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Thurs. Aug 16th: PitchItTO
Thurs. Aug 23rd: SparkFest 2018 – Ottawa
Tues. Aug 28th: Blockchain Society Conference – Vancouver
Thurs. Sept 6th – 9th: Fireside Conference
Tues. Sept 11th: Blockchain Society Conference – Toronto



Douglas Craig Elia Mazzawi Rudy Haddad Welcome Curexe

York Angel Investors is very happy to welcome Curexe to our York Angel family of Portfolio Companies. Basecamp Recap

At the end of July, York Angels hosted a Valhalla Basecamp for an amazing group of entrepreneurs. This is a 3 day immersive bootcamp experience. Thanks again to the founders for their dedication, as we explored hot topics like valuations, deal structures, captables & more!On the third day,  Angel investors from York Angels provided individual mentoring. Thanks for volunteering to share your insights: Mona Kung, Frank Auddino, Angelo Del Duca, Jeffery Potvin, Jennifer Renda & Rudy Haddad.  We really appreciated your help! Later that day, at the Pitch Party, we had insightful judges provide feedback on the pitches. Thanks for your salient questions and helpful comments:  Danielle Smith, Christine Ho, Mohan Markandaier & Douglas Saxon! Congratulations on your strong pitches: Anne Genge, Daniel Warner, Danielle Brewin Graham, Kristal Lewis, Taiwo Mcgregor, Nathan Mah, Jane Fung, Catherine Chan, Christopher Tufford, Muhammad Rashid, Asha Parekh, Asifa Malik & Maggie Yun. Maybe we will be lucky enough to see you at an Investment Meeting in the future! Thanks also to our generous sponsors for their kind support Jay Kilgannon, Wealth Management,
Brett Tanner & Chamber Plan Ontario Region,
Insiteful Solutions

Thanks Randy Thompson for working through an intense curriculum so thoroughly, while bringing it to life with many personal “war stories”.
We look forward to hosting our next session in early 2019.

NACO Awards

This year the awards will be presented at our World Angel Investment Summit at our annual Awards Gala Dinner on Wednesday, September 26th.

Please find below the links to the forms directly and all the information on the prizes in general can be found on this page: https://www.nacocanada.com/cpages/awards

Angel of the Year – https://goo.gl/forms/LFIGxmQb5hVkZrQA3
Exit of the  Year – https://goo.gl/forms/k9XcCzxUILxzJHoF3
Startup of the Year-

Don’t forget to nominate !

TriColour Venture Fund

The TriColour Venture Fund (TCVF) at Smith School of Business is Canada’s first student-advised venture capital fund. This VC fund provides Queen’s Full-time MBA and Commerce students with the ultimate experiential learning opportunity through managing a multi-million dollar fund.
This academic course is about putting real money into real businesses. Students meet directly with potential portfolio companies, assess the opportunities, conduct in-depth due diligence and make recommendations to the Investment Advisory Board – a committee of seasoned entrepreneurs, angel investors, and venture capitalists. Deals are syndicated in conjunction with some of Canada’s leading venture capital companies and angel investors.Read More 
UOIT currently has an intern program called Career Kick Start that place students within companies for a minimum of 10 weeks and can provide a financial inventive of $2,250 to $4,500 based on the eligibility of the company.This is a terrific opportunity for your start-up or start-ups you may know to draw some top talent from our institution.

If you are interested in this program or would like to learn more, please contact Jennifer Alsop-Lee direct at email@example.com

August 16th Fireside Conference

Back for its fourth year, Fireside is an invite-only, off-the-grid retreat featuring the brightest minds in the business, startup, investor and media communities from around the world. It takes place from September 6-9 at Camp Walden Canada outside Bancroft, Ontario. This year, Fireside is thrilled to announce that Jason Calacanis (world-renowned angel investor, author of the book “Angel”, and “This Week in Startups” Podcast host), will be joining from California. York Angels has been a part of this amazing event for several years and many members will be returning once again this year!Please email email@example.com for more information.


