Simplicity is incredible, especially when you’re a busy parent looking to help your children discover fun activities outside of school. After struggling to find a centralized platform to choose kid-friendly day camps and classes, Jo-Anne Reynolds fixed a market gap with the creation of SpikeBee. “Any kind of business that runs a camp, activity, event, can go online & list their programs with SpikeBee. On a parents side of things, you can go on and search by a list of demographics including cost.” Jo-Anne started SpikeBee after moving to Calgary from South Africa in 2009. As a mother of two, Jo-Anne became inspired to fill a market gap after struggling to find classes and camps for her young daughters to enroll in. She has grown SpikeBee to become a North American giant, and the company has just recently crossed the ocean to offer its services to residents in her home country of South Africa. In this weeks #StartupPodcast, Jo-Anne will tell us about how her personal experiences shaped her entrepreneurial journey and how she’s connecting parents all over the world to kid-friendly classes and activities.

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