Recurring Monthly Board Meeting
2025-02-19 12:00 - 19:00, 2025-03-19 12:00 - 19:00 (America/Whitehorse) | Yukon Territory
Yukon Venture Angels’ Board currently meets monthly. The timing is rotational between daytime and evening. Please contact if you would like to attend an upcoming meeting.

Show Her the Money - International Womens' Day Film Screening
2025-03-08 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Toronto) | Yukon Film Society, 304 Wood Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Y1A 2J9, Canada
SHOW HER THE MONEY: A Must-See Film for International Women’s Day
Money talks—but for too long, it hasn’t been speaking to women.
Join Yukon Venture Angels for a screening of Show Her the Money at the Yukon Theatre to witness how funding in the hands of women is shaping the future of community, business, and venture capital.
This gripping documentary follows four unstoppable female entrepreneurs as they battle against the odds to turn their visionary ideas into reality. Despite relentless challenges, these women refuse to back down. With the support of angel investors who believe in their potential, they unlock mind-blowing business growth—each with the potential to become a billion-dollar success.

Annual General Meeting 2025
2025-04-16 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Toronto) | Yukonstruct, 2180 2nd Ave, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Y1A5N6, Canada
Yukon Venture Angels’ Annual General Meeting will be held from 5:30-7:30pm on April 16, 2025.
To attend in person, please arrive between 5:15pm and 5:25pm at Yukonstruct. To attend online, please check your email for the link or contact us.
Please ensure your membership is valid before arriving – simply check your email for your last payment to YVA on Stripe.
There will be new board opportunities.

Klondike Kettle Corn: Pitch Preview
2025-05-03 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Yukonstruct, 2180 2nd Ave, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Y1A5N6, Canada
Local entrepreneur Katie Young, founder of Klondike Kettle Corn, will be presenting her pitch ahead of a potentially national appearance on CBC’s Dragon’s Den. This is a fun, community-driven event that gives Yukoners a sneak peek into what it takes to pitch a business on national TV.
Hosted by Yukon Venture Angels and Yukonstruct Society, the event offers a chance for the public to hear a live pitch, ask thoughtful questions, and support a homegrown business on a national scale.

Tutred Pitch with Yukon University
2025-05-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Yukon University I&E, 2180 2nd Ave, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5N6, Canada
Tutred: On-Demand Tutoring Reinvented With AI
A Yukon startup’s foray into EdTEch
What if academic help was instant, intelligent, and built for today’s digital world? Tutred is a platform founded by Whitehorse local and University of Calgary alum Mo Fellah that connects students with the right tutor on demand. No scheduling friction. No traditional bottlenecks.
More than just a tutoring platform, Tutred integrates a powerful first-of-its-kind AI Co-Tutor that enhances every live lesson in real time. It dynamically generates interactive practice problems, solutions, explanations, and diagrams—taking the pressure off tutors and making learning faster and more engaging.
Whether it’s a last-minute exam review or tackling tricky homework/assignments, Tutred delivers instant, flexible academic support exactly when students need it. Mo was recently nominated for the NACO Moonshot Award for innovation in Canada’s startup ecosystem.
About Tutred:
Tutred is reinventing tutoring with instant access to expert help and AI that automates the rest—lesson prep, grading, content creation, student assessments, and more! It’s tutoring without the overhead—designed for speed, flexibility, and impact.
About Founder Mo Fellah

Grew up in Whitehorse
Economics background from the University of Calgary
Second-time founder with a previous exit
2024 NACO Moonshot Award nominee
Passionate about bridging AI, education, and community

What to Expect

A live pitch from Mo plus time for Q&A
Early access to the pitch deck for registered attendees
A delicious lunch from Bacon and Bonbons

Innovation Day Official Happy Hour
2025-05-22 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Toronto) | Decora, 7 Roundel Road, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Y1A3H3, Canada
Innovation is Hard. Investing Doesn’t Have to Be.
Join Yukon Venture Angels at Decora for a pre–Hall of Innovators happy hour where we focus on growing good ideas.
Whether you’re nurturing a bold new venture or curious how investment works in the North, this is your chance to connect in a space where money, like plants, grows best when rooted in care, community, and the right environment.
Enjoy wine, beer, or a Growth cocktail among the greenery. Maybe even find your money tree!
Let’s make investing in the North easy.

