Co-founders, Nehal Kazim and Michael Dennis have set out on a journey to create an adaptive learning platform for high school students in North America called Professor Pass.  After Nehal struggled through a finance course and couldn’t find an affordable and knowledgeable tutor, he decided to do something about it.   The company originally started as [...]

iris+cora strive to make every woman look and feel beautiful through their personalized services. With Cora Poon’s extraordinary hair styling, and Iris Liu’s spectacular make-up expertise, clients are able to find the full package all in one place.  Although they are both from Asian descent, it is important to them that they maintain diverse clientele [...]

After a long journey as a semi-professional hockey player trying to make it to the NHL, Nunzio Presta decided he was going to confront all of the negativity he faced during his fight to become a pro.  To battle back he decided to create a clothing line called Fame&Rumour, dedicated to confident living and a [...]

Ryerson 2010 Finance graduate, Boris Vaisman, has an impressive entrepreneurial resume to be proud of. His latest venture Scanly, with partner Renat Gataullin was inspired by their shallow pockets while in school. “As a Ryerson student, I was always on a shoe-string budget which led me to constantly ask food vendors around campus if they [...]

In June 2011 fourth year Ryerson Entrepreneurship major Mark Coleman and his business partners, Amir Jaffari and Tom Evans, founded WebRockkr. With their combined backgrounds in web development, Internet marketing and design it was a partnership that made perfect sense. They started out building websites for friends and then “referrals starting pouring in”, states Coleman, [...]

Screen Goddess, a multi-media company dedicated to the creation of high quality film, television and new media productions was founded by Ryerson Radio and Television Arts student Felice Gorica. After noticing the shift of people switching from watching cable television to viewing their favourite programs on the Internet, Gorica saw an opportunity. In 2011, she [...]

Congratulations to Noura Sakkijha of Majoura for winning the 2012 Slaight $25,000 Business Plan Competition which was held at Ted Rogers School of Management in front of a record number of attendees on Monday March 26th 2012. “It has been a great pleasure working with StartMeUp Ryerson and I cannot wait to start my business” Noura [...]

When frustrated by the lack of innovative fundraising tools and the worlds dogmatic views on philanthropy Jordy Beale, a fourth year Entrepreneurship student at Ryerson, decided to take matters into her own hands. In 2008 (while still in high school), Jordy’s friend was diagnosed with Leukemia and she immediately started looking for ways to raise [...]

After interviewing fourth year Ryerson Entrepreneurship major, Brennan McEachran, he was able to give us some insight into his wildly successful company, HitSend Inc. McEachran states, “His company was started to enable positive change”. HitSend allows users to submit and vote on ideas that can be used for community-based change. The ideas are posted on [...]

The finalists for the big final event on March 26 have been decided. Attend the final event to watch these six companies present and compete live for $25,000. Date: Monday, March 26, 2012 starting at 6:30pm Location: TRS 1-067 (7th Floor), Ted Rogers School of Management, 55 Dundas St. W., Toronto, ON (Google Map)       [...]