Elevate-As-A-Platform
We don’t believe in sponsorship. We will not accept your money in exchange for logo placement because it simply doesn’t drive an ROI. Instead, we are looking for co-creators to invest in the festival and help create unique experiences. Through activation, thought leadership, product integration, and social media, your brand will delight, educate, and engage our audience and show them how you’re making a difference in the tech and innovation world. Let’s get started today.
WHY PARTNER WITH US
Cocreate with us
Build brand with thought leadership
Host customers and prospects
Recruit and develop great talent
Support the ecosystem
Delight, educate and engage
FOUNDING PARTNERS
City of Toronto
Toronto is Canada’s largest city, the fourth largest in North America, and home to a diverse population of about 2.8 million people. It is a global centre for business, finance, arts and culture and is consistently ranked one of the world’s most livable cities. For information on non-emergency City services and programs, Toronto residents, businesses and visitors can visit toronto.ca, call 311, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
MaRS
As North America’s largest urban innovation hub, MaRS supports 1,200 fast-growing ventures spanning four high-impact sectors—health, cleantech, fintech and enterprise—offering them expert advice and vital connections to talent, customers and capital. These ventures have raised >$4.8 billion in capital, generated >$3.1 billion in revenue and employ >12,000 people.
Capital One
Rangle.io
Built on a foundation of strategy, creative ingenuity and unmatched technical expertise, Rangle instills confidence in innovation. We’re turning disruptive ideas into reality, and getting them to market fast. From innovative startups to leading enterprises, we’ve partnered with over 100 organizations. Together we define, innovate, design, and build web and mobile experiences that are changing the world.
TD Bank Group
TD is the sixth largest bank in North America by branches and serves more than 25 million customers. Our goal is to create deeper connections with our customers through intelligent, highly personalized and empowering experiences. We have more than 12 million active online and mobile customers who inspire us to continue to evolve our products and services in ways that help them achieve their goals.
GOLD PARTNERS
Loblaw Digital
At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us.
We’ve created leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery, beauty, pharmacy, and apparel spaces.
From building innovative digital retail experiences to designing apps that improve the lives of Canadians across the country, we’re always up for the challenge.
pwc
With more than 110 years of excellence in Canada from coast to coast, we provide industry focused professional services including audit and assurance, risk assurance, tax, deals and consulting in areas such as cyber-security and privacy, human resources, digital transformation and forensics. We help resolve complex issues and identify opportunities for public, private and government clients.
Hp
HP Inc. creates technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere. Through our portfolio of printers, PCs, mobile devices, solutions, and services, we engineer experiences that amaze. More information about HP Inc. is available at http://www.hp.com.
NACO
The National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) supports Angels, Incubators, and Accelerators as they help entrepreneurs turn good ideas into great businesses. As the only national industry association for Angel investors in Canada, NACO represents over 40 networks comprised of over 3000 Angel investors across Canada.
CIBC
CIBC is a leading Canadian-based global financial institution with 11 million personal banking, business, public sector and institutional clients. Across Personal and Small Business Banking, Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, and Capital Markets businesses, CIBC offers a full range of advice, solutions and services through its leading digital banking network, and locations across Canada, in the United States and around the world.
BTCC
Bank of Montreal
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider – the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $744 billion as of April 30, 2018, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers
Aurora
We’re a Canadian company that’s grown to become one of the largest and most diverse cannabis producers in the world. Under the guidance of our master cultivators, we produce top-notch cannabis in some of the most technologically-advanced spaces in the industry – and were always expanding our reach and capacity.
Manulife
Interac
Interac Corp. operates an economical, world-class debit payments system with broad-based acceptance, reliability, security, and efficiency. The organization is one of Canada’s leading payments brands and is chosen an average of 16 million times daily to pay and exchange money.
SILVER PARTNERS
Crowdlinker
Crowdlinker is a cutting-edge digital product studio based in Toronto. Their team makes up some of Toronto’s best product strategists, designers, developers & digital marketers. They have a relentless focus on their clients, having delivered high performing websites and applications for startups and enterprises like Freshbooks, Top Hat, League, Unilever and Nestlé.
Connected
Connected is a software product development firm that partners with ambitious companies across the product lifecycle to deliver products that drive impact. For more information, visit Connected.io.
