With 73 Ventures in 5 countries, we are rounding up the news every 2 weeks to share what is happening, it can be hard to keep up to these changemakers! Engage, share + follow using the hashtag #sheeomagic to amplify.

SheEO Podcast + News Round-up

• On the SheEO Podcast Round-up, find these episodes:
  • Kate Bezar of The Better Packaging Co. on This Climate Business
  • Patrice Mousseau of Satya Organics on In the Green Chair
  • Sophia Yen of Pandia Health on Young Money with Tracey Bissett

Australia

• SmartCompany noted the startups that secured Boosting Female Founders funding, including Indigital, Verve Super, and Neighbourlytics.
• Indigital is listed in Code for Australia’s BIPOC Organisations & Resources Pt. 1.
• Verve Super‘s Christina Hobbs wrote a piece for Women’s Agenda on how 2020 showed that female entrepreneurs need an inner circle. The piece was reprinted in SmartCompany.World’s Biggest Garage Sale has plenty of sustainable gift ideas.

Canada

• SheNative‘s Indigenous holiday gift guide features fellow SheEO Venture Satya Organics, Venture Semi-Finalists Cheekbone Beauty + Sisters Sage, and Activator-owned Raven Reads, Yukon Soaps + Mini Tipi!
• Abeego was mentioned in a Fast Company article as a sustainable product pushing big brands to move beyond plastic. And it shared well-loved recipes from its community.
• AVA Grows has partnered with TreeEra to plant a tree with every purchase of the newly released winter seed pod pack collection and has launched a Holiday Giveaway with Hestan Cue and Prepdeck.
• Nita Tandon of Dalcini Stainless told Authority Magazine how she turned her hobby into a career.
• Nada teamed up with Food Runners this holiday season to support vulnerable children across 17 local schools with healthy meals. They also launched a gift card campaign to help kick off a package-free 2021.
• Routine‘s Neige and Pippa Blair participated in Wild Tea Kombucha’s collaborative gift guide.
• SheNative‘s Devon Fiddler was named one of Canada’s top 5 social entrepreneurs of 2020 from SEE Change Magazine, and made NUVO’s list of Canadian BIPOC-owned businesses to support.
• Satya Organics, which will soon be launching in Indigo and in the U.S., was recommended in Well + Good’s list of Indigenous beauty brands to support.
• The Discourse is a founding member of Press Forward, a new association that aims to strengthen independent journalism in Canada. And The Discourse Nanaimo is going ahead.
• Think Dirty was recommended by the proprietor of a new shop for non-toxic cosmetics opening in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Twenty One Toys is among Future of Good’s Top Recovery Projects.

New Zealand

• AWWA included Kiri Nathan in its shop Indigenous gift guide.
• Beany offered advice on whether you can expense Christmas gifts.
• Better Packaging Co. came up in a Perth Happenings piece on Kik Clothing, which ships its activewear in compostable bags. Dense Discovery recommended Better Packaging, too.
• Guardian Angel Security has launched the Guardian EVERYWHERE Hub for robust and secure 24/7 communication, monitoring, and local response co-ordination for remote workers. ChannelLife picked up the news, too.Candice Pardy of Jobloads spoke to the New Zealand Herald about whether the country is a good place for Māori women in business, and the difference SheEO made to unlock funding.

United States

• AZO CleanTech did a feature on Farm from a Box’s off-grid toolkit for sustainable agriculture, as did Off Grid Energy Independence.
• BioCellection‘s process to convert plastic into useable chemicals came up in a Chemical & Engineering News piece on new technologies making an impact.
• The Corsair at Santa Monica College wrote about how Pandia Health is revolutionizing birth control. And Sophia Yen’s reaction to Scotland’s new period product legislation was published in The National.
• Modern Ghana covered how Sisu Global‘s Hemafuse is solving the problem of low donor-blood supplies, and CEO Carolyn Yarina made Nairobi Garage’s list of women making strides in innovative ways.Solstice put together an infographic on how to bring solar to every American.