The 2015 Funding Roadshow is designed to better educate entrepreneurs on funding opportunities as well as facilitate connections between funders and entrepreneurs. For more information, click here.
Up to 20 tech-based companies will be selected, click here for eligibility:
Best Pitch Prize/City
- Six months of office space in San Francisco
- Round trip airfare to pitch to investors in the Valley
- Free accounting services from Intuit
- Cloud Hosting package from CANARIE & SoftLayer
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Pitch Application
Step 1: Submit your Pitch Application
Step 2: Best 20 entrepreneurs in Montreal will be selected
If you are selected, you will be notified to pay your registration fee ($125), which includes lunch, access to workshops and eligibility to win prize. Use Fundica15 for 15% discount.
Each Company Ticket Includes
- Pitch to a panel of funders
- Lunch with all funders, partners and pitching entrepreneurs
- Company promotion on Funding Roadshow website
- Workshops included during the day, outside of the pitch room
- Evening networking session pass
- Opportunity to win the best pitch prize
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Montreal RoadTalks
Want to be part of the show and not pitch? That's fine! Click here for the different RoadTalks happening your city.
- Network Effect: Cultivating business opportunities - Qasim Virjee, Community Dev. at SoftLayer
- Intellectual Property for Startups - Why? When? How? - Matthew Smith, COO at Tandem Launch
- ICT trends & opportunities for Canadian start-ups - Peter Wilenius, VP Business Dev. at CANARIE
- Maximizing SR&ED & recent legal caces - Sahar Ansary, Lead Funding Consultant at R&D Partners
- Financing and understanding refundable tax credits - Michel Beauchamp, VP Business Dev. at R&D Capital
- Bridging the financial literacy gap for Canadian entrepreneurs - Intuit
- Understanding funding - Lana Tayara, Partnerships & Business Dev. at Fundica
- Others to be announced
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Montreal Upcoming and Past Panel Members
- R&D Capital
- RBC
- CLD West Island
- Tandem Launch
- BDC
- Real Ventures
- Futurpreneur
- iNovia
- White Star Capital
- Interaction Ventures
- Mitacs