Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre Arena Pitch Competition 2026 (up to $17,000 in prizes) – YOA

Deadline: February 1, 2026

Applications are open for the Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre Arena Pitch Competition 2026. This isn’t simply any competitors—it’s a excessive-vitality, adrenaline-pumping showdown the place scholar entrepreneurs throughout Canada go head-to-head to showcase their brilliance for the title of the nation’s high innovator. This yr, 64 college students from 37 put up-secondaries have been chosen to battle it out for glory, with every spherical bringing them one step nearer to victory with a grand prize of $10,000!

These 64 contenders will compete in a dynamic head-to–head pitch competitors modelled after the NCAA March Madness. Students will showcase their revolutionary concepts to panels of professional judges over six rounds beginning with spherical one on March 3 and concluding on April 1.

Prizes

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

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

Eligibility

• Open to at the moment enrolled in or lately graduated (inside the previous yr) from a acknowledged put up-secondary establishment (Undergraduate, Graduate, or PhD);
• Must be the founder or co-founding father of the enterprise concept;
• Business has earned lower than $10,000 in complete income to date;
• Has obtained lower than $10,000 in exterior help or funding (together with grants, buyers, and pitch competitions).

Application

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

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For extra data, go to Arena Pitch Competition.