TechTO 2025 Wrapped: The Power of Showing Up

If 2025 taught us anything, it is this:

Community is not passive. It is built in rooms that are too full, conversations that run too late, and intros that change trajectories.

In a year when the ecosystem recalibrated - when funding slowed, timelines stretched, and everyone asked, “Is this still worth it?”; the TechTO community did what it always does.

We showed up.

We gathered when Zoom fatigue screamed “stay home.” We debated when consensus felt easier. We connected founders to their next co-founder, investor, customer, or lifeline. And we kept building when the headlines said to pause.

This is not a recap of numbers (though those numbers? 🔥).

This is a story about what happens when 23,400 people refuse to build alone.

How big the TechTO community is, and how often it shows up

What makes a community real is not how many people pass through once.

It is how many come back.

In 2025, 23,400 builders, operators, and investors walked into a TechTO event. And many chose to show up again - not because they had to, but because something clicked the first time. The result was a repeat attendee rate of 27.38%. Not just once. Multiple times. Showing up became a habit, and that habit became TechTO’s quiet advantage.

The Numbers That Tell the Story:

But here is what attendance records cannot capture:

The rhythm.

It is how trust forms. It is how early founders learn faster. It is how experienced operators give back. It is how an ecosystem stops feeling fragmented and starts feeling connected.

The rooms filled not just because of who was on stage, but because of who was sitting next to you.

How far TechTO’s voice travels beyond the room

Not everyone can be in the room every time. They should not have to be.

In 2025, the conversations extended far beyond physical spaces. Founder stories, tactical lessons, and honest reflections traveled across Canada through content designed to preserve the signal, not dilute it - 3.6 million social impressions reaching 186,000 unique accounts.

The Reach:

What Resonated Most Was Not Polish. It Was Relevance.

Builders sharing what actually worked. What did not. What they would do differently.

This is how community scales without losing its soul: when the thinking continues to travel long after the chairs are stacked and the lights go down.

Who aligns with TechTO and why that matters

Communities are shaped by the people willing to step forward and share what they have learned.

In 2025, 234 founders, operators, investors, and leaders took the stage - including unicorn founders, builders behind successful exits, top-tier VCs, and senior corporate leaders. People at different stages, united by a shared belief:

The ecosystem grows faster when knowledge is shared.

Alongside them, institutions opened their doors:

Shoutout to MaRS, Startwell, Rotman, BrainStation, OneEleven, Espace CDPQ, HEC Montréal, and TELUS for opening their spaces and reinforcing that TechTO is not a single organization - it is a shared effort.

Alignment like this matters.

Because it signals trust.

And trust is what turns a series of events into an ecosystem.

Looking Ahead

2025 reinforced something we have always believed:

Community is not a nice-to-have. It is infrastructure.

It is the handshake that turns into a cap table. It is the hallway conversation that becomes a co-founder relationship. It is the “you should meet…” that changes a trajectory.

And when 23,400 people choose to show up across five cities and 72 events?

That is not a community. That is a movement.

Thank you for showing up - on cold Tuesday nights, when Zoom was easier.

Thank you for contributing - your stories, your honesty, your intros.

Thank you for building this with us.

The room will be full again in 2026. Will we see you there?

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