Innovation Guelph is looking for well positioned, community focused individuals to join our Board and help us fulfill the strategic vision. This is a non-paying governance board position. Can you help Innovation Guelph reach new heights? Do you want to help us make a difference in [...]
Rhyze™ Up! Accelerator our new program funded by NRC_IRAP, is specifically designed to support women in business. Research demonstrates that female-led SMEs grow at a slower pace, have limited access to capital and are less likely to export. In response, the Rhyze™ Up! Accelerator program’s holistic approach [...]
Innovation Guelph’s Executive Director, Anne Toner Fung is part of a delegation of eight, with the City of Guelph, heading to the Global Food Summit in Munich, Germany. The Global Food Summit is a scientific conference featuring innovations in the food sector, taking place March 20 [...]
Joni Lien started SupperWorks with a very simple premise: to give families a little more “together time” in an increasingly busy world. What she didn’t realize? While she was helping her customers establish a better work-life balance, she was sacrificing her own. She remembered lying in bed, [...]
In the midst of her success, Jakki Prince is bidding a sweet goodbye to her Guelph-based bakery, Sweet Temptations, planning to sell the business and her food truck. When asked why, she referenced Jerry Seinfeld’s 90’s hit sitcom, “Seinfeld.” “People used to [...]
Guelph, Ont., June 26th, 2018— Twenty-six Ontario companies have been selected to receive seed funding from Bioenterprise Corporation and its delivery partner Innovation Guelph, the fourth round of a program funded by the Government of Canada through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario). [...]
Kenna Whitnell, Founder and CEO of Altilis Beauty, speaks with potential investors at First Look event Innovation Guelph sponsored three clients, Can-Dairy, Precision Biomonitoring and Altilis Beauty (a division of Soleluna Cosmetics Inc.), to participate in the annual First Look Angel Investor Meeting in Mississauga [...]
“It’s their body — now they can own their evidence.” — Valerie Blackmore, Wyndham Forensic Group A Guelph-based forensic laboratory has introduced a new private testing service that provides sexual assault survivors with information and options that didn’t exist before. Wyndham Forensic Group’s sexual assault evidence kit [...]
“Even though I knew where I wanted to go with my business, I needed help figuring out how to get there.” — Jill Fisher, Lighthouse Lemonade founder and CEO An old family recipe for summer in a bottle is coming soon to a grocery store near you, [...]
“I’m a connector of people. That’s the real magic that happens here” — Chef Pam Fanjoy An award-winning Wellington County chef is prepped for a breakout summer creating community connections and well-being by sharing fabulous, farm-to-table foods at FAN/JOY restaurant and kitchen retail store in Hillsburgh. “FAN/JOY [...]
