Day 2 kept the energy and innovation going! Take a look at our highlights from yesterday:
- The Impact Showcase presented by BDC's Thrive Lab introduced us to the 25 top women-led impact startups across Canada.
- A full house at the Sky Stage for #OceanFest's half-day of content exploring why the blue economy is set to have a value of $3 trillion USD by 2030. Presented by Canada's Ocean Supercluster, Novarium - Campus d'innovation du St-Laurent & Ocean Startup Project.
- The Startupfest Village saw lines of founders pitching for our investment prizes championed by Rep Matters, QueerTech, The Firehood, Fonds de solidarité FTQ & Front Row Ventures. Our investment prizes are now CLOSED. All shortlisted startups have been contacted. The only prize open today is the Grandmothers, 11am-2pm.
- The Investor AMA drew a big crowd at the Port Stage getting into the real questions we all want to ask investors with Lise Birikundavyi, Satish Kanwar, Marvin Liao & Meryeme Lahmami.
And now, welcome to day 3 of Startupfest 2024! A reminder that today has a later start with doors opening at 9:30am.
We've got an exciting day ahead of us and a full schedule! Here are the major happenings at the fest today:
🤝 Co-founding Partner of AgeTech Capital, Lyne Landry, and CIVIC Investor & Advisor, Sylvain Carle welcome you to ImpactFest, a session on empowering startups for people & planet.
⚡The 11th edition of AcceleratorFest takes off with host Abdullah Snobar, Executive Director & CEO of DMZ Ventures/Zone Startups, as a forum for discussions on best practices and challenges faced by those running acceleration programs.
🏆 Head to the Port Stage this afternoon to cheer on the finalists vying for our investment prizes. Find out who's taking home the trophies at 4:25pm.
We'll see you in an hour & best of luck to everyone pitching for a prize!
#Startupfest #OceanFest #InvestmentPrizes
Day 1 of our 14th edition was remarkable! Our favourite moments and highlights from yesterday:
- A full room at the Port Stage for Startup Montréal's big reveal of their new brand Quebec Tech during the opening of Startupfest VF!
- Hundreds of startups pitched across our investment prizes yesterday vying for our 5 investment prizes and Impact Grant (reminder that today is your last day to be shortlisted!)
- BDC's WiT Bootcamp celebrated its 5th anniversary over the view of Montréal's old port!
- The Startup Showcase's premier to the fest drew a huge crowd at the Pitch Stage as founders pitched their startups.
Today, we're keeping the energy going with these key agenda items to look forward to:
🌊 OceanFest kicks off at 8:55am with the Port de Montréal's President & CEO Julie Gascon, presented by Canada's Ocean Supercluster, Novarium - Campus d'innovation du St-Laurent & Ocean Startup Project.
☀️ Startupfest Main Content starts at 9:35am with a remote keynote on prioritizing growth in a world full of contradictions with Ron Tite, speaker, author and Founder & Chief Creative Officer at Church+State.
🏦 LPFest will take the City Stage for a half-day presented by HarbourVest Partners, inovia capital & RBCx. Afterwards, GPFest's half-day of content will be presented by Pender Ventures, Banque Nationale & TechBonjour.
⭐ 25 of Canada's top women-led impact startups will take the Pitch Stage for the Impact Showcase presented in partnership with BDC's Thrive Lab.
🏆 It's your final day to pitch for investment prizes! make sure you head to their respective spaces in the Startupfest Village early in your afternoon! Investment Judges are wearing green lanyards and can be found in the Startupfest Village.
Have an incredible day 2!
#Startupfest #LPFest #GPFest #InvestmentPrizes
In just 3 hours, #Startupfest 2023 opens it's doors and we can't wait to see you! A huge thanks to our presenting partner BDC for their continued support of the startup community!
We'd also like to thank BDO Canada, Fasken, RBCx, Osler, Mouvement des accélérateurs d'innovation du Québec, and KRB Law for partnering with us this year.
Join #OceanFest, propelled by Novarium - Campus d'innovation du St-Laurent, Canada's Ocean Supercluster, and Ocean Startup Project, to explore ocean opportunities, deepen connections with industry movers and shakers, and celebrate the successes of watertech innovators. Note: This is a FREE add-on to your #Startupfest pass! https://www.startupfest.com/oceanfest
In keeping with one of our major themes for this year's Startupfest, AR Phil Telio gives Friday advice to Startups 👀
How we did this fully AI generated content:
- ChatGPT for the script (prompt: what would Startupfest Founder Phil Telio say to startups, write in the first person and include a brief introduction.)
- ElevenLabs for the voice generation
- D-ID for the video
To learn more on how to create content with AI read this insightful article by Ethan Mollick that explains the process step by step: https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/a-quick-and-sobering-guide-to-cloning
Day 2 of #Startupfest is starting soon! Be sure to take advantage of our incredible Mentors' expertise and advice.
Are you a Montréal based #founder in tech? Startupfest’s long term partner, BDO Canada, is running their annual #VCPitchDay on March 22! Submit your pitch by Feb 14th & get 30 minutes with these amazing investors:
https://go.bdo.ca/2022-VCPitchDay-Application-EN.html
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Le soleil est sorti et le Village des Tentes est en pleine action!
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