About YSpace and Startup Perks

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YSpace is York University’s pan-university entrepreneurship and innovation hub supporting scaleups, startups and entrepreneurs from a variety of sectors and communities. Its programming spans across scaling innovative technologies through customer and investor capital to scaling agri-food businesses into mass retail to diversity-focused initiatives like ELLA powered by Desjardins for women-led businesses and Black Entrepreneurship Alliance (BEA) for Black-led businesses.

Additionally, YSpace has extended Northern hub, as the regional entrepreneurship hub supporting local businesses in the Town of Georgina and East Gwillimbury, and YSpace Bradford West Gwillimbury partnership.

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YSpace Startup Perks provide startups with access to a wide array of benefits, including mentorship, workshops, networking opportunities, and valuable business and funding resources/perks such as credits for Google Cloud and HubSpot.

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News Update

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The official partnership between YSpace - York University and Leopard AI Inc. marks a significant milestone on our business impact. Leopard AI Inc., as Canada's first and leading AI-native fundraising platform, is now part of the YSpace Startup Perks, serving over 2,100+ startups and founders.

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"We are grateful and super proud to support thousands of startups with funding accessibilities, intelligence and affordabilities in one of the most active and influential communities like YSpace on the front lines, together with Google Cloud, AWS, Notion and other founder friendly benefits." said Jennifer AI, CEO of Leopard AI Inc.

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Nov 8, 2025

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