NEXT Canada F21 Annual Report - Report - Page 18
VENTURE SPOTLIGHT
RYNA
Ryna is a home rental platform that improves how women
rent by partnering with reputable landlords, matching suitable
roommates. ConnectING multi-family real estate landlords
with long-term, quality tenants, while increasing their revenue.
With Ryna, female renters can easily find suitable housing and a
sense of belonging with likeminded roommates. We streamline
the tedious parts of renting with our online platform.
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Ryna’s co-founder & CEO Sheryl Song
won the 2021 EY Women In Tech
Award and the W. Galen Weston Top
Entrepreneur Award
GLOBE AND MAIL: How two women founded a femalecentered real estate startup after struggling to find a safe
place to rent.
BNN BLOOMBERG: Toronto-based platform aiming to
make apartment renting easier and safer for women.
FOUNDERS
KD Dao, Sheryl Song
“
I am grateful for
the learnings
from Next
Founders, and
aim to put them
into practice
so perhaps one
day I can get
back to the
program in a
meaningful way.
Ted Flemming
Founder and CEO, Partake
Next Founders, 2021
ANDALUSIA SPEECH THERAPY
We provide Speech Therapy to people with communication disorders.
Children and adults can access our services in one of our 4 brick-andmortar clinics or through online therapy. We are rapidly expanding
to open 12 more clinics by Spring 2021. 1 in 10
Canadians need speech therapy, and with limited
competition, the timing is right to establish a
national brand with our practical strategy.
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Locations in Toronto East, Guelph,
Toronto West, London, Scarborough,
North Bay, Mississauga, Sudbury,
Kitchener, Waterloo, and Ottawa
FOUNDER
Ibtissam Mustaq
WAVY
Wavy empowers people leaders to create amazing company culture,
wherever their teams are located. Through our Culture Management
Platform and Experiences Marketplace, clients can use Wavy to
plan, manage review, and improve their events and culture and team
building initiatives.
HUNGERHUB
hungerhub is a meal delivery solution for offices that provides
employees of clients with an app to place orders from
their favourite local restaurants for individually made
and packaged meals. Despite the pandemic, hungerhub
continued its exponential growth and grew by over
300% YoY and expanded to 3 new Canadian markets and
achieved an annual GMV of $6m+ over the past 12 months.
NEWS & UPDATES
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WAVY: Loopio & Wavy work together to host virtual experiences
that are actually fun
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WAVY: PostBeyond plays together the hybrid way with Wavy
FOUNDERS
Shawn Hewat, Neshay Ahmed, Peter Kotzeff
NEWS & UPDATES
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GLOBE AND MAIL: Listed as one of Canada’s top growing
companies 2021
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YAHOO FINANCE: Plant&Co Announces YamChops
Now Available Through Hungerhub Meal Delivery App.
FOUNDERS
Faisal Kanji, Sari Abdo
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