ITALIA360 COHORT
Eleven ventures, built with YSpace at York University.
Amedeo Cunsolo
The Italian language is dying in the diaspora. If you and your grandparents both speak English, the conversation falls back to English and you never practise. There is nowhere low-stakes to make mistakes and get corrected, so I built one. Cadentia gives every student an AI tutor that corrects them in real time and keeps their errors. They come back until you have mastered them.
Alessio Bevilacqua
Recevia is the AI receptionist for service businesses. Plumbers, HVAC techs, electricians, property managers, the people whose phone rings while they are under a sink or up a ladder. It picks up, sounds human, books the work and sends the right person. Live in five minutes, and customers cannot tell. Love Gelato took 3,000 calls last year and turned 92 of them into event bookings while the shop was closed.
Charulatha Vijayakumar
CollSong is where amateur musicians, singers and lyricists write songs together, then listen to them in the same app. Follow each other, like, comment, and jump onto someone else’s track.
Demilade Olaleye
Fraymer makes professional motion graphics something anyone can do. We are rethinking animation from first principles with simpler interaction models, so creators, startups and small teams can make motion content without the learning curve. Our first products, Flyp and Splyt, already help more than 700 people animate inside the design tools they already use.
Salvatore Papia, Philippe Trop, Blake Nielsen
Running a youth sports team means juggling spreadsheets, group chats and paper forms. Coaches and volunteers spend hours on admin instead of athletes. TeamOps replaces all of it: scheduling, communication, coaching, budgeting and safety in one app. Six months in, two organisations are live with 19 teams and 673 members across hockey and soccer. Built by coaches, raising $1.5M to scale hockey-first across Canada.
Maria Arangio
You have built something beautiful. Your recipes, your story, your creativity, they deserve to be seen. Mangiamo by She’s Italian is where food creators share their work, grow an audience and become part of something bigger. A curated space built to spotlight your voice.
Alexander He Meng, Amirhosein Soleimanian
Bud reads complex grocery labels, French text and cross-contamination warnings in under two seconds, for the three million Canadians living with food allergies. When a product fails, our computer vision and custom LLM point you to something safe in the same aisle. 300 people on the waitlist and growing, with revenue coming from retail data and brand partnerships.
Ya Xuan (Lily) Li
Investie helps Gen Z get confident with money. Inspired by Duolingo, it turns credit cards, budgeting, investing and saving into short interactive lessons that take a few minutes a day.
Ron Shah
Mosaic is the investing app young people will actually open. Beginners are curious about stocks, but traditional fintech drops them into charts, jargon and lifeless dashboards. Mosaic makes it culture-first: a TikTok-style stock feed, AI explanations, quests, goals, portfolio themes and behavioural circuit-breakers. Level up and the app reveals deeper market data.
Tamilarasy Vasanthakumaran
Health education in more than 150 languages, across four learning levels and 26 specialties.
Rafiq Omair, Arshia Feizmohammady
Technical interview prep is broken. Lodaria grades the open-ended work where real engineering skill shows up: sketches, diagrams, calculations and design rationale. AI mock interviews, expert-level feedback in seconds, Challenge Mode, Daily Challenges, and practice that adapts to you.
We take one cohort a year. Read how the program works, then tell us what you are building.