Celebrating the Graduating Founder Lab Class of 2024: A Recap of Demo Day
20 brilliant women founders and co-founders. 11 intensive weeks of jam-packed modules. 1 pitch Demo Day.
Hats off to the graduating Founder Lab Class of 2024! 🎓
On June 26, 2024, the Founder Lab culminated in a demo day where our participants took to the Platform Calgary stage to share what they’ve learned throughout the program and practiced pitching their companies to an excited audience of angels, venture capitalists, other founders, community builders, and ecosystem supporters.
All the founders deserve a huge round of applause for the effort, vulnerability, and authenticity they showed up with week after week—especially as they pitched in front of the crowd.
The Founder Lab Marketplace followed the pitches, where our founders set up and showcased their innovative products and services. It was incredible to walk the marketplace; seeing demos, trying samples, and appreciating all the hard work that went into bringing these ventures to life, underscoring the power of entrepreneurship. Everyone in the room had the opportunity to witness firsthand the transformative journeys these entrepreneurs embarked on throughout the program.
Take a peek at how our second-ever Demo Day and Marketplace went.
📸 Video and photos by Eli Clark.
Let Us (Re)Introduce You to the 2024 Founder Lab
(Quebec)
Alea is on a mission to make clean and sustainable period products more accessible, offering a turnkey solution to organizations that wish to provide free organic, non-toxic, and sustainable period care products to their employees/students.
Binoloop (Alberta)
Binoloop helps organizations make better, faster and fairer decisions for critical applications about people, companies, and technologies through their flagship product, Tally.
DOUBL (Ontario)
DOUBL is the first to market made-to-measure bras ordered and fitted directly from your smartphone in your living room.
EmployNXT (Nova Scotia)
EmployNXT revolutionizes recruitment by combining AI technology with community-driven events to foster diversity and inclusion in hiring practices.
FLIGHTFUD (British Columbia)
FLIGHTFUD was created so that you can travel more and stay healthy with their flagship products: a formulated superfood healthy travel drink mix which supports travel health 6 ways.
Helpful Places (Ontario)
Helpful Places works with organizations around the world to deploy the open-source communication standard Digital Trust for Places and Routines so that they can operationalize smart city and innovation principles.
Kindr (Alberta)
Kindr is a social impact platform that connects impact organizations, investors, and individuals to drive measurable, transparent, and collective change.
LifeEngine (Quebec)
LifeEngine is the only user-friendly dynamic blood flow simulation on a realistic human model or cadaver that can be easily deployed in any simulation center, providing labs, medtech companies and surgeons the opportunity to extensively test and practice new techniques at lower costs and risks.
My Normative (Alberta)
My Normative is a female-focused health platform disrupting the sex and gender data gap through validated data collection, management, and analytical processes.
My Well Self (Ontario)
My Well Self helps employees hack their HSA (health spending account) dollars and help better organize their well-being with AI and virtual support.
Ricci Cannabis (Prince Edward Island)
Ricci Cannabis is a pioneering company dedicated to producing premium non-alcoholic beverages infused with cannabis.
RLP Industries (Quebec)
RLP Industries creates both software-only and wearable technology solutions to combat women's safety issues in public and private life.
7 Summits Snacks (Alberta)
7 Summit Snacks is a women owned and led superfood chocolate company that provides purposeful chocolate, made by athletes, for athletes.
LEWK (Alberta)
LEWK leverages the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver hyper-personalized styling advice and shoppable mood boards for online shoppers.
Small Bits of Happiness (Alberta)
Small Bits of Happiness — Learn Small Bits is an enterprise learning platform, providing digital wellness content to teachers, schools, and school-boards.
Smart Home Gadgets (British Columbia)
Smart Home Gadgets is a one-stop smart home shop that combines the best knowledge, compatibility, and selection of smart home devices in one comprehensive platform, to make it simple to build the perfect smart home.
Spero Careers Canada Inc. (Ontario)
Spero builds employment solutions with the neurodivergent community through asking, listening, and being creative to help solve the unemployment crisis.
Starluv (Newfoundland and Labrador)
Starluv leverages cutting-edge technology to power their community-driven platform where Canadians can buy and sell new and pre-loved items with ease and confidence.
The Better Butchers (British Columbia)
The Better Butchers develops meat alternatives powered by mushrooms for a superior nutrition, taste, and texture for clean proteins that are better for you, better for the planet, and better for the animals.
VVector Bio (Quebec)
VVector Bio is developing innovative technologies to alleviate current biomanufacturing challenges for cell and gene therapies to treat incurable diseases.
It Takes a Village
Thank you to our champions—TD National Bank, NRC IRAP, and Alberta Innovates—for powering this cohort of talented and motivated founders.
To our champions in residence, experts, and alumni: endless amounts of gratitude to all of you and sharing your time and expertise to power the full economic participation of women and gender-diverse people in Canada.
Thanks to everyone who came out for Demo Day on June 26 and showed your commitment to investing in and building the Financial Feminist economy.
Want to join the next Founder Lab or know a company that would be a good fit for the program? Join the waitlist for the upcoming cohort here!
