Practice Better is the result of its founder, Nathalie Garcia, needing a better way to manage her nutritionist practice so she didn’t burn out. Garcia created Practice Better in 2016 as an all-in-one software for wellness providers to manage a range of services, from scheduling to telehealth to payments. Since its launch, the startup claims …
Practice Better raises $27M for wellness provider management software Read More »
Collision is back in Toronto for another year. The scale of this event is absolutely insane as it’s one of the largest tech conferences in the world. There are 1,500+ startups to check out. The city is buzzing with many tech startups and companies at this event. Startups face a radically different conditions today, as …
Top 500 Hottest Tech Companies at Collision 2023 in Toronto Read More »
Blanka, a Canadian pioneering platform facilitating the launch of beauty brands, has successfully closed an oversubscribed seed funding round, raising $2 million. The round was spearheaded by Dundee Venture Capital and drew participation from Storytime Capital, Disruption Ventures, along with notable investors such as Fatima Yusuf, former executive at Shopify, and Manica Blain, a consumer-focused …
Blanka Raised $2 Million Seed Round to Fuel Beauty Brand Launch Platform Read More »
Vancouver-based Blanka, which offers a platform for private labelling beauty and wellness products, has secured $2.7 million CAD ($2 million USD) in all-equity and all-primary seed funding to help “anyone with an idea” launch their own beauty brand. Read More
Disruption Ventures fund and The Big Push accelerator today announced a partnership looking to give women-led tech startups access to experts, and early-stage financing. Read More
Elaine Kunda is Managing Partner at Disruption Ventures, which invests in high growth, women founded companies in North America at the seed and Series A stages. Disruption Ventures believes that diverse teams fuel success. They know the stats and understand that women are particularly underfunded when it comes to raising venture capital dollars. They see …
The SaaS Metrics that Matter Most with Elaine Kunda, Disruption Ventures Read More »
Toronto’s Fable Tech Labs Inc. wants to make the digital world better for people with disabilities by putting them at the forefront of improving it – and the startup is signing on a growing number of clients and investors in the process. Read More
More action and less talk. Millions of dollars are spent on advocacy, mentorship, sponsorships, and conferences. The organizations spending money to create platforms to talk about change can have a significantly greater impact by creating platforms to make the change actually happen. Read More
Elaine Kunda was the CEO of two tech companies. But it wasn’t until she’d exited those companies, and was considering becoming an angel investor, that she understood how hard it was for women entrepreneurs to raise money. She’d see smart pitch decks from women, but the companies never seemed to get funded. Instead, similar companies, …
John Albright, co-founder of Relay Ventures and Elaine Kunda, managing director at Disruption Ventures join BNN Bloomberg’s Catherine Murray for a look at why there’s a lack of women receiving venture capital money. Read More