Road To Seven

Nita Tandon started her company for what she calls a selfish reason.She left her career in biopharma after the birth of her child, the same year Canada issued a ban on BPA in baby bottles.As a pharmaceutical scientist, she was well aware of the dangers posed by BPA and other chemicals, and wanted sleek, non-toxic food containers for her family.Despite her efforts, she couldn’t find any that she loved.“If I couldn’t find the products I wanted, I decided I was going to create them,” Nita explains. “No company was going to take me seriously, so I said ‘why don’t I just register a company name, and let me see if I can make these containers for myself?’”The next thing she knew, she had two products under her belt. She signed up for a booth at the Baby Time trade show shortly afterward. When another woman urged her to apply for the start-up award at the show, Nita did so, intending only to get a few more eyes on her products.To her surprise, she won!Since then, she’s secured financing through SheEO, developed more