Meet the 20 Women Redefining What It Means to Build — Our Fall 2025 Founder Lab Cohort
At Movement51, we’re building the next generation of capital leaders, and that includes founders who are prepared, strategic, and ready to grow.
This fall, we’re welcoming 20 women from across Canada into our national Founder Lab program, a best-in-class experience that equips early-stage entrepreneurs with the tools, knowledge, and investor readiness needed to confidently navigate the capital economy.
These are founders building companies with purpose and precision. From AI to apparel, medtech to mental health, they’re driving innovation across sectors, and taking real steps to finance their growth. Some are raising for the first time. Others are scaling what they’ve already built. All of them are here to lead.
We’re proud to introduce the women shaping what’s next in Canada’s founder economy
AFTER9 a thoughtfully designed athleisure for real moms, perfect for running a 5k or chasing a toddler. With flexible, medical grade support built into its garments, AFTER9 is eligible for insurance coverage under most health plans, and offers moms a supportive, stylish and sustainable fit that lasts nine months to life.
Location: Ontario
Atome Bakery an online bakery delivering frozen, ready-to-bake sourdough bread and pastries across Western North America. Using its unique bake-from-proof method and organic Canadian flour, Atome combines artisan quality with the convenience of home delivery.
Location: British Columbia
Chaniel Digital Health a forward-thinking health technology company focused on transforming healthcare delivery. Our mission is to unify fragmented health systems through modular, interoperable, and AI-powered digital solutions.
Location: Ontario
Common Goods building Canada's first discovery platform purpose-built for domestic commerce—a community-driven, all-Canadian Amazon that connects consumers directly with local businesses through AI-powered search. Our platform makes finding Canadian alternatives easy, starting with affiliate partnerships for larger brands and evolving to integrated checkout with subsidized delivery for smaller merchants.
Location: Ontario
ConSoul building the operating system for modern caregiving. Our AI-powered platform helps families manage care with task delegation, benefits navigation, and decision support — reducing burnout and keeping skilled workers (especially women) in the workforce. Care is the hidden economy, and we’re making it visible, efficient, and investable.
Location: Ontario
DigiBiomics is a precision health company leveraging AI and multi-modal data to enable early, accurate diagnosis and personalized treatment of complex diseases. Our flagship platform, LungSense, detects respiratory conditions like TB, COPD, and lung cancer using multimodal data, including cough sounds, X-rays, and clinical symptoms empowering timely intervention in high-risk populations.
Location: Ontario
Elektra Industries has developed safe and sustainable solid-state sodium batteries in collaboration with the Advanced Ionics for Sustainable Energy Lab (AISEL) at the University of Calgary. This patented clean technology is a high energy density alternative to traditional lithium batteries with a lower cost, higher safety, wider operating temperatures, and significantly improved environmental outcomes. Elektra is committed to enabling energy transition technologies such as solar and wind by supplying batteries for battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Location: Alberta
Emperous Solutions provides a business operating system that allows companies to model their specific processes precisely. It facilitates coordination, direction and accountability, and capturing the knowledge of the entire team through channels they already use assisted by AI. We provide built-in CRM and ERP applications, unify the tech stack, and bring in frontier technology without disrupting business.
Location: Alberta
Fledge a digital platform that empowers children with essential mental and emotional skills through playful, research-backed learning. Designed for ages 3–12, Fledge supports parents, educators, and schools with engaging tools that build confidence, resilience, and emotional literacy—anytime, anywhere.
Location: Alberta
FundEvolve a financial wellness platform designed to help women make three financial decisions quickly with confidence. We offer personalized budgeting, debt repayment strategies, investment education, and AI-powered insights to simplify financial decisions. Our mission is to make financial empowerment accessible, practical, and built around women’s real lives.
Location: Ontario
MoVA Realities We help brand teams turn “just another booth” into a magnet for real conversations, so they leave events with leads, buzz, and stories people actually remember.
Location: Ontario
Mycaro produces a protein rich mycelium product for functional food manufacturers. Focused on making an impact on our food industry and bringing sustainable nutrition to consumers, Mycaro leverages agri-food waste and b-grade produce from local suppliers to grow a high protein mycelium product through solid-state fermentation.
Location: Nova Scotia
MyLifeCatcher a family and life management app designed for busy moms navigating the rush hour of life. It recognizes and organizes information from emails, texts, lists, documents, and more - so they don’t have to. By reducing mental load and streamlining daily chaos, MyLifeCatcher helps families stay connected, organized, and present.
Location: Saskatchewan
Neoteric a construction-technology platform with a focus on optimized cost and sustainability procurement of building materials, for project owners. We are solving the fragmented data-sourcing and procurement of building materials for project owners.
Location: Ontario
NovaSonix Healthcare transforming musculoskeletal imaging with MSKNovaVue™, an attachment that turns any standard ultrasound machine into a real‑time 3‑dimensional scanner. By capturing true volumetric and dynamic data, MSKNovaVue™ delivers MRI-like insights at a fraction of the cost and without the long wait times that plague today’s patients and clinicians.
Location: Ontario
PrimeHealth is a human-centered technology company modernizing absence and disability management for large organizations—particularly those where employees bring their bodies to work. Our AI-powered platform blends automation, behavioral science, and trauma-informed design to help organizations reduce costs, minimize administrative burden, and improve return-to-work outcomes.
Location: British Columbia
SyncMed Technologies a Canadian health tech company developing EMS2ED, a mobile-first communication platform that improves handovers between paramedics and emergency department teams. Co-designed with frontline clinicians, EMS2ED enables secure, real-time, multimedia communication to reduce delays, improve patient safety, and streamline emergency care transitions. We are currently preparing for a pilot with Alberta Health Services and the University of Calgary.
Location: Alberta
Totum Tech is a Montreal-based MedTech startup creating AI-powered smart clothing to improve the quality of life for individuals with invisible disabilities. Our flagship product, Libero intelligent heated gloves, predicts and prevents symptoms of Raynaud's syndrome and other peripheral circulatory conditions, fostering active mobility and enhanced autonomy through personalized, proactive care.
Location: Quebec
VEGAIN is a plant-based sports nutrition company developing highly-differentiated, high-performance products that outperform traditional supplements on every level - including taste, texture, and nutrition. Designed for professional athletes, everyday fitness enthusiasts and the nearly 70% of people who experience lactose intolerance, VEGAIN proves that what’s best for your performance can also be better for your health and the planet.
Location: British Columbia
Wild Folk made for the ones who want to feel it all- Rooted, open and real. Our all-natural botanical cocktails are for those who want to sip on something bold while staying clear, connected and fully in the moment.
Location: Alberta
Founder Lab is more than a program, it’s a pivotal moment in a founder’s journey. Through expert-led sessions, real-world tools, and peer-to-peer collaboration, each participant leaves equipped to raise capital with strategy and confidence.
To date, Founder Lab alumni have raised over $13 million, earned national recognition, and grown companies that are reshaping industries. And this cohort is just as ambitious.
These 20 founders represent the momentum behind Canada’s future economy, and we’re proud to help fuel their next move.
Want to join our Winter 2026 cohort? Join the waitlist here so you’re the first to know when applications open on August 11th.
