Save the Date! Registration is now open for Innovator Idol 4!
When? June 13th 2012 from 7:30 – 11 am
Where? Noel Ryan Auditorium
301 Burnhamthorpe W, Mississauga, ON
This is the finale event for Season Four’s Growing Your Business, Breakfast with the Experts Series.The competition is modeled as a hybrid of American Idol and Dragon’s Den where 4 companies are invited to present their company pitch to an investor panel for feedback. The panelists include Pattie Lovett-Reid, Host of the Pattie Lovett-Reid Show and Sr. Financial Commentator on the CTV News Channel; Bill White, Director of the MaRS Discovery District (retired President of DuPont Canada), Benj Gallander, from Contra the Heard Investment Letter and the Globe and Mail and Bhupinder Randhawa from Bereskin & Parr.
The audience votes to select the winner and $50,000 in prizes for the winners!
Are you an entrepreneur that is looking to pitch your idea? Develop your elevator pitch with Pam Banks today.
Why would companies want to do this?
- exposure to potential funding sources
- valuable feedback to polish their pitch from an audience’s voting
- prizes to assist in the company’s continued development
- RIC Centre will continue to support the companies after the event towards commercialization
Idol History
Past winners not only benefited from exposure to funders and valuable prizes, they have gone on to become significant players in Canadian and international markets. Induce Biologics took home the crown at RIC’s Innovator Idol III competition. Sean Peel, Induce’s CSO, was named the winner with a compelling pitch about his company’s innovative technology to help surgeons regenerate bone. Induce has developed a unique process which combines the use of growth factors and biomaterials to stimulate the body to regenerate bone. 
Induce was one of the four finalists that were selected to pitch to a panel of industry experts last year. The winner was chosen by the audience. Along with the title, Sean’s company was awarded a trophy and a share of the $40,000 prize. The runner up for the competition was Carmel Vision, a North York company that’s created software allowing users to manage information overload from a single application.
In an interview with Mayor McCallion, she praised RIC and Innovator Idol, saying “RIC Centre programs like Innovator Idol help bring innovators to the point of success by highlighting their accomplishments, and by showing off their products and services to investors.”
Click here to find out more about past season’s winners.
Click here for a blog on Innovator Idol.
