Propel ICT Fall cohort to participate in Halifax Demo Day

Atlantic Canadian accelerator Propel ICT will be holding a Demo Day on Tuesday, November 29 at Pier 21 in Halifax, featuring a speaker series event by Kathy-Lynne Johnson and Yves Boudreau of Alongside, a talk by Propel ICT alumnus Adrian Bentley of AnalyseRe and an after party hosted by McInnes Cooper.
The main event, however, will be a pitch session featuring seven companies from Propel ICT’s Launch program and four companies from the Build program, all of which participated in the 12-week Fall accelerator.
Propel ICT’s Launch Program, which is delivered on-site at Common Ground in St. John’s, Planet Hatch in Fredericton, Startup Zone in Charlottetown, and Volta in Halifax, focuses on early-stage companies and guides them through the process of validating, developing and launching a business.
The Build Program, hosted at the Venn Centre in Moncton, focuses on more developed companies which have progressed past the idea phase and earned initial market traction, to help grow them through an emphasis on sales and international marketing.
The Demo Day arrives while Stephen Palmer, co-founder of Fredericton-based asset management company Remsoft, is working to helm a Growth stage program for Propel ICT, which would be aimed at high-growth Atlantic Canadian companies that might benefit from a formalized program aimed at helping them achieve global success.
Companies being assessed for the Growth program should be an export-focused ICT company with more than $1 million in annual revenue, based in Atlantic Canada, with average annual growth rate of 15%, serving an addressable market of at least $250 million, with a demonstrated ability to execute on their business plan.

Presenting Companies:

Launch Program:
Ad Blocking Aware ), Charlottetown, PEI – Ad Blocking Aware helps websites regain revenue and analytics lost by the use of ad-blockers. We do this by detecting ad block usage and allowing websites to engage with ad block users through the use of our appeal platform.
eChart Health Care (echarthealthcare.com), Moncton, NB – eChart Health Care joins families and care facilities together in real-time regardless of location.
GreyLitMatters (GreyLitMatters.ca), Halifax, NS – GreyLitMatters offers unlimited and instant global publication opportunities without format or content restrictions and provides “true-peer” review analytics telling the authors who read their work and what they thought of it. For industry, GreyLitMatters saves time and money by providing a one stop grey literature search for prior art and research.
Metricsflow (metricsflow.com), St. John’s, NL – Metrics Flow makes it easy to measure content marketing effectiveness, personalize and use content to drive revenue.
Mink Manager (minkmanager.com), St. John’s, NL – Mink Manager is a highly advanced fur farm management system that allows the farmer to increase their revenue by making better breeding programs and improving their overall workflow.
Orchard (useorchard.com), Halifax, NS – Orchard enables supermarkets to use dynamic content marketing to increase unplanned purchases and average basket size ($) in their stores. With data from Orchard, supermarkets can better engage and up-sell shoppers in real-time through personalized content at the closest digital sign.
rayZen (startrayzen.com), Fredericton, NB – rayZen is an online fundraising community that connects donors to nonprofits through fun and exciting games.
Build Program:
GoBumpFree (gobumpfree.com), Halifax, NS – GoBumpFree is made exclusively for airline employees and their buddies! Their exclusive club lets airline employees book last minute hotel rooms without the risk of cancellation fees.
Ironflow (ironflow.com), Dieppe, NB – PurelyHR provides companies the freedom to create a tailored solution to satisfy their specific HR needs and provide an effective solution they can trust.
one simpler (onesimpler.com), Fredericton, NB – The one simpler solution to automating production equipment, studios, and more. Simplify complex tasks, increase productivity and production quality, and reduce training time and costs.
Stay Golden Apparel (staygolden.ca), Charlottetown, PEI – Stay Golden Apparel is an online clothing company that helps groups display their identity through custom sourced and crested clothing. Their team works with hundreds of clients each year across Canada to take their clothing ideas from concept to cotton.