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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2025. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Vishar ↗
In their words
I legitimately LinkedIn messaged 8,000 people, like actually 8,000 people. And I learned that all my warm leads and my mutual connections is what got me to all the fundraising money that I had.
if you don't make a decision and if you wait, that is a decision still and that's not a good one
How fast can I move? Every single day, something that may take me a month to make a decision now takes me one day or maybe one hour or one minute.
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Quick answers
Who is Vishar Yaghoubian?
Co-founder and CEO of Toothpod, a Toronto oral-health startup making a chewable dental tablet. She started the company in 2019 while an undergraduate at the University of Toronto and co-founded it with Brian Webb, a PhD candidate.
What did she say on the TechTO stage?
At TechTO's Health Toronto event on 23 November 2025 she walked through her fundraising journey — 8,000 LinkedIn messages, a year of burnout — and argued that a founder's real skill is making consequential decisions fast with incomplete information.
Where is Toothpod now?
It launched a chewable dental tablet in late November 2025, distributed through a US dental services organization with more than 400 affiliated clinics, and has raised over $1 million. Backers include Michele Romanow and Michael Cloutier, a former AstraZeneca Canada president.