The mission
What Sets Us Apart
The FemTech Breakfast Club brings together incubators, accelerators, entrepreneurs, and investors to support FemTech founders looking to raise a Pre-Seed or Seed round, ultimately bridging the current Funding Gap.
The pitch competition is designed with founders in mind. The FemTech Breakfast Club will travel across Canada to find one winning FemTech company per city.
1-year OBIO Membership
A one-year OBIO Membership ($1300 value) which provides access to OBIO’s HEALTHMINT program, networking opportunities through industry events and workshops, training on investor targeting, databases, data room setup, and market research, preferred rates to select international investment conferences, workforce programs and job board.
Toronto only
The Prizes
Each city winner will receive over $30,000 in prizes.
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Ecosystem Partner
Next AI is a world-class founder and venture development acceleration network for AI-enabled startups. Leveraging a renowned ecosystem of AI and business experts, Next AI provides support on both AI product development and market commercialization. Each year, Next AI identifies the top early-stage teams developing ambitious AI-powered solutions and provides them with the mentorship, education and network to have a global impact.

Ecosystem Partner
Centech is an ecosystem that propels technological innovation and entrepreneurship projects from science and engineering. Thanks to its Acceleration and Propulsion programs, Centech acts as a real instrument of growth, thus creating one of the largest concentrations of technology entrepreneurs in the start-up phase in Quebec and Canada.
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Ecosystem Partner
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based mentorship program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. CDL-Montreal is geared towards founders innovating in the sectors of AI, Supply Chain and Blockchain/Web3.

Ecosystem Partner
Located in the heart of Quebec’s AI ecosystem, Mila is a community of more than 1,000 researchers specializing in machine learning and dedicated to scientific excellence and innovation.

Ecosystem Partner
Spring is where founders and investors come together for impact. Our community is a global incubator, accelerator and advisory firm - and a place where you can find inspiration, support and true belonging. From personalized mentorship and funding opportunities to lively discussions and thought-provoking events, we're here to help you scale solutions for a better future.
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Local Sponsor
Organon is a global healthcare company with a focus on women’s health and a portfolio of therapies and products in women’s health, biosimilars, and established brands, across a wide array of conditions and diseases. In Women’s Health, we are building a pipeline and portfolio of products focused on addressing unmet health needs, including in contraception, fertility, maternal and peripartum conditions, and conditions unique to or predominant in women.

Prime Sponsor
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP’s Emerging and High Growth Companies Group and Venture Capital teams help clients recognize, develop and realize innovative venture capital opportunities. Osler acts for more than 1,500 early, growth and late-stage ventures and venture investors across Canada, the United States and around the world. Osler is a leading law firm with a singular focus – your business.

Prime Sponsor
The Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie has a remit to support sustainable economic growth in Québec, contribute to the rapid development of research and innovation, and ensure responsible governance of energy resources.
Montreal Ecosystem Partners & Sponsors
We work with incubators, accelerators and ecosystem players to gather the best founders, subject matter experts and investors.
Montreal Jury Members
Jennifer Edey
Deloitte
Senior Manager in the Gi3 Practice at Deloitte. She began her SR&ED career in 2010 at a boutique firm and quickly developed a passion for the industry. She is passionate about helping companies of all sizes, in various industries on their non-dilutive funding journey. Her unwavering drive to help others serves as a guiding force in all aspects of her life.

Inara Lalani
FemTherapeutics
Co-founder & CEO of FemTherapeutics, the world’s first customizable gynecological prosthetic tailored to your unique anatomy.

Amadea Camozzi
CDL-Montreal
Director at Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based mentorship program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.

Mélanie Heyberger
Nolk
Head of Apparel Fashion Department at Nolk, a company that focuses on building and scaling brands with a commitment to positive global impact, understanding the nuances of direct-to-consumer models and tailored business solutions. Led by veteran entrepreneurs, Nolk specializes in working with founders of design-conscious, sustainable brands, offering resources and expertise to help them grow, especially when facing challenges in scaling and capital requirements.

Maud Razafindramboa
Next AI
Lead Ventures at Next AI, a world-class founder and venture development acceleration network for AI-enabled startups. Leveraging a renowned ecosystem of AI and business experts, Next AI provides support on both AI product development and market commercialization. Each year, Next AI identifies the top early-stage teams developing ambitious AI-powered solutions and provides them with the mentorship, education and network to have a global impact.

Sophie Amyot
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Partner at Osler, a legal firm that helps clients recognize, develop and realize innovative venture capital opportunities. Osler acts for more than 1,500 early, growth and late-stage ventures and venture investors across Canada, the United States and around the world.

Matthew Harrison
BDO Canada
Partner at BDO Canada, a partner-led teams offer a comprehensive array of assurance, tax, and advisory services to entrepreneurial businesses. Their bilingual and multicultural team takes a hands-on collaborative approach to work closely with clients, and to tailor their service offerings to meet individual needs. With resources across Canada and U.S., and around the world, they are well-structured to help their clients grow and expand to new markets.

Michael Casia
Organon Canada
President & Managing Director at Organon Canada, a global healthcare company with a focus on women’s health and a portfolio of therapies and products in women’s health, biosimilars, and established brands, across a wide array of conditions and diseases. In Women’s Health, we are building a pipeline and portfolio of products focused on addressing unmet health needs, including in contraception, fertility, maternal and peripartum conditions, and conditions unique to or predominant in women.

Lyne Landry
AgeTech Capital
Partner at AgeTech Capital, a Canadian firm with a global mandate. We are a purpose-driven private market investment firm accelerating innovative & affordable technology solutions for the future of a healthier, wealthier & fulfilling aging.

Parambir Bhangu
Organon Canada
Executive Director, External Innovation & Emerging Science at Organon Canada, a global healthcare company with a focus on women’s health and a portfolio of therapies and products in women’s health, biosimilars, and established brands, across a wide array of conditions and diseases. In Women’s Health, we are building a pipeline and portfolio of products focused on addressing unmet health needs, including in contraception, fertility, maternal and peripartum conditions, and conditions unique to or predominant in women.

Annick-Isabelle Marcoux
LangLeven
Founder and Managing Partner at LangLeven, a private investment firm specializing in Seed and Series A Sports & Wellness Technologies, and Longevity companies. Some of LangLeven’s portfolio companies like PelviPower and Rya Health cater to Women and promote Women's health.

Ziyi Shi
BKR Capital
Fellowship Director at BKR Capital. BKR is Canada's first institutionally-backed Black-led VC fund.

Charlotte Borgognoni
Inovia
Associate at Inovia, a venture capital firm that partners with founders to build impactful and enduring global companies. The team leverages an operator-led mindset to provide founders with multi-stage support, mentorship, and access to a worldwide network. Inovia manages over US$2.2B with operations in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Bay Area, and London.

Sumana Basu
Mila
PhD student - Reinforcement Learning for Healthcare at Mila, a community of more than 1,000 researchers specializing in machine learning and dedicated to scientific excellence and innovation.

Althea Wishloff
Raven Indigenous Capital Partners
General Partner at Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, Canada's first Indigenous-led and -owned social finance intermediary.

Rossana Alfaro Roman
Centech
Conseillère - Propulsion Program at Centech, one of the largest concentrations of technology entrepreneurs in the start-up phase in Quebec and Canada.

Sara Couture
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Associate at Osler, a legal firm that helps clients recognize, develop and realize innovative venture capital opportunities. Osler acts for more than 1,500 early, growth and late-stage ventures and venture investors across Canada, the United States and around the world.

Scott Loong
Panache Ventures
Partner at Panache Ventures, Canada's most active pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm, currently investing out of our new $100M fund. Panache invests in Canada's most ambitious founders across all sectors.

