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The Canada-India Acceleration Program (CIAP), a government-funded program housed within Carleton University dedicated to supporting women entrepreneurs in expanding their business internationally, delightedly announced the fourteen founders and leaders of Ontario-based startups.<\/span><\/p>\n Teaming up with <\/span>Deloitte<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Lead Angels<\/span><\/a>, and<\/span> Forum for International Trade Training (FITT)<\/span><\/a> this year, <\/span>CIAP aims at paving the way for Canadian startups, specifically women entrepreneurs across the Ontario province, to emerging markets like India. Coming to the program, the participants can expect to:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n CIAP\u2019s Cohort 5 can also benefit from other offerings, such as free marketing consultation sessions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s welcome Cohort 5 to the program! Take a look at these amazing women entrepreneurs and their thriving businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n Maplexcellence is an innovative software company <\/span>that leverages technology for scalable, affordable, efficient, and effective auditing and managing carbon and energy through software solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n TEBO (Trans-continental Engineers and Builders Organization) Group of Industries is a leading sustainable industrial developer globally. The organization has four decades of experience on all seven continents. They consists of three industries, which are vertically aligned in the construction sector, providing services to the customer as a One-Stop-Shop, yielding fast project execution and overall cost-effectiveness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Setu Tech is a clean tech company that helps their clients – make technology-assisted decisions to enable building better and safer infrastructure; cut costs by strategically performing repairs, and allow the coating of concrete reinforcement with industrial waste products to produce durable civil infrastructure, among other things.<\/span><\/p>\n New Culturx is an inclusive company that offers a host of event and product design services. They specialise in bringing culturally resonant consumer goods to market. Whether you are looking to reach a new demographic, or a creator looking to showcase your designs, their diverse and knowledgeable team will deliver all of that for you.<\/span><\/p>\n Rossahut Inc is one of its kind, selling real roses that last 365+ days. They are changing the landscape of the flower industry business with these luxurious roses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Hip Lives Inc was founded as a platform to raise awareness around a variety of ways to connect with our health in progress. Their mission is to grow an inclusive holistic community built from and driven by a compassion for all lives, uniquely meeting the needs of each individual as they progress towards better health.<\/span><\/p>\n ActicKare is a medical device distribution company focused on the commercialization of life-changing, environmentally friendly, and reusable alternatives to diapers and pads for urinary incontinence that not only benefit the public but the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n Power of Ostrich is a unique skincare company that formulates skin care products made using Ostrich Yolk and Ostrich Oil. Each component in their product has a beneficial effect on consumers\u2019 skin and helps with skin diseases such as psoriasis, dermatitis, burns, ulcers, eczema, and sunburn, and also regenerates the skin after cuts, scars, scratches and irritations. Thanks to its high content of nutrients, their product can be used continuously to restore and protect dry skin.<\/span><\/p>\n The Health Aisle, Health care helps brands deliver better digital experiences to patients in order to remain relevant, build trust, and scale services. They help build trust by delivering high-quality, medically reviewed content , curated to match their readers\u2019 backgrounds and geographic locations.<\/span><\/p>\n The Magnify Access team provides services on a multitude of projects focused on increasing digital accessibility in Canada.\u00a0 These projects have increased support for alternative formats, electronic records, documentation transmission, accommodated test booking, institutional-wide accessibility, universal design, inclusive adaptive technology, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n Wasswell Green Cleaners are a residential, automotive, and commercial cleaning company. They provide both personal and professional development opportunities to the local community by supporting members that are not connected to education programs, employment programs, and training programs to exit poverty and social assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n Lumesmart is a leading provider of LED lighting solutions that bring you the newest and most advanced eco-friendly lighting technology available in the market. Lumesmart empowers its customers and business partners to grow through smarter, sustainable, and viable lighting solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n Nvestiv leverages technology and artificial intelligence to streamline the process of raising and allocating capital. It is a platform that connects investment data analysis leads with investors and sponsors.They also work with a specialised team of dealmakers and advisors that facilitates investments by converting capital introductions into lasting relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n Marlow is a new menstrual health company that developed the first-ever lubricated tampon for smoother and more comfortable insertion. Their mission is to help women battle the pain or discomfort that comes with using tampons. Marlow helps women prioritize menstrual and sexual health, and is a safe space to learn. The company delivers their products through a direct-to-consumer subscription model.