With a new semester comes a fresh Cohort of exciting businesses into The Hub. With this Cohort The Hub continues to support businesses from a wide variety of industries. This Cohort's businesses have amazing products and services and without further ado we would love to share more with you about each business.
Dronemates
Foch Family Real Estate is a full-service commercial and residential real estate brokerage team. They offer appraisal, brokerage, consulting, design and build, and investment services to the GTA real estate market. We sat down for a Q&A with Daniel Foch, a broker with Foch Family, to learn more about their business and their hopes for this semester:
CBaSE: What attracted you to the CBaSE Business Consulting course?
Cohort 8 is here! The Fall 2017 Hub Incubator Cohort has begun their time in the Hub and CBaSE would like to extend a warm welcome to all of these exciting new startups. Read on and see the exciting things that our startups are up to!
CBaSE is looking for three students from three different Colleges to form an interdisciplinary team that will work on an innovative applied project focused on starting a new enterprise.
The inaugural challenge will task the team with working with the City of Guelph to create a solution that can be used to help run numerous “smart city” solutions.
Mesh networks are networks of wireless routers that have the potential to not only improve city services but can also address a wide range of environmental and social goals. Examples include:
As we reach the halfway point in the Hub programming for Cohort Seven, we are thrilled to see how far each team has come. It seems so recent that the clients were meeting each other and the Hub manager, John Lam. Over the course of these past weeks the clients have come to know John, each other, and each other’s products or services. They have all done incredibly well thus far and have had many successes, but let us take a moment to pause and profile our clients.
CBaSE staff Erin Doherty and John Lam represented CBaSE at OCE Discovery 2017. OCE Discovery is an annual event where innovation leaders and partners meet to display the work they have produced in the past year. As an innovation incubator hub, CBaSE was there to further strengthen its connections and explore some of the projects that have been developed over the year.
This month CBaSE will welcome six new startups into our incubator program, The Hub. This will be the sixth cohort of The Hub and we are very excited to announce the companies that will be joining us!
This week’s guest blog is from Vlad Kondratov, the Director of Marketing and Communications for Enactus Guelph:
The newly formed Enactus Guelph team hit the road to Toronto for three days in September to attend the Enactus World Cup to support the Canadian National Champions, Memorial University of Newfoundland, as they sought to win the world title for a second time.
Windswept Orchard and Cider provides hand-crafted, small batch ciders made with estate-grown and locally-sourced apples. By creating unique seasonal ciders, sourcing Georgian Bay apples, and using 'wild' apples, Windswept seeks to rejuvenate the lost orchards of the Meaford area.
As a new entrant to the booming Ontario Craft Cider market, Windswept Orchard and Cider was attracted to the CBaSE Business Consulting course because they wanted access to bright, enthusiastic business students who will help develop their startup business.
Over the span of three days at the end of May, Canadian, American, and international academics, small business owners, industry partners, and members of various NGO's descended upon campus for the 2016 edition of the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference.