Pitchers
Arvo by Sanora Labs
About the Founders
Mohamed is a fourth year BCom student at Carleton University, co-founder & CEO of Sanora Labs. Reema is a third year electrical engineering and computing technology student at the University of Ottawa, co-founder & CTO of Sanora Labs — architecting the AI pipeline and infrastructure behind Arvo.
Pitch Summary
Canadian physicians spend hours daily on prescription renewals. Arvo automates the entire workflow — reading faxes from their EMR, stratifying risk and generating decision-ready summaries for physician approval helping to give physicians their time back.
Real Victors
About the Founders
Victor Okenne is a third year CS student at Carleton University. With roots as an athlete, referee, and sports videographer, and backed by real user interviews, he is building Real Victors to revolutionize how athletes find games and grow their communities.
Pitch Summary
Real Victors is a pickup sports app for basketball players. Players can find nearby games on a map or challenge other teams to organized exhibitions with no group chats and no wasted trips. Starting in Ottawa and expanding nationally, Real Victors turns empty courts into full ones. The amateur sports market is massive, underserved, and ready for a platform built by someone who actually plays.
SOMA
Alex Stefanidis, Samir Bhuiyan, Arlana Davis, and Roy Luong
About the Founders
Alex is a fourth year Electrical engineering student at Carleton whose Capstone built a custom PPG sensor for wearable health monitoring. He aims to develop next-gen cardiovascular wearables through the Innovation Hub. Samir is an electrical engineering student at Carleton and co-founder of Soma, a biosensing wearable for muscle recovery tracking. He’s passionate about embedded systems and optimizing athletic performance.
Pitch Summary
Soma is a modular wearable biometric system for serious athletes. Unlike Fitbit, WHOOP, or Oura, Soma places directly on the muscle using a core device that attaches to interchangeable bands, capturing data no wearable currently can. It tracks three pillars: heart (rate, SpO2, blood pressure), muscle (activation, efficiency, injury risk), and hormones (hydration, cortisol, anabolic state). Raw data is translated into plain-language feedback, with deeper metrics available for advanced users. A gamification layer with leaderboards and badges makes complex biomarkers motivating. Built for bodybuilders, powerlifters, and health enthusiasts who want real insight.
Akiba
Daryll Giovanny
About the Founders
Giovanny is a third year Computer Science student at Carleton University with a minor in Economics. Giovanny founded the Gwags Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering youth in Cameroon, and since then has built a strong commitment to creating technology-based solutions to real social challenges.
Pitch summary
Donors often hesitate to contribute to personal fundraising campaigns because they cannot tell which campaigns are trustworthy or see how their money is used and what impact it creates. Akiba is a crowdfunding platform that addresses this problem by tracking every donation and giving donors visibility into how funds are used and the impact they create. By making donations more accountable and impact more visible, Akiba increases donor confidence and helps credible campaigns build trust faster.
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