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During the early days of COVID-19, longtime naturopathic doctor Julie Durnan launched Vancouver-based Ginger Desk out of her own integrative health clinic. The idea came to Durnan after she saw some of her colleagues in the health and wellness space struggle when they retreated from their brick-and-mortar operations and attempted to continue providing services remotely […]

Practice Better is the result of its founder, Nathalie Garcia, needing a better way to manage her nutritionist practice so she didn’t burn out. Garcia created Practice Better in 2016 as an all-in-one software for wellness providers to manage a range of services, from scheduling to telehealth to payments. Since its launch, the startup claims

Collision is back in Toronto for another year. The scale of this event is absolutely insane as it’s one of the largest tech conferences in the world. There are 1,500+ startups to check out. The city is buzzing with many tech startups and companies at this event. Startups face a radically different conditions today, as

Blanka, a Canadian pioneering platform facilitating the launch of beauty brands, has successfully closed an oversubscribed seed funding round, raising $2 million. The round was spearheaded by Dundee Venture Capital and drew participation from Storytime Capital, Disruption Ventures, along with notable investors such as Fatima Yusuf, former executive at Shopify, and Manica Blain, a consumer-focused

Vancouver-based Blanka, which offers a platform for private labelling beauty and wellness products, has secured $2.7 million CAD ($2 million USD) in all-equity and all-primary seed funding to help “anyone with an idea” launch their own beauty brand. Read More

Disruption Ventures fund and The Big Push accelerator today announced a partnership looking to give women-led tech startups access to experts, and early-stage financing. Read More

Elaine Kunda is Managing Partner at Disruption Ventures, which invests in high growth, women founded companies in North America at the seed and Series A stages. Disruption Ventures believes that diverse teams fuel success. They know the stats and understand that women are particularly underfunded when it comes to raising venture capital dollars. They see

Toronto’s Fable Tech Labs Inc. wants to make the digital world better for people with disabilities by putting them at the forefront of improving it – and the startup is signing on a growing number of clients and investors in the process. Read More

More action and less talk. Millions of dollars are spent on advocacy, mentorship, sponsorships, and conferences. The organizations spending money to create platforms to talk about change can have a significantly greater impact by creating platforms to make the change actually happen. Read More