Start-Up Round-Up & Meet-Up 2024

Overview

This annual event bringing together start-up founders, angel investors, single family offices, and venture capital fund managers for a day of meetings, panels, and networking.

Start-up founders are invited to submit their business plan, intro deck, video overview, and any other media for this afternoon event at the offices of Highline Beta.

Our process is we send the idea/company media to the angels/family offices & CAASA-member venture capital fund managers, along with a ranking form.  On the day, we have two, 30-minute interview sessions where the matched start-ups and investors meet + 2 panel discussions and networking reception.

We invite all start-up founders to apply.  Our investors each have unique requirements and preferences; pre-seed, seed, series A (and so on…); all industries including AgTech, RegTech, PropTech, Cryptoassets…all areas of endeavor; whether having an active raise or simply looking for exposure for the next raise.

We typically have 12 start-ups and all presentations are in person and capacity for this event is approximately that number.  All start-ups are responsible for their travel expenses and must be CAASA members to be eligible ($200 fee to join; no cost to participate in the event).

Timeline:

May 15th – Deadline for Founders to send us their deck & other media.
May 20th – We send the presentations to all investors to review and rank by the end of the month.
June 1st – Deadline to have the matchings/pairings determined.
June 17th – We gather at the Highline Beta offices and have a great day!

2024 Founders & Angels/Investors

When

Monday, June 17

Arrive 2pm
First interview 2:30pm SHARP
Reception at 5pm
End at 6pm

  • June 17, 2024
  • 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm ET

Where

Highline Beta

372 Bay St. Suite 200, Toronto, ON M5H 2W9
Map

Start-Ups – Apply to Participate!

Members –  Submit your presentation below. CAASA team will reach out to confirm after reviewing the pitch decks.

Non-members – To be able to register to Start-Up Round-Up Pitch Competition 2024, you need to be a member of CAASA – click the link below to register for CAASA Membership for $200 CAD.

Deadline to submit your deck/propaganda is May 15.

Agenda 2024

Day 1

  • June 17, 2024
  • 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm

  • June 17, 2024
  • 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Day 1

2:00 pm

Registration & coffee

All Founders, Angels, and VCs are asked to be at the venue by 2pm to register for the day.

2:20 pm

Introduction

Briefing to all on the upcoming sessions, room/area assignments, and expectations of and for all throughout the event.

2:30 pm

First Pitch

Curated pairings (Founder presenting to Angel and/or VC) will provide opportunity to pitch and answer questions.  Each of the Founder decks’ will have been read already by the investors so an abridged pitch can be made.

3:00 pm

Second Pitch

Curated pairings (Founder presenting to Angel and/or VC) will provide opportunity to pitch and answer questions.  Each of the Founder decks’ will have been read already by the investors so an abridged pitch can be made.

3:30 pm

Coffee break

Quick refresher.

3:45 pm

The Gold Rush in AI

This panel will shine a light on a much-ballyhooed trend: Artificial Intelligence. It will explain what this means for our economy, how business leaders and their staff can benefit from it, how entrepreneurs can take advantage of this technology, and how investors can sensibly invest in this dynamic area.

Prathna Ramesh, FutureSight Ventures
Michael Branco, Celeste Ventures
Ricky Mehra, Continuum Health Ventures

4:30 pm

Structuring and tax

This briefing speaks to the recent capital gains tax changes and what investors and founders can do to ameliorate the situation and find advantages going forward.

Joseph Micallef, KPMG
Matt He,
 Brightspark Ventures

5:00 pm

Reception

6:00 pm

End of Start-Up Round-Up

See you next year!

Member – Investor

End Investors: Pensions, Endowments, Foundations, Sovereign Wealth Funds, or Single Family Offices

Event Registration Closed

Non-member – Investor

End Investors: Pensions, Endowments, Foundations, Sovereign Wealth Funds, or Single Family Offices

Event Registration Closed