Accelerate your startup’s tech adoption!
Call for ambitious startup entrepreneurs who want to create business relations with Desjardins, Microsoft, Deloitte, KPMG, Hydro-Québec & other major Canadian organizations and commercialize their impactful innovation successfully.
Accelerating world-changing startups.
If your startup has the ambition to make a global impact, join us to collaborate, innovate with key industry partners and get the chance to win more than 100 000$ in grants and prizes!
CHALLENGES
Challenges designed by industry leaders to solve core social issues!
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
For more information about the eligibility criteria, learn more below!
PARTNER UP
Potential opportunities to collaborate with industry leaders and grow your startup!
GRAND PRIZE
Enter for the chance to receive more than $100,000 in prizes & grants for the winning teams!
Challenges
Get exclusive access to key decision makers and industry experts from Desjardins, Deloitte, EXO, Hydro-Québec, KPMG, Montérégie Économique, and others; participate in tailored à la carte workshops for your startup that already has a working product or prototype and help commercialize your solution and market adoption from key stakeholders.
Subjects to be tackled by the startups:
Climate Change – by KPMG: How to Best Measure GHG and Their Impact?
Climate Crisis – by Microsoft: How to use Data and AI to fight Climate Change?
Real Estate – by Desjardins: How Do You Simplify the Home Ownership Experience?
Cybersecurity – by Deloitte: How to support enterprises of all sizes in reducing third-party cyber risks?
Future of Work – by Montérégie Économique: How to Attract Talent to Overcome Regional Labour Shortages?
Agri-food – by City of Montreal + PME MTL + CESIM: How to Enhance Responsible Consumption in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas
Transportation – by EXO + RTL + STL: How to Boost the Use of Public and Mixed-Transit in a Post-Pandemic Context?
Eligibility Criteria
- Operating in Canada or if not incorporated, team with at least a founder that is a resident of Canada aged 18 and over at the time of registration;
- Team of 2+ (incorporate or not);
- At minimum with a prototype when registering.
- Be in the process of launching your product or assessing your capitals needs;
- Have high growth potential and global impact targets
**The following are not eligible as participants: members of the challenges givers teams – not necessarily the whole organizations, members of the jury and people with whom they are domiciled, mentors and people with whom they are domiciled**
Challenge Partners
Collaborate and work alongside one of six major industry partners to invest time, expertise and money in your innovative ideas successfully.
In partnership with the Cooperathon and our partner organizations’ teams, we are offering a unique tailored parcours & prizes for ambitious startup entrepreneurs to save you time, accelerate your access to market and increase your chances of success
Access to the competition’s GLOBAL platform, find missing talent & connect with specialized mentors.
Access to the tailored program to the needs of startups with prototypes, looking to validate their project.
Access to a highly specialized mentor for personalized follow-up & la-carte workshops.
Access to the group and private meetings with challenge company & potential of a follow-up meeting post-competition.
Personalized coordination by Foundry/Desjardins and Montreal NewTech team to guide the teams to find the right challenge for their solution and connect them with the program partners.
The Cooperathon Grand Prize: for the best solution inthe Beta category, value of $ 25,000.
Winning teams from each challenge will receive
a direct scholarship of $5,000.
3 to 5 months of support and networking with theDesjardins Foundry program and MontrealNewTech.
Between $5,000 to $10,000 in services to the
startup to be defined together.
Open innovation grants: Each Challenge Partner offersa grant to the winner of their Open Innovation Challenge.
Apply to participate
Participate in the largest open innovation competition in Canada and accelerate the growth of your impactful innovation successfully!
October 22, 2021
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Montreal NewTech is proud to have co-designed these challenges with our industry partners and Coopérathon team in order to accelerate the adoption of meaningful technologies and solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges.