Alberta's Business Plan Competition

The VenturePrize Program is open to new and future entrepreneurs from across Alberta. VenturePrize provides training, professional support and financial incentives to help people build or enhance viable technology-based ventures. VenturePrize is a program of TEC Edmonton, made possible through support from organizations across Alberta.

VenturePrize has two categories:

• the Alberta Student Business Plan category is exclusively for students in universities and colleges
• the Fast-Growth category is for individuals, teams, new companies, inventors, students or any other type of entrepreneur with high-growth, technology concepts or businesses 

There are four main components to the program:

• A seminar series led by university experts (October and November)
• Mentoring from experienced entrepreneurs (October to February)
• Feedback on all business plans entered in the competition from business professionals
• Over $150,000 in prizes to be shared among finalists in the two categories. Prizes include cash and in-kind support such as prototype development, marketing, legal and accounting services.

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