Startup Canada Equal Slice Virtual Pitch Competition 2025 ($10,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: Ongoing

Applications are open for the Startup Canada Equal Slice Virtual Pitch Competition 2025. As part of the Startup Canada Equal Slice Program, The Startup Canada Equal Slice Pitch Competitions provide early stage, underrepresented entrepreneurs the prospect to showcase their companies, obtain professional suggestions, and compete for $100,000 in money grants to assist additional develop their companies.

This Virtual Pitch Competition will occur over the course of someday. The morning will encompass all the primary spherical “heats”. Out of those heats, the judges will choose a Top 10. The Top 10 will then pitch later that day on the Virtual Pitch Competition Final. Pitchers may have 3 minutes to pitch adopted by 3 minutes of Q&A from two judges. The Top 10 firms will probably be introduced dwell at Virtual Pitch Final, guarantee you’re current.

Agenda

• First Round Heats:
  • 10:00 AM – 10:40 AM ET | Group 1 Pitch
  • 11:00 AM – 11:40 AM ET | Group 2 Pitch
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM ET | Top 10 chosen
• Top 10 Virtual Pitch Final:
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM ET | Top 10 Pitch
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET | Judges Deliberate
  • 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM ET | Winners introduced

Benefits

• Of the Top 10, a Top 5 will probably be chosen by the judges and will probably be awarded a $10,000 grant every.

Eligibility

• Be a Canadian citizen or everlasting resident;
• ​Be at the least one of many following for the enterprise the application is predicated on: founder, proprietor, co-founder, co-proprietor, one who owns or co-owns (51% or higher possession) the entity, product title, or service;
• ​Be lively within the enterprise and a senior chief/key choice-maker;
• ​Have a enterprise based and based mostly/headquartered in Canada;
• ​Have a enterprise that has been working, with a services or products in market for at least two years;
• ​Have had annual revenues of not more than $400,000 CAD in at the least one 12 months of the enterprise’s working years;
• ​Be a member of an fairness-deserving and/or racialized and underserved group(ies). Equity-deserving teams embody, with out limitation, the next:
  • ​Indigenous, First Nation, Inuit, Métis
  • ​2SLGBTQI+
  • ​Newcomer
  • ​Black
  • ​Other racialized group (East Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern, South Asian, Southeast Asian, West Asian, Mixed race)
  • ​Woman
  • ​An individual with a incapacity
• ​NOTE: If you’ve beforehand obtained a grant from one other Pizza Hut Equal Slice Program, you aren’t eligible to take part on this pitch competitors.

Judging Criteria

​​Pitches will probably be assessed with the next pointers: goal market, goal, resolution, management, traction (if any), and competitors.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Equal Slice Virtual Pitch Competition.