MEET THE COMPANIES
We’re thrilled to introduce you to 10 companies selected for Launch Party 12
The twelfth annual edition of Launch Party, hosted by Startup Edmonton, is Edmonton’s flagship startup event during Edmonton Startup Week that celebrates and showcases the hottest startups in town. This year’s event will be virtual (but still awesome).
Launch Party gives you the opportunity to meet our city's brightest entrepreneurs, try their products, and celebrate everything that our startup community has to offer. Launch Party is a flagship event of Edmonton Startup Week and showcases the hottest startups in town. Since 2010, more than 95 technology companies have launched products at the event, including rapidly growing teams like Jobber, Drivewyze, Vertical City, and Showbie.
“It takes an incredible amount of passion, courage, and outright determination to be at the forefront of solving problems with creative solutions and it’s these values that thrive in our startup community. I look forward to celebrating our vibrant community and welcoming new faces into the fold!
See you soon!”
Introducing Launch Party Class of 2021
Agriolabs makes compact stackable home gardens that turn your unused space into convenient sources of fresh veggies. Our systems take care of lighting, watering, and ventilation, so even the most forgetful person can expect a bountiful harvest. From the convenience factor leading to a healthier lifestyle, to all the food waste you're keeping out of the landfills. The benefits of growing food at home, or Ultralocal as we call it are undeniable. Effective home growing systems are dominated by systems that take up a ton of space, require a ton of work, or both. We're the exception.
Jonathan Mui, Founder & CEO
Air Trail helps regional airlines save time and money by replacing their traditionally cumbersome paperwork with our suite of automated tools. Instead of chasing pilots and paperwork to stay compliant, our customers use Air Trail to unify their teams around the big picture.
Bradley Poulette, Co-Founder & CEO
Areto Labs is a B2B SaaS tech startup making digital communities more positive and inclusive by building apps for the digital workplace that combine machine learning sentiment analysis with a program of automated, behavioural-science based culture-building prompts and nudges.
Lana Cuthbertson, Founder & CEO
Kasey Machin, Founder & COO
Browse AI is the easiest way to extract and monitor data from any website. It lets you train a robot to scrape any website in 2 mins with no-code, essentially turning any website into an API. Browse AI was founded in Edmonton last year and went through Startup Edmonton’s Propel program. This year, they received their first investment and were invited to the XX accelerator in San Francisco. More recently, they launched publicly on Product Hunt and became one of the top products of the day and the week with over 1,500 votes.
Ardy Naghshineh, Founder & CEO
Elev is a platform that helps Students find their Home away from Home, while providing a stress-free renting experience to both Students and their Hosts. From being matched with ideal homes, signing the lease and paying their rent through our app, everything a student needs is under one roof. We help Hosts find the best tenants and manage their properties like pros. From screening potential candidates, to managing maintenance requests, all the tools they need are at their fingertips.
Jean Bruce Koua, Co-Founder & VP Finance
Fly & Fetch is a modern shipping company providing cheaper, faster, and friendlier shipping rates by hiring travellers to transport packages. Leveraging a sharing economy model, travellers get free flight tickets & senders save 80% on fees and have their packages delivered 2x fasters.
Shelvie Fernan, Co-Founder & CEO
Victoria Celi, Co-Founder & COO
The HRing App shortens the hiring time, reduces cost to hire and allows companies to make more informed hiring decisions through video introductions to test soft skills, portfolio display of hard skills via video/picture, the ability to invite Candidates to take pre-set interviews corporations can watch on their own time and empower employers to actively recruit students on HRing through Discovery Buckets which are groupings of student video introductions specific to a program. Think Tinder meets LinkedIn!
Garrett Martin, Founder & CEO
Luuze uses meaningful measurements to help people lose weight sustainably like the founder, Andrew Luu did when he lost 100 pounds. People fail with weight management due to many factors, including miseducation, unreasonable expectations, and misleading data, causing confusion and demotivation. Luuze addresses these issues with trend weight tracking to break the lies of the scale, reasonable goal management to support sustainability, and virtual coaching to keep people motivated to succeed on their journey. Luuze is currently available on the Apple App Store.
Andrew Luu, Founder
(Re)Waste helps businesses divert their plastic from landfills and transforms it into 100% recycled plastic products.
Corey Saban, Founder & CEO
Zipstall is an app that is bringing an entirely new strategy to the established but gruesomely frustrating parking industry. Years of parking downtown combined with a background in commercial real estate and parking ownership uniquely position us to understand the many stakeholders in the parking space. Through the creation of a marketplace, partnership with the community and a focus on actionable data collection, Zipstall is delivering a solution like nothing the market has seen and where all key stakeholders win. They say as the downtown goes, so the city goes…and with Zipstall the city can finally go downtown.
Kevin Petterson, Founder