Build the North: Pitch Forum
2025-06-07 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Yukon Territory
North of the Usual: Big Ideas from Builders
No suits, no pressure, no dumb questions.
FREE FOR MEMBERS – BECOME A MEMBER HERE
What does it look like to build the Yukon of tomorrow? It might look like a wildfire mask built for our new climate reality. Or a hybrid truck engine built by a Watson Lake local. Or a mine that could power Canada’s green energy future.
Yukon Venture Angels’ Build the North is a pitch forum for Yukoners curious about what comes next for our territory and how we can all build to benefit. This event offers pitches, Q&As, presentations about Investment Due Diligence, and social time with entrepreneurs in all stages of business.
You don’t need to have a stock portfolio to show up. This day is for Yukoners who work with their hands, think with their gut, and care about the future of the North. Whether you’re just curious, want to support local ideas, or maybe one day want to invest, this is your front-row seat.
Who’s Pitching:
🛠 Ventus Respiratory (Ontario ➝ Yukon)
The makers of the world’s best wildfire mask—setting up shop right here in Whitehorse at Yukonstruct.
🔋 Edison Motors (Watson Lake ➝ BC ➝ Canada-wide)
A team of blue-collar builders led by a Yukoner, making hybrid trucks with diesel and electric that actually work.
⛰ Li-FT Power (NWT-Yukon Border ➝ BC)
A lithium mining company working on one of the most promising sites in Canada—right near the Yukon-NWT border.
🌱 Willow Inn & Suites (Fort Simpson)
We’re confirming a local land or food systems innovator—because the future of the Yukon is grown, not imported.
Schedule:
📍 Location: Mount Sima
10:30 AM – Doors Open; Coffee and tea available
11:00 AM – Pitches Begin
1:00 PM – Social Lunch
4:00 PM – Wrap-Up / Mingling
6:00 PM – Dinner

Why Come?

Meet real founders doing bold things
Learn how businesses grow in the North
Ask questions, get inspired, and think about where YOU fit in

Brought to you by:
Yukon Venture Angels – Making private investment easy in the North.

PeerSupport.io - Pitch and VC Due Diligence
2025-06-12 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | Yukon University I&E, 2180 2nd Ave, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5N6, Canada
Join Yukon Venture Angels for a long lunch featuring a local founder pitch and real due diligence by their lead investor, Panache Ventures.
Peersupport.io is a platform designed to reduce mental exertion and care navigation costs for caregivers and care recipients, providing real-time insights and support during critical times. They have developed a system that facilitates the matching of patients with peer support, managing referrals from external agencies and streamlining communication. The efficiencies in a healthcare setting are overwhelming, while patients are able to receive more relevant and timely care.
Check out this demo!

Angel 101 with Valhalla Capital
2025-11-28 17:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Yukonstruct, 2180 2nd Ave, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Y1A5N6, Canada
Join us to dive into the world of angel investing tailored specifically for Yukon investors with Valhalla Capital

Valhalla Angel 101 comes to Whitehorse!
Providing prospective angel investors with an opportunity to learn the perks and pitfalls of investing from seasoned veterans of the medium.
In Valhalla’s hands-on Angel 101 seminar, experienced investors from Valhalla Private Capital provide workbooks, templates and checklists to explore the steps required to become a successful angel investor.
The four-hour seminar addresses topics including theory, the startup funding ecosystem, building an investment thesis, the Silicon Valley model and best-in-class angel investment practices, alongside the startup funding ecosystem and what makes a startup investment-worthy.
Valhalla has conducted angel investor training in Canada and in over 12 countries worldwide – including South East Asia, Latin America, and The Caribbean – since 2012 with great success.
**Yukon Venture Angels Members have a 40% discount – email Ceara if you can’t find the code**
Become a member here
Speaking of his experience with Valhalla Angel 101, Mark Montemurro explained: “As an ‘intermediate experienced’ angel investor, the Angel 101 training provided by Valhalla Angels was very helpful.
“The information and stories shared over the two days helped to validate some of my own experience but also provided useful market context plus new tactics to guide me in evaluating start-ups,” Mark concluded.
Valhalla Private Capital is a firm of entrepreneurs who became investors. We like to share our experiences, have fun, and bring others into the fold.
In order to achieve this, Valhalla actively works with local business organizations, angel groups, seed funds, and early-stage VC Funds to educate these potential investors and introduce them to the local entrepreneurs building the future.

