Platform Calgary Pitch Breakfast - Sponsored by YSpace
🗓️ Date: Oct 29, 2025
🕗 Time: 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM MT
📍 Location: Platform Calgary
Join us for a Pitch Breakfast featuring high-potential founders actively raising capital. This in-person event gives investors from Seed to Series A a front-row seat to hear focused pitches from startups building in various sectors.
Each founder will deliver a concise pitch followed by live Q&A with the audience — offering insight into their traction, market opportunity, and investment ask.
📌 Event Format
In-person only at Platform Calgary
Networking with founders after the pitches
Pitch decks will be shared privately with registered investors before the event
October’s Pitch Breakfast is sponsored by YSpace - ELLA Women-Led Accelerator and will feature four leading Alberta women founders alongside three male founders.
Here’s a sneak peek at the presenting startups: (Keep updating on this page).
1.Proxure (Chris Wolfenberg|Seed|LegalTech) Provide business and market intelligence, predictive pricing, and analytics for the procurement of legal services
2.Sylvester.ai(Susan Groeneveld|Seed|PetTech) -A sylvester.ai user can take a picture of a cat on their phone and instantly assess whether the cat may be in pain or discomfort with 89% precision. This is creating peace of mind for cat owners and driving vet visits to veterinary clinics.
3.Elements Athletics (Mark Lootens|Seed|SportTech) is helping solve the sports referee shortage by providing referees with what they value most, safe work spaces.
4.PataBid (Melvin Newman|Seed|ConstructionTech) saves electrical and mechanical contractors a tremendous amount of time putting together pricing on small to large projects. Our platform also significantly increases the accuracy of those prices through direct integrations with suppliers and industry partners.
5.ReGEN impact media(Charlene 'CJ' SanJenko|Pre-Seed|MediaTech) is a media-tech ecosystem solving for brighter content, better delivery for media that fuels better lives. Transformation, by design.
6.Serenity Power (Yvonne Liu|Pre-Seed|EnergyTech) is developing advanced fuel flexible fuel cells with high efficiency (60% electrical efficiency, 90% combined heat and power efficiency) to replace existing inefficient generators. Our compact, fuel-flexible systems run on natural gas, hydrogen, or blends to deliver clean, continuous electricity with minimal maintenance.
7.Nimble Science (Sabina Bruehlmann | Seed | HealthTech) The SIMBA GI PLATFORM delivers multi-omic datasets from the whole GI tract, including the intensely bioactive small intestine.
🎟️ RSVP now to reserve your spot and connect with the next wave of innovators.
About Yspace
YSpace is York University’s pan-university entrepreneurship and innovation hub supporting scaleups, 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.