. employee Peter Mankowski became the latest casualty of the struggling technology company’s corporate restructuring, he didn’t spend a lot of time mourning his old job.

The 50-year-old scientist took his severance package and dipped into his RRSPs to help fund his own startup, CLEO Collar, a wearable pet technology firm inspired by his love of animals.

Since Mr. Mankowski’s job ended in the first week of June, the CLEO Collar CEO has put together a team of 20 employees, including three other ex-BlackBerry engineers, to work with him to develop and sell the electronic hardware device. It allows pet owners to remotely track the location and vital signs of their cat or dog.

“I always had this voice in my heart. I didn’t just want to build phones,” says Mr. Mankowski, who spent four years working at Waterloo, Ont.-based BlackBerry. His last title there was technical team lead for advanced connectivity, until his research division was shut down.

BlackBerry, Canada’s best-known technology company, has laid off more than half of its employees in the past few years – shedding roughly 10,000 workers since 2011 – as it dukes it out with Apple Inc. and other providers in the highly competitive smartphone space

Mr. Mankowski is one of several ex-BlackBerry employees who have decided to stick it out in the Waterloo region and start their own companies, instead of being lured away by other technology firms in Canada, the United States and other parts of the world.

Read the full article here.

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AC Grad LoyaltyMatch Signs Partnership with Blue Note Entertainment Group

 

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Will introduce loyalty programs powered by LoyaltyMatch at its four venues

Kitchener, Ont. – August 12, 2014 – The Blue Note Entertainment Group (BNEG), which owns and operates live music venues including the world-famous Highline Ballroom in New York City, is partnering with LoyaltyMatch Inc, the leaders in entertainment venue loyalty program platforms, to create programs that will be available later this year to the hundreds of thousands of consumers BNEG touches annually through music.

BNEG venues have hosted the greatest names in the music industry for more than 30 years and have been pioneers in bringing the culture of jazz, and blues as well as many other genres of music, to the USA and abroad. The company reaches a wide demographic of consumers by maintaining a unique style for each of its venues, securing exceptional acts across all music genres and consistently delivering great food and service.

“When we opened our first club, the Blue Note Jazz Club, in 1981 our only thought was to present great artists and to offer our patrons outstanding services and products,” said Blue Note president and owner Tsion Bensusan. “We now reach nearly half a million people a year, many of whom come back to us again and again. We believe they should be rewarded for that loyalty. Working with LoyaltyMatch will enable us to start doing so quickly and cost effectively.”

About LoyaltyMatch Inc.
LoyaltyMatch Inc. is a privately held loyalty and engagement-computing company that provides a cloud-based loyalty management and gamification platform. It offers the fastest path to the development and delivery of loyalty and engagement initiatives revolutionizing the way businesses manage customer value. LoyaltyMatch customers include I.M.P. Productions, Clarins USA, Digital Currency Systems and Rewards Lunatics! LoyaltyMatch Inc. is based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

About Blue Note Entertainment Group
Blue Note Entertainment Group owns and operates the Blue Note Jazz Club, B.B. King Blues Club, the Highline Ballroom and The Howard Theatre . BNEG has hosted some of the greatest names in the music industry and was a pioneer in bringing the culture of jazz, as well as many other genres of music, to the USA and abroad.
Marquee artists from Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Carlos Santana to Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Amy Winehouse have all been swayed by the unique ambiance of the Highline Ballroom.