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- Last updated :
- February 25, 2023
- 2026-01-31 8:39 am
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- Design 1st
Each month we round up our favorite client news stories. These are the events, awards and announcements our clients with the world.
Highlights this month include:
– Both Cloud9 and Epiphan are launching AI-driven voice-to-text translation
– Maxar (who bought Neptec) signed contract with NASA to build a robotic arm in space
– Stratuscent was at CES2020 showing off their eNose product
– ABCA Baseball Coach-of-the-Year credits FieldTurf with Amazing season
– GeoSights releases animated video of CMS scanner
Links to content in table below:
| Client | Location | Article | Notes: |
| Stratuscent | Montreal, QC | CES 2020: Stratusecent Digital eNose Review | – Video of product – Founded in 2017, raised $4.3M |
| Maxar Neptec | Ottawa, ON | NASA’s plan to build stuff in space took its first step | “Nasa is encouraging companies to assemble complex machines while zipping around in orbit” “$142M contract with Maxar to build a robotic arm in space” |
| Cloud9 Tec | New York, NYC | Cloud 9 partners with AI-Analytics company GreenKey | “Ability for Cloud9 to repurpose unstructured data from phone calls” |
| Epiphan | Ottawa, ON | Epiphan launches LiveSscrypt at ISE 2020 | – image of new hardware product – “launching real-time transcription for video” – ” AI-based transcription enables LiveScrypt to transcribe with 85% to 90% accuracy” |
| ThinkRF | Ottawa, ON | ThinkRF launches RF Surveillance Solution | – Photo of physical device – “system includes ThinkRF R5x50 Real-Time Specturm Analyzer” |
| SkyX | Toronto, ON | SkyX CEO talks Evolution of Drone Technology (VIDEO) | – “includes photo of drone landing station” – 6min long – interesting info on SkyX background and future |
| Adaptaspace | Calgary, ON | Launches new website with feature products | – new modern design and update to marketing language – Product section featuring consoles Design 1st helped develop |
| GeoSights | Ottawa, ON | GeoSights launches new video on CMS Scanner | – animation style video shows function of remote scanner – “GeoSight CMS is the toughest scanner in mining” |
| Fieldturf | Montreal, QC | ABCA Coach Credits FieldTurf for successful season | – “The turf plays just like a perfectly groomed grass field. ” – “Griffin guided the Eagles to back-to-back Class 4A state championships in 2018 and 2019, and he credits the installation of FieldTurf’s DoublePlay at the school in 2015” |
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