Patrice Mousseau is building an Indigenous business ecosystem, one entrepreneur at a time

Patrice Mousseau, founder of Satya Organic, managed to build a thriving beauty business without any entrepreneurial experience. Now, she’s helping other Indigenous founders achieve the same heights.

As the founder and CEO of Satya Organic, Patrice Mousseau has built one of Canada’s most successful Indigenous-owned skincare brands — and she’s determined not to be the last.

Satya is a certified B Corp — which means it is a for-profit company that meets rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency, as certified by the non-profit B Lab — best known for its clean, plant-based formula, launched in 2014 out of its founder’s home kitchen. Ms. Mousseau, then a single mother and journalist, was looking for a solution to her infant daughter’s painful e