Every pitch night has five seats on stage. Five founders, five minutes each, then questions from a room that was checked in at the door. This is how those seats are filled and what happens around them.
How to apply
An application belongs to one evening, so pick your city and date first. On October 5 the calendar listed 45 evenings in 17 cities through December 1.
The form has five required fields: your name, the startup's name, a one-line description, the email you bought your ticket with, and a company email for investor enquiries. A deck is optional. Most founders send a link.
Applying is free. You need a ticket for the evening you pitch at.
What happens to your application
- It becomes your profile. What you submit is published in our startup base, and investors read exactly what you wrote. A listing stays up for six months.
- A person reads it. Not a scoring script. If you're approved for the evening, a confirmation arrives by email. We answer everyone, including the founders we don't pick.
- You take the stage. Five minutes, no slides read out loud. Then the room asks.
- After the evening, your company moves into our investor base with the evening and the date on record. We do our own research to confirm the data.
- Introductions. Investors in the base ask for one, and we hand over the contact. If someone says they come from our network, confirm with us first.
Deal Flow, where weekly reports and metrics will sit, is (In development) and isn't available today.
Write the one line first
Most of what a reader takes from your application is the one-line description. The ones that work name the customer and the job. Three from our startup base:
- "Know what every paycheque needs to do before you spend it." DueSimple
- "AI inbox intelligence for property operations teams." Geoffrey AI
- "AI-native regulatory operations platform for pharmaceutical companies." Artivex
Each one tells a stranger who it's for in under twelve words. Yours should too.
What five minutes doesn't get you
- A promise that an investor is in the room.
- A score, a prize or a ranking. There's no judging panel.
- Funding. We make introductions. We don't make deals.
Five seats is the whole stage
There are five seats per evening. When they're confirmed for a date, the next chance is the next date in your city.
Quick answers
- Does it cost anything to apply?
- No. You need a ticket for the evening you pitch at.
- Do I need a deck?
- No. It's optional, and a link is enough.
- Do I have to be raising?
- No. Founders pitch anywhere from the first line of code to Series A.
- Will I hear back if I'm not picked?
- Yes. We answer everyone.
Mentioned in this piece
Companies · from our startup base
- DueSimple · Montreal
- Geoffrey AI
- Artivex · Montreal
