Recipients of the Pierre Péladeau bursaries
2023
First Prize – $75,000
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Recipients
Félix Lapointe, Jonathan Audet and Étienne Boucher | Université Laval -
Project
Ferreol Technologies develops and commercializes innovative materials and technologies that are more efficient and eco-responsible for the manufacturing sector globally. The company’s first innovation is an aluminum alloy which, according to some key players in the mining sector, is currently the most resistant in the world.
Second Prize – $50,000
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Recipients
Kashif Khan and Karina Gasbarrino | Université McGill -
Project
Sonaro democratizes cerebrovascular accident (CVA) prevention and ultrasound scan accessibility, by making it easy to perform a high-quality examination in a fraction of the time and cost. The company has developed a 3D vessel reconstruction software, powered by artificial intelligence allowing high-precision diagnosis.
Third Prize – $35,000
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Recipients
Aymeric Guy, Maxence Coulombe and Louis Marceau | Polytechnique Montréal -
Project
Technologies Modulate creates intelligent 3D-printed, ultra-customized corsets to make the treatment of children with scoliosis more accessible. Using an automated design and manufacturing approach, the company generates connected smart corsets that are more comfortable and clinically effective than the existing standard of treatment, and at the same cost.
Fourth Prize – $25,000
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Recipients
Charles Gauthier and Raphaël Leblanc | École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) -
Project
Géodar manufactures an intelligent sensor for excavators to prevent water and infrastructure damage during construction work. With this device, the company aims to reduce underground infrastructure breakages, make worksites much safer and preserve water resources by avoiding waste.
Fifth Prize – $15,000
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Recipients
Félix-Antoine LeBel, Pascal Messier and Louis Pelletier | Université de Sherbrooke -
Project
SysNergie develops and manufactures integrated modular lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. The developed batteries are high quality and easy to integrate into any type of vehicle, helping to accelerate electrification in Québec and globally.
Recipients of the Pierre Péladeau bursaries
2022
First Prize – $75,000
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Simon Michaud, Université de Montréal -
Project
Désherbex is bringing to market a tractor-drawn agricultural machine with interchangeable robotic tools for automated precision weeding of root vegetable fields. Its innovative technology offers a permanent, ecological and sustainable solution to weed problems and makes life easier for farmers.
Second Prize – $50,000
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Simon Diallo-Blais and Rutherford Exius, Université de Montréal -
Project
OuiNut aims to launch the first-ever line of safe foods containing a precise dose of peanut protein to help desensitize children to peanut allergies. Their solution supports the introduction of allergens to reduce the incidence of food allergies in the general population in a way that’s simple for parents, children and medical professionals.
Third Prize – $30,000 (ex-aequo)
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Lynn Doughane, Albert Obeid and Nanette Sene, Polytechnique Montréal -
Project
Juno is developing a compact, portable device that provides fast and lasting relief from menstrual pain. The company plans to offer an effective solution that fits the lifestyles of active women.
Third Prize – $30,000 (ex-aequo)
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Chloë Ryan, McGill University -
Project
Acrylic Robotics’ mission is to democratize access to art through robotics. It produces blockchain-authenticated, limited-edition visual art collections designed by artists and painted on canvas by robots, making the works accessible at scale.
Fifth Prize – $15,000
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Myriam Corbeil, Université du Québec à Montréal -
Project
Hôtel UNIQ is an exclusive, eco-friendly pop-up village that travels to Québec’s hidden gems as well as busy tourist spots that are short of accommodations. It’s the perfect balance between camping, with its close contact with nature, and conventional hotel rooms, with their service, design and comfort. Guests have a unique community experience.
Recipients of the Pierre Péladeau bursaries
2021
First Prize – $100,000
- Recipients
Frédérik Plourde and Samuel Bourdon, École de technologie supérieure and Polytechnique Montréal
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Project
Statera Medical: Statera Medical Inc. develops next-generation orthopaedic prostheses for patients suffering from arthrosis or torn muscles who need total shoulder joint replacement. Its Tera-Life implant will enable patients to recover full mobility and reduce the complications caused by currently available protheses.
