Elevate Great Women
Let's elevate great women by bringing more women in tech to the table! If you're a woman in tech or woman founder, get 50% off the regular price of any Festival pass* when you use the Women in Tech (WiT) promo code. This offer has been made available thanks to our partners, BMO and BDC.
Sign up now to get 50% off the regular price of any Festival pass* when you buy 2 tickets for you and a fellow woman in tech before tickets sell out!
*with the purchase of 2 ticketsConnect with a community of great women in tech
At Elevate Festival 2023, we want to celebrate, support, and provide a space for collaboration between the leaders of today and tomorrow. If you’re a woman in tech, woman founder, or a gender-diverse professional in tech, you’ll get 50% off the regular price of a festival pass*, access to the Women in Tech Lounge, be able to network with like-minded professionals, get invited to after-hours events, pitch your business, find jobs in tech, meet with Canada’s top women investors, and more!
At this year's festival, we want to help grow the tight-knit tech community into one that reflects and includes us all. We want to celebrate, support, and provide an opportunity for collaboration between today's and tomorrow's women leaders. If you're a woman in tech or woman founder, you'll have the opportunity to get 50% off the regular price of any Festival pass*, access the Women in Tech lounge, network with like-minded women, grow leads for your business, meet with some of Canada's top women investors, and more!
Perks For Women In Tech & Women Founders
Here's what's in store for our women in tech community:
The Women in Tech Lounge
A dedicated space featuring women-led programming and special guest appearances. Connect, collaborate, and network with fellow women in tech who are solving important problems in their respective fields.
A Chance to Elevate Other Great Women
Amplify the work, mentorship, and contributions of fellow women in tech through our #ElevateGreatWomen program. By submitting a nomination at Elevate Festival, both you and your nominee could be featured in Elevate's network.
Access to Women Investors & Funding
All women founders will be eligible to apply for the Elevate Investor Zone, where they could meet 1:1 with investors, of which at least 50% are women. They'll also have the opportunity to receive up to $250,000 in funding.
Brand Exposure
Grow your business and raise brand awareness across Elevate's activations within Canada's innovation ecosystem at Canada's only arts and tech festival.
Ways to Pitch Your Business
Woman-founded startups can apply to be spotlighted in the ElevateR pitch competition at Elevate Festival. More details on this coming soon.
The Firehood's $100K Women Entrepreneur Investment
The Firehood is bringing together an incredible network of women angel investors who will award one woman-led startup with a $100K investment. One (or more!) woman founder attending Elevate will walk away with at least $100K.The value add and calibre of the Firehood’s network of investors, with our curated tech-specific Firehoods, will be showcased on stage throughout the full 2 days of the Women’s Lounge from Sept 21-22nd.
Eligibility Criteria
The $100k investment is open to any women-led startup in attendance. For the purposes of this prize, we define a women-led startup as a startup with a clear founder or co-founder with at least equitable equity to any other co-founders on the cap table, who identifies as a woman.
You just need to get the Elevate Festival pass, get to the Design Exchange on Sept 20th between 10am-4pm and meet our angel investor judges for your 1 minute ElevateR pitch.
You’ll have 1 minute to pitch and up to 2 minutes for follow-up questions if the judges have any.
What happens next?
On Wednesday, Sept 21st —the Firehood Angels will spend the morning in the Investor Zone to hear the finalists and calling back their shortlisted Startups for a Q&A meeting.
By 2:30PM, the Firehood Angels will have selected the winner, which we’ll announce during the Main Stage before Venus Williams steps on stage.
Prize Details
The Firehood Investment is an investment from up to 10 angel investors. Our default terms are based on an industry-standard convertible note (for reference, please see this convertible loan agreement). The winning startup will sign the convertible note with each of the investors individually. The investors are willing to create a voting trust, if and when the convertible note converts to equity.
The judges are willing to discuss alternate terms proposed by shortlisted founders during their meeting on Wednesday, September 21st.
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Top 6 reasons to attend Elevate Festival
Networking in the Women in Tech Lounge
Make connections and network in a dedicated space featuring women-led programming and special guest appearances. Connect, collaborate, and elevate great women in tech and gender-diverse professionals who are solving important problems in their respective fields.
Access to Women Investors & Funding
All women founders and gender-diverse startup owners will be eligible to apply for the Elevate Investor Zone, where they could meet 1:1 with investors, of which at least 50% are women.
World-Class Women Speakers & Content
Across 10 content tracks, women leaders will be speaking about the latest trends in AI, climate action, future of work, and gaming at fireside chats, masterclasses, and on panels throughout the 3-day tech conference.
Chances to Pitch Your Business
Tech startups and companies owned or run by women or gender-diverse founders can pitch their business, generate leads, and raise brand awareness across Elevate’s activations at Canada’s tech and innovation festival.
Find jobs at the Tech Talent Zone
From developers to data scientists, women in tech and gender-diverse professionals in the sector can meet with hiring managers for some of the leading tech companies and businesses across Canada in the festival’s Tech Talent Zone.
Connect at After-Hours Socials
Following daily programming, close deals, exchange contact info, and spend your evenings making true connections with like-minded folks within Canada’s innovation ecosystem.Great Women Who Have Hit the Elevate Stage
Some of the world's most iconic and innovative women leaders have take the stage at Elevate Festival. To hear thought-leading women speak at this year's festival, get 50% a Festival pass*
