Kognitiv Spark Named One of Canada’s Companies-to-Watch in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ Awards
November 7, 2019
Fredericton (NB) — Kognitiv Spark received a Companies-to-Watch award as a part of Deloitte’s annual Technology Fast 50™ Awards. The award highlights emerging companies that exhibit strong growth and show potential to be a future candidate for the Technology Fast 50 award.
Kognitiv Spark’s CEO, Yan Simard, credits the technical innovations achieved by the Kognitiv Spark team to create a secure and reliable augmented reality remote support tool and the deep expertise of company leadership in tandem with a strong, supportive network of industry partners with the company’s early-stage success.
“We’re excited to be receiving this recognition from Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ Awards. It stands as a testament to everything we’ve built here at Kognitiv Spark and the efficiencies our customers have been able to achieve using our product,” said Simard.
Companies-to-Watch winners are new companies headquartered in Canada, demonstrating superior technology, effective management experience and common traits with Deloitte Technology Fast 50 award winners. To be eligible, companies must also devote a significant portion of their operating revenues to creating proprietary technology or intellectual property.
“Companies-to-Watch winners deserve recognition for their early-stage growth, bold entrepreneurship and forward-thinking,” said Erica Pretorius, Partner and National Leader for the Technology Fast 50™ program at Deloitte Canada. “By demonstrating courage, seeking opportunities, and taking calculated risks, these outstanding companies are key to the success of the technology sector. Every winner should feel a sense of pride for this success, and motivation to continue striving to succeed in the future.”
About the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™
The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program is Canada’s pre-eminent technology awards program. Celebrating business growth, innovation and entrepreneurship, the program features three distinct categories including the Technology Fast 50 Ranking, Enterprise Fast 15 category (recognizes fastest-growing enterprise-level technology, media, and telecommunications companies by revenue-growth percentage over their last four years of operation), and Companies-to-Watch Awards (early-stage Canadian tech companies with the potential to be a future Deloitte Technology Fast 50 candidate). Program sponsors include Deloitte, Bank of Montreal, CBRE, First West Capital, Miller Thomson, OMERS Ventures, 3C, and Lafond. For further information, visit www.fast50.ca.
About Kognitiv Spark
Kognitiv Spark is a proven leader in secure and reliable applications of augmented reality software for industrial organizations. Its flagship solution, RemoteSpark, connects remote workers to subject matter experts to facilitate complex troubleshooting and task support, reducing equipment downtime and cutting costly expert travel. Using the Microsoft HoloLens, RemoteSpark allows for shared a voice and video connection between expert and remote users, multi-step animated holograms, task-relevant content delivery, field-of-view annotations, and IoT data integrations. RemoteSpark’s backend can be run both in cloud and on-premise computing environments.