Second Prize – $50,000
- Recipients
Louis-Philippe Garneau, Marc-Antoine Malouin-Lizotte and Vincent Breton, Université Laval and HEC Montréal -
Project
Ethnocare : Ethnocare develops high-performance protheses that use sport technologies to enable amputees to live more active lives. Its first product, the Airstream Liner, features technology that promotes aeration and an adjustment system customized to the user’s remaining limb for increased comfort in prothesis use.
Third Prize – $35,000
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Sarah Lambert, Marie-Pier Michaud, Guillaume Jones and Louis St-Pierre, Polytechnique Montréal -
Project
Ora Médical : Ora Médical’s mission is to improve home rehabilitation therapy for disabled children by means of an innovative walking aid with a unique partial weight support technology. The pediatric walker adjusts to the child’s level of fatigue and transmits data to the therapist for remote monitoring.
Fourth Prize – $15,000
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Samantha Bellamy and Steve Alliance, Université du Québec à Montréal -
Project
Hélis : Hélis wants to use AI to support inclusion in the workplace, reduce inequalities, promote economic growth and provide decent jobs for all. Its Hélis.ai solution can be used to audit a company’s diversity profile, analyze recruitment campaigns, detect potential unconscious biases, generate recommendations and track applications.
Recipients of the Pierre Péladeau bursaries
2020
First Prize – $100,000
- Recipients
Basile Thisse, Mathieu Gauthier, Alexis Galand and Tangui Conrad, Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal
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Boomerang fights food waste by collecting the spent grains that are the by-product of microbreweries’ brewing process. Normally discarded, composted or fed to animals, the material has abundant nutritional properties that have been untapped for human consumption. The company reclaims the by-product and processes it into flour for use in healthy and tasty foods, at the same time reducing the environmental impact of our food consumption.
Second Prize – $50,000
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Michael Perreault and Sami Maarabouni, École de technologie supérieure - Project
Eyful develops glasses to improve the vision of people with age-related macular degeneration and restore some of their autonomy. The made-in-Québec eyeglasses combine a number of cutting-edge technologies to enhance vision by projecting images onto the wearer’s eyes.
Third Prize – $35,000
- Recipients
Caroline Bazinet, Catherine Bazinet, Alexis Maher and Charles Tétreault, Polytechnique Montréal and Université du Québec à Montréal - Project
Aleo VR is a virtual reality educational tool designed to foster the development of school-aged children with learning difficulties. The tool helps build self esteem, reduce anxiety and promote concentration. Aleo VR incorporates new technologies into education in order to help all students develop their full potential.
Fourth Prize – $15,000
- Recipients
Eva Roux and Eve Eilles, HEC Montréal - Project
Évéa offers a second-hand clothing rental service for infants and young children (aged 0 to 4). Based on the circular economy principle and a sharing philosophy, the company offers a way to stop wasting clothing and money, while conveying environmentally responsible practices to our youngest citizens.
2019
First Prize – $100,000
- Recipients
Jade Doucet-Martineau, Gabriel Georges and François Trudeau, École de Technologie Supérieure and Université de Montréal
- Project
Puzzle Medical Devices makes minimally invasive medical devices. Its goal is to rethink the way medical devices are implanted using innovative methods to implant and assemble devices inside the human body, thereby reducing complications and offering treatment options for frail patients.
Second Prize – $50,000
- Recipients
Samuel Lecours, Guillaume Gaudet and Laurent Blanchet, Polytechnique de Montréal - Project
Biolift helps improve the well-being of people with reduced autonomy and enhances healthcare worker safety and efficiency by developing reasonably priced biorobotic and mechanical physical assistance technologies. Their main products are exoskeletons, braces and custom prosthetics.
Third Prize – $35,000
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Hughes Lavigne and Guillaume Charron, Université de Sherbrooke - Project
DeLeaves is a drone designed to collect leaf samples from tree-top branches. It is a simple, effective and affordable solution for all tree species, heights and vegetation densities that will help the forestry industry improve its knowledge of our forests and enhance conservation efforts.
Fourth Prize – $15,000
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Rosemarie St-Yves Ferron and Alexis Chabot-Tremblay, Université de Sherbrooke - Project
CIGOGNE is an innovative biomedical transportation solution, a chemically refrigerated smart compartment that provides fully % autonomous temperature regulation when transporting vaccines, organs or biomedical products.
