☀️ Brb, Just at a Wedding

July 31, 2025

Hey Founders,

Happy July: the sun is here, the OOO replies are on, the paddle boards are out and everyone’s watching “the summer I turned pretty”. It’s the best time to be alive in Canada and our team at LOI couldn’t be happier.

In fact, our boss, Mr. Rob Ironside is actually getting married in 48 hours. So if we’re slow to reply, give us until Monday, as we may be partying late into the night. But don’t you worry. We’ll be back at our laptops at the crack of dawn Monday morning to get back to help lift up young founders across the nation.

And if you’ve got some extra energy today, send some good vibes to Rob on LinkedIn.

On the note of travelling, while a few of us are in town, we’re hosting a coffee meetup in Calgary Aug 1st at 630-9am. Sign up and come by if you’re around.

And if you’ve got some extra energy today, send some good vibes to Rob on LinkedIn.

Now, since your attention span is short and you wanna be outside soaking in the 28-degree sunshine, here’s the top news to know:

YEY Awards applications are closing in less than 24 hours. So if you or your bestie wanna apply, get it in ASAP, amigo.

And if you wanna buy a ticket to the physical event happening Oct 22nd, do that here.

On another note, if you know someone who should:

  • speak at the event

  • sponsor the event

  • or be a half-time singer at the event

Please email [email protected]. She’s taking the lead on all the event logistics and would love to hear from you.

You’ve heard us banging the drum for weeks now. You know what to do.

But if you’ve been living under a rock, Labs Batch 15 is a:

  • free, virtual, founder cohort

  • focused on helping take those in the product market fit zone ($0-$50K in revenue)

  • get to $1M and become full-time entrepreneurs.

The program offers 12 weeks of high-value workshops, panels and AMAs with

  • $100m + founders, pitch coaching, peer groups, product testing,

  • investor intros, 

  • access to a 1,700-alumni group on Slack, 

  • 100 hours of lesson recordings and

  • a BIG package of perks/discounts to build your startup (legal, tech stack, AWS etc)

All you gotta do is: fill out this 20-minute form so we can get to know you better.

(It can look intimidating but the bulk of the typing is in the middle, little heads up there, my gift to you). And Mr. Kyle Moore even made a spotify playlist for you to listen to while you do it.

Yeah, we’re that kinda accelerator.

Or just grab the Spotify playlist and run and don’t apply at all.

But maybe apply too? it makes us look good, and it’ll make for good small talk at Rob’s wedding when we slack off tomorrow on the drive up.

Much love,

The LOI Fam

P.S. if you read this far, reply and tell us some of your top highlights from the summer

P.S.S. you all inspire the heck out of us