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In January 2022, Psigryph founders Sean Thompson and Gopi Paliyath received an invitation to apply, along with 1100 to 1200 other companies, to the MassChallenge Switzerland Accelerator. Those selected receive a chance to access non-dilutive cash prizes, connections...
The Company Arni Mikelsons, founder of Northern Village, said after working for some big companies in his career, he decided to become an entrepreneur. His company, Northern Village, is a website and software company that helps social impact organizations with their...
Innovation Guelph and the Rhyze Ventures program are excited to announce the third cohort winners of the culminating pitch contest. The Rhyze Ventures pitch awards are provided to one competitor from each of the program’s three streams: small business, social...
The BusinessFormer journalist and broadcaster Sonya Denton is the founder of weDstll Inc. that has built a mobile platform to help build trust with beauty and wellness brands through peer circles. “People come to weDstll to get the support they need around goals,...
Michelle Beyo is the CEO of FINAVATOR and who started her company two and a half years ago to help drive payment innovation and financial inclusion across North America. The Rhyze Up! participant said FINAVATOR is focused on bridging the gap between fintechs and...
Katie Skyvington is a mobile physiotherapist specializing in orthopedics, pediatrics and pelvic floor therapy in her company, Travelling Physio. The Rhyze Ventures program participant provides cost-conscious, high-quality mobile care with the convenience of treating...
One Axe Pursuits co-founded by Christa Niravong over 20 years ago, provides adventurous corporate team building. Among their offerings, the most popular event is fashioned after The Amazing Race and takes place in Elora, ON. Rappelling and zip lining can add an...
Novela NeurotechIncubated at the University of Waterloo, Novela Neuro has evolved from its original goal of developing a brain implant to record neural activity specifically related to epilepsy, to a wearable non-invasive way of monitoring biomarkers. Co-founder...
Rhyze Ventures participant Maria J. Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist, and a voice and movement coach. As an artist, she works with song, spoken word, spray paint, movement, and installation to tell stories and express from her perspective. As a trained opera...
“Whatever I have to do, I’ll find a way!” Rhowena Adolfo Patel, founder of Healing Mama™ Co. wants the expectant and new mothers of Ukraine to know they are magical, they have all the natural power and ability to be their best through birth and postpartum. She also...
Business plan like a guiding light… Katherine Walker, Rhyze Up! participant, is the president of Industrial Web Apps (IWA) and their flagship application SHORE (share and store). The application is an electronic filing platform that supports the global movement to a...
Sheila Boudreau, principal, and senior landscape architect and planner founded Spruce Lab in spring 2020 as a social enterprise to apply professional consulting services to maximize social and environmental impacts, focusing on regenerative and nature-based solutions...
Dinah Ener co-founded bathintentions with her late daughter Alaya who passed away in 2018. Bathintentions makes and designs handcrafted artisan self-care products from earth-sourced ingredients with bling for your senses. These products include an array of shower...
The entrepreneurs Cole Pearsall and Allan Mai met while studying food science at the University of Guelph. Both had started separate businesses while at school and along with their fellow co-founders, CEOScott Friedmann and creative director Rae Drake, they identified...
Kayli Dale, Friendlier co-founder, said the company is on a mission to eliminate single use packaging waste making it as easy as possible for businesses to shift to reusable packaging instead. “We’re reaching consumers through businesses which works well for us,” Dale...
IG Alumni, Econse, is creating the next generation of technologies to help solve the world’s most critical water challenges. Derek Davy, CEO, leads this cleantech company that is building waste water treatment solutions for multiple industries to help them reduce...
Bill Barrett’s career has demonstrated his understanding of global issues and personal mission to address tropical and temperate deforestation through certified fairtrade and organic coffee and co-operative structures. In 1997, in partnership a coffee...
Katrina Wood is the founder and owner of Eco-Refillary, where consumers can use their own container/vessel to refill home and personal products such as cleaners and body care. The products are locally sourced within Canada and include eclectic gifts and sustainable...
Jackie Kwitko, Founder and President of Fressy Bessie and a Rhyze Ventures program participant said the program is fabulous! “I just feel Innovation Guelph wants to help companies grow and succeed,” she said. Fressy Bessie makes the healthiest popsicle on the market,...
Chris Green, Director of the Guelph Outdoor School, says they are in the business of freeing kids from the classroom setting once per week to come and learn in the woods! The Entrepreneur Chris, a former French teacher, had worked with children in a traditional...