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2018
First Prize – $100,000
- Recipients
Dino Mehanovic and Jean-François Dufault, Université de Sherbrooke - Project
C-Sar Energy developed a competitively priced solar reactor that reduces carbon emissions by synthetizing hydrogen, using the rays of the sun as an energy source.
Second Prize – $50,000
- Recipients
Gabriel Mangeat and Benjamin De Leener, Polytechnique Montréal - Project
ChrysaLabs created a system that lets farmers evaluate soil health and fertility themselves in real time, instead of using costly external analyses.
Third Prize – $35,000
- Recipients
Élizabeth Coulombe and Valérie Laliberté, Université Laval - Project
Tero developed a small kitchen appliance that facilitates management of organic household wastes by grinding and drying waste food, reducing its volume by 90% in less than 3 hours.
Fourth Prize – $15,000
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Maxim Bergeron and Mathieu Kirouac, Université Laval and Université de Sherbrooke - Project
Glacies Technologies developed a technology for industrial-scale storage and utilization of snow and ice that significantly reduces refrigeration costs.
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2017
First Prize – $50,000
- Recipients
Louis-Rafaël Robichaud and Simon Duval, Université Laval - Project
Femtum is developing the first fibre-optic-based infrared lasers to replace the conventional and much more invasive scalpel. Femtum hopes the technology will be taken up by the medical sector.
Second Prize – $30,000
- Recipients
Justine Richard-Giroux, Université Laval - Project
Exuvie offers the animal feed industry an innovative waste management solution using an environmentally friendly and economical treatment method.
Third Prize – $20,000
- Recipients
Nury Ardila and Mounia Arkoun, École Polytechnique de Montréal - Project
ChitoPack makes active packaging that interacts with foods such as meat and milk to prevent microbe growth and extend the food’s shelf life.
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2016
First Prize – $50,000
- Recipients
Dragan Tutic and Renaud Lafortune, Université de Sherbrooke - Project
Oneka Technologies uses autonomous desalination units powered entirely by waves to produce fresh water.
Second Prize – $30,000
- Recipients
Mitchel Benovoy, École Polytechnique de Montréal, and Pascal Labrecque, Université Laval - Project
Corstem inc. aims to develop and bring to market cutting-edge technologies that reduce the human factor in analyzing cardiovascular pathologies and accelerate and refine the diagnostic process.
Third Prize – $20,000
- Recipients
Marc-Antoine Bonin, McGill University, and Antony Diaz, Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf - Project
Uvolt has developed a bracelet that uses renewable energy (kinetic, solar and thermal) to charge mobile phones anywhere.
2015
First Prize – $50,000
- Recipients
David Corbeil, Université du Québec à Montréal and Marie-Pier Corbeil, Concordia University - Project
Recharge Véhicule Électrique has developed a load-shedding system to enable installation of home charging stations for electric vehicles.
Second Prize – $30,000
- Recipients
Étienne Crevier, Université de Sherbrooke, Matthew Starek and Michel Cameron - Projet
BiogeniQ produces personal genetic profiles that can be used to support preventive treatment in different areas, such as pharmacology, nutrition or cardiology.
Third Prize – $20,000
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Simon Laurendeau, Léandre Gagné Lemieux, Maxime Provencher and Mathieu Germain Robitaille, Université Laval - Project
SciencePerfo has developed a biomechanical analysis device to help improve the performance of young hockey players.
2014
First Prize – $50,000
- Recipients
Philippe Beauchamp and Rami Jarjour, Université de Sherbrooke - Project
IngeniArts Technologies Inc. designs, develops and markets batteries for the hybrid and electric transportation industry.
Second Prize – $30,000
- Recipients
Pascal Nataf, David Duguay and Kim Berthiaume, Université de Montréal - Project
Affordance Studio designs serious games and fun educational tools to support teaching and vocational training in Québec.
Third Prize – $20,000
- Recipients
Caroline Mathieu and Mikaël Trottier, Université Laval - Project
Casamivi’s mission is to improve the quality of life of children and parents by developing, manufacturing and distributing innovative products for purposes such as administering medication or taking a child’s temperature.
