Global sponsor

Novel Capital

Novel Capital provides non-dilutive growth capital to early-stage B2B tech startups. Leverage your predictable revenue for on-demand access of up to $5M in funding. Whether you need to round out or bridge equity rounds, accelerate sales & marketing, hire to support implementations, or smooth our seasonal/cyclical cashflow, Novel can help.

Local sponsors

Fasken Martineau

Fasken Martineau is a leading international business law and litigation firm. Tracing our roots back to the mid-1800s, our firm was founded through the merger of three regional Canadian icons in 2000. Today we have eight offices with more than 700 lawyers across Canada and in the UK and South Africa.

The Profile

The Profile makes things happen! We take awesome entrepreneurs and give them the amazing space and resources that they need. More than just office space, our coworking environment is a real community built for those that want work and fun in their lives.

ECOSCOPE

The Ecosystem Services, Commercialization Platforms and Entrepreneurship (ECOSCOPE) industrial stream NSERC CREATE training program provides UBC students and post-docs with the skills needed to translate information derived from studying microbial communities in natural and engineered ecosystems into commercial and entrepreneurial activities. ECOSCOPE allows for internships in start-up environments, and providing entrepreneurial training to empower trainees to commercialize their innovations.

BCJobs

BCJobs is helping talented people find opportunities with top local companies both online and in real life. As Western Canada's largest job board, BCjobs.ca has been connecting people to leading companies in Greater Vancouver and throughout British Columbia for over 15 years. Our team understands the local hiring market, economy, and companies that make up the fabric of our great province.

SFU VentureLabs

VentureLabs® is a world-class technology business accelerator program delivered by Simon Fraser University in partnership with the NRC IRAP, the BC Innovation Council, University partners. The VentureLabs® BC Venture Acceleration Program – a structured venture growth program led by leading technology entrepreneurs – is based on a defined methodology and set of best practices for growing technology companies. To learn more about our program, sign up.

BCBusiness

The voice of British Columbia’s business leaders and decision-makers. BCBusiness informs, empowers and connects B.C.’s entrepreneurs innovating in the province and beyond.

BrainStation

BrainStation is a global leader in digital skills training, empowering businesses and brands to succeed in the digital age. Established in 2012, BrainStation has worked with over 250 instructors from the most innovative companies, developing cutting-edge, real-world digital education that has empowered more than 50,000 professionals and some of the largest corporations in the world.

Partners

7 Gate Ventures

7 Gate Ventures is focused on guiding the organic growth of early stage startups, resulting in investable & sustainable companies. Assembled by a group of serial entrepreneurs specializing in tech, our team holds key industry connections along with a wealth of experience and the foresight to effectively strategize, mentor and scale new businesses

Gold Ocean Capital Corp.

Gold Ocean Capital is a global strategic advisory and consulting group that connects east to west and west to east in particular China through cross-cultural training, marketing, and events.

Terminal

Terminal partners with the leading VC-backed technology companies from Silicon Valley to launch and scale technical teams in Canada. Terminal represents these firms in the market, connecting the opportunities they have to the best talent (you!). We provide beautiful campuses and build meaningful communities of tech talent. We are the catalyst for the next generation of startups to scale and grow their global footprint and pride ourselves on surpassing expectations for speed and quality.

Settlely

Settlely is an on demand concierge settlement platform. Our mission is to remove the pain and friction of settling into a new country by connecting immigrant newcomers to life's essentials including housing, medical, education, jobs, legal, banking etc.

Canadian Revenue Agency

The Canada Revenue Agency is the revenue service of the Government of Canada. The CRA collects taxes, administers tax law and policy, and delivers benefit programs and tax credits for the federal government and most provincial and territorial governments

Macroverse

Macroverse Media Inc is a multi-format entertainment company founded by Adam Martin, Eben Matthews and Ricci Rukavina. With over 60 years of combined entertainment and media experience, their focus is on story-driven content designed to connect with audiences and fans through innovative, platform agnostic delivery.

Launch Academy

Launch Academy is an early-stage tech incubator that provides entrepreneurs with the mentorship, resources. network and environment they need to launch, fund and grow their startups. Since 2012, Launch Academy has incubated over 500 companies that have collectively raised over $100 million and created more than 1000 jobs. As a nonprofit leader that’s focused on community impact, Launch Academy aims to train and support more than 100,000 entrepreneurs by 2025.

The Profile

The Profile makes things happen! We take awesome entrepreneurs and give them the amazing space and resources that they need. More than just office space, our coworking environment is a real community built for those that want work and fun in their lives.

Th Founder Institute Vancouver

Through a challenging and rigorous curriculum, we provide early-stage and aspiring entrepreneurs with the structure, training, mentor support, and global network needed to start an enduring company. Many leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used our program to transition from employee to entrepreneur, test their startup ideas, build a team, get their first customers, raise funding, and more.

The HiVE Vancouver

The HiVE is a co-working and event space for the social impact sector. Their mission is to support and amplify the social impact sector by providing the social cohesion, human capital, and resources that enable their members and partners to thrive. They are making this happen by using the powerful tool of shared space to cowork, host events, deliver programming, and build community.

Women in Tech World

Women in Tech World is a nonprofit, volunteer-run organization dedicated to creating community-driven plans and educational programming to support and advance women in tech. Since 2016, we have grown our team from 10 to 140 outstanding volunteers. In 2017 we launched Driving WinTech, a national community-based research tour to better understand the challenges and successes experienced by women in tech in Canada.

Plenty of Fish

Established in Vancouver in 2003, Plenty of Fish is hailed as a true pioneer in free dating, and because our industry is still evolving, our business continues to as well. Plenty of Fish was acquired by Match Group in 2015. Today, the company retains it’s agile, tight-knit culture, but with the benefits of being a part of the world’s leading provider of dating products.

JABC

A recognized leader in education programs for youth, JA British Columbia (JABC or Junior Achievement of British Columbia) is a registered charity that brings a variety of financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship training courses into elementary, middle and secondary school classrooms all over BC.