Startup Profiles

Three startups at The Hub, U of T Scarborough's entrepreneurial incubator, are finding new ways to use technology to address mental health issues

-- article by Alexa Battler, published March 9th, 2023

From local hospitals to the United Nations, organizations have warned that

Melanie Ratnam at the United Nations’ annual Commission on the Status of Women session in New York (Submitted photo)

-- article by Alexa Battler, published March 8th, 2023

When Melanie Ratnam mentors girls in elementary school, she often sees them discouraged by the lack of

Lynne Corvaglia with one of her start-up company's bags made of leather upcycled from old airline seats (Photos by Wearsos)

-- article by Alexa Battler, published March 7th, 2023

Lynne Corvaglia is on a mission to turn thousands of old airline seats into high-end leather

Aliya Ali Shaikha's start-up Meds for Less won $10,000 at the annual pitch competition hosted by entrepreneurial incubator The Hub (Photos by One Take Entertainment)

-- article by Alexa Battler, published February 15th, 2023

Aliya Ali Shaikha didn’t realize how expensive

Ali Zaheer (left) and Zain Zaidi co-founded TransCrypts, a start-up giving people direct access to their official documents, such as medical records and income verification forms (Submitted photo)

-- article by Alexa Battler, published February 8th, 2023

To many, the

U of T students and sisters, Edina, Nicola and Ronesca Bijvoet, create digital solutions with a dynamic approach to wellness 

-- article by Jenefer Savoeung, published August 24th, 2022

Edina, Nicola, and Ronesca Bijvoet are active sisters, who spent their youth in training

Data Scientist and U of T alumni Athiya Rastogi builds an AI tool for generating product descriptions from images in seconds 

-- article by Jenefer Savoeung, published August 10th, 2022

In lecture halls, accelerator spaces and board rooms, Athiya Rastogi brings a notepad of

U of T alumni Pradipta Chowdhury creates an app to detect early vision loss 

-- article by Jenefer Savoeung, published July 27th, 2022

Blink. Look left. Blink. Look right. Blink. These are some of Eye Buddy’s daily eye exercises. Eye Buddy is a preliminary vision screening app

U of T alumni Shameek Das creates sustainable UV bags that sanitize items with the touch of a button

-- article by Jenefer Savoeung, published July 6th, 2022

Throughout the city, Shameek Das strolls around with a burnt orange leather messenger bag in hand and a sleek black bag

After a sunny summer weekend with friends, the next day Stephanie Tien felt pain on her scalp and dandruff-like peeling from a severe sunburn. In her search for a solution, she found limited hair liquids/sprays and expensive products that were often unavailable in Canada.

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