In the Last 30 Days: September Edition

4 min readOct 2, 2020

Happy September! I can already sense the leaves rustling, *inhales* Fall is near… and the eHub has had a very eventful month.

Our team has definitely not slowed down this season, check out what we’ve been up to!

Our Growing Team

We are very excited to announce that nine new students have joined our team this Fall!

It feels like just yesterday when we only had three members.

Let’s start introductions with the guys of the bunch; Carter is our new Program Coordinator and Matthieu is our Marketing Assistant. And the last to join, Nicolas is our new translator.

Now, the new gals of the group; we have 4 new Content Creators: Gabrielle, Isabella, Rosalie, and Zoé. Plus two new social media assistants: Abby and Nathalie!

We hope they enjoy their time with us this year, as our team is very happy to have them.

Fireside chats with Student Entrepreneurs

Even though we couldn’t sit by the campfire this year that didn’t stop us from having our fireside events!

We sat down with student entrepreneurs and had a nice old-fashioned (virtual) chat.

The French panel had founders from Bagsort, Dunia Pay and Noovie.

The English panel had founders from Point3D Commercial Imaging, Warrior Yoga and a Science grad. Making it jam-packed with experienced entrepreneurs. We’re so grateful to have such a strong network of leaders.

With so many great minds in a chat we almost crashed the Wi-Fi!

Scaleup Garage Cohort 3 Announcement

The Scaleup Garage program aims to help startups scale their operations.

This September, the following four startups were chosen to form the third Cohort: Bagsort, Dunia Pay, Ekindna Sensing, and Gift Better Co.

We are very excited to be working with these startups! If you want to apply don’t worry there is always next year!

Check out their innovation through the links above!

Big Wins for Welbi

Welbi is a tech company that helps retirement homes create recreation programs.

They have been working overtime this pandemic to land a partnership with Revera. Revera is a Canadian-owned retirement home. We’re glad to hear that their hard work paid off! Welbi now has a partnership with Revera and can expand their company nationally.

Find out more HERE!

Sensor Cortek

January represents the ideal ground for Robert Laganière company’s tech. Laganière is the founder and CEO of Sensor Cortek, a startup launched last year out of an incubator run by uOttawa’s Faculty of Engineering.

Sensor Cortek specializes in self-driving vehicles that use artificial intelligence to help detect surrounding objects.

The result is a technology that can prevent accidents by spotting potential hazards even in the most difficult conditions.

Their newest project is working with BlackBerry QNX, as part of an automotive tech accelerator program led by BlackBerry itself.

Get to know more HERE!

MicroMetrics

MicroMetrics is an Ottawa software firm that specializes in communication platforms. They are now offering their technology to medical clinics for free. MicroMetrics produces software that allows workers to communicate with guests via smartphones. Originally aimed at customers in the retail sector, the technology has been deployed in hundreds of hotels in over 24 countries. So far three dozen clinics have joined their platform. Co-founder and CEO Artem Abramov said it feels good to help the frontline workers.