Osler, Hoskins & Harcourt LLP
Osler is a leading law firm with a singular focus – your business. Our collaborative “one firm” approach draws on the expertise of over 400 lawyers to provide responsive, proactive and practical legal solutions driven by your business needs. It’s law that works.
Fasken
Fasken’s legal team has been involved in major Canadian cannabis industry developments since 2013. As a full service law firm we are able to advise on all legal matters for Canadian businesses in the Cannabis space. Our regulatory expertise is recognized as among the best in the country.
GM Canada
Lazaridis Institute
The Lazaridis Institute conducts leading-edge research in innovation, management and scaling in the tech ecosystem, and supports the creation of a national database of innovative Canadian companies.
Universe
Universe is a global platform for anyone to discover and create events. Currently operating in +150 countries, Universe focuses on providing event organizers with access to insights, unmatched flexibility, and seamless channels to sell more tickets.
Espresso Capital
Since 2009, Espresso Capital has provided over 230 early and growth stage technology companies with founder friendly capital. We offer lines of credit and term loans to enable entrepreneurs to grow their businesses without dilution, board seats, or personal guarantees. Our mission is to keep founders in control with fast, fair, and flexible capital.
Rogers
LoyaltyOne
LoyaltyOne is a global leader in the design and implementation of coalition loyalty programs, customer analytics, and loyalty services for Fortune 1000 clients around the world. We have a 25-year history of leveraging data-driven insights to develop and operate some of the world’s most effective loyalty programs and solutions.
Scotiabank
CISCO
BRONZE PARTNERS
Torys
WeWork
WeWork provides more than 250,000 members around the world with space, community, and services through both physical and virtual offerings. WeWork’s mission is to help create a world where people work to make a life, not just a living. Founded in New York City in 2010 by Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey, WeWork currently has more than 283 physical locations in over 75 cities and 22 countries around the world. Visit www.wework.com to learn more.
TWG
TWG is a world-class team of 130+ product managers, designers, and software engineers. We work hard for our clients to build award-winning products that create impact. Founded in Toronto in 2002, TWG is trusted by enterprises and fast-growth startups. We’re transforming the way companies design, develop and use software to achieve their missions.
ThoughtWorks
We are a software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals. We think disruptively to deliver technology to address our clients’ toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change.
GrowthGenius
Ceridian
Ceridian is a global human capital management (HCM) software company. Dayforce, our flagship cloud HCM platform, provides human resources, payroll, benefits, workforce management, and talent management capabilities in a single solution. Our platform helps you manage the entire employee lifecycle, from recruiting and onboarding, to paying people and developing their careers. Ceridian provides solutions for organizations of all sizes.
Adobe
Adobe is the global digital marketing technology leader Canada’s top brands, and organisations trust to deliver exceptional customer experiences and intelligence. First known for iconic tools Photoshop and Acrobat.pdf, Adobe’s Experience Cloud today provides integrated digital marketing tools customers trust to design, deliver and measure effective campaigns across all platforms.
TribalScale
TribalScale is a global innovation that partners with enterprises to transform how people work, how companies create, and how we innovate.
Bennett Jones
Discover Accounting
We are forward thinking, cloud-based accountants, focused on providing complete back office financial solutions including bookkeeping, payroll, tax, and financial reporting for small and medium-sized businesses across Canada. We provide highly effective solutions that will save you time and money, allowing you to focus on what matters most – growing your business!
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto community has created more than 500 companies, generating more than $1 billion in investment over the past decade – helping make Toronto a top city in the world for startups. U of T is where research talent, ideas, and ambition converge to launch the next generation of global entrepreneurs.
Quest
ACCESS PARTNERS
TradeRev
TradeRev is using innovation and creativity to make car sales fair and easy. Our mobile app hosts a digital marketplace where car dealers can participate in live, one-hour auctions right on their phone. We’re proud of our technology, which makes buying and selling cars simple and transparent for everyone. With a large presence in Canada, we’re currently expanding across the US and UK and want passionate folks to join us. Learn more on our site.
