The Fifth Annual N100 Startup Competition
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What is N100?
Northumberland, Ontario, Canada’s annual $100,000 startup competition.
How does it work?
Call goes out January 9, apply by March 3. Competitive down-selection through three Rounds: The Pitch, Business Planning & Negotiation.
Who should compete?
Founder teams that get things done, high growth potential and technology-driven enterprises that will have a presence and impact in Northumberland.
Why N100?
Compete to secure a $100,000 convertible note and position your startup for follow-on investment.
Finalists receive free one-year software licenses from our official sponsors: MathWorks (MATLAB, Simulink and all other products with full technical support) and Budgeto (easy to use budgeting software for startups).
Gain valuable insight and feedback from the N100 Power Panel and Northumberland CFDC Investment Committee.
Hone your pitch and investment proposal and advance your business through a competitive gauntlet.
Take advantage of focused local partnership advantages in Northumberland (such as engineering, prototyping, manufacturing, high quality and competitively priced media and design talent, access to professional support and strategy services) while maintaining proximity to Toronto (just over an hour from Port Hope and Cobourg).
Benefit from concurrent entrepreneurial development and training along the way, from Northumberland CFDC, the Delta V Accelerator, and Spark Centre—whether you ultimately win or not.
The Deadline for N100 2017 was March 3rd, 2017 at 11:59 PM EST.
Thank you to all who applied! Stay tuned for our announcement of the Top 10 2017 N100 Finalists in early April.
Asif Khan, Co-Founder & CEO, PinPress – Winner of N100 2016.
Scenes from our 2016 Pitch Night
Anxiously waiting to take the stage
The N100 Power Panel listens to the pitches
From Left to Right the 2016 N100 Top 5
Northumberland CFDC Directors
Colin Conroy Chair of the Northumberland CFDC Investment Committee congratulating the Top 5 in alphanetical order AXIS Comfable NuPhysics PinPress Virtual SurgerySIM
Colin Conroy Chair of the Northumberland CFDC Investment Committee congratulating the Top 5 in alphanetical order AXIS Comfable NuPhysics PinPress Virtual SurgerySIM2
All Finalists received copies of Get Backed by Baehr and Loomis
Amr Abdelgawad from NERv delivers his pitch
Amr Abdelgawad from NERv delivers his pitch2
Amr Abdelgawad from NERv delivers his pitch3
Amr Abdelgawad from NERv delivers his pitch4
Amr Abdelgawad from NERv delivers his pitch5
Arshan Singh from NuPhysics delivers his pitch
Arshan Singh from NuPhysics delivers his pitch2
Arshan Singh from NuPhysics delivers his pitch3
Arshan Singh from NuPhysics delivers his pitch4
Arshan Singh from NuPhysics delivers his pitch5
Asif Khan gives the PinPress pitch
Asif Khan gives the PinPress pitch2
Asif Khan gives the PinPress pitch3
Asif Khan gives the PinPress pitch4
Asif Khan gives the PinPress pitch5
At the Sculthorpe Studio Theatre before the pitch contest begins5
At the Sculthorpre Studio Theatre before the pitch contest begins
At the Sculthorpre Studio Theatre before the pitch contest begins2
At the Sculthorpre Studio Theatre before the pitch contest begins3
At the Sculthorpre Studio Theatre before the pitch contest begins4
Ben Sainsbury from Virtual SurgerySIM takes the stage
Blake Shirley and Paul the N100 Power Panel
Bryan Xu from IdeaCloud gives his pitch
Bryan Xu from IdeaCloud gives his pitch2
Bryan Xu from IdeaCloud gives his pitch3
Bryan Xu from IdeaCloud gives his pitch4
Bryan Xu from IdeaCloud gives his pitch5
Competitors waiting for the contest to start talking with the Chair of the Board of Directors of Northumberland CFDC Rick Holmes
Cory Rosenfield CEO of Qoints gives his remarks as the Past Winner of N100 2015-2
Cory Rosenfield CEO of Qoints gives his remarks as the Past Winner of N100 2015-3
Cory Rosenfield CEO of Qoints gives his remarks as the Past Winner of N100 2015
Cory Rosenfield CEO Qoints winner of N100 2015 mingling before the event begins
David Koo from KLM Financial
Doug Armstrong from the N100 Power Panel in Q&A with Asif from PinPress
Doug Armstrong from the N100 Power Panel speaking with Judy Selvig from Northumberland Manufacturers Association and Wendy Gibson from the Town of Cobourg
Dr Gulshen Tairova CEO of EnviraMet giving her pitch
Dr Gulshen Tairova CEO of EnviraMet giving her pitch2
Dr Gulshen Tairova CEO of EnviraMet giving her pitch3
Dr Gulshen Tairova CEO of EnviraMet giving her pitch4
Dr Gulshen Tairova CEO of EnviraMet giving her pitch5
Drew from Real Tech and Richard from the University of Toronto Impact Centre
