Three Mistakes That Keep the Grants Away

📅 Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | 🕙 10:00 – 10:30 AM

📍 Connector Suites, Convergence Centre (999 Collip Circle)

☕ Free to attend – includes coffee and treats from Black Walnut Bakery Cafe

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Session Overview:
Grants can be a powerful growth tool — but missteps in your operations can cost you time, money, and momentum. This session highlights common mistakes startups make when managing grants and internal processes, with real-life examples and practical tips you can apply immediately. You’ll learn how to strengthen your operational health, avoid delays, and keep your company mission on track.

Key Takeaways:

• Identify common grant and operational pitfalls that slow startups down
• Learn practical fixes you can implement right away
• Improve internal processes to support smoother, more sustainable growth

About the Summer Series: Smarter Strategies for Startup Growth

Presented by Western Research Parks

This free, 10-part summer series is designed to help early-stage teams in biotech, medtech, and innovation-driven sectors scale with confidence. Each 30-minute session covers a strategic growth topic — from working with Big Tech and hiring smart to building brand and securing funding.

Join us Wednesdays at 10 AM, July 9 to September 10, 2025. Register for the full journey or pick the sessions that match your goals.

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About the Speaker

Jane Ramachandran (Resonant Business Solutions) – Jane Ramachandran (B.Sc., MBA), President and CEO of Resonant Business Solutions Inc., lives by the motto “there’s always a way to reach the goal”. With this outlook, Jane provides a high-level of problem solving, expertise and fluency in business development, administration, project scheduling, cost budgeting, and grant funding from idea to post-submission.

As a business development consultant with three decades of experience, Jane equips clients with tried and true strategies to increase their impact, get stakeholders on board, and attract marketplace support. Drawing on the worlds of science, business, and technology, Jane has a well–honed instinct and a proven ability to craft compelling proposals that sell grant-worthy ideas and projects.

Jane and her team’s winning proposal portfolio value stands at >$1 billion for a roster of post-secondary institutions, research centres, private sector clients, and not-for-profits, with an impact that has garnered eight local and national awards.