Emma Harris

Co-founder & CEO, Novel

HealthBurlingtonOn TechTO stages since 2018

Emma Harris founded Healthy Pets, Canada's first veterinary telemedicine app, after her Labrador's illness ran up roughly $10,000 in vet bills. She raised $500,000 from Arlene Dickinson's District Ventures on Dragons' Den, spent four years as an executive at Vetster, and now co-runs Novel, a membership-model veterinary clinic in Burlington, Ontario.

On the TechTO stage ×1

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Emma Harris of HealthyPets presents From idea to VC in one year

TechTO · April 2018

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In their words

If I'm not selling I'm trying to network.

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They're betting on the jockey not the horse.

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Around the web ×3

Article

How Novel veterinary clinic tries to lower bills and empower employeesThe Globe and Mail

2026

Interview

Chatting On Demand Veterinarians with Healthy Pets founder Emma HarrisToronto Guardian

2018

Article

Healthy Pets raises $500,000 for veterinary telemedicine serviceBetaKit

2018

Quick answers

What is Emma Harris known for?

Founding Healthy Pets, described as Canada's first veterinary telehealth application, and raising $500,000 from District Ventures Capital after pitching on Dragons' Den.

What does Emma Harris do now?

She is co-founder and CEO of Novel, a Burlington, Ontario veterinary clinic with a no-exam-fee membership model, and a PhD candidate in population medicine at the Ontario Veterinary College.

How does Novel's pricing work?

Members pay a monthly fee - $24 for one pet or $30 for multiple - instead of exam fees. The clinic was cash-flow positive by month four and planned a second location in Ancaster, Ontario.

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