Startup & Scaleup Pilots
Priority Area: Projects
Dates: May 2021 - Oct. 2021
Status: Completed
Halifax is a mid-size city with a connected and collaborative innovation ecosystem, making it an ideal testing ground for local and global startups and scaleups to test, pilot, and evolve new technology and products in partnership with private, public, and post-secondary partners.
Through the Halifax Innovation Outpost’s City as a Living Lab initiative, Halifax-based startup partnered with Halifax Partnership Investors and other established companies and organizations to be early testers and adopters of their products.
Participating Startups
Rimot
When COVID-19 hit, Rimot, which traditionally uses its remote monitoring technology to keep critical infrastructure working for business and government, saw an opportunity to use its platform to make workplaces safer by screening people for the virus using a touchless thermal camera and automated questionnaires. They swiftly developed a prototype and are now deploying their RimotHEALTH Workplace Virus Threat Screening turnkey cloud-based solution across North America and Europe.
To support the company in evolving and scaling its technology, Halifax Partnership and Volta are piloting the RimotHEALTH unit within their workplaces.
Tranquility Online
Designed for businesses and organizations of every kind, Tranquility offers pathways to better mental health by delivering gold-standard Cognitive Behavioral Therapy digitally to a user’s phone or computer. Using Tranquility, people and organizations can better manage their stress and mood through an interactive and comprehensive program, self-directed or with the support of a coach over video, phone, or in-app messaging.
This pilot aims to support the growth of Tranquility's user base and provide valuable feedback to advance its product while giving employees of participating companies much-needed mental health support.
Harbr
Harbr is FinTech for construction and development projects that facilitates prompt payments for the construction industry in a mutually beneficial way, matching work to invoices, automating the accounts receivables process, and streamlining approvals.
Harbr is focused on building its user base and the Halifax Innovation Outpost is helping the company connect with private sector users and potential customers.
-
Our existing customers and partners triggered us to create a sustainable way to screen workers to keep workplaces safe through COVID-19 and beyond. These deployments with Halifax Partnership and Volta are another example of how we have benefited from being part of the Innovation District Ecosystem.
Andrew Boswell
Chief Executive Officer, Rimot -
When it became apartment that COVID-19 was a global pandemic, we quickly realized that our virtual mental health platform could be part of the solution in supporting people through this very challenging time.
Joel Muise
Co-Founder & CEO, Tranquility Online -
Harbr offers a service and technology that helps the construction industry operate more effectively and efficiently in today's digital economy.
Ashley Kielbratowski
Chief Growth Officer, Harbr