Vivian Liu: Driving Success with Making Auto Easy

Today we are excited to be featuring Jessica McNaughton, CEO & Founder of memoryKPR, a digital solution to save, store, design and protect all the elements of your story: text, audio, voice, laughs, pictures and video.

Earlier this year, Jessica won the Valhalla Investment Summit Saskatchewan organized by our partners at Valhalla Angels! Prior to this, memoryKPR had been 100% bootstrapped, and the Summit awarded them their very first investment. In Jessica’s words, “We got investors thanks to the Summit. Our investors span across Western Canada and we’ve also got some incredible mentors, people who have built and exited multiple companies and are just a wealth of knowledge.”

Bringing Nature Back Indoors with Origen Air

The Village App is a platform that efficiently connects people to their personal support network, builds friendships and encourages community engagement. Their mission is to rebuild local communities so that people can get a little more support when they need it.

The idea came to Ashley in a moment of need: when a surprise third pregnancy turned out to be twins, she realized she needed help but she found it very difficult to connect with people and ask for help.

HOPE exists to instill passion within youth and community members to take action towards critical issues in society through solutions that are global in concept, local in execution, and limitless in their ability to create and inspire change.

With their program, HOPE for Community, the foundation enrolls youth in a 12-month curriculum teaching them leadership skills such as team management and public speaking.

We met Vivian last February through our partnership with S.U.C.C.E.S.S. BC. As part of this partnership, we co-hosted a S.U.C.C.E.S.S. & Volition Alumni Showcase Pitch & Connect, where Vivian earned Top Pitch!

This week we are excited to be featuring Anka Chan, Co-founder of Ruth, a women-led organization focused on creating sustainable, disposable menstrual pads by using biodegradable and compostable materials.

Previously as part of her first startup, Hempact (now rebranded Ruth), Anka was working on creating menstrual pads using hemp – an eco-friendly alternative to cotton.

Today, we are excited to be featuring Sami Majadla, Founder, CEO of CertiCraft, a software company that helps licensed craft cannabis growers stay on top of their compliance records and monthly reports, and keeps them audit ready.

This week we are excited to be featuring Daryl Hatton, CEO of FundRazr, world leader in enterprise-class crowdfunding for nonprofits and social enterprises.

The company started as a personal crowd-funding site, helping people to raise money for personal charitable causes, and in the last couple of years they have turned their attention to focus on nonprofits and social enterprises.

We first met Daryl a few years ago in stereotypical Vancouver fashion, that is, while sitting in a coffee shop in Downtown Vancouver. Paul was introduced to Daryl through a mutual friend, Keith Ippel (Co-Founder and CEO, Spring Activator), and the two of them immediately hit it off.

This week we are excited to be featuring Andrei Matei, Co-Founder & Business Development Manager at Robbox Inc, a Consumer Electronic company that is developing the first generation of Smart Digital Power Tools for the everyday consumer.

Robbox wants to change the tool industry as a whole by introducing the first-ever Smart Drill with an integrated touchscreen. They believe smart tools are the next step for the tool industry and are at the forefront of the digital revolution.

This week we are excited to be featuring Tomoko Okochi, CEO and Co-Founder of Codeca Educational Technology and Services.

Their product, C3D.io, is an online VR coding platform that provides an innovative teaching tool that is easy to use for students by bringing visual code blocks into life and makes coding education fun and engaging.

With C3D.io, children can learn to code building a Virtual Reality world while teachers without computer science background can teach coding in a fun and engaging environment. Coding education has never been easier!