Meet the Founders of the First Platform Pre-Accelerator Cohort

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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. 

Over the coming weeks, these founders will work closely with mentors, coaches, and peers to sharpen their value propositions, engage customers, and strengthen the foundations of their businesses.

Most importantly, they will build together — learning from one another, sharing insights, and pushing each other forward.

Over the coming weeks, these founders will continue building and refining their businesses. And you’ll have the opportunity to see their progress firsthand at the Graduation Showcase. Join us to meet the founders and hear their journey. RSVP now. 

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Meet the Founders and Their Startups | Cohort 1

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KeenSite

Founder & CEO: Colton Breitkreuz

KeenSite is a construction operations platform that captures what’s happening on your jobsite and turns it into accurate reports and historical data you can actually use. It connects your estimates, field activity, and equipment data so your crews know what to do, and your office knows what really happened, without chasing paperwork.  

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LifeLink Health Inc

Founder & CEO: Essam Abdelhamid

LifeLink solves the fragmentation of healthcare data and services across clinics, provinces, and care providers in Canada, where patients and providers struggle with disconnected records, long wait times, and inefficient coordination. Clinics lack an affordable, unified platform that integrates EMR, telehealth, prescriptions, labs, and patient engagement into one secure system. This results in delayed care, administrative burden, and poor patient experience — which LifeLink addresses by linking the entire care journey into one interoperable ecosystem.

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Gotofix Technologies

Founder: Igho Ose

Gotofix is a mobile marketplace transforming home maintenance by connecting homeowners with verified, skilled service providers. From plumbing and electrical repairs to appliance servicing and general handyman work, the platform brings structure, transparency, and efficiency to the home services industry while solving logistics challenges for service providers.

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‍Highway Innovation Inc

Co-Founder & GM: Imed Jouini

LifeBox is an all-in-one remote patient monitoring device designed to improve access to healthcare across clinical, home, and remote environments. It addresses the growing challenge of continuous, reliable patient monitoring, particularly for seniors, underserved communities, and healthcare providers managing patients at a distance. LifeBox enables seamless collection and sharing of key vital signs, including heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, temperature, ECG, and respiratory rate. By simplifying data capture and improving connectivity between patients and care teams, LifeBox supports more proactive, efficient, and accessible healthcare delivery.

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Fleet Logic

Founder & CEO: Marc Giles

Fleet Logic is redefining fleet management through AI-driven intelligence. The platform unifies procurement, maintenance, fuel management, telematics, inspections, and compliance into a single, cohesive system, giving fleet operators greater visibility and control over their operations.

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Cyber Shield Maple

Founder & CEO: Mohamadou Ly

Cyber Shield Maple helps organizations navigate Canada’s complex regulatory landscape by automating compliance across frameworks such as PHIPA, Law 25, and Alberta’s HIA. While many solutions focus on generic approaches, Cyber Shield Maple is purpose-built for Canadian requirements — enabling organizations and their IT providers to turn compliance from a manual burden into an automated, audit-ready system that delivers the documentation and proof regulators and insurers increasingly demand.

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GrantPulse

Founder & CEO: Nic Blanchet

GrantPulse transforms how grant-funded organizations manage the recording, tracking, and reporting of grant funding. 

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GridOps

Founder & CEO: Samim Rostainajad

GridOps is a reservation and operations platform for the $35 billion ground transportation industry. By replacing fragmented tools and manual quoting processes with a single integrated system, GridOps enables operators to manage fleets, generate quotes instantly, and take bookings directly — preserving margins, maintaining customer relationships, and controlling their business. Proudly built in Calgary for operators all across North America!

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DOC247

Co-Founder & CEO: Sham Pathak

‍DOC247 is a Calgary-based healthtech platform improving access to timely primary and urgent non-emergency care. It connects patients with nearby clinics, real-time availability, estimated wait times, and virtual care options, helping them find the right care faster. For clinics, DOC247 streamlines patient flow, optimizes scheduling, reduces administrative workload, and improves provider capacity utilization, creating a more connected and efficient healthcare experience. 

