NEW EVENTS RELEASED 💥 

Canadian tech community, you’ll be pumped to know we’ve just dropped some new events on our TechTO Calendar. We’ve got something for everyone including our monthly Together events and industry-specific events in Sales, Commerce, Health and more..

• Rocketships Tour + Together Toronto, August 11 at 5:00pm - REGISTER HERE More about this event below but this event is a two for one. Part showcase and part founder stories.
  

• Sales Toronto: Monday, August 18 at 6:00pm - REGISTER HERE
  Meet Sales leaders, learn about the latest technologies improving the lives of revenue team, and network with prominent figures in the space.
  

• Health Toronto: Wednesday, September 10th at 6:00pm- REGISTER HERE
  A high-energy evening uniting innovators across healthtech, biotech, life sciences, and care to explore how tech, data, and design are reshaping the future of healthcare.

• Commerce Toronto: Monday, September 15th at 6:00pm - REGISTER HERE
  This dynamic evening gathers 200+ founders, operators, and industry leaders from retail, e-commerce, CPG, and tech to spark conversations and share insights shaping the future of commerce.

Register for updates to our full events calendar HERE.

NATIONAL ROCKETSHIPS SEARCH UPDATE 🚀 

In case you didn’t hear, we’re on a national tour searching for standout Canadian tech companies-at any stage- that are showing exceptional momentum. Nominated by leading VCs and the local startup community, these companies might be scaling fast, solving meaningful problems, or gaining rapid traction.

Last week, TechTO brought its Rocketships Tour to Startupfest Montréal - and the room was buzzing. Founders, investors, and ecosystem partners came together to spotlight high-momentum Montreal based startups and the people helping them scale.

We’ve written a full recap post on out blog right here. Check it out!

Next stop: Toronto

We’re continuing our national tour to spotlight Canada’s most promising startups. Our next stop is at Together Toronto

Want to nominate a company to be part of the national search?

We’re on the lookout for standout Canadian tech companies—at any stage—that are showing exceptional momentum. Nominated by leading VCs and the local startup community, these companies might be scaling fast, solving meaningful problems, or gaining rapid traction. Think you’ve got what it takes? Apply!

Company Spotlight: Congrats to member company Open Sesame 🌟 

Big news today of one of our TechTO member companies Open Sesame! The Toronto-based team was just selected for a16z’s Speedrun accelerator 🎉-

A year ago, it was just two founders scribbling in a small meeting room at NEXT Canada. After building the wrong thing, losing a teammate, and spiraling into over-engineering, they dismantled everything and began again- this time with a laser focus on interfaces- the team has developed a solution in language user interface (LUI).

👀 Catch Up on Open Sesame’s Story

• 📽 Watch Co-Founder Jai Mansukhani’s 5-min talk at TechTO on building with intentionality and on why iterating is uncomfortably hard

• 🚀 See their 2-minute elevator pitch from the TechTO YouTube channel

• 💻️ Check out the company’s announcement

• 📰 Read the full funding story via BetaKit

From a community perspective, Open Sesame represents exactly what we love to see at TechTO: builders who aren’t afraid to tear it all down and start again - to build something the world really needs.

More of this, please. If you’re building something that could change the way we work, live, or connect - we want to feature you next. Email us, come pitch on stage, or drop into a future TechTO event.

👋 And to Open Sesame: we’ll be watching closely (and rooting loudly).

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