Katheleen Eva
StandUp Ventures
Senior Investment Associate at StandUp Ventures, a $55M seed-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in high-growth ventures with at least one female founder in a key leadership role.

Marina Pavlovic-Rivas
Eli Health
Co-founder and CEO of Eli Health, the women's health company on a mission to improve lifelong health through continuous hormone monitoring.

Annick Charbonneau
Accelia
Partner at Accelia, a $60M Fund investing in seed and early-stage innovative businesses and female-led technology startups.

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Ecosystem Partner
The M51 Founder's Lab is for women and gender-diverse people who are leading or co-founding companies headquartered in Canada, ideally, those planning to raise a pre-seed ($25k - $1.5M CAD) round within 6-8 months of applying.

Ecosystem Partner
Spring is where founders and investors come together for impact. Our community is a global incubator, accelerator and advisory firm - and a place where you can find inspiration, support and true belonging. From personalized mentorship and funding opportunities to lively discussions and thought-provoking events, we're here to help you scale solutions for a better future.
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Ecosystem Partner
The Forum is a Canadian charity which has supported over 14,000+ entrepreneurs since 2002 and is committed to making sure all self-identifying women, non-binary, and trans-femme entrepreneurs can build and sustain the success they envision. Their programming, mentorship, and deeply collaborative community work in tandem to meet entrepreneurs where they’re at and help them achieve their next milestones.

Local Sponsor
Amazon Web Services Canada is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.

Prime Sponsor
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP’s Emerging and High Growth Companies Group and Venture Capital teams help clients recognize, develop and realize innovative venture capital opportunities. Osler acts for more than 1,500 early, growth and late-stage ventures and venture investors across Canada, the United States and around the world. Osler is a leading law firm with a singular focus – your business.

Prime Sponsor
The Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie has a remit to support sustainable economic growth in Québec, contribute to the rapid development of research and innovation, and ensure responsible governance of energy resources.
Calgary Ecosystem Partners & Sponsors
We work with incubators, accelerators and ecosystem players to gather the best founders, subject matter experts and investors.
Calgary Jury Members
Helette Conradie
Alberta Innovates
Manager, Investments and Market Intelligence at Alberta Innovates, where they create positive collisions through research, innovation and entrepreneurship in Alberta. This unleashes potential to help solve global challenges in health, nature, energy, food and fibre systems. We work with partners to diversify and strengthen economic, social and environmental well-being by leveraging knowledge, talent and technology.

Tiffany Linke-Boyko
Flying Fish Partners
Principal at Flying Fishttps://www.flyingfish.vc/home/h Partners, an early-stage venture firm based in Seattle investing in high-potential AI and ML technology companies across the U.S. and Canada.

Amit Patel
HaloHealth
Director, Western Canada at HaloHealth, a Canadian physician angel investment group composed of entrepreneurial physician investor-advisors, VC funds, family office, and ecosystem health tech investors that are interested in healthtech companies that are building the future of healthcare. To date, HaloHealth has invested in 45 healthcare ventures with 4 exits.

Michael Hiley
BDO
Partner at BDO Canada LLP, a partner-led teams offer a comprehensive array of assurance, tax, and advisory services to entrepreneurial businesses. Their bilingual and multicultural team takes a hands-on collaborative approach to work closely with clients, and to tailor their service offerings to meet individual needs. With resources across Canada and U.S., and around the world, they are well-structured to help their clients grow and expand to new markets.

Shauna Frederick
The Finance Cafe
Fractional CFO & Financial Wellness Educator, serving as a mentor at The Forum, a Canadian-based charity that assists self-identified women entrepreneurs in accessing the resources and community they need to thrive in business.

Erin Madro
Evok Innovations
Principal at Evok Innovations, a fund that focuses on early-stage companies in the areas of Clean Energy, CleanTech, ClimateTech and CarbonTech.

