An Open Invitational $250,000 Startup Competition for Women-Owned and Women-Led Tech Startups
Welcome to N100
Northumberland, Ontario, Canada’s biennial open invitational
$250,000 technology startup competition.
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About N100
What is N100?
N100 Evolution
2020 Timeline
Who should compete?
Why N100?
The application period will open Friday, November 13th, 2020.
News
Argentum Electronics Wins N100, Secures $250,000 Investment
Cobourg, Ontario—Northumberland CFDC today announced that Argentum Electronics is the winner of its 2018 $250,000 N100 Evolution technology startup competition.
Precognitive Alert
The time has come. Final evaluations and due diligence have been completed. From four, one will emerge as the winner of N100 Evolution: our most ambitious and electric edition of N100 since 2013. Stay tuned to all N100 channels for the official press release on January 15, 2019.
The N100 2018 Finals
After the N100 Pitch Contest last month at Venture13 (check out the FB album), our four Finalists have been working hard, spinning up their FTL drives for the last stage of N100 Evolution. They are Able Innovations, Argentum Electronics, Convictional Commerce and EmulGreen Labs.
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N100 Evolution Pitch Contest at Venture13
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Northumberland CFDC, in collaboration with the N100 Power Panel and our community innovation partners, delivered the sixth N100 Pitch Contest at Venture13 where seven technology entrepreneurs competed to advance to the Board Room and the finals of our $250,000 startup competition.
N100 Evolution Pitch Contest Simulation at Venture13
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Entrepreneurs competing in N100 Evolution (Northumberland’s $250K open invitational biennial startup competition) took part in a day-long series of intensive workshops to hone their pitches with N100 Advisors and coaches, culminating in a simulation of next week’s Sixth N100 Pitch Contest at Venture13.ca. Special thanks to Arjun Malu iMerciv Inc., Mark Elias Steadiwear Inc., Noureddin Chahrour AdrenalEase Inc., Leo Mui Impact Centre, Alison Burgess and Joe Miller University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Tony Orsi from Bereskin & Parr, Szanne McNutt from ONeconomy, Astrum Nanji from Lux Equity and Braden Kemp from NationalProStaff. Photos by Chris Lotton Photography.
Grand Opening of Venture13
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Photos by Chris Lotton from the Grand Opening of Eastern Ontario’s newest centre for innovation and entrepreneurship: Venture13. For more, visit www.venture13.ca
Contact
Contact John Hayden about N100
John is a member of the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) and holds an Executive Certificate in Strategy & Innovation from MIT, where he participated in the Entrepreneurship Development Program in 2013. He holds a BA from the University of Toronto and a MA from the American University of Beirut. John was instrumental in devising and launching N100 and has judged other startup competitions including the Ontario Centres of Excellence Make Your Pitch student entrepreneurship challenge.
He currently works with over 30 early-stage companies across Southern Ontario as a Venture Catalyst with Northumberland CFDC’s N1M initiative (supported by FedDev Ontario) and was part of the Committee of the Town of Cobourg that successfully designed, developed and launched the all new “Venture13” technology centre in Cobourg (which includes a hardware MakerLab developed in partnership with Northumberland Makers).
Outside of the world of startups, John maintains a serious passion for back-country hiking. In 2015, he undertook an epic unsupported continuous traverse of Iceland through the interior, completed the Teton Crest Trail in 2016 and the Hundred Mile Wilderness of the Appalachian Trail in Maine in 2018.
You can follow John on Twitter at @N100startups.
Cobourg, Ontario K9A 0H6
phone: 905-372-8315
toll free: 1-866-670-1191
fax: 905-372-2238
email: info@northumberlandcfdc.ca
Office Hours
Open Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm
