League of Innovators Accelerator

Save the date May 27th for our Labs Showcase Event: https://lnkd.in/gY4SPzdV 7 of Canada’s best young founders. 3-minute pitches to 3 superstar judges. The winner picked by our judges and YOU. Meet your Labs Founder Showcase lineup: Chantaille Ash Nico To Jessica Sung Alyssa Mack-Lee Emma Edmonds · Josh Visser W. Henry Gould, P. Eng. May 27, 3PM PT. RSVP through the link here: https://lnkd.in/gY4SPzdV

Big congrats to LOI alumni, Lodavo, on the new app launch.

Next Wednesday @ 7AM, North House is teaming up with La Marzocco Canada for a special coffee pop up event 🍁 But we’ve only got a few more spots left… Excited to be teaming up wirh: - Dayna Pidhoresky, - Clio, - Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP - Rested Coffee Partners - Connor Emeny - And our whole League of Innovators Accelerator and Web Summit founder community I’ll put the link to RSVP in the comments below if you’d like to join ☕️

Meet Mintier, a fast growing startup founded by League of Innovators Accelerator alumni Rhaelyn Gillespie and Jessica Donati. You may recognize them for their best-selling Collagen Peptide Face Tape. The product achieved 700% year-over-year growth in 2025, with over 60,000 packs sold, eight sell-outs, and now serves over 40,000 customers. Mintier was selected to participate in League of Innovators Accelerator Labs Batch 2023, joining a competitive cohort of high-growth Canadian startups. “With League of Innovators, we were able to step back and think more strategically about how we scale,” said Rhaelyn Gillespie, co-founder of Mintier. “It gave us access to the kind of mentorship and network that helped turn early traction into real momentum.” With an expanding U.S. footprint and $3M revenue for 2026, Mintier is on the leading edge of the next wave of sleep-centric skincare. The brand bridges beauty, wellness, and lifestyle serving a growing market of proactive, wellness-conscious consumers who want results. Applied before sleep, it smooths fine lines overnight while infusing skin with collagen peptides for hydration and suppleness. By the time customers wake up, they see results. That simple, effortless promise drove eight sell-outs in 2025 and 700% growth, cementing Mintier as the leader in an emerging category it helped create. #startups #innovation #entrepreneurship

Meet Alyssa, a member of our Labs 16 cohort and the Founder of Blyssminds! Alyssa is a fantastic example of how presence and process leads to success. She has continually showed up for her fellow founders, our incredible speakers and for the LOI team and we’re excited to connect her with our broader community as she moves closer to the official launch of Blyssminds! Blyss minds health is on a mission to redefine cognitive health for women, starting with products that are not only effective, but safe, science-backed and built with real intention. inspired by my personal experience navigating ADHD and pregnancy, and recognizing the lack of safe, effective cognitive support options available for women. Blyssminds is currently in our funding raise stage, with a strong focus on clinical validation and building alongside researchers and healthcare-informed guidance.

A little advice to the young entrepreneurs out there: when you get an invite to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, don’t overthink it. Just say: “I’m in” You can thank us later.

I got some fun Friday news to share. We’ve *just confirmed* the Founder and CEO from Clio and Hootsuite for a fireside chat May 11th in Vancouver to kickoff Web Summit Week. This will be private event moderated by Yvonne L. at Financial Post to get a first hand look at how Jack Newton and Ryan Holmes are thinking and leading their global businesses in the world of AI. I’ll share the RSVP link in the first comment below if you’d like to request a seat 🪑 #startups #technology #entrepreneurship

Canada's biggest opportunity for productivity gains is onboarding AI to the companies that haven't touched it yet. That was Ameet Shah’s take today at Canadian Club Toronto, and it matched what I've been hearing in rooms all year. He laid out the productivity crunch in plain terms. Canadian output per worker has been flat for years while the US, UK, and Germany keep pulling away. His argument: the greatest opportunity right now is getting AI into the hands of the businesses that don't yet know how to use it. Taylor and I have had these conversations all month. If we can pull this off at scale, the playing field between small companies and their larger competitors starts to level. A three-person team in Saskatoon can punch at the weight of a thirty-person team in San Francisco. That's the whole thesis behind North Group. Most Canadian SMBs need a partner who can translate AI into the workflows they already run. If that sounds like you, send me a note. P.S. Huge thanks to Cheesan Chew and League of Innovators Accelerator for getting me in the room today!

Time to lace up your shoes, friends. We're bringing our Web Summit Founder Run BACK on May 13th at 7-9AM and we've added a few more surprises 🎉 🍁 Here's the details: - Canadian Olympian Dayna Pidhoresky is leading the group - Connor Emeny will be leading the vibes - Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP is QB'ing the post coffee/croissants Now all we need is for you to sign up so we can break our record of last year's 400 sign ups. Think we can do it? RSVP here: https://luma.com/u54ccrgh P.S. We may have some celebrity guests showing up, so keep your eyes open as we get closer to the date....

Like Zapier? Wanna hear how they’re building and shipping AI ideas on a rapid basis? Well Ryan Holmes from our team will be hosting the Founder & CEO Wade Foster for a zoom call fireside chat today @ 12pm PST and I’d love to offer you an invite. They’ll be digging into: - how Wade’s building / leveraging AI - why he’s bullish on remote first culture, - how he grew zapier from 0 to $300m ARR - his daily AI stack / work flow - and so many more goodies There may be even be time at the end to ask a question so be ready with some good ones. RSVP here: https://luma.com/y5oy940y