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 [...]
Building a network - virtually Guelph, ON July 15, 2020 – Innovation Guelph discovers surprising outcome of pivoting program delivery in response to COVID; online environment fosters effective relationship building. In response to the pandemic, Innovation Guelph pivoted programming from in-person delivery to an online environment to [...]
