BC Business
Alison Taylor, co-founder and co-CEO of Jane App, is a winner in the Leader category of the 2025 Women of the Year Awards
It’s been almost four years since BCBusiness profiled Alison Taylor as a winner of Ernst and Young’s annual Entrepreneur of the Year competition. In that time, everything and nothing has changed.
Jane App offers cloud-based software for health-care practitioners that lets them manage their businesses—essentially allowing the care providers to easily book, chart, schedule, invoice and process payments while focusing on their clients’ needs.
In 2021, the North Vancouver company had around 50,000 clients and some 215 staff. Today, those numbers have doubled and tripled, respectively. And yet, Taylor carries the same down-to-earth nature one imagines she had when she was managing her own clinic and had the idea to set up an easy-to-use website for clients.
Asked if it’s hard to maintain an inclusive and supportive company culture (something that Taylor and her co-founder and co-CEO Trevor Johnston have long said is important to them) through that rapid growth, Taylor’s response is measured, relaxed and matter of fact.
“Everything is hard, you know—you have to do everything intentionally, nothing happens by accident,” she says. “Our team has been constantly scaling, but we always try to make sure we’re hiring people who are smart and kind and hold all the values that Jane holds.”
What will the next few years bring? It’s difficult to say, but expansion is almost certainly going to continue to be robust. The company is now at about a 50/50 split in terms of business in the U.S. and Canada and has hit over $100 million in annual revenue. Continued penetration into the global market is a sure bet.
“I always find it confusing when people don’t know what to do next,” Taylor says. “We’re always focusing on what not to do, so we can focus on a few things and do them well.”