Meet the innovative businesses joining the Catalyst Cyber Accelerator
The Catalyst Cyber Accelerator is proud of launch its third cohort with five innovative Canadian cybersecurity businesses.
Headquartered at the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst at Ryerson University, the Catalyst Cyber Accelerator offers technical, strategic advice, mentorship and business resources to cybersecurity businesses that are ready to become national and international competitors. Based in Brampton’s Innovation District, it’s the first cybersecurity-focused commercial accelerator in Canada.
Data Sentinel is a data trust and compliance platform that helps businesses persistently manage their data privacy compliance, governance and quality in real time. The company’s technology illuminates the true nature of an organization’s data across all sources and systems — monitoring, measuring, and remediating the data to ensure compliance with company policies and evolving data management / privacy regulations.
Kings Distributed Systems (KDS) has developed the Distributed Compute Protocol (DCP), a virtual computing platform to power data analytics and AI/ML applications in healthcare, smart manufacturing, cybersecurity, and advanced research computing. DCP allows institutions like hospitals and research centers to harness the computing power found in all of their idle computers and devices to run their computational workloads. It creates on-premises distributed computing clusters that require no incremental capital expenditure, are 10x cheaper than commercial cloud, and keep all data private and on-prem.
Aiming to represent the future of money, Okanii offers a secure, scalable and networked digital token/coin-based electronic cash payment platform. This payment processing system promises an intuitive, simple, and easy to understand user interface, a high-strength cryptography-based security model, the convenience of mobile transactions, and unmatched consumer privacy. The company seeks to combine the best attributes of both cash and electronic transactions to address key problems in the payments industry, helping consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and payment service providers.
Quantum Bridge Technologies (QBT) develops proprietary software and quantum repeater hardware to enhance quantum communications. They seek to build the quantum internet from both conventional and quantum technologies, tackling cutting-edge engineering and theoretical problems related to the generation and manipulation of quantum entanglement. The company is also developing core proprietary technologies to make current networks quantum resilient.
SideDrawer is a secure and real-time life-planning/organization platform that allows users to easily organize and share personal and family information and important contacts from any device — including banking, investments, identity, real estate and all other critical information. SideDrawer offers guided organization and the flexibility to provide as much or as little information as users desire. The technology’s permission-based settings allow users to invite collaborators to help with documents, allowing easy access to trusted advisors and loved ones.
At the Accelerator’s intensive three-month program, all five companies will gain access to advice from experts in both business growth and cybersecurity, plus mentorship from leading companies (Rogers Communications, Royal Bank of Canada, Torys LLP, Herjavec Group, Siemens Canada, Sun Life, Microsoft Canada, AWS, 2Keys, General Dynamics and more).
To learn more about the Catalyst Cyber Accelerator, including how to apply for upcoming cohorts, visit https://www.cybersecurecatalyst.ca/accelerator-overview.
