TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / August 19, 2021 / Today, CIX Canadian Innovation Exchange announced that it has continued its exclusive partnership with Startup World Cup to host its Canadian regional competition. The 2021 regional competition will be held on October 27-28, 2021 as a part of the CIX Digital Summit.
Startup World Cup is a global conference and competition with the goal of bridging startup ecosystems worldwide. It is organized by Pegasus Tech Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based multinational VC firm. There are 60+ regional events across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, leading up to the Grand Finale in Silicon Valley in September 2022, where the global champion will be awarded a USD $1 million investment prize.
As part of the program each year, Startup World Cup Canada Regional judges attend CIX and select a winner from the CIX Top 20 Early recipient companies who will represent Canada at the Startup World Cup Grand Finale in San Francisco.
In 2020 the judges selected Beanworks, from the final CIX Top 20 Early companies, and Catherine Dahl, CEO and co-founder of Beanworks accepted the award on Oct 21 at CIX Digital Summit and is invited to represent Canada at the Startup World Cup Grand Finale.
Again in 2021, Startup World Cup will recognize the 2021 CIX Top 20 Early companies as the finalists for Canada. Startup World Cup judges will be at CIX to select one finalist, who will be virtually awarded the Startup World Cup for Canada at CIX Digital Summit on October 28, 2021.
'Through this partnership CIX is giving Canadian startups exposure to some of the top VCs and tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley creating funding and partnership opportunities, that are otherwise difficult to source, especially during the pandemic," said Lauren Linton, Executive Director of CIX.
The Startup World Cup Grand Finale will feature keynotes, panels, and a pitch competition among the top regional champions from all around the world. It will be held in San Francisco in September 2022.
The Startup World Cup Grand Finale has featured prominent figures from the entrepreneurship community including Steve Wozniak (Co-Founder of Apple), Reid Hoffman (Founding CEO of LinkedIn), Marcelo Claure (COO of SoftBank Group), Tim Westergren (Founder & Former CEO of Pandora), Ray Lane (Former President & COO of Oracle), Marc Randolph (Co-Founder of Netflix), Adam Cheyer (Co-Founder of Siri), Vinod Khosla (Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems), John Chambers (Chairman Emeritus of Cisco), Window Snyder (Former CSSO of Intel), and more. Startup World Cup had veteran investors from Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator, NEA, Techstars, Intel Capital, M12, 500 Startups, GE Ventures, DFJ, IBM Ventures, Social Capital, Index Ventures, and Plug and Play Ventures, as well as investors from all over the world, judging the global and regional finals.
CIX - Canadian Innovation Exchange
CIX is an annual curation program and conference which showcases Canada's most promising early stage and scaling startups. Now in its 14th year, CIX invited delegates are North American VCs, corporates, private equity investors and advisors. CIX is Canada's largest tech startup investment conference, taking place virtually this year October 27-28, 2021. #CIX #CIXTop @CIXCommunity. To register for CIX Digital Summit 2021 please visit: https://www.cixsummit.com.
For more information or to apply for a media pass please direct your inquiries to:
John Whalen, Director, Marketing, jwhalen@brunico.com
SOURCE: CIX Canadian Innovation Exchange
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