We are excited to invite you to Techstars Toronto's sixth Demo Day Showcase! Join us on **June 29th at 1:00 PM EST** to meet the 12 companies graduating from the 2022 Spring cohort.

This Demo Day Showcase will give the investor community a look at 12 companies poised to disrupt industries and change the world through their technology. With our incredible network of mentors, investors, and partners across Canada already in place, Techstars Toronto sets out to bring the world’s best to Canada.

This global class spans not only Canada but Africa, Pakistan, and India. Investors take note, these companies mean business. Their traction and team size are seldom seen at this early stage, and their valuations are starting to soar, and surpassing a combined $100M USD already, which we believe is just the start.

## **Learn more about each of our 12 companies before they present:**

[Blackcopper](https://blackcopper.io/) - Blackcopper is a neo bank that empowers nano businesses, solopreneurs and freelancers with easy and fast access to financial services through proprietary credit assessment tools.

[Blawesome](https://www.blawesome.life/) - Helping Wellness Creators grow, manage and monetize their communities using practice management system tools and social tokens

[Bongalow](https://www.bongalow.com/) - Making mortgages more accessible for Africans by empowering banks and real estate agents with modern mortgage infrastrusture

[Captain.ai](https://www.captain.ai/) - On demand delivery software enabling restaurants to automate their in house delivery

[Emergency Response Africa](https://emergencyresponseafrica.com/) - Delivering emergency care in minutes by connecting anyone that needs help with the largest network of first responders, emergency vehicles, and hospitals

[Gigmile](https://www.gigmile.com/) - Building the services and financial infrastructure for the gig economy in Africa

[Glade](https://www.glade.ng/) - A fintech startup that enables SME's to have a global reach through offering cross border payments and multi-currency accounts

[mycover.ai](http://mycover.ai/) - Revolutionizing the way Africans experience insurance by embedding policies into their favorite products and services, all while simplifying claims processes

[Social Champ](https://www.socialchamp.io/) - The next generation’s simplest social media management tool, helping users to publish, analyze content, and engage with their audience - all from one place!

[StartGlobal](https://startglobal.co/) - Start and manage your global business, from anywhere

[Swag Kicks](https://www.swag-kicks.com/) - The go- to circular fashion solution loved by millennials and Gen Z's in emerging markets

[TruQ](https://www.mytruq.com/) - Automating and optomizing short haul logistics arcoss Africa

Alisha Golden

Gaby Rudd

Sunil Sharma

Techstars Toronto Demo Day 2022

# **Blawesome Highlights:**

❇️  Bootstrapped mobile and webapp product
🧘 410 Wellness Creators
💖 2M followers
🌴 Partnership with wellness travel brand 60k users
📈 Growing 46% month over month
🤓 Technical founder with an exit
⭐ Techstars ‘22

# **About Blawesome**

[Blawesome](https://www.blawesome.life/) makes it simple for Wellness Creators (yoga teachers, health coaches etc.) to sell courses,
memberships, grow, manage and monetize their communities. Using the utility of tokens and NFTs Blawesome helps Wellness Creators and their communities own the spaces they use to learn, and grow together.

Founder and CEO [Jennifer Kruidbos](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkruidbos/) discovered the need for Blawesome while running her corporate wellness business (clients include: TELUS, Canadian Government, Sun Life Insurance) serving thousands of people in schools, hospitals, and offices. Clients and staff complained about the lack of resources, connection to creators, experts and the toxic platforms they were often using to search for these things. 

Blawesome is the solution to this problem.

Jennifer Kruidbos

Blawesome Executive Summary

Blawesome

Techstars is an operational investor supporting you on your entrepreneurial journey from idea to building the most successful business possible! Built and run by entrepreneurs themselves, we understand the complexities of putting your ideas into action and scaling them.

Global

Techstars

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We reimagine the way the world — and the cars that do the moving — moves for the better. In addition to giving cars a way to get from point A to point B, we're working to bring the future closer with car-driving-car technology and helping other cars order food, get gas, and directions affordably.

Guber

TruQ is a platform leveraging technology to automate and optimize short-haul logistics for B2B e-commerce businesses, merchants, and individuals, connecting them in real-time to the closest vehicles to enable trusted, trackable, affordable shipments.

Williams Fatayo

Foluso Ojo

TruQ

# **What We Do 👟**

SwagKicks is bringing the best of global sneaker and clothing culture to emerging markets by sourcing, disinfecting, and authenticating preloved branded shoes from across the globe, at affordable prices.

