Amanda Worr, creator and owner of Tiny Kind Toys, said she creates her hand-painted wooden dolls to celebrate diversity and encourage imaginative play for three to 10 year-olds. The Rhyze Ventures participant said she decided to apply to the program because she wanted the opportunity to explore [...]
Katharina Otulak, founder of FAIR/SQUARE online retail store for Canadian vegan products, is excited to be opening a brick-and-mortar store in Woodstock when the current lockdown lifts. While the store was a dream of hers that didn’t seem realistic, Otulak said the help she received from Innovation [...]
Retail Renewal Nurjahan Begum is the Founder and CEO of Progoti - a social enterprise clothing brand that prioritizes people over profit. The standard garment industry pricing strategy is to keep costs low and maximize profit margins as much as possible. In contrast, Progoti prices their products [...]
Sarah Allinson-Chorabik of Ontario Honey Creations This post tells the story of the collaboration of two Rhyze Ventures participant entrepreneurs who saw an opportunity to combine their products to create a tasty new treat! Mead Caramels. The Entrepreneurs & Their Collaboration Sarah Allinson-Chorabik of Ontario [...]
AcuMade Corp, founded in November 2018 by three women, is developing a prototype of their device and technology with a safer option for pain management and recovery. They have partnered with Centennial College to commercialize their product. Participating in Innovation Guelph’s Rhyze Ventures program has helped the [...]
The Entrepreneur Rhyze Venture participant Sue Wilson of Hay OptiMizer has successfully achieved her project goal of bringing her Hay OptiMizer product to the American market and attributes that milestone to introductions made by Innovation Guelph. Exporting to the US Sue Wilson is successfully exporting her company’s [...]
Innovation Guelph and the Rhyze Ventures program are excited to announce the first 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 enterprise and scalable along with a [...]
Lenore Johnson, owner of LenJo Bakes, describes her business as a small cake studio specializing in wedding cakes. Her retail storefront offers speciality baked goods three days per week. When she first heard about Rhyze Ventures the terminology in the description was unfamiliar, but she liked the [...]
Guelph, ON, September 22, 2020 – Innovation Guelph’s first cohort of Rhyze Ventures programming culminates in a public pitch competition with nine companies competing on October 21, 2020, from 5pm to 9pm. The pitch event also kicks off cohort two with opportunities to connect with new program participants, Rhyze [...]
After a cancer scare and communicating on Facebook with other cervical and gynecological cancer survivors, Rachel Bartholomew, Founder & CEO, HyIvy Health realized there was room for innovation within this area of healthcare. “While recovering, I pieced together what I thought a solution could be,” Bartholomew said. “Next, I started radiation and I saw [...]
