Breakfast Mixer: Coffee & Croissants
Kick off your Startup Fest morning with great coffee, fresh croissants, and even better conversations.
Join YSpace and Fenel for a high-energy networking mixer bringing together founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders before the conference kicks off. Whether you're looking to meet your next customer, collaborator, investor, or simply connect with incredible people in the ecosystem, this is the place to start your day.
No formal pitches. No panels. Just good people, great conversations, and the perfect way to ease into Startup Fest.
📅 Details
Date: July 9, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
What to expect
☕ Fresh coffee & flaky croissants
🤝 Meet founders, investors & ecosystem leaders
🎧 Live DJ spinning laid-back morning vibes
💬 Curated conversations that lead to real connections
✨ Leave with new ideas, new contacts, and a great start to your day
About YSpace
YSpace is York University’s pan-university entrepreneurship and innovation hub supporting startups and entrepreneurs from a variety of sectors and communities. Our programming spans across scaling innovative technologies through customer and investor capital to scaling agri-food businesses into mass retail to diversity-focused initiatives like **ELLA powered by Desjardins** for women-led businesses and Black Entrepreneurship Alliance (BEA) for Black-led businesses. Additionally with our Start-Up Visa program, we are building a robust ecosystem, driving positive change and empowering entrepreneurs to shape the future. We are also home to two physical hubs in the City of Markham and the Town of Georgina.
About Fenel
Fenel is building worlds. Individuals and enterprises have multiple stakeholders, and fenel is the first relationship world-building platform built on the belief that multimodal agentic agents can build your memory of the people you meet the way no networking tool ever has, especially with photos, such as selfies, and voice to create a natural way of building your world. Real relationship intelligence starts with the individual on the front lines, not stuck in corporate silos. Founded by second-time founder Helen Kontozopoulos, with the support of the Vector Institute's leading AI startup research program and YSpace, fenel launches this summer.