

Pitch Night + Founder Happy Hour
Althra is coming to Waterloo!
We're bringing together builders from across the ecosystem for a night of founder conversations, elevator pitches, and real networking.
If you're building something, working with people who are, or just want to be in the room, this is your night.
The Format
Kick things off with food, drinks, and open networking. Get warm, meet the room, find your people.
Then we bring everyone together for the main event: 30 seconds, no slides, no deck, no validation needed. Just you, your idea, and the crowd. The audience votes. The best pitch wins.
After the votes are in, we open the floor back up and keep the conversations going.
Prize
The winning team takes home a gift card and gets fast-tracked into a direct conversation with the Althra team about joining a future cohort.
About Althra
Althra is a Vancouver-based incubator for founders who are ready to go all-in. Selected teams get $12,500 upfront, a shot at a $50K follow-on at demo day, 24/7 workspace in downtown Vancouver, and weekly mentorship from founders who've exited and raised nine-figure rounds. Direct intros to Canadian and U.S. investors come standard. Four months. In-person. Built for people who are serious.
SPUR Innovation Centre
is Canada’s premier venture studio, headquartered in the heart of Waterloo’s tech ecosystem. Our North Star is simple: we find good founders and provide them with the high-performance computing, sovereign infrastructure, and strategic capital they need to build and scale world-class startups right here in Canada.