Odlum Brown Forum Pitch Program 2025-2026 for Canadian Women (up to $90,000 CAD) – YOA

Deadline: October 23, 2025

Applications are open for the Odlum Brown Forum Pitch Program 2025-2026 for Canadian Women. One of the largest obstacles girls entrepreneurs face is connecting with people who can open doorways to the precise funding alternatives. The Odlum Brown Forum Pitch was developed to handle this barrier.

With group on the coronary heart of this system, its purpose is to foster connections with funders, leaders and specialists prepared to assist you in your funding and work trip. Along the way in which, you’ll achieve tangible expertise, construct confidence, refine your pitch and construct a toolkit that may set you up for progress that aligns along with your imaginative and prescient.

Benefits

• With Pitch, you would obtain prizing, assets, training and extra valued at up to $90,000 CAD to assist your small business thrive.

Eligibility

• Your enterprise is registered, is majority-owned by self-figuring out girls, non-binary, or trans-femme founders and is actively working in Canada (excludes Registered Charities or Not-for-Profit Organizations).
• You have no less than six months of enterprise improvement or market analysis.
• You have a rising workforce (min. one full/part-time worker or contractor in addition to you because the founder).
• You are elevating exterior capital inside the subsequent 12 months.
• You provide a transparent services or products with no less than one of many following:
  • Proof of idea or minimal viable product (MVP)
  • Customer validation, corresponding to testimonials, early adopters, or letters of intent (LOIs)
  • Strategic partnerships or pilot initiatives
• You have a fundamental funding roadmap or plan that features:
  • Expressed curiosity in elevating exterior capital (e.g., angel funding, enterprise capital, loans, or grants)
  • Preliminary monetary planning or forecasting
  • Pitch deck and/or information room supplies, if obtainable

Application

Upload your 60-second pitch video introducing your self and your small business. This is your likelihood to share your story in your phrases to allow them to perceive your imaginative and prescient and see the way you convey it to life.

What to embody in your pitch:

• Who you’re – Introduce your self and your small business.
• Problem – What market hole are you addressing? How huge is the goal market?
• Solution – What does your small business do, and the way does it resolve that drawback?
• Traction – Share one key spotlight or proof level (e.g., clients, partnerships, income, grants, non-dilutive funding, or in-type assets, recognition).
• Ask – State how a lot funding you’re looking for (if relevant) and why it issues for your progress.

You can submit your video by importing it to YouTube as an ‘Unlisted’ video.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Odlum Brown Forum Pitch Program.