The Wood Centre is pleased to introduce you to our new Business Incubator Services Manager or more commonly known as our Startup Coach Extraordinaire, Kiran Bains! Kiran will be fearlessly leading our startups through the Hub Start and Hub Build Programs and overseeing our prototyping workshops in the MakerSpace. We are thrilled to have Kiran on the team and look forward to our community getting to know her.
Domenique Mastronardi is the founder of the recently opened The Happy Era, an online food company that delivers homemade frozen waffles to a growing list of customers. She is a UofG entrepreneur and graduate of the Wood Centre’s incubator program.
Two UofG entrepreneurs and graduates of the Wood Centre’s incubator program will receive $5,000 in funding as part of their startups focus on advancing the Canadian oilseed sector.
Jonah Greenberg’s (BComm ’13) startup Grand Finishing Systems and Domenique Mastronardi (BEng ’21) of the Happy Era will receive the funds through the Oilseed Innovation Partners (OIP) entrepreneurship fund.
Housed within the John F. Wood Centre for Business & Student Enterprise (Wood Centre), The Hub is a new-venture business incubator designed to support early-stage business ideas with high-potential, but unproven business models. The goal of The Hub is to provide University of Guelph students (undergraduate and graduate) and alumni the opportunity to build a successful business enterprise in a supportive learning environment.
The Proteus Innovation Competition is an intense four-month competition that challenges teams to create a viable commercialization strategy for a promising technology. The competition is broken down into numerous rounds and U of G Master of Biotechnology students Kathy Ha, Riya Misra, Vedha Patel and Kristian Hau have successfully made it to the final round of the competition for their work on FloStim Technologies.
Boris Skurikhin, Mahdi Aleali, and Poorya Gohargani are all co-founders of Klassroom.io. Klassroom.io is a fully managed cloud platform for online and hybrid learning that allows anyone to build their very own online school. They offer fast onboarding, low pricing and push out continuous innovative features. Klassroom.io curates their platform for the needs of high school students, educators, and administrators.
We sat down with the team to get the inside scoop on how they started Klassroom.io and what they hope to get out of the Hub Incubator Program!
University of Guelph undergraduate students James Romain and Graham Anderson are co-founders of their own company, Outfitted. Outfitted is a service that offers a completely customizable and catered clothing experience. Their end goal is to develop an app that utilizes Artifical Intelligence (AI) to create a style profile to provide you with clothing pieces that match your interests.
We sat down with James and Graham to get the inside scoop on how they started Outfitted and what they hope to get out of the Hub Incubator Program!
Katie A.B Arts is a business created by Guelph artist Katie. Katie offers gorgeous hand painted prints, plant pots, stickers, and more. All of Katie's nature inspired art is available for purchase on her Etsy shop! Katie is an inspiring entrepreneur who we wanted to learn from.
Alexandre Borowcyk and Farhad Rahbarnia are co-founders of Notos Technologies, a drone software company using the power of wind energy to enable long-term flight. Notos Technologies uses AI to unlock the true potential of UAVs, allowing their partners to perform longer, more reliable, and greener missions. Alexandre and Farhad aspire to provide the world with access to continuous and unlimited aerial data.
We sat down with the team to get the inside scoop on how they started Notos Technologies and what they hope to get out of the Hub Incubator Program!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
The winter holidays are a long way away, but for me that’s not the most wonderful time of the year. I am referring to the Enactus Regional Competition! Every year in March, Enactus hosts a regional pitch competition where Enactus clubs from across the province come out and pitch their business ideas for a chance to win money to help make those ideas a reality! This year might look a little different, but the excitement, competitive energy and the drive to win are all still there!