CTA Companies in the News

CTA CLEAN TECH: N-Dimension Improves Cybersecurity at Piedmont Municipal Power Agency

[07/21/15] RICHMOND HILL, Ontario – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Piedmont Municipal Power Agency (PMPA) of northwest South Carolina is now using N-Dimension’s cybersecurity monitoring service N-Sentinel to assure the integrity of its internal network. PMPA offers wholesale electric services to ten municipal electric utility members who deliver power to more than 100,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers. Read More

CTA CLEAN TECH: Enercare acquires Triacta Power Technologies, Inc.

[07/20/15] TORONTO, ONTARIO – Enercare Connections Inc., has acquired Ottawa-based Triacta Power Technologies, which designs and manufactures advanced, utility-grade energy management meters. Triacta will remain headquartered at Carlton Place and not undergo any lay-offs as a result of the $7.5 million sale. Triacta currently holds a 40 per cent share in the Ontario sub-metering market and has technology deployed across the U.S. including New York, Washington DC, California, Texas and Colorado. Read More

CTA HEALTH IT: Memotext Named to List of “Top 20 Canadian Health IT Companies to Watch” by HIT Consultant

[07/08/15] ATLANTA, GEORGIA – Memotext’s solutions for medication adherence are based on flexible algorithms that influence behavior change by adapting to each patient’s changing biometrics and collected circumstances. Read More

CTA CLEANTECH: Triacta Meter Approved by NYPSC for Residential Submetering, Increases Energy Conservation, Lowers Bills

[07/08/15] NEW YORK, NEW YORK – (Marketwired) – NYPSC has approved the use of the PowerHawk 6312 high-density meter, manufactured by Triacta Power Technologies Inc., for submetering electricity in multi-unit residential buildings. The Triacta meter passed rigorous accuracy, compliance and performance testing at MET Laboratories, a world-class independent electrical testing and certification lab and received Commission-approval to be used for billing residents. Read More

CTA DIGITAL TECH: Sheng Li Digital Publishes Results of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Marketing and Advertising Campaigns Using Chinese Social Media to Engage with Chinese Customers

[07/07/15] NEW YORK, NEW YORK – (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – via PRWEB – Sheng Li Digital is a multi-cultural marketing and advertising agency specializing in helping brands reach Chinese customers. Sheng Li Digital helped KLM Royal Dutch Airlines successfully use Facebook and Weibo–one of the most popular websites in China–to advertise their UK-to-China flight routes. Read More

CTA CLEANTECH: Water Industry, Meet Data: How “Big Data” is helping solve water industry problems.

[07/07/15] Improving water management to reduce waste is now critical to safeguard the world’s fresh water supplies. And Big Data is helping. Increasingly, companies and governments are turning to water data analytics companies such as WatrHub, Inc.  to identify market opportunities and find solutions for protecting water resources, and bringing much needed efficiencies to water management. Read More

CTA CLEANTECH: Solegear Outlines Capital and Commercial Milestones for Q1 2015

[07/02/15] – (Marketwired via COMTEX) –  Solegear Bioplastic Technologies Inc. (SGB) (“Solegear”), an innovator in the field of next-generation plastics,  today issued its financial results for the three month period ending May 31, 2015 (“Q1”). Highlights include the company’s successful listing on the TSX Venture Exchange at the end of March and the doubling of the company sales pipeline going into Q2. Solegear is based in Vancouver, B.C.  Read More

CTA CLEANTECH: Nano One Core Patents Receive US Notice of Allowance

[06/29/15] VANCOUVER, BC – (ACCESSWIRE) – Nano One Materials Corp. (“Nano One” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: NNO) announces that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) recently issued a notice of allowance on two of the Company’s patent applications. Read More

