Saint John, New Brunswick
Tel: 506-607-2022
Innovation in Atlantic Canada
Integrated solutions for city travel
Hotspot was founded by Phillip Curley in 2013. The idea behind HotSpot was that people don't go downtown to just park – they go downtown to do business and have fun. Their technology was built to make parking easier so people come back more often and stay longer.
The Fredericton-based company is a start-up technology company that allows users to pay for parking with their mobile devices. Users can feed the meter without interrupting their shopping or meetings. Merchants can also use a cellphone to pay a customer’s parking, rather than have the customer run out of the store to feed the meter and never return.
What started as a simple pay-by-phone parking app has grown into an integrated solution for all the ways people get around in their city.
In 2018, Hotspot worked with a different SR&ED consultant and didn’t have a good experience. They were creating the whole claim and having the consultant perform review-like services.
“After having a not-so-pleasant experience our first time around, we weren’t sure about claiming SR&ED again. Colum changed that mindset. Colum Consultants took charge of the situation and represented our research very well to the CRA.”
-Phillip Curley, CEO, HotSpot
Phillip and his team weren’t sure about claiming SR&ED again, but they put their trust in Colum Consultants to help redesign their approach to R&D, so that in future more of their research can be captured by the SR&ED program.
We are delighted that we were able to help HotSpot Parking relieve their SR&ED stress through our services. By creating strategic relationships with our clients, we were able to claim SR&ED tax refunds for HotSpot for multiple fiscal years now. We are very proud of the amazing innovation our clients are engaged in.