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BrightOnLABS

Co-Founder & CEO: Youssef Harkati

BrightOnLABS is building BrightOnAGENTIC, a security platform for organizations deploying AI agents in cloud environments, starting with Azure and expanding later to AWS and GCP. While many organizations are still experimenting with AI agents, 2026 marks the shift to large-scale production deployment. As agents gain access to data, tools, and infrastructure, BrightOnAGENTIC helps organizations reduce security and governance risk by mapping permissions, blast radius, and attack paths, then generating remediation guidance.

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Customer Maps

Co-Founders: Mohammad Ahsen & Riyaz Agha

Customer Maps is building digital workers for retail and e-commerce teams that automate reporting, decision-making, and execution. 

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‍PYPD

Founder & CEO: Sarah Elder

PYPD is a professional development platform designed to structure, track, and translate career growth into measurable outcomes. Built for engineers and other designation-driven professionals, the platform aligns day-to-day work with formal requirements such as licensure applications, and continuing professional development. For organizations, PYPD provides visibility into employee progress and reduces administrative workload. The platform turns professional development from a retrospective, manual exercise into an integrated, continuous system.

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‍Plethora Farms

Founder & CEO: Mondar Chaudhury

Plethora Farms is building a hub-and-spoke food infrastructure platform for institutional and commercial kitchens. They operate a centralized 5,000 square foot production hub and deploy GrowPro boxes at client sites across senior living, hospitals, and niche commercial kitchens. The hub manages production and supply, while the GrowPro boxes create a visible on-site freshness experience. The company aims to deliver selected greens and herbs at about 20% below broadline distributor cost on targeted categories, while improving freshness, consistency, and customer experience. 

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The BRDGE

Founder & CEO: Daniella Jasper-Okumagba

The BRDGE makes it easy for Calgary offices to feed their teams well every week while helping local food entrepreneurs access stable corporate revenue opportunities. 

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‍Candidly AI

Founder & CEO: Noah McDonough

Candidly AI is a Canadian B2B SaaS platform that conducts AI-powered stakeholder interviews. The platform operates on fully Canadian infrastructure and is SOC 2 audited, serving consulting firms, market research organizations, and public sector clients

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sqrft

Founder & CEO: Vishnu Gabbula

sqrft is Alberta’s first full-stack rental platform, a verified marketplace where landlords can list, screen tenants, sign leases, and collect rent, while tenants apply using a portable digital identity called the SQRFT Passport.

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Business Tax Solutions

Co-Founder & COO: Marcelo Maximilian Kaiber

Business Tax Solutions helps organizations manage complex tax parameterization through ERP integration and generative AI technology. By cross-referencing tax documents with judicial and administrative government decisions, their platform enables better pricing decisions and generates a competitive advantage for the client.

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About the Platform Pre-Accelerator

The Platform Pre-Accelerator is a 9-week, in-person, execution-first program designed for founders who have moved beyond ideation and are building early traction — but want more clarity, structure, and accountability to turn progress into consistent execution.

The Pre-Accelerator is built to provide that progression. Through structured learning, hands-on working sessions, and direct coaching, the program helps founders move from scattered effort to focused execution — building stronger customer understanding, clearer positioning, and a repeatable path to growth.

Participants work through tangible weekly deliverables, engage with mentors and peers, and gain early exposure to the networks, partners, and resources that support long-term success. The goal isn’t more theory — it’s competitive advantage. 

More broadly, the program reflects Platform Calgary’s commitment to strengthening the founder pathway in the ecosystem — ensuring that as more companies are started here, more of them are equipped to grow, stay, and succeed in Calgary.

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Hear their progress, see what they’ve built, and meet the cohort. Attend the Graduation Showcase

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