U of T Entrepreneurship Week: Four engineering startups to watch
By From left: HOPE Pet Foods; Xesto; Themis; and, Reeddi.
With nearly a dozen startup incubators and accelerators spread across its three campuses, the University of Toronto is a thriving hotbed of entrepreneurial activity even amid the pandemic.
U of T Engineering entrepreneurs and their startups are finding innovative solutions to pressing problems all while creating jobs and strengthening Canada’s innovation ecosystem.
As U of T’s virtual Entrepreneurship Week kicks off, here are four exciting U of T Engineering startups to keep an eye on in 2021:
HOPE Pet Foods
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University of Toronto startup helps local restaurants cope with COVID-19
A new app developed by University of Toronto students and alumni is helping match potential customers with local, independently owned restaurants.
PickEasy, a restaurant matching app developed by Max Woo and Daniel Zhao, technical co-founder Cho Yin Yong, and mentor Mahmoud Halat, offers digital services to independently owned restaurants in Scarborough.
The startup’s goal is to help smaller restaurants navigate pandemic safety regulations as effectively as larger chain restaurants.
“Many of my family members own small restaurants in Hong Kong and they had to work very hard to achieve success and to support their families,” Woo says. “That’s given me an emotional attachment to small businesses not only in Hong Kong, but in Scarborough as well.”
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