Nofal Khan

Swag Kicks

MyCover.ai is an open insurance API built to deepen insurance penetration and liberalize insurance processes in Africa. 

- It enables Businesses embed insurance products into their current offerings or launch new insurance verticals. 
- It enables Insurance companies to distribute their products faster and simplify their claims process
- It makes insurance products readily accesible to users.

Debo Banjo

Alexander Igwe-Ifendu

MyCover.ai

Founded in 2020, StartGlobal is a technology startup enabling early-stage entrepreneurs to digitally launch and manage a US business, from anywhere in the world. Streamlining business formation, tax ID and bank accounts, accounting and compliance, and business management need - all in one platform.

Sanjay Nediyara

Why the decision not to commit suicide was the best decision of my life?

StartGlobal

The Gig Economy is a critical part of the future of work in Africa and one of the fastest-growing segments within the informal sector accounting for 80% of jobs. However, the Gig economy in Africa is being held back!

In the last decade, Africa has seen the launch of several digital platforms like Uber Eats, Jumia and Bolt. Upon the launch of these platforms, they expect to record exciting traction as we often see in Europe and America but this is hampered by key challenges. One of these challenges is the very limited supply of gig workers required to fulfil the demand.

Gigmile is building the services and financial infrastructure for mobility-based gig workers in Africa

We are democratising access to opportunities in Africa’s rising Gig Economy by enabling mobility-based gig workers with access to productive assets (motorcycles, smartphones etc), working capital and other services they require to succeed.

Think of us as the Grameen Bank for Mobility Based Entrepreneurs across Africa.

Kayode Adeyinka

Samuel Esiri

Gigmile

Glade was founded in 2020 to enable growing businesses and startups to open global bank accounts and perform cross-border payments while providing basic banking needs all on one, user-friendly platform.

Think of us as Revolut but built for businesses in Africa to help them have a global reach.

We offer a global banking experience for local businesses in Africa to perform transactions across different markets in the world.

Temitope Hundeyin

Liyi Victor

Glade

Captain is a B2B SAAS that gives restaurants technology to automate and optimise their in house deliveries. 

Their customers include the largest pizza chain in Canada, and channel partners include the likes of POS platforms such as Revel. 

Captains founding team built one of the UKs first on demand, same hour delivery, food, grocery and retail marketplaces.

Ryan Perera

Ingmar Keleras

Captain

Emergency Response Africa is transforming emergency response in Africa by building the largest network of first responders, emergency vehicles and hospitals and connecting them to those who need help in minutes. We save lives and help keep businesses and communities safe.

Folake Owodunni

Maame Poku

Emergency Response Africa

**The Problem** 

•Lack of digitization in Africa’s home financing value chain has made homeownership
inaccessible for millions of African consumers.  

•Lack of digitization limits banks from reaching more customers and prolongs their
origination process. The same remains for mortgage brokers who are digitally disconnected from these same lenders, limiting their ability to close more transaction at a pace more
conducive to their independent agent businesses. 

**The Solution** 

•Bongalow embeds its mortgage platform across key partners, including traditional banks,
neo banks, and real estate agents and brokers, enabling these key gatekeepers to instantly offer a digitized mortgage origination and brokerage solution to end users.

**Market Opportunity (Nigeria Only)** 

•Mortgage-to-GDP ratio of <1% vs. >52% in the US 

•220 million current population base expected to reach >400 million in 2050 

•Launch market of Lagos, Nigeria represents a $175 billion mortgage origination market
opportunity 

**Pricing Model** 

•For Banks: Up to 1% of mortgage value successful originated + annual service fee of up $24,000

•For Agents: Up to 3% of the mortgage value successfully brokered  

**Sales Pipeline**

•Banks: 2 signed / Will reach 8 million banking customers once deployed / In advanced discussions with 2 other banks


•Agents: 300+ agents onboarded since launching in June 2022


•Current slaes pipeline is worth over $30 million in ARR

Kelechi Nwokocha

Bongalow

Blackcopper started in 2020 after identifying that the financing GAP for nano-businesses was due to the inability of existing players to profile nano-business owners for loans. Blackcopper then built an algorithm that uses alternate data through machine learning models to create profiles for nano-businesses that will enable them to get access to working capital for their business

Muyiwa Faulkner

AZEEZ OLUWAFEMI

Blackcopper

Social Champ is a social media management solution aggregating all of the tools a business needs to run and scale multiple accounts and channels. Social Champs is rich with embedded growth hacking features, team collaboration, performance analytics, audience direct messaging, empowering users from all experience levels - from novice to expert - to execute a top-performing social media strategy.

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