Thursday, February 28th
Palo Alto, CA**
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Join C100 for an evening welcoming the visiting entrepreneurs from the Lazaridis Institute’s Scale-Up Program, one of Canada’s top accelerator programs. Whether you live in the Bay Area or you’re just visiting, we welcome you to join us February 28th, for some drinks and good conversation—you’ll be in good company! This is a ticketed event, so please RSVP below if you wish to attend. Location will be announced 48 hours before the event.

**Please note the change of location from San Francisco to Palo Alto. If you’re unable to make it to Palo Alto, please let us know**

Tuesday, March 5th
San Francisco, CA
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

C100, in partnership with the Consulate General of Canada and the Government of Ontario welcomes cybersecurity entrepreneurs and partners for an evening of discussion and networking.
This is a ticketed event, so please RSVP below if you wish to attend. Location will be announced 48 hours before the event.

Please join us!

On February 5-6, C100 hosted our 2nd annual Growth Summit for a dynamic group of CEOs and execs from 19 of the highest-growth startups in Canada and Silicon Valley, and leaders from C100’s supporting corporate and ecosystem partners.

Founders behind three of Canada’s most influential startups (Ritual, Hopper, and Borrowell) shared their stories of entrepreneurship and why they believe Canada is poised to lead.

Several more distinguished leaders including Laszlo Bock, Michele Romanow, Chris O’Neill, Rahim Fazal, Brittany Forsyth, Derrick Fung, Nilam Ganenthiran, Shuman Ghosemanjumder, Ashira Gobrin, Oleg Rogynskyy, Melissa Taunton, Irfhan Rawji, Mark Jacobson and Michelle Zatlyn, shared their advice on scaling and growth, leadership, and talent.

To learn more about 2020’s Growth Summit, keep an eye on our newsletter andwebsite for updates. For more details on the speakers, schedule and topics from this year, please visit: c100growthsummit.org.

Did you know that dozens of Canadian undergrads complete internships in the SF Bay Area each semester?
On February 12, we hosted 40 of them in our San Francisco office for an evening of dinner and conversation. Fangjin Yang (pictured above), Co-Founder & CEO of Imply, a Bay Area startup focused on real-time analytics with Apache Druid shared his entrepreneurship journey, including how he transitioned from engineer to co-founder, built meaningful business connections in the Valley and made the most of his internships to kick-start his career as an entrepreneur.

If you are interning in the Valley or are interested in hosting them, please let us know!

Special thanks to our Foundational Partners, Corporate Members, and event partner, PadPiper, for helping us make this event possible!

With special thanks to:

Are you a Canadian undergraduate student in the Bay Area currently on an internship? C100 invites you to our Canadian Intern Event on December 4th – a short but sweet event filled with insights from top Canadian tech leaders, raffle prizes(including 2 tickets to Cirque du Soleil’s Volta and a gift card redeemable for dinner at Nopa!)

Our amazing speakers for the evening:

Vanessa Yang
Head of Creative at Apple

Ashish Fernandez
Program Manager at Google

Join us for food, drinks, inspiring conversation, incredible raffle prizes, and make connections to support the next phase of your career!

In May 2019, C100 will bring 30 early stage companies to the SF Bay Area for our signature event 48Hrs in the Valley. This one-of-a-kind program includes mentorship, thought partnership, and venture guidance from experts and peers. C100 has hosted over 250 companies at 48Hrs since the program’s inception in 2010.

48Hrs applications are by nomination. You may be nominated by a C100 Partner,Charter Member, or 48Hrs Alum in your network.

Applications are reviewed by committee on a rolling basis. The first committee review is next week, please nominate and/or apply before Dec 3rd to be considered in the first round.

This past Friday C100 hosted and incredible group of 48Hrs in the Valley alumni for a power breakfast panel at the Shopify office in Toronto. Our guest panelists Dominic Perri (C100 Charter Member and Director of Biz Dev at Dropbox) and Nilam Ganenthiran (Chief Business Officer, Instacart) not only shared some great perspectives, but also got the group pumped up to take on the day. We can’t wait to host another. Stay tuned for updates on more events like this in 2019!

Silicon Valley Bank is a valued partner of C100 and for the first time ever, SVB is including Canada in its annual Startup Outlook Survey.

If you are an executive at a Canadian tech and healthcare company, we encourage you to take 10 minutes to answer the survey so SVB’s report can accurately capture the vibrancy of Canadian tech industry. Survey closes on November 30th.

As the end of the year nears and a new year inches closer, the C100 team is reflecting on all of the events hosted, programs run, and connections made in 2018. It was a big year for C100 and 2019 looks to be even bigger.

As we continue to explore new programming please don’t hesitate to share your ideas with us. We simply can’t do what we do without you.

Thanks for a great year and we look forward to hearing your ideas.

With special thanks to: