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Meet the Founders of the First Platform Pre-Accelerator Cohort
We’re excited to introduce the inaugural cohort of the Platform Pre-Accelerator — a group of founders building solutions across healthcare, construction, transportation, agriculture, e-commerce, and more.This 9-week, in-person, execution-first program is designed for founders who have moved beyond the idea stage and are actively testing their product in-market — working to define their ideal customer, validate demand, and build a repeatable path to early traction. The cohort brings together Calgary-based founders who are building, experimenting, and working to turn early progress into structured, consistent execution.
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Founders get investment ready

Platform Calgary is a non-profit, member based organization. Our mandate is to bring together the resources of Calgary's tech ecosystem to help startups launch and grow at every step of their journey, from ideation through to scale.

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Platform Calgary, Spring Activator and Innovate Calgary are excited to welcome 19 startups and their founders to learn the ins and outs of capital raising with the Investment Readiness program.

The Investment Readiness program is designed for founders who are curious about the investment process or ready to raise funds and are unsure where to focus their efforts. Through 5 weeks of interactive learning sessions with experts, guest speakers, and other entrepreneurs, this program will provide the tools, frameworks, and best practices to help entrepreneurs gain confidence to seek strategic impact funding. Founders will walk away from the program with knowledge on funding literacy and a better understanding of the investment landscape - ready to pitch investors!

Meet the founders & their startups:

SolarSteam Inc.| Apostol Radev + David Babich
Sport Product Testing - CSI Calgary | Pro Stergiou
Shipup Global Solutions Inc | Jaber Ebrahimi
SFT Global, Inc | Mack Barber + Tracey Wallace
Vital XR | Dr. Omar Damji + Neil Christensen
SeeRem | Max Chernetsov
8 Bit Cortex | Ty McKinney + Shannon Snaden
3Edges | Alexandre Babeanu
Promera Inc. | Trafford Crump + Luke Rudmik
Buoyancy Works Software Corp. | Jon MacConnell
Raft Rehabilitation | Geoffrey Frost
AnthoBio | Lin Tang + Wee Yong
WordKit AI | Kuifei Liu + Jack Zhu
Law Prompt | Ali Salman + Sara Reisi Dehkordi
Eimhe Inc. | Jefferson Roc + Kris Pyle
MWDPlanet and Lumen Corp | Mariya Kucherenko + Borys Kucherenko
Rambody | Farzan Havaee + Sara Reisi
Wave View Imaging Inc. | Jeremie Bourqui + Elise Fear
SenseSi Technology Inc. | David Rosenegger + Jaideep Bains + Amir Nezhad

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February 3, 2023

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Meet the Founders of the First Platform Pre-Accelerator Cohort

We’re excited to introduce the inaugural cohort of the Platform Pre-Accelerator — a group of founders building solutions across healthcare, construction, transportation, agriculture, e-commerce, and more.This 9-week, in-person, execution-first program is designed for founders who have moved beyond the idea stage and are actively testing their product in-market — working to define their ideal customer, validate demand, and build a repeatable path to early traction. The cohort brings together Calgary-based founders who are building, experimenting, and working to turn early progress into structured, consistent execution.

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From Hype to Workflow: How Founders Are Actually Using AI in Sales

At the March Community Connect, we brought together founders and scaling sales leaders for a practical conversation on how AI is reshaping modern revenue systems.Featuring Abbas Sarraf (Co-Founder & CPO, Aimsio) and Dennis Hale (VP Sales, Aimsio), moderated by Stephen Wensley (CEO, Acuspire), the session cut through the noise and focused on what’s actually working today.And the message was clear:AI isn’t about replacing sales teams. It’s about building better sales and marketing systems for scale.

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