Pamela Ovadje
Innovate Calgary
Senior Manager, Regulatory & Quality Assurance at Innovate Calgary, the innovation transfer and business incubator centre for the University of Calgary for over 30 years, fostering entrepreneurship and bringing new technological discoveries to the world.

Ha Nguyen
McRock Capital
Partner at McRock Capital, a VC fund focused on Digital Industrial and Industrial SaaS based in Toronto and Calgary.

Sylvia Rowat
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Associate at Osler, a legal firm that helps clients recognize, develop and realize innovative venture capital opportunities. Osler acts for more than 1,500 early, growth and late-stage ventures and venture investors across Canada, the United States and around the world.

Sanaz Vafaei
AWS
Senior Solutions Architect at AWS Startups. Amazon Web Services Canada is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.

Raissa Espiritu
Audaxa Ventures
General Partner at Audaxa Ventures based in Canada, accepting global accredited investors. Audaxa Ventures is committed to making a positive impact and believe they can address the most pressing climate and health challenges by investing in diverse women + non-binary founders. They prioritize investments that not only improve the world and their communities but also provide their portfolio companies with the market access needed to expand their ventures and foster growth.

Kisha Mehak
Alberta Health Services
Biomedical Engineering Technologist at Alberta Health Services, Canada’s first and largest province wide, fully-integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to the over four million people living in Alberta.

Manpreet Deol
Inovia
Analyst at Inovia, a venture capital firm that partners with founders to build impactful and enduring global companies. The team leverages an operator-led mindset to provide founders with multi-stage support, mentorship, and access to a worldwide network. Inovia manages over US$2.2B with operations in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Bay Area, and London.

Jordan Kruithof
Innovate Calgary
Associate at Innovate Calgary, the innovation company of the University of Calgary. From ideation to commercialization, we offer the resources, facilities, and expert guidance you need to bring your innovation to Calgary, Alberta, and beyond.

Crystal Phillips
Thin Air Labs Fund
Vice President at Thin Air Labs Fund I, a venture capital firm and growth studio creating human value by helping early-stage startups scale globally.

Mari Mathews
Spring Activator
Director of Business Development at Spring, a global incubator, accelerator and advisory firm - and a place where founders can find inspiration, support and true belonging.

Arielle Land
Movement51
Program Director at Movement51, an education platform for founders and investors looking to acquire tools, develop skills, and build their financial frameworks for investing and raising capital.

Shelley Kuipers
The51
Partner at The51, Shelley is co-CEO of the venture firm and financial feminist platform that aims to build mutual wealth and social impact.

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Ecosystem Partner
Next AI is a world-class founder and venture development acceleration network for AI-enabled startups. Leveraging a renowned ecosystem of AI and business experts, Next AI provides support on both AI product development and market commercialization. Each year, Next AI identifies the top early-stage teams developing ambitious AI-powered solutions and provides them with the mentorship, education and network to have a global impact.

Ecosystem Partner
Spring is where founders and investors come together for impact. Our community is a global incubator, accelerator and advisory firm - and a place where you can find inspiration, support and true belonging. From personalized mentorship and funding opportunities to lively discussions and thought-provoking events, we're here to help you scale solutions for a better future.
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Ecosystem Partner
The Forum is a Canadian charity which has supported over 14,000+ entrepreneurs since 2002 and is committed to making sure all self-identifying women, non-binary, and trans-femme entrepreneurs can build and sustain the success they envision. Their programming, mentorship, and deeply collaborative community work in tandem to meet entrepreneurs where they’re at and help them achieve their next milestones.

Ecosystem Partner
MaRS Discovery District in Toronto is one of the world’s largest urban innovation hubs.
MaRS supports promising high-growth companies to scale their businesses globally, while tackling key societal challenges in areas such as Health, Cleantech, Finance, Transportation, AI, and others. In addition to helping start-ups launch, grow and scale, the MaRS community is dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration, commercialization of discoveries, and driving ideas to impact.

