2022 BIPOC FOUNDER SHOWCASE
JustCook Kitchens
Jennifer Keith, Co-Founder & CEO
JustCook is reinventing restaurant ownership. Connecting land developers and restauranteurs, JustCook builds, activates and operationalizes flexible, move-in ready restaurants—providing equipment, technology, and service partnerships. Launching and scaling a restaurant has never been easier with JustCook.
Sentire
Mahsoo Salimi, Co-Founder & CEO
Sentire creates eyes and brains for autonomous robots and advanced machines so they can quickly learn a new task, adapt or react to complex environments, including agriculture, horticulture, livestock farming and forestry, via machine vision and learning.
reGEN Impact Media Inc.
Charlene SanJenko, Founder, Impact Producer, Media Visionary
reGEN media is North America's only Indigenous-owned and female-founded media impact agency, exploring how film could be more equitably financed, sustainably accessible, and easily integrated into our daily lives to make a difference.
Solaires Entreprises Inc.
Sahar Sam, Co-founder & Chief Science Officer
Solaires is a cleantech company that consists of a team of 24 scientists, engineers, and business professionals. Solaires is focused on developing the next generation of solar cells by replacing silicon with perovskite through an innovative and sustainable manufacturing process resulting in affordable solar photovoltaics with higher energy conversion efficiency.
myCareBase Solutions
Stephanie Chan, Founder & CEO
myCareBase is modernizing the home care experience to improve the way that families can support aging loved ones to remain living at home for as long as possible. Through the use of its tech-enabled marketplace, innovative caregiver finder and care management module, myCareBase is helping families find, interview, hire and manage professional caregivers easily and seamlessly.
Peekapak
Ami Shah, Founder & CEO
Peekapak is an award-winning, social-emotional learning platform that engages K-12 students to learn skills to support their well-being and mental health. Peekapak does this with a narrative-based learning experience that empowers educators to facilitate classroom learning, students to engage directly, and parents to reinforce skills at home.
Noa Therapeutics Inc. is a preclinical Canadian biotech company aiming to defy the convention of traditional drug development to revolutionize treatment options for those living with complex inflammatory skin diseases.
Indie Tech
Sophia Stone, CEO & Founder
Indie Tech is market infrastructure built for financial institutions to manage their professional services suppliers transparently as they engage across the organization. Indie Tech harnesses the power of risk models found in capital markets front-office and puts them into the hands of the middle and back office helping to measure, monitor, and mitigate risk tied to suppliers in real-time.
ShuffleSpace
Anita Ramdas, CEO & Founder
ShuffleSpace works with creative industries that have unique items that do not fit in traditional warehousing environments, so they rely on self-storage to manage this aspect of their business. ShuffleSpace is a B2B asset management platform and service that provides its clients full visibility and control.
The Canadian Women’s Network’s BIPOC Stream for diverse entrepreneurs is sponsored by Torys.