The Montreal Demo Day will showcase innovative Canadian Tech companies in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Retail and Logistics Technologies, and Sustainable Technologies - featuring some of Montreal's most promising new companies.
December 16th, Palo Alto, CA – The Founder Institute, the world’s premier pre-seed startup accelerator, and Shopify, a Canadian multinational e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems, are announcing a partnership to showcase leading-edge technologies from the Founder Institute Montreal 2019 portfolio.
In celebration of this partnership, the Montreal Founder Institute will be hosting a Demo Day powered by Shopify, in collaboration with Loyal VC, Fasken, Richter, Futurpreneur, Fundica, OVHcloud, and BCF Ventures.
Click here and register now to join us January 29th.
For aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs up to the challenge, the Founder Institute’s step-by-step program provides the structure, mentor support, and global network entrepreneurs need to start an enduring company. The Founder Institute is the only program of its kind that focuses on people versus ideas, accepts founders with day jobs, and shares equity with all participants. Founder Institute Graduate companies include fast-rising startups across 6 continents like Udemy, Realty Mogul, Travelcar, goplaceit, Appota, and many more.
In addition to this event, the Founder Institute and Loyal VC will join forces to support the 2019 graduates from Founder Institute Montreal with a $10,000 equity funding per startup for up to 3 promising startups from the Demo Day. This investment award will be based on successful due diligence and acceptance of terms by the investor and the entrepreneur. According to Loyal VC Partner Michael Kosic,
Loyal VC is looking forward to extending our partnership with Founder Institute by investing in at least one, but up to three of the demo day startups from Montreal chapter. These startups will join the more than 50 Founder Institute companies Loyal VC has funded from over 25 countries in the past 16 months. Loyal’s model involves an initial 10k investment with the opportunity for 4 successively larger investments potentially totalling over 10M in a single startup. The Loyal offer includes support from a global pool of over 200 advisors.
Sergio A. Escobar is the Managing Director of the Montreal Founder Institute, as well as CEO and Partner at BCF Ventures. Escobar has seen major shifts developing in the innovation ecosystem since the Founder Institute expanded to Montreal 5 years ago, saying,
From 2014 to date, the Montreal ecosystem has greatly benefited from the added-value of The Founder Institute global network and unique methodology. Montreal entrepreneurs like Marc Boscher (CEO & co-Founder at Unito) and Khalil Zahar (CEO & co-Founder at FightCamp) have launched born-global companies thanks to The Founder Institute’s unique value proposition to globalize Silicon Valley’s best entrepreneurial practices to the world. Canada needs to launch more Unito’s and FightCamp’s. We invite ambitious professionals to join us as we launch more born-global companies in Montreal.
These Founder Institute graduate companies have benefited from receiving rigorous feedback and guidance from some of Montreal’s top startup mentors, including Mike Cegelski, Beth Thouin, LP Maurice, Lorne Lieberman, Marc Alloul, Mauro Repacci, Raffi Tchakmakjian, Phil Cutler, Danial Jameel, Elizabeth Wasserman, Alice Dinu, David Nadezhdin and many more. In addition, the Montreal companies gain access to the Founder Institute's Global Network of over 4,000 companies and 10,000+ mentors spanning across 180+ cities and six continents.
Join us, on January 29th, for the Montreal Founder Institute Demo Day taking place at Shopify in Montreal. Registrations are now open here: https://montreal-fi.eventbrite.com
Graduates of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over $1.85BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/journey.