The National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) supports Angel investors, incubators, and accelerators by connecting individuals, groups, and other partners that support early-stage investing. NACO is hosting the 2018 World Angel Investment Summit, for the first time here in Toronto. NACO expects 700+ attendees, representing 20+ countries to converge on downtown Toronto in September.  NACO is excited to be partnered with Elevate Tech Fest, offering both premium content for their attendees, as well as collaborating with Elevate to run their Financing track and cohost keynote speakers.
The 2018 World Angel Investment Summit is the culmination of years worth of NACO’s efforts to build Angel communities across the country, and will continue to catalyze a more dynamic early stage capital ecosystem.
The World Angel Investment Summit takes place in various locations across downtown Toronto, including the Hilton Hotel and Toronto’s historic Casa Loma.  The NACO Summit kicks-off on September 25th and runs until September 27th.Early Bird Deadline: August 24th
Members: Email Cass for the discount code!Read More Startup Global Program calls for applications!

Garage+, Asia’s largest zero-equity incubator supported by the key players in the global supply chain, just kicked off the 7th batch of Startup Global Program (SGP). Application is open for growth-stage startups in AI & Big Data, IoT & Smart Devices, Digital Health, AR & VR, Mobility, Green Tech, etc.Since 2015, SGP has attracted 765 startups and selected 89 to discover business opportunities in Taiwan. One third of them have established collaborations with Taiwan’s leading corporations, attracted investments or set up Taiwan branch through Epoch Foundation’s solid connections. For example, one company received a $7.2M order from a Japanese buyer; another company has developed more than 50 certified partners and customers in Asia.

Here are the benefits for the selected startups at the 10-day program:
The program will take place from Nov. 26 to Dec. 7, 2018. Please see the attachments for further details.

Apply now via the link (https://lihi.cc/F6NmL/email) by Sep. 7 and take advantage of this opportunity to grow your business in Asia! Enthusiast Gaming News

Tova Ventures II Inc and Enthusiast Gaming Media Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enthusiast Gaming Inc. (“Enthusiast Gaming“) are pleased to announce the acquisition of the Escapist Magazine (“Escapist“). The acquisition also adds to the website monetization potential that powers Enthusiast Gaming’s platforms and partners. Currently, Enthusiast Gaming is generating over one billion ad requests per week though Enthusiast Gaming Media and affiliated partners.Read more

Qnext News

Anthony DeCristofaro is president and CEO of Qnext Corp a Greater Toronto-based firm that has developed FileFlex, a hybrid point-to-point, software-only service based on Edge technology that allows remote access to, share, stream, manage and collaborate data from source locations without opening any new ports. Here DeCristofaro speaks to Red Herring about the future of the cloud, international scale and the impact of GDPR.Read More

Congrats Kepler

Kepler has had a particularly exciting month, they announced the collaboration with the UK’s Satellite Applications Catapult to build and launch a third satellite, TARS, & to open their first international sales office!Kepler will be establishing its first European presence with a sales and distribution facility in the UK.

Find out more about it here.


Our Angels had a great night at OPN #PitchItTOCityHall Event on July 16th July 24th, Jess was at Smith School of Business at Queens University to watch some pitches! We were delighted to have a full house for our July 26th investment Meeting, thank you to all who stopped by! On July 29th & 30th, York Angels was delighted to host Basecamp alongside Valhalla Angels. Thank you to everyone who attended the Basecamp Pitch Party on August 1st. On August 1st, Angelo presented on ‘Get Funded’ to Toronto Starts- Toronto’s Startup Community Ted Rogers School of Management. Our angels had a great night #PitchItYork event on August 14th. Nikhil & Irene were pleased to be judges of the pitches, & JP was a great emcee. York Angel Investors were well represented by: Angelo, Frank, JP, Irene, Nikhil & Cass. 
How startups die from their addiction to paid marketing. Read More

Traditional Asset Tokenization. Read More

a16z Podcast: Scaling Companies (& Tech Trends). Read More

AI & Blockchain: An Introduction. Read More

If Companies Had No Employees. Read More Thank You To Our Silver Sponsors YORK ANGEL INVESTORS, Markham, Ontario Canada



