UCeed Energy Opportunity Fund

Every venture should assign one primary contact person.
Name(Required)
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Email(Required)
Street Address(Required)
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Postal Code(Required)
University affiliation (if applicable)
LinkedIn Profile
Additional Profile (e.g., Personal Website, GitHub Profile, Google Scholar Profile)

Venture name (legal name)*(Required)
Date(Required)
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Business sector:(Required)
Other [Please specify](Required)
Venture website
Link to other online profiles
elevator pitch(Required)
long-term vision(Required)

Company Development and Capital Requirements
If the technology has been assigned or licensed to a company, please complete the following section.
Stage of Venture:*(Required)
- Concept and Research (have a business idea/still doing research)
- Committing (building the product/service)
- Prototype (have an MVP, no customers yet)
- Validating (early customers testing product/service)
- Scaling (have a product in sales)
- Establishing (profitable)
List any non-dilutive funding, in-kind contributions, or program support that you have received from this venture (including dollar amounts).(Required)
Describe how much has been invested into this venture (investment dollars in exchange for shares) and describe the relationship of the investor to the company (founders/friends/family/3rd party)?(Required)
What is your revenue to date?(Required)
How much is your current Runway and Burn Rate?(Required)
Do you have interest/engagement of a potential customer and/or commercial development partner? If yes, describe.(Required)
Describe your plan and timeline to execute and grow.(Required)
Define your business risks. What keeps you up at night?(Required)
Have you considered an exit strategy, and if so, what does it look like?(Required)

Co-founders or inventors(Required)
Total number of employees or researchers (full-time equivalent, including founders)(Required)
Describe the roles of the core team launching/operating the venture. What are their qualifications, including relevance of these skills to commercialization and/or development of the venture’s core technology(Required)
When did you start working on this venture?(Required)
Have you identified gaps on the team? If so, how do you plan to address them?(Required)
If your venture has a Board of Directors, Advisory Board, advisors or mentors, please list their names and their roles.(Required)
Have you or any members of your team successfully commercialized a technology or founded a company in the past? If so, please describe.(Required)

Describe your customer. What problem is your technology/product solving for them? How have they dealt with this problem in the past?(Required)
Explain how your technology/product solves the problem described above and why it is, or could be, superior to existing alternatives?(Required)
What market(s) are you targeting and what is the size of the market?(Required)
Who are your main competitors and why? How is your venture or technology different?(Required)
Please describe what your revenue model looks like or could look like. How will the venture make money? Describe the core product or service that you are or would be offering.
Why is now the time to invest in your technology/ venture?(Required)

How much money are you asking to raise from UCeed?(Required)
What is/are the major technology and/or business milestone(s) that you are trying to achieve with these funds?(Required)
Specifically, how will these funds be used in pursuit of this goal and how long will it take to achieve?(Required)
Are you raising more capital? If so, how much in total? List any other committed investors.(Required)

Is there anything else you’d like to tell us?
If you currently have a pitch deck, please provide a link to view or download
Please list any materials (e.g. patents, publications, market reports) or other documents (e.g. resume, product design, etc.) that you feel would strengthen your application.
How did you learn about UCeed? If referred, please indicate the individual.
Privacy Notice(Required)
Privacy Notice: Personal information collected in connection with your application to UCeed, including data collected from founders and its employees such as contact information, education history, work experience, and financial information about the venture, will be used for the purposes of processing and responding to your application, including assessing the suitability of your venture for acceptance into the program. We also use this information (in addition to information about your participation in the program, if accepted) for internal research and analysis to identify, evaluate and better understand factors that contribute to a successful venture. We may also share de-identified data with third-party academic researchers for social science research purposes. Innovate Calgary as an organization has a policy against sharing any sensitive technical information or intellectual property relating to the Venture with any researchers. If you provide us with personal information about any other individual (such as your co-founder(s) or partner(s)), you confirm that you have obtained the consent of such individual(s) prior to providing any personal information to us.(Required)

UCeed Energy Fund Application
Application Form

Company Development and Capital Requirements

If the technology has been assigned or licensed to a company, please complete the following section.

Additional Personal Information

This section is optional and is not required.

UCeed Energy Fund Application Application Form

Company Development and Capital Requirements

If the technology has been assigned or licensed to a company, please complete the following section.

Additional Personal Information

This section is optional and is not required.

UCeed Energy Fund Application
Application Form