Friday 18 March marked one year since the Valhalla Investment Summit in Saskatchewan.
Organized by
Startup TNT in the company’s first Sask-based summit, the five-hour event saw Valhalla Private Capital work with early-stage tech startups to improve their access to capital, creating relationships between all parties involved along the way.
The deal screening process offered Saskatewan-based startups an opportunity to receive upwards of $100,000 in seed funding, as well as insights into how best to negotiate deal terms and manage the due diligence process.
Alongside a keynote from Paul Allen - founder of
Ancestry and CEO of AI and machine-learning company
Soar, who later took part in a fireside chat with
Alicia Soulier, founder and CEO of
Salon Scale - Startup TNT’s summit saw five of an initial 20 early-stage companies ‘pitch’ to 20-30 investors, who functioned as a holding company to create an investment estimated at $100K in funding.
These entrepreneurs (comprising
ArticShelf,
Board Checkup,
memoryKPR,
Omnee and
Skill Shark) were not only invited to introduce their company to a large pool of investors and enablers, but also learned what it takes to scale their startups and gain confidence in both pitching and communicating their company’s values.
The Valhalla Investment Summit in Saskatchewan was won by memoryKPR - an experience which was hailed by founder and CEO
Jessica McNaughton as “an incredible experience”.
Discussing her triumph during an installment of
Volition’s Founder Chats series in October last year, Jessica elaborated: “ “Winning the summit really helped with the conversations with the rest of the investors, not just because I had all of my stuff in order – I needed to do that for the competition – but also having your first investor takes a little bit of the edge off.”
More information about Jessica McNaughton’s conversation with Volition can be found on the
Valhalla Private Capital blog.
Other features of the event included a panel on “The Founder’s Journey” featuring Catherine Metrycki (founder and CEO of Calia), Dustin Coupal (co-founder of 54e Dev Studios) and Mark Wolff (CEO of MyComply), followed by a fireside chat on alternative exits with Joe Gill (partner at McKercher LLP) and Valhalla Private Capital co-founder Rod Brown.
A reverse-pitch between funders and founders from Bluesky Equities, Broad Street Bulls, Golden Opportunities, OKR Financial, Rhino Ventures, Wiegers Holdings also took place during the event, which culminated in a live announcement of the summit’s winner.
Watch last year’s Valhalla Investment Summit in Saskatchewan via the YouTube link below.
Do you have a question about angel investing? Get in touch with Valhalla Private Capital via our
contact page.