Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre Arena Pitch Competition 2025 (up to $17,000 in prizes) – YOA

Deadline: February 9, 2025

Are you prepared to step into The Arena? The Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre at Saint Mary’s University is internet hosting its fifth annual pitch competitors, bringing collectively 64 of Canada’s brightest scholar entrepreneurs for a excessive-stakes showdown. The Arena Pitch Competition is a publish-secondary pitch competitors showcasing different enterprise concepts all through March! Modelled after the NCAA March Madness basketball competitors, 64 scholar entrepreneurs from throughout Canada will likely be chosen to compete head-to-head in brackets as they attempt to be declared the very best in the nation.

 It’s your probability to shine as you battle it out for glory, with every spherical bringing you one step nearer to victory with a grand prize of $10,000! Get prepared to sharpen these abilities with the unique improvement classes, gearing you up for an epic month of intense, exhilarating competitors. And the very best part? You can catch each electrifying second stay on social media platforms. Ready to deliver your A-recreation and declare your spot as the last word champion?

Prizes

The prize cash will likely be invested in direction of the very best scholar entrepreneur’s thought or enterprise with complete money prizes of $17,000 supplied by Metronomics. 

• $10,000 for the winner  
• $5,000 for the runner up
• $1,000 every for the third and fourth place

Eligibility

• Applicant have to be a scholar at present finding out at or not too long ago graduated from a acknowledged publish-secondary establishment (Undergraduate, Graduate, PhD college students and Alumni (inside one yr of commencement).
• Must be the proprietor or part proprietor of the enterprise thought.
• Has not generated greater than $10,000 in annual income in the enterprise.
• Has not obtained greater than $10,000 by means of exterior assist or funding (although buyers or different competitions) 

Application

After being chosen, college students will likely be supplied with the date and time of pitch, a pre-present pitch rubric, and checklist of questions that will likely be randomly posed at presentation time. Development classes will likely be supplied for contributors to put together them for his or her month-lengthy battle to victory.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Arena Pitch Competition.