From Left to Right the 2016 N100 Top 5 Ben Sainsbury of Virtual SurgerySIM Trung Pham of AXIS Asif Khan of PinPress Neda Ghazi and Ali Monam of Comfable Arshan Singh and Hanif Montazeri of NuPhysics2
Greetings from His Worship Bob Sanderson, Mayor of the Municipality of Port Hope
In the lobby of the Studio Theatre
Jodi Glover from the N100 Power Panel in Q&A with AXIS Co-Founder & CEO Trung Pham
Ken Yang delivers the Splashtones pitch
Ken Yang delivers the Splashtones pitch2
Ken Yang delivers the Splashtones pitch3
Ken Yang delivers the Splashtones pitch4
Ken Yang delivers the Splashtones pitch5
Last minute briefing before the Power Panel takes their seats
NCFDC Directors Bill Ito and Hank Vandermeer
Neda Ghazi CEO of Comfable giving her pitch
Neda Ghazi CEO of Comfable giving her pitch2
Neda Ghazi CEO of Comfable giving her pitch3
Neda Ghazi CEO of Comfable giving her pitch4
Neda Ghazi CEO of Comfable giving her pitch5
Neda Ghazi CEO of Comfable in Q&A
Northumbelrand CFDC Executive Director Wendy Curtis is Master of Ceremonies
Northumbelrand CFDC Executive Director Wendy Curtis is Master of Ceremonies2
Northumbelrand CFDC Executive Director Wendy Curtis is Master of Ceremonies3
Northumberland CFDC Board Chairman Rick Holmes address the crowd
Northumberland CFDC Board Chairman Rick Holmes thanks the entrepreneurs for their vision courage and passion
Northumberland CFDC Board Chairman Rick Holmes
Northumberland CFDC Executive Director Wendy Curtis welcoming Arshan Hanif and Ali to the Sculthorpe Studio Theatre
Notes and scorecards at the fingertips of the Power Panel
Paul Godin from the N100 Power Panel in Q&A with Bryan Xu from IdeaCloud
Shawn Willings from Pixelnomial Studios Inc gives his pitch
Shawn Willings from Pixelnomial Studios Inc gives his pitch2
Shawn Willings from Pixelnomial Studios Inc gives his pitch3
Shawn Willings from Pixelnomial Studios Inc gives his pitch4
Shawn Willings from Pixelnomial Studios Inc gives his pitch5
Shirley Speakman from the N100 Power Panel in Q&A with Amr Abdelgawad from NERv
Shirley Speakman in Q&A with Ben from Virtual SurgerySIM
The 2016 N100 Top 10 Finalists with Board Chair Ricck Holmes and Executive Director Wendy Curtis of Northumberland CFDC
The audience for the 2016 N100 Pitch Contest
The Comfable team before the event begins chatting with Bhavna Sehgal from Wish Me Inc
The competitors await the Power Panel as they deliberate downstairs on stage in the historic atmospheric theatre at the Capitol
The guys from NuPhysics
The N100 Power Panel Blake Witkin waves to the audience
The N100 Power Panel scoring the pitches
The N100 Power Panel
The N100 Power Panel2
The Studio audience
Trung Pham from AXIS and Dr Gulshen Tairova from EnviraMet preparing for the contest
Trung Pham from AXIS at the 2016 N100 Pitch Contest
Trung Pham from AXIS at the 2016 N100 Pitch Contest2
Trung Pham from AXIS at the 2016 N100 Pitch Contest3
Trung Pham from AXIS at the 2016 N100 Pitch Contest4
Trung Pham from AXIS pitches first
Virtual Surgery SIMs pitch by Ben Sainsbury
Virtual Surgery SIMs pitch by Ben Sainsbury2
Virtual Surgery SIMs pitch by Ben Sainsbury3
Virtual Surgery SIMs pitch by Ben Sainsbury4
Wendy Curtis and John Hayden from Northumberland CFDC chat with Denny Manchee from Watershed Magazine
Colin Conroy Chair of the Northumberland CFDC Investment Committee congratulating the Top 5 in alphanetical order AXIS Comfable NuPhysics PinPress Virtual SurgerySIM
Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
MP for Northumberland-Peterborough South Kim Rudd tries a Star Wars VR demo from Industrial Light and Magic, provided by Ben Sainsbury, Founder of Virtual Surgery Simulation
MP for Northumberland-Peterborough South Kim Rudd tries a Star Wars VR demo from Industrial Light and Magic, provided by Ben Sainsbury, Founder of Virtual Surgery Simulation
MP for Northumberland-Peterborough South Kim Rudd tries a Star Wars VR demo from Industrial Light and Magic, provided by Ben Sainsbury, Founder of Virtual Surgery Simulation
MP for Northumberland-Peterborough South Kim Rudd tries a Star Wars VR demo from Industrial Light and Magic, provided by Ben Sainsbury, Founder of Virtual Surgery Simulation
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Dan Ross – President of the Northumberland Manufacturers Association and Michael Owen, VP – Research, Innovation and International at UOIT
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Denny Manchee (Watershed) in conversation with Cory Rosenfield – Qoints
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Northumberland CFDC’s Thomas Coughlan
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Denny Manchee (Watershed) in conversation with Cory Rosenfield – Qoints
Blake Witkin, Chair, Network of Angel Organizations – Ontario
Mary Lynn Rutledge, Executive Director of N&CH&SA CFDC, Anne Pritchard, Executive Director – Frontenac CFDC, Kathryn Wood, NCR
