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Announcing The Winners: The 2025 Capital Elle Business Impact Award
The 2025 Capital Elle Business Impact Award celebrates Canadian women entrepreneurs who are building bold, purposeful, and impact-driven companies across the country. After reviewing 710 applications nationwide, we are thrilled to introduce this year’s Top 3 winners. These founders embody courage, innovation, and leadership. Today, we celebrate the women who are reshaping what’s possible in Canada.
The 2025 Capital Elle Business Impact Award: This Year’s Top TEN Finalists
The 2025 Capital Elle Business Impact Award celebrates Canadian women entrepreneurs who are creating meaningful change, advancing their industries, and lifting their communities. This year’s top 10 finalists represent innovation, leadership, and impact. From social enterprises to wellness brands to financial empowerment initiatives, these ten women embody what it means to build with purpose, vision, and heart.
Mastermind Moves For Canadian Women Entrepreneurs
Knowing when to join a mastermind isn’t about waiting for confidence. It’s about recognizing that the next 12 months depend on your thinking, your strategy, and the women you surround yourself with. When you’re craving deeper conversations, better decisions, and a circle that stretches you, the Elleiance Membership may be exactly what your business has been waiting for.
From Vision to Funding: Women Entrepreneur Growth with The Elleiance Network
In this episode of Proof It’s Possible, Erin Sisko, founder of The Elleiance Network, joins Dayle Sheehan and Jamie Francis to talk about redefining networking, overcoming imposter syndrome, and funding women-led businesses through the Capital Elle Business Impact Award. Applications for 2025 are now closed, but the movement to fund women entrepreneurs continues! Subscribe to the newsletter for more funding opportunities, business tools, and the next awards next year!
From Startup to Exit: How The Elleiance Network Helps Women Build Wealth Through Smart Capital
Most founders chase growth, but few are taught how to fund it right. At The Elleiance Network, women entrepreneurs are learning how to fund smarter, scale strategically, and exit stronger. Through mentorship and funding initiatives like the Capital Elle Business Impact Award, now closed for 2025, founders are gaining the confidence and capital to grow with intention. The Top 10 finalists will be revealed November 13, with winners announced November 27, 2025.
Body Doubling: A Proven Focus Technique for Women Entrepreneurs
Ever plan to work but end up cleaning the kitchen instead? Body doubling is a science-backed productivity technique that keeps you on task. Here’s how it works, why it’s effective, and how The Elleiance Network's Hustle + Flow Virtual Co-working makes it easy to experience the benefits.
Ambition with Purpose: Women Entrepreneurs Rising with Erin Sisko
On The Juggle Is Real podcast, Erin Sisko, founder of The Elleiance Network and creator of The Capital Elle Business Impact Award – shares how women entrepreneurs can align ambition with values, reclaim power, and find capital. Applications and nominations are open now until October 28, 2025.
From $5K to $250K: The Grant Playbook for Canadian Women Entrepreneurs
Winning grants doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. In fact, with the right playbook, Canadian women entrepreneurs can unlock anywhere from $5K to $250K in non-dilutive funding. Grants aren’t just free money, they’re strategic capital that fuels growth, builds credibility, and even unlocks larger bank loans. This blog breaks down a proven system for finding and winning grants, while also spotlighting the 2025 Capital Elle Business Impact Award, now open with $50,000 in funding for women-led businesses.
$50,000 Capital Elle Business Impact Award Opens for Canadian Women Entrepreneurs
The 2025 Capital Elle Business Impact Award is officially open, offering $50,000 in cash and services to 10 Canadian women entrepreneurs in creative, service-based, and social impact industries. Backed by 29 partners and already featured in AP News and EIN News, this initiative is rewriting the future of funding. Applications and nominations are open until October 28, 2025, don’t miss your chance to apply!
Why The Elleiance Membership Is the Secret to Focus and Growth
Entrepreneurship doesn’t have to feel isolating. The Elleiance Membership gives Canadian women entrepreneurs structure, focus, and accountability through community-led programs like Hustle + Flow Virtual Co-working. Here’s why joining this membership could be the game-changer your business needs.
Beyond the Hustle: Mom Entrepreneur Growth with Erin Sisko
On This Mother Means Business, host Laura Sinclair sits down with Erin Sisko, founder of The Elleiance Network, to explore how Canadian women entrepreneurs are thriving. From building community and overcoming challenges to accessing funding and embracing mindset shifts, Erin’s story proves that ambition paired with the right support system leads to unstoppable growth.
The Power of Transformational Relationships: Investing in Your Future
Canadian women entrepreneurs grow faster when they invest in community and capital. With The Capital Elle Business Impact Award opening tomorrow, $50,000 in cash and services will support 10 founders in Canada’s most underfunded industries. Now is the time to invest in growth!
From Cost to Investment: A Growth Mindset for Canadian Women Entrepreneurs
Canadian women entrepreneurs unlock exponential growth by shifting from cost to investment thinking. Learn how transformational relationships, The Elleiance Network, and The Capital Elle Business Impact Award support long-term success.
Why Canadian Women Entrepreneurs Need More Than Empowerment: It’s Time for Capital and Connections
Canadian women entrepreneurs don’t need more empty empowerment, they need capital, connections, and a community that accelerates growth. At The Elleiance Network, ambitious founders gain access to financial, social, human, and intellectual capital and relationships to turn potential into success.
Build Your Brand with Social Capital: Lessons from Erin Sisko
In a business world chasing visibility, this Brand Is You podcast feature explores how Erin Sisko built The Elleiance Network into one of Canada’s fastest-growing mastermind communities, proving that generosity, collaboration, and intentional relationships turn social capital into unstoppable brand growth.