{"id":6251,"date":"2020-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/2020\/08\/10\/enso-connect-how-a-student-software-startup-fundraised-during-a-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2021-09-10T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:46:55","slug":"enso-connect-how-a-student-software-startup-fundraised-during-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/enso-connect-how-a-student-software-startup-fundraised-during-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Enso Connect: How a student software startup fundraised during a pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    <div class=\"wp-block-group wp-block-group--featured-image-offset-hero is-style-default has-white-color has-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-95b75a0ae5a33479a8d4b8a6568ed0fc is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7252e1a2 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">        <div class=\"breadcrumb breadcrumb--center\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\" class=\"breadcrumb__link\">news<\/a>        <\/div>\n    \n        <h1 class=\"has-text-align-center alignwide wp-block-post-title\">Enso Connect: How a student software startup fundraised during a pandemic<\/h1>\n        \n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"wp-block-columns wp-block-columns--standard-sidebar is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n        \n        <div class=\"wp-block-column wp-block-column--content is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n            The U of T entrepreneurial ecosystem helped provide the tools that allowed Enso Connect to successfully attract investors to their short-term rental industry software startup.\n Almost a year since the Enso Connect journey started, in the midst of a global pandemic, we\u2019ve managed to close our pre-seed funding round backed by the Creator Fund in London and investors in Toronto and Vancouver. We are currently preparing to onboard over 40,000 licenses to our initial customers in the coming weeks.\n        <\/div>\n        \n\n        \n        <div class=\"wp-block-column wp-block-column--sidebar is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n        \n        <div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n            \n            <div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"> \n                  <div class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata date \">\n                           <span class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata__label label\">Date<\/span>\n                        <div class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata__value has-regular-font-size has-text-color has-text-grey-color\">August 10, 2020<\/div>\n         <\/div>\n         \n   <\/div>\n            \n\n            \n            <div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n                 \n                  <div class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata social_share \">\n                           <span class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata__label label\">Share this page<\/span>\n                        <div class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata__value has-regular-font-size has-text-color has-text-grey-color\">\n      <ul class=\"wp-block-social-links has-icon-color is-style-logos-only is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li style=\"color:#002A5C\" class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-linkedin has-blue-color wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fentrepreneurs.utoronto.ca%2Fip-education%2Fenso-connect-how-a-student-software-startup-fundraised-during-a-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M19.7,3H4.3C3.582,3,3,3.582,3,4.3v15.4C3,20.418,3.582,21,4.3,21h15.4c0.718,0,1.3-0.582,1.3-1.3V4.3 C21,3.582,20.418,3,19.7,3z M8.339,18.338H5.667v-8.59h2.672V18.338z M7.004,8.574c-0.857,0-1.549-0.694-1.549-1.548 c0-0.855,0.691-1.548,1.549-1.548c0.854,0,1.547,0.694,1.547,1.548C8.551,7.881,7.858,8.574,7.004,8.574z M18.339,18.338h-2.669 v-4.177c0-0.996-0.017-2.278-1.387-2.278c-1.389,0-1.601,1.086-1.601,2.206v4.249h-2.667v-8.59h2.559v1.174h0.037 c0.356-0.675,1.227-1.387,2.526-1.387c2.703,0,3.203,1.779,3.203,4.092V18.338z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n      <li style=\"color:#002A5C\" class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-facebook has-blue-color wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fentrepreneurs.utoronto.ca%2Fip-education%2Fenso-connect-how-a-student-software-startup-fundraised-during-a-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12 2C6.5 2 2 6.5 2 12c0 5 3.7 9.1 8.4 9.9v-7H7.9V12h2.5V9.8c0-2.5 1.5-3.9 3.8-3.9 1.1 0 2.2.2 2.2.2v2.5h-1.3c-1.2 0-1.6.8-1.6 1.6V12h2.8l-.4 2.9h-2.3v7C18.3 21.1 22 17 22 12c0-5.5-4.5-10-10-10z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n      <li style=\"color:#002A5C\" class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-twitter has-blue-color wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=Check%20it%20out%20here:%20https%3A%2F%2Fentrepreneurs.utoronto.ca%2Fip-education%2Fenso-connect-how-a-student-software-startup-fundraised-during-a-pandemic%2F&#038;text=U%20of%20T%20Entrepreneurship:%20Enso%20Connect%3A%20How%20a%20student%20software%20startup%20fundraised%20during%20a%20pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M22.23,5.924c-0.736,0.326-1.527,0.547-2.357,0.646c0.847-0.508,1.498-1.312,1.804-2.27 c-0.793,0.47-1.671,0.812-2.606,0.996C18.324,4.498,17.257,4,16.077,4c-2.266,0-4.103,1.837-4.103,4.103 c0,0.322,0.036,0.635,0.106,0.935C8.67,8.867,5.647,7.234,3.623,4.751C3.27,5.357,3.067,6.062,3.067,6.814 c0,1.424,0.724,2.679,1.825,3.415c-0.673-0.021-1.305-0.206-1.859-0.513c0,0.017,0,0.034,0,0.052c0,1.988,1.414,3.647,3.292,4.023 c-0.344,0.094-0.707,0.144-1.081,0.144c-0.264,0-0.521-0.026-0.772-0.074c0.522,1.63,2.038,2.816,3.833,2.85 c-1.404,1.1-3.174,1.756-5.096,1.756c-0.331,0-0.658-0.019-0.979-0.057c1.816,1.164,3.973,1.843,6.29,1.843 c7.547,0,11.675-6.252,11.675-11.675c0-0.178-0.004-0.355-0.012-0.531C20.985,7.47,21.68,6.747,22.23,5.924z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n      <li style=\"color:#002A5C\" class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-mail has-blue-color wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"mailto:?subject=U%20of%20T%20Entrepreneurship:%20Enso%20Connect%3A%20How%20a%20student%20software%20startup%20fundraised%20during%20a%20pandemic&#038;body=Check%20it%20out%20here:%20https%3A%2F%2Fentrepreneurs.utoronto.ca%2Fip-education%2Fenso-connect-how-a-student-software-startup-fundraised-during-a-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M19,5H5c-1.1,0-2,.9-2,2v10c0,1.1.9,2,2,2h14c1.1,0,2-.9,2-2V7c0-1.1-.9-2-2-2zm.5,12c0,.3-.2.5-.5.5H5c-.3,0-.5-.2-.5-.5V9.8l7.5,5.6,7.5-5.6V17zm0-9.1L12,13.6,4.5,7.9V7c0-.3.2-.5.5-.5h14c.3,0,.5.2.5.5v.9z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Mail<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n      <\/div>\n         <\/div>\n         \n   \n            <\/div>\n            \n        <\/div>\n        \n\n         \n            \n   \n\n         \n                  <div class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata author \">\n                           <span class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata__label label\">By<\/span>\n                        <div class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-post-metadata__value has-regular-font-size has-text-color has-text-grey-color\">officebureau<\/div>\n         <\/div>\n         \n   \n\n        \n   \n        \n        <div class=\"wp-block-ob-blocks-related-posts-sidebar is-style-textured has-dark-blue-color has-pale-grey-background-color has-text-color has-background\">\n             \n                           \n   \n             \n                           \n   \n             \n                           \n   \n             \n                           \n   \n        <\/div>\n          \n\n\t\n    <\/div>\n    \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U of T entrepreneurial ecosystem helped provide the tools that allowed Enso Connect to successfully attract investors to their short-term rental industry software startup. Almost a year since the Enso Connect journey started, in the midst of a global pandemic, we\u2019ve managed to close our pre-seed funding round backed by the Creator Fund in London and investors in Toronto and Vancouver. We are currently preparing to onboard over 40,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"feed":[],"class_list":["post-6251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14777,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions\/14777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6251"},{"taxonomy":"feed","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca\/ip-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feed?post=6251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}