Visa believes in supporting women-owned businesses and helping them grow. By offering twenty $10,000 grants and access to resources and mentorship through YSpace, York University, we help connect women entrepreneurs with the tools they need to succeed.
The Visa She's Next Grant Program
Learn more about our latest recipients
Flourish Kitchen
Kate Tremills
Flourish Kitchen makes travel-friendly, health-conscious, nutritious meals for women with busy lifestyles. They make their meals in small batches with high-quality ingredients that are low-FODMAP, gluten-free and dairy-free, to make wellbeing easy for their customers with dietary sensitivities.
Habetin Homes
Taryn Beauvais
Habetin Homes is a Licensed Residential Builder, specializing in new construction, renovations and additions of all sizes, and custom millwork creations. They prioritize professional and timely communication with their homeowners, regardless of how large or small the project is, and showcase not only exceptional craftmanship but their integrity.
Magnestar Inc
Jacqueline Good
Magnestar's 24/7x software maps and monitors all communications between Earth and space, predicts interference, and prescribes interference mitigation tactics to ensure signal resiliency for space operators. Magnestar's solution also uniquely sources available spectrum at an expedited rate and facilitates improved collaboration amongst operators and regulators.
Material Futures
Iris Redinger
Material Futures offers eco-friendly solutions that adds value to the dairy industry and reduces environmental impact. Their technology upcycles a dairy byproduct that is often discarded or underutilized, which reduces disposal costs for dairy producers and provides them with a potential new revenue stream, which can significantly lower the overall production costs.
Myni
Marie-Helene David
MYNI is on a mission to create a healthy environment for all through their household and body care products. Their products are created without water or the use of plastic and are formulated with natural ingredients and non-toxic sources. They are proving it is possible to have high-quality household and body care products, while reducing their environmental impact.
Peekapak
Ami Shah
Peekapak is an award-winning digital, literacy-based social-emotional learning (SEL) platform designed for K12 students. Peekapak differentiates itself through low prep materials, gamified content and in-depth analytics. Peekapak offers a range of plug-and-play lessons designed to save educators time, requiring minimal to zero preparation.
PragmaClin
Bronwyn Bridges
PragmaClin's PRIMS (Parkinson's Remote Interactive Management System) is an innovative digital platform for Parkinson's Disease, offering real-time monitoring, rating and personalized care. PRIMS is addressing the accessibility gap in Parkinson's care and is striving to create a world where patients can get help faster, with more accurate results.
Seray
Lauren Sudeyko
SERAY offers innovative cooling sleepwear designed for women's 8pm-8am. Their sustainable sets ensure comfort, regulates body temperature, and promotes quality sleep. They’re on a mission to create a world where well-rested women thrive.
Stellar Eats
Stella Vanstone
Stellar Eats is filling a significant gap in the clean snacking and baking category with their unique line of grain-free & refined sugar free baking mixes. Their products are made with 8 (or less) real food ingredients and are grain free, gluten free, dairy free, plant based, paleo friendly, non-GMO and kosher certified. Stellar Eats speaks to consumers and makes healthy eating enjoyable, not guilt driven.
The Plant Based Workshop
Mayumi Bae
The Plant Based Workshop creates Asian inspired, innovative, plant-based products with depth in flavour. They believe that becoming plant based is the key to living an abundant lifestyle.