Howdy Founders,

Welcome back to “The League” — a monthly newsletter covering the youngest, sharpest and most good-looking founders coming out of the great white north 🇨🇦

📰 It's May: the daylight’s getting longer, our memes are getting stronger and those investors who turned you down last week, are only growing fonder. Inflation is still hella high for avocados. Most of you are losing sleep over the Oilers, Leafs and Canucks playoffs. And 92% of you are sick of scrolling through cherry blossom photos on IG 🌸 

On a more serious note, it’s Mental Health Month. And our team at LOI takes it quite seriously.

Building a startup in your 20s is no joke, and we want to ensure we’re building the best resources for every founder we serve to feel supported. If you wanna help LOI improve how we do this, please answer this short survey Kyle Moore put together.

In Other Timely News:

• 🍿 LOI’s Labs Batch 12 have their virtual showcase event May 15th

• ⭐️ Makayla Parsons and Templeton Sawyer joined the LOI team

• 😮‍💨 Jess + Bryn bagged $17,111 on their DOUBL Kickstarter in 24 hrs

• 💸 Max pitched Blossom to Clearco’s Michele Romanow, Tiny Founder Andrew Wilkinson, Liquid Detah’s Peter Pham and Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes

• The Mintier fam’s hosting a party in Toronto May 10th

• 🐉 Brian Scudamore is the newest investor on Dragon’s Den

• 🧁 Raveena’s IG reel of her dessert hit 30,000 views 

Okay okay, enough shoutouts.

Let’s turn our attention to our most important question of the month:

Settle down, settle down. We’re looking at you Kyle Moore.

It’s time to buckle up, we got more founders wins to shower on ya.

🗞 LOI Founder Wins of The Month:

• 🇰🇪 CloudSafaris partnered with Travly (A social network with over 20M followers across social) to launch their Hotel & Lodges page so anyone can find hotels & lodges in East Africa

• 🌎 EarthSuds launched their 1st retail store (Karma Co-op in Toronto)! Daniel (founder) will be on-site providing demos if anyone pops by!

• 🚀 engyne.ai launched on the Webflow App store 

• 🎉 Litespace’s launching on the slack app store

• 💰 Paige and Harrison from CouchHaus opened a Vancouver store

• 📰 LOI Venture hosted the Founder of Google Voice for an event

• 🧠 Erin Ohallaran hosted a pitch masterclass and a half

• 🏆 Danielle Fernandes won a Women in Business award

• 😮‍💨 The Manitoba LOI Fam is making some waves

• 🤠 Kyle Moore is hosting a Halifax founder meetup; hit him up on Slack

• 🇩🇰 Jean-Sebastien and the Fireraven crew are semi-finalists at the National Startup Competition 2024 in Denmark!

• 🇨🇦 Anjali’s moving to Drake land this week. Hit her up if you wanna connect for a cortado

• 🎧 Samand Raza is launching a founder podcast; hit him up if you wanna be a guest

• 👏 Shreyansh Anand was selected as one of the top 3 student entrepreneurs by Enactus

• 🌱 Joseph Lee shipped Supa Screenshot to help you create, annotate and share beautiful screenshots instantly

• 🥁 Aaron is launching Peacasa in Longos this month!

• 🥫 After 2 years of iterating, The Saucy Bean founders inked a deal with Pomme Grocery Stores

• 🏋️‍♀️ The Founder of Trainerize, Sharad, gave a 11/10 AMA

• 🎧 John Sparrow was on a podcast if you wanna listen in

• ⭐️ Zev Sigel (Founder of Starbucks) spoke to our founders

• 🎊 Taza Snacks justtttt launched

• 🍷 Annika Ng spoke at a wine/sushi event last week 

• 😲 Lily Harper made LOI X Lily Lou’s cobranded candles

• 💵 Mosa is hiring a B2B Sales and Marketing Director 

• 🥃 Tefari Bailey and Nadia Ladak shared some pitching gems

• 💸 Kalter from New Earth Solutions is hiring a Content Manager 

• 🎉 Liam Lytton released some new features for MakeProgressAI

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• Founded by Labs batch X founders, Ethan Fung and Dennis Huynh, Expresume launches today

• They made their platform after wasting WAY too many cycles creating customized resumes for every job they applied to.

• All you have to do is — input your skills and experiences once and then watch it create unlimited custom-tailored resumes, relevant to each job description you apply to.

• Check it out at expresume.ca and use the code LOI2024 to get 20 bonus resumes exports as a valued community member of the League of Innovators before the promotion expires at the end of the month!

Feeling the FOMO hearing all these cool updates? We get it. We’ve been there. And we wanna help you. So we’ve got an idea.

You can kick ass with your startup too. Just hit the button below to join our next founder cohort.

🤌 Founder Finds

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Your startup bestie-boos,

💙 The LOI Fam

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