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A Toronto-based small business founded in 1998 and driven by a love for coffee. In addition to their main market in Greater Toronto Area, they also ship to cities across Canada. Their coffee varies in taste and colour including green beans and roasted whole beans. Sheba Enterprises Inc. is the parent company of Rahyahs Coffee has been involved in farms located in Ethiopia since 2008.<\/p>\n Pronti AI is your smart wardrobe assistant that helps you wear and buy more consciously. Available on iOS and Android, they use artificial intelligence to understand a user’s mood, style, and closet items to generate outfits from your closet, and recommend personalized shopping items. Pronti has built an innovative feature called Shop-with-Closet<\/a>\u00a0that allows users to see outfits generated with a retailer’s new items styled with items they already own.<\/p>\n Cinareo is a new and innovative cloud-based Workforce Management (WFM) application that sets a new standard for strategic capacity planning and decision support for omnichannel contact centre environments. They serve public and private sector organizations across industries, those that require sophisticated capacity planning capabilities.<\/p>\n OOt is live interactive map platform with a built-in data API architecture that allows users to see, chat, and connect with persons who share similar interests to them in-person on-premises. <\/span>OOt puts the social world around you at your fingertips. You can join communities of interest, like lovers of spicy food, parents with small kids, or baseball fans. On the live OOt map, you can see where people in your communities are hanging out \u2014 where do people with your interests gather?<\/p>\n Trustiics is a team of lawyers, software engineers, product designers, marketers and business executives based in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Shanghai. Their award-winning platform offers <\/span>fast, reliable, and affordable legal services to help North American SMEs mitigate international business risks.<\/span><\/p>\n Formed amid the Covid-19 pandemic, InCritical Solutions Inc. holds a mission to answer the current need for new, secure, and accredited supply chain opportunities.They provide i<\/span>mmediately available, inexpensive, supplying on-demand potable water throughout buildings. InCritical was founded by three partner with over 30 years of experience in their respective fields.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Marissa Vettoretti, Co-Founder and Head of Product<\/strong> of EarthSuds<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n EarthSuds is a social enterprise that aims to reduce plastic bottles in cosmetics by selling zero-waste tablets of shampoo, conditioner, and body wash. EarthSuds has been able to partake previously in the AC Jumpstart Canada and Next Founders Canada program, while having many competition successes such as being named top 10 in National Geographic’s global Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge. EarthSuds currently sells online, to retailers, and is soon to be listed on Amazon.<\/p>\n Jennifer Lowthian, CEO and Co-Founder<\/strong> of HARDR<\/strong><\/p>\n On the forefront of digital medicine, HARDR. is a Digital Therapeutic & Wearable For Men’s Sexual Dysfunction.<\/p>\n Stella Y. W., Co-Founder and Head of Product<\/strong> of\u00a0Shakudo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Shakudo is an easy-to-use data platform that has everything that a data team needs to deliver products end-to-end and continuously adds new integrations that data teams want. By using Shakudo data teams become less reliant on engineers. Shakudo\u2019s platform automates many common engineering and development tasks, and comes with built-in tools that simplify the process of scaling data solutions.<\/p>\n Lyn Chen, COO and Co-Founder<\/strong> of\u00a0webapp.io<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Webapp.io’s hosted test environments build 10x faster than existing CI\/CD platforms. Speed up your webapp<\/span>\u00a0development process with faster builds, full-stack preview environments, debug terminals, and more!<\/span><\/p>\n Abby Fraser, Marketing Director<\/strong> of\u00a0CAKE CAPITAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n CAKE Capital is a full financial ecosystem where SMB\u2019s go to grow,\u00a0to have better access to day-to-day tools to make operations simpler and more efficient.<\/p>\n\n
Parastou Shahsamandi Esfahani, Co-Founder and CIO of <\/b>Maplexcellence<\/b><\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n
Jyoti Singh, Manager of <\/b>TEBO Group<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Aditi Gupta, CFO (Research & Marketing) of <\/b>Setu Tech<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Rani Marvia, CEO of <\/b>NewCulturx<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Kiruthika Vamatheavan, Founder of <\/b>Rossahut Inc<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Amie Reiman,\u00a0 Founder and CEO of <\/b>Hip Lives<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Karen Brunet, Founder and CEO of <\/b>Activkare<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Yelena Anikeyeva, Operator and Materials Planner of <\/b>Power of Ostrich<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Aliya Kassamali,\u00a0 Founder of <\/b>The Health Aisle<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Keri Bank, Co-founder of <\/b>Magnify Access<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Adolphina Wilson, Executive Director of <\/b>Wasswell Green Cleaners<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Shohreh Sabaghpour, Founder and CEO of <\/b>Lumesmart<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Alisha Gardonis, COO of <\/b>Nivestiv<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Nadia Ladak, Co-founder and CEO of <\/b>Marlow<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
Tsegereda Assgedom, Director of Sheba Enterprises Inc<\/a><\/h4>\n
Mila Banerjee, CEO of Pronti AI<\/a><\/h4>\n
Karen Elliot, Co-founder of Cinareo<\/a><\/b><\/h4>\n
Thyagi DeLanerolle, CEO and Co-founder of OOt Media Holdings Inc.<\/a><\/h4>\n
Yinyan Zhang, Marketing Director of <\/strong>Trustiics Inc.<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n
Cheryl Bedard, Founding Partner of InCritical Solutions Inc.<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n