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Entrepreneurs Tavlyn Evans and Crystal Walker of Sage Beauty, a day spa in Peterborough, one of six small businesses to receive a $5,000 microgrant after participating in spring 2023 intake of the Starter Company Plus program offered by Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development's Business Advisory Centre. Applications for the fall 2023 intake, which will see the program return to in-person classes at VentureNorth in downtown Peterborough, are open until September 30. (Photo: Sage Beauty / Facebook)

Starter Company Plus program for Peterborough-area entrepreneurs returns to in-person classes for fall intake

Camila Duarte has been appointed the new executive director of Innovation Cluster Peterborough and the Kawarthas. She has worked at the Innovation Cluster since 2021 as an innovation specialist and programs director, working on initiatives that generated over $1 million in revenue growth, mentoring more than 100 companies, and fostering partnerships internationally and across Canada, including hubs in Manitoba, Vancouver, Guelph, and Cape Breton. (Supplied photo)

Camila Duarte is the new executive director of Innovation Cluster Peterborough and the Kawarthas

The 2023-24 Board of Directors of the Women's Business Network of Peterborough (from left to right): Program Director Tracy Minnema, President Katelyn Kemp, Treasurer Kim Freeburn, Past External Communications Director Grace Terfa, Past President Diane Wolf, Director at Large Pamela Van Nest, Membership Director Nancy Wiskel, Secretary Adeilah Dahlke, and Technical Director Donna Enright. Not pictured are Social Director Rebecca O'Rourke and Internal Communications Director Emily Argyrides. (Photo: Laura De Souza, LD Photography)

Women’s Business Network of Peterborough gets ‘back to the basics’ this season beginning in September

Lake Edge Cottages, a 12.5-acre resort property near Young's Point, received over $85,000 from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) to help fund the installation of 110 solar panels on the roofs of three structures. (Photo: Paul Rellinger / kawarthaNOW)

Solar panel array powers Lake Edge Cottages while benefiting the community and the environment

Levantine Grill is owned and operated by banker Hashem Yakan and chef Imad Mahfouz, who previously owned a restaurant in Damascus, Syria. The pair have been named Immigrant Entrepreneur of the Year by the Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce. (Photo: Levantine Grill)

Levantine Grill owners recognized as Peterborough chamber announces business award finalists

The six Kawartha Lakes entrepreneurs who graduated from the spring 2023 cohort of the Starter Company Plus program offered by the Kawartha Lakes Small Business & Entrepreneurship Centre with funding from the Ontario government (left to right, top and bottom): Amanda Runge, Danielle Malcolm, Sharon Johnson, Deanne Taenzer, Kirsten Scott, and Aimee White. (kawarthaNOW collage of supplied photos)

Six entrepreneurs in Kawartha Lakes are growing their businesses thanks to Starter Company Plus

Tiny Greens owner and operator Tina Bromley, who opened her plant store in downtown Peterborough in 2017, was one of six local business owners who participated in Community Futures Peterborough's ScaleUP pilot program in 2022. Through a partnership with Scotiabank, the program returns in 2023 with 12 spaces available for entrepreneurs who need help scaling up their businesses. (Photo courtesy of Tiny Greens)

Community Futures Peterborough program will help 12 local entrepreneurs grow their businesses

Noblegen founder and CEO Adam Noble with co-founder and previous executive VP Dr. Andressa Lacerda in 2016. (Photo: Lucia Graca Remedios / Noblegen)

Peterborough biotech startup Noblegen acquired by American company

A member of Hiawartha First Nation, Barry Payne is a successful Indigenous entrepreneur who is now working with the Canadian federal government to assist Indigenous businesses to bid on on federal contracting opportunities. (Photo: Barry Payne)

Veteran Indigenous entrepreneur Barry Payne joins Innovation Cluster Peterborough and the Kawarthas

Seven Peterborough-area entrepreneurial businesses received a collective $35,000 in the spring 2022 intake of the provincially funded Starter Company Plus program offered by the Peterborough & the Kawarthas Business Advisory Centre. Pictured are Michelle Fenn, Kate Adams, Erin Burrell, Brigh Findlay-Shields, Jack Henry, Tavlyn Evans and Crystal Walker, and Andrew Fitzpatrick. Not pictured: Kendra Mancini and Sean Fitzpatrick.(Photo courtesy of Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development)

Seven Peterborough-area entrepreneurial businesses receive $5,000 microgrants through Starter Company Plus

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