Building impactful products and services may start with an idea, but it takes an ecosystem of supporters and stakeholders to turn a spark of inspiration into a winning, market-ready solution.
Better yet, if you can have fun while engaging your community and drive excitement around your mission among potential investors (or even customers) in the process, you’re even more likely to see your idea take flight.
This is at the core of what Jason Taylor and the team behind CodeLaunch are on a mission to help entrepreneurs accomplish. By embracing the principles of “co-ompetition” and “venture-tainment,” Jason and his team are on a decade-plus mission to help innovators build exciting new tech across North America through the power of community.
CodeLaunch accomplishes this by hosting a series of seed accelerator events each year that pairs tech startups with world class dev teams to help them raise.
They do this by helping early stage tech startup founders get their digital products off the ground, increasing their likelihood to launch, raise funding, and succeed as a disruptive startup venture. Jason is an advocate for Conscious Capitalism and manages the Improving-CodeLaunch FUEL Fund, which deploys investment capital into the growing community of CodeLaunch alumni.
Bringing CodeLaunch’s mission to Canada
Needless to say, Jason knows his way around the startup and tech ecosystem, and is expanding his reach this year by bringing the CodeLaunch party up to Toronto for an event that shines a light on Canadian innovation. It’ll all culminate in a North America-wide competition down in Texas this fall.
In this episode of What The Tech, we dive into the details of CodeLaunch’s Canadian debut, pick Jason’s brain on how he got into the startup space in the first place, and share some of the exciting innovation he’s played a hand in driving throughout his incredible career to date.
After checking out the episode, check out the CodeLaunchCanada 2024 Finalists who will take center stage at El Mocambo in Toronto, on August 28th!
Team Contollo is with Materia Bioworks and founder Hasitha de Alwis
Team Pumpkin is with Xennial Innovations Inc. featuring “Miles Ecosystem” and their CTO Maurice Yu
Team Ollon is with rax, and Founder Marley Alles
Team Improving CAFFEINE2CODE is with Measurme and founder Nazar Burban
Team Improving CTRL-ALT-ELITE is with Lodestone and founder Dennis Chow
Team Improving AUTO-MAZING is with Asseto and co founder Brian Banton, MDes RGD
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