Lyft
Element AI
Jobbio
Dentons Venture Technology
Artscape Daniels Launchpad
Artscape Daniels Launchpad, a 30,000 sq ft. one-stop hub, is Toronto’s newest and most exciting collaborative space for artists designers and creators. Through access to state-of-the-art creative production studios, tailored entrepreneurship programs, mentorship and coaching, as well as wayfinding and business opportunities, Launchpad members can engage in collaborations, plug into opportunities and grow their businesses.
Lighthouse Labs
Lighthouse Labs was created in 2013 by a group of software developers with a mission to find the best ways to train the next generation of developers and to transform the way tech education is delivered. Whether it’s a full-time bootcamp or a part-time program, Lighthouse Labs offers coding education to everyone from newbie to professional developer.
ELEVATE-AS-A-PLATFORM
NewCo Toronto
Toronto’s most innovative companies invite you inside their headquarters for informative, inspiring, and creative one-hour sessions where you learn directly from their founders and top executives. Visit companies of your choice throughout the city.
Startup Open House
NACO
The National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) supports Angels, Incubators, and Accelerators as they help entrepreneurs turn good ideas into great businesses. As the only national industry association for Angel investors in Canada, NACO represents over 40 networks comprised of over 3000 Angel investors across Canada.
Cossette
Canadian marketing communications company that provides integrated communications services to clients.
We are a team of individual talents that innovates day in and day out, across Canada. Our mission: to go beyond.
INVESTMENT PARTNERS
Round13 Capital
ScaleUp Ventures
Espresso Capital
Since 2009, Espresso Capital has provided over 230 early and growth stage technology companies with founder friendly capital. We offer lines of credit and term loans to enable entrepreneurs to grow their businesses without dilution, board seats, or personal guarantees. Our mission is to keep founders in control with fast, fair, and flexible capital.
White Star Capital
HACKATHON PARTNERS
TD Bank Group
TD is the sixth largest bank in North America by branches and serves more than 25 million customers. Our goal is to create deeper connections with our customers through intelligent, highly personalized and empowering experiences. We have more than 12 million active online and mobile customers who inspire us to continue to evolve our products and services in ways that help them achieve their goals.
Interac
Interac Corp. operates an economical, world-class debit payments system with broad-based acceptance, reliability, security, and efficiency. The organization is one of Canada’s leading payments brands and is chosen an average of 16 million times daily to pay and exchange money.
Universal Music Group
CGI
Deloitte
Developer 30 Under 30
CISCO
MEDIA PARTNERS
Toronto Star
The Toronto Star, founded in 1892, is read by approximately 3.0 million readers a week in print and online (thestar.com). The Toronto Star is a part of the Torstar Group’s Daily News Brands, which includes The Hamilton Spectator, Waterloo Region Record, St. Catharines Standard, Niagara Falls Review, Peterborough Examiner, the StarMetro free daily newspapers in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Halifax, as well as Toronto.com and The Kit.
Newad
CNN
Cue Digital Media
Business Insider
Mashable
Toronto Life
BNN Bloomberg
NOW Magazine
IN-KIND PARTNERS
Eventbase
Eventbase is the leading mobile event technology platform for global brands. We provide Enterprise Event Apps for customers including IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, SAP, Century 21 and TD Ameritrade. The Eventbase platform also powers apps for massive events like SXSW, CES, Comic-Con, Sundance and three Olympic Games.
Giftagram
flexday
Flexday offers unlimited access to surprising, productive workspaces for just $49 per month. We are a community of thousands who are tired of sacrificing our productivity at home, in coffee shops and a library. Each Flexday location provides video-call quality wifi, great free coffee or tea and power within reach. Bring up to 3 guests on each visit.
TMX
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Design Exchange
Next Ai
NextAI is Canada’s premiere AI startup accelerator located in Toronto and Montreal – two global hotspots for AI research and commercialization. NextAI is for entrepreneurs, researchers and scientists looking to launch AI-enabled ventures. We provide up to $200K of seed funding and founder development in the form of in-depth business and technical education taught by award-winning global faculty and entrepreneurs. All NextAI teams are given workspace and in-kind startup perks and access to corporate partners providing resources, including technology tools, data sets and mentorship.
TKS
SingularityU Canada
Information Venture Partners
Information Venture Partners is a venture capital fund that focuses on startups run by committed founders tackling big problems. We specialize in B2B FinTech and Enterprise SaaS across North America.