Local Sponsor
Boast helps companies easily capture more of their eligible R&D tax credits with its scalable, intelligent software and expert services. Governments give away $20 billion in R&D tax credits each year but applying has been difficult and slow. Not with Boast. Thousands of innovative companies leverage Boast to get more money, faster, and with less risk.

Local Sponsor
Amazon Web Services Canada is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.

Prime Sponsor
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP’s Emerging and High Growth Companies Group and Venture Capital teams help clients recognize, develop and realize innovative venture capital opportunities. Osler acts for more than 1,500 early, growth and late-stage ventures and venture investors across Canada, the United States and around the world. Osler is a leading law firm with a singular focus – your business.

Prime Sponsor
The Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie has a remit to support sustainable economic growth in Québec, contribute to the rapid development of research and innovation, and ensure responsible governance of energy resources.
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Ecosystem Partner
Founded in 2009, OBIO® is a not-for-profit, membership-based organization engaged in strategy, programming, policy development and advocacy to further the commercialization of human health technologies that position Canada as a leader in the international marketplace. OBIO® advances this goal through collaborative partnerships with industry, the investment community, academia, the healthcare system
and government.
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Local Sponsor
At Growth Partners, the team of startup finance experts has supported over 75 ambitious startups with their growth. Specializing in supporting startups with $1M - $10M in annual revenue, Growth Partners provides strategic CFO advisory, implements the right finance tech stack, and delivers timely and relevant reporting.
Toronto Ecosystem Partners & Sponsors
We work with incubators, accelerators and ecosystem players to gather the best founders, subject matter experts and investors.
Toronto Jury Members
Jennifer Edey
Deloitte
Senior Manager in the Gi3 Practice at Deloitte. She began her SR&ED career in 2010 at a boutique firm and quickly developed a passion for the industry. She is passionate about helping companies of all sizes, in various industries on their non-dilutive funding journey. Her unwavering drive to help others serves as a guiding force in all aspects of her life.

Jillian Malcolm
StandUp Ventures
Analyst at StandUp Ventures, a $55M seed-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in high-growth ventures with at least one female founder in a key leadership role.

Miriam Dong
Boast
Director of Business Development at Boast. Boast helps companies easily capture more of their eligible R&D tax credits with its scalable, intelligent software and expert services. Governments give away $20 billion in R&D tax credits each year but applying has been difficult and slow. Not with Boast. Thousands of innovative companies leverage Boast to get more money, faster, and with less risk.

Irene de Gooyer-Collins
Growth Partners
CFO, CPG Strategy at Growth Partners. Their team of startup finance experts has supported over 75 ambitious startups with their growth. They specialize in assisting startups with $1M - $10M in annual revenue, offering strategic CFO advisory, the right finance tech stack, and timely and relevant reporting.

Allison Gibson
Spring

Karen Kelly
K2 Performance Consulting
CEO & Founder of K2 Performance Consulting. K2 Performance Consulting creates customized sales programs to address sales challenges, improve leadership awareness and coach executives through their blind spots. The outcomes of their program enable teams to excel in an increasing digitalized and customer driven market, creating a lean roadmap that focuses on selling smarter not harder.

Nataly Dil
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Associate, Emerging & High Growth Companies at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, a leading business law firm uniquely positioned to advise Canadian, U.S. and international clients on an array of domestic and cross-border legal issues. They are recognized for providing business-critical advice and counsel in key industry sectors, and in transactions and litigation for some of the world’s largest enterprises.

Garima Ghale
OBIO
Associate Director at Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization. OBIO® supports early-stage and venture-backed life sciences and health tech companies enabling them to raise capital, hire and train industry-ready talent, facilitate the commercialization and market adoption of their technologies in health systems, and access infrastructure. Through the OBIO® membership, we offer companies and their teams access to mentorship & expert resources, grants and experiential learning opportunities.

