Powered by Desjardins, the YSpace ELLA Ascend program is a four-month accelerator designed to help women entrepreneurs build momentum and scale their businesses. YSpace is proud to announce the 19 startups joining this year’s cohort!
Anamav was created to help fill the gaps in postnatal care that so many mothers experience in Canada. They offer some of the most essential services that a new parent needs: an extra set of hands, someone to offer words of comfort or just listen, and breastfeeding support for those who choose to and are able to breastfeed.
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Clarissa Ee is a psychologist and couples therapist offering couples therapy and relationship-focused workshops across Ontario and Alberta, Canada. She is passionate about supporting couples who are building their families and navigating parenthood. She focuses on helping couples strengthen communication, improve conflict management, and deepen connection. Her hope is that couples feel seen and connected, so they can face life’s challenges as a team.
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Bread ’n Batter is a family-owned Filipino bakery in Milton, Ontario, founded by Maria Gonzalez and rooted in traditional Filipino flavours. Co-founder Erin Maramag, a George Brown Culinary Institute graduate, brings modern technique, consistency, and quality. Together, they blend cultural authenticity and culinary excellence to create Filipino baked goods that are nostalgic, high-quality, and commercially competitive for both Filipino and broader markets.
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Celebrations of Life Toronto creates thoughtful, personalized gatherings that honour life with care and intention. Through considered planning, subtle design, and seamless coordination, each event is guided with a calm, steady presence. Their work brings people together in meaningful ways, creating space for reflection, connection, and shared remembrance.
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CMV Design Solutions provides early-phase architectural planning for Indigenous communities. They specialize in "funding-ready" feasibility studies that integrate traditional knowledge with modern technical precision. By using immersive 3D and VR walkthroughs, They translate complex blueprints into a shared community vision, reducing rework and accelerating government approvals. They map the path from vision to reality, ensuring infrastructure is sustainable and culturally grounded.
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Cognitrex Inc. is an enterprise learning and workforce capability company that helps organizations design and deliver structured, role-based training at scale. Through its Learning OS and content production services, Cognitrex enables enterprises to move beyond fragmented learning toward systems aligned with real-world performance, particularly in complex and regulated environments. The company is focused on advancing how companies understand, measure, and manage workforce readiness over time.
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Faceology Spa brings expert skincare and luxury directly to your doorstep in a Nordic-inspired Mercedes Sprinter van. Each treatment is thoughtfully curated, blending innovation and precision to deliver results you can see and feel. Discover Your Best Face Life.
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Kate Lawton Therapy supports your therapeutic journey to greater self-compassion and self-confidence. They work with adults who overcame adversity early in life, only to find themselves derailed by a recent distressing event. They offer evidence-based somatic, cognitive and relational therapies with measurable results. More than symptom management, Kate Lawton Therapy approaches psychotherapy as a practice that helps people change their minds.
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Kreedns is a creative marketing agency focused on storytelling for hospitality, lifestyle and consumer brands. They help businesses refine their positioning and translate their brand experience into strong digital presence through strategy, content production, social media, paid media and SEO/GEO. Their model combines global creative teams with strategic direction to deliver high-quality, scalable marketing.
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At lunAR kids, they bring stories to life. Their immersive Augmented Reality (AR) platform blends storytelling, design, and emerging tech to create interactive storybooks that spark imagination and literacy in young minds.
By transforming traditional reading into interactive, values-based adventures, they provide engaging early learning experiences designed to inspire boundless curiosity and a lifelong love of learning.
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New Pathways Therapy Centre is a Toronto-based mental health practice offering integrative, trauma-informed care. They specialize in somatic therapy, mindfulness, and neuroscience-informed approaches for clients seeking deeper healing. Their team-based model supports both individual therapy and innovative group programming through their community “Third Space.”
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On Time Bride is a SaaS platform that streamlines wedding planning by centralizing timelines, budgets, vendor collaboration, and payments in one place. Designed for modern couples, planners, and vendors, it replaces fragmented tools with a single operational system reducing stress, saving time, and enabling seamless coordination while unlocking new revenue through integrated payment infrastructure.
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Relationship Counselling Toronto is a virtual practice providing culturally responsive, evidence-based relationship care for busy, high-achieving couples, particularly those in intercultural relationships and the family-building stage. In addition to therapy, the practice offers workshops and immersive experiences like Couples Intensives designed to help busy couples strengthen communication, repair conflict, and deepen emotional connection and intimacy.
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Rude Mama Hot Sauce is a Toronto-based food brand crafting authentic Vietnamese hot sauces with premium Canadian ingredients. Founded by immigrant entrepreneur Viet Anh “Vian” Nguyen, the company brings bold, balanced flavors to everyday cooking through clean-label, vegan, gluten-free sauces. Now carried in major Canadian retailers, Rude Mama is on a mission to share the hidden charm of Vietnam in a tangible, delicious way.
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Skin by Noor is a family-owned skincare brand built around a patented botanical active, Date Palm Pollen. Rooted in four generations of science and tradition, they create clean, naturally derived formulations designed to simplify skincare while delivering high-performance results. Their mission is to bring this unique ingredient to the global beauty market through thoughtful, science-driven innovation.
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Snuggles N Bubbles is Toronto’s first baby spa, offering massage and hydrotherapy experiences for babies and young children. They support early development, bonding, and wellness while creating a welcoming space for parents to connect, learn, and build a strong sense of community.
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Trèsolz is a premium footwear brand disrupting the fashion industry by designing bold, stylish shoes for women who wear sizes 11 to 16. In a market that has long ignored this customer, Trèsolz leads with intentional design, quality, and confidence. They are not just selling shoes. They are building a movement where women feel seen, powerful, and unapologetic in their size.
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Twish Cart's grocery platform helping families pool their orders in volume to maximize savings on food costs and buy directly from local suppliers at wholesale prices.
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You Got this Clinic has the knowledge, tools and team to diagnose and treat chronic Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs). They provide people around the world with chronic UTI diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Their team has specialist knowledge delivered through in person care, virtual care and global collaboration.
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