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Hike Ventures LLC (Hike Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Taka Shoji and Mikihiro Yasuda. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Heartbeat Ai Technologies, Inc. is a Canadian company that offers a platform for analyzing unstructured text data from sources such as customer, employee, and patient feedback, consumer survey comments, call center and chat bot transcripts, and online product reviews. The platform uses machine learning tools to recognize emotions and themes in qualitative text data, providing insights into the "deep why" behind human behavior. These emotion insights can be applied to an array of business problems, helping customers become more human-centric, anticipate pain-points, understand needs, and deliver exceptional human experience. The private company's platform is user-friendly, making it easy to extract actionable insights, essential data-points, and significant trends.

Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade promotes economic growth, trade and entrepreneurship. The company supports research and business development funding, provides advisory services to help small and medium sized businesses, and sponsors education programs. It is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.