Teresa Huang
AWS
Head of Solutions Architecture for Startups, at AWS Startups. Amazon Web Services Canada is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.

Tiffany Linke-Boyko
Flying Fish Partners
Principal at Flying Fishttps://www.flyingfish.vc/home/h Partners, an early-stage venture firm based in Seattle investing in high-potential AI and ML technology companies across the U.S. and Canada.

Karen Linseman
Innovation Factory
VP of Operations at Innovation Factory, a not-for-profit business accelerator, serving as the catalyst for technology innovation in the greater Hamilton area. Innovation Factory provides business services, training, mentorship, and strategic connections to drive market adoption, leverage intellectual property, and increase revenues, investment, and jobs.

Jennifer Humphrey
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Associate at Osler, a legal firm that helps clients recognize, develop and realize innovative venture capital opportunities. Osler acts for more than 1,500 early, growth and late-stage ventures and venture investors across Canada, the United States and around the world.

Naomi Menezes
The Forum
Community and Impact Manager at The Forum, a Canadian-based charity that helps self-identified women entrepreneurs access the resources and community they need to thrive in business.

Rachel Bartholomew
Hyivy
CEO & Founder of Hyivy, a partner for pelvic health journeys that offers holistic, patient-created, pelvic health rehabilitation for patients and clinicians.

Gordon Wehner
QualMed Corporation
President of QualMed Corporation. With 38 years of experience, Gordon's primary focus has been developing quality management systems in start-up or early-stage organizations. Gordon possesses extensive knowledge of Canadian Medical Device Regulations, FDA QSR, EU Medical device directive, the upcoming EU MDR, and other international regulatory agencies.

Melissa Belbeck
Whitecap Venture Partners
Principal at Whitecap Venture Partners, a VC fund focused on B2B software and Med Tech, honing in on verticals where we can make it our mission to help founders make a profound difference.

Ella Seitz
Esplanade Ventures
Partner at Esplanade HealthTech Ventures, Canada’s leading digital healthcare venture capital firm, investing in the US, Canada, Europe and Israel. Esplanade focuses on early-stage and high-growth companies shaping the future of healthcare delivery and actively empowering them to scale and grow.Esplanade has a strong focus on investment in women's health including several investments in the menopause and osteoporosis space.

Daneal Charney
MaRS
EIR at MaRS Discovery District, one of the world’s largest urban innovation hubs. MaRS supports promising high-growth companies to scale their businesses globally, while tackling key societal challenges in areas such as Health, Cleantech, Finance, Transportation, AI, and others. In addition to helping start-ups launch, grow and scale, the MaRS community is dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration, commercialization of discoveries, and driving ideas to impact.

Stephania Stefanakou
Next AI
Senior Venture Manager at Next AI. NEXT Canada is Canada’s strongest and most dedicated entrepreneurial network made up of 1000+ top Canadian academics, entrepreneurs, investors and founders.

Ing Goping
IngVentions
Principal at IngVentions, a firm provides timely consultation in the areas of product development, regulatory affairs, M&A strategy and due diligence. Ing is also an expert advisor in Life Sciences for Innovation Factory Hamilton and a business mentor at The Forge, McMaster University.

Megan Dover
Cross-Border Impact Ventures
Co-founder and Principal at Cross-Border Impact Ventures, an impact venture capital firm on a mission to revolutionize venture capital investing in health technology. They invest in world-class companies that create better health technologies benefiting women, children and adolescents inclusively and globally.

Louise Pichette
MaRS
Senior Manager, Health Sciences at MaRS, one of the largest urban innovation hubs. They support companies to scale their businesses globally, while tackling key societal challenges in areas such as Health, Cleantech, Finance, Transportaion, Ai and others. The MaRS community is dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration, commercialization of discoveries and driving ideas to impact."

Adaora Ogbue
Venture Catalyst, LLC