Breakfast Talk: Breaking Barriers: Women Entrepreneurs Raising Capital
Join us for an inspiring and informative panel discussion featuring trailblazing women entrepreneurs who have successfully raised capital to scale their businesses. These dynamic founders will share their personal stories, insights, and hard-earned lessons about navigating the fundraising process, overcoming challenges, and breaking barriers in the traditionally male-dominated world of startup financing.
This event is designed to both inform and inspire. Our panel, featuring Suze Mason, Co-founder of Sprout Family, Tanika McLeod, Co-Founder of OneCliq.io and Yulia Druzhnikova, Co-founder and CEO of PioneerIP, will dive into the realities of securing funding, navigating investor dynamics, and leveraging strategic relationships to accelerate growth.
Whether you’re a first-time founder, an established entrepreneur, or just curious about the world of startup investment, this discussion will offer key takeaways to help you on your own journey toward securing funding and achieving success.
Key Takeaways:
Hearing firsthand from entrepreneurs who have successfully fundraised
Overcoming common challenges for women in fundraising
Insights on building investor relationships
Connecting with a network of fellow women entrepreneurs to share insights, resources, and support
Coffee and a light breakfast will be provided.
About YSpace
YSpace is York University’s pan-university entrepreneurship and innovation hub supporting startups and entrepreneurs from a variety of sectors and communities. Our programming spans across scaling innovative technologies through customer and investor capital to scaling agri-food businesses into mass retail to diversity-focused initiatives like ELLA for women-led businesses and Black Entrepreneurship Alliance (BEA) for Black-led businesses. Additionally with our Start-Up Visa program, we are building a robust ecosystem, driving positive change and empowering entrepreneurs to shape the future. We are also home to two physical hubs in the City of Markham and the Town of Georgina.
Our Funder - York Region
The Regional Municipality of York consists of nine local cities and towns and provides a variety of programs and services to over 1.25 million residents and 57,000 businesses with more than 629,000 employees. Strategically positioned in the Greater Toronto area, York Region is Ontario’s third largest business centre and is among Canada’s largest Information and Communications Technology, Life Sciences and Financial Services business clusters. It is also an innovation hub and a rich pool of talent for established businesses and new ventures. York Region supports economic development with a pro-business environment offering a range of investment assistance and resources for businesses and non-profits both large and small.