Impact
Since the launch of SheBoot in March 2020, we have:
- Attracted over 280 applicants from women tech founders
- Trained and coached 38 women founders and co-founders across three bootcamp cohorts
- Attracted over 35 women angel investors
- Allocated $350,000 in non-dilutive funding and $600,000 in equity-based investment to women tech founders ($100,000 in year one, $200,000 in year two, and $300,000 in year three)
- Helped catalyze over $15 million in investments as of January 2023
- Supported new national and global media, customer and business relationships that accelerate growth
What Founders
Are Saying
<a href="https://viridisresearch.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Viridis Research Inc</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. is focused on protecting water sources with their advanced water electro-oxidation water treatment solutions. Viridis offers both large manufacturers and homecare product customers effective, sustainable, and lasting water cleaning products that greatly improve the health of aquatic ecosystems while offering significant cost savings in maintenance and operations. </span>
<a href="https://hitroop.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Troop</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a social enterprise that makes it easier than ever for small and midsized businesses to practise corporate social responsibility, engage employees, and make a difference in their neighbourhoods. Troop vets the needs of local charities and non-profits and provides a turnkey solution that empowers businesses to create staff-driven social impact programs.</span>
<a href="https://skylinerunners.com/about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Skylinerunners</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a Chatbot as a Service (CaaS) company that builds AI solutions for customer service automation. Today, Sylinerunners AI chatbot, Lilis, elevates the customer service experience and saves retailers and fast-food restaurants time and money. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://sentire.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sentire</a> turns the dumb agricultural robots of today into the Telsas of farming. Sentire works with robotic manufacturers and system integrators to help them augment their agricultural robots with machine vision and learning, enabling their technology to quickly learn a new task and adapt or react to their environment.</span>
<a href="https://poptronic.ca/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Poptronic</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a tech rental service that allows customers to rent equipment without breaking the bank. Entrepreneurs, remote workers, schools, hospitals, companies, and more can now access the newest tech on a convenient rental basis, which benefits them and the climate. </span>
<a href="https://otterby.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Otterby Inc</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> helps people find quality childcare in their neighbourhood. Meeting ran late? Date night planned? Errands to run? Let Otterby help you find childcare in a safe, nurturing environment. They provide peace of mind, so you have one less thing to worry about.</span>
<a href="https://www.imaginablesolutions.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ImaginAble Solutions</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a social impact company that creates assistive technology to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. We offer design services for families and healthcare facilities to ensure the handpieces of our award-winning Guided Hands™ meet the needs of our users.</span>
<a href="https://geomate.ca/en/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GeoMate</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> does mapping differently. With efficiently-collected geospatial data and cutting-edge feature extraction power by AI, GeoMate upgraded the efficiency and scalability of the entire mapping process. Their highly accurate location datasets and HD maps are the most comprehensive on the market, featuring sidewalk and cycle lane networks in addition to the traditional road-focused datasets. </span>
<a href="https://femtherapeutics.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FemTherapeutics Inc.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a Canadian-based medical device company specializing in the development of the world’s first customizable gynecological prosthetic. The company’s artificial intelligence platform leverages proprietary gynecological data to design and customize novel medical devices to achieve better clinical outcomes in women’s pelvic health.</span>
<a href="https://www.evokehealth.ca/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evoke Health</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is enabling senior care homes to share real-time health information while saving time for nursing staff. Engage⁺ by Evoke Health is a software platform enabling long-term care homes to share patient data in real time with families. Delivered through a secure EHR integration layer, Engage⁺ thereby will help reduce nursing administration burdens like routine follow-up calls and open up a secure communication channel with families. </span>
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