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 [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AceAge Signs with Canadian Manufacturer Urtech to Bring Automated Medication Dispenser to Market This collaboration ensures the Karie home health appliance will be entirely developed in Canada. GUELPH, ONTARIO | March 20, 2018 - Canadian healthtech company AceAge Inc. and Burlington-based electronics manufacturer Urtech [...]