CTA DIGITAL TECH: Seevibes Boosts Twitter Ads with Tailored Audience Builder

[06/25/15] – (TECHVIBES) – Seevibes, a provider of smart data targeting for efficient social media advertising, announced this week the launch of its Tailored Audience Builder, a solution that combines targeting with a large audience for Twitter Ads campaigns. By analyzing billions of data points collected over the past four years, the Tailored Audience Builder allows marketers to build customized and efficient audiences within seconds. Read More

CTA CLEANTECH: Solegear and Ex-Tech Sign Letter of Intent

[06/22/15] Solegear Bioplastic Technologies Inc. (SGB) and Ex-Tech Plastics, Inc. have executed a letter of intent (the “LOI”) to formalize an agreement to combine their bio-based business efforts to achieve faster Read More

CTA CLEANTECH: Nano One Reports On Testing Of Next Generation Battery Materials

[06/17/15] Vancouver, B.C. – (TheNewswire) – Nano One Materials Corp. (“Nano One” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE: NNO.V) is pleased to provide an update on current activities and progress towards milestones in its battery materials optimization and piloting. Read More

CTA DIGITAL TECH: 400% growth for Voices.com in a $26 billion industry: Company to launch NYC offices.

[06/02/15] Since joining the Canadian Technology Accelerator Digital Tech program (CTA Digital Tech) in January 2015 voices.com sales have been climbing rapidly following two years of steady growth.  Voices.com is the online marketplace that connects voice-over talent to businesses that want to hire them. The company has 250,000 registered users, split between voice talent and voice clients, with more than 3,000 voice-over jobs posted each month. Read More

CTA Digital Tech companies featured on CBC-TV and CBC.ca

[05/19/15] The CTA Digital Tech program in New York and current roster of Canadian digital tech companies are featured in a prime-time TV news report on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC-TV) that aired nationally in May 18, 2015. The program and the companies are also featured in a web video story on CBC.ca. Read More

CTA DIGITAL TECH: Questology featured in FORBES: How To Use Hastags To Unlock Customer Relationships

[05/06/15]  NEW YORK, NEW YORK – (Forbes) – Forbes recently spoke with Alec Lacroix, CEO of Montreal-based Questology a social influence firm that helps big companies like AOL and Bell Canada communicate more quickly and effectively with their customers. Read More

CTA DIGITAL TECH: CTA Alumni Chris Breikss interviewed in Hootsuite’s influencial marketing blog

[05/05/15] This week Hootsuite’s influential blog featured insights from Chris Breikss, the CEO of the social media marketing firm Sheng Li Digital (a CTA Digital Tech alum) and 6S Marketing who shared his knowledge of how to incorporate influencers into your marketing strategy: “A key component of marketing has always been leveraging your fans and customers through word-of-mouth. While we know its importance, until recently Read More 

CTA DIGITAL TECH: Wagepoint receives $2 million in seed capital for US expansion

Wagepoint is an HR tech company for payroll services specializing in small businesses and a current member of the CTA Digital Tech program. Tech industry trade publication Techvibes reports on the Waterloo, Ontario-born startup raising $2 million in seed capital to accelerate its penetration into the US market and to expand its product portfolio. Read More 

CTA DIGITAL TECH: TouchBistro wins Gold and Silver “Best in Biz” awards

Ranked the top-grossing food and beverage app in 33 countries on the Apple® App Store(SM) and one of the ‘2014 Hottest Companies in New York City’ by lead 411, TouchBistro wins gold and silver at the “Best in Biz” awards in December 2014. CEO and Founder Alex Barrotti is named Entrepreneur/Founder of the Year, and the TouchBistro customer experience team receives silver for Service Department of the Year. Read More 

CTA HEALH IT: Self Care Catalysts raises $2M round for patient intelligence and self care platform

Tech innovation news site VentureBeat reports on the recent round of funding by current CTA Health IT company Self Care Catalysts, a new patient informatics, intelligence, and self care solution provider.

The new money will be used to fund further development of the “Health Storylines” mobile and web-based patient intelligence, analytics, and self care platform. The platform is used by pharmaceutical companies, health plans, and providers to engage and learn from patients dealing with disease. Read More