FGS
Move The Dial
#movethedial’s mission is to increase the participation and leadership of all women in tech. We believe that advancing the full talent pool will make Canada the world’s strongest and most inclusive tech ecosystem. #movethedial has a large and growing number of leading Canadian corporate and technology partners, and are supported by over 50 leading technology ecosystem advisors.
Girls E-Mentorship
Girls E-Mentorship (GEM) is a registered charitable organization that offers an innovative mentorship program for high school girls facing multiple barriers. We equip girls with the necessary skills to achieve their grown-up aspirations, building a diverse network of talented, vibrant women and girls to inspire and support one another.
DX Journal
Peerscale
Peerscale is an organization exclusively for tech CEOs, COOs, and senior executives – empowering them to drive personal, professional and organizational growth. Peerscale facilitates conversations that create value, enables peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing, builds relevant learning and collaboration opportunities and delivers a robust network. It’s a personal advisory board for technology leaders – trusted, valuable, and confidential.
CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI is one of the world’s largest IT and business consulting services firms. We help clients achieve their goals, including becoming customer-centric digital organizations, through high-end IT and business consulting, systems integration and outsourcing services combined with a unique client proximity model and global center of excellence network.
Diversio
L-Spark
The L-SPARK Accelerator is the destination for market-ready SaaS and cloud companies to connect with Canada’s SaaS experts.
The Founder City Project
The Founder City Project is a Performance Accelerator for founders and teams. We have built the first managed system for inter-company peer learning, mentor support, and team collaboration — the elements that drive Silicon Valley’s success, and success in any tech ecosystem. At 500+ founders, mentors and peers, we’ve become the fastest-growing community, in the fastest-growing tech ecosystem.
Traction
DMZ
The DMZ is a world-leading tech accelerator that helps high-potential entrepreneurs grow and scale to world-class businesses. Since 2010, we’ve helped 341 startups raise over $475 million and foster more than 3,300 jobs.
DX Journal
One Eleven
Founded in 2013 in Toronto, OneEleven is focused on helping the most promising, high-growth technology companies scale by providing them with access to a highly-connected global network, curated peer community and tailored resources including access to expert advice, world-class workspaces, technology, and specially-designed services to support sustainable growth. The company is expanding to 10 North American and international markets by 2020.
Edge 196
Toronto Project Management Association
start GBC
Ladies Learning Code
Upside Foundation
ICUBE UTM
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The Big Push
The Big Push is a Toronto-based business accelerator that gets early stage, women-founded technology companies investment ready using an equity-for-service model. The Big Push provides hands-on services, support, and resources to women founders through a collective of senior executives with expertise across key practice areas spanning fundraising, design, law, research, sales, public relations, and marketing.
League of Innovators
League of Innovators (LOI) is a national Canadian charity with a goal of mobilizing the next generation of entrepreneurs and building entrepreneurial acumen for youth, at scale. LOI offers a suite of accessible programs and tools that engage youth in entrepreneurship and innovation from discovery to acceleration, and empowers them to recognize the power that they hold as innovators and entrepreneurs in our economy.
Legal Innovation Zone
The Legal Innovation Zone (LIZ) is a co-working space and the first legal tech incubator with a focus on building better legal solutions for the consumers of legal services. The LIZ helps support, foster and develop solutions and techniques to improve legal services and the justice system.
Developer 30 Under 30
Canada has many globally recognized technical universities producing some of the top developers in the world. And because of this, Canada has become a hotbed for technological innovation, catching the attention of the rest of the world in the process. Which is why we established the Developer 30 Under 30 Awards in 2017, to celebrate these contributions and recognize the amazing talent that is moving our world forward.
INLAND
INLAND is Canada’s leading pop-up destination to shop emerging and contemporary Canadian fashion. Discover, meet and shop directly from 70 independent designers each spring and fall. 100% of all collections are ethically made or manufactured in Canada.
Leaf Forward
Leaf Forward is Canada’s first and leading cannabis business accelerator, providing early stage cannabis focused businesses with mentorship, networking, and learning opportunities from successful leaders who have taken ideas and turned them into reality. Leaf Forward leverages its extensive network of entrepreneurs, industry experts, and senior leaders to foster and grow the cannabis startup ecosystem preparing founders to establish partnerships.
