Kognitiv Spark
Kognitiv Spark builds RemoteSpark, a secure low-bandwidth mixed-reality remote-assistance platform for military and industrial maintenance technicians.
Background
Kognitiv Spark was founded in 2016 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, with Yan Simard serving as CEO.
The company emerged from a thesis that expert knowledge is geographically bottlenecked in defense and industrial maintenance, and that mixed reality could bridge that gap without requiring high-bandwidth infrastructure.
Its core product is RemoteSpark, a network-agnostic mixed-reality platform that delivers live audio-video guidance, holographic annotations, procedural overlays, and document transfer to technicians wearing headsets in constrained or austere environments.
The adjacent MIRRAS (Mixed Reality Remote Assistant Support) system represents RemoteSpark applied specifically to Royal Canadian Navy shipboard maintenance contexts.
Kognitiv Spark sells primarily through defense primes and direct government channels, with integrations alongside Raytheon Canada, Serco North America, and Seaspan.
The company also holds a Microsoft Mixed Reality Partner Program gold designation. Headcount is reported at approximately 28 employees in Canadian Defence Review, with a secondary operating presence in Oxford, UK.