We are finally announcing the teams that will be living at VeloCity and working at the Accelerator full-time this summer! I am very excited to have the opportunity to work with teams. I think we picked the best teams to match the support we can offer them but we had at least a dozen submissions that could have been accepted if we had the resources to support them. Maybe next year So who are the teams?

Aetas Solution

The team is made up of three students at the University of British Columbia: Chris Hughes, computer science; Alexander Jettel, computer science; and Lars Peterson, commerce. They have developed a technology that aims to provide easy access for business owners to schedule appointments and to access their customer database from any online device. A business with this software can access, synchronize and make changes to all the data with mobile devices via a native app (application). Targeting the small business owner, or organizations that work on a collaborative team environment where calendar, appointments and contact numbers need to be shared with a group of colleagues, The team expects to create a set of services and products that provide convenience and simplicity to our customers.

Group Vestor

The team is made up of three students at the University of Waterloo: Moe Adham, mechatronics engineering; Ahmed Shuhaib, economics; and Jason Wang, computer science. They will work on an online social investing platform, which mixes social networking, virtual stock trading, financial derivatives and real-time server side financial trading. The goal is to allow investors to connect and communicate with users who have the expertise in managing virtual portfolios. The team’s target market is disgruntled mutual fund investors, with a low risk aversion. They hope to increase returns for mutual fund investors.

Altus Tech

The team involves two students at the University of Waterloo and one at Queen’s University: Avi Itskovich, computer science, Waterloo; David Villarreal, computer science, Waterloo; and Mark Ally, business, Queen’s. They plan to develop a new software app for Apple’s new iPad. Their first product, the card framework, targets a market which wasn’t as viable on small multi-touch devices, as it’s preferred to play cards with life-sized cards. The larger surface really allows card games to shine. The other novel part of the project is that instead of servicing the consumer as many application innovations have been doing in the web age, we are instead working to satisfy the enterprise customer. By the end of the summer the team expects to have reached the third stage of development to create a fully-working card development framework ready for sale and use by developers.

Official release.