Sprout Family is Canada's first integrated family benefits platform, founded in 2023 by Jackie Hanson and Suzanne Mason. In October 2026 it closed an oversubscribed C$3.55M seed round led by BDC Thrive Venture Fund to expand into pregnancy, postpartum, parental leave and return to work, and to deepen partnerships with insurers and benefits providers.
Leave and return to work involve more parties than fertility support: the employee, their manager, HR, payroll, the insurer and government EI benefits. Gaps in parental leave and return-to-work policies can lead to talent loss. The new modules have to work for the employee on a phone and for HR on a desktop, and connect to the insurers and advisors Sprout already partners with.
Dates, top-ups, EI and handover plans currently live in emails and spreadsheets.
People teams need to see who is on leave and when they return, without seeing private health details.
Insurers and advisors need eligibility and claims data in formats they already accept.
Interface sketches are illustrative. Final design is agreed with your team in discovery.
Senior engineers write the production code. Repositories, cloud accounts and documentation stay with you from day one.
Interviews with HR leads at two client employers and one insurer partner.
Employee-side planner built into the existing app.
Console, policy builder and the first HRIS connector.
Live with one employer, then handover to Sprout's engineering team.
A digital healthcare product on app and web, covering appointment booking, video consultation and clinical notes.
A digital healthcare build on web and app, covering assessment, consultation and prescription fulfilment.
A healthcare build across app, web and clinic-facing systems, covering booking, records and in-clinic workflow.
Founders stay on every engagement. The engineers on the first call are the engineers who write the code.