About TARIS
Founded in 2007, TARIS provides advisory services to entrepreneurs, innovators, philanthropic funders and impact investors who are focused on addressing complex global challenges. Areas of expertise include strategic and human resource planning, business development and fundraising, operational efficiency and entrepreneurial coaching and mentoring.
TARIS also invests in seed stage companies focused on improving lives of people with disabilities.
Areas of Impact
Global Health
Since 2003, TARIS has worked in a variety of capacities to support more than 75 entrepreneurs and global health innovators in 10 countries. The company has subject matter expertise in the following areas:
Preventable Blindness and Eye Care
Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Maternal and Child Health
Opportunities for People with Disabilities
TARIS’s President and Founder is a passionate advocate for advancing opportunities for people with disabilities in North America and globally. She is a former Board Member and Chair of the Canadian Abilities Foundation.
The company invests in products and services that are focused on education and support for people with intellectual disabilities.
Food sustainability and CIRCULAR ECONOMY PRACTICES
Since 2018, TARIS advisor, Angelica Siegel has developed expertise in:
Food waste & local food systems
Circular innovations
Waste as a Resource