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Fulvio Ciano (Centre for Social Innovation), Neda and Ali from Comfable
Scott Tromley, Lauren Elle, Wendy Curtis, at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
David Pamenter (Director – National Angel Capital Organization) with David Koo from KLM Financial
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Fulvio Ciano (Centre for Social Innovation), Neda and Ali from Comfable
Tech entrepreneurs Neda Ghazi, Kimberly Moffit, Asif Khan
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Fulvio Ciano (Centre for Social Innovation), Neda and Ali from Comfable
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Fulvio Ciano (Centre for Social Innovation), Neda and Ali from Comfable
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Fulvio Ciano (Centre for Social Innovation), Neda and Ali from Comfable
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Fulvio Ciano (Centre for Social Innovation), Neda and Ali from Comfable
Jay Robinson from the Creative Collective, Cobourg Now, Project Lola, with MP Kim Rudd
Ben Sainsbury from Virtual SurgerySIM VR evangelizing
StarWars VR demo at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Fulvio Ciano (Centre for Social Innovation), Neda and Ali from Comfable
Port Hope Councillor Robert Polutnik regales the crowd at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Fulvio Ciano (Centre for Social Innovation), Neda and Ali from Comfable
Leor Grebler, Co-Founnder & CEO of UCIC, at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Fulvio Ciano (Centre for Social Innovation), Neda and Ali from Comfable
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Fulvio Ciano (Centre for Social Innovation), Neda and Ali from Comfable
At the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Fulvio Ciano (Centre for Social Innovation), Neda and Ali from Comfable
Bryan Watson, Flow Ventures, at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ, with Asif Khan (CEO – PinPress) and Gordon Thompson (Directpr – Northumberland CFDC)
Asif Khan and Scott Tromley
John Hayden (Northumberland CFDC / N100) introduces Cory Rosenfield, CEO – Qoints
John Hayden (Northumberland CFDC / N100) introduces Cory Rosenfield, CEO – Qoints
Cory Rosenfield, CEO – Qoints
Cory Rosenfield, CEO – Qoints
Cory Rosenfield, CEO – Qoints
Cory Rosenfield, CEO – Qoints, introducing Dr. Kimberly Moffit – Ask Kimberly
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Dr. Kimberly Moffit, famed YouTube and media personality and relationship expert. http://www.drkimberly.com/
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ, Dr. Neda Ghazi – Co-Founder and CEO of Comfable (makers of QTemp). http://comfable.com/
From Left to Right: Kimberly Moffit, Neda Ghazi, Ben Zlotnick, Cory Rosenfield.
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Ben Zlotnick – INcubes http://incubes.ca/
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Fireside chat with the entrepreneurs at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ
Winner of N100 2016 Asif Khan – CEO of PinPress at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Read about his win via BetaKit: http://betakit.com/pinpress-wins-100000-n100-startup-competition/
Winner of N100 2016 Asif Khan – CEO of PinPress at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Read about his win via BetaKit: http://betakit.com/pinpress-wins-100000-n100-startup-competition/
Winner of N100 2016 Asif Khan – CEO of PinPress at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Read about his win via BetaKit: http://betakit.com/pinpress-wins-100000-n100-startup-competition/
Winner of N100 2016 Asif Khan – CEO of PinPress at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Read about his win via BetaKit: http://betakit.com/pinpress-wins-100000-n100-startup-competition/
Winner of N100 2016 Asif Khan – CEO of PinPress at the Qoints N100 Startup BBQ. Read about his win via BetaKit: http://betakit.com/pinpress-wins-100000-n100-startup-competition/
News
Apply before the stroke of midnight tonight
March 3rd is here. The Deadline for N100 2017 is Tonight at 11:59 PM EST! Today is your last opportunity to apply to N100 2017.
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The Launch of N100 2017
The call for applications for the fifth annual N100 officially went out at the Annual General Meeting of Northumberland CFDC today—held at Team Eagle in Campbellford, Ontario!
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PinPress Wins N100 2016
Today, PinPress has officially won the fourth annual N100 Startup Competition, securing $100,000 in early-stage investment from Northumberland CFDC.
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