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ORIGINAL ARTICLE, Lee Hayhurst, travolution.com, June 13, 2022 Shareable personal albums will be created for guests by tour operators to increase referrals and advocacy Travel experiences marketplace Peek.com has teamed up with marketing platform Fotaflo to help tour guides develop marketing strategies for image and video sharing. Fotaflo’s marketing and reporting technology helps clients to forge closer […]
ORIGINAL PODCAST, anchor.fm, June 16, 2022 Transportation is changing rapidly. As autonomous vehicles and smart cities become the norm, technology commercialization has to evolve to stay on the cutting edge. As part of Innovation Factory’s growing ecosystem, the Centre for Integrated Transportation & Mobility (CITM) supports start-ups and small-medium-sized companies as they develop the next […]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE, prnewswire.com, June 15, 2022 Nuts For Cheese™, maker of dairy-free, plant-based, artisanal cheeses, today announced a $5.35 million round of funding led by Forage Capital Partners along with highly experienced CPG veterans Mike Fata and Dror Balshine. Founded in 2015 by vegan chef, Margaret Coons, Nuts For Cheese™ self-manufacturers its complete line of fermented cashew-based cheeses and butters with […]
Jun-2022
ORIGINAL ARTICLE, madeithappenpod.com, June 13, 2022 This week’s episode is featuring Abeda Oturkar, Founder and Business Manager, Paper Spree. Abeda Oturkar, armed with a Diploma in Entrepreneurship & Business and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, is an entrepreneur with a natural disposition of living in harmony and respect with our planet and its people. This […]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE, The Hamilton Spectator, thespec.com, June 8, 2022 Hamilton’s annual Lions Lair competition is set to return as an in-person event after a two-year, pandemic-induced switch to the virtual realm. This year, more than a dozen Ontario-based companies will duke it out in a pitch-style showdown in front of a panel of Hamilton’s top […]
Jun-2022
ORIGINAL ARTICLE, Elaine Smith, thestar.com, June 9, 2022 Passion, drive and a good idea turned Lianna Genovese into a corporate entrepreneur long before she graduated from McMaster University this spring. At 19, Genovese became the founder and chief executive officer of ImaginAble Solutions, a company that manufactures Guided Hands™, an assistive device that enables people […]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE, Janice Gassam Asare, forbes.com, June 6, 2022 Earlier this year, H.R. 2116, also known as the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act (Crown Act) passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Crown Act provides protections against race-based hair discrimination in schools and workplaces. For many young Black children, hair discrimination starts as early […]
Sixteen local companies will battle it out in a pitch showdown as LiONS LAIR returns to its signature gala event. HAMILTON – June 7, 2022 – Celebrating its 12th anniversary, Innovation Factory’s Lions Lair is Hamilton’s premier pitch competition that gives up-and-coming entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their business to a panel of Hamilton’s top […]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE, Josh Scott, betakit.com, May 30, 2022 Amid staffing shortages, Able aims to enable healthcare workers to “do more with less.” Able Innovations, operates in a space that Dr. Gaurav Puri, chief of Newmarket, Ontario-based Southlake Regional Health Centre’s emergency department, describes as “not particularly sexy.” The Toronto-based robotic medical device startup focuses on […]
