Sarah Murphy, the CEO and Co-Founder of St. John’s-based Sentinel Alert, has been selected for the  Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp at Communitech in Kitchener-Waterloo, which aims to help women-run businesses to scale.

The second-annual bootcamp aims to help 25 female founders grow their businesses through six days of intense mentorship. Most of the attendees will be from Ontario, though the participants include women from Vancouver, Montreal, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Alexandria V.A.

Sentinel Alert, co-founded by a Murphy and Jason Janes, is developing software that works with wearable technology to help companies reduce worker accidents. The personal safety device relies on a mix of sensors to identify when a worker in the field or in the shop is at-risk of having an accident. The solution provides timely insights to workers and companies so they can make adjustments quickly and prevent accidents.

Sentinel  last year went through the Propel ICT Launch program.

The Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp program comprises two three-day sessions, in late August and late September. It will be facilitated by Lisa Dakin Bartels, Manager of Learning and Development at D2L (formerly Desire2Learn), and will draw on the mentors, entrepreneurs-in-residence and advisers from Communitech and across the Waterloo Region.

The program wraps up Oct. 1 with a pitch competition, at which $100,000 in seed funding will be awarded.

The participants in the program are:

From Waterloo:

Bonnie Cheung, Ourotech

Renishaki Kamal, Fidget

Caroline Lukowicz, Tables

Elva Yang, ConNextor

Anastasia Martynovitch

Sandra Loop, FinTech

Parisa Hamilton, Elite

From Toronto:

Olivia Simmons, ConferenceCloud

Lisa Gervis, ShopCloset

Yasaman Soudagar, Neurescence Inc.

Natalia Mykhaylova, Cleanopy

Julie (Hyunjoo) Lee, PinkWallet

Emily Smith, no campfire required

Christine Zakrajsek, Sangha

Pearl Chen

From elsewhere:

Vanessa Cherenfant, Elysia, Montreal, QC

Emily Dimytosh, Splashingly, Georgetown, ON

Alexandra Jeffries, AggCloud, Ilderton, ON

Caitlin Billingsley, FoodSafe, London, ON

Alexa Roeper, Penta Textiles, Kitchener, ON

Nicola Carteret, What’s Life Inc., Bayfield, ON

Niki Sadeghi, Instuzz, Vancouver, BC

Sheena Franklin, Well-Kept Beauty, Alexandria, VA

Pilar Harris, Digital Empowerment Project, Brooklyn, NY