Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. It is powered by Google for Entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in 250 cities and 100 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies.
Startup Grind is a connected online and offline network of vibrant startup communities to help fuel innovation, economic growth and prosperity at the local level. While Startup Grind was founded in Palo Alto, California, our extended network of Startup Grind chapters are located around the world. Start a Chapter in your city or school!
Our Values
We believe in making friends, not contacts. We believe in giving, not taking. We believe in helping others before helping yourself. We are truly passionate about helping founders, entrepreneurs and startups succeed. We intend to make their startup journey less lonely, more connected and more memorable.
Durham Region is Ontario’s best-developed cluster in energy and related industries, which includes energy generation, transmission, distribution, equipment & services. It is the locus of energy generation for the province, producing over 30% of Ontario’s electricity. The cluster builds on over 40 years of infrastructure, knowledge and networks, and leverages the unique research and development assets of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Durham College.
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Sherry Colbourne is the President & CEO of Spark Centre where she manages a dynamic team of advisors and client-focused staff to deliver high impact services to Durham Region's tech and innovation entrepreneurs. Sherry is a Canadian entrepreneur who recently returned to Ontario from a four-year entrepreneurial sabbatical in the Middle East. During her time in the GCC Sherry co-founded Startup Oman, which has become the hub of Oman’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, focused specifically on high-impact entrepreneurs.
Prior to founding Startup Oman, Sherry was co-founder and CEO of Ladybug Teknologies, a social technology company that developed innovative breath-screening solutions. Sherry’s energy and love of technology was seeded early in her 25-year career in the Canadian high tech sector where she worked for some of Canada’s leading technology innovators including Leigh Instruments, Com Dev, Diemaco, DspFactory and Certicom.
