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Elevate Festival 2026 Connects Founders And Investors
June 23, 2026 | NCFA Community Announcement | Fintech And Innovation, Artificial Intelligence And Data, Capital Markets And Funding
Canada's Innovation Builders Meet In Toronto This September
Canada's innovation economy needs more than ideas. It needs active deal flow, customer discovery, capital conversations, policy signal, and founder-to-founder learning.
That's why NCFA is pleased to return as a Community Partner for Elevate Festival 2026 in Toronto (#ElevateFest2026), taking place September 22-24 at Meridian Hall. Elevate brings Canada's tech ecosystem together for three days of speakers, content tracks, startup programming, investor access, and curated networking.
Elevate expects approximately 10,000 tech professionals, entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs, and investors to attend, with programming that spotlights Canadian innovation and connects people working across technology, capital, and company building.
Built For Founder Signal And Investor Access
Elevate Festival 2026 puts founders, investors, operators, and builders at the center of the experience. The program features more than 250 speakers, seven content tracks, curated networking, crash courses, founder and investor programming, and startup opportunities.
Investor programming is a major draw this year. Elevate points to curated one-to-one meetings, live pitch competitions, investor-focused networking, and more than 750 meeting opportunities for founders and investors.
For fintech founders, the value goes beyond fintech sessions. A founder working on fraud, lending, payments, compliance, or capital access may find the most useful conversation with an AI operator, enterprise buyer, infrastructure partner, or investor looking across sectors.
Before heading to Toronto, explore NCFA's Innovation Map to identify emerging opportunity areas, market gaps, and technology themes that may shape founder, investor, and partnership conversations at Elevate.
Use NCFA's 20% Community Discount
Register for Elevate Festival 2026 tickets and use code NCFAELEVATE20 at checkout for 20% off General Pass tickets.
Limited time: Women+ in Tech can also access an additional 20% off Early Bird pricing through July 3. Visit the Women+ in Tech Elevate ticket offer for details.
Explore the Elevate Festival 2026 speaker lineup and 2026 Elevate content tracks as more speakers and sessions during the show's run up to September.
See You At Elevate Festival 2026!
We look forward to connecting with Canada's fintech, funding, AI, and innovation community in Toronto!
If you are building, funding, regulating, scaling, or studying innovation in Canada, Elevate is a strong place to meet the people and ideas shaping what comes next.
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association (NCFA Canada) is a financial innovation ecosystem that provides education, market intelligence, industry stewardship, networking and funding opportunities and services to thousands of community members and works closely with industry, government, partners and affiliates to create a vibrant and innovative fintech and funding industry in Canada. Decentralized and distributed, NCFA is engaged with global stakeholders and helps incubate projects and investment in fintech, alternative finance, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer finance, payments, digital assets and tokens, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, regtech, and insurtech sectors. Join Canada's Fintech & Funding Community today FREE! Or become a contributing member and get perks. For more information, please visit: www.ncfacanada.org
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