Zú presents the 8 companies selected for the program Focus SODEC. Developed exclusively by Zúin collaboration with the SODEC and the National Bankthis program aims to promote and showcase, through their commercialization, innovative technologies developed internally by Quebec’s creative and cultural industries.
Selected from more than 50 applications, the eight companies will benefit from personalized support, including the support of three dedicated mentors and a network of experts who will sharpen their entrepreneurial skills through a series of workshops, mentoring and clinics pitch. Here they are:
Apptcom | Project Kidstar: KidStar is an innovative reading platform allowing children to read interactive stories. Children have the opportunity to create imaginary heroines and use them within the platform to read and complete new missions through the stories. The platform mixes the virtual and physical world to make it more intriguing for readers.
GigLinked: GigLinked’s mission is to create a central hub to facilitate transactions and optimize interactions within the live music ecosystem. Their social marketplace makes it easy to book musicians for events, streamline administrative tasks, and connect music industry players.
h264 | Hercules audiovisual project (provisional name): Hercules is a web application that automatically checks the presence of films on platforms and search engines. A harvesting tool collects all the data from a film and lists it in a single interface using a visualization tool to measure its discoverability.
HIT FILM inc. | Project VIDEO : iVIDEO is a SaaS software allowing to create interactive videos much more complex and intelligent than what you saw until now. iVIDEO’s technology goes much further by incorporating artificial intelligence, synchronization with more than 2000 SaaS applications, and personalization of experiences.
The 7 Fingers | Showbookr Project: Showbookr is the platform that allows creators and broadcasters from all over the world to meet, coordinate their schedules and make their tour booking easily and quickly. Showbookr wants to provide the entertainment industry with 21st century tools such as artificial intelligence to modernize the business of organizing international tours.
OUTPOST MTL | OPM.LIVE project: OPM.LIVE is a professional service for live broadcasting of high quality video streams, whose latency is reduced to a minimum, allowing real-time collaboration with all stakeholders during project post-production sessions. television, film or .
Snowtrack: Founded in 2021 by gaming and visual effects industry veterans, Snowtrack builds intuitive version control tools for artists and designers. Dubbed “Git for Artists,” Snowtrack combines modern technical practices with an accessible interface for creators. Creators around the world use Snowtrack to collaborate on projects, restore progress, and deliver great work.
Stockholm Syndrome AI | Synthetic Souls Project: Stockholm Syndrome.AI has developed a tool, Synthetic Souls, that allows customers to use machine learning to build AI systems themselves without hiring expensive expertise. Their goal is for this technology to become a staple middleware for game developers, unlocking new types of gameplay that will profoundly redefine the video game industry.
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