Huda Idrees

Founder and CEO, Dot Health

HOW IT WORKS: Dot Health securely transmits records between providers and patients. FOUNDED: 2016

HQ ’HOOD: Distillery District

EMPLOYEES: 16

COST: $69 for each document request. FINANCIAL BACKING: Investors include

Bloom Burton and Co., Daniel Debow and Howard Lichtman.

EUREKA MOMENT: “My friend’s dad was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2015. He was seeing five specialists and having a hard time keeping track of all his lab work and therapy results, so I built him a web app to help him stay organized.”

FOR MY COMPANY, THE PANDEMIC WAS… “An accelerating force.”

WELLNESS REGIMEN: “Cooking, praying, and running regularly.”

GUILTY PLEASURE: “Utz cheese balls from Costco. So good they’re bad.” MISSED MOST DURING THE PANDEMIC: “House parties.”

MOST ANTICIPATED POST-PANDEMIC ACTIVITY: “Road trips. Cape Breton is next.” FAVOURITE MEDICAL DRAMA: “New Amsterdam, lately. Max Goodwin feels like someone who would partner with us in a heartbeat.”

BEST SCI-FI MEDICAL INVENTION: “Downloading skills into your brain, like in The Matrix.

Learning tae kwon do in a few minutes? Yes please.”

MUST-HAVE HEALTH APP: “Nike Run Club.

Its guided runs are great, and it gets me going on days I’d really rather not run.”

WORST THING ABOUT TORONTO: “The lineups for everything.” BEST THING ABOUT TORONTO: “The sheer number of hiking trails. What a blessing.”