Melamoon Pitch Competition for Black Businesses 2025 ($200,000 in prizes) – YOA

Deadline: August 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Melamoon Pitch Competition for Black Businesses 2025. Melamoon is greater than a pitch competitors– it’s a capital-powered launchpad for Black founders. Backed by FACE Coalition and Black Ambition, this nationwide initiative is designed to highlight, help, and scale daring concepts rooted in tradition and group.

This September in Toronto, 50 founders might be chosen to affix a transformational journey that features digital workshops, direct publicity to buyers and mentors, and the OPPORTUNITY to pitch for non-dilutive money prizes– no fairness taken. Melamoon is about greater than funding. It’s about shared energy, collective development, and constructing an ecosystem the place Black entrepreneurs can lead on their very own phrases.

Prizes

• The first place winner will obtain $100,000;
• The second place winner will obtain $50,000, and
• The third place will obtain $25,000, and a further $25,000 for the viewers selection award.

Eligibility

• Business not less than 51% owned, operated, and managed by particular person(s) who determine as Black/African/African Canadian.
• Founder and enterprise residing/working in Canada. 
• Business working for lower than ten (10) years.
• No direct or oblique working relationship with an current giant scale company, funding fund, or authorities company.
• Founders and their fast members of the family can’t be employed or contracted by Black Ambition or FACE.
• Annual enterprise revenues lower than $1,000,000.
• Have not but raised greater than $1,000,000 in dilutive capital.
• Businesses have to be innovating in shopper merchandise & providers, healthcare, media & leisure, expertise, and/or AI.

Application

Applications are due August 15, 2025 at 6:00pm EST. Founders from throughout Canada have the chance to apply for an opportunity to be one in all 6 founders to pitch on Demo Day. A panel of professional judges will evaluate functions and choose as much as 50 founders to maneuver on to part 2 and three.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Melamoon Pitch Competition.