Ross Simmonds

Volta Labs is a Canadian bioautomation company that specializes in developing innovative solutions to simplify the upstream workflows in genomic sequencing. The private company is based in Halifax, Canada, and offers programming, events, and co-working space to the innovation community. The company is building a sequencer agnostic platform for sample preparation, which spans across hardware, software, chemistry, and biology. Volta Labs was founded in 2018 by Udayan Umapathi, who is the CEO, and Will Langford, the head of engineering.

LeadSift, Inc. develops software for sales and marketing professionals and business leads. Its proprietary technology analyzes chatter from popular social media streams like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and blogs and turns the data into accurate and targeted local leads for sales. The company was founded by Tapajyoti Das, Hatem Nassrat, Sreejata Chatterjee and Daniel Allen in 2011 and is headquartered in Halifax, Canada.