Defined is architected as a thesis-driven and product-first venture capital firm investing as early as possible and taking a full-stack approach across the building blocks of the AI Frontier. We work with founders to re-architect how to solve problems in radically new ways.

Team True North spotlights the best of Canadian tech: high-performing tech firms tracking to $1 billion in annual revenue with growth rates that match the top one per cent of companies in the world. Why did we form Team True North? Because it is Canada’s time – this is the best place on the planet to work in tech, invest in tech and build amazing things. Through Team True North, Communitech will continue to support these companies with access to talent, customers and capital as well as celebrate their global successes.

Sean Brownlee is a partner of Rho Canada Ventures. With over 20 years of operational and venture experience, he is passionate about collaborating with entrepreneurs and helping them grow their ventures to become leaders in their spaces.He joined Rho Canada Ventures in 2012 and focuses on investments in the areas of SaaS (Software as a Service), cloud, mobility and clean technology. Prior to Rho, Sean worked for nearly a decade in Boston at JMH Capital and 3i Corporation, a leading internationally focused venture capital firm. He has been involved in the early-stage financing of many technology companies that have achieved successful exits through M&A and IPO. Sean was also previously as an investor with EDC in Ottawa. Sean’s experience and network builds on Rho’s focus on developing early-stage companies into international leaders. He is focused on working with entrepreneurs who are thinking about global domination from the earliest stages.Sean received an M.B.A. from the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University and a B.A. in economics from Carleton University. In addition, he is a CFA charterholder.

Thentia Cloud provides the opportunity to regulate from wherever you need to, securely. Adaptive graph-based database technology harnesses complex data relationships and evolves them over time as the data changes, through a blend of machine learning and predictive analytics.

Fluent.ai is disrupting the speech recognition and understanding market using visionary new deep learning and other machine techniques to enable acoustic-only speech recognition. By associating speech to intent without requiring a speech-to-text translation, Fluent.ai opens a wide variety of new applications and provides higher accuracy and more robust performance unattainable using incumbent methods.

Real time sports analytics using a standard single camera. Sportlogiq provides advanced analystics and does not require chips or any additional hardware.

BDC Capital’s Industrial, Clean and Energy (ICE) Technology Venture Fund tailors its investments towards capital-efficient and scalable businesses enhancing resource productivity with the potential to operate across a global market. We invest in early and development stage Canadian companies, and use our experience in materials, electronics and ICT to build commercially successful global companies.

ThinkData is creating the fastest, most efficient solutions to the problems of data variety. Namara allows our clients to access and collaborate on standardized data, blend and enrich their own data, and integrate the finished product into any business solution. We are the bridge between people who have data and those who can use it to power decision science - a standard gateway for organizations to power their decision science with clean, accessible data.

Four years in the making, Relogix sensors are now in their fifth generation, supported by IoT solutions. Our customers include the most recognizable brands in the world today. We’ve grown to over 30 corporate and public sector customers and deployed over 100,000 sensors covering over 20 million square feet of office space globally.Relogix is still growing. We’re always looking for the next innovation in CRE technology, leveraging a decade of CRE and analytics expertise to help you understand and plan your workspace.

Auvik wants to make networking easier. Through the use of some really cool technology, Auvik's cloud managed network automation platform dramatically simplifies the way IT configures, monitors, and manages its network. Best of all, it works with the network you already have!

**Acquired by AutoDesk***UpchainXLM is a collaborative product development platform for engineers, designers, sales people, purchasers and other product stakeholders. UpchainXLM has supported teams in the cloud to make some of the worlds most sophisticated products for companies like BMW, Tesla, Apple, The European Space Agency (ESA) and more.

Resson uses the rapidly expanding trend of drone application in agriculture and large scale cloud-based predictive analytics to optimize agricultural productivity. The RAMAS (Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System) integrates large scale cloud-based data analytics with sensor fusion and robotic platforms to provide agricultural producers with an unequalled view of crop production and field conditions.

The Copperleaf Decision Analytics Solution helps organizations decide where and when to invest in their infrastructure to maximize business performance, manage risk, and realize strategic outcomes.

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Crystal IS, an Asahi Kasei company, is an innovative U.S.-based manufacturer of proprietary, high-performance deep UV (UVC) LEDs. Our products are used for disinfection in a variety of applications, including healthcare, industrial and point-of-use (POU) water purification. Crystal IS UVC LEDs are also used in scientific and industrial instruments to measure the quality of water, air, and biological samples.