Brazil Canada Chamber-Commerce
Established in 1973, the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce is a not-for-profit and independent business association held by the private sector with a primary objective of fostering stronger commercial relations between Brazil and Canada. The BCCC plays a vital role in connecting Brazilian and Canadian private and government sectors facilitating dialogue and assisting members in identifying key opportunities to expand their business interests.
RIC Centre
RIC Centre is a business accelerator and innovation hub for companies in Advanced Manufacturing, Software, Hardware, Internet of Things and Cleantech in Southern Ontario. We help our companies grow faster and stronger with access to world-class advanced manufacturing facilities and through a network of over 100 advisors, industry partners and investors.
Kira Talent
Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Founded in 2012, Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements.
EQFootprints provides leadership coaching and career counselling to individuals and teams, spanning all industries, through emotional intelligence measurement EQ-i 2.0 assessment and career development frameworks to help break down barriers to you next success. Emotional intelligence awareness training and Keynotes across Canada focused to improve career outcomes and increase human capital fulfillment.
Entrepreneur House
Entrepreneur House, or eHouse, was born in 2014 so that it could house a community of like-minded, savvy entrepreneurs who would bolster each other’s business and add to the collective pot of wisdom. Since then, the community has expanded to serve as mentors, speakers, and leaders in a variety of settings.
Prepr
Prepr is building a global lab network connecting entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and educators to co-LEARN, co-LAB, and co-SOLVE real-world challenges to create potential business opportunities. Teaching the PIE method does this by, enabling individuals ability for tackling challenges, building their portfolio and future-proofing their skills.
Ontario Brain Institute
The Ontario Brain Institute is a provincially-funded, not-for-profit research centre seeking to maximize the impact of neuroscience and establish Ontario as a world leader in brain research, commercialization and care. We create convergent partnerships between researchers, clinicians, industry, patients, and their advocates to foster discovery and deliver innovative products and services that improve the lives of those living with brain disorders
Emerge
Y Space Markham
YSpace is York University’s newest innovation hub located in Downtown Markham, supporting startups throughout the entire York Region and more. We support early-stage technology across all verticals and scaling food retail startups by connecting them to local resources and enabling them to access high-end pieces of machinery such as a laser cutter, CNC mills, and 3D Printers.
Music Tech MeetUp Group
Welcome to The Music Technology MeetUp, the largest group in North America geared toward the music and Technology communities. The Music Technology MeetUp is for anyone who is interested in connecting with veterans in the Music and Technology industries and those who simply love music and want to learn more about how technology has shaped the way we consume, create, and monetize music.
CABHI
The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation, powered by Baycrest Health Sciences, is a solution accelerator focused on driving innovation and solution adoption in the aging and brain health sector.
Brightspark
Brightspark is one of Canada’s top performing Venture Capital firms, investing in exceptional entrepreneurs and returning unprecedented returns to investors since 1999. We are leading the evolution in venture capital, enabling individual accredited investors to invest in early-stage Canadian tech companies with thorough VC discipline.
Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Genumark
Lean Enterprise Toronto
Witty
GuruLink
ELEVATE EATS PARTNERS
Foodora
foodora is an on-demand food delivery and pick-up platform. We partner with the best restaurants across Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Quebec City, Calgary, and Edmonton to provide the ultimate foodie experience. Try us today by downloading our free app on the Android and iOS app stores.
Sipbar
Nespresso
Flow
Ritual
Feedback
Feedback is a mobile app that uses smart pricing to offer the lowest prices at your favourite restaurants. Feedback changes price based on inventory, weather and demand – helping drive customers to restaurants when they need it most, all while reducing food waste and giving back to the community.
Northern Maverick Brewing Co.
Epicater
OFFICIAL AIRLINE PARTNER FOR ELEVATE 2018
Air Canada
Air Canada is Canada’s largest domestic and international airline serving more than 220 airports on 6 continents. Canada’s flag carrier is among the 20 largest airlines in the world and in 2017 served more than 48 million customers. Air Canada is the only international network carrier in North America to receive a 4-Star ranking according to independent U.K. research firm Skytrax, which also named Air Canada the 2018 Best Airline in North America