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Founder Fundamentals EP 08: Customer Psychology: Why People Buy, Stay & Pay with Talitha McCloskey
This week’s Founder Fundamentals session unpacked one of the most powerful yet overlooked drivers of startup success: understanding why customers...
Founder Fundamentals EP 07: Sales & Marketing in Sync: A RevOps Playbook with Rob Manne
This week’s Founder Fundamentals session explored the vital connection between two core engines of startup growth, sales and marketing. The...
Founder Fundamentals EP 06: TAX 101 with Junaid Usmani and Arif Amjad
This week’s Founder Fundamentals session took a deep dive into one of the most important yet intimidating topics for startups—taxes....
Founder Fundamentals EP 05: Financial Modelling with Irene de Gooyer-Collins
This week’s Founder Fundamentals session explored financial modelling for startups, featuring Irene de Gooyer-Collins, CFO and COO at Growth Partners....
Meet the 2025 Food Investment Program Cohort
YSpace is proud to introduce the ventures selected for this year’s Food & Beverage Investment Program cohort! This 6-month initiative,...
Founder Fundamentals EP 04: Operations Audit to Unlock Growth with Candice Ooi
This week’s Founder Fundamentals session explored operational excellence for startups, featuring Candice Ooi, Fractional Chief of Staff and COO. Candice...
Media features
YSpace and its ventures has also been featured in the following publications.



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Toronto Star - November 5, 2025
Building on success, York University launches The YSpace Network -
Markham Business - September 4, 2025
CoLab is Creating a Community for Teachers -
Retail Insider - September 3, 2025
SELLIT9 Trade Expands as Canadian Retailers Embrace Circular Economy -
Canadian Immigrant - August 27, 2025
Immigrant-led AI robotics startup puts Canada on the global EV map -
Betakit - August 19, 2025
Markham’s tech ecosystem helped this founder take on construction’s biggest bottleneck -
Crewscope - August 14, 2025
Crewscope Raises Over $1M to Boost Productivity for Construction and Industrial Field Crews
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