Two Fredericton Entrepreneurs Earn National Recognition
Natasha Dhayagude of Chinova Bioworks and Kevin LeBoeuf of Educated Beards received national entrepreneur awards last week.
Natasha Dhayagude of Chinova Bioworks and Kevin LeBoeuf of Educated Beards received national entrepreneur awards last week.
Venn has welcomed three new startups into its Garage incubator program.
Trip Ninja is an online platform that helps travel agents book complex flight itineraries faster, using machine learning. It’s a business dependent on people booking multiple flights at once. So, when Covid-19 all but stopped global air travel, it hit Trip Ninja hard.
Working with and relying so much on young people has taught Mark Leger that they’re already high performers ready to lead, and not merely building skills and experience that will serve them well in their 40s and 50s when they take over companies and organizations.
Despite those successes, a new Entrevestor report shows the region’s startup ecosystem remains far more welcoming to men than women, while Black, Indigenous, and other people of colour are dramatically under-represented.
The UNB program has helped launch over 43 companies from different regions and sectors, including Stash Energy, Koffee Organics, UpFront Cosmetics, Vertiball, and Educated Beards.
As it takes a village to raise a child, Propel’s new CEO Kathryn Lockhart says it also takes a village to “raise a unicorn,” a tech business that could be another great success story for the region.
The Fredericton-based entrepreneurship centre is launching a new program that will help local startups transition into fully established businesses.
“The Nest” will provide entrepreneurs with a working space, business counselling services, funding, programs, and events in the heart of the business district.
The Fredericton-based startup can also use its engaging and interactive software to measure the impacts of cultural industries on the economy, and maybe even contain the spread of a virus such as Covid-19.