Aceocial x AWS x Elevate Start-up Pitch Competition #ElevateTorontoTechWeek
Think you got what it takes? Apply here to pitch:
https://form.typeform.com/to/WXRkmMmN
This event DOES NOT requires a conference pass to register.
This event is a part of #ElevateTorontoTechWeek - a week of events hosted by communities, VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.
The Aceocial x AWS x Elevate Start-up Pitch Competition, in partnership with Elevate Festival, is bringing together 10 of the most promising early stage companies from across Canada to pitch leading venture capitalists at Amazon's office in downtown Toronto.
Pitcher will be competing for a $40,000 cloud engagement prize, fully funded by Amazon, with Amazon Startup's premier partner OpsGuru to prepare startups for their Generative AI initiatives.
Confirmed judges include:
Emma Cumuric - Golden Ventures
Emma is a Senior Analyst on the Investment Team at Golden Ventures. She supports deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management and covers companies across all industries. Before joining Golden Ventures, Emma was an Associate at RBC Ventures where she helped drive innovation at Canada’s largest financial institution through investment thesis development and strategic investments related to B2B and Healthcare software.
Matthew He - Brightspark Ventures
Matt is an Investment Analyst at Brightspark Ventures, Canada's oldest VC firm backing exceptional entrepreneurs at the early stage. Brightspark is actively investing out of its $120M Fund IV, leading Seed and Series A rounds across Canada. Prior to Brightspark, Matt served for two years as the Director of Investments for Front Row Ventures, investing at pre-seed in the very best young founders across the Canadian ecosystem. He has previously worked at White Star Capital in New York and FounderFuel in Montreal.
Alex Gouchtchina - Inovia Capital
Alex joined Inovia Capital’s Venture Team in 2022. Prior to Inovia, Alex held several roles at VC funds across Canada and the United States. She began her career working with early stage startups focused on strategy, operations and finance.
Alejandro Pereda - Forum Ventures
As a Venture Analyst, Alejandro plays a part in initiating, identifying, and assessing prospective investment opportunities. Before joining the Forum team, he served as a junior investment analyst at BDC Capital's Seed and IT Venture Fund, and working with Fidelity Investments. Moreover, Alejandro offers distinct insights of a founder, having co-founded a venture, Viable Ads
Eddie Pick - Amazon
Eddie Pick is a Senior Startup Solutions Architect with an expertise in Generative AI. As an ex co-founder and ex CTO his goal is to help startups to get rid of the undifferentiated heavy lifting to be able spend as much time as possible on new products and features instead
More on our Partner Elevate Festival:
Founded in 2017 as a Canadian non-profit organization, Elevate produced its inaugural tech and innovation festival. In 2022, the reimagined festival united icons and innovators at the intersection of arts and technology. Hosting the festival in Toronto, once again, Elevate was able to shine a light on the tech icons who dream big, the innovative minds who take great risks, and the fearless creatives who envision a future that includes us all.
More on our Partner Amazon AWS:
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost.
More on Aceocial:
Aceocial is a non-profit co-founded by 7 start-up founders from Techstars & Next Canada that organizes cool & useful in-person tech events for entrepreneurs, investors and operators in North America to help them build meaningful social capital.
Since August 2022, we've organized 15+ events, and connected more than 5000+ people with amazing local and international partners such as Microsoft, Collision Conference, InvestHK, Elevate Conference, OKX, Phantom Network, to name a few.
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Event schedule:
5:00 - 5:30 - Registration
5:30 - 6:00 - Opening remarks, introductions
6:00 - 8:00 - Pitches (10m per company with judges Q&A, 2m transition)
8:00 - 9:00 - Networking.
