VentureLab HardTech Pitch Competition 2025 for Canada ($50,000 in prizes) – YOA

Deadline: August 4, 2025

Applications are open for the VentureLab HardTech Pitch Competition 2025. The HardTech Pitch Competition connects Canada’s high {hardware} innovators with excessive-profile buyers, strategic companions, and authorities champions. If you’re a Canadian SME with daring tech and large potential, that is the place offers start.

The HardTech Pitch Competition is your OPPORTUNITY to shine at ventureLAB’s HardTech Summit, Canada’s main {hardware}-centered tech occasion. Backed by the Regional Municipality of York, this excessive-vitality summit brings collectively high founders, buyers, and business leaders. With over 1,200 attendees in 2024, the summit is the place Canada’s most promising {hardware} ventures achieve visibility, construct connections, and launch onto the worldwide stage.

If you’re a Canadian SME growing slicing-edge {hardware}, this competitors is for you. They are wanting for daring innovators whose merchandise are shaping the way forward for:

• Cleantech
• Automobility
• MedTech & Wearables
• Smart Agriculture & Industrial Solutions
• Smart Retail & Fintech Hardware
• 5G & Next-Gen Communications

Benefits

• Claim your share of $50,000: Cash prizes awarded to the highest two ventures pushing the boundaries of {hardware} innovation.
• Showcase Your Innovation: Finalists obtain an unique sales space at HardTech Summit to demo their know-how and join with over 1,200+ attendees, together with buyers, business leaders, and media.
• Get 1:1 teaching with a pitch professional: Refine your story as supply with customized classes – an unique alternative to spice up your confidence and win any pitch.
• Eyes on You: Up to 3 alternatives to pitch and stand earlier than buyers, authorities, and tech leaders and switch visibility into traction. Top 3 startups pitch on the Main Stage on the HardTech Gala.

Eligibility

• Be growing a novel semiconductor, sensor, silicon-based mostly IP, or embedded {hardware} product;
• Be included in Canada with a sound CRA enterprise quantity;
• Have fewer than 100 workers and beneath $5M in income in the previous 12 months;
• Commit to co-find in York Region or ventureLAB’s Innovation Hub for 6 months should you win (contains 6 months free membership);
• Not be a previous winner of a ventureLAB pitch competitors;
• Be out there in particular person for teaching and pitch.

Application

Apply for your alternative to pitch throughout each days of the HardTech Summit October 29 – 30, 2025. The application deadline is August 4, 2025.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to HardTech Pitch Competition.