When her daughter was diagnosed with a neurological condition that caused her to be sensitive to certain sounds, Abeer Ahmed had a mission — to find solutions to help not only her daughter, but others struggling with similar disorders.

She founded Avid Sensory Wellness and is now participating in the EPIC VentureWomen program, giving her access to mentorship, workshops, industry connections, and tools and resources specific to her startup’s needs.

“I try to have services available that are not around yet in abundance,” Ahmed says. “As for the products, I hope to make them easier to find, better priced, and faster to arrive.”

Already holding degrees in medicine and clinical and chemical pathology when she arrived in Canada from Cairo in 1996, Ahmed started working as a vision therapist in 2007. She hopes the EPIC VentureWomen program will improve her business skills.

“I hope to find a way to product development, which is a skill that I have to develop,” she says. “I hope to turn these ideas into real products and have a start on the market if possible.”

Read a full profile on the website of the Entrepreneurship Practice and Innovation Centre.

This is the third in a series of articles introducing the current cohort of EPIC VentureWomen.