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Markham-Based QEA Tech Makes Fourteen Canadian Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2023 List

6 January 2023

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Lineup of Entrepreneurs

We’re entering 2023 with a long list of problems: a shaky global economy, health systems still under stress from COVID-19, the rising cost of living and wild weather from climate change. But across Canada, entrepreneurs are at work on technologies that will help tackle these challenges.

Peyvand Melati is a serial entrepreneur who has launched several clean technology companies. Melati arrived in Canada 20 years ago from Iran. “The first business I ever started was at the age of 19, making computers for universities back home,” he says. “Immigrating to Canada, it gives you a different perspective.

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