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Get your startup investment ready and pitch to win a grand prize of

$150,000 investment

SheBoot is a six-week-long bootcamp that prepares women founders to pitch their business and secure investment.

Applications open spring 2023.

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A women-led bootcamp for women-led businesses

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Together, Capital Angel Network and Invest Ottawa built this bootcamp to help scalable technology and technology-enabled women-led businesses tackle tough challenges like access to capital & access to mentors

Our objectives

1. To help more women founders access capital

2. Have more women investing in startups

Julie MacDonnell
“The SheBoot investment and FedDev funding we received through the program put us in a position where we could spend extra time choosing our investment partners… If we hadn’t had that influx of money, we would have been in a situation with no choice but to take the first investor in. It allowed us the time and space to be selective with who and how we partnered.” – Julie MacDonell, CEO & Co-founder of Haloo

Our Award-Winning

Graduates

Meet the impressive entrepreneurs who, after completing our six week bootcamp, completed in the pitch finale and won a top award!

Julie MacDonnell

Haloo (formally Heirlume)

Sarah Ruest

Haloo (formally Heirlume)

Alida Burke

The Growcer

Audrey Bond

Vaultt

Vanessa de Waal

Flöka

Cassie Myers

Lunaria

Shannon Ferguson

FanSaves

Simone Godbout

Marlow

Nadia Ladak

Marlow

What to

Expect

The SheBoot bootcamp takes place over six weeks. If accepted, prepare to commit a minimum of one day per week to the program.

Be ready to rapidly develop skills, build your network, and perfect your business pitch through workshops, mentorship, coaching, etc.
Beyond bootcamp, every cohort graduate benefits from a dedicated coach and ghost board of experts, which means you can anticipate an additional nine months+ of continued support!

The details are to come, but you can count on:

Investors introductions

The Capital Angel Network is a group of angel investors committed to building the region’s entrepreneurial community. Get to know their members and be introduced to the network, which extends across and far beyond Ottawa’s ecosystem.

Business coaching

Get matched with a dedicated business coach who will work as your program guide.

  • Get to know you and your business
  • Increase your accountability and focus
  • Ask tough questions
  • Help make connections
    And, more!
Specialized mentorship

Learn from experienced mentors with specialized skills during hands-on sessions.

  • Investors
  • Accountants
  • Lawyers
  • Entrepreneurs
  • And, more!
Masterclass workshops

The curriculum is designed to help you secure investment. Benefit from top tier workshops:

  • Financial Forecasting
  • Pitching
  • Due Diligence
  • Go-to-Market Plan
  • And, more!
Continued support
The support doesn’t end when the bootcamp does. Like to an advisory board, each SheBoot company is paired with high-profile executives, entrepreneurs and professionals who lend their expertise, provide advice and make recommendations to support the founder’s investment and growth plans beyond the six-week bootcamp.
A peer network
Be a part of a founder community. Leave our bootcamp with a robust network of ambitious game-changers you can lean on, learn from, and grow with.
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Why The Name SheBoot?

Urban dictionary defines SheBoot as “a film or television property that rebooted and recast with women in roles played by men in the original material.” This production and cast are women-led.
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The Bootcamp

SheBoot is designed and delivered by leading women from across our ecosystem: a collective of seasoned entrepreneurs, angel investors, and all-around success experts. It’s your chance to learn from these high-achieving trailblazers committed to your success. It’s also an opportunity to build your network of peers – fellow entrepreneurs who want to see you succeed.

Eligibility

Is this the program for you?

  • Apply if your startup is:
    Women-led, meaning a woman has significant ownership of the business (33% minimum) and holds the title of CEO, COO or CTO;
  • Innovative, scalable, and a tech or tech-enabled startup;
  • Headquartered in Canada;
  • Showing initial signs of traction, i.e. customer feedback, beta tested or generating revenue;
  • Looking for support and mentorship;
  • Ready to put insight into action; and
  • Eager to join a founder community.
  • Click here to view the application.
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The Finale: Pitch to win a grand prize of a minimum of $150,000 in investment!

SheBoot’s six week bootcamp concludes with a celebration and pitch finale. Finalists pitch their business to a panel of investors who select our winners.
The program prepares each founder to compete for a grand prize of $150,000 in equity-based funding. This top prize is an investment made by 20+ women investors in the Capital Angel Network. Although there is a top prize, a second-place winner is also awarded $50,000 in investment.

Additional Information

The top prize money is awarded in the form of a convertible loan.

What is a convertible loan? It’s a short-term debt that converts into equity. The basic terms are:

  • An interest rate of 8% per annum
  • A discount rate of 20%
  • Terms of 5 years
  • Capped price of a minimum of $2.5 million CDN

Final terms will be dependent on your business. 

Don’t count yourself out.

Just like every business, we know every situation is unique. If you’re not sure your company qualifies for SheBoot, don’t give up – get in touch.
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Women

When we use the term ‘women’, we are referring to all individuals who identify as women. This includes women of colour, transgender women, and women with gender-diverse identities including non-binary and gender non-conforming women (as we know that gender is fluid and can change throughout one’s lifetime).

These women have historically and systemically been excluded from many mainstream programs, services, and opportunities. At SheBoot, Invest Ottawa and the Capital Angel Network are making a concerted effort to prioritize equity, access, and inclusion in everything we do.

Our goal is to ensure that anyone who would like to access our programs and services truly feels welcome and supported. We recognize that every founder has unique needs and lived experience, and that, in some cases, we are not currently well equipped to address all of these unique needs.

At SheBoot, we have not yet systematically assessed how we can enhance our programming and advisory to best support gender-diverse founders. As an example, our advisors and program teams have not yet received training to help them address the needs of racialized and gender-diverse founders, however, this is now in process at Invest Ottawa.

Leveraging the diversity of our partners and networks, our internal DEI experts, and our generous, committed community, we will do our best to support the needs of all participants. We welcome all women, non-binary, gender diverse, and non-conforming founders to SheBoot, and are committed to listening, learning, and helping every founder to thrive.

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Partners

We extend sincere thanks to our strategic partners that help make SheBoot possible.

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