SOLD OUT Basecamp Capital Strategies
2025-11-29 09:00 - 2025-11-30 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Yukonstruct, 2180 2nd Ave, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Y1A5N6, Canada
Get ready to level up your entrepreneurial game at Basecamp for Founders. Build a capital strategy.

Join us on Nov 29 and 30 from 9am to 5pm to structure the financial and capital strategy for your business, product launch, and more.
Capital Strategy is more than just pitching your business to investors, you need to know how to:

Build a financial strategy that fits your business
Understand why your business structure now matters long-term
Leverage different instruments (ie. equity, debt, hybrid and grants)
Maximize your organisational value whiel minimizing risk
Target and secure the right investors – if any
Close a round of financing
Structure a pitch and a deal that is attractive to investors, customers, and government

Founder Basecamp is a 2.5 day interactive investment-readiness program that has been delivered to +1,200 founders worldwide in more than 18 countries across North America, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. This class is typically run at $1000 per person – thanks to Yukon Venture Angels, Yukonstruct, and Yukon University I&E, this session is subsidised to be accesible for entrepreneurs of all levels.
Founders Basecamp runs on November 29, 30 (full day) and Dec 1, 2025 (evening). This is 2.5 days of forming your executionable capital strategy.
During the first 2 days, an experienced team of investors from Valhalla Private Capital will walk founders through the ins and outs of raising capital while providing insight from the investor perspective. We then wrap up with a Pitch Event that gives you the opportunity to practice what you’ve learned and get feedback from experienced local and national investors.
Founder Basecamp is designed for Founders and entrepreneurs who are past the idea-stage, starting to grow their business and actively seeking to better understand capital or even preparing for a fundraising round within 3 – 8 months.
Truly, these sessions are for anyone building and growing their business, actively seeking capital or looking to better understand. You may want to attend as a larger organisation looking for funding from a project or as an NGO with capital assets and infrastructure projects.
A pitch night and networking event will also be happening on December 1st in conjunction with this event where participants that went through the 2-day base camp will have the opportunity to pitch to investors, experts, and the community.
A separate Eventbrite registration will be shared for those interested in attending the pitch night – Dec 1, 6-9pm.
**Yukon Venture Angels Members have a 40% discount – email Ceara if you can’t find the code**
Become a member here
Hear what past participants have to say:
“The Valhalla BaseCamp was incredible, it was great for networking with other passionate entrepreneurs, creating your deal structure and understanding the mind set of an investor prior to looking for funding. I would recommend this to any startup no matter how early stage to learn how to develop your business model in the most efficient way possible.”
-Alexa Bustamante, CEO Levitation Resort
“The Founder’s Basecamp was an excellent event organized by Alberta IoT and Valhalla. R Stewart (Randy) Thompson and Marco Donadeo from Valhalla were extremely generous with sharing their knowledge and expertise with start-up funding with the cohort.”
– Vivek Nittoor, CEO & Founder of Nittoor Software Research
“BaseCamp was an amazing investment for me to make as I was right in the middle of raising our first seed round. With all their guidance from I can say with confidence that they helped me retain more equity in my company while we were raising capital with a deal structure hat made everyone happy.”
— Derek Rucki, Founder of TLink Golf Inc
NOTE – This is a 2.5 day workshop. A full day Saturday and Sunday with an evening pitch on Monday, December 1. All meals are included.

SOLD OUT Basecamp Pitches
2025-12-01 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Yukon Brewing, 102 Copper Road, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Join us for an evening of innovative ideas and entrepreneurial spirit at the Basecamp Pitch Event – where creativity meets opportunity!

Join us on December 1 for the Valhalla Pitch Event, following the success of Basecamp for Founders and Angel 101 the prior weekend.
This is your first look at the next generation of Yukon startups preparing to raise in 2026.
Meet ambitious founders, connect with investors, and get a head start on your portfolio planning for the new year. The evening will feature formal pitches from program graduates, with an open round of 60-second walk-in pitches for emerging ideas at the end of the night.
Expect sharp ideas, meaningful conversations, and the energy of Yukon’s growing innovation community. Drink tickets and good company provided.
Sponsors may purchase a booth package including five event tickets and prime signage placement.
