Dejana Dua

Advancing the participation, leadership, and prosperity of women in technology, The Firehood will set the status quo ablaze #JoinTheFirehood

The Toronto regional startup ecosystem is full of innovation, mentors, capital, and talent. Founded in 2006, Techstars began with three simple ideas—entrepreneurs create the future, collaboration drives innovation, and great ideas can come from anywhere. Today our mission is to make innovation accessible to everyone, everywhere. We do this by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to create a more sustainable and inclusive world.

The HardTech Investor Network is a deep-tech focused investor network backing Canadian pre-seed and seed stage startups. We offer curated investment opportunities and support foundational companies that aim to improve our world. Our goal is to catalyze investment into hardware and deep-tech technologies by coordinating a community of hardware and deep-tech investors and allowing them to share opportunities with their peers for syndication of deals, and due diligence sharing. We are committed to supporting investment in Canadian companies throughout the deep-tech ecosystem.

ventureLAB is a leading global founder community for hardware technology and enterprise software companies in Canada. Our organization is led by seasoned entrepreneurs and business leaders with decades of industry experience in building IP-rich start-ups, scale-ups, and global multinationals to help you scale your business. Located at the heart of Ontario’s innovation corridor in York Region, ventureLAB is part of one of the biggest and most diverse tech communities in Canada. We enable technology startups to accelerate the commercialization of transformational products on a global scale. Learn more about us on our website.

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)

Advancing the participation, leadership, and prosperity of women in technology, The Firehood will set the status quo ablaze #JoinTheFirehood