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Stephanie Karasick

Founder, Strainprint

Cannabis techToronto

Stephanie Karasick founded Strainprint, a Toronto medical-cannabis data company, after starting a journal as a new cannabis patient in 2014 and finding no app to replace it. Strainprint's app let patients log sessions and symptoms, feeding anonymized data into cannabis research and analytics. Karasick served as Strainprint's Chief Strategy Officer and later its Chief Creative Officer.

Stephanie hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Stephanie co-founded Strainprint, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Interview
Stephanie Karasick - Founder of StrainprintIdeaMensch
2019
Podcast
S1E6 - The AdvocatesReefer Medness
2018

Quick answers

Who founded Strainprint?

The Reefer Medness podcast introduced Stephanie Karasick as the founder of Strainprint in an episode posted 2018-05-24. A Strainprint release on Newswire dated 2017-07-11 quotes Karasick as Strainprint Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, and a 2018-10-16 release calls Karasick Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer.

Where did the idea for Strainprint come from?

In an IdeaMensch interview published 2019-12-13, Karasick said that as a new cannabis patient in 2014 there were many variables to track, so Karasick kept notes in a journal, then looked for an app to do the same job three months in, found none, and decided to build one.

What did Karasick do before Strainprint?

IdeaMensch reported on 2019-12-13 that Karasick grew up in Montreal, earned a graphic design degree, and worked in Toronto as a copywriter at agencies including Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT, Taxi and MacLaren McCann over 15 years, before working as an editorial and family photographer.

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